Sunday, 25 April 2021

Special, Sunday 25 Apr 2021, K Koteswar Rao


Three answers per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory) 
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57 comments:

  1. 8A ALL AT SEA CD
    2D RARE acrostic
    1D GLIBNESS blessing*

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  2. 24a: NUMB {NU{M}B}
    26A: LITERATE {A+LETTER}* AROUND {I}
    1D: GLIBNESS {BLESSING}*

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  3. 11A BALUSTRADE SUTRA* inside BALD and then E
    5D ME+A+SURE+D d from last letter of standarD
    6D APPRECIATE (AT PEACE RIP)*

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    1. Can see the Nina. Thank you KKR for the Tribute.

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    2. That is what I can do, at the maximum, to our beloved Guru!

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  4. Replacement for 1d:
    13D: DECRYPTION {P(-A)Y+ON+CREDIT}*

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  5. 9a EMPLOY (Ptolemy-p)*
    3D ISOBAR. (Sir Ian-n)*

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  6. 3 down ISOBAR*
    4 down DAILIES*
    22 down RISHI. (HIS + gRId)*

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  7. 14A ENRICH (children -dl)* dl from (likeD Limits)
    25A PHLOEM (acrostic)
    12A LEADER/READER. (both answers fit, not sure which one is intended)

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    1. The def. is always at the ends. So, you guess now.

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  8. 23a Pistol Grip. Anagram of Pilots and then Grip(firm hold)
    20a Pyjama. First and last letters of ProbablY and then Jam(crowd) and A(academy)
    16d Rear Lamp. Anagram of Rare(2d) and then clamp without c(the initial letter)

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  9. 12a LEADER: figurehead
    -L+READER, literate (26)

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  10. 21a : SIESTA (IT'S SEA)*
    21d : SAPOTA (T<< Reverse telescopic)
    25a : PHLOEM (Acrostic)

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  11. In place of 25a

    7d : NODDY (Tail acrostic)

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  12. Nice Tribute to Gridman. Thank you KKR ji.

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  13. Nice Tribute to Gridman. Thank you KKR ji.

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  14. Lovely. Trying this have earned today’s SIESTA. A fitting tribute to someone RARE, the RISHI indeed. APPRECIATE the GLIBNESS of the clue surfaces reminding us of his MEASURED style. Especially 21 Down and Across (SIESTA and SAPOTA) and DECRYPTION for he was a master at it.
    Indeed, GRIDMAN is IN PEACE leaving us not ALL AT SEA but fairly LITERATE having attempted his grids in the DAILIES. His grids and guidance provided hold like a BALUSTRADE and gave us a PISTOL GRIP on the nuances of cryptic crosswords. We are thankful and ENRICHed. Even a NODDY at cryptics would be ABLE now as a good READER.
    Thank you KKR

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    1. Setter is I or I'm? ( one way is I'm the setter)

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    2. IMLU. Setter =I, me. Setter's (is) =I'm. Setter have =I've etc.

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    3. @Prasad final comment: You are right!

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  16. Air defence is not Ade.
    There is more to it.

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  17. 15a look at small SE(e)
    Dog: CUR
    Life's ending: E
    SECURE

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  18. Something is wrong with my mobile. After typing everything, when I press publish button, it returns without publishing sometimes. This is today's problem only. I am typing from another device.
    Anyway, KKR ji, am I right or wrong?

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    1. Spot on, AJ!
      Yes, I guessed something wrong with your mobile. That's why I didn't point out the typo in your ISOBAR explanation.

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  19. Nice tribute KKR and well executed. Thank you for enlivening a Sunday AN (for me)
    Enjoyed solving some real good cyptics.

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  20. A nice tribute to Gridman. An enjoyable puzzle too. Thank you KKR ji

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  21. Will have to wait till someone cracks

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  22. 17A ADWARE; a computer program that promotes; {AD}{WARfarE}; AD= air defence; close meaning not FAR.
    Rather wild guess.

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    1. That's the best guess, not wild. Kudos Jacob!

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    2. Your comment @ 13:51 "there is more to it" was the cue to think out of the box.

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  23. That brings us to the end.
    It's good that you all found some time to look at the grid in remembrance of our beloved Gridman.
    Let us all remember this great soul forever.
    For me, whenever I look at a grid, Gridman comes to my mind.

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  24. For 10a, the solution given is ELBA, taking Napoleon’s place of exile as definition. I took gifted as definition and reversed ELBA to ABLE. Only ABLE satisfies the crossing.

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    1. I hope my clue was clear. I placed "in return" after Napoleon’s place of exile. So, there should be no confusion, right?

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    2. For me , there was no confusion about the clue or solution. My confusion was about your statement ‘ That brings us to the end’ even before the right answer was given for 10a.

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    3. Oh, I missed that. I thought it was corrected.

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    4. My favourite clues today are for secure, adware, measured and glibness. I felt that they have been cleverly clued. An interesting afternoon, thanks to KKR.

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  25. cdr Ganapthi cdrgani29.com
    8A ALL AT SEA
    9A EMPLOY T in telescope removed and uncertain anagind
    10A ABLE elba return'
    12A LEADER and READER ie L and R from HEADER
    2D RARE first four letters from rebirth as ...etc
    Thanks for interesting clus!

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    1. Please note 3 answers per commenter on Fridays

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