Day 33 of 40 Stay safe at home
Welcome to our new setter Veeyares. Bouquets and Brickbats welcome.
Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please submit all your answers in one comment.
ACROSS
1 Cavort about a street for a mile, say (8)
5 Fling girl around catholic (6)
10 Reportedly drilled a plank (5)
11 Detailed business running around institute a ritual (9)
12 Pulls female out for top tasty portions (9)
13 Perfect an arrangement (5)
14 Assign ballot of French earlier (6)
15 Let go each device to dispense liquid (7)
18 A class you heard about informal wear (7)
20 Ruler is back in rampart assembly (6)
22 Expels as fights start off without direction (5)
24 Waste in brittle container of junk (6, 3)
25 Recognition comes as new areas strike a change (9)
26 Got in to melt gold bar, say? (5)
27 Leave during extremes of emergency to show fairness (6)
28 Possibly seen prey at a mountain range (8)
DOWN
1 Dispute about bat falling into river (6)
2 Main cuisines with right ingredients for sailors (9)
3 Extra blanket? (10, 5)
4 Starting Current at the high on doing experiment with electrode (7)
6 Spoke honestly, 'Tell nation I hide corrupt' (4, 2, 2, 3, 4)
7 Engineer about to free wife (5)
8 Letter put down by nobleman (8)
9 Resolved and moved right out to get first shot (6)
16 Last post. Bump? (4, 5)
17 Kudos to current officer present with energy (8)
19 Quiet student observed around organ (6)
20 Safety is compromised with missing note, please (7)
21 Joins release, I go up and take a point (6)
23 Confusion when socially acceptable buffs go up (5)
Enjoy.
26A INGOT* (GOT IN)
ReplyDelete22A: (-J)OUSTS
ReplyDeleteI think the anno should be (-b)OU(S)TS
Delete+1
Delete+2
Delete20a: SATRAP {T<--}
ReplyDelete28A: PYRENEES {SEEN+PREY}*
20d SATISFY (Safety is -e)*
ReplyDelete21D UNITES (untie, i goes up.S)
23d SNAFU (u fans <-)
27A: E(QUIT)Y
ReplyDelete3d ADDITIIONAL COVER cd
ReplyDelete28A PYRANEES*
3d doesnt fit with 22a. relook please
DeleteCheck 28A spelling
Delete27A: EQUITY {E{QUIT}Y}
ReplyDelete19D: SPLEEN...S(P)(L)EEN
ReplyDelete10A BOARD (BORED=DRILLED reportedly) def PLANK = BOARD
ReplyDelete1A D(I ST)ANCE
ReplyDelete10A BOARD ~BORED
4d CATHODE Acrostic
1D DEBATE* (BAT + DEE (river)) def DISPUTE=DEBATE
ReplyDelete24Ac Litter Bin*
ReplyDelete24Ac Anno: {IN BRITTLE}*
Delete24 across LITTER BIN*
ReplyDelete6 down LAID IT ON THE LINE*
ReplyDelete27A - E..(QUIT)..Y
ReplyDelete14A- (DE)VOTE-Assign
ReplyDelete28a .... seen+prey = PYRENEES*
ReplyDelete13A- Ideal- Perfect- I (Deal)
ReplyDeleteREPLACEMENT FOR REPEAT
ReplyDelete25a: AWARENESS {AS+NEW+AREAS-A|*
2oA- Satrap- Ruler
ReplyDeleteRamPART ASsembly- T=<
25A ((-a)S NEw arras)* awareness
ReplyDelete(s new areas)
Delete6D - (tell nation I hide)* LAID IT ON THE LINE.
ReplyDelete3Dn ADDITIONAL SHEET (DD)
ReplyDeleteHow do you call it a [DD]?
Deletecould have more than one soln?
DeleteWhich are the two definitions to make it a DD
DeleteMaking up for repeat
ReplyDeleteSEA FARE(R)S
17DN AC+COL+AD+E
ReplyDelete18AC CASUALS*
2DN SEA+FARE[R]S
18Ac CASUALS - {A(CLASS)U}*
ReplyDeleteFor18Ac Repacement
ReplyDelete15Ac DROPPER -{DROP}{PER}
12A Pulls female out for top tasty portions (9)
ReplyDeleteTractions meaning pulls
Fractions is portions
Replace F(Female) with T (top Tasty)
excellent
Delete8d Letter put down by nobleman (8)
ReplyDeleteLand Lord is a letter( one who lets or rents)
Land is put down
Lord is nobleman.
5A Fling girl around catholic (6)
ReplyDeleteGlobal meaning catholic
Put Gal(girl) around Lob(fling)
That's a very good solve.
Delete18acros; CASUAL A Class with U. anagram- informal wear
ReplyDelete2 down:: SEAFARERS - Main = SEA FARES = cuisines + R from Right .
TRACTIONS=Pulls (-F) RACTIONS . portions add T
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17down: ACCOLADE- kudos curent+AC+ COL = OFFICER + AD =present + E from energy
Raju the limit is THREE per commenter. However as all these are already solved I'm letting it go.
DeleteYour Anno for 18 A needs to be rechecked.
Why such a big gap between your answers?
DeleteI guess it is Ipad which has been giving him untold problems! Right, Rajugaru?
DeleteIf not the I pad,it is the I phone!
Delete7dn BRIDE {B{RID}E}
ReplyDelete11ac TRADITION {TRAD{-E}{ITI}{ON}
ReplyDeleteWell solved MB
Delete2 Main cuisines with right ingredients for sailors (9)
ReplyDeleteAns has been given above by two solvers.
But what's the correct anno?
Raju, as usual, has put down two components but is not clear how exactly the ans is derived.
Is it SEA FARE(R)S?
If so is 'with' the container ind? Is it OK?
