Monday 6 April 2020

No 12902, Monday 06 Apr 2020, Skulldugger

Day 13 of 21 Stay Safe at home

Some nicely hidden anagrams today.

ACROSS
5   Recluse to ignore a thing’s trading limits (4-2) SHUT-IN SHUtTINg* (Addendum - SHU(-n+t)T-I(-t+n)N - See comments)
6   Coming out pithily expressed (6) GNOMIC*
9   Charged policemen for being odious (6) RANCID {RAN}{CID}
10 Neighbourhood in old city all decked out (8) LOCALITY*
11 Fellow gobbled up bread spread (4) FETA {F}{ATE<=}
12 She might tie you up in knots! (10) DOMINATRIX [CD]
13 Swiping for thrills and spills like a man smuggling illegal pot (11) KLEPTOMANIA {LIKE+A+MAN}* over {POT}*
18 Sick maiden at LA ranch treated by self-proclaimed physicians (10) CHARLATANS {Sick+AT+LA+RANCH}*
21 Promise grain for horses with lisp (4) OATH (~ oats)
22 Overwrought interface wants a redesign (8) FRENETIC INTERFaCE* [CA]
23 Bore old woman’s bed-mate! (6) PILLOW {PILL}{O}{W}
24 Bureau’s power to act (6) AGENCY [DD]
25 Spiritual calling! (6) SEANCE [CD]

DOWN
1   Turning up at fight (boxing championship inaugural) from bar-hopping (3-5) PUB-CRAWL {UP<=}{B{Ch...p}RAWL}
2   Glossed over, flagrantly lied in grand case (6) GILDED {Gra{LIED*}nD}
3   Creature in a Canon ad broadcast (8) ANACONDA*
4   Fetish you tolerate after morning (6) AMULET {AM}{U}{LET}
5   Drivel from someone known for manhandling! (6) SLAVER [DD]
7   Tom loves this anti-PC establishment (6) CATNIP*
8   Showiness in peregrine falcon, maybe (11) FLAMBOYANCE*
14 Dry-run for performance (8) PRACTICE [DD]
15 Seaweed around beluga, ginger essences that promotes respiration (4,4) IRON LUNG {NORI<=}{beLUga}{giNGer}
16 Mountaineer assesses her pack’s contents (6) SHERPA [T]
17 Mark's achievement (6) STROKE [DD]
19 Forest official in peril runs for aid finally (6) RANGER (-d+r)RANGER
20 Food for drinker! (6) SUPPER [DD]

Reference List
Fellow = F, Old = O, Woman = W, Run = R


Dr RKE's TalePiece

People are SHUT IN their houses in our LOCALITY due to the COVID outbreak. My neurosurgical PRACTICE is low as there are hardly any traffic accidents. One reason is that tipplers can no longer PUB CRAWL. I still have to go to hospital to attend emergency cases of STROKE, while everyone else is at home. After all, as a doctor I have taken the Hippocratic OATH. We are worried that given the shortage of ventilators, we might have to go back to the good old IRON LUNG. Of course, every  AGENCY of the government has been pressed into FRENETIC service on a war-footing to contain the scourge.

I reached home hungry last night for a late SUPPER. Due to the power outage the FETA from the fridge had turned RANCID and I had to eat plain bread. Fed up with the depressing news from the TV news channels, I turned to Animal Planet channel, for a show on an ANACONDA  being caught by a RANGER in the Amazon forest. Propped up on a PILLOW,  I lazily switched channels and landed in a tele-shopping channel, where CHARLATANS were selling a GILDED AMULET,  that would ward off the coronavirus! I must admit that they did it with FLAMBOYANCE

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18 comments:

  1. sree_sree6 April 2020 at 08:53

    5a ignore a thing: shun it. trading limits shun it. IMU

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    1. sree_sree6 April 2020 at 08:53

      pls read shut in for second shun it.

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    2. Suresh6 April 2020 at 09:24

      I think you are right there. O couldn't annotate the clue

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    3. Suresh6 April 2020 at 09:26

      I not O

      Limits being the two last letters

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  2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao6 April 2020 at 08:56

    I like the talepiece RKE
    The blank out is like black out yesterday! Very illuminating.

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  3. Orthopaul6 April 2020 at 09:29

    RKE sir. How come both of us have to work when most of our colleagues are chilling?

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    1. RKE6 April 2020 at 09:55

      We have taken the Hippocratic 4, sir!

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  4. Padmanabhan6 April 2020 at 09:36

    Thank you Dr.RKE for the 'puzzling' Talepiece.
    In Tamil we say -verum vaya melravanukku... one who can chew an empty mouth anything is welcome that takes time and effort to solve.

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    1. Prasanna Rao6 April 2020 at 13:11

      paddy can we say ' verum vayaala muzam poduravanukku'

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  5. Chaturvasi6 April 2020 at 15:40

    Note to Crucifix, attn: Suresh
    Take today's grid.
    If we start from any blank cell in any column or row on one side of it, we can go by drawing a line through blank cells to another (blank cell) on the opposite side of it (column/row).
    However, this is not possible in Crucifix grid yesterday.
    If you notice, the left vertical half of grid is separated from the right vertical half. Act It's two grids, so to say.
    This is only to point to an aspect of grid that setters must keep in mind.

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  6. Unknown6 April 2020 at 16:28

    What is CD CA DD at the ends,sorry I am a beginner here..

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    1. Col_Gopinath6 April 2020 at 16:57

      Look on the Left Hand Side panel under the heading ANNOTATIONS

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  7. Vasant6 April 2020 at 19:58

    Off all the puzzles doing the rounds of social media, I found this interesting.

    For each of the following, find a word ending in ‘ *cate* ’

    1. Suspend a student.
    2. Cut the end of.
    3. Make unclear.
    4. Very detailed.
    5. Highly sensitive.
    6. Make a copy of.
    7. Renounce throne.
    8. Make completely dry.
    9. Appease.
    10. Completely remove.
    11. Disentangle.
    12. Divide into two.
    13. Tame.
    14. Make involved in.
    15. Prove not guilty.
    16. Devote to.
    17. Convolute.
    18. Pope's tenure.
    19. Official document.
    20. Instil.
    21. Set boundary.
    22. Discover position of.
    23. Leave position.
    24. Pleader.
    25. Impart knowledge.
    26. Treat with drug.
    27. Apportion.
    28. Concoct.
    29. Slip out of position.
    30. Make drunk.

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