Monday 21 October 2019

No. 12760, Monday 21 Oct 2019, Gridman

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Note: This has since been completed.

Across

1 Dates I've crushed act as sleep aid (8)
5 Preserve business degree-holder in wood (6)
10 One old dictator caught by strange element (7)
11 Inside, Tamil leader settles down and writes (7)
12 Take rest after minor snatch (6)
13 By stupid chance, I'm a garageman (8)
15 Born and died in want (4)
16 Fine operation around old music instrument (5-5)
18 Nobleman reported this change accepting red sleepwear (10)
20 Chatter on fabric endlessly (4)
23 Hide thus? (4,4)
24 Prince and the King are hip (6)
26 Urge fee alteration for political exile (7)
27 Stop mate as there's shortage in all previous openings (7)
28 White munition merchant is more friendly (6)
29 Such people have high interest in lending (8)

Down

1 Wisecrack's not in? Bad! Hard to accept! (5,2,4,4)
2 Shrink, beginning to deny success, led off (7)
3 Clan-based Telangana leader's almost coarse (6)
4 Virginia parliamentarian to improvise (4)
6 Part of vessel where the fashionable may be found? (8)
7 Feeler woman sent back following a new model (7)
8 See! A consortium's representation is happy to hear (5,2,4,4)
9 Straight over to railway reference book (9)
14 Quick-tempered, he'd catch out heartless chief (9)
17 Suppress saint's right view (8)
19 More brusque gangleader reportedly more abrasive (7)
21 Try to fill in this slot! (4,1,2)
22 Gobble up Dalit leader’s oeuvre endlessly and furiously (6)
25 Goddess loses credit in time of anxiety (4)

74 comments:

  1. Paul...8 dn anagram of see a consortium.. MUSIC TO ONES EARS

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  2. Paul.... 5ac MBA business degree. Elm ..forest E(MBA)LM...Preserve

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  3. Paul 7 ac Elm.. forest MBA.. business degree. E(MBA)LM..preseve

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  4. Paul.. sorry 7ac published twice

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  5. Paul.... 13 ac anagram of chance I am ... MECHANIC ...a garage man

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  6. 15A NEED (NEE D)
    17D STRANGLE (ST R ANGLE)
    7D ANTENNA A N T ANNE<=

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  7. 19Dn GRUFFER G(ang leader)RUFF+ER reportedly more abrasive ( rough)

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  8. 10A- I R(IDI)UM- Element
    One- i
    Old dictator- IDI
    Strange- RUM

    27A- STOMATA- Openings (in leaves)
    Remove lat letter in
    STO(P) MAT(E) A(S)

    W ARMER- More friendly
    White-W
    Munition merchant- Armer

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  9. 18AC NIGHT[~knight] SHI[R]T* R=red
    23AC SHUT AWAY [reverse anagram of thus]

    1DN STICK IN ONE'S CRAW [anagram of wisecrack's not in]

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    1. Now I've understood the reverse anagram! The 23A SHUT AWAY here similar to 17A CLEAN AWAY of Xword 12759 (lat Saturday)

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  10. 12a kid nap minor - kid take rest -nap

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  11. 2 d dwindle-shrink d+win dle <led

    12 a kidnap rest-nap Minor-kid
    3d tribal-clan.T+ribal-d.ribald-coarse.

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  12. 4d vamp v a mp-parliamentarium
    To improvise

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  13. in lieu; d 12 a....
    7 d Antenna-feeler. a n t+anne-<woman

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  14. 14Dn HOTHEADED - O(u)THead(chief) inside He'D

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  15. Question reg. 14Dn Hot-headed is a hyphenated word; then should the number of letters be given as (3-6) instead of 9 in the clue?

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  16. Prasad,
    Nice that you are updating the grid.

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  17. 20a CHIN (-O)
    29A USURIOUS - CD

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  18. 11A INDITES (INSIDE)* WITH T IN

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  19. Shall we call it a princely clue? Stuck with it for a long time. Believe it or not it dawned on me after reading your comment!

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  20. 21d. HAVE A GO ( Try)
    25d. Cr(isis)- Anxiety
    24a. NERVES (are hip)

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  21. 16a Forte Piano F operation*
    24a P Elvis

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    1. Just to explain 24A-
      P from prince
      King- Elvis (Priceley)
      Pelvis- Hip (bone)
      Agreed to make it COD.

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    2. Presley is the correct spelling.

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  22. 16a.FORTE PIANO - F(Operation)

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  23. It is not known....How many 'unknowns' are providing solutions and annotations!?

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    1. I miss the Col's stern comments after one warning that he would delete the comments if no annotation is not provided ! Strict military orders !

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  24. 6D my best clue; probably because partial to it being a sailor!

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  25. cdrgani
    I will try to set one thematic with nautical terms. Will take some time. Be visiting here.

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    1. I can expect a very good sailor's nautical and knotty , wink, wink,ribaldry grid from CV as is his wont.

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  27. Let it be nautical and not notical as Rajuji suggests, please.

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  28. But see that it is not too knotty.

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  29. I am back in action. Will post from tomorrow onwards. I am at Delhi airport right now

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  30. Welcome back Col. All of us have been missing you !

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  31. Looking forward to it. Sounds interesting.

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    1. This comment was made for Gridman's indication of a thematic nautical CW and has come after Col.'s post. Equally fitting!

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