Sunday, 14 February 2021

Special, Sunday 14 Feb 2021, Sivaji

Welcome to our new setter Sivaji. Bouquets and brickbats welcome.

Three answers per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory) 
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SIVAJI 1

By Sivaji
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Squares filled: 0/147
Exolve Print Notes Jotter Ⓒ Sivaji & THCC
Across
8Small art gallery's representation of nations (6)
9Ratings swarm around five going hungry (8)
10Vampire, volunteers and jungle kings join forces (10)
11Secure beginnings of new arrangements in life (4)
12Yet these sounds in film may come to the fore (10,5)
15Architectural feature originating from Andhra Pradesh's south-east (4)
17Make butter in church vessel (5)
18No-win? (4)
19Leave sans a word (2,7,6)
22German mountain and ship-wrecker (4)
23Steel men play table tennis to get payment (10)
26Dirty nest loses Yen, turns raucous (8)
27Nuclear weapon with limited range (6)
Down
1Making a start for layers (6)
2Working on a bird (2,2)
3Loser struggles with time to make it as a horse-keeper (6)
4Tweaked, solo takes you to a European city (4)
5Behind-the-times mafia chief left for his heavenly abode (6,2)
6Test match, say, you reportedly join with partner in the end (10)
7Tie 'n' tie crazy small individuals (8)
13Maintain gift in different form, staying healthy (7,3)
14Two units have altered URL for rock in Australia (5)
16I abandon propriety to somehow retain assets (8)
17Co-ed, passing over a great many, shared anchor's job (2-6)
20Book follows bad lies, sh! (6)
21Short grandmother cut fate by a large, flightless bird (6)
24Get to it anyway to name a NAM leader of Nehru era (4)
25Kolkata's ancient rail car back in shop (4)

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36 comments:

  1. P. Venkatesan14 February 2021 at 10:32

    11A: NAIL {Acrostic}
    12A: BACKGROUND MUSIC (CD)
    15a: APSE {Acrostic}

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  2. Ramani14 February 2021 at 10:33

    25d MART
    20D SILE*NT
    23A SETTLEMENT*

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  3. Jacob Brahmakulam14 February 2021 at 10:34

    8a S TATES
    1d S TRATA (A+START}*
    2d AT IT; A TIT

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  4. Vasant14 February 2021 at 10:37

    10A: BAT TA LIONS
    9A: STARVING RATINGS around V
    5D: PASSE DON

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  5. AJ14 February 2021 at 10:38

    8a. STATES : nations

    S(smart) TATES(art galleries)

    9a STARVING: hungry
    Ratings* : staring around five: v
    Star (v) ing

    12a. BACKGROUND SCORE: sounds in films
    Though they are background score, they may come to the fore in films

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  6. Jayalakshmi arumugam14 February 2021 at 10:40

    20dn silent (lies) * nt
    15ac apse Andhra Padesh Suth East
    25dn mart (tram)

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  7. AJ14 February 2021 at 10:41

    Substitute for 8a
    17ac CH(church) URN((vessel)
    CHURN : make butter

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  8. AJ14 February 2021 at 10:45

    Substitute for 9a
    23a SETTLEMENT: payment
    (Steel men tt(table tennis))*

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  9. ramesh ss14 February 2021 at 10:50

    12a CD Bacground music
    1d STRATA (a start)*
    td Entities (tie n tie) * + S

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    1. ramesh ss14 February 2021 at 10:53

      Compensation repeat of 12a by 6D EVENTUALLY Event (test sy) U (you) Ally (friend)

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    2. ramesh ss14 February 2021 at 10:55

      7D is entities sorry for typos (watching cricket and solving!!)

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  10. AJ14 February 2021 at 11:02

    For 23a repetition
    18a: LOSS : no win: direct meaning

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  11. Mukundala Balasubramanyam14 February 2021 at 11:04

    26a : STRIDENT (DIRTY NEST - Y)*
    27a : NARROW (N)(ARROW)
    17d : COHOSTED (CO(HOST)ED)

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  12. Remy14 February 2021 at 11:13

    19 a Go without saying.
    22 a Berg.DD
    3 dn ostler.loser+t*

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  13. Mukundala Balasubramanyam14 February 2021 at 11:31

    Nice and smooth flowing debut puzzle.
    Keep them coming Sivaji. :)

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  14. Murali14 February 2021 at 11:54

    27A NARROW (N)+(ARROW)
    14D ULURU (UUURL)*
    24D TITO (TO IT)*

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  15. Murali14 February 2021 at 12:01

    Substitute for 27A
    13D KEEPING FIT (KEEP)+(GIFT IN)*

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  16. ramesh ss14 February 2021 at 12:03

    Nice and easy solve. Good debut. Many more returns please....

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  17. Vasant14 February 2021 at 12:09

    Nice debut, Shivaji. Keep em coming

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    1. vdsprasad49@gmail.com14 February 2021 at 12:55

      Thank you. I am grateful to all fellow solvers. It will be my endeavor to keep setting puzzles.

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  18. Col_Gopinath14 February 2021 at 12:42

    Last two to ve solved
    4D and 21D

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  19. vdsprasad49@gmail.com14 February 2021 at 12:47

    Thank you very much. I owe my first puzzle to the guidance and encouragement of Chaturvasi sir. His honest feedback helped me greatly. I hope to continue setting puzzles.

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  20. Shalini14 February 2021 at 13:10

    4d Oslo solo*
    21d Nandoo nan:short grandmother
    doo(m) Fate cut.
    Definition:flightless bird

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  21. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan14 February 2021 at 13:13

    Welcome Sivaji ! Nice debut :)

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  22. vdsprasad49@gmail.com14 February 2021 at 13:44

    Thank you so much.

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  23. vdsprasad49@gmail.com14 February 2021 at 13:46

    Thank you, Colonel, for the welcome. I enjoy being a part of our blog community.

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  24. Padmanabhan14 February 2021 at 14:38

    Thank you Shivaji Prasad. Came in late and obviously none left. Enjoyed solving all the same. Only complaint (!!) It's over too soon! Nice debut and keep them coming. Thank you.

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  25. Kolluru Koteswara Rao14 February 2021 at 15:10

    Good job, Prasadji! Keep them coming regularly.

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  26. Prasanna Rao14 February 2021 at 22:05

    Prasad sir, very nice puzzle. I solved easy 5 as acrostic and anagrams. 25d and 6d was coD...Have a gr8 day sir.

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