Sunday, 4 August 2019

Special, Sunday 04 Aug 2019, Scientist X,


Welcome to our new setter. Bouquets and Brickbats welcome.

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


ACROSS
1   Mathematical constant heard starting the hot online news about a snake (6)
4   Theoretical interest in pertaining to education? (8)
9   A group of twenty Presidents transformed into a cadaver (6)
10 Mao, for one, presides  over a meeting (8)
12 Fast cat made right something to be true (4)
13 Part of an ear leaving European by to influence (5)
14 Important growth of feline hair, say! (4)
17 Expectation to lose it first and get back ScientistX at front to get liberation (12)
20 Good man, representative to company and carbon copy of ScientistX cause Pharyngitis (12)
23 Black bringer of bleak news! (4)
24 In this month, half a spinning top backwards serves as a distraction (5)
25 Strike as a punishment with black or green? (4)
28 Computer partly overdosed with Selenium became cool! (8)
29 Local Area Network backed him to hear a book of songs (6)
30 Risk seat to build character! (8)
31 Understanding danger to a public hall (6)

DOWN
1   Personal assistant partly stated clearly, calmed down (8)
2   Steer thermal power fuel endlessly towards a defector (8)
3   Expel a good man joined at Osmania University (4)
5   Living together! (12)
6   Dog, tear apart to shed small drops (4)
7   Short madam with part malice produces warm blooded vertebrate (6)
8   A dog tooth? (6)
11 Past, present and future force mixing to have all the parts (12)
15 Severe angle? (5)
16 Writers find it, one also finds it to start speaking (5)
18 Seen creed discrimination, lose ending was broadcast (8)
19 Hal,on a bit, organized skiing and rifle shooting (8)
21 Tropical shrub needs twice cooling instrument having Artificial Intelligence back (6)
22 Socialist with hot star removed off to dedicate (6)
26 Show this to fire? (4)
27 The ugly radiation inside a constellation (4)

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41 comments:

  1. Unknown4 August 2019 at 10:31

    27d LY RA (T)

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  2. Unknown4 August 2019 at 10:33

    21D AC AC IA

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  3. Unknown4 August 2019 at 10:35

    15D ACUTE (DD)

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  4. Unknown4 August 2019 at 10:35

    This UNKNOWN is me, Ram. I don't know how my address is changed!

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    1. sree_sree4 August 2019 at 11:37

      You are the third one here to face that. Pls check your login is from google+ profile.

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  5. sree_sree4 August 2019 at 10:36

    9a clue ok?

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  6. Vasant4 August 2019 at 10:38

    5d COHABITATING CD
    13A LOB(-e) BY
    10A CHAIRMAN DD

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  7. P. Venkatesan4 August 2019 at 10:50

    3D: OUST {OU}{ST} = EXPEL
    29A: HYMNAL {HIM~}{LAN<--} = SONG BOOK
    7D: MAMMAL {MAM}{MAL(-ICE)}

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  8. Vasant4 August 2019 at 11:11

    Please provide annotation

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  9. Vasant4 August 2019 at 11:11

    Please provide annotation

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  10. sree_sree4 August 2019 at 11:36

    Nice debut Sx. One or two fine tunes would have been better. Thanks for the Sunday crossy.

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  11. Kolluru Koteswara Rao4 August 2019 at 11:53

    17AC EM<= AN[-ti]CIPATION
    11DN COMPLETENESS easy [unless setter can explain?]
    19DN: BIATHLON* A is extra and unexplained?

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    1. sree_sree4 August 2019 at 12:04

      11dn I got as far as
      Complete tenses, force mixing to complete(te)nses.
      This and 9a are the ones that needed fine tuning, IMV.

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    2. professorX4 August 2019 at 13:06

      force is compel and tenses as you rightly got it :)

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    3. sree_sree4 August 2019 at 13:09

      I thght that but indirect anagram!

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  12. Vasant4 August 2019 at 12:03

    To add to Prasad's comment:A very good first effort. But perhaps clues need to become a lot compact. 9A indirect anagram is a big no no:try avoiding it.
    Best wishes for your future puzzles

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao4 August 2019 at 12:22

      Good beginning ProfessorX! It's ok that there are some issues with clues. Nevertheless, go ahead towards perfection.
      After all, all setters would have undergone this phase in their growth path.
      Best of luck!

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    2. professorX4 August 2019 at 12:25

      Thank You!

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  13. Mukundala Balasubramanyam4 August 2019 at 12:42

    2D TURNCOAT {TURN}{COA-l}{T}
    6D DRIP {D}{RIP} D for Dog.
    16D VOICE {DD}

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  14. Mukundala Balasubramanyam4 August 2019 at 12:45

    Nice debut puzzle. Thanks for the Sunday treat.

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  15. sree_sree4 August 2019 at 13:10

    Not till 6pm

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  16. Argo4 August 2019 at 13:40

    1d PY (~PI) + (T)he + (H)ot (O)online + N) ews = PYTHON
    29d ST + REP + TO + CO+ C +C + I
    = Streptococci (ScientistX = I (setter))
    30a ASTERISK {RISKSEAT}*

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  17. Nadathur Rajan4 August 2019 at 15:29

    22D Socialist / with hot star removed off // to dedicate (6) COMMUNIST - SUN* = COMMIT

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  18. Nadathur Rajan4 August 2019 at 15:41

    12A Fast cat made right // something to be true (4) F(ACT*)

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  19. R Nagendra Prasad4 August 2019 at 15:41

    18D:SCREENED from (seen creed-e)*

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    1. Nadathur Rajan4 August 2019 at 15:47

      How do we get E from ending?
      If losE ending is E, then where is deletion indicator?

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  20. R Nagendra Prasad4 August 2019 at 15:44

    14A:MAIN ~ Rhymes with MANE

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  21. Nadathur Rajan4 August 2019 at 15:45

    1d Personal assistant / partly stated clearly,// calmed down (8) PA [-spe]CIFIED

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    1. Vasant4 August 2019 at 15:49

      3 letter deletion for partly?

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    2. professorX4 August 2019 at 16:33

      Personal Assistant : PA + stated clearly = Specified partly : CIFIED

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  22. Dr. Krishnamoorthy. A, Vellore4 August 2019 at 17:16

    8a: canine(dd), dog//tooth

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  23. Dr. Krishnamoorthy. A, Vellore4 August 2019 at 17:56

    28a:composed - {comp+o(se)d}

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  24. sree_sree4 August 2019 at 18:36

    23a crow DD
    24a DEC OY(oy)
    25a BELT DD
    31a GARDEN danger*
    26d DOOR CD.

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  25. Col_Gopinath4 August 2019 at 19:50

    Thank you for the special ScientistX/ProfesdorX

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