Solution to 13A 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
8 It goes into more than one rule (6) POLITY {POL{IT}Y}
10 Returns two-fold praise (4) LAUD<=
11 Unmanageable sappers' works, involving resistance (10) REFRAFCTORY {RE}{F{R}ACTORY}
12 Election Victory! Back to people finally! (4) VOTE {V}{TO<=}{p...lE}
13 How to get a message carried by the waves? (10) D?M?D?L?T? (Addendum - DEMODULATE [CD] - See comments)
17 Part of mega lavish celebration (4) GALA [T]
18 Medico retained by business for data repository (2-3) CD-ROM {C{DR}OM}
19 Support black sensitivity (4) BEAR {B}{EAR}
21 Travelling faster than word of mouth? (10) SUPERSONIC [CD]
23 Chance of noble backing king (4) RISK {SIR<=}{K}
24 Can a small magazine art possibly be a symbol of constitutional democracy (5,5) MAGNA CARTA {CAN+A+MAG+ART}*
28 Large, adult, male black sheep (4) LAMB &lit
29 Left ousts judge! Removal leads to poll! (8) ELECTION E(-j+l)LECTION
30 Slight wound (6) INSULT [DD]
DOWN
1 Beverage Company from California, County Los Angeles (4,4) COCA COLA {CO}{CA}{CO}{LA}
2 Focus on awfully mean, defining quality of a person (6,4) MIDDLE NAME {MIDDLE}{NAME*}
3 Reportedly procure for channel - small derivatives (2-8) BY-PRODUCTS {(~buy)BY}{PRO}{DUCT}{S}
14 Run into idle idiot (5) MORON {MO{R}ON}
15 Popular and kind of mostly modern timeless tactic (10) DEMOCRATIC {MODERn+tACTIC}*
16 Independent bills are questionable source of moral belief in individual and political freedom (10) LIBERALISM {I+BILLS+ARE}*{Mo..l}
20 Gathering up litter inside well (8) ASSEMBLY {A{MESS<=}BLY}
22 A new blue rum lacks potency (6) UNABLE {A+N+BLUE}*
25 Part of body of knowledge about Catholic revolutionary (4) NECK {K{C}EN}<=
26 Each item has a receipt (4) CHIT [T]
27 Managed King's file (4) RANK {RAN}{K}
Reference List
Sappers = RE(Royal Engineers), Resistance = r, Victory = V, Business = COM, Black = B, King = K, Left = L, Judge = J, Company = CO, County = CO, Small = S, Right = R, Acres = A, Run = R, Idle = MOON, Independent = I, New = N, Catholic = C
9a def by example needs an indicator!
ReplyDelete1d from felt out of place and misleading.
Otherwise a very smooth puzzle.
+1. Had difficulty in both. Midnight solving byPrasad?!
DeleteI had no problem with either. I don't think 1A requires any other indicator. It is a cryptic definition and a very good one at that. What exactly bothered you on 1D? Other than the surface reading
DeleteRead 9A instead of 1A
DeleteDiet is not definition of legislature but an example of (rather name (noun) in some countries) legislature.
DeleteThe word diet means a deliberative or a formal public assembly. It is not a proper noun. It has a more general meaning as well
DeleteIn so much as signifying legislative making body (lok sabha) diet is example.
DeleteLok sabha is not a general congress.
Hail India! Hail a Republic!
ReplyDelete28a all std abbreviatios! (Not acrostic)
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Delete30a is it DD?
ReplyDeleteI mean one is nounal and the other verbal form of the same meaning!
It is a DD. Each of the words mean Insult
DeleteIts not the def of DD. It means two different definitions.
DeleteThere are two different definitions. Slight and wound
DeleteThe two definitions mean nearly the same thing. Is that acceptable?
Delete@Prasad
Imo, the DD is totally acceptable.
DeleteMy view is one definition. One is physical harm, the other is mental harm.
DeleteI havent come across "slight"/injure that does not mean harm.
Would be happy if any bound oed def is shared by owners.
Isn't that the beauty of language?
DeletePls look up def of DD.
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DD as per your def?
Slight is an insult
DeleteWound(of the heart) is an emotional hurt caused by insult.
If it is caused by insult - solution can't be insult.
DeleteWounding some ones self esteem or pride is INSULT.
Both slight & wound have one common meaning here (apart from other meanings) which is INSULT.
My understanding.
DD & CD both work on principal of 'Normal/surface reading' (as one would read any normal sentence or phrase) Vs 'Cryptic reading'. Slight wound in natural reading (in my estimation) would read as a minor injury. Cryptic Reading converts it into DD. There has been lot of discussion on DD and both words having near / close meanings. My take is that as long as surface reading takes the solver adequately away from cryptic reading, it merits as a DD clue! However this is difficult to achieve with regular solvers as they see the cryptic reading first!
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DeleteElection special given by Vidwan. 9A needed to have more hint. 13A is little more technical. 7D is more of our majority wish. 24A my COD. Otherwise, an enjoyable CW.
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Yes,def.enjoyable and as you said timely.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the point in just giving the solution without telling us how you got it?
ReplyDeleteNo one trying 13A?
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DeleteDEMODULATE. Non-cryptic clue. Or am I missing something
DeleteWhy do you call it Non-cryptic?
DeleteIt's a CD.
DeleteModem is used to send/ receive a message carried by waves.
Modem- MO dulate/ DEModulate.
That is expansion of the Modem we have all got used to.
So to receive is to 'Demodulate'.
To end will be 'Modulate'.
DeleteSorry. Send and not end!
DeleteIt is still a direct definition, imo.
DeleteLike GK in electronics and telecommunications.
DeleteI also think it's a direct definition. Nothing cryptic.
DeleteAre CD/ DD not part of cryptic CW?
DeleteDD is double definition.
DeleteAll clues in a cryptic crossword need to be cryptic.
DeleteSo yeah Direct definition cannot be part of Cryptics.
CD is def part of cryptics.
However there is no cryptic in this clue. Demodulate has only one definition, get messge from carrier waves.
DeleteCarried by waves is not really a cryptic way of defining carrier waves. Is it?
How to get message from wind surfers!
DeleteWould have been excellent CD.
CD work on principle of 'Normal/surface reading' (as one would read any normal sentence or phrase) Vs 'Cryptic reading'. Surface reading herein was intended to point towards 'message in a bottle carried by sea waves'. Didn't work too well apparently!
DeleteEnjoyable cw.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know about diet. New to me. Just filled Lok Sabha with crossings.
Liked
MAGNA CARTA, SUPERSONIC, REFRACTORY & ASSEMBLE.
Thanx Vidhwan
9A Part of
ReplyDeleteIndian diet(Japanese legislature /parliament)- LOK SABHA.
I am not able to understand the role of 'part of'
Lok Sabha is only a part of Indian Parliament. The other part is Rajya Sabha.
ReplyDeleteA ha👍
DeleteThanks for both appreciation and very incisive critical comments. These help to improve.
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