Sunday, 24 May 2020

Special, Sunday 24 May 2020, Rennar

Day 61 of 68 Stay safe at home
(I am maintaining lockdown till 31 May)

Welcome to our new setter RENNAR. Bouquets and brickbats welcome.

Three answers per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please submit all your answers in one comment. 
(COMMENTS ENTERED WITH LESS THAN THREE ANSWERS WILL BE DELTED WITHOUT NOTICE, UNLESS THE COMMENTER SPECIFIES THAT IT IS A COMPENSATION FOR A REPEAT)


ACROSS
1   Tedious to observe perhaps (7)
5   Die hard priests possibly (7)
9   Seasons of gold and broken nuts around beginning of March (7)
10 License to kill mum (7)
12 Be specific about distributing sail pieces (10)
13 Work hard in spent oilcan factory (4)
14 Bones buried in mortar silt (5)
15 An event featuring fashionable investigator and specialist (8)
17 Make love accelerate in and leave fast (5-3)
19 Broken almond not new, average (5)
21 Street child with a conditional clause (4)
22 Chef cooked double corn (6, 4)
24 My uncle mostly spreads a slander (7)
25 Calm sailor with your initial song (7)
26 Prison time to extend (7)
27 Deal won’t change without a disappointment (7)

DOWN
2   Provide two-third horsepower (5)
3   Doorman delivery (7)
4   Asian norm broken in Capital city (3, 6)
6   Superior drunk in East England (5)
7   Fragrant small decent dressing (7)
8   No elastic made in parts (9)
11 Lie to girl in class, we hear (9)
14 She tore a garment on Tuesday (9)
16 Compile about old city’s calmness (9)
18 File suit about very loud American spread (7)
20 Expert lost blood that splashed (7)
22 Inefficiency nicely conceals faultfinder (5)
23 The Spanish tie joint (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at RENNAR 1

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80 comments:

  1. Ramani24 May 2020 at 10:32

    23d EL BOW
    22D CYNIC (T)
    8D SECTIONAL*

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  2. Padmanabhan24 May 2020 at 10:36

    4A- Persist- (Priests)*
    14A- Tarsi- T- morTAR SIlt
    6D- Elite- E(lit)e- Superior

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    1. Chaturvasi24 May 2020 at 15:28

      It is 5a actually.
      It will be nice if,after all the answers are in, the sol grid is pub'd so those of us who didn't solve can just enjoy clue with the ans after reading the comments. Things become hard
      When the clue no,is wrong.

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    2. Padmanabhan24 May 2020 at 19:18

      Sorry for the mistake. Hurry to get all 3 together.

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  3. Padmanabhan24 May 2020 at 10:36

    For once,close on the heels of Ram!

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  4. R Nagendra Prasad24 May 2020 at 10:36

    13A: TOIL...T
    14A: TARSI...T
    4D: SAN MARINO...ASIAN NORM*

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  5. P. Venkatesan24 May 2020 at 10:37

    14A: TARSI (T)
    13A: TOIL (T)
    12A: SPECIALISE {SAIL+PIECES}*

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  6. R Nagendra Prasad24 May 2020 at 10:38

    Compensating for 14A,
    12A: SPECIALISE...sail pieces*

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  7. Vasant24 May 2020 at 10:39

    9A AU +TU(M)NS*
    10A SILENCE*
    7d S+CENTED*

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  8. R Nagendra Prasad24 May 2020 at 10:39

    Compensating for 12A,
    5A: PERSIST...prtests*

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  9. raju umamaheswar24 May 2020 at 10:43

    7down:: SCENTED- Small S + decent anagram.

    15 across: INCIDENT. fashionable= IN+ Investigator= CID specialist= ENT

    6 down: ELITE- superior. E-LIT= drunk-E

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  10. P. Venkatesan24 May 2020 at 10:44

    REPLACEMENTS FOR REPEATS:
    15A: INCIDENT {IN}pCID}{ENT}
    16D: COMPOSURE {COMPOS{UR}E}

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  11. R Nagendra Prasad24 May 2020 at 10:45

    Compensating for 5A,
    26A: STRETCH..DD

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  12. Shalini24 May 2020 at 10:45

    1A Verbose anagram of observe
    2d Equip two thirds of Equi(ne) +p=power
    3d Bouncer dd

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  13. Jacob Brahmakulam24 May 2020 at 10:46

    16D COMPOSURE; {COMPO{sur}E}
    25A LULLABY; {LULL}{AB}{Your}
    20D DABBLED; {DAB}{BLED}

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  14. P. Venkatesan24 May 2020 at 10:47

