Tuesday, 15 August 2023

No 13944, Tuesday 15 Ag 2023, Afterdark

INDEPENDENCE DAY GREETINGS


Artwork by Prasanna

Rangoli by Gowri

Solution to 17D 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.

Open for anyone to answer, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS
1   Ranking in priority primarily to rescue inmates on time (6) TRIAGE {To}{Re...e}{In...e}{AGE}
4   Greek character's impertinence with one of the apostles (6) PHILIP {PHI}{LIP}
9   Collection of poems by journalist submitted to lawyer (4) EDDA {ED}{DA}
10 Stingy neurosurgeon leaves Romania to resettle (10) UNGENEROUS NEUroSURGEON*
11 Famous Nicaraguan at gate, gatecrashes (6) ORTEGA {OR}{GATE*}
12 Dreamt of soldier being in the embrace of wanton maiden (8) IMAGINED {IMA{GI}NED*}
13 Evaluation of computer program written by AI inhouse at Alabama (9) APPRAISAL {APP}{R{AI}S}{AL}
15 Clean ascent overcoming banes essentially (5) RINSE {RI{baNes}SE}
16 Six left visibly agitated seer (5) SIBYL viSIBLY*
18 Plant on earth, from mostly wild seeds cultivated (9) EDELWEISS Why mostly? (Addendum - {Ea..h}{WILd+SEEDS}* - See comments)
22 Shooting one over par? Could be good-bye in golf, missing over first drive (8) BOGEYING {GOod+BYE+IN+G}*
23 Discharged in toilet corner by the beginning of the day (6) LOOSED {LOO}{SE}{Day}
25 Pasta in Orient? It'll go bad (10) TORTELLINI*
26 Thailand lawyers in a ski-lift (1-3) T-BAR {T}{BAR}
27 Shorter, faster service described (6) TERSER [T]
28 Rebel trails police sergeant at yard with intelligence (6) PSYCHE {CHE}<=>{PS}{Y}

DOWN
1   Cuts back to back in crosscurrent (4,3) TIDE RIP {EDIT<=}{RIP}  The second CUT is not backed? 
2   A judge is angry (5) IRATE {1}{RATE}
3   Without directions ignoramus cooked a fish (7) GOURAMI {IGnORAMUs}*
5   Chang arrested, held in a shed for airplanes (6) HANGAR [T]
6   At LA, six policemen enter borders of Riverside to nab a killer, perhaps (9) LARVICIDE {LA}{Ri..{VI}{CID}..dE}
7   Composed, quite nurse overcomes resistance of gardeners, say (7) PRUNERS {P+NURSE}* over {R} Quite or Quiet?
8   Repeatedly one gets profits smuggling egg in India (5,3,5) AGAIN AND AGAIN {A}{GAIN}{GAIN} over {ANDA} 
14 Poet Rand & Henry are with yes men inside the vacant republic (9) RHYMESTER {R}{H}{Y{M}ES}{ThE}{R}
17 Working in a flight by compromise (4,3) I?O? O?T (Addendum - IRON OUT {1}{R{ON}OUT} - See comments)
19 Relaxes outside a cafe finally having candies (7) LOLLIES {LOLL{1}{cafE}S}
20 Leak by court attendant (7) SEEPAGE {SEE}{PAGE}
21 Singer Nelson's choice is eclectic primarily (6) WILLIE {WILL}{Is}{Ec...c}
24 Maybe topic is related to eye (5) OPTIC*

Reference List
Journalsit = ED, Lawyer = DA, Romania = RO, Gate = OR, Soldier = GI, House = RS(Rajya Sabha), Earth = E, Alabama = AL, Golf = G, Thailand = T, Police Sergeant = PS, Yard = Y, Quiet = P, Egg in India = ANDA, Rand = R, Henry = H, Men = M, Republic = R, Court = SEE

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27 comments:

  1. Gowri15 August 2023 at 08:31

    Independence Day Wishes to all.
    Colonel! U look majestic! 😊

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  2. Sree Sree15 August 2023 at 08:33

    18a e from earth wil(-d).

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  3. Jacob Brahmakulam15 August 2023 at 08:34

    1D back to back meaning face each other

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  4. Padmanabhan15 August 2023 at 08:44

    Nice to see Col. Jai Hind.

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  5. Padmanabhan15 August 2023 at 08:45

    Colourful Independence Day for all of us,thanks to Col., Prasanna & Gowri.

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  6. Padmanabhan15 August 2023 at 08:46

    Curious to see Col in uniform from any of his old photos. I suppose it is permissible.

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  7. Padmanabhan15 August 2023 at 09:02

    23A- Loosed/ Loosened?

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    1. Vasu15 August 2023 at 10:32

      Past tense of loose is loosed; past tense of loosen is loosened

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  8. Padmanabhan15 August 2023 at 09:05

    No holiday announcement in print edition.

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  9. Sarathi15 August 2023 at 09:17

    17 down, should be : I? O N O? T,
    Please correct it in the clue

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  10. Ramesh Kosaraju 15 August 2023 at 11:35

    +1

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  11. AJ15 August 2023 at 11:45

    Happy Independence Day to all

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  12. Rao Pilla15 August 2023 at 12:34

    17D working(ON) in a(I) flight(ROUT) by
    Compromise = IRON OUT
    Rout(Noun) : a precipitate flight from Merriam Webster dictionary

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  13. H Ramachandran15 August 2023 at 13:39

    Independence Day greetings to all💐💐

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  14. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan15 August 2023 at 13:44

    Happy Independence Day to all !

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  15. AJ15 August 2023 at 14:55

    Nice artwork by Prasanna and beautiful rangoli by Gowri!

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  16. Economizer15 August 2023 at 17:58

    Quite a nice and delightfully solvable grid from Afterdark. There were plenty of charades, and some nice surface readings (eg. 12A Dreamt of soldier being in the embrace of wanton maiden). Solving 8D going down the middle of column 8 was simple enough and was key to connecting the grid. Overall the clueing was tight with only a couple of redundant link-words for connecting definitions and wordplays on the surface.

    I noticed some interesting usages. To name a few: the setter frequently clues the letter A = 1 or One; ANDA defined as "egg in India"; "six" used as roman numeral definition for VI in 2 clues; CHE as "rebel" in 28A; and "court" for SEE in 20D. 11A ORTEGA and 16A SYBIL were interesting choices. I had to Google for GOURAMI.

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    1. Economizer15 August 2023 at 18:20

      The setter uses a characteristic pattern of "anagram with fodder deletions" that I noted in 4 clues.

      10A UNGENEROUS (neurosurgion - ro)*
      16A SIBYL (visibly - vi)*
      18A EDELWEISS (wild seeds - d)*
      3D GOURAMI (ignoramus - ns)*

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