Tuesday 1 June 2021

No 13262, Tuesday 01 Jun 2021, Hypatia

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Solution to 24D 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   One who doesn’t believe cashiers at bank robbery (5) HEIST atHEIST
4   Bored from touring Basel (5) BLASE*
11 Friend hugs hot sweetheart in movie show (7) MATINEE {MAT{IN}{swEet}E}
12 Half of standard French milk that’s recalled (7) PARTIAL {PAR}{LAIT<=}
13 Nod off ignoring naughty innuendo in boredom (5) ENNUI INNUEndo*
14 Alienated participants in protest rang editor (9) ESTRANGED [T]
15 Spooner’s question on offspring — something dirty (10) DITCHWATER (~which daughter to ditchwater)
17 Joint auditor’s born in France (4) KNEE (~nee)
19 A wide track is crooked (4) AWRY {A}{W}{RY}
21 What do screenwriters do — Fuss around? (4,1,5) MAKE A SCENE [DD]
25 Pilot’s rifle? (4-5) HIGH-FLIER{RIFLE}* [RA]
27 Criticise cook (5) ROAST [DD]
28 Greed A weakness that engulfed a king (7) AVARICE {A}{V{A}{R}ICE}
29 Pick up huge contract (7) TIGHTEN (~titan)
30 Drive cattle (5) STEER [DD]
31 Nibble starter of naan put in fire (5) SNACK {S{Naan}ACK}

DOWN
2   Dated old flame before time in court (7) EXTINCT {EX}{T}{IN}{CT}
3   Minor, around one might wake you up (8) SUNLIGHT {S{UN}LIGHT}
5   Rope holds up dog biting artist (6) LARIAT {TAI{RA}L}<=
6   A small amount, say 1,000 — signed off (7) SMIDGEN {S{M}IDGEN*} (Correction - {M+SIGNED}* - See comments)
7   Approach Independent parliamentarian at border (6) IMPEND {I}{MP}{END}
8   Made rare synthetic sugar (8) DEMERARA*
9   Fight and knock son over (4) SPAT {TAP}{S}<=
10 Insult taking President for second oath (6) PLEDGE (-s+p)PLEDGE
16 Damn old box carrying drug (8) EXECRATE {EX}{E}{CRATE}
18 Sort gene to produce hormone (8) ESTROGEN*
19 Like hot butter in retreat? (6) ASHRAM {AS}{H}{RAM}
20 Expecting to relinquish power for ruling (7) REGNANT pREGNANT
22 The Spanish wine is cold and pliant (7) ELASTIC {EL}{ASTI}{C}
23 Having treat in Gujarati’s house (6) EATING [T]
24 Support function (6) ?F?I?E (Addendum - OFFICE [DD] - See comments)
26 Assistant cycling in thought (4) IDEA (-a)IDE(+a)A

Reference List
Hot = IN, Milk in French = LAIT, Wide = W, Track = RY(Railway), King = R, Time = T, Court = CT, One = UN, Artist = RA, 1000 = M, Independent = I, Son = S, President = P, Second = S, Drug = E, Hot = H, Power = P,  The in Spanish = EL Cold = C


31 comments:

  1. Quite brilliant! Thanks Hypatia.

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  2. You made it very simple, yet most entertaining. Enjoyed solving. Thank you Hypatia.

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    1. Thanks AJ. Good to know that you had fun solving.

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  3. Clues are very brief and precise- wonder if there was a specific attempt. My best solve of a Hypatia CW. I could not get only one- it was Spooner again!
    Put in Aide in stead of Idea (I always commit this mistake) and was stuck for crossings for a while.

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    1. Thanks Paddy. There wasnt any specific attempt just for this Grid, but following sound cryptic grammar means implicitly that a setter has to choose every word carefully so that it contributes to the clues and there should not be any extraneous words. Too bad you missed the Spooner - it was one of my better ones. Good you were able to back pedal from that error:)

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  4. 2D- Un for one- I wonder if there should have been an indication of a French word.

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  5. Knee jerk reaction of CGB is enjoyable!

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  6. Could someone please clarify

    2d) what's the role of the word flame on the clue?

    13a) what's the role of ignoring in the clue? Off already is removal indicator right?

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  7. 13a Ignoring indicates that we should delete ndo....

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    1. I thought naughty was anagram indicator

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    2. off, indicates that the letters to be removed are not in the same sequence but jumbled.
      lets say if the word was "innueNOD" then off wouldnt be there,

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    3. Got it.. thanks for the clarification :)

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    4. Thanks @Bhargav Sir and @Sree_Sree for clarifying.

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  9. Was easy as watching a matinee
    Though some clues took a knee
    Like execrate, ashram and sunlight
    Others Answers were quite right
    Making me wonder was it easy!

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  10. 6d anno typo! no insertion indicator. only anaind.

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  11. 29A - what's the role of "pick up" in the clue?

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    1. Pick up is the homophone indicator in this clue.

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  12. Hypatia - was it easy by your standards? I finished in 20 mins. But could not get OFFICE. 🙄
    Thank u.

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    1. I am glad that more folks are getting used to my style and finding the grids easier to solve. I don't intend to make them tough though sometimes solvers end up finding thenm hard. Too bad it was a DNF - Better luck next time.

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  13. Hi, can someone explain the RAM in 19D solve, as well as the annotation for 24D? Thanks a lot - novice here! :)

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  14. Butter - one who butts - RAM
    24d - i also did not get. Its a direct clue.

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  15. DD - Direct definition?

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