Tuesday 7 January 2020

No 12826, Tuesday 07 Jan 2020, Arden


ACROSS
6   Very smart to shun a drink (5) BRINY BRaINY
7   Sabre rattling sitar music? We are not involved (8) SCIMITAR {SITAR+MusIC}*
10 Disaster spread, India in gloom (7) DESPAIR {SPREAD+I}*
11 US president once got frantic, regularly lost his sheen (7) BURNISH {BUSH} over {fRaNtIc}
12 Keep complaining about old Gaff (7) HARPOON {HARP ON} over {O}
13 Duty over mineral sent back for taxing (7) ONEROUS {ON{ORE<=}US}
14 Uproar over prospect — no medium ground (11) PANDEMONIUM {PAN}{NO+MEDIUM}*
19 Fall is choice of weatherman (7) PLUMMET {PLUM}{MET}
21 Back last horse heading out (7) ENDORSE {END}{hORSE}
23 Starts in Mumbai before loading into the container (7) THIMBLE {In}{Mu...i}{Be...e}{Lo...g} in {THE}
25 Stop Bollywood actress going out of country (7) ALBANIA {BAN} in {ALIA}
26 Unresponsive as to redistribute income (8) COMATOSE {AS+TO}* in {COME}
27 Exposed in seasons, keep it underground (5) INTER wINTERs

DOWN
1   Voices fall and take off from here (8) AIRSTRIP {AIRS}{TRIP}
2   Party allows many to come up — one needs to be energetic (6) DYNAMO {D{MANY<=}O}
3   One’s harsh and scathing (10) ASTRINGENT {A}{STRINGENT}
4   Hand goes up in the centre (4) LIMB cLIMBs
5   Columbian city cocaine, order material (6) CALICO {CALI}{C}{O}
6   A focus on dimensions lifted him towards enlightenment (6) BUDDHA {A}{HUB} over {DD}<= &lit
8   Subject of ones guarding King’s ascension (7) ISRAELI {1}{LEARS<=}{1}
9   Crack, drink and kinky sex (5) CHASM {CHA}{S}{M} (Addendum - {CHA}{SM} - See comments)
13 Only place for a film “It’s up in the sky” (5,5) OZONE LAYER {O}{ZONE}{LAYER}
15 Terrible abomination spilling onto a nation (7) NAMIBIA ABoMInAtIoN*
16 I take a train, maybe it’s steep (8) MARINATE {ME} over {A+TRAIN}*
17 Flood finally goes overhead (5) SPATE {goeS}{PATE}
18 Fix on 2, in other words (6) REPAIR {RE}{PAIR}
20 No wrongdoing, it’s accepted to rise as one (6) UNISON {NO}{SIN}{U}<=
22 Call online — restricted capital (6) DUBLIN {DUB}{LINe}
24 God gets flower from bottom to top (4) EROS (+e)EROS(-e)

Reference List
India = I, Old = O, Cocaine = C, Order = O, Dimension = D, Drink = CHA, Kinky = S, Sex = M, Sadomasochism = SM, Only = O, On = RE, Accepted = U


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16 comments:

  1. RKE7 January 2020 at 08:44

    Missed CALICO, BURNISH. I think the annotation for 9D is CHA (drink) SM (sadomasochism, kinky sex)

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  2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao7 January 2020 at 09:11

    Grand entertainment from Arden! He never disappoints.

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    1. raju umamaheswar7 January 2020 at 11:48

      +1. Some unusual clues from Arden.DUBLIN & REPAIR, for example. OZONE LAYER is out of this world vlue . I loved it. Thanks ARDEN. Another Run of Daily Entertainment Next few days.

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  3. C.G. BHARGAV7 January 2020 at 09:54

    Many will not ENDORSE the action which seems to bring a SPATE of problems not easy to REPAIR.

    Stocks have PLUMMETED. PANDEMONIUM in assemblies. Not only ISRAELIS but the whole world could be in DESPAIR.

    Time for us to mull over in UNISON what BUDDHA said: "Pain is certain. Suffering is optional".

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  4. Padmanabhan7 January 2020 at 11:14

    Airstrip aldo plays a part!

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  5. Padmanabhan7 January 2020 at 11:16

    Glad to see CGB getting inspired again!

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  6. Vasant7 January 2020 at 11:32

    Nice Puzzle! My COD CHASM( pithy and naughty WP)

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  7. maradnusro7 January 2020 at 15:53

    Too tough for unsmart foggy like me. Didn't like it one bit.

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    1. sree_sree7 January 2020 at 18:17

      Yup. after bhala, Arden moves right to the top of toughness.

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  8. Amita Baviskar8 January 2020 at 23:21

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  9. Amita Baviskar8 January 2020 at 23:22

    Enjoyed this. One correction in 5D: the country is Colombia, not Columbia.

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