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Monday, 20 February 2023

No 13793, Monday 20 Feb 2023, Afterdark

Solution to 27D 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   Pleasing victory in the neighbourhood (7) WINSOME {WIN}{SOME}
10 Glaciers in space, maybe one hundred in the front (7) ICECAPS {SPACE}*<=>{1}{C}
11 A state of non-existence is present in this place (7) NOWHERE {NOW}{HERE}
12 Glance east, maybe destroyed without energy (7) EYEBEAM {E}{MAYBE*} over {E}
13 Benchmark is roughly 0.9 metres, stay with it (9) YARDSTICK {YARD}{STICK}
15 Police weapon again modelled in counter (5) TASER<=
16 Country entangled in knots after deporting alien (7) ENGLAND eNtANGLED*
19 Backed do it yourself recipe for tongue (7) YIDDISH {DIY<=}{DISH}
20 Being a provocateur in social media? Timepass? Disconnect (5) TROLL {T}{ROLL}
21 May break down in remorse for retaliation (9) REPAYMENT {REP{MAY*}ENT}
25 White of an egg is blue? Man this is crazy (7) ALBUMEN*
26 Beau has lost heart, in uncontrollable grief finding an insect (7) FIREBUG {FIRE{BeaU}G*}
28 At first, George rushed with tea reportedly to the receiver (7) GRANTEE {Ge...e}{RAN}{(~tea)TEE}
29 Member in team faces resistance (7) INSIDER {IN}{SIDE}{R}

DOWN
1   Score? Third batsman ran second bye (6) TWENTY {baTs..n}{WENT}{bYe}
2   Reply of parliamentarians were held (6) ANSWER [T]
3   From the sources, London operators delivered enough ore deposit (4) LODE Acrostic
4   Good-bye men I am burying a national (6) YEMENI [T]
5   Be like Wesley, losing heart every 15 days (8) BIWEEKLY {BE+LIKE+WesleY}*
6   Desperately in trouble losing dollars again and again (10) REPEATEDLY  DEsPERATELY*
7   Terrible skater in West Indies sport (5,3) WATER SKI {W{SKATER*}I}
8   Sodium nitrate and calcium sulphate? (8) ISOMORPH I'm bad at Chemistry. Anno pending Definition by Example. See comments
14 Could be a horse that is a solid friend (10) STABLEMATE {STABLE}{MATE}
16 Divorce sergeant (8) ESTRANGE*
17 Bird becomes larger without nose (8) GROSBEAK {GROwS}{BEAK}
18 Looped in action, its nuts (8) DERANGED {DE{RANG}ED}
22 Bird in gust, one at north (6) PUFFIN {PUFF}{1}{N}
23 Represent English doctor on overdose at Yard (6) EMBODY {E}{MB}{OD}{Y}
24 Police officer in rest mauled by animals (6) TIGERS {T{IG}ERS*}
27 Stop on road (4) R?S? (Addendum - REST {RE}{ST} - See comments)

Reference List
Hundred = C, East = E, Energy = E, Alien = ET, Do it yourself = DIY, Time = T, Resistance = R, Dollar = S, With = W, North = N, English = E, Overdose = OD, Yard = Y, On = RE, Road = Street = ST

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22 comments:

  1. Sree Sree20 February 2023 at 08:40

    18d typo

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  2. Deepak Gopinath20 February 2023 at 08:53

    IIT (M) Crossie Open venue and timings have been finalised. See updated post below

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  3. Sree Sree20 February 2023 at 08:54

    8d i see no anno.
    Def by example. They are isomorphs of each other.
    But "to/is to" would have been better than "and".

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  4. Suresh20 February 2023 at 09:02

    Anagram indicators missing in 16D and 5D.

    Is water ski a sport. The sport would be water skiing

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  5. AJ20 February 2023 at 09:34

    8d sodium nitrate and calcium sulphate are isomorphs. Substances having similar crystal structures are called isomorphs in chemistry.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath20 February 2023 at 09:53

      Thank you AJ. Chemistry was never my strong point

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    2. Prasanna Rao20 February 2023 at 14:00

      Col.sir. This will be DD???? AJ mam is prof. of Maths and chemistry......

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    3. AJ20 February 2023 at 14:31

      Prasanna, all sciences are inter-linked. Crystal structures come under solid state chemistry. I know nothing about their chemical properties. I happened to help my colleagues in chemistry about the structural aspects of crystals. For me, structural similarity is purely a geometrical thing. Similarity is not a loose concept in geometry. It is a rigid one, needing the faces and edges to be proportionate and interfacial angles to be equal. My knowledge ends here.

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    4. Padmanabhan20 February 2023 at 14:37

      Anyway, you are better off than all of us.

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    5. Sree Sree20 February 2023 at 16:13

      What is popularly called "westernisation" Is a form of isomorphism!!!

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    6. Sree Sree20 February 2023 at 16:16

      And when isomorphic substances react one gets "Solid Solution"

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  6. Suresh20 February 2023 at 09:39

    Incidentally biweekly is every 14 days, not 15

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  7. Padmanabhan20 February 2023 at 10:43

    I was also thinking about fortnightly.

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  8. Padmanabhan20 February 2023 at 10:46

    Dictionary gives both as synonyms without saying once in 14/15 days. Maybe just loosely used. once in 14 days is more precise.

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    1. Sree Sree20 February 2023 at 15:58

      Biweekly is the most confusing word in English. In a way epitome of the fight between techincal orthodoxy vs pop culture!!!

      You book a holiday suite for 2 weeks (14 days) and end up spending 15 days on holiday. !!!

      Mostly from ambiguity from shifting to Lunar calender to dynamic calenders!!!

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    2. Sree Sree20 February 2023 at 15:59

      Dynastic* calender

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  9. Gowri20 February 2023 at 11:37

    With all the above doubts- it was easy run today. Finished fast. Isomorph - an esoteric clue?
    STABLEMATE -my Cod.
    Thanks Afterdark

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  10. RR20 February 2023 at 12:09

    27 d, stop = REST
    Road = STreet
    On = RE

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  11. Suresh20 February 2023 at 12:30

    Re bi-weekly, it is used to mean 15 days with respet to things like wage payments on bi-wekly basis. There may be other uses as well.

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  12. Padmanabhan20 February 2023 at 17:51

    Adding to the confusion is the fact that biweekly could also mean twice a week!

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