Saturday 4 September 2021

No 13344, Saturday 04 Sep 2021, Lightning

 ACROSS

1 Leader departs, full of lies, and having no mercy(8) RUTHLESS {tRUTHLESS}
5 Emphasis on account with penny(6) ACCENT {AC}{CENT}
9 Main arch redesigned by one running the show(8) CHAIRMAN {MAIN+ARCH*}
10 Bachelor free beside a lake at wedding feast(6) BRIDAL {B}{RID}{A}{L}
12 Glue, drawing aid curtailed(5) PASTE {PASTEl}
13 New, odd urn destroyed in Australia perhaps(4,5) DOWN UNDER {NEW+ODD+URN*}
14 Plot is average, closing early in small room(6) PARCEL {PAR}{CELl}
16 One’s choice of words lost at spell test(7) DICTION {DICTatION}
19 Boiling water with hesitation in a two tier pot(7) STEAMER {STEAM}{ER}
21 Emperor and leaders of country are endlessly shuffling army responsibilities(6) CAESAR (Acrostic)
23 Repairing main tunnel without one cancellation of contract(9) ANNULMENT {MAiN+TUNNEL*}
25 Bring together company and engineer(5) UNITE {UNIT}{E}
26 Dog for one rotating thin plate(6) ANIMAL {(-l)ANIMA(+L)}
27 Outlet at residence — place to get beer, say(8) TAPHOUSE {TAP}{HOUSE}
28 Reverberates with energy, adding routine tasks right away(6) ECHOES {E}{CHOrES}
29 Wandering free, lass is daring(8) FEARLESS {FREE+LASS*}

DOWN

1 Instructions about long story sent up(6) RECIPE {RE}{EPIC<=}
2 Interpret broadcast, startle a nationalist(9) TRANSLATE {STARTLE+A+N*}
3 Huge beer king took up(5) LARGE {LA(+R)GE(-r)}
4 Disgraceful action in view at lake up north(7) SCANDAL {SCAN}{DAL}
6 Vehicle first bought by dad’s brother — a gem(9) CARBUNCLE {CAR}{Bought}{UNCLE}
7 Leaderless change editor brought to conclusion(5) ENDED {bEND}{ED}
8 Available for rent, managed to get in free and easy(8) TOLERANT {TO LE{RAN}T}
11 Newton exiting had to be due(4) OWED {OWnED}
15 Style of “iPhone” arrived with large cover(5,4) CAMEL CASE {CAME}{L} {CASE}
17 Main tune I need to change soon(2,1,6) IN A MINUTE {MAIN+TUNE+I*}
18 Free to go about these days on an adventure(8) ESCAPADE {ESCAP{AD}E}
20 Free licence withheld for dance music(4) REEL (T)
21 Restrain old teetotaller breaking into small house(7) COTTAGE {C{O}{TT}AGE}
22 Break depression(6) RECESS (DD)
24 New number cut short let out a cry(5) NEIGH {N}{EIGHt}
25 Escort powerless drug dealer(5) USHER {pUSHER}

Reference List

Account=AC, Penny=Cent, Bachelor=B, Lake=L, Hesitation=Er, One=I, Engineer=E, Energy=E, Right=R
About=Re, Nationalist=N, King=R, Editor=Ed, Newton=N, Large=L, These days=AD, Old=O, Teetotaller=TT, New=N, Power=P

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31 comments:

  1. On 18D I was trying to get a sentence where 'free' could be substituted for 'escape'.

    Any thoughts on this?

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    1. Free from the clutches off ...
      Escape from the clutches off ...

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    2. Even in your phrase Deepak, if you complete the sentence. It could be I am free from the clutches of ... Escape would not work

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    3. For instance, you may say Can you escape from the clutches of the Taliban. You cannot simply substitute with Free. It would have to be 'get free' or 'be free'

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    4. It will have to be written as 'get free' in a sentence

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    5. A kind of error that is easily missed

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  2. 26A: I just took it as a reversal
    7d: Change is mend or bend?

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    1. Yes these were the intended annos

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    2. 26A Yes, reversing LAMINA (= thin plate) seems to be appropriate

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    3. Thanks Padmanabhan. I hardly solve these days, but I read the interesting conversations in this blog from time to time. Hope everyone is doing well.

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    4. All of us are fine (in spite of Covid scare) except that we miss the counsel of CV,correcting us whenever the occasion demanded.
      You are in U.S.nowadays?

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    5. Glad to hear everyone’s fine. Yes have been in US the last few years

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    6. Glad to hear everyone’s fine. Yes have been in US the last few years

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  3. Enjoyable workout to start a gloomy day (cloudy and drizzling here at Chennai)
    Thank you Ramesh- for the elaborate blog as usual.

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  4. To correct is to mend
    To distort is to bend
    Both change things..

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  5. 26A. In the parsing it should be AMINA and not ANIMA.

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  6. Pl.check once again. Anima(L) is correct. Reverse of Lamina.

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    1. Please see if my point is right, probably I didn’t express myself well. By rotating we mean the first and last letters exchange their places. If so, lamina becomes aminal and not animal.

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    2. I see it now. The whole word has to be rotated. I agree with you and stand corrected.

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  7. Could solve many clues. Rather smooth sailing like Joe Roots batting.

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  8. We don't want smooth sailing of Joe Roots- at least against us!

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  9. finally solved 100% by 4 PM. feel difficulty on Lamina and escapade. Today's grid I could see the word 'Free' in many places. but a challenging one. My doubt on 26D is ...we consider one as (-i). when it reverse we substitute as L. setter means to say that (-i) for small 'l'. In practical I solved not by annotation. we use to check lamination for thin plates in NDT. so straight away I filled the grid. After seen the threads I posted my view.

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    1. Dog for one is def (dog, for one is an animal). Not part of fodder here. So we are not reading one as I.

      We are looking at Lamina<=(rotated meaning turned 180)

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    2. yes. with your response only I got it the core def. Thanks Mr Sree_Sree

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