Sunday, 23 February 2025

Special, Sunday 23 Feb 2025, Ghaza

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54 comments:

  1. 3D: ANTE (ExTeNd An) <--
    16d: REDEPLOY (RED) (E(-M) PLOY)
    24D: ETHNIC (T)

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    1. 3D. Bide= bid( stake)+ e for extended ?

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    2. 'Oddly raised' - odd letters to be raised (reversal indicator for a down clue)

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  2. 1D ANGOOR = film {mANGO ORanges, telescopic}
    16D REDPLOY = assign to another task { RED, communist + EmPLOY, use without money M}
    20 A DENIM = fabric { moDErn, paNts, prIMal, inner parts}

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    1. 25A PALETTE = range of colours { fair PALE + TTE railway employee} replacement for 16D

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  3. 26A: play= Macbeth
    (Be match)*
    Sathia

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    1. 4D: water sport = jet ski
      Jack is j
      Also* means yet (-y). Symbol * indicates short
      Avoid is skip, mostly is ski(-p)
      Hence, (j)(et)(ski)
      Sathia

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    2. 10A: gymnasts attire= maillot
      Send is mail
      Plenty is lot
      Hence, (mail)(lot)
      Sathia

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    3. Hi Sathia,

      Jet Ski is correct, but the anno for "et" is different

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  4. 25ac palette pale(fair) tte(rly official)
    37dn cone ( acrostic)

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  5. 12ac 1615ac twelfth night
    Twelfth(One of dozen)night (things-s) *

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  6. 9a NOMINEE
    def: representative
    prev. number = 9 = nine (As in 9 across)
    zero million = OM
    base = e
    { n(o)(m)ine } {e}

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    1. 12a, 15a TWELFTH NIGHT
      def: play (shakespeare)
      one of dozen = twelfth
      (thing(-s))* = night

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    2. 16a REKEYED
      def: entered again
      key read ~ rekeyed

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    3. replacement for 12a/15a
      28a OXALATE
      def: salt
      (a)(late) <=> (ox)

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  7. Replacement for 25ac
    6dn sire and mom (minors made) *

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  8. I had set this one quite some time ago. I don't think the clueing is smooth.
    I hope the clueing in my recent ones has become smoother.

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    1. In lighter vein, your recent ones having clues more trickier than this. 😀
      Sathia

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    2. Hmmm . . . Thank you for the feedback :) :)
      I should start setting simpler clues then. At least put quite a few simple clues in each puzzle.

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  9. 5d EMPTIEST: least full
    Loudest: from empty vessels make more noise

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    1. 17d KING LEAR: play
      Weight: kg within: with in gives k(in)g
      French: le artist: ar

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    2. how does the (in) go inside (kg) ? what is the indicator ?
      also artist is RA, right ?

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    3. with is the indicator.
      I thought "ar" is also used for artist. Is that wrong?

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    4. Weight with in: kg with in

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    5. I also vaguely remembered that at is also used for artist.

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    6. Ra for the artist is being commonly used.

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  10. Here's my listing of what's remaining:
    Across: 11, 13, 19, 21, 29
    Down: 2, 5, 7, 8, 18, 22, 23

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  11. 22 d Yamaha -seller of motorbik-es and keyboards.
    29 ac henry vi Aids-hiv jealousy -envy -v+R.
    h(enry)iv.
    21a qayamat se qayamat tak.
    pier-quay-u a mat-carpet twice-mat se tak-e

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  12. 8d, restless child = itchy tot
    Model = t
    (Hot city t)*
    Built = anag ind

    2d, film = Om(k(-i)ara)
    Mantra = om
    Advance = Kiara, actress

    18d, removed an item = dequeued
    Act = deed
    Truncated sequence = queue, - e






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  13. 2d, please read advance as advani
    Film = OmKara

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    1. means the clue indicated as heroine advani. her name is kiara advani

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  14. 5D- Rattlest- (Artleast)*. Full as anind?
    Def.- Loudest vessels

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  15. But 'Rattlest' as a word? My spell check objects and on checking it is used either s a verb or noun. It has to be an adj to have rattler,rattlest

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  16. OMKARA film(def) OM mantra KARA kiara minus I (kiara Advani)

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  17. I am wrong. The correct solution is
    Emptiest
    Ref. to empty vessels making loudest noise.

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  18. 11a ONAGERS; animals; NO<= AGE RS (house)
    19a TEMPEST (storm) EMPTiEST* (answer for 5d)
    23d THENYL; group of compounds TH(E)(N)Y(L) ; not sure what is the asterik for , yet.

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    1. Three answers per commenter till 1 PM (Annotations compulsory)
      So after 1 PM is it open?

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    2. I guess so.
      Though Colonel decides the rules.

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    3. 13a REACQUIRE; eSUIRE<=>REACh, headless landowner and heartless arrival

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  20. 6D- I have not seen the solution.
    Sire and Mom- (Minors made)*
    Parents is the def. and jelly is the anind. Good one.

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  21. Theme is Shakespeare drama
    Tempest, Twelth Night, King Lear, Henry IV, Macbeth, Angoor ( Comedy of Errors) Omkara ( Macbeth).
    Ghaza, anything more to it?

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    1. Qayamat se Qayamat tak (Romeo and Juliet)

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    2. Yes, you got all of them.

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    3. Does this help guess the purpose of the "*" ???

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  22. 2d - {OM}{KARA}
    Mantra - OM
    for the Advani heroine - KIARA
    to lose out on one - I
    film - OMKARA

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  23. Often we use "*" to indicate clues that are part of the theme.
    Here, "*" is used for something similar but different.
    It does indicate "related to the theme".
    Maybe it's too twisted a usage of that concept, but that's what happened in this puzzle.

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  24. Any clues left can be solved by anyone

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  25. Only 7d is left.
    And a bit of clarification of the anno for 4d and 23d

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