Monday 3 August 2020

No 13004, Monday 03 Aug 2020, Sunnet

Solution to 12A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular/novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS
1   Hail one that displays? (6) SHOWER [DD]
4   Stops current leaking out with standard mineral (8) FELDSPAR {FiELDS}{PAR}
10 Grill/Toast them for not more than... (2,3,4) AT THE MOST*
11 Plant employing thousands is a liablity (5) SISAL [T]
12 Friend running in to call (5) C?O?Y (Addendum - CRONY {CR{ON}Y} - See comments)
13 On replica being rebuilt in China (9) PORCELAIN*
14 Plan for measure (7) PROGRAM {PRO}{GRAM}
16 Speech defect to slip out (4) LISP*
19 Drink in Baja Valley (4) JAVA [T]
21 Cut without any handicap (7) SCRATCH [DD]
24 Eye frost found on street inside British city (9) LEICESTER {LE{ICE}{ST}ER}
25 Bachelor’s degree, thus is fundamental (5) BASIC {BA}{SIC}
26 Teams court (5) SQUAD {'S}{QUAD}
27 Highlight using sepia mesh (9) EMPHASISE*
28 Therefore hat in France is hardest (8) SOLIDEST {SO}{LID}{EST}
29 Margin in house shelves (6) HEDGES [DD] (Addendum - LEDGES {L{EDGE}S} - See comments)

DOWN
1   Bend and run away with a painting (8) SEASCAPE {S}{E{A}SCAPE}
2   Hot rod damaged by bull? True (8) ORTHODOX {HOT+ROD}*{OX}
3   Point to my rival (5) ENEMY {ENE}{MY}
5   Transport restitched halter-neck initially (7) ENTHRAL {HALTER+Neck}*
6   Princess takes poet to pharmacist (9) DISPENSER {DI}{SPENSER}
7   Pa massaged a scalp (6) PASCAL*
8   Yield advanced again (6) RELENT {RE-LENT}
9   Woolen ball to two little dogs (3-3) POM-POM {POM}{POM}
15 Crashed parent’s close to boy (4-5) REAR-ENDED {REAR}{END}{ED}
17 Pain remains inside, hiding (8) STASHING {ST{ASH}ING}
18 Ordered test around Rustic Woods (8) THICKETS {T{HICK}ETS*}
20 Cooler braid of player (7) ACTRESS {AC}{TRESS}
21 Railway division’s new pit lines (6) SCRIPT {SCR}{PIT*}
22 State requests for containers (6) FLASKS {FL}{ASKS}
23 Drug container intercepted by Soviet Union is visible (6) VISUAL {VI{SU}AL}
25 Fire in second class lounge (5) BLAZE {B}{LAZE}

Reference List
Current = I, Running = ON, Street = T, Is in French = EST, House = LS(Lok Sabha), Bend = S, Princess = DI, Boy = ED

GRID
(Same as Saturday)

21 comments:

  1. 29a L(edge)S. House =Look Sabha, LS.

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  2. LISP (in 16A) can be highlighted as part of theme (programming language).

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  3. My daughter in IT tells me that FLASK is micro web framework written in Python

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  4. Nice to see Dr.RKE after a long time. Hope the book is progressing well.
    Glad you find time to keep solving and looking in.

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    1. Thanks Mr.Padmanabhan. Yes. One part done. Only arranging the references is pending. Hope to finish the next in 10-15 days

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    2. Great to hear the good news.

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  5. ¶ Flask is a web framework. This means flask provides you with tools, libraries and technologies that allow you to build a web application. This web application can be some web pages, a blog, a wiki or go as big as a web-based calendar application or a commercial website.

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  6. I did not have 'flask' in my list. However I had 'scratch' as a programming language.

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  7. So many virtual languages we don't know about.

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  8. 12 a Rally. R(inning) Ally
    Rally is to call.

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  9. Not correct. Please see correct solution from Remy above.

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  10. 25A BASIC ,SIC Derived from ???
    Can somebody enlighten

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  11. sic 1 (sĭk, sēk)
    adv.
    Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.

    One sees this often in newspaper reports.

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  12. What a beautiful puzzle!The clues themselves are wonderful!Pangram and theme take the puzzle to new heights.
    Thanks Sunnet for the entertainment.

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    1. +1


      A superb puzzle. Didn't get about 4.

      5A was one of them. Maybe coz am an electrical engineer! Current leaks = fields interesting.

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