Friday, 17 January 2025

No 14384, Friday 17 Jan 2025, Crescent

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ACROSS
8   Apply to institute including page with application blowing university's skilled faculty (9) EXPERTISE {EX{P}ERT}{I}{uSE}
9   Repeat performance choir hosts (4) ECHO [T]
10 Offence by the disheartened girl starts church sanction (7,2,6) BENEFIT OF CLERGY {OFFENCE+BY+ThE+GIRL}*
12 Number of left back in hockey entering pitch (6-3) TWENTY-ONE {T{WENT}{h...eY}ONE}
13 Refuse to kill the French revolutionary (5) OFFAL {OFF}{LA<=}
14 Guaranteed term protecting new user (7) ENSURED {EN{USER*}D}
17 Rider is coming in for victory round (7) PROVISO {IS} in {PRO}{V}{O}
19 Shock from a power circuit flipped (5) APPAL {A}{P}{LAP<=}
21 Time to go to California, in retirement plant crops (9) TRUNCATES {T}{RUN}{CA}{SET<=}
24 Silent investor, one of the friends with benefits? (8,7) SLEEPING PARTNER [D&CD]
25 Make sound and listen when king's left (4) HEAL HEA(-r+l)L
26 Hunt primarily, inter alia, running nation (9) LITHUANIA {HUNT+In..r+ALIA}*

DOWN
1   Best three say, not in proper place, steered to row (3,2,3,4) SET BY THE EARS*
2   Dogs lie barking in stretches (8) SPANIELS {SPAN{LIE*}S}
3   Advantage of expert tailor (6) PROFIT {PRO}{FIT}
4   Second portion taken out or taken up in café (6) BISTRO {BI{S}T}{OR<=}
5   Doing things without assistance feels hard, terrible not having a friend backing (4-4) SELF-HELP {FEELS+H}*{PaL<=}
6   Loaded spring retracted over point (4-2-2) WELL-TO-DO {WELL} and {O}{DOT}<=
7   Pay attention to cycles providing crop (6) KHARIF {(+k)KHAR(-k)}{IF}
11 Woke style frequently expressed, airily posturing funky nature (6,6) YELLOW STREAK {WOKE+STYLE+AiRiLy}*
15 Poorly baked without stuffing, lousy pudding (4-4) ROLY-POLY {POORLY}*{LousY}
16 Effect producing goose pimples with excessive love (8) DOTINGLY {DO}{TINGLY}
18 Chanting name occupies one, a lost penitent (8) INTONING {N} in {1}{aTONING}
20 Like better product's first advert (6) PREFER {Pr...t}{REFER}
22 Snobbish at university, shame! (6) UPPITY {UP}{PITY}
23 Literary collection in Arabic or Pushtu (6) CORPUS [T]

Reference List
Page = P, University = U, The in French = LA, Victory = V, Power = P, Time = T, King = R, Left = L, Second = S, Hard = H, Over = O, Name = N, University = UP

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61 comments:

  1. Padmanabhan17 January 2025 at 09:17

    2 hrs since the grid went up. Still nit even one comment?

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  2. Sathia17 January 2025 at 09:28

    It is crescent (moon) takes time for people to see properly(understanding clues)😀
    Sathia

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  3. Sujatha17 January 2025 at 09:34

    1A - apply = exert, Institute = i, page = p, application blowing university = use - u = se, ex(p)ert(is)se = skilled faculty

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  4. Sujatha17 January 2025 at 09:42

    10A - the disheartened = t(-h)e = te, offence+by+te+girl, starts as anagram indicator - benefit of clergy = church sanction.
    12A - left = went, pitch = tone, back in hockeY = y, t(went)t(y)one = twenty one = number
    17A - for = pro, victory = v, round = o, pro+v+is+o = proviso = rider
    21A - time = t, to go = run, California = CA, plant = set, in retirement = tes, t+run+ca+tes = truncates = crops

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  5. krishna17 January 2025 at 09:56

    9a - Echo anagrind from e in performance and cho from choir indicator of repeat
    23d - corpus - anagrind from c from arabic and or and p from pushtu indicator of literary collection

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    1. Padmanabhan17 January 2025 at 09:59

      Both are incorrect

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    2. krishna17 January 2025 at 10:08

      Could you please correct me why they are incorrect.

