Sunday, 6 June 2021

Special, Sunday 06 Jun 2021, Ajji

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AJJI 3

By Ajji
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Squares filled: 0/154
Exolve Print Notes Jotter Ⓒ Ajji & THCC
Across
1Settlement : end of liability (6)
4Setter meets mother and friends in regions ruled by Muslim religious heads (8)
9Go to the North East entrance to nullify the effects (6)
10The Learned journalists have between them a posh pet (8)
12The panderer and the novice trap the bird between them for a flower (9)
13The setter cheats those worthy of veneration (5)
14Boredom is nakedly authentic, clumsy (5)
16The distinctive badge is a constituent piece in disorder with direction reversed internally (6)
19The gold accord is an unpleasant experience (6)
21When the stranger is touched by the bristles of a corn, he inhales deeply with a wide open mouth (5)
24A measure to show that the preparations are on for some event (5)
25e - brokers (9)
27The chief support of a system is at the back (8)
28The inexpensive fish food resembling expensive seafood (6)
29A small edible sea fish strangely becomes a family of spiders (8)
30One boy has the drive to produce an equiangular geometric figure (6)
Down
1Ornamental cloths are hung above the boats carrying tailless pig (8)
2The Inspector General is in mourning over the fibrous tissue connecting the bones (8)
3Wrongly bury the salt (5)
5Almost never loses head and is excited to for advertisement (5)
6English army inch around for equipment (9)
7The military show also includes an abstainer (6)
8A person who derives pleasure by bringing unhappiness to others is himself unhappy first (6)
11A doubtful assent about new for a side channel of a river (4)
15The testy reflect the heart of Mira on board (9)
17The aim of dieting becomes a water sport when loss turns into win (8)
18A cousin, new, nervous goes to the capital city.(8)
20The boy with a monkey tail is a classy woman (4)
22The African country has Italian aunt going round a bad business degree (6)
23Express your impatience in a state of India and exclaim, “I have got you!” (6)
25Setter’s daughter excavated (5)
26Praises the American boy in a mix-up (5)

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69 comments:

  1. Jacob Brahmakulam6 June 2021 at 10:34

    25A MINE D
    26A LAUDS; US+LAD*
    22 ZAMBIA ZIA in MBA*

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  2. P. Venkatesan6 June 2021 at 10:35


    10a: EDUCATED {ED}{U}{CAT}{ED}
    13A: ICONS {I}{CONS}
    8D: SADIST {SAD}{IST}

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  3. Jacob Brahmakulam6 June 2021 at 10:35

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  4. Jayalakshmi arumugam6 June 2021 at 10:39

    3dn nitre (inter) *
    8dn sadist (sad) (ist)
    20dn lady lad (monks) y

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  5. Vasant6 June 2021 at 10:39

    4A I MA MATES
    6d MACHINERY E ARMY INCH*
    7d T(A TT)OO

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  6. Jayalakshmi arumugam6 June 2021 at 10:42

    Compensation for 3dn
    2dn ligament l(ig)ament

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  7. falcon6 June 2021 at 10:48

    2D - LIGAMENT - IG in LAMENT (mourn)
    22D - ZAMBIA - Italian for aunt (ZIA) Business degree - MBA
    25D - MINED (MINE + D)

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  8. Orthopaul6 June 2021 at 10:50

    17d.SWIMMING.. S(-l+w)imming
    9ac. NEGATE.. N(orth) E(ast) gate
    6d. MACHINERY..E(ngland) in (army inch)*

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  9. Shalini6 June 2021 at 10:55

    25A MIDDLEMEN, Brokers
    E is middle of mEn

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  10. Shalini6 June 2021 at 10:57

    19A ORDEAL
    Or=Gold
    Deal=accord

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  11. Shalini6 June 2021 at 10:58

    30A ISOGON
    I=ONE
    SON=boy
    Go=drive
    I So(go)n

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  12. Satyen Nabar6 June 2021 at 11:05

    1A COLONY COLON + (-liabilt)Y

    1D CANOPIES CANO{PI(-g)}ES

    12A PIMPERNEL PIMP{ERNE}L

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    1. AJ6 June 2021 at 11:51

      Thanks Doctor for considering my grid for participation and of course for solving.

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    2. Satyen Nabar6 June 2021 at 13:10

      Thanks AJ for the entertainment! :)

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  13. Padmanabhan6 June 2021 at 11:09

    24A- A FOOT

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  14. Padmanabhan6 June 2021 at 11:10

    I give the miss for the other 2.

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  15. Orthopaul6 June 2021 at 11:14

    Replacement for 9ac
    27ac. BACKBONE dd

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  16. sree_sree6 June 2021 at 11:15

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  17. Orthopaul6 June 2021 at 11:19

    Replacement for 6d
    25ac. MIDDLEMEN..CD

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  18. Dr Hareendranath6 June 2021 at 11:22

    6D MACHINERY, Engish{(E)+ARMY INCH}*
    18D ASUNCION{A COUSIN N}*=capital city
    26D LAUDS ,(LAD+US)*=praises

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  19. Orthopaul6 June 2021 at 11:25

    Replacement for 25ac
    15d. IRRITABLE.. m(ir)a ri table..from board
    Means..testy

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  20. cdrgani296 June 2021 at 11:29

    Cdr. Ganapathi (cdrgani29)
    9A NEGATE NE for northeast GATE for entrance
    8D SADIST whole clue means sadist starting with or beginning SAD
    2D LIGAMENT IG for insp. gl.over means covers Lament for mourning
    interesting clues all over!

