Friday, 11 June 2021

No 13271, Friday 11 Jun 2021, Neyartha

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ACROSS
7   Article behind the damaged iPhone box on a fear of foreigners (10) XENOPHOBIA {A}<=>{IPHONE+BOX}*
9   Warm to loosen up (4) THAW [CD]
10 Tubes combining well with cheese? (8) MACARONI [CD]
11 A selection of muesli derivatives for the freshwater turtle (6) SLIDER [T]
12 Turkey imprisons a revolutionary individual to make a point (5) TENOR {T{ONE<=}R}
13 Stagger to the competition with a pollen collector (9) BUMBLEBEE {BUMBLE}{BEE}
14 Impractical to leave California without a justifying reason (7) USELESS caUSELESS
17 Kind of strength shown by Israel under pressure all around (7) TENSILE {TENS{IL}E}
20 Policeman tricks the French into welcoming a flying mammal from the east (9) CONSTABLE {CONS}{BAT<=}{LE}
22 Liberal student getting rid of the second letter in the freight vessel (5) LARGE (-b+l)LARGE
25 Trouble resulting from ash-trays yet to be emptied out (6) HARASS {ASH+tRAyS}*
26 Boat on a lake with a bird needing an injection of blood (8) MACKINAW {MAC{KIN}AW} Needed help from Google for this
27 Young woman hiding in the glasswork section (4) LASS [T]
28 A relaxing beginning to a formal atmosphere in a ship sailing the Arctic seas (10) ICEBREAKER [DD]

DOWN
1   German-born Greek character turns up for an exchange of views (6) DEBATE {DE}{B}{ETA<=}
2   Painful struggle reported at the geological feature (5) THROW (~throe)
3   Leaderless gang putting a robe with cut sides on top of a geometrical feature (7) OBLIQUE {cLIQUE}<=>{rOBe}
4   Mediocre auditor’s impressionable (8) PASSABLE (~possible)
5   Stop work on the geological feature (6) STRIKE [DD]
6   Corrected her label for the flowering plant (8) HAREBELL*
8   Successful register entry? (2,1,4) ON A ROLL [DD]
15 Ticket-less passenger’s vacation interrupted by Washington drowning in a cry of anguish (8) STOWAWAY {ST{O{WA}W}AY}
16 Half-cousin going around the muddy lakes to get material for a fur coat (8) SEALSKIN {couS{LAKES*}IN}
18 Friend in France surrounded by upset workers shows inner strength (7) STAMINA {ST{AMI}NA<=}
19 Awkward ascent by an unusually calm rebel retreating after making the Spanish quit (7) CLAMBER {CALM*}{REBel<=}
21 Uncommon to find leading socio-political analysts requiring sensitivity education (6) SPARSE Acrostic
23 Deeply impressed Vatican chief makes way for the bishop to get to the geological feature (6) GRABEN GRA(-v+b)BEN
24 Row, after internal turmoil, to the geological feature (5) SCARP {SC(R<=>A}P}

Reference List
Turkey = TR, California = CA, Israel = IL, The in French = LE, Student = L, German = DE, Born = B, Washington = WA, Friend in French = AMI, The in Spanish = EL, Bishop = B



66 comments:

  1. 1A XENOPHOBIA,(iPhone box)*a,from article = fear of foreigners
    6D HAREBELL, (herlabel)*=flowering plant
    11A SLIDER=fresh water turtle,mueSLI DERivative(T)
    8D ON A ROLL=successful,register entry

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  2. 27 ac young woman hiding in G(lass)work section

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  3. 27 ac young girl is LASS in glasswork

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  4. 25A HARASS=trouble, ASHTRAYS-yt(YET to be emptied)out,(ashras)*

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  5. Socoi_Political Analysts Requiring Sensitivity Education

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  6. 3d oblique
    Robe with cut sides - ob
    Leaderless gang - clique minus c - lique

    4d passible homophone of passable

    16d sealskin

    Half of cousin is sin
    Anagram of lakes is ealsk

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  7. 1d debate

    German de
    Born - b
    Greek character - eta - turning up is ate

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  8. 10d macaroni - DD
    Tubes - macaroni
    Combines well with cheese - macaroni