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    3. Gemini17 January 2025 at 10:10

      May be you may try the T route-)

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    4. krishna17 January 2025 at 10:17

      What is t route

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    5. Padmanabhan17 January 2025 at 10:18

      Good suggestion

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    6. Padmanabhan17 January 2025 at 10:19

      T is junction type of clue. Silution is hidden in the words if the clue itself. Refer left column by Col. desxribing various tyoes of clues

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    7. krishna17 January 2025 at 10:22

      Thanks

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  6. Padmanabhan17 January 2025 at 09:56

    Extremely good solving

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  7. krishna17 January 2025 at 10:05

    1d - set by the ears - anagram of best three say

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  8. krishna17 January 2025 at 10:17

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  9. krishna17 January 2025 at 10:24

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  10. D N M Rao17 January 2025 at 11:00

    2Dn SPANIELS - {SPAN{LIE*}S}

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  11. B N Acharya17 January 2025 at 11:01

    25 A HEAL - make sound (def) If L left becomes R king it is HEAR listen

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  12. DrBhanuMurthy17 January 2025 at 11:11

    6d
    Spring.....well
    Over...o
    Point.....dot
    Retracted...reverse
    Well to do.....loaded

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  13. Rengaswamy17 January 2025 at 11:11

    11d YELLOW STREAK; Def: funky nature, frequently AiRiLy is ARL, AnAgram of WOKE STYLE ARL

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  14. Steadyhands9217 January 2025 at 11:12

    26A Lithuania. HUNT+I+ ALIA. running is anagram indicator. I from inter , primarily indicates first letter.

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  15. Surendra17 January 2025 at 11:16

    3 D Profit- advantage
    Expert- pro
    Tailor- fit

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  16. H Ramachandran17 January 2025 at 11:25

    19a APPAL = Shock
    A+P(power)+PAL (Circuit LAP flipped)

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  17. Devi Prasad17 January 2025 at 11:25

    4D;bistro=cafe-portion(bit) taken second(s) or taken up(ro).

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  18. AJ17 January 2025 at 11:28

    7d KHARIF: crop
    Pay attention to: hark: ( cycles) KHAR
    Providing; IF

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  19. Sathia17 January 2025 at 11:34

    5D: doing things without assistance = self help
    (Feels)*
    Hard is h
    Friend is pal backing is lap without a is lp
    Hence, self(h)(e)(lp)
    Sathia

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  20. Steadyhands9217 January 2025 at 11:35

    13A. OFFAL . kill=off french =la, revolutionary la<=. Refuse= offal

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  21. RR17 January 2025 at 11:39

    16d, excessive love = dotingly
    Effect = do
    Producing goose pimples = tingly
    [(Do)(tingly)]

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  22. Remy17 January 2025 at 11:42

    15 ac rolypoly-pudding.
    poorly* +LousY..
    poorly+ly*

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  23. RR17 January 2025 at 11:43

    15d, pudding = Roly Poly
    [Poorly+ly]*(lousy, without stuffing)
    Baked = anind

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  24. RR17 January 2025 at 11:45

    2d, dogs = spaniels
    Stretches = spans
    Lie barking = iel*

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  25. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 January 2025 at 11:45

    22d UPPITY (UP)(PITY)
    At University: UP
    Shame : PITY
    Defn : Snobbish

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  26. RR17 January 2025 at 11:49

    In lieu of 2d, already answered
    20d, like better = prefer
    Product's first = P
    Advert = refer

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  27. Gemini17 January 2025 at 11:51

    At University= UP? is it a CW connotation?

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    1. Sree Sree17 January 2025 at 12:24

      No. British (londoneers mostly) usage to denote location "up north (at university)".

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    2. Gemini17 January 2025 at 12:34

      Thank you. A word learnt!

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  28. N Sridhar17 January 2025 at 11:52

    5D-self help-doing things without assistance; (feels+h)*+Pal-A<=

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  29. Steadyhands9217 January 2025 at 11:56

    14A. ENSURED. Term = end, new indicates anagram of user. Guaranteed= ensured.

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  30. Sathia17 January 2025 at 12:04

    9A,23A, 24A, 18D anno pending.
    25A to be solved.
    Sathia

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    1. Anand17 January 2025 at 15:03

      23A CORPUS (Anagram in ' Arabic or Pushtu)

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  31. Sathia17 January 2025 at 12:05

    23D not 23A.
    Sathia

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  32. Sathia17 January 2025 at 12:07

    25A already solved.
    Sathia

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  33. Sekar17 January 2025 at 12:35

    9a - echo. PerformancE CHOir.
    23d - corpus = collection. ArabiC OR PUShtu.

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  34. Gemini17 January 2025 at 13:41

    18D. Anno
    I= one
    N= name
    Atoning=( penitent )-a( lost a)= toning
    Occupies is anagrind.

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  35. Jacob Brahmakulam17 January 2025 at 13:43

    18D INTONING; chanting; 1 N aTONING

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  36. Col_Gopinath17 January 2025 at 13:52

    Krishna,
    Time and again I have mentioned to you not to post answers without annotations. Despite that you continue to do so and have the cheek to say that it is a wild guess. In case you do not want to follow the rules, please do not comment on my blog.

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  37. SandhyaP17 January 2025 at 13:54

    24 Silent investor, one of the friends with benefits? (8,7) SLEEPING PARTNER (D & CD)

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