Friday, 8 November 2019

No 12775, Friday 08 Nov 2019, Vulcan


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ACROSS
1  Article with a picture originally relating to a medical condition (11) THERAPEUTIC {THE}{A+PICTURE}*
8   One at the helm of European space station (4) EMIR {E}{MIR}
9   Sounds that move you (5,5) DANCE MUSIC [CD]
10 Door to get me in a cell (6) GAMETE {GA{ME}TE}
11 A team with IT working in one go (2,1,4) AT A TIME {A+TEAM+IT}*
13 Old American in green-upholstered luxury car (9) LIMOUSINE {LIM{O}{US}{IN}E}
15 Speed of system ports (5) TEMPO [T]
16 Sure about securing couple of billions to build monastery (5) ABBEY {YEA}<= over {BB}
18 Go with request that's absurd and ridiculous (9) GROTESQUE {GO+REQUEST}*
22 Definite or indefinite number (7) CERTAIN [DD]
23 Order from home with depression (6) INDENT {IN}{DENT}
26 True, actors travelling around the city (10) SACRAMENTO {SACR{AMEN}TO*}
27 Standard time for break (4) PART {PAR}{T}
28 It’s indecent — with fellows making this noise (4,7) WOLF WHISTLE* Semi&lit

DOWN
1   Independent member ain’t worried about ones that are beaten (7) TIMPANI {T{I}{MP}ANI*}
2   Equal with no power — strange (5) EERIE {pEER}{IE}
3   A garment daughter’s wearing for lecture (7) ADDRESS {A}{D}{DRESS}
4   It erupts quiet naturally from the inside (4) ETNA [T]
5   Tax worry stopping agreement (6) TREATY {TR{EAT}Y}
6   Too many bad clues, not satisfactory basically (9) COUNTLESS {CLUES+NOT}*{Sa...y}
7   Business house entirely set (4,2) FIRM UP {FIRM}{UP}
12 Trap a poacher lastly sets in 3 different directions (5) SNARE {S}{N}{A}{p...eR}{E}
14 Defeat apparent before end of match and series (9) OVERTHROW {OVERT}{m..cH}{ROW}
17 A week extra long at the start as a rule (6) BYELAW {A}{W}<=>{BYE}{L}
19 Journey’s over, left one city (7) TRIPOLI {TRIP}{O}{L}{1}
20 Shake’s ingredients as used by runner — vegan (7)  UNNERVE [T]
21 Sadism always intrinsically bad (6) DISMAL [T]
24 Chief Editor backing Arsenal (5) DEPOT {TOP}{ED}<=
25 Refusal, when voiced, understand (4) KNOW (~no)

Reference List
European = E, Old = O, American = US, Billion = B, Home = IN, True = AMEN, Time = T, Independent = I, Member = MP, Power = P, Daughter = D, Directions = S,N,E, Week = W, Extra = BYE,  Long = L, Over = O, Left = L, Editor = ED



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  1. Suresh M S8 November 2019 at 07:12

    28A WOLF WHISTLE = indecent sound(with fellows anagram)
    25D KNOW = understand ( heard like no)
    19D TRIPOLI = city( Trip+ O(ver)+Left+I)
    24D DEPOT = Arsenal (ED= editor and TOP = chief in reverse)
    4 ETNA= volcano ( quiET NAturally)

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  2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao8 November 2019 at 07:14

    The print edition is with an erratic grid-14x15!!!

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    1. Deepak Gopinath8 November 2019 at 08:04

      Ditto in the e-paper

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    2. D N M Rao8 November 2019 at 08:13

      Strangely, epaper shows 15x15 grid but when I downloaded and printed I got 14x15 one!

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    3. Padmanabhan8 November 2019 at 08:41

      The last column has been left out. I just added a square in all ac. clues wherever needed and treated the rest in the last column as dark squares. Of course,thankfully,the grid symmetry helped. I was able to complete the CW.

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    4. gxdxr8 November 2019 at 08:55

      Simply unacceptable. Especially since The Hindu expects us to pay around double what we pay for the entire paper just for online access to the crossword.

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    5. raju umamaheswar8 November 2019 at 09:59

      So true.We suffer for our silence, as so far, none has written even a protest letter. The Readers Editor Panneer selvam is pouring panneeer water on the and shedding crocodile-tears about participatory ideas ! Why are we a mute witness to the arrogance of the Editorial board ? My letters do not see the light of the day. We keep the crossword section alive !

      Can our blog leaders please intervene and find a lasting solution ?

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    6. sree_sree8 November 2019 at 14:35

      Epaper: individual item view was OK, but full paper version had truncated grid. The link to jpg of grid turned out OK. So its the content template problem, probably created by barcode generator.

