Sunday, 24 November 2019

Special, Sunday 24 Nov 2019, K Koteswar Rao


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


ACROSS
1   We carry volume around to make sound of speech (5)
4   Respect of honour is heart disease (9)
9   Providing passage for vessels via Bengal perhaps (9)
10 Flying merely without unknown blackbird (5)
11 Item of property like television (5)
12 You will find them in washing machines and in political action (9)
13 Home doorway, outdoor, alternatively (7)
15 The bush telegraphs, say, travel South with drinks (7)
18 Left ignored terminal is reconstructed as tower (7)
20 Despicable criminal ignored CBI and slipped away (7)
21 East and West 6 -10 at church for survival (9)
23 Eclipse 90 in general review (5)
25 Knowledge destroyed church from that time (5)
26 Iron-handed captain is dismissed in an accord surprisingly (9)
27 Drawing book in untidy desk contains a bad patch (6,3)
28 Retired hurt on transports (5)

DOWN
1   5 and 6 violently cause damage to property (9)
2   Do they accept our different views? (5)
3   Astronomical distance during daytime? (5,4)
4   Working lunches will be provided here perhaps? (2-5)
5   Flatfish left lake in the early part of night (7) 
6   Mails delivered at this place (5)
7   Managed about company with spasms and drugs (9)
8   They are in brief responsible for business administration (5) 
14 Self-imposed punishment by intuition (9)
16 He takes the blame for hanging special coat around a peg (9)
17 Boy is having the diseases of old age about pursuing auxiliary activities (9)
19 Strengthened a democrat in setback (5,2)
20 Gemstone is a mere setting on or off with lord? (7)
21 Get the hell out of complaints, it comforts (5)
22 He, at the helm, goes after tea reportedly. He drinks too much tea (5) 
24 Take the chill off the cat/mouse here (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KKR 31

Enjoy

70 comments:

  1. 16D SCAPEGOAT (S COAT A PEG)*

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  2. 1A VO(WE)L
    2D WIVES (VIEWS)* semi &LIT
    3D LIGHT YEAR CD

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  3. 21A E XIS <- TEN CE (LOVE THIS)

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  4. 20Dn EMERALD - A MERE*+L(-OR)D

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  5. 20Ac ELAPSED - Desp(-ic)a(-b)le (<=)

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  6. 7dn narcotic (ran)* could tickets
    21ac existence e(six)* ten ce
    3dn light year light(day) year(time)

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  7. 12a You will find them in washing machines and in political action (9)
    Agitators.Two meanings.
    15a The bush telegraphs, say, travel South with drinks (7)
    Gossips (the bush telegraphs)
    Go-travel
    S-South
    Sips-drinks
    1d 5 and 6 violently cause damage to property (9)
    Vandalism (cause damage to property)
    V-5
    and-and
    alism- anagram of 6(Simla)

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    1. shrinidhi....12a....I could not get the anno...for washing machine....pl.comment

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  8. 18across: MINARET=tower. TERMINA(-L) anagram

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  9. 11 across: AS SET= like-as+set= television= ASSET

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  10. 9a =cross:: NAVIGABLE=providing passage.anagram of VIA BENGAL

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  11. Simple and elegant small grid.KKR garu. Thanks fro filling up for what would have been an otherwise another stressful IXL series on a Sunday.

    Col;

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  12. Got a call from KKR garu that he is somewhere up in the hills and hence out of reach for internet. he would return by night and respond to all later.

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  13. Prasadji" Can you please play locum for KKR garu? I am also likely to go oot on some errands. thanks

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    1. I am stuck up with ayyappa pooja at home.but will try .

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  14. My 3
    5D - EVENING {EVEN}{(-l)ING}
    6D - SIMLA {MAILS}*
    27A - SKETCH PAD {PATCH}* in {DESK}*

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    1. col.sir...12a....washing machine annotations I could not get it..pl.comment sir.

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    2. 12A- Agitator is common to a washing machine (rinser) & politics.

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    3. ok.thanks paddy.....nice of you.

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  15. Yet to be solved
    Across - 4, 13, 25, 28
    Down - 4, 14, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24

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  16. 19d- Toned up- T(ONE D)UP
    Setback- PUT=<
    Democrat- D

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  17. 4D- On Board- CD? or is it a DD?
    Dining table/ Company Board table

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    1. paddy...i got the answer as "on board"....but annotation i got confused. wheather GK or DD. I just noticed your comment @ 15;58

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    2. Archiac, board is a table set for meal.

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    3. Chambers just gives BOARD as "Provision of meals (with or without lodging)" It does not say it is archaic. I don't know your source.

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  18. 13A- In Stead- Alternatively
    Home-in
    Stead- Position- Doorway/outdoor?

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    1. home=in; doorway=doorstead; outdoor=delete door;

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    2. Its door's stead. Not exactly doorway! Doorstead doesn't stead instead of doorway.

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    3. Hi Prasad, refer to Chambers for door-stead. It gives doorway

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  19. 4A...Respect of honour is heart disease -RESPECT- OBEISANCE
    28A.....Retired hurt on transports....SHEDS
    Gemstone is a mere setting on or off with lord? A+ MERE+LORD = EMERALD ...remove OR from lord

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  20. 14D SENTIENCE intuition; SENT{I}ENCE

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  21. 20A....Despicable criminal ignored CBI and slipped away ..(removal of CBI from Despicable)
    ELAPSED

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    1. 21A East and West 6 -10 at church for survival E-East , 6-six, 10-ten , church-ce
      e+six+ten+ce = existence

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  22. NICE GRID KKR.....SPENT GOOD TIMES WITH KKR GRID.....

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  23. 22D THEIC he drinks too much of tea; {T}{HE}{IC}

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  24. It's 6 O clock folks..
    17d SIDLINES SID +SENILE<
    21d (-dis) EASES

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  25. Cannot annotate 25A or 24d, so anybody else can crack them

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  26. 25A- Since- From that time
    Knowledge destroyed- Sin
    Church- CE
    24D- China
    Except the chill part (Ch) not able to annotate the rest.

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    1. 25A) IMO S(-C)I(-E)NCE ; SCIENCE from knowledge and CE from Church

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    2. How is knowledge destroyed is Sin?

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    3. Karthik's anno looks plausible.

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    4. Yes, this was what I intended. Thanks Karthik

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  27. Logged in at about 3.30 thinking it would have been completed and surprised I was able to participate. Bloogers seems to be taking it easy after 8 hectic weeks of IXL.
    Thank you KKR for the nice grid.Enjoyed solving it.
    Loved 'wives' for the simplicity and a nice sense of humour (or practical wisdom?!)

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  28. 24d looks lie i is{C}{HINA}
    hina cat or hina mouse/

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    1. Looks to be a compound anagram- Remove C (take the chill off) from China to get Hina cat.
      Here seems to play a part indicating China.

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  29. Good one. Did not know the Hina part

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  30. Is it a porcelin cat- not a live one?

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  31. Sorry friends. I had to go out on a picnic for two days. Apologies for not being available on time due to various reasons.

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  32. 24D Take the chill off the cat/mouse here (5) CHIN[-chill]A
    Chinchilla is both cat/rodent
    here is the def

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  33. I think I gave my inputs above where necessary.
    Thanks Col for the opportunity once again.

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  34. KKR
    Enjoyed solving yesterday and being able to take part in spite of late entry.
    Thank you for all the clarifications.

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