Tuesday 19 January 2021

No 13148, Tuesday 19 Jan 2021, Karaoke

Solution to 26A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS
1   Auction sale at the location includes diamonds (6) VENDUE {VEN{D}UE}
5   Financing novel “Gone with wind”? (8) ENDOWING {GONE+WIND}*
9   Grand-aunt authorised corporal punishment (8) GAUNTLET {G}{AUNT}{LET}
10 Some season tickets include deferred payments (2,4) ON TICK [T]
11 Work of art at church said to improve law and order (5,5) ALTAR PIECE (~alter peace)
12 Lesotho oppressed inner circle (4) HOOP [T]
13 The bottoms have shiny reflection (5) KEELS<=
14 Knight going out for small drink (6) NOGGIN {N}{GOING*}
17 Potential, kinetic energy is present in plant (6) LIKELY {LI{KE}LY}
19 Lewd lecture initially broadcast live (5) DWELL {LEWD+Le...e}*
22 What you are looking at needs swapping of date and time with determination (4) GRIT GRI(-d+t)T
24 We don’t see them at best inns perhaps (10) ABSTINENTS*
25 Communal society is tough to consume the drug (6) SHARED {S}{HAR{E}D}
26 Spraying device on plane carrying King Henry (8) A?R?R?S? (Addendum - AIRBRUSH {AIRB{R}US}{H} - See comments)
27 Kid is stuck inside railing of staircase (8) BANISTER {BAN{IS}TER}
28 An ugly Greek woman in suspected madhouse? oh, no! (6) MEDUSA MADhoUSE*

DOWN
2   Express messages and intimate letters sent primarily in this way (6) EMAILS Acrostic &lit
3   Academic assignment by setter? I have no idea! (4,3,2)  DONT ASK ME {DON}{TASK}{ME}
 Blot out newsmen occasionally enjoying extract from movie (7) ECLIPSE {nEwSmEn} over {CLIP}
5   Dietician’s advice on food — “No flesh, avoid minerals initially” (3,4) EAT LESS mEATLESS
6   Dr. No’s ultimate gas/talk in a boring tone (5,2) DRONE ON {DR}{nO}{NEON}
7   Inherently nervous flatfish (5) WITCH tWITChy
8   Ericsson mobile — it can destroy cells! (8) NECROSIS*
15 Hideout protected by hands in fabulous flower (6,3) GOLDEN ROD {GO{L}{DEN}{R}OD}
16 Delhi belly’s attack over Greek goddess (8) DIARRHEA {RAID<=}{RHEA}
18 Ready-to-cook for a very long time (4,3) YEAR DOT*
19 Paradise Lost, not a complete loss of hope (7) DESPAIR PARaDISE*
20 It is satirical when electronic programs, internet gateways initially go on strike (7) EPIGRAM {E}{Pr...s}{In...t}{Ga...s}{RAM}
21 Essentially hostage insists unchanged condition (6) STASIS {hoSTAge}{inSISts}
23 Dangerous asteroid leaves mostly dead bodies (5) TORSI aSTeROId*

Reference List
Diamond = D, Grand = G, Knight = N, Date = D, Time = T, Society = S, Drug = E, King = R, Electronic = E


21 comments:

  1. Nice puzzle. 27a is my clue of the day. Other favourites are 11a, 17a, 26aand 16dn. Thank you for the morning exercise.

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  2. 4d must be ESE over CLIP not clips.

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  3. Quality CW. I found the going a little tough this time with a few blanks and doubts.
    Had Grid in stead of Grit- I always get this doubt.(D for T or T for D)
    I did not know gauntlet as a form of punishment/ torture.

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  4. Ortho Paul
    26. AIRBRUSH AIRB(R)US(H)
    R is king H is Henry Airbus is plane

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  5. The enu I mentioned in my grid for the following clues was:
    11AC 10 and 15DN 9

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  6. Enu looked to be okay on the face of it. Just checked after your comment.

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  7. ALTARPIECE is 10 and GOLDENROD is 9. Both are single words.

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    1. I too noticed and mentioned the actual enu. I don't know how their crossword software works contrary to what we indicate!

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  8. Sometimes dictionaries differ.

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  9. Is abstinent a noun? I could only get the adj by googling. So how abstinents? Kindly clarify.

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    1. Please see the link:
      https://www.thefreedictionary.com/abstinent

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    2. Thank u Sir. I couldn't find this before. Thank u.

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  10. I do not find any dictionary support for 'abstinent' as a noun. It does not have the meaning of 'one who abstains'. It is not a countable noun.
    'abstinent' is an adj. a per a couple of dictionaries I looked up.
    Even the link shows it up as an adj, not n.

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  11. Above Comment is withdrawn. One dict has it as n. meaning one who practises abstinence.
    However good standard dictionaries didn't help me in my lookup.

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