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GHAZA 3
By Ghaza
Across
| 8 | Gold bars centrally reversed show character (4) |
| 9 | * Greeting without nonsense from a “Good Bay” (5) |
| 10 | Cattle in a paradox enforced (4) |
| 11 | * Laptop storage losing components of mobile storage from the far west (6) |
| 12 | The bird with the heartless ruby giggled (8) |
| 13 | * Ex Lankan PM vaguely sounds like a Tamil leader (8) |
| 15 | Dispossess on hotel and conform (6) |
| 17 | * Grade the sheep from Hyderabad (7) |
| 19 | Late to lose only a recipe within greenery (7) |
| 22 | ** A western hand from the Land of 5 Rivers (6) |
| 24 | A dog in a cat’s belly with an elephant’s head is precise (8) |
| 26 | Alien has a short part in the snap relating to fuel (8) |
| 28 | * Neighbourly CM from the City of Joy (6) |
| 30 | Setter eats the extreme letters of labyrinth (4) |
| 31 | * Munnabhai from the Pink City (5) |
| 32 | Regarding the axes of a precious stone (4) |
Down
| 1 | Young Scout at an island nation (4) |
| 2 | Did MH370 defy the tough pack? (4,4) |
| 3 | Stopped train carriages breaching the edges of Bollywood (6) |
| 4 | Seek opinions on bowlers in a way (4,3) |
| 5 | Volunteers invading the horse’s home can be expressed (8) |
| 6 | * All fine in the French hotel of the upstate capital (6) |
| 7 | You and I had a doubt; it was pluralized (4) |
| 14 | Engulfed by rocking 4d, no thank you! (5) |
| 16 | * Warship from the Garden City (5) |
| 18 | Karenina will lean on the chronicler (8) |
| 20 | Tenure of a crazy radio nut (8) |
| 21 | Piercing look mostly circling within (7) |
| 23 | * Alarm bell from Delhi (6) |
| 25 | Spooner’s brown boor sings in church (6) |
| 27 | Cycling through the street in style (4) |
| 29 | Thus you are starting with beans (4) |
Enjoy.
10A: OXEN..T
ReplyDelete32A: ON(YX)
20D: DURATION..radio+nut*
10a OXEN: cattle
ReplyDeleteParad(ox en) forced
27d ELAN - style
ReplyDeleteroad - lane
(+e)lan(-e)
20d DURATION - tenure
{radio nut*}
32a ONYX - previous stone
{on}{yx}
32ac onyx on(regarding) x y(axes)
ReplyDelete29dn soya (so) y(our) a(re)
20dn duration (radio nut) *
8A AURA = character {gold AU contains central letters of bARs in reverse}
ReplyDelete1D CUBA = Island Nation{ CUB, young scout + A , an}
20D DURATION = Tenure { RADIO NUT anagram}
19a: OXEN(T)
ReplyDelete20D: DURATION (RADIO+NUT)*
29d: SOYA (SO)(Y)(A)
Col, are we missing explanation/significance for * mark in some clues?
ReplyDeleteMaybe all are connected to a theme.
DeleteCricket!
DeleteIPL team captains
Delete30 A MAZE = Labyrinth { ME, setter eats AZ, extreme letters of English alphabet} Replacement of 20 D}
ReplyDeleteReplacement
ReplyDelete24ac acurate
(a) (cur) dog c(at)s e(lephant)
5d STATABLE: that which can be expresses
ReplyDeleteSTA(TA)BLE
Stable: horse's home
TA: volunteers
30a MAZE - labyrinth
ReplyDelete{m(a,z)e}
PETROLIC: relating to petrol( fuel)
ReplyDeleteP(ET: alien)( ROL: role-e, short part)IC
PIc: snap
This is 26ac
DeleteSorry! Missed to state the clue number as 26a
DeleteIs related to petrol same as related to fuel?
DeleteWhy not? Petrol is one of the common fuels.
DeleteYou cant have synonyms in def!!?
Delete5d- Statable- STA(TA)BLE- Can be expressed
ReplyDeleteI am here, but my responses will be slow today
ReplyDelete18d ANNALIST = Chronicler
ReplyDeleteANNA = Karenina
LIST = Lean
12a TITTERED = Giggled
DeleteTIT = Bird
TE = The heartless
RED = Ruby
4d WHAT SAY = Seek opinion
DeleteHATS (Bowlers) in WAY
Replacement
ReplyDelete22a DHAWAN {a,w,hand*}
Anind!!!
Delete22a. The first * indicates theme
Delete(IPL teams' captains).
The second * is the Anind!
Hi Ramesh great progress
DeleteThe theme is a wee bit different from "IPL Team Captains"
DeleteOh, ok
DeleteAnother replacement
ReplyDelete17a MARKRAM (from Sunrisers Hyderabad)
grade - mark
sheep - ram
{mark}{ram}
14d (replacement for 10a)
ReplyDeleteAWASH: engulfed
WHATSAY - TY( no thank you) gives
WHASA anagram is AWASH( rocking is anind)
TY is a non-standard social media usage?!!!
