Saturday 7 May 2022

No 13550, Saturday 07 May 2022, Avtaar

 

ACROSS


1   Excrement in front of one abandoned cell (7) DUNGEON {DUNG}{ONE*}
5   Tormentors? (7) SHERPAS [CD]
9   Launch of Presidential charters makes everyone happy (7) PLEASES {Pr...l}{LEASES}
10 Old English politician close to Churchill introduces a story with a moral (7) EXEMPLA {EX}{E}{MP}{c...lL}{A}
11 Liquid films from silo treated with wet sulphur (3,6) OIL SLICKS {SILO*}{LICK}{S}
12 Avtaar and Carol discussed coating on pastry (5) ICING {I}{CING(~sing)}
13 King of Kings autocratically ruled, dominating royal Irish chiefs (5) ARDRI Acrostic
15 Catholic church’s message about armed criminal (5,4) NOTRE DAME {NOT{ARMED*}E}
17 Getting first in sports — not new for musicians (9) FLAUTISTS {1ST} in {FLAUnTS}
19 Wild brush (5) SHRUB* &lit
22 Plunder on road (5) REAVE {RE}{AVE}
23 What is inside diagonal pit laid around Andean plateau (9) ALTIPLANO [T<=]
25 Monkey throwing doctor a cigar (7) MANILLA {MANdrILL}{A}
26 The Head admitting John’s “Review of a Logical System of Sets” (7) BOOLEAN {B{LOO<=}EAN}
27 Somebody’s incompetent (7) NOTABLE {NOT ABLE}
28 Transported speed on foot (7) SPONDEE*

DOWN


1   Drop lecturer with old post-graduate educational certificate (7) DIPLOMA {DIP}{L}{O}{MA}
2   Provoked and driven by desire (7) NEEDLED {LED}<=>{NEED}
3   Lease out equipment for artists (5) EASEL*
4   Absence of biscuits, reportedly, in front sections of aircraft (4,5) NOSE CONES (~no scones)
5   Children watch ducks on vacation (5) SEEDS {SEE}{DuckS}
6   European agreed to carry vessel for cosmetics (9) EYELINERS {E}{YE{LINER}S}
7   Evenly cut peas, pork and sprinklings of infused Kashmiri aromatic spice (7) PAPRIKA {PeAs+PoRk}{In...d}{Ka...i}{Ar...c}
8   Priest captivated by dancing angelsglitter (7) SPANGLE {S{P}ANGLE*}
14 Expecting almost 100% ethnic, trained staff (2,3,4) IN THE CLUB {ETHNIc}*{CLUB}
16 Glass containers from bath in two batches getting rejected (4,5) TEST TUBES {TUB} in {TES<=}{TES<=}
17 Female engineer visiting Arab country is head of a workshop (7) FOREMAN {F}{O{RE}MAN}
18 Opposing players in a team boarding a carriage (7) AGAINST {A}{GAI{NS}T}
20 Tip about a split (4,3) REAR END {RE}{A}{REND}
21 Enjoy filling in cheese-cake (7) BROWNIE {BR{OWN}IE}
23 The pagan has rejected God’s love (5) AGAPE {T<=]
24 Current in river becomes still (5) PHOTO {P{HOT}O}

Reference List


Old = EX, English = E, On = RE, The head = BEAN, John = LOO 
Lecturer = L, Biscuits = SCONES, European = E, Priest = P, Engineer = RE(Royal Engineers), Players in a team = N(north),S(South) in Bridge, Carriage = GAIT, About = RE

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27 comments:

  1. Sherpas=Tor/Mentors?
    Unless it is split,it does not make sense. Can it be called a CD?

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    1. Tor mentors, hill guides is still a cryptic def. Not a OED def!

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  2. 11A- Wet is lick? Though it can be justified,it looks like an extended synonym.

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  3. 23D- Agape as God's love was new to me.

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  4. 10a Exampla is plural!
    17d isn't Royal engineers more of an organisation abbreviated as RE and not as individual engineers! And who is primarily a military man? isn't it engineers plural! in that abbreviation!

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    1. +1 for 10A. As indicated in Col.'s link.

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    2. Yes. 10A should have been plural. Sorry for the error

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    3. Thanks for the feedback, Sree Sree. Actually, Head of workshop in Arab country inviting fellow engineers (7) would work very well and better, too

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    4. That implies both F&RE in OMAN. Head of workshop following engineers in Arab country.

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    1. It is 'Almost 100% to delete C from Ethnic.

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    2. Just 'almost' would have done. Almost is used by many a setter

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    3. Precisely. 100% is not needed but works very well with that. Can't say it is unfair to the solver , though

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  6. 4 D - Are scones biscuits? More like cakes, I think.

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    1. It's NAM usgae.

      Biscuit is a small, soft round cake like a scone.

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    2. NAM being North American?

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    3. Scone. Definition in Chamber is "a small flattish cake of dough with or without currant and baked "

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  7. An observation from Reference List
    On = RE
    Engineer = RE
    About = RE

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    1. RE is Royal Engineers and hence Engineers. I think it works in the singular too

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    2. Engineers when hinting Rae is not used in the plural sense of engineer. Rather as a noun indicating name or surname.
      Would window be clues to hint OS!

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  8. 26A. Most dictionaries do not have Boolean as a noun. The correction definition is "of a Logical System of Sets"

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  9. 23A. The whole clue could be an extended definition. Semi & lit

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  10. 26A. Is BEAN the usual reference for The Head? thanks

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    1. It is slang for the head ,(a person's head). All major dictionaries have it

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