Saturday 8 May 2010

No 9837, Saturday 08 May 10, Nita Jaggi

In a hurry as I am off to Calcutta for a holiday, will post from there, from tomorrow till the 14th, provided the application made by Chitra is up and running. Leaving a few unsolved due to the rush to the airport.
ACROSS
1   - Kind of bridge that will tilt with one handle (10) - {CANT}{I}{LEVER}
9   - Anyway follow the witch with the weapon (6) - {HAG}{BUT}

10 - Regular valuation of the moving car (10) - {A}{U}{T}{O}{MOBILE}
11 - Heard you look in Africa (6) - {U}{GANDA}(~gander)

12 - Hand over the company to the new Chief Engineer of the French (7) - {CO}{N}{CE}{DE}
16 - Dance in a moment (5) - FLASH ? [DD]
17 - Eleven limited fans in the city (4) - {XI}{(-f)AN(-s)}
18 - Detached the limb of one plant (5) - {BIML*}{I}
19 - Literary name (5) - TITLE [CD]
20 - The interval is expressed in the feet (4) - ?A??
21 - Nosey kind of an English poet (5) - NOYES*
22 - Left in to stay conditionally after one researcher (7) - {AN}{A{L}YST*}
27 - Look for the time out with an idler (6) - {LO}AFER Anno pending
29 - Bad character of the demon (4,6) - EVIL SPIRIT [CD]
30 - Implied the caption without it (6) - SUBT(it)LE
31 - The first thing the doctor may do every morning in the hospital (5,5) - DAILY ROUND [CD]
DOWN
2   - Water colour (4) - AQUA [DD]
3   - Place over the right hot region (6) - TROPIC
4   - Robbed appliance returned to Edward (6) - {LOOT<-}{ED}
5   - Lives through face covers (5) - VEILS*
6   - Watery discharge he extracted from the drink (5) - R{HE}UM
7   - Jolly sailor will undauntedly analyse most of the dues left (10) - {AB}{UNDANTLY(-due)*}
8   - Extra friendship (10) - ATTACHMENT [DD]
12 - Kind of accommodations for ordinary ones (5,5) - CABIN CLASS  [CD] Ordinary ones travel by Deck and not Cabin class
13 - Weak person is regularly near the doctor at the end of the day with the girl at hand (5,5) - {N}{A}{MB} {PAM}{BY}
14 - Somehow tax each refugee (5) - EXPAT* ?
15 - Most of the oil is from the tree (5) - ?A??A
23 - Always in the two poles with an agreement to contradict (6) - {N{AY}S}{AY}
24 - Local Authority has money for the head officer from the United States (6) - {L}{A}{TIN}{O}
25 - Raise a family (5) - BREED [CD]
26 - Minimum religious education, I know is a kind of treatment (5) - {R}{E}{I}{K}{I}
28 - A cat is left in around a hole (4) - {L}{I{O}N}


13 comments:

  1. 24 D While Latino is a term used in the US "from the United States" is not a right definition for LATINO?

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  2. His coat is ragged
    And blown awry
    He droops his head
    And he knows not why

    Something has happened
    Something has gone
    The world is changing
    His work is done

    But his old heart aches
    With a heavier load
    And he stands and wonders
    And stares at the road

    These lines are from the poem 'Dobbin' by Alfred Noyes (21 AC). Dobbin was a horse, not a crossword solver :)

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  3. 15 - Most of the oil is from the tree (5) - ?A??A

    BALSA(-m)

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  4. Hi all

    15D - Most of the oil is from the tree (5) - ?A??A

    Oil = Balsam
    Most of it = BALSA, a tree

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  5. 20 - The interval is expressed in the feet (4) - ?A??

    PAWS (~pause)

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  6. Oh, Sandhya, you beat me again narrowly.

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  7. @ Sandhya, bingo on PAWS.

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  8. A piece of Indlish:

    21A - Nosey kind of an English poet (5) - NOYES*

    It is a nice clue, NO? YES !

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  9. 27A - Look for the time out with an idler (6) - {LO}AFER Anno pending

    I feel it is AFTER minus T (time out). Can someone further work on the anno?

    BTW, I have come across some problems with posting today, irrespective of the browsers - IntExpl, Firefox and Chrome. Any glitch in the functioning of the server of this blog?

    The fact that there are comparatively fewer posts since 8-30 am strengthens my suspicion.

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  10. Refer my post regarding mathematical limit yesterday at 8.14 pm. Today proves it. Like excellence, there is no limit to ....... It is all in the mind. Amidst the encircling gloom, one can but recall Shah Jahan’s description of Kashmir ‘If there be heaven on earth, it is here, it is here’ duly paraphrased: “If you have a LOCO-AUTO-MOTIVE, come here, come here’.

    I personally feel that sometimes all the uncertainty adds to the thrill of solving the puzzle and then wondering how a word which fits the crossings tallies with the definition, however awry.

    Looking for bright spots, U-GANDA (gander) reminded of HOOKAH(hooker) which came a few days back. The brightest, of course, was NAMBY PAMBY which reminded of the poem, which I suspect I have already uploaded once. CABIN CLASS reminded of Tharoor’s Cattle Class.

    Richard, I too experienced upload trouble. Time for your games to begin !

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  11. @Richard
    "I feel it is AFTER minus T (time out). Can someone further work on the anno?"
    I think NJ had in mind FOR = AFTER

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  12. Hello from Calcutta or Kolkatta, seems to be limited activity today??

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  13. Hi Deepak

    I have had uploading problems on your blog during the morning hours today. I had mentioned this in one of the earlier posts. Kishore too expressed the same view.

    As for the fewer posts, another explanation could be that perhaps the visitors here have realized the futility of crossing swords over someone else's follies. ;)

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