Thursday, 1 May 2025

No 14473, Thursday 01 May 2025, Avtaar

Artwork by Prasanna
Solution to 3D 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 solve, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS
1   A Navy craft? I should think so (3,3) AND HOW {A}{N}{DHOW}
4   Fearsome Don providing guns (8) ALARMING {AL}{ARMING}
9   Scrap in prison room getting reported (6) CANCEL {CAN}{(~cell)CEL}
10 Choose to drink before, with lead character in the amateur musical drama (8) OPERETTA {OP{ERE}T}{The}{A} 
11 Ruler traversing India by ship near seaside, treated for glandular fever (7,7) KISSING DISEASE {K{I}{SS}ING}{SEASIDE*}
13 Flowers, say, on fringe of centrepiece in bar reflecting ray of sunlight (10) BUTTERCUPS {UTTER}{Ce...e} in {PUB<=}{Su...t}
14 Ladies' wear from Kashmir - asymmetrically going around (4) SARI [T<=]
16 Soil remains behind cross (4) TASH {ASH}<=>{T}
18 Two female champions gripping ends of torso in competition (4-2-4) FACE-TO-FACE {F}{ACE}{TorsO}{F}{ACE}
21 Struggling, maybe? Very odd to assume debt - that is the last thing I will do (4,2,4,4) OVER MY DEAD BODY {MAYBE+VERY+ODD}* over {OD}
23 Hot, troublesome, mostly reckless disruptors (8) HECKLERS {H}{RECKLESs}*
24 Rime of the Ancient Mariner? (2-2-2) YO-HO-HO [GK]
25 A yacht's bow and stern submerged in leak before start of summer cruises (3,5) DAY TRIPS {D{A}{YachT}RIP}{Su...r}
26 African political group initially involved in deal with moneylending (6) USANCE {US{ANC}E}

DOWN
1   Tips of arrows ricocheted, controlled optimally with the bow (4) ARCO {Ar...s}{Ri...d}{Co...d}{Op...y}
2   One drilling cavity, circling raised seat (7) DENTIST {DEN{SIT<=}T}
3   Runs away, escaping from trap (8) O?E?S?E? (Addendum - OVERSEES (~overseas) - See comments)
5   Butterflies piled up near theatre's entrance amidst show (11) LEPIDOPTERA {PILED*}{OP{Th...e}ERA}
6   Empty refuge camouflaged by overthrown ruler is most difficult to locate (6) RAREST {Re..gE} in {TSAR<=}
7   Opening segment in latest commercial picture withdrawn (7) INTRADA {IN} with {AD}{ART}<=
8   Source of red and white pear given out (9) GRAPEVINE*
12 Broken sides of divan crack open completely (4,3,4) NECK AND CROP {DivaN+CRACK+OPEN}*
13 Fiancé is fantastic - hotter in couch (9) BETROTHED {BE{HOTTER*}D}
15 Spooner John eyes records (8) LOGBOOKS (~bog looks to logbooks)
17 Crude vessel docked in Sicily's shores (7) SKETCHY {Sic{KETCH}iclY}
19 American in a hurry accepts suggestions from nationalists, democrats etc (3,2,2) AND SO ON {A}{Na...s}{De...s}{SOON}
20 One taking a stroll left, restricted by cautionary signal (6) AMBLER {AMB{L}ER}
22 Donkey's well - nursed by Avtaar (4) MOKE {M{OK}E}

Reference List
Navy = N, Don = AL(Capone), Prison = CAN, Before = ERE, Amateur = A, India = I, Ship = SS, Female = F, Debt = OD(Overdue), Hot = H, Latest = IN, Commercial = AD, American = A, Left = L
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39 comments:

  1. Gemini1 May 2025 at 09:03

    7D. Art ad= commerical pic.
    Or art= pic? Couldn't find a synonym to the best of my search
    I presumed adcart as a commercial pic?

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  2. Padmanabhan1 May 2025 at 09:08

    Commercial= Ad
    Picture= Art ( imagine a painting)
    Withdrawn- reversal

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  3. Gemini1 May 2025 at 09:29

    I didn't get picture = art.chec ked the dictionaries..perhaps I need a deepercheck to do

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  4. Padmanabhan1 May 2025 at 09:35

    Why a deeper check etc. ? An oil painting etc. is called a picture and it is a piece of art. Sometimes dic. alone don't give you the complete picture.

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    1. Padmanabhan1 May 2025 at 09:49

      Is the picture (Drawing) above by Prasanna a form of art?

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    2. Sree Sree1 May 2025 at 10:02

      Painting is an art, not picture. It could be an example of art.

