Sunday, 17 April 2022

Special, Sunday 17 Apr 2022, VU

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

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VU 2

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Squares filled: 0/166
Exolve Print Notes Jotter Ⓒ VU & THCC
Across
1Request consumes old city of joy (8)
5Listened to fights that are infrequent (6)
10Rank lecher swaps arms, loses right by working (7)
11Resentment of inner France with what's due to us (7)
12Beliefs of stranger knocking out negotiable instruments from ballgame! (6)
13Wee cod drops fry that’s wee … (8)
15... twain in Paris from stranger (4)
16Night's movie on Mars' order? (5,5)
18With impudence The Terrible repulses saint and traipses (10)
20Cobra tehcnique to overwhelm imp (4)
23"You (Oldie) abrade nose with charge!" - Get it together. It's Huge! (8)
24The rum bummy loved ten men in the midst of army transport (6)
26Am I nuts riding this biggie at the Bay? (7)
27Don's sicilian outfit… (7)
28Heard, say Mossad's, cocktail of impure compounds! (6)
29Tying royal obsessed with new OTT (8)
Down
1Agitates, losing head with upset striped one and shows sleight of hand! (15)
2English heard Chinese's increase… (7)
3Hail angry Sultan leaving North for East (6)
4Called for support (4)
6Overlaid Pell & Dean gone astray (8)
7Australian miner drops niche that's spacious (7)
8Traumatic Heart? (5,10)
9Five hundred hits envelop crazy rhythms (9)
14A boring bull with fashionable carcinogen!! (9)
17Bills' testament with twisted aims (8)
19Update browser with rules for free time (7)
21Giovanni's "little turnips", literally? (7)
22Smooth stranger with Warren… (6)
25Setter overwhelmed by article? So be it (4)

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66 comments:

  1. AJ17 April 2022 at 10:36

    1ac PLEASURE:joy
    Please: request
    Old city: ur

    5ac: SPARSE: infrequent ~spars: fights


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  2. P. Venkatesan17 April 2022 at 10:37

    1a: PLEASURE {PLEAS{UR}E}
    3D: SALUTE {SULTA(-N)(+E)}*
    6D: PANELLED {PELL+DEAN}*

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  3. AJ17 April 2022 at 10:39

    My third
    25 dn. AMEN: so be it
    ME: setter AN: article
    A (ME) N

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  4. Prasanna Rao17 April 2022 at 10:41

    26D - TSUNAMI*
    25D - A(ME)N - setter - ME; article- AN

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  5. ramesh ss17 April 2022 at 10:42

    6D PANNELLED anagram
    8D EARTH SHATTERING RA of heart
    11A RANCOUR fRANCe + OUR

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  6. P. Venkatesan17 April 2022 at 10:48

    Replacement for 1a
    20a: BRAT (T)

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  7. Padmanabhan17 April 2022 at 11:00

    29A- Knotting- Tying- K(N OTT)ING
    3D- Salute- Hail- (SULTAN_N+E)
    25D- Amen- So be it- A(ME)N

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  8. VU17 April 2022 at 11:07

    Thank you Col Sir for publishing this.

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  9. Remy17 April 2022 at 11:12

    1 dn prestidigitates.(a-)(gitates+striped+i*)
    7 dn roomier.Roo+mi(-n)er
    24 ac Humvee.Middle letters of the rum bummmy loved ten men.

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  10. Murali17 April 2022 at 11:16

    1D PRESTIDIGITATES. shows sleight of hand.
    {agitates - a } <-> {striped}* + i (one)

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  11. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 April 2022 at 11:26

    26a TSUNAMI (AM I NUTS)*
    9Dn DRUMBEATS (D)(RUM)(BEATS)
    22Dn BUFFET (BUFF)(ET)

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    1. sree_sree17 April 2022 at 11:35

      22d should be Warren perhaps

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 April 2022 at 11:38

      +1

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    3. VU17 April 2022 at 14:22

      Thanks for the input. The trailing dots were meant to indicate a missing part of the name.

