Saturday 5 September 2020

No 13033, Saturday 05 Sep 2020, Afterdark


ACROSS
1   Futuristic robots head could be designed with Orange, perhaps (6,5) CITRUS FRUIT {FUTURISTIC+Robots*}
9   As reactions get wild, taking time out to leave (7) ARSENIC {REACtIoNS*}
10 Precious spirit, litre gone inside (7) DARLING {DAR{L}ING}
11 Terrible prose by impostor (5) POSER {PROSE*}
12 She rows a boat from Oman, skirting terrible wars by shore of ocean (9) OARSWOMAN {O{WARS*}{Ocean}MAN}
13 Perhaps someone from Muscat is found in room animated (5) OMANI (T)
15 Roadwork at around beginning of winter, about to get top heating device (9) STOPWATCH {ST}{OP}{Winter}{AT}{C}{Heating}
18 Sri Lanka on zero, England on top, royal massacre (9) SLAUGHTER {SL}{AUGHT}{E}{Royal}
21 Tango with Henry, funny play (5) THRUM {T}{H}{RUM}
22 If rifle’s fired, echo s interrupting insects (9) FIREFLIES {IF+RIFLES*} around {E}
24 Probe in Delhi, have heard high might fall (5)  DELVE {DELhi}{'VE}
26 About time people return to the place they started from (7) RETRACE {RE}{T}{RACE}
27 Perhaps it’s a police system to go slowly and bring in (7) DRAGNET {DRAG}{NET}
28 Store revamped to stock electronic range of instrument (11) STEREOSCOPE {STORE*} around {E}+{SCOPE} 

DOWN
1   Advocates at Supreme Court overact, twisting points, ignoring time (9) CHAMPIONS {Court}{HAM}{POINtS*}
2   At the end government demands duties (5) TASKS {governmenT}{ASKS}
3   Making uncomfortable, running off to gather energy and velocity (9) UNNERVING {RUNNING+E+V*}
4   Agents get fine cast (7) FACTORS {F}{ACTORS}
5   French one dead? So suffer (7) UNDERGO {UN}{D}{ERGO}
6   Cast seen in sixth row? Six missing (5) THROW {sixTH}{ROW} 
7   Maybe Marlon Brando seen on screen; direction by Tarantino, to begin with actor is disheartened (8) FILMSTAR {FILM}{S}{Tarantino}{ActoR} 
8   Once more losing heart to be inconsistent... (4) AGIN? AGIN {AGaIN} See comments
14 ...eagerness, clarity affected, falling behind midway (8) ALACRITY {wAy}{CLARITY*}
16 Hit hard, wounded husband leaves to be nursed by wives and retires (9) WITHDRAWS {W{hIT+HARD*}WS} Wives=WWS or WW?
17 Digital defect in ohmmeter, to be repaired around one (9) HAMMERTOE {OHMMETER*} around {A}
19 Maestri remember staying in a boat (7) TRIREME (T)

20 Again team is collecting uniform that’s surplus (7 RESIDUE {RE}{SID{U}E}
22 Crossing the peaks of Fuji, Odzunu’s resting delighted (4) FORD(Acrostic)
23 Apartments full? It’s empty, so take time (5) FLATS {FulL}{A{T}S}
25 Line got cut in speech (5) LINGO {LINe}{GOt}

Reference List

Time=T, Out=O, Litre=L, Road=St, Work=Op, Sri Lanka=SL, England=E, Tango=T, Henry=H, About=Re, Electronic=E
Energy=E, Velocity=V,  Fine=F, French One=Un, Dead=D, So=Ergo, Direction=S, Husband=H, One=A, Again=Re, Uniform=U

Colour/Font Scheme

DefinitionSolutionComponent lettersEmbedded linksTheme word Anagram IndicatorC/C indicatorReversal IndicatorHidden word IndicatorLetter Pick indicatorDeletion IndicatorHomophone IndicatorMovement IndicatorPositional IndicatorSubstitution, IndicatorOpposite indicatorLink/Connector, Extraneous


27 comments:

  1. 8d agin:against, contradictory

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    2. agin
      in British English
      (əˈɡɪn )
      PREPOSITION
      an informal, facetious, or dialect word for against
      Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
      Word origin
      C19: from obsolete again (against)


      So agin, again, against had same meaning at some point!

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    1. Inconsistent also has CONTRARY as synonym. Since AGIN is AGAINST, probably should work here

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  3. Teacher's day wishes to everyone on THCC blog, from whom I have learnt a lot.

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  4. Solution and leaderboard of Round 2 is up. Congrats to Mohsin and other toppers

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  5. Mohsin topping the leaderboard in the IXL with Ramki a close second.

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  6. Congratulations KKR and Suresh for hanging near the last year's position. Missing MB in the leaderboard

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    1. Last year I made a late dash to get to no 9 or 10.

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  7. Saw MB's comments about his all correct entries in Facebook now only.

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    1. I too found my name missing in the leaderboard. All my entries are correct. I submitted at 14:39 hrs.

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    2. Venkatsan Ram and MB,
      I am sure there are glitches. Let us hope they look into it urgently.

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  8. Looks like an error in the leaderboard. Narayan Mandyam at 75 says he had an error in the solution

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    1. It is being checked. In case of an error a revised leaderboard will be published

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