Does the clue as written leads to SEAFARESR, i.e., SEA FARES R?
I took ingredients as container
DeleteI have no sledgehammer to split the hair.
DeleteCol. I thought I corrected and reposted the new answer ?
Amidst the skein of so many repeats, how can one make sure? Please excuse.
KKR,
DeleteOr probably contained. Ingredients are contained,in a vessel say.
Raju, Col. did not ask you not to post repeats. All of us do that. But he pointed out that the limit is 3 since you had posted 4.
DeleteIngredient also means walk(s) into/entering.
DeleteAlso ingredient is an element contained within a larger combined form. So seafarer is the container of R. IMU. But puzzled by plural form.
9D PAR(-s+R)SED
ReplyDeleteGot played by "out to get".
DeleteA good sunday fare. Thanks veeyares.
I have no sledgehammer to split the hair. This is for CV
ReplyDeleteEnjoyable grid on a surprisingly rainy sunday morning.
ReplyDeleteCan someone please guide on how to get access to the across lite version. thanks.
Find it very cumbersome to solve on screen otherwise.
You got the rain! We got only the THOR level thunder.
DeleteYou can download AcrossLite from the net.
ReplyDeleteGoogle for AcrossLite. Among the results go to the download site/page. Choose the correct needed ver. and install it on your PC or iPad or whatever.
ReplyDeletehttps://download.cnet.com/Across-Lite/3000-2111_4-75123227.html
ReplyDeleteFor Acrosslite
thanks CV sir and padmanabhan
ReplyDeleteEnjoyable CW with all the variations in place. Nice debut. Please keep them coming.
ReplyDelete16d - Is it 'PEAK BUGLE'?
ReplyDeleteThe Last Post is a bugle call played to commemorate those killed in war(ref Wikipedia). But couldnt fit the anno for the first word. Am Guessing Peak = bump
I think it's ra gone wrong. It should have been bulge instead of bump.
DeletePl. see my entry below. Bump=Bulge
Delete? for RA,I take it.
Yes paddy but it should be INDIRECt! No?
Delete16A is yet to be solved
ReplyDelete16A is open for anyone to solve
ReplyDeleteBump=Bulge= Play bugle=(bugle)*
ReplyDeleteLast post is also 'Play Bugle'.
Call it a DD or just wordplay?
Couldn't be that indirect.
DeleteReverse indirect anagram!
Question is if the ? at the end is enough to justify it?
Delete? cannot justify an indirect anagram.
Delete+1. its a diff logic if def was bump. but the def is last post. so def indirect
DeleteMust be 16D.
ReplyDelete..and now on to Col. to tell us about the Identity of the setter.
ReplyDeleteIt's up to the setter to reveal the identity if desired.
DeleteThanks for the Special Veeyares. We need your confirmation for 16D.
ReplyDeletecol. sir, please reveal the setter's identity like Jiyarajume. anticipating a lot.
DeleteDecent debut puzzle. Thank you, Veeyares.
ReplyDeleteIt is not difficult to guess who Veeya R S is, is it?
ReplyDeleteA very good debut. A couple of feed backs.
a/an=I should be avoided like in 1A and 13A.
2d ingredients as container indicator?
3d A straight clue-could have put some cryptic element into it.
and of course we are all waiting for 16d explanation.
a/an = one/i is fairly common, no?
DeleteHas become common but not correct. Indirect.
DeleteCopy pasted below is a post from Pradeep Raghunathan (On Saturday's post) He used to have run a blog on The Hindu Crossword from 2000 to 2006 and a Yahoo Group for THC. The name of the blog was the same as this one, only the word 'corner' was not there. What a coincidence. He bumped into the blog today and mailed me. CV used to comment on his blog back then.
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Good to come back to THC after ages. Had not seen it either on the newspaper or the website, and does seem like a lot has changed now, but good to see that the one constant is Gridman (aka) Chaturvasi :). After all these years, feel rather rusty having a go at the puzzle (not that i was super good at it back then). Thanks for starting this blog and consistently and patiently running it for more than a decade now Col. Gopinath. Hats off to you! For the few years that we had the yahoogroup and later a blog in the early 2000s, it was not easy, but everything becomes relatively easy if it is a labour of love :).
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Thank you Col. Gopinath :). Sorry.. for having posted on the other post :). Really nice to see so many fellow cruciverbalists here :).
DeleteGlad to see your message and I just visited the blog. Excellent work-done and as you well said, it is not an easy task to maintain the entire grids with anno. we will make use of it. Thanks to Shri. Pradeep and Col. for the another precious blog. Have a nice day
DeleteThanks Prasanna :). Good to see that you are a fellow CSK fan too :).
DeleteI had not noticed this CSK emblem all these days though I am from Chennai and a CSK fan to. Thank you.
DeleteI guess it is easier to count the number of non-CSK fans ;).
DeleteI remember the year 2003 I was searching cross word clues where I noticed this blog. coz, the entire background was black. But, I have not remember the name. Nice coincidence. Finally I could see one more veteran thro'Col. Have a Nice Day.
DeletePradeep, Nice to see you here. What a glorious time we had in your Yahoogroups. I remember a couple of other regulars too. I did a lot of explaining. Over these years, the members of that group have grown up, their families have grown up and maybe their responsibilities at office too.
ReplyDeleteChaturvasi ji.. such a pleasure and honour :). Absolutely.. and you were our guiding light :). I was chatting with Raapi (Rajesh P Vijayaraghavan) yesterday.. I am sure you remember him :). We were talking about those days.. and he asked me to search for this blog :).
DeleteNice to see old friends getting in touch. Always feel happy to meet/chat with old friends and that too quite unexpectedly. Clampdown has its benefits,after all!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely.. and with cruciverbalists.. you feel at home :).
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