Saturday 4 November 2017

No 12154, Saturday 04 Nov 2017, Dr. X

Across
1. Common trouble when wife’s ignoredOverwhelming outcry ending in melodrama (8) ORDINARY {wOR{DIN}{melodramA}RY}
5. Classified // description of emotionally well-balanced person (6) SORTED (DD)
10. Roves around Russian town (5) SEROV {ROVES*}
11. One who harasses chaps in hills (9) TORMENTOR {TOR}{MEN}{TOR}
12. Please // take into consideration (9) ENTERTAIN (DD)
13. Struggling from envy in group (5) VYING (T)
14. Ruffian outside toilet perhaps revealing a lot? (3-3) LOW-CUT {LO{W-C}UT}
15. Wants mother to cook hot aromatic French bean (7) HARICOT {H+AROmaTIC}*
18. Moving towards land, schooner sinks! Many killed (7) ONSHORE {ScHOONER}*
20. Soldiers thrash one at island (6) TAHITI {TA}{HIT}{I}
22. Curiously loves small rodents (5) VOLES {LOVES*}
24. Performer who likes his meals very hot? (4-5 ) FIRE-EATER (D&CD)
25. Break down? Hurry to confer with top doctor (3,2,4) RUN TO SEED {RUN} {TO} {SEE}{Doctor}
26. Pain of fractured finger! Needs splinting essentially (5) GRIEF {FInGER}*
27. On reflection, setter stops and rewrites (6) EMENDS {ME<=}{ENDS}
28. In a way, sweater perhaps protects one (2,2,4) AS IT WERE {SWEATER*} around {I}

Down
1. Eviction of suspicious outsider lacking identification (6) OUSTER {OUTSidER*}
2. Dreadful dinosaur gobbles bone and stretches (9) DURATIONS {DINOSAUR*} around {T}
3. No disagreements? Hardly the motto of those solving this! (5,1,5,4) NEVER A CROSS WORD {NEVER} {A} {CROSSWORD}
4. Cancel religious education sermon (7) RETRACT {RE}{TRACT}
6. Fractionally drunk? (3,4,3,5) ONE OVER THE EIGHT (CD)
7. Expression of disapproval is rejected by African people (5) TUTSI {TUT}{IS<=}
8. Disparage and slaughter revolutionary in meeting (8) DEROGATE {D{GORE<=}ATE}
9. One twisting with promiscuous woman around castle (6) WRENCH {W{R}ENCH}
16. Leave no margin for error! // Use the shredder? (3,2,4) CUT IT FINE (DD)
17. Gossip — Film features bit of nudity with extremes of sleaze (8) CONVERSE {CO{Nudity}VER}{SleazE}
19. Towering personality from France? (6) EIFFEL (CD)
20. Abuses one breaking traffic signal primarily (7) TIRADES {T{I}RADE}{Signal}
21. Nothing // to treat frivolously (6) TRIFLE (DD)
23. Caught in alley with sharp weapon (5) LANCE {LAN{C}E}

Reference List
Wife=W, Hot=H, Many=C, Soldiers=TA, One=I, Setter=Me
Identification=Id, Bone=T, Religious Education=RE, Castle=R, Caught=C

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


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47 comments:

  1. Nice enjoyable CW with an equally nice blog by Ramesh. Thank you to both.
    tut- tut after a long tme. Where is PP?

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  2. 2D- Does bone give T? I could not directly connect, though T- bone is a staek (with a piece of bone) Doc. should know better,anyway. Just wanted clarification on that.

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  3. http://nosetotailapp.com/blog/anatomy-t-bone

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    1. That is where I wanted clarification. It refers to a steak rather than a bone.

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  4. LANCE Naik Rahul who went to TAHITI by SAIL
    Seeing a woman dressed in LOW CUT,
    With a man ON SHORE coming out of a hut
    Would've sent a picture postcard by ORDINARY mail.

    A guy sending one of EIFFEL tower
    And all such post would get SORTED
    To distant destinations transported
    AS IT WERE that's what happened that day and hour.

    But these days people are VYING about things TRIFLE
    They ENTERTAIN themselves with a smart phone
    Even a thing of GRIEF gets a passing comment

    All they want is dazzling beauty eyeful
    Whether what they see is true is unknown
    What else can you and I do but LAMENT?

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  5. In Chess R(ook) is also called castle

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  6. Enjoyable crossie Doc!
    Liked 24A, 27A and 6D a lot.

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  7. Very engaging puzzle, innovative cluing

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  8. Thanks Bhala indeed, coming from you! Look forward to meeting you on 3rd Dec :)

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    1. Have been enjoying your puzzles Satyen, also following your successes in CCCWC. Really glad to see you setting for THC. Yes, await the S&B meet

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  9. Thank you Ram for the timely info. I got 100%- a rarity.

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  10. For the first time, I could complete a puzzle by Dr.X. Easy puzzle, or was I clever today?!

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    1. Truly glad you completed Soumya. The setter always wants the solver to eventually prevail!

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    2. prevail eventually/eventually prevail

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  11. Amazing grid! Loved 1. Never a cross word 2. As it were 3. Fire eater. :)

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  12. A very intriguing puzzle,Thank you.
    I have a looong way to go to prevail though!
    Need help to understand 11A and 20D .

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    1. Sorry that was meant to be 4D and 11A.

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    2. 11A:Tor=hill hence hills=tor + tor
      Chaps=men
      Men in tor & tor
      Tor(men)tor=definition=one who harasses
      20D
      Traffic=trade
      One=I(Roman letter for one)
      Signal primarily : to pick the first letter of Signal=S
      Hence I in trade+ S=T(I)RADE S

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    3. 4D Relegious Education=RE
      Sermon=Tract
      Retract=cancel=definition

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    4. Thank you
      Guessed it was tormentor,didn't know tor meant hill.

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    5. Thanks Usha! You will prevail:)... and Vasant thanks for the detailed explanation. You truly are always helpful! Hope you can make it on 3rd...

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    6. Thanks Dr. I am trying to manage my holidays with our meeting

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  13. Dr. Satyen Nabar: Logged in late night here. Enjoyed immensely. I found NEVER A CROSS WORD in a new avatar. I have done the same phrase as a solver should never have a Cross word with the compiler like you !

    I thought where the personality in EIFFEL came from; Then I realized that he was one of the personality who helped in the engineering of it ! Very clever and misleading personality you are !

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    1. Thanks Raju:) Can you not make it on the 3rd? Would love to meet you! You are a towering personality from India! :)

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  14. Round 7 again without any red in my solutions. Anyway, it was the simplest setting ever in the current season.

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  15. Dr. Satyen Nabar: Ah ah ! If wishes were donkeys ! I would love to meet all our friends and this time, quite a number of them, including you. However, I don't like Madras at all as I have acquired very bad memories of the place and especially now, with the rains doing havoc, my decision is more emboldened in terms of opting out. I also do not like train journeys, even this be short. I have been requesting for a MEET in Coimbatore and I don't know when this is to be !.I had held a successful exhibition for a whole day in Nairobi 2008, which was well attended and covered by the media, displaying my memorabilia. I plan to hold one in Coimbatore but I don't have many enthusiasts here. It will have to be only in 2018 after the holidays of this year. Until then , I am to stay content with only one-on-one meets with friends like the Col and CV sir. No doubt, I have a base in Bombay and I will make sure to call on you when I visit next, though Bombay of yore is a far cry from its current moribund rotting carcass ! This comes from a Bombayite !

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    1. Oh ok! Yes, Bombay has changed drastically indeed! And not for the good...Still let me know when you are in Bombay next Raju!

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