Sunday 28 July 2019

Special, Sunday 28 Jul 2019, K Koteswar Rao


Three answers as usual per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.


ACROSS
9   What do you see in Working Capital? (6,1)
10 Bush is not right anymore! (7)
11 He is invested with priestly functions in preference to have supper with Earl (7)
12 17, not following order while on the move (2,5)
13 Drunk is said to be a contemptible person but closely integrated (9)
15 Everything revealed when stripped finally! (2-3)
16 Without hesitating, disconnected employee (7)
19 Issue emanating from 28 by spending time to bring in pressure (7)
20 They sell tickets unofficially to tourists? No, Sir! (5)
21 Reportedly strengthen positive number (5-4)
25 Baked meat loaf, not from porridge (7)
26 Pretending deaf in the last month for non-payment (7)
28 Prepared to take time on issue that goes on head (7)
29 Could be extensive negative number (7)

DOWN
1   A king is consumed by thing of no value? How ingenious! (6)
2   Dugong is groomed animal to work with hunters (6)
3   It’s a mistake to change direction to get a metal disc (4)
4   12, duck out to be in the soup bowl (6)
5   Short tunes in air-conditioned state perhaps (8)
6   Decorative work by brother, I had, using mineral (10)
7   List of options prevents but provide help on computers (4,4)
8   Strategy of Indonesian orchestra includes piano (4,4)
14 Servant arranged in a crosswise direction (10)
16 Privy to exposed body! (8)
17 Vixen holding back number (8)
18 Violating misfielding (8)
22 Vegetable is hard to cook (6)
23 Hardened to get ruined (6)
24 Amount Due East of XX100 (6)
27 One who is good at deceiving is at the back of variables (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KKR 26

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64 comments:

  1. Ramani28 July 2019 at 10:31

    22d RADISH*

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  2. Ramani28 July 2019 at 10:34

    8D GAME (P) LAN

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  3. Ramani28 July 2019 at 10:36

    6D EM (BRO) (ID) ERY

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  4. R Nagendra Prasad28 July 2019 at 10:36

    20A: TOUTS from (TOUrisTs-sir)

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  5. Vasant28 July 2019 at 10:39

    2d: GUNDOG*
    7d: MENU+BARS
    8d: GAME(P)LAN

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  6. Jayalakshmi arumugam28 July 2019 at 10:40

    25ac oatmeal(meat loaf-f)*
    26ac default ult(imo) in deaf*
    22dn radish (is hard)*

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  7. R Nagendra Prasad28 July 2019 at 10:41

    23D: INURED from ruined*

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  8. Chaturvasi28 July 2019 at 10:47

    15 Everything revealed when stripped finally! (2-3) IN ALL :: del. of end letters. However, 'in all', is not hyphenated. So enu should be 2,3.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 10:49

      Thanks Vasi Sir, apologies for the unwanted hyphen

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    2. raju umamaheswar28 July 2019 at 12:21

      Dash it ! Hyphens are no longer in use , as are conjunctions, interjections and interrogations. Words are no longer coupled in these days of gender insensitivelness.😦 CV. Look at the spelling slips in the streamers on the TV news. I still am under way to figure out the difference that is missed in UNDER WAY & UNDERWAY, even by the media.

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  9. Jayalakshmi arumugam28 July 2019 at 10:49

    11ac ordinee
    Or(preference)
    Dine (supper)
    E (arl)

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  10. N Anantakrishnan28 July 2019 at 10:54

    21 A . Forty Five (HP fortify)

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 10:59

      Incomplete solution, can you please elaborate?

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    2. N Anantakrishnan28 July 2019 at 11:02

      strengthen = fortify. homophone of forty five - a positve number . Reportedly being homophone indicator

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 11:07

      It explains half of my intended solution. There is lot more to complete.
      Take pains to break it.

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    4. N Anantakrishnan28 July 2019 at 11:11

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    5. N Anantakrishnan28 July 2019 at 11:12

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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    6. N Anantakrishnan28 July 2019 at 11:17

      Are you referring to a dialling code?

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    7. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 11:20

      No

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    8. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 11:40

      Take a hint from Satyen Nabar@11.24

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    9. N Anantakrishnan28 July 2019 at 12:10

      Yes, got it. + Ve
      (Was driving )

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    10. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 12:12

      Great solve, Anantakrishnan!

