Friday, 31 January 2020

No 12846, Friday 31 Jan 2020, Dr. X

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ACROSS
1   Hurried to get rid of small, terribly basic cycle rickshaws (8) PEDICABS {sPED}{BASIC*}
5   Reprimand about rubbish copy (6) PARROT {RAP<=}{ROT}
10 Fall of Man essentially in ‘Paradise Lost’ causes anguish (7) DESPAIR PARaDISE*
11 Fool, possibly mad, interrupts legendary clarinetist (7) GOODMAN {GOO{MAD*}N}

12 Reviewing mission to enter United Kingdom in Eskimo boat (5) UMIAK {U{AIM<=}K}
13 Hardened criminal needs to control temper (9) STIFFENED {S{TIFF}ENED*}
14 In spite of vow, changes beliefs (6,2,4) POINTS OF VIEW*
18 What a boatman might do to give an opinion without being asked? (3,4,3,2) PUT ONES OAR IN [DD]
21 Demand to install new President after second unofficial ballot (5,4) STRAW POLL {T{RAW}{P}OLL} after {S}
23 Keep consuming ecstasy and throw up (5) HEAVE {H{E}AVE}
24 Distribute party drug smuggled by hooligan (4,3) DOLE OUT {DO}{L{E}OUT}
25 Contemptuous expert penning essentially vicious article (7) DEFIANT {DEF{vicIous}{AN}T}
26 Realizes husband’s overwhelmed by disputes (6) CASHES {CAS{H}ES}
27 One composing sacred songs in square, captured by friend on film (8) PSALMIST {P{S}AL}{MIST}

DOWN
1   Stand by president facing dishonour (6) PODIUM {P}{ODIUM}
2   Draw out and criticize revolting drunk (6) DISTIL {DIS}{LIT<=}
3   Bully about to torment many with new repressive measures (9) CRACKDOWN {C{RACK}{D}OW}{N}
4   Makes an irreversible commitment and never rows again? (5,4,5) BURNS ONES BOATS [DD]
6   Amateur on dope turns unresponsive (5) ALOOF {A}{FOOL<=}
7   Idealistic fellow in riot around college (8) ROMANTIC {RO{MAN}TI*}{C}
8   Moderate individual, a little distressed in city (4,4) TONE DOWN {T{ONE}{Di...d}OWN}
9   Once more defers drinking rum, despite being very likely to fail (7,3,4) AGAINST ALL ODDS {AGAIN}{STALL{ODD}S}
15 Face of fanatic, just revolting (9) FRIGHTFUL {F}{RIGHTFUL}
16 Disjointed narrative about one rogue (8) EPISODIC {EP{1}{SOD}IC}
17 Unsettles celebrity brushing aside media’s latest reports (8) STARTLES {STAR}{TaLES}
19 Islam perhaps barring a sandwich meat (6) SALAMI {SAL{A}MI*}
20 Decay in atom! Leave quickly (4,2) BEAT IT {B{EAT}IT}
22 Complete mess, I hear (5) WHOLE (~hole)

Reference List
Small = S, President = P, Second = S. Ecstasy = E, Party = DO, Drug = E, Husband = H, Square = S, Many = D, New = N, College = C


80 comments:

  1. 12Ac UMIAK - U(MI)(A)K
    7Dn ROMANTIC - RO(MAN)TI+C

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    1. Both your annos are incorrect.Please review.

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    2. Annos
      12Ac MI(-ssion)+a in UK -umiak - Eskimo boat.
      7Dn MAN(fellow)in ROTI(riot*) +c

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    3. Anno for 12A is still incorrect

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  3. 14ac
    POINTS OF VIEW
    Combined anagram of 'in spite of vow'
    The word 'changes' in the clue indicates anagram

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  4. 19d SALAMI anagram of Islam & a means meat

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  5. 4d
    Idiomatically
    BURNS ONES BOATS means makes an irreversible commitment.
    Having burnt his boats he can never row again

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  6. Salami...can I call it a combined anagram of Islam and a?

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  7. 22d
    WHOLE:. Complete
    It is heard as hole, meaning mess.

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  8. 8d
    TONE DOWN: moderate
    Individual: one
    A little depressed : d
    City: town
    One d in city: T(ONED)OWN

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  9. 1d
    President: P
    Dishonour: ODIUM
    President facing dishonour: PODIUM
    Which means stand

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  10. 12a...U (MIA) K.....UMIAK
    1D....islam + a * = salami
    23a...Keep = Have ; e from ecstasy ; H{E}AVE = HEAVE
    6D...DOPE MEANS FOOL turns FOOL <--- + a * = ALOOF
    22D..COMPLETE MEANS...WHOLE ....(DD)

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    1. Anno of 12 to show AIM is reversed
      19D is not a total anagram
      22D is not a DD

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    2. apologies.....12A..U (MIA<---) K.....UMIAK
      19d....ISLAM over A ..anagram * ------salami

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    3. col.sir, 22d....should be homophones..sound like.. am I right!!!

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  11. 27Ac PSALMIST - Ps+(al-quare!)mist(film)

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  12. 27Ac anno - PS(-QUARE)AL+MIST(film)

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  13. 9D.. Against all odds.. again for once more.. stalls for defers..odd for rum.
    5A..Parrot.. for copy..rap for reprimand. & Rot for rubbish.

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  14. DNM Rao. you have completed your quota, you can correct a wrong answer of yours, you cannot give another answer in lieu of a wrong answer

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  15. I am sorry Col Sir. Here I am correcting my 11Ac
    11Ac GOODMAN - Mad* in Goon - clarinetist.

