Sunday 16 August 2020

Special, Sunday 16 Aug 2020, Libran

Welcome to our new setter Libran. 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/ANNOTATIONS WILL BE DELTED WITHOUT NOTICE, UNLESS THE COMMENTER SPECIFIES THAT IT IS A COMPENSATION FOR A REPEAT)


ACROSS
1   Admirer covering you first with men around goes to meet this Nobel winner (7)
5   Revel on a merry-go-round without end (7)
9   One transistor maker comes to the counter with pronounced authority (7)
10 Rap after that woman under a set of circumstances (7)
12 Wrong Narain is in third decade (10)
13 Tarnish Smith in furrow (4)
14 Advantage a fool gets joining alien (5)
15 Application note student prepared for a Nobel winner (8)
17 Initially trainee sailor on England tour turned to buy a cabinet (8)
19 See 21
21/19 Turntable to serve idle partners covering America (4, 5)
22 Remove internal organs during French summer (10)
24 Graduate isolated losing a pound talks gibberish (7)
25 Ready, go-between to go into Peru before artist (7)
26 Five out of five godless stags meet at parties (7)
27 Tweaking star is model supporter of tyrant (7)

DOWN
2   Nice guy goes out asking Englishman about a Nobel winner from Nippon (5)
3   Bengali medicine arranged for pushers (7)
4   Stout examiner somehow alters seat without a pole (9)
6   Revolutionary resting in the afternoon at a French commune (5)
7   Ordinary Survey carried out to find this author (7)
8   Student misbehaves and the University suspends (5, 4)
11 Inspector General in drastic action injures a jaw muscle (9)
14 Strangely Agamas killed in action in this city (9)
16 Force moves barrows (9)
18 Unnamed article taken out, is named (7)
20 Disrobe king for a swimmer (7)
22 Oriental made out a lump (5)
23 Beginners include you initially in rising group (5)



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65 comments:

  1. sree_sree16 August 2020 at 10:31

    setter name?

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  2. Ramani16 August 2020 at 10:36

    22d E DAME*
    11D D (IG) GASTRIC*
    27A TSARIST*

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  3. Vasant16 August 2020 at 10:38

    14A ASS ET
    23D T(Y)ROS<
    27A TSARIST (STAR IS)*+T

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  4. R Nagendra Prasad16 August 2020 at 10:38

    27A: TSARIST...[STAR IS T]*
    22D: EDEMA...[A MADE]*
    14D: ASSET..ASS ET

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  5. Chaturvasi16 August 2020 at 10:40

    The title and byline of the IA ver. to be updated.

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  6. Ramani16 August 2020 at 10:40

    In the second grid 11d should have 9 lights whereas it has 8 only

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    1. Col_Gopinath16 August 2020 at 10:49

      Thanks, corrected

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    2. Chaturvasi16 August 2020 at 10:58

      The last blocked cell needs to be opened out to make it a 9-letter slot.

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    3. Col_Gopinath16 August 2020 at 11:02

      Unlike in Across Lite in Exolve the corrections to the Interavtive version can be done immediately

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    4. Chaturvasi16 August 2020 at 11:07

      Do also in Crodsword Compiler where during filling in we can change the patter, alter word lengths with synmmetry taken care of and refill the new pattern.

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    5. Col_Gopinath16 August 2020 at 11:44

      I meant I can change it here itself. Crossword Compiler can't be embedded here and Across Lite will need to be uploaded again

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    6. Viresh Ratnakar16 August 2020 at 11:59

      FYI: if you write the linked clue for 21 + 19 like this, the software will know that it's a linked clue and will highlight both as well as let the solver type through all the way:

      21, 19 Turntable to serve idle partners covering America (4,5)

      (I.e., just use commas to separate the linked clue numbers, not "/").

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    7. Col_Gopinath16 August 2020 at 12:33

      Ok thanks

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    8. Col_Gopinath16 August 2020 at 12:36

      What would happen if there were a 19D as well?

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    9. Chaturvasi16 August 2020 at 12:41

      That is great. TH interactive version is unable to handle linked clues and we setters csn't use that type.

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    10. Viresh Ratnakar16 August 2020 at 12:56

      Col:

      - "21, 19 ....." will use 19a if the 21 in question is an across clue

      - But if 19d is intended to be the clue to link to, then you simply say
      "21, 19d ...."

      - So, a complex example would be:
      "21, 19, 19d, 10 ......"

      Here (assuming the 21 is in the "across" clues list), four clues are linked: 21a, 19a, 19d, and 10a.

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    11. Col_Gopinath16 August 2020 at 14:16

      Okay thanks

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  7. R Nagendra Prasad16 August 2020 at 10:43

    Replacement for 27A:
    13A: RU(S)T

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  8. R Nagendra Prasad16 August 2020 at 10:47

    Replacement for 14D:
    17A: TABOURET...[T,AB,E,TOUR]*

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  9. Jayalakshmi arumugam16 August 2020 at 11:00

    13ac rust r(s)ut
    22dn edema e(made)*
    11dn digastric (d(ig)rastic)*

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  10. Gemini16 August 2020 at 11:13

    14A: Asset ass= fool et= alien
    25A: PREPARE. go-between= Rep. Per(U) before Artist
    Could do only two

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  11. Jayalakshmi arumugam16 August 2020 at 11:26

    replacement
    26ac fiestas. (five-v stags-g) *

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  12. P. Venkatesan16 August 2020 at 11:31