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  11. N Anantakrishnan28 July 2019 at 10:55

    28 A. Stetson
    s(t)et son

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    1. N Anantakrishnan28 July 2019 at 11:05

      set = prepared taking t(ime) , son = issue, stetson a hat - goes on head

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  12. N Anantakrishnan28 July 2019 at 10:57

    18 D. Defiling - anagram of fielding with mis being anagrind

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  13. Vasant28 July 2019 at 11:02

    Making up for repeat of 8d,
    12A EN ROUTE (-f)OURTEEN*

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  14. raju umamaheswar28 July 2019 at 11:04

    14 down. TRANSVERSE.anagram of servant + direction SE

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 11:11

      Your answer is right but the anno is not what I had intended

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  15. P. Venkatesan28 July 2019 at 11:07

    19A: STEPSON {STE{-T}{+P)SON}
    18D: DEFILING {FIELDING}*
    10A: ROMNEYA {ANYMORE}*

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  16. R Nagendra Prasad28 July 2019 at 11:07

    10A: ROMNEYA from anymore* flowering plant of Poppy Family

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  17. raju umamaheswar28 July 2019 at 11:09

    21across. FORTIFIVE.- Strengthen= fortify + number V.

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  18. raju umamaheswar28 July 2019 at 11:11

    16 across . OFFHAND. Disconnected= OFF + employee = HAND

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  19. P. Venkatesan28 July 2019 at 11:16

    REPLACEMENT FOR REPEAT (18D)
    16A: OFFHAND {OFF(=DISCONNECTED)}{HAND(EMPLOYEE)}

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  20. P. Venkatesan28 July 2019 at 11:23

    replacement again
    13: TIGHTKNIT {TIGHT(DRUNK)}{NIT~}

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  21. Satyen Nabar28 July 2019 at 11:24

    29A SIXTEEN (extensi -ve)* negative= -ve

    16D OUT+HOUSE

    27D FOXY OF<--+XY

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  22. Srinidhi28 July 2019 at 11:28

    5d Short tunes in air-conditioned state perhaps (8)
    Ariettas are short tune
    Anagrams (condition and perhaps) of Air and State

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  23. Srinidhi28 July 2019 at 11:29

    13A Drunk is said to be a contemptible person but closely integrated (9)
    Tightknit is closely integrated
    Tight is drunk
    Then Knit homophone(said to be) of Nit, contemptible person

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  24. Srinidhi28 July 2019 at 11:31

    24d Amount Due East of XX100 (6)
    Extent meaning amount
    E is East
    X is X
    Ten is X
    T is 100(ton)

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  25. Srinidhi28 July 2019 at 11:34

    Substitute for 5d
    4d 12, duck out to be in the soup bowl (6)
    Tureen a soup bowl
    anagram of 12A Enroute after removing o, duck

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  26. Chaturvasi28 July 2019 at 11:38

    After some tricky ones fallen, yet to go are the tricky
    Dn 1, 3
    Ac 9

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 11:43

      I wish to include the following too:
      AC 21 for lack of explanation
      DN 14 for missing interpretation

      Further, 17DN is also not solved, I think

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  27. Mukundala Balasubramanyam28 July 2019 at 11:48

    1D ADROIT {A}{D(R)OIT}

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  28. Chaturvasi28 July 2019 at 11:49

    9a What do you see in Working Capital? (6,1) DOUBLE U
    Capital is not redundant as the letter W is in u.c. However, as 'double u' is homophone of W, is a HP ind needed?

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 11:52

      I think HP is not required. Chambers defines it as a word by itself.
      See below:
      double-u or double-you
      The twenty-third letter of the modern English alphabet (W or w)


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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 11:56

      In recent Whatsapp viral forwards, I have come across this:
      Why is W called double U, rather than double V?!!

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  29. raju umamaheswar28 July 2019 at 12:10

    What with Wus and ex ten t etc, I was all at sixes and sevens ! I needed fortification with coffee during a late breakfast with the wifey hustling me to NOT chew tambakkoo with my OATs, I managed to put in my TWO bits and thus DOUBLED UP with my answers. Very ADROITLY embroidered Game planned by KKR Garu. 😂

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 12:12

      Thanks Rajugaru. I have been waiting for you to crack the anno of the two solved by you.

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  30. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 12:16

    Vasi Sir,
    All the Across clues are done.
    The following still remain:
    3DN and 17DN
    14DN needs proper explanation still

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  31. sree_sree28 July 2019 at 12:30

    17d VIX<=fourteen

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  32. sree_sree28 July 2019 at 12:33

    3d FLA(-w +n)N

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 12:40

      Thanks Prasad
      With your submission, all the clues are done and dusted except 14DN. I have not seen proper anno that matched my intention.
      Can you do it?

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    2. sree_sree28 July 2019 at 21:37

      Sorry KKR Gary. Was with a reunion group. Couldn't answer. Doing it leisurely now.

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  33. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 18:06

    14DN is intended as letter bank clue. Probably, it was not noted by solvers today?

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  34. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 July 2019 at 18:07

    Thanks goes to the blog and Col.
    Thanks also to CV Sir.
    Thanks to you all for solving this grid.

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  35. Col_Gopinath28 July 2019 at 18:44

    Thank you KKR

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