Monday 9 October 2017

No 12132, Monday 09 Oct 2017, Scintillator


Plenty of blanks today. Some definitions which I could not get seem iffy to me.

ACROSS
1   We stay out of Chennai in May — what weather! (6) SWEATY*
4   Mineral-like cream's very repellent (8) ASBESTOS {AS}{BEST}{SO<=}
9   First over not scored off (6) MAIDEN [DD]
10 Wait to attack fabricated fiction about a university (3,5)  LIE P?R?U  I've heard of LIE DOGGO (Addendum - LIE PERDU {LIE{PER}D}{U} - See comments though the definition is still not clear to me)
12 Blue of the best quality (3-5) TOP-SHELF [DD?]
13 Kidney that could be dark or dry (6) ?U?O?R (Addendum - HUMOUR [CD] - See comments)
15 Beverage tap (4) MILK [DD]
16 The bar is raised very high in these European chambers (4,6) POLE VAULTS {POLE} {VAULTS}
19 Will plural note be advanced in official accounts? (10) TESTAMENTS (+te)TESTA(-te)MENTS
20 Post recovery, Abbas was regularly in need of a phlebotomist (4) SWAB {aBbAs+WaS}<=
23 Garment shown in commercial's loose bottom wear (6) ABRADE {A{BRA}D}{l..sE}
25 50c outlay calculated in settlement to seal transaction (3,1,4) CUT A DEAL CAlcULATED*
27 Free to die, largely decomposing and giving greater stench (8) FOETIDER {FREE+TO+DIe}*
28 Offer to apply lubricant to elevate drive (6) LIBIDO {BID} in {OIL<=}
29 Mild/hypo, flowing like a yellow fluid (8) LYMPHOID* Definition not understood. Any Doctor to clarify See comments
30 Sage disturbed when interrupted by females in slips (6) GAFFES {GA{FF}ES*}

DOWN
1   Mark of malady (7) SYMPTOM [CD]
2   Leave parrots out of prediction exercises (4,5) EXIT POLLS {EXIT} {POLLS}
3   Grow a canine? (6) TEETHE [CD]
5   Double tongue (4) SPIT [DD]
6   Wedding pauses love midway, sadly (8) ESPOUSAL {PAUSES+LOve}*
7   More-than-desirable money stashed in a trunk (5) TORSO Anno pending (Addendum - {TO{RS}O} - See comments)
8   Noblemen selling estates primarily to buy Tesla jets (7) SQUIRTS SQUIR(-e+t)TS
11 Pedigree introduced to violent sport (7) BLOODED [DD]
14 Unknown composition of flutes is lively (7) ZESTFUL {Z}{FLUTES*}
17 Attribute of sculpture with broken rest (3,6) LOW RELIEF {LOW} {RELIEF} Anno not clear See comments
18 Silica that's said to fill between layers (8) SANDWICH {SAND}{WICH}(~which)
19 Jack Dawkins — short in height, lazybones, given to weeping (7) TEARFUL Something to do with ARTFUL. Anno pending (Addendum - {ThE ARtFUL dodger} - See comments)
21 Cross incomplete invoice and promissory notes (7) BILIOUS {BILl}{IOUS}
22 Drool over a luxurious country house's lavish roof, stunned (6) ?A?I?A
(Addendum - SALIVA {A}{VILlAS}<= - See comments)
24 Discharge odd man out? On the contrary (5) RHEUM {R{HE}UM}
26 Samurai dejected about beleaguering virtuous warrior (4) JEDI [T<=]

GRID

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42 comments:

  1. Raghunath9 October 2017 at 08:35

    7 More-than-desirable money stashed in a trunk (5) TORSO Anno pending

    RS in TOO

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  2. Raghunath9 October 2017 at 08:37

    22 Drool over a luxurious country house's lavish roof, stunned (6) ?A?I?A

    S'ALlIV A <-

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  3. Raghunath9 October 2017 at 08:40

    17 Attribute of sculpture with broken rest (3,6) LOW RELIEF LOW {RELIEF} Anno not clear

    LOW: Dejected, broken

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  4. sree_sree9 October 2017 at 08:43

    10d perdu https://www.wordnik.com/words/perdu

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    1. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2017 at 08:44

      The solution is LIE PERDU

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    2. Raghunath9 October 2017 at 08:48

      The solution is LIE PERDU
      LIE,(PER)D U

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    3. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2017 at 09:16

      A for PER?

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    4. Padmanabhan9 October 2017 at 09:33

      Per head? But D from?

