Monday 26 December 2022

No 13746, Monday 26 Dec 2022, Vidwan

Rangoli by Gowri

Solution to 25A 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
9   Real-life Mrs Bond's real nuts about tea (7) RACHAEL {RA{CHA}EL*}
10 Plain ignorant? Not plain at times! (7) OBVIOUS OBliVIOUS
11 Special agency for terrorism cases returns to state (5) SPAIN {SP}{{NIA<=}
12 Provide enclosure reportedly for howling (9) CATERWAUL {CATER}{(~wall)WAUL}
13 Visionary criminal made errors occasionally (7) DREAMER {MADE+ErRoRs}*
15 Fond of a party circuit (7) ADORING {A}{DO}{RING}
17 One without love's anxious, not good being deprived! (5) NEEDY {oNE}{EDgY}
19 Company 1011 (3) CIA {C1}{A}
20 The Supreme Poet died on stake (5) DANTE {D}{ANTE}
21 A large firm, completely unrestrained, making liquor (7) ALCOHOL {A}{L}CO}{wHOLe}
23 Motivated and heartless idiot in India (7) INDUCED {IN{DUnCE}D}
25 Firm mostly operating around one partner (9) C?M?A?I?N (Addendum - COMPANION {COMPANy}{ON} over {1} - See comments)
27 Teaching unknown, new English 'trading' words (5) TENET Anno pending (Addendum {TE(-x+n+e)NET} - See comments) 
29 Shaken public prosecutor released one on bail (7) DAUNTED {DA}{UNTiED}
30 Case judgement's applied regularly (7) EXAMPLE {EXAM}{aPpLiEd}

DOWN
1   Reportedly makes vessels (5) URNS (~earns)
2   Bare lover's engaging, exoctic act and a short period of celebration (7) OCTAVE {lO{ACT*{VEr}
3   End of the forgotten long story (4) YARN YeARN
4   Currently commonest form of power (11) ELECTRICAL [CD]
5   Sudden leap partly crossing space and time (4) VOLT  VOL{T}(Addendum - {VOLume}{T} - See comments)
6   Superfluous party may go too far (6) OVERDO {OVER}{DO}
7   Place where India and Pak armies face each other - state with truncated western boundary (8) LOCATION {LOC}{nATION} Western or Northern?
8   Some disillusioned jihadi group (4) ISIL [T]
13 Party for a girl or a lady from Italy (5) DONNA {(-a+do)DONNA}
14 Girl's expression of wish (3) MAY [DD]
15 Iran's base? Possibly a part of Indian Ocean (7,3) ARABIAN SEA {IRANS+BASE}*{A}* Error in fodder, there's an extra S and an A short. See comments.
16 Desire is what is required to get into Harvard English Department (5) GREED {GRE}{E}{D}
18 English armyman like Subedar-Major, one welcomed by silent applause (8) ENCOMIUM {E}{NCO}{M{1UM} A subedar-Major is a JCO and not and NCO! 
20 Old man in Disneyland advertisement (3) DAD [T]
22 Hot ground below the fireplace! (6) HEARTH {H}{EARTH}
24 Cho and this film = cacophony! (6) CANOPY {(canopy+cho)*=cacophony} [CA]
25 Ghanaian currency is partly receding (4) CEDI [T]
26 Explosive side of bombs (4) IEDS* 
27 Half of that arid part lies in Rajasthan (4) THAR {THat}{ARid} Semi&lit
28 Gather around and pour (4) TEEM<=

Reference List
Tea = CHA, Special = SP, Party = DO, Goody = G, 101 = CI, Died = D, Large = L, Firm = CO, India = IND, Public prosecutor = DA, Time = T, English = E, Department = D, Hot = H

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38 comments:

  1. Gemini26 December 2022 at 08:35

    25A. Companion= Partner.
    Firm mostly is compan(y)
    Operating= On
    Around one= i
    Compan(i)(on)
    Alternatively,
    Firm mostly= compan(y)
    Operating= o
    Around one= i
    Partner= N( beidge player)

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  2. Gemini26 December 2022 at 08:36

    Partner= N( bridge and not beidge, typo regretted)

