Saturday 29 February 2020

No 12871, Saturday 29 Feb 2020, Sunnet


ACROSS
1   India supports unlimited consumption (6) INTAKE {IN}{sTAKEs}
4   Shocked papal assembly was in the forefront (8) APPALLED {PAPAL*}{LED}
10 Bond with beryllium implanted in false tooth (9) DEBENTURE {DE{BE}NTURE}
11 Rub a seer wrongly (5) ERASE*
12 Perhaps 3 comb-like devices (5) CARDS [DD]
13 Reviewed Rajaji’s papers? That’s quite complicated (9) CRITIQUED {CR}{I{QUITE*}D}
14 Set rusk baked in ivory holders (7) TUSKERS*
16 Dash of caramel anglaise (4) ELAN [T]
19 Put on tailless deer (4) STAG STAGe
21 Preferably detains criminal (7) INSTEAD*
24 Fabulous offer on lamps (3,3,3) NEW FOR OLD [CD] From Aladdin's story
25 Excellent meal with some primal cut (5) SUPER SUPpER
26 A little goat to destroy a pasture (5) GRAZE {Goat}{RAZE}
27 Missile’s failure to burn initially (5,4) SMART BOMB {BOMB}<=>{SMART}
28 Play, novel and movie (3,5) TOY STORY {TOY}{STORY}
29 Field is without children now (6) SPHERE SP{HERE} Anno pendng

DOWN
1   Show in order to get rid of the central character (8) INDICATE {IN}{DICtATE}
2   Plant’s channel went upwards (8) TUBEROSE {TUBE}{ROSE}
3   Relative goes with empty stomach to Lords (5) KINGS {KIN}{GoeS}
5   Right publicity to cut across is missing (7) PRECISE {PR}{ExCISE}
6   A jittery emir jails natives (9) AMERICANS {A}{EMIR*}{CANS}
7   Union measure (6) LEAGUE [DD]
8   Fears some dark studies (6) DREADS {Dark}{READS}
9   Half a month is taken to freeze some semi-solid extracts (6) JUICES {JUne}{ICES}
15 Mostly wide open mixer (9) EXTROVERT {EXTRa}{OVERT}
17 Footballer’s mistaken hope to keep undesirables out using this (8) PEEPHOLE {PE{HOPE*}LE}
18 Clever girl inside is charming (8) ADORABLE {A{DORA}BLE}
20 Bigger food retailer for the auditor (7) GROSSER (~grocer)
21 One of us is an independent Scotsman (6) INDIAN {IND}{IAN}
22 Caught dark warrior (6) KNIGHT (~night)
23 Sticky rotten waste yard (6) SWEATY {WASTE*}{Y}
25 Direction to put back a body (3-2) SET-UP {SE}{PUT<=}

Reference List 
India = N, Papers = ID, Cross = X, Inependent = IND, Yard = Y, Direction = SE(South East)


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38 comments:

  1. sree_sree29 February 2020 at 08:31

    29a Sino prole,so:without issue.

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    1. sree_sree29 February 2020 at 08:32

      SP not so.

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    2. Padmanabhan29 February 2020 at 09:16

      Needs decoding. Had to google the meaning of 'sino prole'- without issue. So 'sp' must be the abbreviation of this. Getting it and finding the abbreviation is too difficult- probably need an indicator to get the word.

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    3. sree_sree29 February 2020 at 09:19

      War of Jhansi! With British?

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    4. RameshJ29 February 2020 at 15:11

      Chambers gives sp as an abbreviation meaning without issue.

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  2. RKE29 February 2020 at 08:33

    Ganga Singh, the Maharajah of an INDIAN state, was one among the few KINGS KNIGHTed by the Queen. Few were in his LEAGUE, in the SPHERE of big game hunting. He was an EXTROVERT to the core and a SUPER shikari, known for his PRECISE marksmanship that allowed him to shoot through the PEEP HOLE of the protective cage in which he rode atop his royal elephant. He had an ELAN for organizing forest expeditions for the agent of the Viceroy, even in the SWEATY summer. He had SET UP the stuffed heads of the TUSKERS and STAG he had bagged on the walls of his palace, with CARDS to INDICATE the date and place of his conquests. Nothing could be GROSSER than the display of the tiger cubs he had hunted, which APPALLED even the hard-hearted. One DREADS to think how he would have ERASEd the fauna, if INSTEAD of dying at the age of 35, he had lived to three score and ten.
    Ganga Singh, who believed in exchanging NEW FOR OLD, had taken an ADORABLE AMERICAN as his third wife. She, had to live on an INTAKE of JUICES as she found the Indian food too spicy. She was an animal lover and she built a pasture for her pet fawns to GRAZE. Her acts of kindness to animals prevented the Maharajah from being CRITIQUED by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) founded in 1866. Moral of STORY- do not TOY with wildlife.