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  16. Yet to be solved

    Across - 10, 13, 18, 21, 24, 25, 26

    Down - 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20

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  17. 10 ac. DESPAIR. Anagram of paradise less a. Fall of M(A)N essentially

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  18. 18 a put ones oar in.
    15 d Frightful-revolting.F anatic+rightful-just F+rightful.
    25 a defiant.expert-deft.vicIous.an-article.def(i an)t.

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  19. 13 a stiffened-hardened.tiff-temper.S(tiff)ened.

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  20. 21A: STRAW POLL {S}{T{RAW}{P}OLL} = Unofficial ballot

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  21. 16D EPISODIC =disjointed episode(narrative) - e + i(one) + c(rouge, con)

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  22. 26 a Cashes-disputes-cases.husband+h
    cas(h)es.realizes.

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  23. Yet to be solved

    Across - 18(Anno)

    Down - 2, 3, 16(Anno), 17, 19

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  24. There is no doubt. The answers on Wordplays.com are being taken from the interactive version as the answers are not yet up on the blog

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    1. col, did you save any draft for today.

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    2. Yes, I have, but that is not accessible by everyone

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    3. Request to email the time of draft, pls.

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  25. My quota is over. But may I write the annotations for 18 ac and16 dn?

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  26. Since no more answers are forthcoming. Those who have already submitted 5 answers may submit one more

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  27. 18ac
    Stick one's oar in is an idiom meaning 'giving an opinion without being invited'
    From 18th century, 'put one's oar in' is also used in the same Sense.
    16dn
    EPIC is narrative.
    I is one
    SOD is a rogue in British English.
    The solution is
    EPI(SOD)(I)C

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    1. 16dn...i was struggling a lot. i got half answer. i.e one-I , Rouge-C and for narrative i took it as EPI (xxx)C. well solved.

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  29. 17d (star)(tles). Celebrity:star. Meadia's latest (last) =a, reports=tales. Brushing aside a = tles.

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  30. 3dn
    D is many.
    Now it is complete

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  31. 3Dn CRACDOWN - Cow(bully) Rack (tormant) D(many) + N(ee)

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    1. Spell correction
      Crackdown - rack(torment) N(ew)

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    2. Anno is to be written as {C{RACK}{D}OW}{N}

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  32. And finally Dr RKE's Talepiece

    City Hall reporter, Dr.X, Jan 31

    AGAINST ALL ODDS, Mr.PARROT, won the STRAW POLL, not just because he was a GOOD MAN but because he was able to communicate his POINTS OF VIEW succinctly from the PODIUM, about the urgent need for abolition of the PEDICABS. His DEFIANT rival, Mr.SALAMI, wanted those FRIGHTFUL contraptions retained because he was to start a pedicab aggregating service (akin to Ola or Uber) with a ROMANTIC name "UMIAK". Mr. Salami was wont to PUT his OAR IN and he could not TONE DOWN his rhetoric. The WHOLE assembly was in STARTLES by Mr.Salami's flippant disregard for the DESPAIR of the wretched drivers of the rickshaws. The assembly BURNED its BOATS and voted for the abolition move. The members could HEAVE a sigh of relief, when EPISODIC CASH DOLE OUT was announced by Mr.Parrot to aid the drivers till they were fully rehabilitated. The proceedings ended with the PSALMIST singing the Thanksgiving Psalms 107:1, 13-15.

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  33. cute stat results of the blog as on date. just for TimePass.


    thehinducrosswordcorner.blogspot.com is 8 years 2 weeks old. This website is a sub-domain of blogspot.com. It has a global traffic rank of #467,828 in the world. This website is estimated worth of $ 8,640.00 and have a daily income of around $ 24.00. Furthermore the website is monetizing from Google Adsense. As no active threats were reported recently by users, thehinducrosswordcorner.blogspot.com is SAFE to browse.

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    1. The blog is going to be 11 years old on 04 Feb. I don't know how they got the estimated worth and daily income, as Google Adsense is not applicable to the blog, since it's not original content.

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    2. whois record for the blog is available from jan,2012 only, col. dont know the reason. the networth estimate is from ALEXA not adsense. maybe the ticker has somekind of backend adsense, dont know for sure.
      but as i said, cutestat is just for info/entertainment.

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  34. good to know this news. have a gr8 day. sree-sree

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  35. Vasant. Thanks your daily doses & MB 's , I do all of these , besides STOI, ET, Guardian, DC, TNIE, and any others that come my way. It engages my mind totally, all my free time. Of course, the fortnightly 1Across which is totally exhilarating.

    Strangely, I found a grid construction error in a recent TIMES crossie. Et, tu, Times ?

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    1. Raju.. I forgot to send you the corrected.. This means at least there is one person who does the Times puzzle regularly.
      Dr. X's puzzles have a lot in common with The Times puzzles. Classic. No CA, no RA, no elissions. 100% Ximenean. Superb surfaces.

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    2. But Chaitanya corrected the error in his Acrosslite version.

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    3. Thanks a lot Vasant! Made my day, month and year :)

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  36. +1 for the grid error.
    Looks like Raju may not have any spare time,rather no time even to have food and sleep considering the no. of CW's. Hats off to you.
    I also add my thanks to vasant & MB for their perseverance in their daily effort.

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  37. Except usual routine, alll spare time for crossword! Quick run through the news, on TV and three papers. Articles of interest of my favourites.

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  38. Thanks Doc, for yet another great grid. Until next week, then. God bless.

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    1. You are most welcome Raju! Till next time then..

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  39. I did this late late night.. Despite a tired body and a tired mind, was able to complete and enjoy this offering. Thanks Dr. X.

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  40. just recording, the solutions for today thc are not up yet on the website discussed!

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