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  9. 20A- constable-policeman; tricks-cons; flying mammal- bat, from the east- tab, the in French - le;
    22A- large- liberal; freight vessel- barge; replace second letter- b;
    13A- bumblebee- pollen collector; stagger- bumble; competition- bee as in spell bee;
    11A- slider- fresh water turtle; telescopic;
    18D- stamina- inner strength; ami - friend in France; workers- ants

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  10. 17ac. TENSILE..tens(il)e
    15d. STOWAWAY..st(ow)a(w)ay
    18d. STAMINA..Ami in reverse ants
    5d. STRIKE..DD
    6d. HAREBELL..(her label)*

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    1. Deleted as no annotation given. Nam aslo not given

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  14. For a newspaper which claims that it is India's National Newspaper, it is strange that it refers to the lockdown in Tamil Nadu only.

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    1. Let's restrict ourselves to matters related to Crosswords

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  15. 25 Trouble resulting from ash-trays yet to be emptied out (6)
    ASH-TRAYS less Y T emptied out ASHRAS HARASS

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  16. 27 Young woman hiding in the g[lass]work section (4)(T)

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  17. 2 Painful struggle reported at the geological feature (5)
    CAVES DD

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  18. 3 Leaderless gang putting a robe with cut sides on top of a geometrical feature (7)
    gang leaderless ANG
    putting a robe AR
    sides = Left and Up
    ANGULAR

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  20. 6 Corrected her label for the flowering plant (8)
    her+label=HAREBELL

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  21. 14Ac - useless {causeless (justifying reason) minus ca}
    28Ac - icebreaker (double definition)
    19Dn - clamber (meaning awkward ascent) anagram of calm rebel minus El for Spanish the
    23Dn - Graben a geological feature anno as Graven (deeply impressed) minus V plus B

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    1. 19dn not a full anagram!

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    2. Thank you. Got it! Calm is anagram and ber is the retreat of reb.

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  22. 26Ac - Mackinaw (boat on a lake) anno as Mac(kin)aw for Macaw as a bird injected with kin for blood (relation)

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  23. Last four to be solved
    12A, 2D, 15D(Annotation only) and 24D

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  24. 2D THROW ~ THROE (painful struggle)

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  25. 24 d SCARP - SCRAP (Row) after internal struggle

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  26. 12ac TENOR : make a point
    Turkey: TR
    Individual: ONE
    Revolutionary individual : (ONE)*: ENO
    T(ENO)R

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  27. 12A - Turkey abbreviation is TR, individual is ONE, Revolutionary Individual is ENO
    TR imprisoning ENO is TENOR - Point

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  28. 18 d
    Friend in France is Ami
    Workers is ants
    Inner strength is STAMINA

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  29. ... and of course there is a theme to be identified

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  30. 1 d
    German is de
    Greek character beta
    Exchange of views = debate

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  31. 18d
    Ami- friend in German
    Ants*_ workers
    ST(AMI)NA

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  32. Successful is on a roll
    Register entry is on a roll

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  33. 1.ac.xenophobia - rearrange letters from iPhone,box,a
    11.ac.slider - sli from muesli and der from derivatives
    27.ac.lass - from glasswork
    5.dn.strike - stopping work and geological feature
    18.dn.stamina -ami and stna ( upset workers)

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  34. Uncommon = sparse
    S from socio
    P from political
    A from analysts r from requiring
    S from sensitivity e from education

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  35. Theme: find a lot of terms related to faulting in geology; May be an earthquake.
    throw, strike, scarp, tensile, garben, oblique

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  36. I was looking for a pangram,but missing a few.

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  37. Stowaway
    Stay, wa for Washington ow =cry

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  38. Thank you Col. for the link on Mackinaw boat. Interesting.

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  39. Passable and possible homophones? no sir/ madam

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    1. Yes, you are right! It is PASSIBLE

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    2. It isn't Passible, check the pronounciation in Free dictionary. Passable is correct

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    3. Moreover Passible is not Mediocre

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    4. I took the def as impressionable.
      With passable as HP for passible.

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    5. Sorry Col, I didn't see the blog since last night.
      I see the def. in wordweb for "passible" as below:
      "Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents"
      Further, Freedictionary gives the same HP for both Passable and Passible

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    6. Okay the HP is Passible. Answer remains as Passable. Will correct it.

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