Monday, 17 October 2022

No 13687, Monday 17 Oct 2022, Afterdark

Solution to 10A 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
1   Rap a dietician posing as doctor (13) PAEDIATRICIAN*
10 Difficult to tell about 3rd quarter of the financial year (9) R?C?N?I?E (Addendum - RECONDITE - {REC}OND}ITE} - See comments) 
11 New tone created for musical composition (5) NONET {N}{TONE*}
12 Dirty dirty place. One in the rear? No in the front (5) NASTY {STY}<=>{A}<=>{N} (Correction {STY}<=>{NA<=} - See comm6ents)
13 Admired first child training earlier, took a break outside (9) RESPECTED {Ch..d}<=>{PE} in {RESTED}
14 Boats wind up in ship (6) SLOOPS {S{LOOP}S}
16 Like a son, say! (4) AKIN {A}{KIN}
19 Father takes over from son; ground's background (4) FOIL (-s+f)FOIL
20 Resign? No, I will cling on --- --- (6) FOREGO {FOR EGO} [FITB]
25 Criminal is rash, had gone out in commotion (9) DESPERADO {DESPERate}{ADO}
26 Laugh at dolt chasing female (5) FLOUT {LOUT}<=>{F}
27 Fails to mention that leaders of organisations mentor individuals to shine (5) OMITS Acrostic
28 Telecasting first in Amazon, 2nd in Netflix, Strings (without climax) movie's opening originally (9) STREAMING {Am...n+nEt...x+STRINGs+Mo..e}*
29 Peacekeepers' confidence commendable but duplicitous (13) UNTRUSTWORTHY {UN}{TRUST}{WORTHY}

DOWN
2   Accommodate Bill's client without hesitation (8) ACCUSTOM {AC}{CUSTOMer}
3   Dull noise, gurney being unloaded (5) DINGY {DIN}{Gu..eY}
4   Programme at a road/yard where bees are kept (6) APIARY {API}{A}{R}{Y}
5   Catastrophe! Cap missing from broken instrument (8) RHEOSTAT caTASTROpHE*
6   Perhaps change held by Inuit, not krone but old currency (9) CENTESIMO {CENT}{ESkIMO}
7   Say, relative has a girl, new at college (last) (6) AGNATE {A}{G}{N}{AT}{c...gE}
8   Girl cries for gifts (6) GRANTS {G}{RANTS}
9   Heard you are in standard company finally, get scholarship (5) STUDY {ST{(~you)U}D}{c...nY}
15 Fresh roses for Pa and teacher (9) PROFESSOR {ROSES+FOR+P}*
17 Rinses Charlie's spectacles with some Aquadrop inside (8) CLEANSES {C}{LE{Aq...p}NSES}
18 Dangerous mole in vessel. Destroy (8) DEMOLISH {D{MOLE*}ISH}
21 Not at home.Time for power-cut (6) OUTAGE {OUT}{AGE}
22 Cassette deck returns, old memories, picking the first disc (2-3) CD-ROM Acrostic
23 Raja's signal holding up grant (6) ASSIGN [T]
24 Hardship? Quit school, in lieu somewhat bravely take a loan (6) BORROW (-s+b)BORROW
26 Faculty from Florida broadcast (5) FLAIR {FL}{AIR}

Reference List
New = N, No = N, Training = PE, Ship = SS, Father = F, Son = S, FITB = Fill in the blanks, Had = ATE, Commotion = ADO, Female = F, Peacekeepers = UN, Bill = AC, Road = R, Yard = Y, Krone = K, Girl = G, Standard = STD, Pa = P, Charlie = C, School = S, Florida = FL

33 comments:

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    1. Not sure. I am confused by ' One in the rear'?

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    2. I connected it to second 'dirty' to mean sty.

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    3. I too filled no as NA and ignored the "one in rear".

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  2. 10A Got Recondite (Definition - Difficult)
    Tell is cite
    3rd quarter is OND (Oct, Nov, Dec)
    Couldn't parse Re.

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    1. Wow. You got the most part, which I did not get. The re I got

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    1. Absolute brain freeze moment. Tell is recite and not cite. So it is REC(OND)ITE.

      Thanks @afterdark !

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    2. Col. to promote Mani. Well done.

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    3. OND for 3rd quarter was great! I was struggling with Dec.

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    4. Lovely parsing. I just filled OND! great clue too...

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    5. Be seeing more of you as a regular Mani Kadayam.

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    6. Thank you Colonel & others. What exactly does a promotion mean here?

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    7. It means you are no longer considered a newbie or a casual solver and not eligible (!) to answer such questions reserved for them- leave it to real newbies.. But you are expected to participate more regularly and voice your comments/ suggestions/ point any errors etc. This is to encourage more people to come forward

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  4. 20A-Can someone clarify what is FITB

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  5. Friends please see the link to 1ACROSS grid Cryptogram a themed one set by me - please do try and give your feedback. Many thanks

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    1. Did it. It was fun doing and have to say lot more crisp than your sunday specials.
      But as usual, I biffed the reverend

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    2. Ramesh - how to get the link?

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    3. Hi Gowri - please check the blog page (web version).
      On the left of tge screen is the link to 1Across. It is
      Just below the search box.

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    4. https://www.1across.org/2022/10/16/cryptogram/

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    5. Thank u. I never use the web version. Hence did not know. 😊

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  6. Tough today. Finished. Could not parse RECONDITE. My COD - accustom, borrow.

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