Saturday 9 January 2021

No 13141, Saturday 09 Jan 2021, Spinner

 

Across

 1 River boats arranged by sailor for contractors, perhaps? (12) ABBREVIATORS {AB}{RIVER+BOATS*}
10 Payment initiated before ceiling verification (5) PROOF {Payment}{ROOF}
11 Former partner criticises setter regarding development (9) EXPANSION {EX}{PANS}{I}{ON}
12 As expected, batting on day five at the end, extremely exhausted (6) INDEED {IN}{D}{fivE}{ExhausteD}
13 Overturning umpire’s decision finally with know-how on movement (8) TRANSFER {REF'S}{decisioN}{ART}<=
15 Tying things together, building one’s body up, avoiding some treats — for fitness ultimately! (9) FASTENING {FA(-t+S)TENING}
16 Line about seizing opportunity (4) ROPE {R{OP}E}
20 Involved with Spinner? Precisely not! (4) INTO {I}{NOT*}
21 Georgia election, in retrospect, basically impacts new government’s running (9) GALLOPING {GA}{POLL<=}{Impacts}{N}{G}
24 Momentous first over replayed in Chinnappampatti primarily, after he’s introduced! (8) HISTORIC {He}{IST}{Over}{Replayed}{In}{Chinnappampatti}
26 Sheds tears about man’s sins (6) CRIMES {CRI{M}ES}
28 Height of happiness: Getting frontline of employees vaccinated! (9) ELEVATION {EL{Employees}{Vaccinated}
29 Selectively tighten security under pressure (5) TENSE (T)
30 She owns media, buries extraordinary report involving Indian leader! (12) PROPRIETRESS {P{REP{Indian}ORT*}RESS}

Down

2 Extensive list of actors for TV show (9) BROADCAST {BROAD}{CAST}
3 With captain involved, umpire allows reviews (8) REFLECTS {REF}{LE{C}TS}
4 Contest wife’s opinion (4) VIEW {VIE}{W}
5 ‘A’ layer gets raise, so it seems! (10) APPARENTLY {A}{P{PARENT}LY}
6 Admitting to going under in doctor’s absence (6) OWNING {drOWNING}
7 Small difference of opinion remains (5) STIFF {S}{TIFF}
8 Dust settles around origin of pandemic — sabotage! (5) SPOIL {S{Pandemic}OIL}
9 Attempts to go after English records (7) ENTRIES {EN}{TRIES}
14 Foreign animal fur processed with Iodine (10) UNFAMILIAR {ANIMAL+FUR*}around {I}
17 Incomplete remnants of damaged accesories (9) ORNAMENTS {REMANANTS+Of*}
18 Weaker // one starts a fire (7) LIGHTER (DD)
19 Worker essentially proper at orchestrating (8) OPERATOR {PROPER+AT*} (T) See comments
22 Depot at Ooty stocks vegetable (6) POTATO (T)
23 Hats off! A sincere husband ethically skips Test series involving Australia (5) ASHES (Acrostic)

25 Procedure involving drug’s expensive (5) STEEP {STE{E}P}
27 When working culture’s heartless... (4) ONCE {ON}{CulturE}

Reference List

 
Sailor=AB, Former partner=Ex, Setter=I, Regarding=On, Batting=In, Day=D, Umpire=Ref, About=Re, Opportunity=Op, New=N, Government=G, First=Ist, Man=M
Captain=C, Wife=W, Doctor=Dr, Small=S, English=En, Iodine=I, Drug=E (Ecstasy), Working=On
 
Colour/Font Scheme

Definition, Solution, Component letters, Embedded links, Theme word,  Reference list word, Anagram Indicator, C/C indicator, Reversal Indicator, Hidden word Indicator, Letter Pick indicator, Deletion Indicator, Homophone Indicator, Movement Indicator, Positional Indicator, Substitution, Indicator, Opposite indicator, Link/Connector, Extraneous

 

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45 comments:

  1. Chaturvasi9 January 2021 at 08:59

    Ramesh
    Is your colour code for reference list entry new?
    Anyway as one who sometimes uses colour in Excel sheet, I subsequently forget which shade of what intensity I used earlier.
    I am sure you must have some secret for that. Anyway, congrats on excellent display.

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  2. Chaturvasi9 January 2021 at 09:17

    I must say -
    On the flip side, too much of color and color text in color background makes it difficult to read for the aged.

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    1. sree_sree9 January 2021 at 09:32

      +1. If I may, keeping the solution letter plain capital would make for better reading.

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  3. C.G. BHARGAV9 January 2021 at 09:28

    David wanted to become Goliath.

    INDEED he was keen on EXPANSION of his operation in UNFAMILIAR territories.

    And APPARENTLY there was no STIFF competition.

