Sunday, 25 July 2021

Special, Sunday 25 Jul 2021, The Zodiac


Three answers per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory) 
Please submit all your answers in one comment.  

(COMMENTS ENTERED WITH LESS THAN THREE ANSWERS/ANNOTATIONS WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE, UNLESS THE COMMENTER SPECIFIES THAT IT IS A COMPENSATION FOR A REPEAT)


Enjoy.

47 comments:

  1. 17A: ELITE {TILE*}{E}
    24a: NATO (T)
    28A: FORBID {FOR}{BID}

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  2. 24A NATO (T)
    19D BACTERIA*
    &D {APP}{ENDIX}*

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  3. 27D GIVE GI American soldier V...E
    31A APOSTLES Plastic surgeon - curing *
    28A FORBID For in favour bid proposal

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    1. 12A replaces duplicated 28A DETESTABLE seat belt + d e *

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  4. 10A J AS PER
    25A PEDESTRIAN A PRESIDENT*
    15A S C(A L)AR

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  5. 26dn equip (prepared) e quip(crack)
    21ac ordeal or(gold) deal (trade)
    4dn alpha (T)

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  6. 3d ANTISOCIAL ITALIAN* around S O C (S O from Son of)
    14d DEVASTATES D E(VA)STATES
    8d STRAPPED DEP(P)ARTS<

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  7. Very lovely and entertaining puzzle. Thank You Zodiac.

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  9. 1 d decode.de(cod)e.
    31 a apostles.(plastic surgeon- curing)*
    2 dn ornate or(n)ate

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  10. 1d DE (COD) E: figure out
    cod: fish Dee: river
    2d ORNATE: elaborate
    Orate : lecture about n( essence of natio n alism
    6d: NEAT : wonderful
    N: noon. Eat: lunch

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  11. 20A: PLAZA..p[laz(-y)]a
    12A: DETESTABLE..[seat+belt+d+e]*
    5A: SNEAKS..snake+s*

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  12. Replacing 1d
    8d: STRAPPED
    Goes back : departs back : STRAPED to pinch
    pennies P giving strap(P) ed

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  13. Replacing 2d
    11d FLORID : red
    US state mostly: Florida - a

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  14. 18D- spin offs- secondary products; put- pin, away- off, ship - ss;
    20A- plaza- shopping area; old man - pa, short slow- laz (y);
    11D- florid- red; florid(a)

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  15. Replacement for 8d
    16d LOOMED: appeared
    Model* holding o: ball

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  16. Typo
    26dn equip (prepar)e quip(crack)

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  17. 24ac. NATO..T
    17ac. ELITE..tile E*
    18d.. SPIN OFFS..s(pinoff)s

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  18. Replacement for 20A
    22D- signal; DD
    Replacement for 11D
    23D-onuses; (b)onuses

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  19. Replacement for 24ac
    4d..ALPHA..telescopic

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  20. cdrgani29
    9A CENATOPH Anag. of not cheap
    19A BACTERIA Anag. of care a bit
    21A ORDEAL or =gold deal=trade
    Nice clues to solve!
    4D ALPHA beginning of everything
    4D ALPHA in the clue
    good solving!

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    1. Please remember only 3 answers per commenter

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  21. Replacement
    22d.. SIGNAL...DD..memorable and show

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  22. Replacement
    29ac...MUSTANGS..must(h) angs(t)

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  23. Neat & wonderful puzzle Kumaresh :)

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  24. Enjoyed solving this wonderful puzzle, Thank you

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  25. You cannot take a substitute for a wrong answer

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  26. Thanks for the special Kumaresh

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    1. You're welcome, Colonel! And thanks for hosting this grid

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  27. Nice clues Kumaresh, well done!

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  28. Late entry. Enjoyed soling nevertheless. Got a couple of doubts cleared in the blog.
    Thank you Kumaresh for a well constructed puzzles.
    Let us have more of them.

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  29. feeling sorry that I was not able to sit Sunday special. After seeing the threads at least I should log in for few min. Nice puzzles zodiac. CENTOPAH, GIVE, SNAP I could easily spotted. trying other grids. Have a nice day.

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