Wednesday 28 February 2024

No 14109, Wednesday 28 Feb 2024, Karaoke

Solution to 19D 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   Where drinks are served to taste almost openly (2,6) IN PUBLIC {IN PUB}{LICk}
6   Game essentially for this type of clue (6) ACROSS lACROSSe
9   American town enjoys upper-class smartness (6) ACUITY {A}{C{U}ITY}
10 A stupid fight with wife? It's not a good idea (1,3,4) A DIM VIEW {A}{DIM}{VIE}{W}
11 No crime with genuine currencies in marriage functions (10) CEREMONIES {sinCERE}{MONIES}
12 Prize announced for music producer (4) LUTE (~loot)
13 Good in shape and not without heart a bit (8) FRAGMENT {FRA{G}ME}{NoT}
15 Caught king out in the game? Bless you! (6) CHEERS CHEckERS
16 Arrest copper colluding with tipster (3,3) CUT OUT {CU}{TOUT}
18 Doctors reported with papers at the Eastern region of harbour area (8) DOCKSIDE {(~docs)DOCKS}{ID}{E}
20 They come from another planet - It's so futuristic feature, on the contrary (4) UFOS [T<=]
21 Incorrectly wrote other unspecified number (3,2,5) TWO OR THREE*
23 Exhausted to set grid to English daily initially (3-5) DOG-TIRED {GRID+TO+E+Da..y}*
24 Ward councils often lacked handsome youth (6) ADONIS {wArD+cOuNcIlS}
25 It comes from China to make fun of model (3,3) TEA SET {TEASE}{T}
26 Models from past blockbusters overwhelmed Indian Box-Office mainly (8) EXHIBITS {EX}{H{I}{Bo...e}ITS}

DOWN
2   Family type destructive weapons (7) NUCLEAR [DD]
3   Couple is free to take time down (5) UNITE UN(-t)I(+t)TE
4   Bury unusual tale/story (3,2,4) LAY TO REST*
5   Drink and roti prepared in carriage (7) CHARIOT {CHA}{ROTI*}
6   Maybe the Ram's not bound by frontiers (5) ARIES boundARIES
7   They go on turning around peacemakers perhaps (9) REVOLVERS [DD]
8   Jumper's writ initially admitted by bench (7) SWEATER {S{Writ}EATER}
14 Girl's missing. It is the problem of the tongue (9) GLOSSITIS {G}{LOSS}{IT}{IS}
15 Spooner's dance trainer, a pest (9) COCKROACH (~rock coach to cockroach)
17 Removed controls in ground zero following wild fun (7) UNFROZE {ZERO*}<=>{FUN*}
18 Dangerous pass around old ring road (2-2-3) DO-OR-DIE {D{O}{O}{RD}IE}
19 He fights to get rightful tip (7) D?E?I?T (Addendum - DUELIST {DUE}{LIST} - See comments)
21 Violated contract regularly to win second trump card (5) TAROT {cOnTrAcT}* over {tRump
22 Henry took a lot of money for powerful explosive (1-4) H-BOMB {H}{BOMB}

Reference List
American = A, Upper-class = U, Wife = W, Good = G, Caught = C, King = K, Papers = ID, Eastern = E, English = E, Model = T, Indian = I, Time = T, Girl = G, Old = O, Henry = H

14 comments:

  1. 10A- KKR stole one right from under Dr.X's nose 😊

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  2. 11A is very good. Though I got it with the help of crossing, I could not parse it.

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  3. 19d....solved. but tiny crux in annotation.........

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  4. 19Dn DUELIST - {DUE}{LIST}
    Fighter(Defn) - DUE(Rightful)+LIST(Tip)

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  5. I was thinking it has to duellist but on checking I find both spellings (duelist) are okay.

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    1. my anno.was not right. coz., i was trying the anno. as Duellist. coz., the enu was not mentioned. so I was in dilemma to go with duelist or duellist. But tip=list was not getting in my mind.
      very good word play by KKR garu. corrected my error. Thanks to Mr DNM Rao for the good solve.

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    2. The enu(7) was mentioned in paper (Visakhapatnam edition for sure and in this blog) clearly.
      Answer is an alternative spelling, which made it tricky.
      Relied on the crossings to solve.

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    3. The default spelling (unless otherwise specified) in The Hindu Cross'Words' is British/Indian English I believe.

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    4. Agree with you @D N M Rao. Alternative spelling can be default as well😁

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  6. Clues for 7 & 15, in the Down slot deserve a special mention thanq dear Mr. Koteshwar Rao.

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  7. You join Col. in having inside info on peacemakers! We, ordinary folks, think of UN etc.

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