Monday 12 September 2022

No 13658, Monday 12 Sep 2022, Dreamer

Solution to 16D 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
8 Poor lad is maltreated to some extent (6) DISMAL [T]
9 Top trips? (8) OUTSTRIP {TRIPS}* [RA]
10 An imaginary place of great opportunity located in Chesterfield or Adoni (8) EL DORADO [T]
11 Dismisses energy flow outside cold surfaces, at first (6) EJECTS {E}{JE{C}T}{Su...s}
12 Locality in Virgin Islands — popular in town (8) VICINITY {VI}{C{IN}ITY}
13 Start counter around end of duel (6) BLENCH {B{dueL}ENCH}
14 Faint area outside borders of Yemen (7) SYNCOPE {S{YemeN}COPE}
17 You primarily google "rocks" in study of the Earth (7) GEOLOGY {You+GOOGLE}* 
20 Hot pepper from a raised area of land in Ivory Coast (6) CHILLI {C{HILL}I}
22 Volunteer heartlessly abandoned sweetheart (8) TRUELOVE VOLUnTEER*
25 Move bishop and risk a piece (6) GOBBET {GO}{B}{BET}
26 Tailored grey coat for class (8) CATEGORY*
27 Retake from same user (8) REASSUME*
28 Part with wife at home for the time being (6) WINNOW {W}{IN}{NOW}

DOWN
1   Crime made by very sick American Indian near Yorkshire, originally (8) VILLAINY {V}{ILL}{Am...n}{In...n}{Near}{Yo...e}
2   Doctor enthralled by sources of excess organic lipids in blood clots (6) EMBOLI {MB} in {Ex...s}{Or...c}{Li...s}{In}
3   Aluminium, potassium and the greatest soluble base (6) ALKALI {AL}{K}{ALI}
4   "Mopy town" — possibly not weak for name of a place (7) TOPONYM {MOPY+TOwN}*
5   A man breaks piping in a shaking state (8) ATREMBLE {A}{TRE{M}BLE}
6   Spiritual English gangster hides in that place (8) ETHEREAL {E}{THERE}{AL}
7   Computer program tackles independent chip relating to living organisms (6) BIOTIC {B{I}OT}{IC}
15 College graduate sadly smuggles crown of hazel tree (8) CALABASH {C}{ALA{BA}S}{Ha..l}
16 Hard copy obtained from top rut? (8) P?I?T?U? (Addendum - PRINTOUT {PR} in {TOUT}={TO{P R}UT} - See comments)
18 Regulator with extra plugs? Ignore after unwrapping (8) GOVERNOR {iG{OVER}NORe}
19 Industrious person using small watch (7) STICKER {S}{TICKER}
21 Violent young person and editor having half closed heavy eyelids (6) HOODED {HOOD}{ED}
23 "Now! Put crackers in residential area in city!" (6) UPTOWN*
24 Stop following member's story (6) LEGEND {END}<=>{LEG}

Reference List
Energy = E, Cold = C, Popular = IN, Bishop = B, Wife = W, At home = IN, Very = V, The greatest = ALI, Weak = W, Man = M, English = E, Gangster = AL, Independent = I, Chip = IC, College = C, Small = S, Editor = ED

14 comments:

  1. 16D Printout
    Definition: Hard copy

    Printout can be parsed as
    PR IN TOUT which is TOP RUT (PR inside TOUT)

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    1. Well done Veena. You are hereby promoted to the Regulars list

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    2. Thank you Colonel. Honoured to be identified as a regular in this group

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  2. Very good solve. Promotion imminent.

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  3. 10A- El Dorado- enu given as 10 (and not 2,8) in print copy.

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    1. Sorry I lost count. It should be 2,6 and not 8.

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    2. Hi Paddy,
      I meant (8)
      From Chambers
      2 (also eldorado) any place where wealth is easy to accumulate.

      From Collins
      2. Also: eldorado
      any place of great riches or fabulous opportunity

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    3. (also) is what got me! I knew it as El Dorado. Thank you for the clarification as well as the wonderful puzzle. Good start for the week.

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  4. 2.d.....blood clots are usually named as thrombi.if thrombi gets dislodged it is named as emboli.

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    1. So A dislodged blood clot is not a blood clot but a lump of mass (floating around in the blood vessel until it gets stuck in a narrower vesel)

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    2. Doc must be right about the accurate medical definition. But I used the one from dictionaries. Chambers online has the below
      embolus noun (plural emboli) pathol any obstruction in a blood vessel, especially a blood clot.

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