    His CRIMES increased, GALLOPING (IN)TO
    STEEP HISTORIC heights.

    This ELEVATION did bring some TENSE moments...

    What happened next?

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  4. N Sridhar9 January 2021 at 09:31

    Can someone explain ‘ist’ in historic 24A please

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  5. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 January 2021 at 09:35

    Mr Ramesh has already coloured it as Reference List item and in the List it is given as First=1st

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    1. N Sridhar9 January 2021 at 09:44

      Thanks

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    2. Chaturvasi9 January 2021 at 10:19

      But I itself means (the) first..
      If we write Class 1, it is Class One.
      If we write Class I, it is Class (the) First, not One.
      We cannot write I Class for First Class
      We can write it as 1st Class.
      Please can anyone confirm if my understanding is correct?
      School teachers might help, perhaps!

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    3. Jacob Brahmakulam9 January 2021 at 12:01

      first=1st; second=2nd; third=3rd etc; IMO straightforward.

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    4. vdsprasad49@gmail.com9 January 2021 at 14:31

      That's my understanding too, CV sir.

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    5. AJ9 January 2021 at 14:34

      CV sir, I think we can writ I class. We cannot write I st class. I studied I form. We get I class in the exam. We travel by I class. No st, or nd or rd after the Roman letters I, II and III.respectively.

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  6. Jacob Brahmakulam9 January 2021 at 09:49

    19D prOPER AT ORchestrating (T)

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    1. vdsprasad49@gmail.com9 January 2021 at 14:49

      I too took it as an anagram.

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    2. Srivathsan9 January 2021 at 16:47

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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    3. Srivathsan9 January 2021 at 18:37

      I did intend it as a (T) type clue, with essentially as the indicator - The anagram doesn't work, it has an extra P and an O less.

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  7. D N M Rao9 January 2021 at 09:52

    1Ac Is "perhaps" necessary?

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    1. Vasant9 January 2021 at 10:01

      Maybe the setter could have done with "?" only; But with "perhaps", the definition by example and that too a cryptic one is reinforced.

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    2. C.G. BHARGAV9 January 2021 at 10:02

      Since contactors are not abbreviators in strict sence...

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  8. Ramki Krishnan9 January 2021 at 10:05

    Lovely clues - 12A, 29A, 7D and 14D were some of the favourites. Thank you Spinner and Ramesh!

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  9. Murali9 January 2021 at 10:37

    28A Annotation to be completed?

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  10. Padmanabhan9 January 2021 at 11:10

    'Ation' (of Elation) is to be added at the end. I think missed out by oversight.

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  11. Padmanabhan9 January 2021 at 11:11

    Superb offering from Spinner. Thank you.

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  12. Avtaar9 January 2021 at 12:40

    Excellent grid. Precise wordplay and cryptic grammar. A tad on the easier side

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  13. Padmanabhan9 January 2021 at 12:53

    Spinner reserves googlies for the cricket field!!

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  14. AJ9 January 2021 at 14:42

    Spinner has spun a very nice puzzle today. Being easier to solve, has not brought down the beauty of the puzzle.
    14d was my greatest favourite, followed by 1a and 30a.
    Thank you Spinner.

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  15. vdsprasad49@gmail.com9 January 2021 at 14:45

    7D. Stiff = remains? In what sense? Dead body?

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  16. Raja9 January 2021 at 15:34

    27D when=once?
    Though solution is acceptable, some elaboration could be refreshing for the weekend:)

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    1. AJ9 January 2021 at 16:28

      I understood it as follows:see the two sentences below.
      Once you clear the loan, you will get a new one.
      When you clear the loan you will get a new one.

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  17. Padmanabhan9 January 2021 at 20:09

    Proprietors is an old/ obsolete word?
    Has it been replaced by proprietress or one of those differences across the Atlantic?

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    1. Vasant9 January 2021 at 20:20

      Proprietor and proprietress are living words. Except for their sex difference, they continue to own properties

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  18. Padmanabhan9 January 2021 at 20:51

    :-)

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  19. Padmanabhan9 January 2021 at 20:52

    I typed proprieyrix

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  20. Padmanabhan9 January 2021 at 21:51

    Prpprietrix was the earlier word before spell check. I wanted to find out what happened to it.After some search I was able to get in free dic. 9as an alt.

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    1. Padmanabhan9 January 2021 at 21:56

      What is a female proprietor called?
      proprietrix (plural proprietrixes or proprietrices) (dated) A female proprietor.

      proprietrix - Wiktionaryen.wiktionary.org › wiki › proprietrix

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  21. ramesh ss9 January 2021 at 21:54

    Spinner spun a good one. Cricket based clues and nice anagrams. Lovely enjoyable puzzle

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