Saturday 16 January 2021

No 13146, Saturday 16 Jan 2021, Avtaar

 ACROSS

1 Nomadic guy, abandoning love wandered in Otago (6) GITANO {IN+OTAGo*}
5 Throw out scarf in show of gratitude (5,3) THANK YOU {HANKY} in {OUT*} 
9 Head of Grammar getting lost in variants ofThoughand “About” — essentially, it is all-round confusion (4,4) TOHU BOHU {THOUgH+aBOUt*}
10 Wanting a pipe? Tut-Tut! (6) SHEESH {SHEESHa}
11 Architects of the Constitution? (4-8) BODY BUILDERS (CD)
13 Far Eastern housing quarter (4) AREA (T)
14 Taxpayer — sucker! wrongly sees rebate at the end (8) ASSESSEE {ASS}{SEES*}{rebatE}
17 Time travel could be cool in the beginning (8) INTERVAL {IN}{TRAVEL*}
18 What is served in high teas (4) EATS {TEAS*} &lit
20 Vehicle starting to accelerate during a universal magic trick show (12) AUTORICKSHAW {A}{U}{TRICK+SHOW*} around {Accelerate}
23 Bill returned to meet cousin without appointment (4-2) WALK-IN {LAW<=}{KIN}
24 Article about local river having sulphur, naphtha, turpentine etc (8) THINNERS {TH{INN}E}{R}{S}
25 It doesn’t change form of fresh promo — simply goes around (8) ISOMORPH (T<=)
26 Teacher: “According to Newton’s second law, force affects rest” (6) MASTER {MA}{REST*}

DOWN

2 Rigid seaweed is pulled up (4) IRON {NORI<=}
3 A dense figure cast a shadow (9) ADUMBRATE {A}{DUMB}{RATE}
4 Empty large boxes for eggs (6) OVOIDS {O{VOID}S}
5 Profile new hit albums played on sailing vessel (9,6) THUMBNAIL SKETCH {N+HIT+ALBUMS*}{KETCH}
6 Coordinate review of classics, basically (8) ABSCISSA (T<=)
7 Flustered Queen stripped completely and followed King for massage (5) KNEAD {K}{quEen+AND*}
8 Doctor sent robust medicines to block passages (10) OBSTRUENTS {SENT+ROBUST*} Are obstruents medicines? See comments
12 Some of our predecessors called out without getting answer (10) ORANGUTANS {O{RANG}UT}{ANS}
15 Pen about the lady’s long coats (9) SHERWANIS {S{HER}WAN}{IS}

16 One coming out of fancy drive-in restaurant at East End around noon, for a ready-to-eat meal (2,6) TV-DINNER {DRiVE+IN+restauranT*} around {N}
19 Indian spiritual leader entranced by those girls — divine faith (6) THEISM {THE{I}{Spiritual}M}
21 Strand of rope obtained from tree on the foothills of Kathmandu and Sikkim (5) OAKUM {OAK}{kathmandU}{sikkiM}
22 Disengage charge-carrying conductor’s base (4) FREE {F{conductoR}EE}

Reference List

Love=O, Universal=U, Article=The, Local=Inn, River=R, Sulphur=S
Large=OS, King=K, One=I, Noon=N, Indian=I
 
Colour/Font Scheme

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

 

31 comments:

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    1. I am not a medical person. Here is the dictionary reference
      https://www.dictionary.com/browse/obstruent

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  2. Lovely puzzle. A few new words, some unique ones. My COD Master.
    Thank you Avtaar.

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    1. Could you please explain MA in master

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    2. Yes, Sree sree. Force = ma as per Newton's second law

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    3. Thanks a ton, Vasant, for the feedback

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  3. Thank you Avtaar for a lovely puzzles. I had many favourites today lie Body Builders, Thumbnail Sketch, autorickshaw, oakum, obstruents, isomorph etc. I got them all except TV dinner. I guessed dinner but not TV. Enjoyed thoroughly.

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  4. Correction: read lie as like and puzzles as puzzle.

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  5. There once lived two brothers, twins in fact, going by the fancy names of TOHU and BOHU.
    They were BODY BUILDERS. When ever they went out, they wore fancy SHERWANIS.

    A READY-TO-EAT MEAL? FREE? They would just say THANK YOU and gobble it up.

    Their EATS went on without not many INTERVALS!

    The amassed wealth from their shows displaying their bodies...

    But their MASTER who was an auditor insisted that they in their THUMB NAIL SKETCHES declare themselves as Actors!!!

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  6. Interesting. any elaboration? I don't remember reading about this.

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    1. https://taxguru.in/income-tax/sachin-tendulkar-actor-cricketer.html?amp

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    2. Thank you CGB. Interesting. I missed reading about it earlier. We always get here lots of interesting titbits away from CW as well. Hail the blog. And thanks of course to Sree- I would not have got it but for his pointing out.

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  7. Gem of a puzzle. Many lovely clues. Had to take on-line help for GITANO, TOHUBOHU, SHEESH, OAKUM, and for verification of TV DINNER and OBSTRUENTS, all new words to me. Thanks Avtar.

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  8. The e-paper has the enumeration for 9A as (8)

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  9. Let's see if we get a regret note tomorrow.

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  10. Can you pls explain 'time travel can be cool in the beginning' and answer 'interval'?

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    1. Time = interval
      Cool = in
      Travel could be is anagram indicator

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    2. IN(cool)+anagram of TRAVEL

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  11. Can u parse Sherwanis? I did not get it.
    Also i TV DINNER I took it as drive -i + inn (restaurant) + t (east end). Did not know what to do with noon. 😊

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    1. See the annotations in the main post. In case you still can't get it then let me know

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    2. I have already seen that. I still did not get pen vs swan & how do u get is @ the end?

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    3. A Pen is a female swan

      's can be read as IS

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    4. Thank you Col. Didnt know that.

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