Saturday 30 November 2019

No 12794, Saturday 30 Nov 2019, Arden

Saturday styling added after 8:30 AM.

ACROSS
9   Dressing the group on time (7) BANDAGE {BAND}{AGE}
10 State, according to a President, once lacked nothing (7) ALABAMA {A LA} {oBAMA}
11 On money, European Union rejects, they follow (7) RETINUE {RE}{TIN}EU<=}
12 Caul starts with minute thrust (7) OMENTUM {M}+{OMENTUM} = {MOMENTUM}
13 Overrun links following areas of growth (9) NURSERIES {RUN<=}{SERIES}
15 Line to cut what you own into two (5) HALVE {HAV{L}VE}
16 Choice to have a drink outside club (7) CHELSEA {CH{ELSE}A}
19 Animal less protected, no one goes back inside (7) LIONESS {L{NO 1<=}ESS}
20 In France it’s good, for America it’s a bounty (5) BONUS {BON}{US}
21 One outlet with yen you get gas (9) ACETYLENE {ACE}{LET+YEN*}
25 After time out, becomes angry and taut, say (7) TUTORED {T}{OUT*}{RED}
26 Badly niggled horse (7) GELDING {NIGGLED*]
28 A genuine short built African (7) GUINEAN {A+GENUINe*}
29 Ardent runner, regularly participates in Asia (7) EARNEST {EA{RuNnEr}ST}

DOWN
1   Order boy to carry the King of fairies (6) OBERON {OBE}{RON}
2   Exotic strain a stage in the development of an insect (6) INSTAR {STRAIN*}
3   French bread // could give you bellyache, perhaps (4) PAIN (DD)
4   Once you led soldiers, independence followed for this subject (6) YEMENI {YE}{MEN}{I}
5   Musical merry-go-round (8) CAROUSEL (DD) (CD)
6   Bloodstained clothes a new theme used in gambling (4,6) GAME THEORY {G{A}{THEME*}ORY}
7   French can keep husband in bed (8) BASTILLE {BAS{TILL}E}
8   Slams her badly, but it’s safe (8) HARMLESS {SLAMS+HER*}
14 Simple way to be well off (4,6) EASY STREET {EASY}{STREET}
16 Right of navigation, rickety boat in detention (8) CABOTAGE {CA{BOAT*}GE}
17 Scientist took middle path guarded by ones in Germany (8) EINSTEIN {EIN}{ST}{EIN}
18 Cold cream —//  also found in organic chemical (8) AMANDINE (DD) Thanks to Google
22 It’s underage maybe, to be allowed to fly (6) EAGLET {AGE*}{LET} &semi-lit
23 Two short men kept it cut (6) EDITED {ED}{IT}{ED}
24 They managed to get one thousand, that’s four times the score (6) EIGHTY {THEY*} around {I}{G}
27 Change initial dimension and poet becomes fat (4) LARD {(-w+L)ARD}

Reference List

Nothing=O, On=Re, Money=Tin, European Union=EU, Line=L, One=I, America=US, One=Ace, Time=T
Order=OBE, Once you=Ye, Soldiers=Men, Independence=I, One in Germany=Ein, Thousand=G

Colour/Font Scheme
DefinitionSolutionComponent lettersEmbedded linksTheme word Anagram IndicatorC/C indicatorReversal IndicatorHidden word IndicatorLetter Pick indicatorDeletion IndicatorHomophone IndicatorMovement IndicatorPositional IndicatorSubstitution, IndicatorLink/Connector, Extraneous




18 comments:

  1. Nice puzzle! Liked "French Can", "Bloodstained Clothes" and other mis-directions. Thanks Arden.

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  2. Quite a few of them- I mean mis (?) directions- some of them beyond me. Blog to the rescue. Ramesh must have had his hands full. Thanks to Arden & Ramesh.

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  3. 18Dn I am afraid is not DD. Am{and}ine

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  4. +1,amine being the organic chemical.

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  5. Great weekend offer from Arden. It is very challenging with deceptions

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  6. 5DN I think your original categorisation DD is correct.
    Merry-go-round is carousel and carousel is a musical

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  7. Tough one! Happy to get all but CHELSEA, OMENTUM and BASTILLE.

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  8. Challenging grid. Bastille, Game Theory were favourites
    Anyone who got OMENTUM without googling - hats off! :)

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    1. +1
      What is the clue type, Ramki? CA?

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    2. i once asked a doc friend what does breaking water actually mean: i got to know PROM and CAUL

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    3. KKR: I don't think it is a CA because there is no anagramming involved. But it's a kind of reverse deletion (where the clue indicates an addition than deletion)
      Normally in a deletion clue we have = wordplay (rest of clue)-
      Here the clues says + = wordplay (rest of clue)

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    1. I agree with you. Dimension=breadth=B or Length=L so change b to L

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  10. On board Shatabdi Express to Madras to take a flight to Tokyo on Monday night .
    Keying in on a speeding, swaying train,on my smart phone. T
    Ouch, touch screen is touche . omentum. spell check keeps correcting me to momentum!

    Will visit the blog on Monday. Cant solve, but.ugh !

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    1. Bon Voyage!
      Sayonara till Monday.

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    2. Have a safe flight and a nice time with your son & family.

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