Sunday, 13 December 2020

Special, Sunday 13 Dec 2020, The Zodiac


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

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ZODIAC 6

By The Zodiac
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Squares filled: 0/142
Exolve Print Notes Jotter Ⓒ The Zodiac & THCC
Across
8Dork's jacket is not fashionable (4)
9Every other Hindu goes back, carrying new cloth (5)
10One underrated novel - immensely thrilling in the beginning (4)
11Decline drinks, say (5)
12Shout at everyone reading inside dance hall (4-4)
13Game where 'A' is replaced by 'I' to get "write" (8)
15A third of Nashville (USA) moving to a place in the Bahamas (6)
17Feeding can be simulated (7)
19Perhaps a posher cosmetics brand (7)
22Girl tied and abused (6)
24Charming person taking care of many (8)
26Air horns manufactured for Ford, perhaps (8)
28Mercenary seen in jazzy clothes (5)
30Release some retro Bollywood numbers (4)
31Damaged horn seen at the end of the river (5)
32Author loses a mate (4)
Down
1Eagerness to snooze alarm essentially (4)
2Leaving out diseased pink pigs (8)
3Braved extraordinarily and courageously, say (6)
4Couple seen in Seattle and Pittsburgh, for example (7)
5Nice love could turn into the opposite? (8)
6Fancies fast bowlers getting some runs and scoring 100 (6)
7At the centre, builds well to conceal storage facility (4)
14New Acer laptop for free (5)
16Champion wearing an overall (5)
18Customers’ drunken rudeness (3-5)
20Drone can return, carrying a delivery finally for the people (8)
21A group dealing with recklessness (7)
23What? Professor is below average? (6)
25Say group's name (6)
27This relative visits often after husband and son move out (4)
29A chromosome is X, for example (4)

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37 comments:

  1. P. Venkatesan13 December 2020 at 10:36

    26A: HARRISON {AIR+HORNS}* (Harrison Ford)
    10A: UNIT {ACROSTIC}
    17A: FEIGNED {FEEDING}*

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  2. Jayalakshmi arumugam13 December 2020 at 10:38

    27dn aunt h(aunt)s
    18dn end users (rudeness) *
    14dn clear (Acer l(aptop))*

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  3. Ramani13 December 2020 at 10:39

    31a RHON* E
    28a NINJA (T)
    29a A X IS

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  4. Vasant13 December 2020 at 10:47

    3d ADVERB BRAVED* Def By example
    4d DOUBLET DEB with a clever hint. Two Ts are there in seaTTle and piTTsburg
    12A B(ALL)(R)OOM

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    1. Vasant13 December 2020 at 10:48

      4D(DBE-Def By Example)

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    2. Orthopaul13 December 2020 at 11:13

      Ortho Paul
      2d. SKIPPING..(pink pigs)*
      5d. VIOLENCE..(nice love)*
      15ac. NASSAU..combined anag of usa and NAS. Nas is one third of Nashville

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam13 December 2020 at 11:38

      4dn : Nice solve Vasant!

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  5. Satyen Nabar13 December 2020 at 10:48

    13A SCRIBBLE Scrabble(- a+ i)

    23A PAR + DON

    2D SKIPPING (Pinkpigs)*

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  6. AJ13 December 2020 at 10:57

    12a BALL-ROOM: dance hall
    Boom: shout. R: reading: all:

    everyone

    B(all(r))oom

    13a:
    SCRIBBLE: write
    Scr(-a+I)bble
    32a: TWIN: mate
    Twain(author) -a: twin




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  7. AJ13 December 2020 at 10:59

    My third
    TWIN: mate
    Twain( author)- a

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  8. Padmanabhan13 December 2020 at 11:14

    10A- Unit- Def,One-Acronym- UNIT
    16D- A(PRO)N- Overall
    18D- End Users- Customers- (Rudeness)*

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  9. AJ13 December 2020 at 11:17

    Substitute for 12a
    22a
    GROPED: abused
    G(girl) ROPED(tied)

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  10. Mukundala Balasubramanyam13 December 2020 at 11:19

    11a : LAPSE ~LAPS
    22a : GROPED (G)(ROPED)
    30a : UNDO Telescopic reversal

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  11. Orthopaul13 December 2020 at 11:23

    Ortho Paul
    30ac. UNDO ..reverse T...bollywo(OD NU)mbers
    Instead of 2d a repeat

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  12. Mukundala Balasubramanyam13 December 2020 at 11:24

    Compensating 22a
    9a : DHOTI HOT in hInDu..DI<<

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  13. Sritri13 December 2020 at 11:24

    20D - HUMANITY - Drone(HUM) (TIN) can return - NIT, carrying A, with deliver(Y) finally- HUM a NIT Y

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    1. Sritri13 December 2020 at 11:28

      24 A BECOMING - BEING (Person) around (taking) care of - CO, many M - BE(COM)ING

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    2. Deepak Gopinath13 December 2020 at 11:35

      Sritri, in future please give all three answers in one comment.

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  14. AJ13 December 2020 at 11:24

    Substitute for 13a
    9a: DHOTI
    Every other Hindu: I'd
    Goes back(DI) carrying new(HOT)
    D(HOT)I

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  15. AJ13 December 2020 at 11:31

    Substitute for 9a
    1dn: ZEAL: eagerness
    squee(ZE AL)arm

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  16. Anicha13 December 2020 at 11:37

    8A: JERK
    JERKIN (jacket) - IN

    7D: SILO
    BUILDS at the centre = IL
    Well = SO
    {S{IL}O}

    19A: SEPHORA
    (A+POSHER)*

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  17. Jacob Brahmakulam13 December 2020 at 11:42

    6D QUIRKS fancies; QUI(-c)(+R)KS
    21D ABANDON; recklessness; A BAND ON

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  18. Remy13 December 2020 at 11:59

    25 d Co(n)vey.-say.N in covey-group.

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  19. Mukundala Balasubramanyam13 December 2020 at 11:59

    Lovely Sunday fare! My favourites were 4dn & 6dn. Thanks to The Zodiac.

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  20. Deepak Gopinath13 December 2020 at 12:12

    Thanks for the special Kumaresh

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  21. Deepak Gopinath13 December 2020 at 12:16

    There is something else in the grid

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  22. Vasant13 December 2020 at 12:16

    Beatiful puzzle. Clues are simply well written.

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  23. Padmanabhan13 December 2020 at 12:20

    Had a nice time solving. Thank you Kumaresh & Col.
    There were quite a few simple but nice enjoyable ones.

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  24. Padmanabhan13 December 2020 at 12:22

    It's a pangram.

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  25. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan13 December 2020 at 20:02

    Nice grid Kumaresh !

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  26. Parthasarathy13 December 2020 at 22:29

    PARDON is 23D, not 23A

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