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Sunday, 19 May 2019

Special, Sunday 19 May 2019, K Koteswar Rao


Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.


ACROSS
7   What a pity! Kickback today (3,3)
8   Weapon manufacturer is a second grade nameless griever (8)
9   Natural response not initially audible, recording note (8)
10 Departure of old flame on frequent holdouts (6)
11 Thick impressions reportedly (5)
12 Criticism about struggle with West (6)
14 An economic trend? Perhaps it isn't my business (1,2,3,9)
17 Toy or Troy on pillage? (6)
18 Hatred upset Modi upfront (5)
22 Extract the essence by boiling in two months? (6)
23 Make public well near church – It is subject to country’s jurisdiction (8)
24 Observe what follows when half the energy is spent with stick around (4,4)
25 Get the better of clothes changing from/to wife (6)

DOWN
1   Look before you leap out of barge panel to get at the watering-hole (6,3)
2   Mammal in rising ocean sinks (6)
3   Hooked adjunct but no joint (5)
4   He may not remember misalliance, not ill-treatment (8)
5   Contest fought without husband ferociously on green revolution (3-2-3)
6   Primate bird in the middle of both sides. (5)
8   Actively engaged when coach left a tea dance (2,3,8)
13 Creature in the main ancient city’s feature (3,6)
15 Abstract subject has no answer for Oscar (8)
16 Perhaps prime time, neither is at fault (8)
19 Place, place inside flower (6)
20 Record breaking dowry in store (5)
21 The sound of speed measured by volume and space (5)

Across Lite version van be accessed at KKR 23

Enjoy.

The Sunday Crossword No 3048, Sunday 19 May 2019


ACROSS
1   Best-laid plans (that is, what's expected to succeed) (2,4,3,3) OF MICE AND MEN [GK]
10 Former European politican talks emptily, making excuses (7) EXEMPTS {EX}{E}{MP}{TalkS}
11 Time out before study in space age unit (3,4) GAP YEAR {GAP}{YEAR}
12 King rode off before giving command (5) ORDER {RODE}*<=>{R}
13 Was familiar with where to buy cold meats: they say, in a big city (3,5) NEW DELHI (~ knew deli)
15 Lecturer with big book about gravy boat culture finally finds desired piece of terminology (2,3,5) LE MOT JUSTE {L}{TOME<=}{JUS}{boaT{c...rE}
16 What an employer does is manipulates (4) USES [DD]
18 Care of company address for Chanel (4) COCO {CO}{CO}
20 Outfit with attempt to convey 'pizazz' (3-2-3-2) GET-UP-AND-GO {GETUP}{AND}{GO}
22 Dramatic drop in bill at seedy bar (4,4) NOSE DIVE {NOSE}{DIVE}
24 Conservative pursues cut back, at first taking on the money (5) EXACT {AXE<=}{C}{Ta...g}
26 They might spell trouble, 200 wains (7) WICCANS {CC+WAINS}*
27 Sporting achievement in show (4,3) HOME RUN [DD]
28 Sh! The man I saw crawling around – you know... thingummy... (5-3-4) WHATS HIS NAME*

DOWN
2   Release, from loud wind instrument, a contemplative sound (7) FREEDOM {F}{REED}{OM}
3   Exemption from prosecution right for nuclear pollution (8) IMPURITY IMPU(-n+r)RITY
4   Comfort to be found in tea set (4) EASE [T]
5   Half of lectures skipped after negative feedback's beginning: university student's remiss (10) NEGLECTFUL {NEG}{LECTures}{Fe...k}{U}{L}
6   Languidly moved bike (5) MOPED [DD]
7   Largely unnecessary heckles (7) NEEDLES NEEDLESs
8   Gather up old lamps to collect mint in long-running TV show (3,6,4) TEN OCLOCK NEWS {NET<=}{O}{CLOCK{NEW}S} Lamps/Clocks?
9   Novel, starting point for film (13) TRAINSPOTTING*
14 Oversees 'Pies Versus Stew' (10) SUPERVISES*
17 Salem's gone berserk: an Arthur Miller play's subject (8) SALESMAN {SALEM*}{AN}
19 Wimbledon champ, bully, gets easy money (4,3) CASH COW {CASH}{COW}
21 Taj Mahal's setting captured in simple drawing (7) DIAGRAM {DI{AGRA}M}
23 Naiad, fabulous goddess (5) DIANA*
25 Said what you might find on collar of Siamese (4) THAI (~tie)