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    3. Sreeni1 May 2025 at 10:23

      Here is the definition of picture from the dictionary " a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.:

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    4. Sree Sree1 May 2025 at 10:36

      Yes. Its visual representation using an art form.
      Painting is a synonym for art as in the skill to use paint.
      Painting is a synonym for picture as in visual representation.
      But two diff defs.

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    5. Padmanabhan1 May 2025 at 10:37

      When Ravi Varma paints a God, it is art/ painting and when it is transformed into a calendar, it becomes a picture.

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  5. Padmanabhan1 May 2025 at 09:38

    Today's print edition of TH (Metroplus) carries the start of new Quick CW (instead of one by Guardian). And guess who sets the ball rolling?!! One Doppelganger!! Yes,we know him well.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao1 May 2025 at 10:17

      I am not seeing Metroplus edition in today's e-paper

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    2. Col_Gopinath1 May 2025 at 12:46

      It is there with the Chennai edition

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao1 May 2025 at 13:21

      Thanks Col, I liked it.

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    4. Padmanabhan1 May 2025 at 16:22

      Did you notice he has signed his name in 23d!

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    5. Kolluru Koteswara Rao1 May 2025 at 19:29

      It was a pretty pass, Paddy. It didn't strike me

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  6. Padmanabhan1 May 2025 at 09:48

    Thank you Prasanna for the thoughtful picture of a crane on May Day. And it says 1.

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    1. Sathia1 May 2025 at 10:57

      +1
      Sathia

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    2. Prasanna Rao1 May 2025 at 11:59

      Thanks to Paddy sir & Mr Sathia
      My sincere thanks to Col.sir for posting my Artwork.

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  7. Gemini1 May 2025 at 09:50

    When I am setting clues to our coterie, the wordsmiths are accusing me of verb/ noun mismatch .. Usually in CW, this mismatch is not a serious concern. Right?

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    1. Col_Gopinath1 May 2025 at 09:58

      It is a serious concern

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    2. Sree Sree1 May 2025 at 09:59

      POS match is a must. Def and s has to be one.

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    3. Gemini1 May 2025 at 10:12

      Thank you gentlemen

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    4. Gemini1 May 2025 at 10:15

      Can i share the clue that I set , with you , Colonel sir, privately ( in your mail)?

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    5. Sreeni1 May 2025 at 10:16

      Part of speech of definition must be the same . You can't even have "to talk" for "speech" even if "to" is a connector. But you can have the same word in the surface and cryptic readings to be used in different parts of speech and, in fact, it is part of misdirection which is an important element of cryptic crosswords

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  8. Devi Prasad1 May 2025 at 09:52

    Nice artwork Prasanna ji on May Day.
    Crane happens to be the one of the
    first technological innovations which
    reduced labour(took away jobs?)!!

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    1. Prasanna Rao1 May 2025 at 13:34

      Thank you Devi sir. Now w/o crane and technologies things will not move. the comforts should provide the ground level labours..........

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  9. Ramki Krishnan1 May 2025 at 13:58

    3D: OVERSEES
    Def = runs
    Homophone of OVERSEAS = away
    escaping from trap = homophone indicator (trap = mouth)

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    1. Sathia1 May 2025 at 14:06

      I thought it is a DD
      Runs away =Overstep= escaping from trap.
      Sathia

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    2. Prasanna Rao1 May 2025 at 14:06

      Great solve Ramki..............

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    3. Padmanabhan1 May 2025 at 16:26

      +1
      I filled in with the help of crossings but could not parse it.
      Sathia, Runs/ runs away does not go with 'Overstep'

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    4. Sree Sree1 May 2025 at 18:15

      Indicators should be straight,not derivative/wp.
      Informal trap to mouth, escapes from mouth to slip of tongue to hp. Too much word play.

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    5. Prasanna Rao1 May 2025 at 18:29

      me too sir...I could not make anno. like Ramki.....however the answer is correct.

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    6. VMA Nair1 May 2025 at 19:23

      Prasad ji , it’s a common HP Ind, apparently

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    7. Sree Sree1 May 2025 at 19:27

      British crossies, I agree.

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    8. VMA Nair1 May 2025 at 19:49

      Works for me and I think it’s quite useful 🙂

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    9. Sree Sree1 May 2025 at 20:52

      No No from me. Because thats a plougher route.

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    10. Padmanabhan2 May 2025 at 09:14

      Gridman used to say that we generally follow British CW's.

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  10. Subramanian1 May 2025 at 19:31

    Except for 8 Down, that is, Grapevine, today I found almost all other clues, clueless. In my view, some clues are absurd - for instance, how come "Runs Away, Escaping From Trap" (3-Down) becomes "Oversees" ?

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    1. VMA Nair1 May 2025 at 19:51

      Away = overseas
      Escaping from trap = coming out from mouth = homophone indicator
      Homophone of overseas = oversees = Runs

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