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  21. cdrgani296 June 2021 at 11:33

    Cdr Gani
    4A IMAMATES I found it late. An Excellent Clue indeed!

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  22. N Sridhar6 June 2021 at 11:33

    7D- tattoo- military show; also- too; an abstainer- a teetotaller (tt); t(att)oo;

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  23. AJ6 June 2021 at 11:45

    Thanks Gemini.

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  24. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan6 June 2021 at 11:49

    Please solve the grid set by me & Debasmita basu published on 1Across. Here is the link :
    https://www.1across.org/2021/06/06/naw/

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  25. sree_sree6 June 2021 at 11:53

    too many indirects for my liking. the directs are nice.

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    1. AJ6 June 2021 at 11:59

      Thank you for the comment Sree_Stee. Didn’t realise while clueing.

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  26. AJ6 June 2021 at 12:07

    The remaining ones are
    21ac, 28ac . 29ac and 11dn.
    Annotation pending for 14ac, 16ac and 5dn.

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    1. falcon6 June 2021 at 12:26

      Sorry my bad

      15D - testy - IRRITABLE, M(ir)a board-table

      14A boredom - ENNUI, Authentic - G(ENUIN)E, anagram

      16A - EMBLEM, constituent part - member (change direction R-L)

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    2. AJ6 June 2021 at 12:28

      Thank you falcon

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  27. ramesh ss6 June 2021 at 12:16

    Thanks for the special. Awesome clues for me were 1A (innovative use of punctuation as fodder) and 12A. Some clues were indirect and a couple of triple unches 16A and 19A are noticed.

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    1. AJ6 June 2021 at 12:32

      Thank you sir for you detailed comments. I think I have yet to learn a lot in setting.

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  28. Murali6 June 2021 at 12:18

    16A EMBLEM (MEMBEr -r +L)*
    21A YAWNS: Y + AWNS

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  29. AJ6 June 2021 at 12:38

    28ac, 29ac, 11dn. remain.
    Annotation for 5dn also remains

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  30. Padmanabhan6 June 2021 at 12:39

    29A- Araneids- A(Sardine)*
    Had to google this one. Arachnids are more common. But since it did not fit,I had to search. Then Aha! for sardines.

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    1. AJ6 June 2021 at 12:41

      Annotation?

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    2. AJ6 June 2021 at 12:42

      Sorry. You have annotated. It was my oversight.
      Thank you sir!

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  31. Padmanabhan6 June 2021 at 12:39

    Thank you AJ for an interesting Sunday morning.

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  32. Padmanabhan6 June 2021 at 12:44

    11D- SNYE- (YESN)*.Another rare word.
    Or should it be written as (S(N)YE)* Anyway,it is an anagram of 'Yes' (doubtful) around N.
    My 3rd

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  33. Padmanabhan6 June 2021 at 12:45

    A request to AJ. Mr. sounds odd. No need. We are close knit and need no formalities.

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  34. AJ6 June 2021 at 12:51

    Okay Padmanabhan.

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  35. AJ6 June 2021 at 12:54

    Solution for 28ac and annotation for 5dn remain.

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  36. VU6 June 2021 at 12:57

    5d Almost never - SELDOM- Loses head ELDOM - excited/jumbled - MODEL (for adevrtisement)

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  37. AJ6 June 2021 at 13:07

    Only 28ac remains

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  38. AJ6 June 2021 at 13:31

    Thank you very much Sathia. Solved well and brought the process to an end

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  39. Padmanabhan6 June 2021 at 13:35

    Thank you AJ & Col.

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  40. AJ6 June 2021 at 13:35

    I thank all the solvers for setting aside some time for my grid. Thanks to novice and sree_sree for their remarks which will make me more watchful in setting.
    My special thanks to the colonel for accommodating my grid in the blog.

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  41. Col_Gopinath6 June 2021 at 13:36

    Thanks for the special AJ. Please avoid indirect anagrams in future

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  42. AJ6 June 2021 at 13:45

    Okay sir

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  43. Anonymous6 June 2021 at 19:33

    AJ - thank u for an enjoyable but tough grid. Got all except SURIMI (didnt know this)in under 50 minutes. Many clues were nrain teasers. 😊

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  44. Anonymous6 June 2021 at 19:34

    Brain*

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  45. AJ6 June 2021 at 19:46

    I am glad that you could make it Gowri. I am myself not very happy about surimi. After sending the grid, I felt I could have clued it differently.
    Thank you Gowri for finding time for the grid.

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  46. Prasanna Rao6 June 2021 at 21:43

    Respected AJ, Missed your Grid. Exigencies at site work. read all threads. 6,9,26 are my favorite. 12a, Have a nice day.

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  47. AJ6 June 2021 at 22:44

    Thank you Prasanna

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