Monday 20 January 2020

No 12836, Monday 20 Jan 2020, Anon


ACROSS
1   Burn ruler, replace last born with legal head (6) SUNTAN SU(-l+n)NTAN Clue indicates L for N?
4   Dramas reproduced in South Indian city (6) MADRAS*
9   Indian king open to return (4) RAJA<=
10 In excavation, bit of ruby found in rock soup (10) MINESTRONE {MINE}{ST{Ruby}ONE}
11 Street has shower drain (6) STRAIN {ST}{RAIN}
12 Flower destroyed in old ply (4,4) POND LILY*
13 Responders warn seers in a riot (9) ANSWERERS*
15 Speech starts on time (5) ORATE {On}{RATE}
16 Neckwear for racecourse in England? (5) ASCOT [DD]
18 I leave magistrate confused by tactic (9) STRATAGEM MAGiSTRATE*
22 With suggestion at tavern, you destroy love (8) INNUENDO {INN}{U}{END}{O}
23 Tugboats have pillars (6) TOWERS [DD]
25 Liberate from pita menace! (10) EMANCIPATE*
26 Thought confused aide (4) IDEA*
27 Return bronze particle to country (6) NATION {TAN<=}{ION}
28 Hill has a fragrance (6) ASCENT {A}{SCENT}


DOWN
1   Austere painting in bridge (7) SPARTAN {SP{ART}AN}
2   Antelope from New York starts attending legislative assembly (5) NYALA Acrostic
3   British medical official has nut almost with hesitation (7) ALMONER {ALMONd}{ER}
5   Sailor broadcast to the missing (6) ABSENT {AB}{SENT}
6   Rare aural broadcast in village, say (5,4) RURAL AREA*
7   Undergarment has one cross (7) SINGLET {SINGLE}{T}
8   Eccentric initial parson is sacred (13) INSPIRATIONAL*
14 Murder mystery novel wound thin (9) WHODUNNIT*
17 Elf leader sees adult leaving Indian islands (7) SANDMAN {Sees}{ANDaMAN} S/Sees? See comments
19 Worker trims hymns (7) ANTHEMS {ANT}{HEMS}
20 Keen to notice hideout (7) EARNEST {EAR}{NEST}
21 At home, cultivate love for dye (6) INDIGO {IN}{DIG}{O}
24 Give up on one trapped by current (5) WAIVE {WA{1}VE}

Reference List
Love = O, Sailor = AB, Cross = T, Adult = A


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17 comments:

  1. RKE20 January 2020 at 08:31

    LIGHTNING has worked in all EARNEST to produce this INSPIRATIONAL grid and set of clues! Do I sense an INNUENDO, that suggests even if you are a RAJA, if you go out in a SINGLET ( to show your SPARTAN simplicity) in the heat of MADRAS or the nearby RURAL AREA, you are bound to get a SUNTAN, if not a sunstroke? So, wave away any such IDEA. The STRATEGEM to avoid such a misfortune is to have MINESTRONE for rehydration but take care to STRAIN it first.
    3D ALMONER is a non-medical person, a social worker, who works in a British hospital. So hospital worker or hospital official could have been better choices in the clue, instead of 'medical official'
    15A 'Speech' in the clue suggests a noun, but ORATE, the solution is a verb. Is this acceptable?

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  2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao20 January 2020 at 08:37

    17DN ELF is the definition. S is coming from "leader sees"

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  3. Padmanabhan20 January 2020 at 09:15

    +1 for Sunta and Orate.
    Otherwise an enjoyable solve.

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  4. C.G. BHARGAV20 January 2020 at 09:31

    MADRAS now is looking for an INSPIRATIONAL leader to help the State and our NATION and ensure its ASCENT.

    One from an urban or RURAL AREA who not only ORATES about his IDEAS but will go about his job in right EARNEST.

    Meanwhile people are expecting A RAJA.

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  5. Padmanabhan20 January 2020 at 09:36

    More the merrier!

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  6. Suresh20 January 2020 at 10:21

    15A is not okay, I think. Speech means oration and not orate

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  7. Anonymous20 January 2020 at 12:51

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    1. Col_Gopinath23 January 2020 at 22:15

      Your allegation is totally wrong. These clues have been picked by by Wordplays.com either from the interactive version of TH or from this blog

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    2. Col_Gopinath23 January 2020 at 22:21

      Further if you will notice all the clues of today, not just only the ones mentioned by you, appear as the topmost one in Wordplays.com which means they have been picked up on 20 Jan only which further reinforces the fact that no plagiarism is involved. I suggest you tender an unconditional apology here, and reveal your identity rather than hiding behind the Pseudonym of Cryptic_Critic.

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  8. Chaturvasi24 January 2020 at 08:12

    First of all who is Cryptic Critic? We do have one by the handle Cryptic Academy and we learnt it is a real person whom we know very well and indeed some of us have met them (neutral pronoun). Please reveal yourself as who you are and also let us know place of residence. I use the handle Chatur Vasi but everyone knows who I am. So first come out into the open.
    Before any accusation of plagiarism is made against an author, 'critic' must be sure of their ground. There are some websites that lift/sweep/snatch/scrub/steal clues/answers from newspapers and create the ever-growing database To what purpose I don't know.Till now ALL of then ignored THC from India. Now one site - it must be US-based - does. And it is there that the day's THC clues/answers appear.
    A newspaper of repute won't publish plagiarised work. First of all, they would entrust work to a person in whom they have trust. Secondly, if it comes to their notice that even a little paragraph in an article is plagiarised from someone else's article, the culprit will be summarily dismissed from employment.
    'Critic' should say who he or she is, apologise and wipe the egg or mud or ink or whatever else on their face. If not, Col must block this handle if that can be done.

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