Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Saturday, 8 June 2019

No 12647, Saturday 08 Jun 2019, Vulcan


Across

1. City in Asia, not good surprisingly (8) SANTIAGO {ASIA+NOT+G*}
5. Perform with cat? (3,3) ACT OUT  Reverse anagram of {CAT}
9. Climber edgy, then has gotten flexible (8) LIMBERED (T)  Anno correct? Can"Then" be a valid hidden word indicator?
10. A day before game, extremely nervous (2,4) ON EDGE {ON E}{D}{GamE}
11. Nagging desire to have fish (8) NEEDLING {NEED}{LING}
12. Get together and drink with basically money at stake (4,2) TEAM UP {TEA}{Money}{UP}
14. Poorly adapting, an endangered species (5,5) GIANT PANDA {ADAPTING+AN*}
18. Version of the altered stationery (10) LETTERHEAD {THE+ALTERED*}
22. Consider empty gallery at first for dance (6) GYRATE {GallerY}{RATE}
23. Downpour, //  it's blinding (8) CATARACT (DD)
24. Thin layer over a creature (6) ANIMAL {LAMINA<=}
25. Wife is primarily happy with lean needs (4,4) WISH LIST {W}{IS}{Happy}{LIST|
26. Striving // hard (6) TRYING (DD)
27. Appear smaller, say, and continuous (8) SEAMLESS {~SEEM LESS}

Down

1. Farewell performance no good (2,4) SO LONG {SOLO}{N}{G}
2. Piece of music // that's more unemotional (6) NUMBER (DD)
3. Business is about principles (6) IDEALS {I{DEAL}S}
4. Go with fresh information (5,5) GREEN LIGHT {GREEN}{LIGHT}
6. Deceive and invite scorn (8) CONTEMPT {CON}{TEMPT}
7. Work done by this guy at the start of day when required (2,6) ON DEMAND {DONE*}{MAN}{Day}
8. The one turnaround for actor (8) THESPIAN {THE}{SPI{A}N}
13. Straight to a matinee with each person following the other (3,2,1,4) ONE AT A TIME {TO+A+MATINEE*}
15. Infamous tirade after slump (8) FLAGRANT {FLAG}{RANT}
16. Infinity in entirety originally (8) ETERNITY {ENTITERY*}
17. Prevent/stop deluge (8) RESTRAIN {REST}{RAIN}
19. Penetrate large territory that's endless (6) FATHOM {FAT}{HOMe}
20. Dog perhaps domesticated by an American in exile (6) CANINE (T)
21. Data about university's rank (6) STATUS {STAT{U}S}

Reference List
Good=G, A=One, Day=D, Wife=W
No=N, Good=G, One=A, University=U

Colour/Font Scheme

Definition, Solution, Component letters, Embedded links, Theme word,  Anagram Indicator, C/C indicator, Reversal Indicator, Hidden word Indicator, Letter Pick indicator, Deletion Indicator, Homophone Indicator, Movement Indicator, Positional Indicator, Substitution, Indicator, Link/Connector, Extraneous

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20 comments:

  1. Ramki Krishnan8 June 2019 at 08:34

    9A: I thought that "has" is the T-indicator, in which case "then" is redundant in the cryptic reading.

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  2. sree_sree8 June 2019 at 08:36

    9a has is the indicator. Then felt extraneous.IMU. gotten is alternate PP of got.

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  3. sree_sree8 June 2019 at 08:44

    21d stat/statisc is generally plural. Is stats in the OED? Can someone clarify pls.

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    1. Ramki Krishnan8 June 2019 at 08:49

      OED does have STATS as an abbreviation for Statistics. But it describes statistics as the science of analyzing data, and not as data itself.

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    2. sree_sree8 June 2019 at 09:00

      Yes. That's why the doubt. My wife Roopa is attending her first classes in the unviversity as PhD student from monday. The topic is research methodologies and I gave her introduction and terminology/glossary last night.

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    3. Bhalchandra Pasupathy8 June 2019 at 09:04

      stats., abbreviation for statistics = numerical data. Why a problem here?

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    4. sree_sree8 June 2019 at 09:14

      The doubt is abt the abbreviation stats. Is it applicable to the noun statistics or statistic.

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    5. Bhalchandra Pasupathy8 June 2019 at 09:17

      In general usage I would read it as 'statistics' esp with the s at the end. Anyway there is dictionary support for this, refer
      https://www.thefreedictionary.com/stats

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    6. Bhalchandra Pasupathy8 June 2019 at 09:21

      And to Ramki's @8:49 - OED is referring to the numbers and not the science, please see the example sentences. You should consider the link to 'statistics' as pointing to the plural of 'statistic'

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    7. Kolluru Koteswara Rao8 June 2019 at 09:38

      Stat=Statistic=datum
      Stats=statistics=data
      This is my understanding

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    8. Ramki Krishnan8 June 2019 at 10:04

      Bhala - you are right, the example given in OED does use statistics to mean data.
      ‘It is difficult to know how much, because the Government simply does not collect statistics on it.’

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  4. Ramki Krishnan8 June 2019 at 08:52

    Many clues to enjoy - liked GIANT PANDA, CATARACT, LETTERHEAD, ONE AT A TIME to name a few. Thanks Vulcan!

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  5. Prasanna Rao8 June 2019 at 12:10

    22a...please correct me....Consider empty gallery at first for dance...GY from Gallery...usually we use anno for RATE = first grade.....in puzzle it was given only first. I feel object def. is missing....

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    1. sree_sree8 June 2019 at 12:31

      Rate : consider. At first is to day gy comes first (before rate)

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    2. Prasanna Rao8 June 2019 at 12:52

      Thanks sree_sree. have a nice week end

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  6. raju umamaheswar8 June 2019 at 12:14

    +3: I loved the wordplay in CATARACT. Blinding down pour.

    I don”’t mind the abbreviation for statistics but there should be an indicator for its usage .

    Thanks, Vulcan.

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  7. Prasanna Rao8 June 2019 at 12:34

    7D..Work done by this guy at the start of day when required..Work done = E ; guy = Man ; start of the day.."D"....I was struggled by this way.....I considered formula for work done = E
    Vulcan's puzzles made my day with joy....Thanks to Colonel and Vulcan once again.

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  8. ranger8 June 2019 at 20:30

    Nice clues. Enjoyed

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