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    5. Padmanabhan9 October 2017 at 09:40

      Lie Perdu is a Jim/Blair story by Sihaya Black. It has a sequel, Lock 'n' Load
      This is what I got from wiki. short story or a work of fiction.

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    6. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 October 2017 at 09:44

      AC 10 Wait to attack fabricated fiction about a university (3,5)
      My take was:
      Fabricated fiction - LIED
      A = PER
      University= U

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    7. Raghunath9 October 2017 at 09:56

      4 each or every; per • once a day.
      from http://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=a&title=21st

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    8. Raghunath9 October 2017 at 09:57

      A: each or every; per • once a day

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  5. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 October 2017 at 08:44

    13AC: HUMOUR [kidney is humour which could be dark or dry]

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  6. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2017 at 08:46

    Thanks for all the solutions

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  7. Anonymous9 October 2017 at 08:50

    19 Dn Artful Dodger - Oliver twist character - Jack Dawkins

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    1. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2017 at 09:13

      How do you get TEARFUL from that?

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    2. sree_sree9 October 2017 at 10:33

      Dodger-> ET

      Short in height -> -t

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    3. sree_sree9 October 2017 at 10:34

      TE are(-t)ful

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    4. sree_sree9 October 2017 at 10:35

      typo extra e. Sorry

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    5. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2017 at 10:40

      Dodger = ET How? How is short in height = -T? What is lazybones for?

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    6. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 October 2017 at 10:43

      I am with you Col.
      Something is missing.
      Why should we take artful dodger? Will it not become an indirect anagram?

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    7. sree_sree9 October 2017 at 10:49

      Dodger->fugitive->alien
      Sort in height ->not Tall/top(t)


      Lazy ->placed on side (rather than upright)
      Bones->back
      Both applied to dodger (ET)

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    8. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2017 at 11:19

      Too far-fetched to believe

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    9. VMA Nair9 October 2017 at 13:12

      T(-h)e Ar(-t)ful

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    10. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2017 at 13:59

      Good one Ajeesh. But what's the role of 'lazybones'?

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    11. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 October 2017 at 14:32

      Thanks Ajeesh,
      Things appear to be clear now!

      Short of height/lazybones = -ht [ht for height as per Chambers] and lazybones = Dodger as per Chambers Thesaurus.

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    12. Vasant9 October 2017 at 17:36

      Aha!Very deceptive!

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  8. Raghunath9 October 2017 at 08:59

    1A was nicely clued

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  9. Ramani9 October 2017 at 09:31

    This crossie almost drove me away. Luckily Rufus in the Guardian today gave me solace.

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  10. Padmanabhan9 October 2017 at 09:35

    Sweated all over- though not in Chennai?
    I did.

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  11. sree_sree9 October 2017 at 10:42

    29 Lymph [limf]
    a transparent, usually slightly yellow, often opalescent liquid found within the lymphatic vessels

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  12. Vasant9 October 2017 at 10:43

    Sweat I did. Profusely.Lots of missing annos for me. NE corner took a long long time. Thanks all for the annos

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  13. raju umamaheswar9 October 2017 at 16:56

    Nice grid from Scintillator. Will EXIT POLL not qualify for a DD or CD?

    We had Broadband giving us a wide berth in CBE for two days, with the result , I had to try the ICL on my smartphone. At some point, I got so exasperated with the rising and falling of the screen coupled with the irksome software that maybe,subconsciously, I hit the SUBMIT or was it an accident or a slip of the digit ? What a digital failure !! I gave up. There was no way I could get back the grid but I managed to complete from elsewhere incognito !!!

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  14. Scintillator9 October 2017 at 17:10

    Thanks for the blog and clearing up the annos. Theme of vital fluids and pangram as far as I can remember...

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    1. Padmanabhan9 October 2017 at 17:41

      With all our minds busy scrambling for annos, neither the theme nor the fact that it is a pangram went unnoticed. Yes, now things fall in place, except for theanno of 19d- Tearful.
      Would you please clarify that for us?

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    2. Vasant9 October 2017 at 21:22

      Please see above comments of Ajeesh & KKR

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    3. Padmanabhan9 October 2017 at 21:49

      Saw it- after seeing your note!

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  15. Ramani9 October 2017 at 17:29

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  16. Vasant9 October 2017 at 21:28

    As per Scintillator's comments above, the following need to be highlighted:
    Sweaty, Milk, Lymphoid, Blooded, Tearful,Billous, Saliva, Rheum

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  17. Padmanabhan9 October 2017 at 21:49

    Add Spit,Swab. (Too late for it to be done anyway)

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