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Saturday, 18 May 2019

No 12629, Saturday 18 May 2019, Bruno

Across

5. Dangerous snafu! Building's close to collapse (6) UNSAFE {SNAFU*}{collapsE}
7. Minister gets air-conditioner first, correct? (8) ACCURATE {AC}{CURATE}
9. Component of education that's less serious and ribald (8) LITERACY {LITE}{RACY}
10. As one.. yet free? Requires reversal of heart (6) UNITED {UN(T<=>I)ED}
11. Armchair general's speciality: find flag unit & march it around (12) FAULTFINDING {FIND+FLAG+UNIT*}
13. Throughout success or calamity, retained Western perspective (6) ACROSS (T<=)
15. Samurai Soldiers Started Swinging Shiny Steel Sabres? (6) SWORDS (Rebus - S Words)
18. Selfish aim of most Indians: to get tax breaks ensure top-tier income tax is avoided, bottom-tier's collected... (2,3,2,5) AN AXE TO GRIND {INDIANs+TO+GET+TAX-(Tier  IT)*}around {tieR}
21. Boy runs and gets ready (6) BRACES {B}{RACES}
22. Her Majesty's son put on Navy's ultimate vessel (8) LADYSHIP {LAD}{navY}{SHIP}
23. First Oriental soldier — Chinese dynasty's threatening (8) ONCOMING {Oriental}{NCO}{MING}
24. How to make something colourful... even endlessly positive (3-3) TIE-DYE {TIED}{YEs}

Down

1. Last battle in ol' war to crush Napoleon? (8) WATERLOO {battlE} in {OL+WAR+TO*} &lit
2. Benefit of man putting on weight is being reviewed (6) BEHALF {FLA{HE}B<=}
3. Is living in plutocracies difficult when alt-Right is not around? (8) OCCUPIES {PLUTOCRACIES-{ALT+R}*}
4. Drawing after drinking beer #4 is not easy (6) TRYING {T{beeR}YING}
6. Problem with subtlety is... it's hidden (8) NUISANCE {NU{IS}ANCE}
7. Somebody's article — there's epilogue at the end (6) ANYONE {AN}{YON}{epiloguE}
8. Level of stream's starting to die off on one side (4) TIER Anno not clear
12. I refuse to include fool's name (8) IDENTITY {I}{DEN{TIT}Y}
14. Covers king in warm garment (8) SEALSKIN {SEALS}{K}{IN}
16. Makes improvements after firing public relations monsters (8) OGRESSES {prOGRESSES}
17. Spooner's lease cut — that could cause sleeplessness (3,3) JET LAG {(+J-l)ET-(+L-j)AG}
18. Support from members of branch organisation (6) ANCHOR (T)
19. Original short poem and timeless song (6) ODDITY {ODe}{DItTY}
20. Elderly relative managed to put end of leg over head (4) GRAN {leG}{RAN}

Reference List


Air-conditioner=AC, Income Tax=IT, Boy=B, Soldier=NCO, Chinese dynasty=Ming
Man=He, Right=R, Article=An, King=K, Public Relations=PR, Time=T, Managed=Ran

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DefinitionSolutionComponent lettersEmbedded linksTheme word Anagram IndicatorC/C indicatorReversal IndicatorHidden word IndicatorLetter Pick indicatorDeletion IndicatorHomophone IndicatorMovement IndicatorPositional IndicatorSubstitution, IndicatorLink/Connector, Extraneous

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