    REPLACEMENT FOR REPEAT:
    27A: LETDOWN {DE(-A)L+WONT}*

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  15. C.G. BHARGAV24 May 2020 at 10:47

    My three
    1 ac. VERBOSE*
    3 dn. BOUNCER (DD)
    14 dn.TERMAGAN* T

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  16. raju umamaheswar24 May 2020 at 11:01

    RENNAR: RNR ? Simple elegant clues. a la-INCOGNITO. or is it INGOGNITO in another Avatar ? Welcome aboard and thanks for a stress free solving

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    1. Rengaswamy24 May 2020 at 11:41

      Thanks Rajuji, my intention was to keep it simple a la INCOGNITO and also enjoyable. Thanks for liking it.

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  17. Srinidhi24 May 2020 at 11:07

    17A Make love accelerate in and leave fast (5-3)
    Brush-off meaning leave fast
    put Rush (accelerate) in Boff( make love)
    22A Chef cooked double corn (6, 4)
    Cordon Bleu a Chef
    Simple anagram of double corn
    21A Street child with a conditional clause (4)
    Waif -Street Child
    W from With
    a is a
    If is conditional clause( all conditional causes might start with If, this required a DBE indicator?)

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  18. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 May 2020 at 11:07

    18dn SUFFUSE {SU{FF}{US}E}
    21ac WAIF W A IF
    24ac CALUMNY {MY UNCL(-e) +A}*

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  19. Padmanabhan24 May 2020 at 11:12

    Fast solve,but left with one (or half?) blank.
    Enjoyed. Thank you Rennar.

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  20. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 May 2020 at 11:13

    11DN MISINFORM ~miss in form

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  21. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 May 2020 at 11:15

    in place of 21ac
    18dn MISINFORM MIS ~MISS IN FORM

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  22. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 May 2020 at 11:15

    Well done, Rennar!
    Very crispy clues. I now understand why they were all picked up like hot cakes.
    I had to abort my attempts twice because of Srinidhi and MB! Got only one at last.

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  23. ramesh ss24 May 2020 at 11:16

    Nice and easy grid. Welcome to the club RENNAR!

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  24. Padmanabhan24 May 2020 at 11:17

    All done so fast and still enjoyable.

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  25. ramesh ss24 May 2020 at 11:17

    19A MODAL (almond - n New)*

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  26. Padmanabhan24 May 2020 at 11:18

    Go for 19A KKR.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 May 2020 at 12:10

      Thanks Paddy.
      But I saw Calumny and Nodal solved earlier by our friends. So I didnt attempt

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  27. Jacob Brahmakulam24 May 2020 at 11:18

    in place of 16d;
    11D MISINFORM; LIE; {MIS} ~miss {IN FORM}

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  28. sree_sree24 May 2020 at 11:19

    19a MODAL (almon-n)*
    have a doubt though
    modal is relating to mode! def to be "of average"!

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    1. ramesh ss24 May 2020 at 11:27

      Statistics - is the most occurrence in a group of numbers if I recall correctly

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  29. Chaturvasi24 May 2020 at 11:20

    RENgaswami NARasimhan
    RENNAR
    Probably

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  30. Rengaswamy24 May 2020 at 11:26

    Well solved Chaturvasi!

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  31. Rengaswamy24 May 2020 at 11:26

    1. modal - relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"
    average

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  32. Rengaswamy24 May 2020 at 11:31

    Thank you all for the comments. I wanted to make it in Incognito style and most probably I succeeded in it as the grid is solved in <40 minutes by you all.
    Thanks Dr. Satyen Naber in supplying me with a filled grid and Thanks Colonel for publishing my first grid.

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  33. Col_Gopinath24 May 2020 at 11:32

    Thanks for the special Rengaswamy

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  34. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 May 2020 at 11:34

    Simple and elegant! Ye Dil Mange More!

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  35. Col_Gopinath24 May 2020 at 11:34

    I hope these last few new setters will inspire many more to get into setting. Thanks to Satyen also for taking time out to help the new setters despite his many other commitments.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 May 2020 at 11:54

      +1.
      Doc is always coming handy to treat patients and addicts!!!

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    2. ramesh ss24 May 2020 at 13:09

      ha ha. Good dose of pot, ecstasy in doc's grids!

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  36. Satyen Nabar24 May 2020 at 11:43

    Congrats on your debut Rengaswamy!😀

    Reiterating my offer to all - Those who are interested in setting crosswords for Sunday Special but lack the appropriate software or lack the technical know-how or just need a push, you can contact me on satyennabar@gmail.com

    I will make the grid (you can include any specific preferences) and send you the words to be clued. Paddy and Rennar are the new talents to emerge. You can be the next :)
    Even if you only require proper formatting in Compiler like setter 'Veeyares', you can send in the prepared grid in Excel or the like. The needful will be done.