DeleteOh, ok.
Delete28 ac Nitish of kkr and nitish kumar.
ReplyDelete23 warner -delhi capitals
31 Sanju - sanju samson Rajasthan royals/Sanjay dutt -munnabhai
Please do mention across or down with the clue number
DeleteSorry Sir,23 d and 31a.
DeleteI would have felt happier with some indication about so many proper names. I understand it is the theme but until one gets the theme. Proper names are rare unless they are celebrities ( But cricketers are more than celebrities!!)
ReplyDeleteHi Padmanabhan, in that case do expect more proper names that are hopefully celebrities enough in the next few I submitted to Col
DeleteThere were such starred/themed puzzles in the past in The Hindu on colours, festivals, scientists, cricketers too with the note: All * clues have something in common.
Delete9A ROHIT
ReplyDeleteGreeting=HI
nonsense = ROT
Rohit -Hi = Rot.
( good bay = Mumbai Indians?)
The answer is correct, let's try to refine the anno
Delete7D WERE = plural of was.
ReplyDeleteYou and I = WE
had = contains
Doubt = ER
W(ER)E
Thanks Sathia. I have submitted a few more to Col. So I'll try to incorporate feedback from after that
ReplyDelete11A-Hardik; player from far west i.e GT Hard (d)i(s)K; mobile storage SD;
ReplyDelete19A-Verdure-greenery; late overdue; (o)verdu(r)e;
13A-Ravindra-Chennai Super Kings Player; homonym of Mahinda ?
13a may have to be relooked I think
DeleteDad
ReplyDeleteSpelt with 2 d’s and an a in the middle,
At home, playing second fiddle.
Mostly lurking behind the scene,
Always pretending to be stoic, serene.
A presence, an assurance and a riddle!
By N Sridhar
👏🙂
DeleteOn fathers' day
ReplyDelete2D HARD DECK; tough=hard; pack=deck; hard deck=altitude semi &lit;
ReplyDelete13A MAHENDRA; M S Dhoni; homonym of Mahinda
15 a, conform = behave
ReplyDeleteDispossess = bereave
On = re
Dispossess on = bereave - re = beave
hotel = h
(Be(h)ave)
Both bereave and on on double duty here :P
DeleteBoth dispossess and on on double duty here.
DeleteI am quite inefficient today
6d. * All fine in the French hotel of the upstate capital (6)
ReplyDeleteLOKESH - K L (Lokesh) Rahul of Lucknow (UP state capital) Super Gaints
All fine - ok
the French - les
hotel - h
{ok} in {les}{h}
Thank you everyone, is any thing left?
ReplyDeleteI'll look over the clue list in a bit
ReplyDeleteShould I share the intended anno for Rohit?
ReplyDeleteHas 25d been solved?
ReplyDeleteI think all other clues have been solved and the anno is aligned
ReplyDeleteRegarding hard deck, I looked up a definition and it said it is an altitude line below which a plane is not supposed to go
ReplyDeleteIt is debatable whether it can be applied to land and sea or only land. Others can help me out
ReplyDeleteRohit is hi in rot as you all said. I had set it as "from Bombay"
ReplyDeleteFrom my info, the name Bombay has come as a derivation of the Portuguese name which was a literal translation of "Good Bay"
I know I could have selected from a hundred different ways to clue Bombay. Don't know why I picked this one
ReplyDeleteThanks for the special Ghaza
ReplyDeleteI think 25d is still unsolved
ReplyDelete25d, sings in church = cantur
ReplyDeleteBrown boor = Tan Cur,
Spooner is Can tur,
Small spelling difference
ReplyDeleteCantor.
ReplyDeleteTan cor to Can tor
ReplyDeleteI tried to match the crossing spelling if Sanju which ends in u.
ReplyDeleteIf it is Cantor, spelling of Samson becomes Sanjo.
ReplyDeleteIs it cantus?
ReplyDeleteYes to cantus
ReplyDeleteGhaza ji, Kindly clarify the spoonerism in brown boor and cantus?
ReplyDeleteTan Cus to cantus
ReplyDeleteBrown is tan and boor is cus
ReplyDeleteDef is sings in church
ReplyDeleteYes, that was my thought process
ReplyDeleteBoor is cuss
ReplyDeleteOk. Got it thanks.
ReplyDeleteIs it that synonyms should not be applied in such a case?
ReplyDeleteSome very clever clues and innovative Wordplay. Kudos to Ghaza 👏
ReplyDelete(Is the name original?)
PS: Curious to know the actual theme
(wee bit different from IPL team captains)
All except Virat (ex-captain) captained the 9 teams in the last season of IPL
DeleteYes, it became one popular player per IPL team, because Virat made it into the grid but Faf didn't
DeleteOn a lighter note
ReplyDeleteAlternate clue for 11a :
2D sound from far west (7)
HARDIK {~hard deck}
:) :)
ReplyDeleteOops! (6)
Delete