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VEEYARES 17
By Veeyares
Across
| 9 | Skill of mole covering castle building without a bit of sound (9) |
| 10 | Toolkit especially to trap birds (5) |
| 11 | Moral of first of lessons I teach unclear (7) |
| 12 | Cry to gather from friend during hot runs (7) |
| 13 | Bridge passing over current in the country (5) |
| 15 | Praise the treatment resulting in cures (9) |
| 17 | Date President broadcasting already decided (13) |
| 22 | Quietly ruining dress? Accept burden (5,4) |
| 24 | Features are missing in embryo (5) |
| 25 | Pray boy takes top spot right away, getting gift (7) |
| 27 | Poet's letter from Greece about hero at sea (7) |
| 29 | Alleges a hogwash regularly about Victor (5) |
| 30 | Cutting up and dumping over top of ridge (9) |
Down
| 1 | Attack according to directions (7) |
| 2 | Drug disoriented them (4) |
| 3 | Traces of zinc and copper with iron combined in mineral (6) |
| 4 | Wails playing ukulele endlessly at King's dying on Sunday (8) |
| 5 | Shrub’s attempt to occupy tree from the bottom up (6) |
| 6 | Monastery’s wall hugged by a muddled lake (8) |
| 7 | Delay support (4) |
| 8 | Champion spilled soup in corner after starting to eat (7) |
| 14 | Consent of a native of Athens, say, to assassinate knight (5) |
| 16 | Upset losing victory, becoming listless (5) |
| 18 | New President’s having neither right nor resources to start with hand out (8) |
| 19 | No compromise at the end, dismisses appeal filed for matches (8) |
| 20 | Boy at sea involved in quarrel in stealth vessel (3,4) |
| 21 | Soothe when you get old, it is said (7) |
| 23 | Half-witted’s doubts about spending five hundred by English (6) |
| 24 | Bays for judge’s parking in front of District Square (6) |
| 26 | Money one spent getting nothing in jail (4) |
| 28 | Be sure basically to retire and get out (4) |
Enjoy.
13S: SPA(I)N
ReplyDelete11A: ETHICAL...I+TEACH+L*
14D: AGREE..a+gree(-k)
17a PREDESRINATED - already decided
ReplyDelete{rate president*}
29a AVOWS - alleged
{a}{o,w,s} over {v}
8d ESPOUSE - champion
Corner - SE
{e} {soup*} in {se}
Please check 17a
Delete15ac THERAPIES: treatment
ReplyDelete( praise the)*
15a THERAPIES
ReplyDelete(praise + the)*
def: cures
2d METH
(them)*
def: drug
14d AGREE
native of athens = greek
assassinate knight = greek - k = gree
a + gree = agree
def:consent
17a typo PREDESTINATED
ReplyDelete2d: METH (them)*
ReplyDelete8D: ESPOUSE {E..}{S{SOUP*}E}
16D: INERT {IN(-V)ERT}
1d ASPERSE: attack
ReplyDelete(AS PER: according to) (SE: directions)
Solution?
ReplyDelete2d: METH: drug ( methamphitamine)
ReplyDeleteThem*
compensation for 15a
ReplyDelete4d ULULATES
ukulele endlessly = ukulel
king dying = ukulel - k = uulel
playing (uulel + at) * on sunday (s) = ululates
Def: Wails
3D- Zircon- Z IR(C)ON- mineral
ReplyDeleteI have a problem here- Copper is Cu and not C
13A- Spain- SPA(I)N. I from Current and span from Bridge.
11A- Ethical- (I Teach L)*- Moral
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DeleteTrace of copper is c
DeleteAgreed. Zinc is also Zn and trace applies to both
Delete10ac kites (T)
ReplyDelete22ac press down
p(quietly) (dress)* own(accept)
24a replacement for 2d
ReplyDeleteFETUS: embryo
Features -are
Replacements for repeats
ReplyDelete24D: FJORDS {F{J}OR}{D..}{S..}
5d: MYRTLE {EL{TRY}M}<--
Well solved
DeleteNot correct
ReplyDelete29A: AVOWS A (V) OWS from alt ltrs of hogwash
ReplyDelete18D: DISPENSE PRESIDENT- R -T*
5D: MYRTLE TRY in ELM<
7D STAY In lieu of 5D
Delete18 Where is the second s!
Deleteapostrophe S ..... solved in travel net connection erratic and mistyped too
Delete21d ASSUAGE = Soothe
ReplyDeleteHomophone as u age, when u get old
10a KITES = Birds
ReplyDeletetoolKITESpecially, trap containment ind
20d SPY BOAT : Stealth vessel
ReplyDeleteBOY* in SPAT (quarrel)
23d OBTUSE = Half-witted
(DOUBTS - D)* (Five hundred) + E (English)
21d ASSUAGE = Soothe
As(when) hp ass, U hp you, AGE (get old)
Check parsing
ReplyDelete9a
ReplyDeleteRelook 9a
ReplyDeleteIn place of 21d
ReplyDelete30a SHREDDING = Cutting up
Dumping : SHEDDING over/across R top of R(idge)
Stay
ReplyDelete27A THOREAU =poet : (TAU + HERO)*
ReplyDeleteLetter from Greece = TAU
hero = HERO
at sea = anaind
Relook. It would indirect when parsed this way
DeleteT(HORE)*AU
Deletecould not decipher the function of 'about'. Tau contains anagram of hero??
Clue should have read 'one bit of sound' instead of 's bit'
ReplyDeleteSathia note my reply to your comments on 9a
ReplyDeleteCan you look at 18d too
Delete26D QUOD = jail (QUaD - a + O )
ReplyDeleteMoney = QUAD
one spent = -A
getting nothing = + O
Sir, imho, money = quid
DeleteOne replaced by nothing becomes quod.
So, jail = quod
Castle,i built without a bit of sound !
ReplyDelete6D and 19D remaining
ReplyDelete6d is Akeldama. Google told me it is a monastery in Jerusalem. A followed by dam for wall within the jumble of lake
ReplyDeleteRight
DeleteI have an answer for 19d but I can't get the parsing
ReplyDelete19d ignitors: matches.
ReplyDeleteIgnores-e over (it)
Thanks for the special. Solving it sitting at guruvayoor is priceless.
Enjoy your tour Sree Sree garu with God and nature in "GOD'S OWN COUNTRY"
DeleteThank you Sree Sree
Delete28D EXIT (EXIsT - s) = get out.
ReplyDeleteBe = exist
Sure basically = s, retire = remove
Thank you Sathia
ReplyDeleteRight
ReplyDeleteIt is done and dusted now. Thanks to all participants. Thanks to Colonel for publishing.
ReplyDeleteThank you Veeyares * Col.
ReplyDeleteI welcome more of such pointing out from you. It will enable me to take more care in setting
ReplyDeletegood one again VRS
ReplyDeleteThanks Ramesh
DeleteThanks Ramesh
DeleteThanks for the special Veeyares
ReplyDelete