Sunday, 26 July 2020

Special, Sunday 26 Jul 2020, Veeyares

Three answers per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please submit all your answers in one comment. 

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ACROSS
1   Enterprise without sex appeal results in depression (6)
4   Advance for media to cross thousand sans pressure (8)
10 Head of small town folks removed by quietly entering thieves (9)
11 Rule becomes more out of date when side changes (5)
12 I, setter, not fully acting, confused (5)
13 A branded ale drunk in the absence of editor is stellar (9)
14 Account a media presented of rogue (7)
16 Agreed as reported and noted (4)
19 Quick like a disturbed snake (4)
21 Surprisingly weak, disgusting, lacking love but is on the alert (7)
24 Scheme with gold to produce optical device (9)
25 Old man’s bar finally made to be used as stick (5)
26 Ease, as they say, with gin cocktail for spirit (5)
27 Everything including stirred tea, right at the oasis (5, 4)
28 Properly treat, say and they can carry drinks (3, 5)
29 Deliveries, we hear, are on beds (6)

DOWN
1   Pepper to put a limit on distorted notes (8)
2   Vital anyway to include ID by end of May to maintain legality (8)
3   Coach?  He is not in the shower (5)
5   Stay outside, but in the middle, rest (7)
6   Goal to escape? (4, 5)
7   Nurse, awfully rude makes one suffer (6)
8   Right attitude about string (6)
9   Concern about bore coming back (6)
15 Moschus died to make way for alien soldier (9)
17 Result of branch not working earlier (8)
18 Ignorant son out of 150 serves no purposes (8)
20 Two tracks make a passage (7)
21 Kindness is to start worrying about raising money to help (6)
22 Flow Control made using pieces of iron and graphite in small vessel (6)
23 Mountains obviously part of the backward country (6)
25 Follow unless in the beginning rejected for reward (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at VEEYARES 4

'Puzzle Me version' is embedded below.  


67 comments:

  1. 20d PATH WAY
    17D OFF SHOOT
    7D EN (DURE)*

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  2. 3d: TRAIN {T(-HE)}{RAIN}
    2D: VALIDITY {VITAL+ID+(-MA)Y}*
    1A: CAVITY {ACTIV(-IT)Y}*

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  3. 1D: CAPSICUM...(CAP)(MUSIC)*
    21A: WAKEFUL...WEAK*[F-(o)UL]*
    13A: ALDEBARAN...[A,BRAND(-ED)ALE]

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  4. 11A {O(-L+R)DER}
    21D WARMTH (Acrostic)
    25D {PURS(-U)E}

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  5. 24A PROJECT (scheme) OR (gold)
    9D RE (about) DRAG (bore) << REGARD
    13A ABRANDEDALE - ED* ALDEBARAN

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  6. Good Ramesh, 13a already done

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  7. 13ac ALDEBAREN (A BRANDED ALE - ED)*
    14ac UNTAMED (T)
    2Dn. VALIDITY (VAL(ID)IT*)(maY)

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  8. 19a ASAP :: A + anag of 'asp' (indirect anag)
    23 BOSNIA (hidden backward)
    25 PASTE :: PA'S T [mad]E

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    1. Quick like a president would do I think to avoid IA

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    2. 19A is not indirect anagram A is disturbing ASP

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  9. PuzzleMe behaviour
    If we press the back button and go to prev page and then return, the grid is absent. But if we refresh the page, it returns with solutions still present as entered by us.

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  10. Gemini, you’re right. 7d done earlier

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  11. Thanks for the Puzzle Me version. But --
    The "Puzzle Me" version does not reveal the correct letters/words. It is a jumble of letters, OR should I say "anagrams of the 26 alphabets."

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    1. As PuzzleMe ver does not allow the creator to hide the answer but would allow you to check/reveal answer, the Col, while formatting, must have deliberately entered random letters

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    2. You can hide the answers. It’s in the options screen available to creators.

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  12. compensating for repeat

    22D S small (P (I)iron (G)graphite OT) vessel

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  13. Music in 1D is it indirect anagram? Please clarify

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  14. Not correct. This is already solved

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  15. 18 dn clueless.CL+useless-s.
    7 dn goal*+break.Gaolbreak.
    10 Pillagers.Villagers-v+p.

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  16. 26a Genie; spirit; ee(~ease) and gin cocktail
    5d residue; resid(u)r
    15d Musketeer; soldiier; musk (-d)(+et)eer

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  17. Last 4 to be solved
    Across - 4, 12, 16, 29

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  18. 10 a : (-V)PILLAGERS.= Thieves
    11 a: O(_R)(+L)DER = OLDER
    26a: GENIE= Spirit E+E +Gin , anagram

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  19. Compensating 13ac
    4Ac PROGRESS (PRO)(G)(PRESS-P)

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  20. 4 PRO(G)(-pRESS) Progress
    16 EYED ~ayed
    29 Berths ~births

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  21. Afraid a goof up in 12a. The clue was to be for Iodine. I took spelling as Iodin. Anno: I+(DOINg)*. Sorry about that.

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  22. Congrats Mukundala for still solving it.

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  23. This takes me many years back to times at our campus studying engineering course. With due REGARD we did that all right. The PATH WAY was laden with fun. Life at the hostel was like a GAOL BREAK from home. So good that we could ENDURE poorly cooked CAPSICUM pulao, upma that was like a PASTE, diluted TEA on TRAYS. UNTAMED times they were when we lay WAKEFUL watching a dubious flick on a make shit theatre with a 16mm PROJECTOR, pleasure unmatched even by the best seat in STRAND. Ever eager and thirsty to find a WATERing HOLE that our meagre PURSE could afford. PILLAGERS we were at times. It’s OFF SHOOT we were often CLUELESSly gazing at an ALDEBARAN and becoming pale and thin like a GENIE. Our bodies were full of scars on injuries treated with a tinge of tincture of IODINe. This did not leave any CAVITY in our education. We went sharing BERTHS by TRAIN home for study holidays. The results could be EYED with pride. Now OLDER we look back with WARMTH and nostalgia. Our PROGRESS and VALIDITY is established ASAP when you see the pedigree of our alumni stretching across the globe from China to BOSNIA.
    Thoroughly enjoyed the Sunday entertainment Veeyares. Keep them coming. Thanks colonel for hosting.

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    1. Thank you Ramesh for the well-knitted story.

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  24. 29ac..BERTHS..deliveries are births heard as berths meaning beds

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  25. Thanks to all the solvers. Thank you Colonel Deepakji and thanks to Dr. Satyen for helping with the grid.

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  26. Please let me know how you feel about the grid.

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  27. Thanks for your he special Raghavan

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  28. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to test my setting skills Colonel

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  29. well done Veeyaress. Very late in joining. Enjoyed solving,nonetheless. After all,the idea is to spend some interesting time in solving. Thank you.
    A small doubt about-parsing for 4a not clear.

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    1. Advance : Progress
      Anno : For:Pro, Thousand:G, Media:Press
      (PRO)(G)(PRESS-P)

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    2. Thank you MB. I missed for=Pro.

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  30. Enjoyable puzzle! Solved late after spending the day at the beach.
    Liked Progress and Musketeer among other clues. The IA at 1d could have been avoided.

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