Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM. (Annotations compulsory)
Please submit all your answers in one comment.
ACROSS
1 Do some spelling work? (7)
5 Deviants but they keep queen out of terrible disasters (7)
9 Yes! Exercise is about the one who gets money (5)
10 Put in more effort if 2 doesn't yield (3,6)
11 Work is not troublesome - you've choices! (7)
12 Consider taking a bit of lemonade in glass (7)
14 Lazy learner's kept out - to face dismissal (4)
15 Fascinated by x? (4)
16 Go back lest time should be lost in glances (5)
18 Where husband is involved in idle loitering (5)
19 Behind, President's late in starting! (4)
20 Racket the rogue doesn't complete (4)
23 Portuguese finds a Scot harbouring member of a Punjabi clan (7)
24 Spite poured out with glee regularly in letter (7)
25 Make small fire for holy man (9)
27 Insect finished gathering last drop of nectar (5)
28 Former copper spews odd pretexts (7)
29 Tried deploying new-technology weapon (7)
DOWN
1 Uses half of those people for tricks (7)
2 What's here brings Luce (7,4)
3 Where imitators rule? (6)
4 Bird (American) with boy (American) smothering in-charge in tragedy (5,10)
5 Maya's top fortune put away in packaging material (9,6)
6 Stop help put up by father and child (8)
7 Reported: "One left dejected" (3)
8 Cries hiker let out when hauled up by secret service (7)
13 Yet the affair can lead to legal marriage (7,4)
17 Perhaps Lara is eating Indian rice dishes (8)
18 Get less shortchange with daughter replacing son (7)
21 Superlatively gentle convention is about keeps at odds (7)
22 Beauty spot found by boy in Delhi with the Spanish gone (6)
26 American fellow's British raincoat (3)
Enjoy.
While entering answers to clues of Sunday Special, make an effort to heed the Colonel's request to put in all your quota in one Comment.
ReplyDeleteJust that you write everything in a single Comment text box and hit Publish.
The only worry is by the time the answers are put under one post, they are becoming already repeated and hence duplicated
DeleteI am unable to do that today and as I am out and solving cold and trying to put in the answers. Apologies.
Delete5A: SADISTS...(DISASTERS-ER)*
ReplyDelete19A: RUMP...(-T)RUMP
ReplyDelete27A: DRONE..D(R)ONE
ReplyDelete4d TITUS ANDRONICUS TIT US AND RON(IC) US
ReplyDeleteAll right! Understand the difficulties.
ReplyDelete28a Excuses (ex)(cu)(s.e.s.)
ReplyDelete29a: Trident (tried+nt)*
6d: Diapason (aid<-)(pa)(son)
24A EPISTLE spite*+gLeE
ReplyDelete16A- Ogles-(OG=<) (LES)- Glances
ReplyDeleteLes- Lest time should be lost
Won't just 'Time lost' be enough?
Grammatically, required
Delete+1.I remember my English teacher in class VIIth explaining this.
Delete11A...Options. op= work is not
ReplyDelete14A- Sack- Dismissal- Slack-L
ReplyDeleteMy third-
ReplyDelete20A- Scam-Racket- Scamp-P
26D..Mac..unable to anno. Not too sure if the answer. Apologies🙏
ReplyDelete14D -D +S WINDLE
ReplyDelete26D MAC (DD) American fellow is Mac (anybody whose name is unknown) and English meaning Raincoat
21d MEE (K E S) T
Late attendance today
Sorry it is -S +D windle
DeleteRam... I too not getting the anno. for MAC.. but web showing the meaning as rain coat
Delete1d EMPLOYS (th)EM+PLOYS
ReplyDelete5d STYROFOAM PEANUT {Maya's top fortune}*
Where is 14d? Enter proper clue no.
ReplyDeleteAgain Sorry It is 18D
DeleteOK. Since taken into a/c in Clues taken.corrected
Delete1D.EMPLOYS.Half of those people=THEM..EM PLOYS= Tricks.
ReplyDeleteMy third
ReplyDelete9a PAYEE {P(YEA<)E} Exercise=PE, Yes=Yea.
Typo {P(AYE)E)
DeleteYes=aye
Delete1AC ENCHANT CD
ReplyDelete10AC TRY HARDER [what we have to do to solve 2dn below!] def. put in more effort
2DN CRYPTIC CLUE reverse anagram
Solvers so far
ReplyDeleteGemini 3/3
RNP 3/3
Vasant 2/3
PV 3/3
Paddy 3/3
ram 3/3
MB 3/3
KKR 3/3
Excellent clues in this round. It required more time and that was the constraint for solvers like me.
ReplyDeletePrelim 1 sounded to me as a misnomer...😁
DeleteMeaning?
DeleteIt was tough. No longer preliminary
Delete"Prelims" here does not mean a puzzle at beginners' level. It means "used at the preliminary round of an all-India solving tournament" before the contest entered its final stage.
DeleteProbably Gemini wished it ti be called as Pre-finals
DeleteNOTE NOTE NOTE
ReplyDeleteToday your THREE chances are THREE answers whether original or repeats of those already entered by others. Please don't substitute for duplicates.
7d sad (said-i); 8d shrieks (hiker* around ss), 22d Bindhi [b in d(-el)hi]
ReplyDeleteCame back to finish the puzzle.
ReplyDelete12A OP(A)(L)INE
18 A DELHI (IDLE* around H )
ReplyDelete13 D ILLICIT LOVE (CD?)
22 D BINDHI (BIN DelHI< def: beauty spot)
15ac into (dd)
ReplyDeleteMy 3
ReplyDelete23A - IBERIAN {I{BERI}AN}
8D - SHRIEKS {S{HIKER*}S}
17D - BIRIANIS {BRIAN }{IS} over {I}
Last two
ReplyDelete25A and 3D
Solvers so far
ReplyDeleteGemini 3/3
RNP 3/3
Vasant 3/3
PV 3/3
Paddy 3/3
ram 3/3
MB 3/3
KKR 3/3
SK 3/3
LV 3/3
DG 3/3
28a.Former -EX ; copper -Cu ; SpEwS =Excuses
ReplyDelete1a...Enchant - dd
26d- MAC -- DD
3d....imitator - Actor
ReplyDeleteToday I was physically present and mentally absent. my thoughts are full of IXL test. atlast i could do only 4.
ReplyDelete25A Make small fire for holy man (9)
ReplyDeleteDominican-holy man
Do is make
small is mini
can is fire
3d Where imitators rule? (6)
Apedom a cryptic definition. If lords rule over earldom, imitators rule over apedom :-)
All done and dusted.
ReplyDelete