    15A: APPLETON {APP}{NOTE+L*}
    22A: EVISCERATE {E{VISCERA}TE}
    16D: PUSHCARTS {PUSH}{CARTS}

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  13. Padmanabhan16 August 2020 at 11:35

    15A- (Apple note l)*-Nobel laureate
    16D- Push carts- Narrows
    27A- (star is)*t- Statist- supporter of tyrant

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  14. Padmanabhan16 August 2020 at 11:37

    15A- Appleton

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  15. Padmanabhan16 August 2020 at 11:38

    16D- Narrows. Sorry for typo.
    Struggling with cell phone

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  16. Padmanabhan16 August 2020 at 11:39

    Barrows

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  17. R Nagendra Prasad16 August 2020 at 11:45

    Replacement for 22D:
    5A: CAROUSE...CAROUSEL-L

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  18. raju umamaheswar16 August 2020 at 12:03

    21a. LAZY SUSAN.= A turn table .idle= lazy + partners= s+USA +n
    18 d.ONYMOUS = named _ (_an)onymous
    20 d STRIPER = FISH . strip = disrobed + er king

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  19. raju umamaheswar16 August 2020 at 12:06

    Welcome Libran.nice compilation. As a new setter, blazing a new trail
    .Takes time to get used to fresh thinking.Thanks.

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  20. C.G. BHARGAV16 August 2020 at 12:13

    24 across BA LONE(-L)Y

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  21. Murali16 August 2020 at 12:25

    12A VICENARIAN Wrong=VICE+(Narain)
    4D ALETASTER Stout examiner(alters seat-S)*
    only two submitted

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  22. Murali16 August 2020 at 12:26

    that should have been
    12A VICENARIAN Wrong=VICE+(Narain)*

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  23. Kolluru Koteswara Rao16 August 2020 at 12:55

    10AC SHE+BANG
    6DN A[CHE]N
    7DN O+S+BORNE

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  24. Padmanabhan16 August 2020 at 12:58

    Raju,
    Thinking of you. No broadband. Struggling with my mobile,scrolling up and down.

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  25. raju umamaheswar16 August 2020 at 13:07

    So sorry, Paddy. Takes away your mind and fun from the main task at hand!

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  26. Yashaswini Prasad16 August 2020 at 13:13

    1A: FEYNMAN...F[E(Y)NM]AN..Richard FEYNMAN--American Physicist
    2D: ESAKI---ASKING(-NG)+E
    14D: AMAGASAKI---(AGAMAS)*+KIA(Killed In Action)

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  27. Yashaswini Prasad16 August 2020 at 13:19

    14D Correction
    AMAGASAKI...(AGAMAS,KIA)*..Japanese city

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  28. Padmanabhan16 August 2020 at 13:33

    Replacement-
    3D- Nudgers=Pushers= (Sen+drug)*

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  29. Col_Gopinath16 August 2020 at 14:22

    Last 2 to be solved
    9A and 8D

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  30. Col_Gopinath16 August 2020 at 14:34

    Sent to me by Karthik Balagopal as he is unable to post here

    9A - BARDEEN {BAR}{DEEN}(~dean)

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    1. Padmanabhan16 August 2020 at 16:14

      Def is transistor maker?

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    2. D N M Rao16 August 2020 at 16:38

      Yes. Bardeen was awarded Nobel along with Shockley and Brattain for inventing transistor. He got a second Nopbel, again in Physics, for super conductivity.

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    3. Padmanabhan16 August 2020 at 16:49

      Just googled Bardeen as inventor of transistor. Quite a few Nobel laurates- enough to be a theme?

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  31. D N M Rao16 August 2020 at 14:43

    Now that only a couple left to be solved, I can reveal myself as the setter, Libran. I thank Dr Nabar who helped in preparing the CW and Col Gopinath for publishing it. A long time wish fulfilled. As a debutant setter, I would welcome comments particularly on the clues, from experts.
    I also thank all the solvers.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao16 August 2020 at 15:50

      Well done, DNM Raogaru!

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    2. Vasant16 August 2020 at 17:50

      Great Debut DNMR! A themed puzzle with sound Wordplay is a great start. If the indirect anagram in 3d would have been avoided, it would have been a great puzzle

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    3. D N M Rao17 August 2020 at 14:19

      Thank you for kind encouraging words.

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  32. Padmanabhan16 August 2020 at 16:15

    8D?

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    1. Vasant16 August 2020 at 17:47

      S ENDS DOWN
      (making up for the repeat)

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    2. Jacob Brahmakulam16 August 2020 at 17:51

      ends down is misbehaves?

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    3. Vasant16 August 2020 at 17:55

      Couldn't get it in dictionary but sends down is expelling from university.
      Let's hear it from the setter.

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    4. D N M Rao16 August 2020 at 18:13

      Send down (sent down; sending down; sends down):to suspend or expel from a university. - Merrium Webster(https://www.merrium-webster.com/dictionary/send%20down.

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    5. Vasant16 August 2020 at 18:35

      Doubt is on word play and not the definition. What is the Wordplay?

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  33. Chaturvasi16 August 2020 at 18:11

    When a university sends down a student, it rusticates him for misbehavior.

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  34. Chaturvasi16 August 2020 at 18:14

    This clue and a few others are not quite properly set.

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    1. D N M Rao16 August 2020 at 18:42

      Thank you Sir. I know now that some clues need improvement.

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  35. Col_Gopinath16 August 2020 at 18:32

    Thanks for the special Rao.

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