Friday, 12 December 2025

No 14663, Friday 12 Dec 2025, Vidwan

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ACROSS
1   Corporate pass to work in USA with locals crossing borders (13)
10 Bits of treats, usually cookies, kept at buffet (4,3)
11 Swimmer can endlessly shift waves (7)
12 Reply quietly, passing time for recount (6)
13 Attacked vehemently when son was sick (8)
15 Popular suggestion - banning bold holy books or abstractions (11)
17 Pull for work (3)
18 Not a walk for cheap fellow (3)
20 Hospital Ophelia! I am sick with uncontrollable bleeding! (11)
22 Only ego and love involved in science of making wines (8)
24 Nightmares in certain cubicles (6)
26 Abomination from toon country, possibly (7)
27 A way to travel with legs on either side (7)
28 Destabilising current throne to reach safe position (4,3,6)

DOWN
2   Angrily I cut cop's head at the back (7)
3   City near incomplete arena with the endless maze (9)
4   Lad holding cross, square in shape and plain (4)
5   Fish tosses nut scratching backside (4,6)
6   Four kinds of fish (5)
7   Animal doctor hold new line of small conduits for carrying a vital liquid (7)
8   Opening talk about promiscuous lady's love consumed by ale (8,5)
9   Advertisement during show? It can be about opposition counterparts of the ministers (6,7)
14 Not new gramophone, I'm excited for an old age stencil copier (10)
16 Ring shaped muscle of tailless mythical creature, more attractive without slightest of utility (9)
19 Bird with habitat in a mountain (7)
21 Setting clue in English for an amino acid (7)
23 Buttermilk from Phultala, Bangladesh (5)
25 Mostly chat about a cosmetic powder (4)

40 comments:

  1. 22a penology science of making wines from only ego o (love) anagram
    19d Tinamou - bird from habitaTIN A MOU ntain
    23d lamban - buttermilk from phultaLA BANgladesh
    28a turn the corner -reach safe position from current throne anagram
    27a Astride legs on either side from A st- way ride travel


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  2. 22a: OENOLOGY= science of wine making
    Anagram of ONLY + EGO +O (love)

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  3. 23d: LABANG = buttermilk
    from PhultaLA BANGladesh

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    1. Enu is only 5 but your solution has 6 letters

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  4. 7d: Animal doctor = VET
    VET+ LINE anagrammed gives
    VEINLET: small vessel in plants and humans to carry fluids water/ blood

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    1. Refine pls.
      Not total anagram.
      The way you annotated, it becomes indirect anagram.

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  5. 18a GIT=cheap fellow
    Ga̶IT,
    20a,HAEMOPHILIA=sick with uncontrollable bleeding
    {Ho̶s̶p̶i̶t̶a̶l̶+OPHELIA+I+AM}*
    26 a NAMIBIA=country
    (namibia+toon)=abomination
    19d TINAMOU=bird
    habitaT IN A MOUntain(T)

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  6. 13ac: when = AS
    S from Son
    was sick: AILED
    ASSAILED: Attacked vehemently

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  7. Sorry about 23d: It is LABAN from PhultaLA BANgladesh

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  8. 16d SPHINCTER=ring shaped muscle
    SPHINx(mythical creature, tailless)+Cu̶TER(more attractive without (u)tility

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  9. 20.ac. Haemophilia. H from Hospital +iiOphelia + I am
    24.ac. Incubi. In from certain+ cubi from cubicles
    28.ac. Turn the corner. Rearranging letters from current throne
    14.dn. Mimeograph. Gramophone - delete 'n'(new) and 'o' (not)+ I 'm
    21.dn. Leucine. Clue in + E from English

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    1. 28 A - It is expressed as
      ( current throne)*
      Anind- Destabilisation. This must be indicated.
      Please follow the notations used in the blog

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  10. One correction : in 20 ac. Read Ophelia. Instead of iiOphelia

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  11. 24 A- Pl.mention it is a T clue
    certa(IN CUBI) cles

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  12. Vidwan getting more concerts in December season!!!!

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  13. My last for the day

    9d: SHADOW CABINET=opposition counterpart of ministers
    Advertisement = AD
    AD+SHOW rearranged is SHADOW
    IT CAN BE rearranged gives CABINET

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    1. Not exactly. Refine. Look what during means

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  14. in lieu of 19d(answered earlier)
    9d SHADOW CABINET =opposition counterpart of ministers
    AD during SHOW=SHADOW
    (it can be)*=CABINET

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  15. 25d: TALC = TALK-K+C
    TALK=chat-> mostly TALK=TAL
    C= about (circa)

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  16. 8D:starting point=opening
    talk(sing)about promiscuous lady(tart)
    love(o) consumed by ale(pint)
    [{s(tart)ing}{p(o)int}]

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  17. 1Ac COLLABORATIVE - {COL}{LABOR}{nATIVEs}

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    1. Col-Pass; Labor - US spelling of Labour - Work; Locals - Natives -without borders - Ative

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  18. 8D: opening = starting point
    (S(tart)ing p(o)int)
    Promiscuous lady is tart
    Talk is sing
    Love is o
    Ale is pint
    Sathia

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    1. In lieu of 8D,
      11A: swimmer= catfish
      Can endlessly is ca
      (Shift)*
      Waves is anagram indicator
      Hence, (ca(tfish))
      Sathia

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  19. 10 ac tuck box - box of treats.
    T reats U sually Cvookies Kept.box-buffet.

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  20. 12A REPORT recount(def) reply - reT ort P quietly for T time

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  21. 2d anagram of {i cut cop}"s is OCCIPUT = Back of the head

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  22. 3d. LABYRINTH. - Maze
    LA. - City
    BY. - Near
    RIN. - Arena RIn(-g) incomplete
    TH. - TH(-e).the endless

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  23. 11A {CA}n endlessly + {SHIFT} anagram is CATFISH swimmer

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  24. 4d: boxy = square in shape and plain.
    Lad - boy, cross - x.
    6d: tetra = four and fish
    12a: report = recount.
    Reply-retort, quietly (p) passing time(t)
    17a: tow = pull / work.
    3d: labyrinth = maze.
    City - LA, near - by, incomplete arena - rin(g) and endless th(e).

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  25. 15 A intangibles- abstractions
    Popular - in
    Suggestion- tang
    Holy books- bibles
    Banning bold - (-b)
    In tang (-b)ibles

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  26. 27A A + ST (way = Stree) + RIDE (travel) ASTRIDE

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  27. 14D {Gramoph}-one (not new=neo) + {im} MIMEOGRAPH stencil copy machine

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