Saturday, 27 August 2022

No 13646, Saturday 27 Aug 2022, Avtaar

ACROSS


1   Pot hidden in agent's outfit (7) TURNOUT {T{URN}OUT}
5   Make holes on end of frying pan (7) GRIDDLE {RIDDLE}<=>{f...nG}
9   Old rhyme by "Anonymous" from a foreign land (7) OVERSEA {O}{VERSE}{A}
10 Giant in women's cricket, perhaps (7) WHOPPER {W}{HOPPER}
11 Single ladies press it hard with tips of nails (9) SPINSTERS {PRESS+IT}* over {NailS} Hard as Anind?
12 Yes, he basically incarcerated some people from 13 years ago (5) SHEBA [T]
13 Royal attendants having no love for country (5) YEMEN YEoMEN
15 Keep off Spooner's tie collection (5,4) STAND BACK (~band stack to stand back)
17 Fare is wrong, per vendor (9) PROVENDER*
19 Doctor starting to examine Avtaar's vision (5) DREAM {DR}{Ex...e}{AM}
22 Oaxacan native leaving European region returns gemstone (5) TOPAZ ZAPOTec <= Shouldn't European Region be EU? See comments
23 Enterprise concerned with protecting key measure of stock valuation (9) OPERATION {OP{E}{RA}TION} Not sure of anno (Addendum - {O{PE RATIO}N} - See comments)
25 ISO finally replacing yard in standard for current (7) TOPICAL T(-y+o)OPICAL
26 Tail of the mouse is stinging (7) ERODENT {thE}{RODENT}
27 One out of every five scores? (7) PERCENT [CD]
28 Secures anaesthetic in empty tubes (7) TETHERS {Tub{ETHER}eS}

DOWN


1   Old Russian revolutionary jogs near Kentucky, on vacation (7) TROTSKY {TROTS}{Ke...kY}
2   Inhumer dug up an extremely rare element (7) RHENIUM*
3   Lastly, no reason to abandon British shelter (5) OASIS {nO}{bASIS} 
4   Crossed desert, struggling with a virus — exhausted! (9) TRAVERSED {DESERT+A+ViruS}*
5   Rap song about Western habits (5) GOWNS {GO{W}NS*}
6   Hardy novel — sordid, intensely erotic and naughty, basically (4-5) IRON-SIDED {SORDID+In...y+Er...c+Na...y}*
7   Mosquito-like insect found in sink a couple of times (7) DIPTERA {DIP}{T}{ERA}
8   Tag section in E-boat (7) EARMARK {ARM} in {E}{ARK}
14 Discharged zealot fighting with Chinese philosopher (9) NIETZSCHE {Ze..oT+CHINESE}*
16 Green Team breaks contract (9) AGREEMENT*
17 Jars lean over and break (3,4) PIT STOP {POTS}{TIP}<=
18 Operating with soft copy — ultimately easier, supposedly (2,5) ON PAPER {ON}{P}{APE}{R}
20 Jinx of the vile Yemeni (4,3) EVIL EYE [T]
21 Flashes from empty U-boat stuck in trenches (7) MINUTES {MIN{UboaT}ES}
23 Young bird with large cutting toe flies (5) OWLET {W}{L} in {TOE}*
24 Touching neighbour with love at heart (5) ABOUT {AB{0}UT}

Reference List


Pot = URN, Agent = TOUT, Make holes = RIDDLE, Old = O, Anonyous = A, Women = W, Love = 0,  Key Measure of stock valuation = RA(Revenue account) PE Ratio(Price Earning Ratio), Yard = Y, Anaesthetic = ETHER
British = B, Sink = DIP, Time = T and ERA, Section = ARM, Boat = ARK, Operating = ON, Soft = P, Copy = APE, Trenches = MINES, With = W, Large = L

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26 comments:

  1. sree_sree27 August 2022 at 08:31

    22a ec: European community precursor to EU.

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  2. sree_sree27 August 2022 at 08:32

    23 ON over PE Ratio.

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    1. sree_sree27 August 2022 at 08:40

      Price to Earning ratio is the key measure in stock valuation.

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    2. Col_Gopinath27 August 2022 at 08:43

      Thanks. Never heard of P E Ratio earlier

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    3. Padmanabhan27 August 2022 at 09:40

      Though I keep reading about P/E ratio almost daily, I did not connect. Kicking myself. Good one.
      Also, for 6D,I was chasing a (non existent Thomas Hardy novel!)

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    4. Prasanna Rao27 August 2022 at 19:17

      I heard PE ratio in the year 1996 during product evaluation in TVS. for me it's a deep word play. Thanks to COL.SIR & Avtaar. for visual presentation, gird. learned new references ETHER,RIDDLE,ARK. Have a nice weekend.

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  3. sree_sree27 August 2022 at 08:46

    18d typo

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  4. Veena27 August 2022 at 08:48

    4D Anagram of Desert, a, vs is not Traversed. There is an extra s and an r is missing in the fodder

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    1. Sreeni27 August 2022 at 10:22

      Sorry about that. Should have been Traverses

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  5. Padmanabhan27 August 2022 at 09:43

    +1

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  6. Padmanabhan27 August 2022 at 09:50

    21D- A little surprised. For a flash,one thinks of a second rather than a minute. On checking one of the meanings is tiny. Then realised it it is minuute (if I may put it so) rather than 60 secs.

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  7. Padmanabhan27 August 2022 at 10:02

    But then Minute in that sense is an adj.

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    1. Sreeni27 August 2022 at 14:35

      In the same sense as I will be with you in a minute

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  8. Jacob Brahmakulam27 August 2022 at 11:07

    can anyone clarify 12A, Sheba=some people from 13 years ago?

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    1. Murali27 August 2022 at 11:19

      13 stands for answer for 13 which is Yemen.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath27 August 2022 at 11:29

      See the link over the word SHEBA in the main post

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    3. Jacob Brahmakulam27 August 2022 at 13:04

      Still not clear what '13 years ago" refers to

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    4. Sree Sree27 August 2022 at 13:31

      13 refers to clue no 13.
      Years ago: in the past

      The clue should be read as:
      People who lived in the past, (in the current) yemen.

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    5. Padmanabhan27 August 2022 at 13:48

      Please read it as people from 13(clue)/ years ago

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    6. Padmanabhan27 August 2022 at 13:49

      Incarcerated is containment indicator

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    7. Sreeni27 August 2022 at 14:38

      Sheba is the Kingdom of Sheba (Queen of Sheba). Also per Chambers, Sheba or Saba refer to the people of Sheba - also used as adjective

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  9. Padmanabhan27 August 2022 at 11:36

    We should always make it a point to follow thw links given by Col. in the main post.

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  10. Sreeni28 August 2022 at 05:51

    Col. 11A doubt about hard being anagrind. In the sense of knotty,, complex etc., it would be one, IMO

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