      Anyways, I recreate the grid via macros, so had no problem.

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    7. Prasanna Rao8 November 2019 at 15:51

      sree sree can you share the macro grid via mail. let me see how it works.....

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  3. Prasanna Rao8 November 2019 at 07:25

    15A...TEMPO ----> [T]

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  4. Remy8 November 2019 at 07:48

    1 a Therapeutic-The article+anag of A Picture.
    2 d Timpani-drum i +mp in aint-anag T
    (i mp)ani.
    3 address-lecture.a+d(daughter)dress.-garment.
    4d treaty-agreement
    ..tax-try+worry-eat tr(eat)y.
    6 a emir.e+mir-Space station.

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  5. D N M Rao8 November 2019 at 07:53

    7Dn FIRM UP (DD)
    18Ac LIMOUSINE - LIM{OUS}{IN}E
    12Dn SNARE - S(outh)N(orth)A(poache)rE(ast)

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  6. D N M Rao8 November 2019 at 07:55

    18Ac GROTESQUE*
    23Ac INDENT IN(from home) DENT (depression)

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  7. RKE8 November 2019 at 07:57

    21D: DISMAL (Telescopic)
    20D: UNNERVE (Telescopic)
    27A: PART (PAR +T)
    23A: INDENT (IN + DENT)
    16A: ABBEY (B,B in jumbled AYE)

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    1. Deepak Gopinath8 November 2019 at 08:00

      16A It's YEA reversed and not AYE jumbled

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    2. RKE8 November 2019 at 08:19

      Thanks, About being the reversal indicator.

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  8. RKE8 November 2019 at 08:11

    Since 23A was solved even as I was typing, may I be allowed one more.
    10A: GAMETE (ME in GATE)

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  9. Orangecloud8 November 2019 at 08:11

    11A At A Time ( A TEAM IT anagram)

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  10. Jacob Brahmakulam8 November 2019 at 08:17

    14d OVERTHROW; defeat; {OVERT}{matcH}{ROW}

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  11. Jacob Brahmakulam8 November 2019 at 08:27

    26A SACRAMENTO city; AMEN in ACTORS*

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  12. Ravi8 November 2019 at 08:45

    21.a.Sadism always = dismal

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  13. Ravi8 November 2019 at 08:47

    ,15.a. speed of system ports= tempo

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  14. Ravi8 November 2019 at 08:48

    6.d. countless

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  15. Rama Sandur8 November 2019 at 08:49

    6dn countless for too many
    Clues+ not+s of satisfactory

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    1. Deepak Gopinath8 November 2019 at 10:25

      CLUES+NOT+S becomes CLUESNOTS. Please annotate correctly

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  16. Ravi8 November 2019 at 08:51

    9.a. dance music

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  17. Rama Sandur8 November 2019 at 08:52

    2 dn eerie for strange

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  18. Kolluru Koteswara Rao8 November 2019 at 09:04

    Both of you, Ravi and Unknown [Is it Paul?]
    Please annotate your answers. It tells us how far you are understanding about the clue types. Thanks

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  19. Brajesh8 November 2019 at 09:18

    10a gamete me in gate

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  20. Jayalakshmi arumugam8 November 2019 at 09:20

    24dn depot (top ed)

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  21. Brajesh8 November 2019 at 09:48

    17d byelaw a w l from a week long bye extra in can't make out annotation for 22 a.
    22a certain is definite

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao8 November 2019 at 10:12

      Brajesh,
      22AC Is it that only? If it is so simple why the setter extends it with "or indefinite number"?

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    2. Deepak Gopinath8 November 2019 at 10:26

      Brajesh, you have to attempt the annotation. You cannot just say 'can't make out'

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  22. Deepak Gopinath8 November 2019 at 10:29

    Yet to be solved

    Across - 9, 22
    Down - 2, 6

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  23. Jacob Brahmakulam8 November 2019 at 11:12

    2D EERIE strange; {pEER}{IE} ; - meaning that is

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  24. Jacob Brahmakulam8 November 2019 at 11:28

    22A CERTAIN (multiple definitions) definite/ indefinite, certain meaning some, not definite/ type of number

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  25. AJ8 November 2019 at 11:59

    21d
    saDISM ALways intrinsically (contains inside):. B
    bad

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  26. AJ8 November 2019 at 12:05

    6d
    Clues not s(atisfactory) basically
    clues not s: anagram COUNTLESS:
    too many

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  27. Prasanna Rao8 November 2019 at 16:50

    superb Friday by Vulcan....Thanks to Col. Have a nice day....

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  28. Sudarshan8 November 2019 at 19:36

    This makes the Blog still more interesting.
    Thanks, Col.

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