    Thanks all 🙏



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    1. Rengaswamy24 May 2020 at 11:54

      Thank you very much Dr Satyen. But for you, I would have never attempted it. I have been contemplating to do this for the last forty years, but it just needed your push to do it. Of course, the credit also goes to Colonel, but for whom my grid would have never surfaced. Through his blog only I have learnt a lot and still learning.

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    2. sree_sree24 May 2020 at 13:21

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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    3. sree_sree24 May 2020 at 13:22

      Heartfelt thanks doc, from all of us.

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    4. ranger24 May 2020 at 13:57

      Nice gesture Satyen. More power to you!

      Congratulations on your debut Rengaswamy, nice set of clues. Good luck!

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    5. Rengaswamy24 May 2020 at 18:29

      Thank you Mr Devanathan for your appreciation.

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    6. Satyen Nabar24 May 2020 at 23:47

      Least I can do Arden Sir, Prasad.
      I think it is time for you to make a crossword Prasad. Cannot think of anyone more qualified knowledge-wise.

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    7. Chaturvasi25 May 2020 at 08:32

      I believe sree_sree, VRS Prasad and Veeareyes are all one and the same person.m

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  37. Vasant24 May 2020 at 11:46

    Extremely elegant clues. Smashing debut. Keep setting, keep entertaining.

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    1. Rengaswamy24 May 2020 at 12:01

      Thanks Vasant for your inspiring words of appreciation.

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  38. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 May 2020 at 12:12

    2DN is my favourite!

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  39. ramesh ss24 May 2020 at 12:49

    No VERBOSE clues. No need to SPECIALIZE in ELITE wordplays or TOIL too much. Simply solve in SILENCE there will be no LET-DOWN. This easy grid with a BOUNCER or two on Sunday after a week of some work restarting was like a soothing LULLABY.
    Is the CALUMNY over? Will increase says the CYNIC. From the MODAL figures from places as diverse as SAN MARINO to Tokyo it seems so. Can’t BRUSH it OFF but must retain your COMPOSURE. Pay no heed to any TERMAGANT who could MISINFORM. But avoid any SECTIONAL outbreaks and prevent an INCIDENT in your vicinity. EQUIP yourself with safeguards, care for the unfortunate WAIF. Exercise with a STRETCH to keep your ELBOWs and TARSI in condition. Many have DABBLED for a vaccine, perhaps a chef like CORDON BLEU will come up with a concoction before AUTUMN starts. Till then stay safe and PERSIST with life normally. Have a good week….
    Thank you RENNAR!

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  40. Padmanabhan24 May 2020 at 13:00

    Wow! Another kind of Sunday Special.
    Thank you Novice (for want of better address)

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    1. ramesh ss24 May 2020 at 13:20

      thanks 🙏

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    2. ramesh ss24 May 2020 at 13:24

      My name is S S Ramesh. Am a Chennai vasi. Used to like cryptics from school and college times but lost touch till about 2+ years ago when i signed up in the FB 1ACross. Still picking up the nuances and tried my hand at setting too. Am no expert so chose Novice as the setter name. Do solve and send your feedback on the grids set by me. Appreciate it a lot.

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  41. Padmanabhan24 May 2020 at 13:32

    Sorry Ramesh. I knew your name while solving your grid,but forgot. We will def. meet next time whenever it is possible to have S&B meet in Chennai. You are a veteran if you are solving cryptics from school days.

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    1. ramesh ss24 May 2020 at 16:35

      Sure look forward to meeting. No veteran, trying to recap a long forgotten skill

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  42. Chaturvasi24 May 2020 at 16:44

    As soon as the virus threat eases, we will have an S and B meet in CHN.

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  43. Veeyares 24 May 2020 at 17:14

    Welcome to the club of budding settlers Renner! Nice debut. Keep it up.

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  44. Rengaswamy24 May 2020 at 18:32

    Thanks Gemini for the inspirational comments.

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  45. Prasanna Rao24 May 2020 at 19:13

    Col sir....unfortunately I could not post my answers as I was not actually pressed the publish button. I surprised to see that my answers are not published. my efforts are went in vein Today. however, I am posting my answers the way I solved it .
    1a - Tedious * - studies
    9a - gold - AU; AU( Nutsm*) = AUTUMNS
    13a - Toil ---->[T]
    19a - Almo(-n)d* = AMOLD
    8D - No elastic* - Sectional
    8D -

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