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  3. Murali26 December 2022 at 08:55

    27A could it be
    words=text
    new English = ne
    trading = exchanging
    unknown=x
    TE(-x)(+NE)T

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  4. Murali26 December 2022 at 08:57

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  5. Ramesh Kosaraju 26 December 2022 at 08:59

    1d Enumeration is (4)

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  6. Gemini26 December 2022 at 09:01

    1D. Letters mismatch. 5 but 4 is the answer

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  7. Ramesh Kosaraju 26 December 2022 at 09:09

    19a typo {C1}{A}

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  8. Murali26 December 2022 at 09:17

    Looks 1D, 2D and 4D enumerations are printed in correctly

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  9. Sree Sree26 December 2022 at 09:22

    5d space:volume partly

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  10. Sree Sree26 December 2022 at 09:33

    18d a JCO is also CO!!

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    1. Col_Gopinath26 December 2022 at 09:57

      How?

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    2. Sree Sree26 December 2022 at 12:00

      "Soldiers holding JCO rank receive a commission from the President, but this commission is of a lower status than that held by full commissioned officers"

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  11. Sree Sree26 December 2022 at 09:39

    26d typo. Def is of bombs.

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    1. Ramesh Kosaraju 26 December 2022 at 11:00

      Or is Def just 'bombs' with 'of' as Link-word?
      (explosive is Anind).
      IEDs (bombs) for Improvised Explosive Devices

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  12. Sree Sree26 December 2022 at 09:50

    7d Place where India and Pak armies face each other - "trucated" state

    Would have been most elegant
    And northern boundary would have been elegant.
    But I remember a discussion sometime back (CV sir if I recall correctly and probably before Interactive puzzle days)
    "Since the clue is solved on paper and we write down horizontally before entering (vertically) in the grid, across indicators work for down clues too."

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    1. Sree Sree26 December 2022 at 09:51

      Please "trucated country"

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    2. Padmanabhan26 December 2022 at 10:10

      Maybe justification, but it is better to differentiate between Ac. & Dn.clues

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  13. Padmanabhan26 December 2022 at 10:07

    12A- Is wall a barrier or enclosure?

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    1. Sree Sree26 December 2022 at 12:03

      Both.

      "a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land."

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  14. Padmanabhan26 December 2022 at 10:09

    5D- Partly space is Vol. , short for volume. But why crossing? T comes at the end only.

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    1. Sreelakshmi26 December 2022 at 10:25

      Partly crossing out half of VOLUME to get VOL ̶U̶M̶E̶? Or is that a stretch?

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    2. Ramesh Kosaraju 26 December 2022 at 10:57

      +1

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    3. Sree Sree26 December 2022 at 21:12

      Paddy, setting as "take half" Or "leave half" (And take the other half) is a setters style and at times surface requirement.

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  15. Suresh26 December 2022 at 11:19

    5D I had the answer as JOLT. Jol means party. Comes with partly minus the l for space. L being short for length

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    1. Ramesh Kosaraju 26 December 2022 at 14:27

      You cannot do a DELETION and then take a SYNONYM of it. And there is no "length" in the clue.
      That is my take.

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    2. Suresh26 December 2022 at 15:41

      length is a synomym of space. Length of time = space of time etc. Crossing is the deletion indicator

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    3. Ramesh Kosaraju 26 December 2022 at 17:01

      Again IMO, you shouldn't take an abbreviation of synonym of a word in the clue.

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  16. Suresh26 December 2022 at 11:20

    That should read 'comes from'

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  17. Kiran26 December 2022 at 12:19

    15D. How is (irans + base)* a* = arabian sea ? An 'a' is missing and there is an extra s !!

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    1. Suresh26 December 2022 at 12:28

      I didn't notice that. Maybe an error

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    2. Sree Sree26 December 2022 at 13:28

      I took it as DD.

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    3. Suresh26 December 2022 at 14:11

      Perhaps

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    4. Ramesh Kosaraju 26 December 2022 at 15:47

      In that case, a Googly by setter and great solve by Prasad garu!

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    5. Suresh26 December 2022 at 16:05

      Prasad, you are correct. As per wordplay A is not a part of the anagrid.

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