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  12. Gowri17 April 2022 at 11:30

    10ac - ECHELON - rank
    Lecher - (r)echel + on
    Swaps arms & loses right + working

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  13. Gowri17 April 2022 at 11:32

    2dn ENHANCE - increase
    en + hans~

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  14. Gowri17 April 2022 at 11:36

    12ac TENETS - beliefs
    Ten + et - ni s
    Et stranger
    Tennis ball game

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  15. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 April 2022 at 11:43

    Replacement for 26a done by Prasanna

    4dn RUNG (DD)

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  16. sree_sree17 April 2022 at 11:49

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    1. Col_Gopinath17 April 2022 at 11:52

      Please wait for the solutions to appear or else give the solutions with your comments

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  17. Col_Gopinath17 April 2022 at 11:50

    Yet to be solved
    Across - 13, 15, 16, 18, 23, 27, 28
    Down - 14, 17, 19, 21,

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  18. N Sridhar17 April 2022 at 11:58

    13A-smallish meaning wee; wee-small; cod-fish m-f
    15A- duex meaning twain; from-due; stranger-x
    18A- gallivants meaning traipses; gal-impudence; The Terrible-Ivan; saint -St reverse

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  19. N Sridhar17 April 2022 at 11:59

    13 A-fish minus f

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  20. sivaram17 April 2022 at 12:04

    14dn AFLATOXIN. A FLAT OX IN
    17dn WILLIAMS. WILL (AIMS)*
    19dn LIESURE. IE in (RULES)*

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    1. sivaram17 April 2022 at 12:12

      Correction:
      19dn LEISURE. IE<= in (RULES)*

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    2. sree_sree17 April 2022 at 13:52

      Anagram, Reversal and container!
      I see only update.

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    3. VU17 April 2022 at 14:21

      Update simply means modify/renovate.. The anno could be simply (RULES + IE)*

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    4. sree_sree17 April 2022 at 16:17

      That would be indirect anagram.

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  21. VU17 April 2022 at 12:15

    Among many others, 23A, I think, would generate heat

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  22. Gowri17 April 2022 at 12:21

    Enjoyable grid. Could finish easily.
    Thanx

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  23. Murali17 April 2022 at 12:22

    15A DUET (Twain): DU+ET

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  24. N Sridhar17 April 2022 at 12:44

    Replacement 16A-After Earth; Name of Night's film; Mars comes after earth in the solar system

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  25. Padmanabhan17 April 2022 at 13:18

    28a & 21 d still pending.

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    1. Murali17 April 2022 at 13:29

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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    2. AJ17 April 2022 at 13:30

      23a and 27a are also pending, Paddy.

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    3. Padmanabhan17 April 2022 at 13:41

      Thank you AJ. I somehow missed them. Good ones.

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  26. Padmanabhan17 April 2022 at 13:19

    Thank you Vu for a good Sunday exercise.

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    1. VU17 April 2022 at 13:53

      Thank you. Hope you found the exercise enjoyable

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  27. Murali17 April 2022 at 13:32

    My third
    28A SPEISS (~spies)

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  28. Padmanabhan17 April 2022 at 13:40

    That's a good one.

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  29. VU17 April 2022 at 13:53

    Thank you - to all who have participated.
    Thank you, Col Sir, for giving an opportunity

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  30. AJ17 April 2022 at 14:00

    Nice grid VU, enjoyed solving. Thanks for a nice Sunday morning.
    Three more clues are there to be solved.

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  31. Hanumantha Rao17 April 2022 at 14:35

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  32. cdrgani2917 April 2022 at 14:37

    Nice clues solved all except 23A

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    1. VU17 April 2022 at 14:57

      Thank you. Solvers have sufficient reasons to have a grouse over 23A. Just tried an out-of-the-way clue

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  33. Hanumantha Rao17 April 2022 at 14:52

    23a trillion

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    1. VU17 April 2022 at 15:03

      Correct. Trillion = 1000 (Thou sand) x 1,000,000,000 (bill ion). Sorry for the stammer

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    2. Gowri17 April 2022 at 15:34

      Very nice clue. Am proud to get it. 😊

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  34. Gowri17 April 2022 at 15:34

    21dn still remains

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  35. Padmanabhan17 April 2022 at 15:35

    I just got it wirh crossings and ion from charge. Could not parse it.
    Your take is 10000 bill ion,is it?
    Bill from nose?

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  36. Gowri17 April 2022 at 15:36

    Yes i think. I also got the solution. Then parsed it.

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  37. Murali17 April 2022 at 15:53

    Can someone enlighten me the connection between Giovanni and the answer to clue of 31D

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    1. Murali17 April 2022 at 15:55

      Read 31D as 21D

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    2. sree_sree17 April 2022 at 16:14

      He is an Italian. In Italian riavoli literally translates to little turnips.

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  38. Col_Gopinath17 April 2022 at 15:58

    Thanks for the special VU

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  39. Ramki Krishnan17 April 2022 at 18:54

    Thanks for the special VU. Just finished it. RUNG and SPARSE were my favourites.

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