Monday 21 February 2022

No 13485, Monday 21 Feb 2022, WrdPlougher

Solution to 27D 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
9   State vacuous litany completely (7) UTTERLY {UTTER}{Li..nY}
10 Cartoonish panda wearing handbag with determination (7) PURPOSE {PUR{PO}SE}
11 Tune at first followed loud grating song, taking even more time than any other (7) LONGEST {Tune}<=>{L}{ONG{E}S*} Even/E?
12 Result in dismissal ahead of strike (7) OUTCOME {OUT}{COME} Come/Strike?
13 Makes soldiers artists (9) CRAFTSMEN {CRAFTS}{MEN}
15 Shouted “bomb!”, following first two members of crowd (5) CRIED {IED}<=>{CRowd}
16 Doses old printers with colour, removing black at last (7) INJECTS {INkJE{C}TS} Anno for C and insertion not clear 
19 Deft murder covered by singular journalist (7) SKILLED {S}{KILL}{ED}
20 Rained viciously without end, into sewer (5) DRAIN RAINeD* End = E?
21 Laced, entangled around broken cone (9) CONCEALED {C{CONE*}ALED*} What's the defintion here?
25 Inflamed by bad news about love twice lost at the outset (7) SWOLLEN {SW{O}{Lost}{Lost}EN*}
26 Thorium that’s inside solvent (7) THINNER {TH}{INNER}
28 Grins brokenly outside Engineering School at first and calls it quits (7) RESIGNS {R{En...g}{Sc...l}IGNS*}
29 University faculty (7) COLLEGE [DD]

DOWN
1   Joint provider of coverage for people (6) PUBLIC {PUB}{LIC}
2   Refrain from hiding in places like Turkmenistan, Zanzibar (6) STANZA [T]
3   Perch’s right home for birds or ancestors? (4) TREE [DD]
4   Final sorry stems awkwardly from government (6) SYSTEM {s..rY+STEMS}*
5   Selects application, with interest in operating system (8) APPOINTS {APP}{O{INT}S}
6   Professional sleuth starts to devise endgame, dismissed for caring (10) PROTECTIVE {PRO}{deTECTIVE}
7   British mark the French backward, accepting the first immigrant (8) COLONIAL {COLON}{Im...t}{LA<=}
8   Rested, remain in action (8) DEPENDED {DE{PEND}ED}
14 Lengthy coo loosely means... (10) TECHNOLOGY*
16 Indian bid cannibalises U.S. enterprise (8) INDUSTRY {IND}{US}{TRY}
17 Shoreless sea no good, top judge rules, makes you go green (8) JEALOUSY {sEA}{LOUSY}<=>{J}
18 Sloppy kiss scene has no end, it is vomit-inducing (8) SICKNESS {KISS+SCENe}*
22 Unfrozen spot? (6) NOTICE {NOT ICE}
23 One who yearns for more time? (6) LONGER [DD]
24 Thorny fruit’s rough at the top, pudgy in the middle (6) DARTED  {DA{Ro..h}TE}{puDgy}
27 Indolence oddly loses no sleep (4) I?L? (Addendum - IDLE InDoLencE -See comments)

Reference List
Long = L, Even = E?, Singular = S, The in French = LA, No = N

40 comments:

  1. 27 D
    Answer : I. D. L. E, = SLEEP
    InDoLe(n)cE, n goes from indolence
    Take only odd letters, IDLE

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    1. How is N deleted - is what he means,probably.

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    2. Loses no, that means n is removed from odd letters

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    3. Your anno was right. But the next sentences confused. N goes from indolence then it becomes indolece and odd words would be IDLC.
      Pick odd letters first IDLNE and loose N.

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  2. 11a E/even/Par golf terminology. Don't know if we are expected to know!

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    1. Col. should know. I have not come across.

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    2. Yes, I am aware of Even Par but where is it given that Even Par = E?

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    3. https://www.golfdistillery.com/definitions/golf-scores/#par-even-e

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  3. 20a) (rained)" - draine without end is drain?

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    1. Why should Rained anagrammed become draine? Why not airend or indear and so on?

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    2. End/e in Collins apparently used in American football

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    3. Who is supposed to know about American foot(?)ball played with hands?!

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  4. With so many questions, NJ times are back again!

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    1. Abbreviations are all there in abbreviations.com/colins.
      But is it a standard way

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    2. Wouldn't it be a good idea for the setter of this puzzle to have the puzzle vetted by an expert before publication?

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    3. Totally agree but I sense someone higher up!

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    4. If someone higher up, more so is the case.

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  5. 21a does it fall in this category discussed by masters!
    Taking def as hidden (which is aactually hidden!)

    https://www.crosswordunclued.com/2011/01/clues-with-no-definition-okay-or-not.html

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  6. Root issues, American abbreviations, wrong abbreviations, defective cluing…

    By the way Loud = L?

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  7. 2d refrain is part of stanza or stanza?

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  8. 3d I read perch/tee has right t(r)ee

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  9. Hello
    A bright Monday Good Morning to all of you though here in Delhi, didn't feel like coming out of the razai (quilt).
    Well, 1-D and 22-D happen to be tricky clues. Kudos to the CW setter.

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  10. While on Golf-
    "We should play golf this weekend. What's your handicap?"
    "My wife! She thinks there are better things to do than play golf."

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    1. My husband thinks there r better things to do than solving CW - not to mention writing amateurish stories.
      What to do???
      ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š

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  11. From Chambers
    the idea came to me think of, remember, strike, occur to, come to the mind of, dawn on

    Come = strike is fine

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  12. Anyone with the annotation for IDLE. I am not convinced with SARATHI's answer

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    1. True. Was trying to invent something to justify.
      Indolence oddly= InDoLeNcE=IDLNE. Loses No=IDL(-n)E. This seems the best explanation.

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    2. And perhaps what Sathia meant.

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    3. I thght this was relatively straight. Pick odd letters and loose no(n).

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  14. Inspite of all the confusion - i actually solved wordle 100% for the first time.

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    1. Sorry Wrdplougher * ๐Ÿ˜Š

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    2. I think it is more like wordle - lot of guessing.

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  15. In 14d - what is the definition for TECHNOLOGY? Means??

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  16. Yes. Col. has marked it in his original post. Means of doing things.

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