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  3. RKE29 February 2020 at 08:38

    Any guess on the theme of this enjoyable pangram?

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    1. Vasant29 February 2020 at 13:14

      IPL?
      Kolkatta KNIGHT riders
      Chennai SUPER KINGS
      Cochi TUSKERS
      INDIAN LEAGUE

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao29 February 2020 at 13:59

      Wow! That's brilliant, Vasant!

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    3. Vasant29 February 2020 at 14:02

      🙏🙏

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    4. Prasanna Rao29 February 2020 at 15:02

      gr8. Vasanth....instantly could not get the theme. well done

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    5. RameshJ29 February 2020 at 15:12

      IPL was the intended theme. Super spotting by Vasant

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  4. Padmanabhan29 February 2020 at 09:23

    Superb story Dr. Enjoyed new for old- in wives!!

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  5. Padmanabhan29 February 2020 at 09:28

    Enjoyed CR,Debenture, Tube roseto mention a few.
    Doubts-
    Will 'Native' lead to American?
    27A- 'To burn'= Smart (angry?)
    3D- Lords=Kings?

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    1. sree_sree29 February 2020 at 09:49

      Smart;(of a wound or part of the body) feel or cause a sharp stinging pain.

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    2. sree_sree29 February 2020 at 10:08

      Lord as in master/ruler.
      American is a subset of native!!

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  6. Padmanabhan29 February 2020 at 09:29

    Col.
    All fine after the trip?

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    1. Col_Gopinath29 February 2020 at 09:31

      All ok

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    2. Prasanna Rao29 February 2020 at 14:59

      glad to know your arrival. have a nice week end....Today I could touch only 3, 14,11 and 16 ac.....

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  7. Padmanabhan29 February 2020 at 09:31

    Again a century yesterday- no in cricket,but in comments.

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  8. Kolluru Koteswara Rao29 February 2020 at 09:35

    Liked 24AC
    I see Royals and their staff as theme?

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  9. Padmanabhan29 February 2020 at 09:40

    Rajaji=CR may be added under Ref. list.Good one.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao29 February 2020 at 10:57

      Probably, it will not qualify for being in the reference list as it is not a standard one in the dictionaries.

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    2. Padmanabhan29 February 2020 at 13:30

      I meant as is used here,not necessarily standard.

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  10. C.G. BHARGAV29 February 2020 at 10:05

    The SWEATY INDIAN chanced on the SET UP.

    And he was APALLED at what he saw through the PEEPHOLE.

    Some guys assembling a SUPER SMART BOMB in the shape of a SPHERE. Seemed like they knew the PRECISE method!

    He was quick to INDICATE this to the media. But alas! They CRITIQUED it differently and made a TOY STORY of it !!

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    1. Prasanna Rao29 February 2020 at 15:14

      reality of the present situation perfectly reflected here.....Nice CG sir...

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  11. RKE29 February 2020 at 11:08

    👌👍

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  12. cdrgani2929 February 2020 at 12:22

    Clues tough enough but not laborious.13A CR is ok but need explanation for the rest of the letters, anybody?

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    1. Vasant29 February 2020 at 12:33

      CR=Rajaji
      ID=Papers ( Identity papers)
      ID contains anagram of quite
      CR+ I(TIQUE)*D

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    2. cdrgani2929 February 2020 at 13:30

      Thank you, Vasant! Couldn't get ID for papers. Also didn't realize the anagram of QUITE

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    3. Padmanabhan29 February 2020 at 13:32

      ID is fairly frequently used.

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  13. Prasanna Rao29 February 2020 at 15:10

    4 a Shocked papal assembly was in the forefront (8) APPALLED {PAPAL*}{LED}
    Col.sir, anno. for LED is against of forefront. is it so!!

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    1. Padmanabhan29 February 2020 at 17:05

      'was in the forefront'= Led (lead- led)

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    2. Prasanna Rao29 February 2020 at 17:26

      ok.got..it...past tense...lead > led.....too tricky..paddy...nice one. tnx for the clarification.

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  14. RameshJ29 February 2020 at 15:16

    Thanks Doc & CGB for the wonderful stories

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  15. RameshJ29 February 2020 at 20:27

    Thanks everyone for the feedback

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    1. Vasant29 February 2020 at 20:54

      This is a brilliant puzzle, Sunnet.
      Thankfully, you are once again setting great puzzles and are accessible after a pretty two years.
      We love your themed pangram attic offering.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao1 March 2020 at 07:26

      +1

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