Thursday 29 July 2021

No 13312, Thursday 29 Jul 2021, Karaoke

Solution to 16D 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   The intoxicant works essentially with illicit drug at social gathering near river (4,4) RICE BEER {woRks}{ICE}{BEE}{R}
5   Sun moves to the top in Zodiac sign during seasons (6) SPICES (+s)SPI(-s)CES
9   Abandon heavy-handed girl in trouble (5,4,3,3) LEAVE HIGH AND DRY*
11 Lookalike leading lady is deleted from offensive adult clip by second censor (9) DUPLICATE {ADUlT+CLIP}*{cEnsor}
12 Lease out aeroplanes grounded in parking area (5) APRON AeROPlaNes
13 He raises his hand but not to hit someone. It’s all in the game! (6) UMPIRE [CD]
15 They are inclined to read morning post regularly (5) RAMPS {R}{AM}{PoSt}
19 Financial backer’s temper is lessened with a drop of liquor (5) ANGEL {ANGEr}{Li...r}
20 Canines killed in terrible accident causing delay (6) DETAIN AccIDENT*
24 Originally, Lama has accepted seat at the capital city (5) LHASA Acrostic
25 What would one do to protest loudly? Set up a gambling house? (5,4) RAISE HELL {RAISE}{HELL}
27 Long-standing and will be deathless in other words (4-11) WELL ESTABLISHED*
28 Maybe Saudi kings’ monies lost interest for peak oil (6) ROYALS R(-i+o)OYALS
29 Concluded an issue in rush (8) REASONED {RE{A}{SON}ED}

DOWN
1   Dismissed regulation, bishop acquitted in ambiguity (5,3) RULED OUT {RULE}{DOUbT}
2   Appreciably, cocktail bar disallowed smokers’ accessory (4,4) CLAY PIPE APPrECIabLY*
3   It is cheap puff in Bangladesh, I hear (5) BEEDI (~bd)
4   Plants to treat caries (6) ERICAS*
6   Explosive long fruit (9) PINEAPPLE {PINE}{APPLE}
7   Cold ducks spend energy for drinks (6) CIDERS {C}{eIDERS}
8   Saw secret service recruiting top agents for president (6) SAYING S(-p+a)AYING
10 Animals with long laughs outside (6) HYENAS {H{YEN}AS}
14 What a caller at the door will do to sound familiar? (4,1,4) RING A BELL [DD]
16 Undercover scribe with A-line skirts (6) ?E?R?T (Addendum - SECRET SECRETary - See comments)
17 North American native hare went haywire (8) WATERHEN*
18 Comprehended hint essentially was unclear with nothing missing (8) INCLUDED {IN}{CLoUDED}
21 Frown at farmer shifting sides (6) GLOWER G(-r+l)LOWER
22 It goes into liquors and spirits at local shelter reportedly (6) BARLEY {BAR}{LEY}(~lee)
23 Quick-moving river swallows doctor (6) NIMBLE {NI{MB}LE}
26 Legends create one less than hundred in records (5) EPICS {EP{IC}S}

Reference List
Social gathering = BEE, River = R, Sun = S, Read = R, Interest = I, Bishop = B, Cold = C, Energy = E, President = P, Line = RY, Records = EPS


30 comments:

  1. Very nice clues KKR! Loved 5a, 9a, 6d and 16d.
    16d is the greatest favourite. Thank you for a good morning exercise

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    1. You are right in understanding my intention but below R[a]Y is not understood.

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    2. For a while I thght you ref to the other secret.

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  3. 16D SECRET
    scribe=secretary-ary=SECRET
    A line=RY

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  4. Lovely set of clues. Good workout in the morning. Thank you KKR.
    Waterhen is nicely misleading one trying to think of a native American man.
    Long ones were nicely done.
    Rice beer with beedi,spices and cider! Quite a collection.
    Dreaded finger of the umpire goes up!

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  5. Thank you Col. for the colourful blog.

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    1. +1
      I am very much impressed with the pictures, Col

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  6. 3D I took it as Bee=B and Di=D thus BD(which is Bangla desh) that sounds as beedi.
    So. Social gathering as mentioned in Reference List is reduntant looks like.

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    1. Your understanding of 3D is right.
      But 'Social gathering' is related to the 1ACROSS clue and it is not redundant in the ref.list.

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  7. Can 6D be taken as a DD? Pineapple is a long fruit cryptically 🤔🤔

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  8. Many things to learn for me...like bee for social gathering!

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  9. Nice grid KKRgaru. Enjoyable solve. Loved pineapple! :)

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  10. Pineapple seems to be everyone's fav.today!

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    1. Yes, in today's TH Clued In Blog also, this clue finds a place.

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  11. Kudos to you Mr. Kolluru Koteswara Rao for compiling this tricky grid. So much so I was stuck with 1-A since I reckoned the last two words in the clue to be BANK and realised my folly after accessing this worthy Blog site. And let me conclude my comments by citing 29-A that I failed to solve which in turn indicates lack of 'reasoning' in my thought-process!!

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  12. Yes,Rush to reed is a bit tricky and not easily connected.

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  13. Nice puzzle from KKRJi. Especially liked the long across ones.

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