Sunday 21 November 2010

No 2610, Sunday 21 Nov 10

Stumped by 1A, had to cheat to get the answer, not sure of the annos for 6 & 10A
ACROSS
1 - Unduly led astray by star for so long (6-3) –  {TOO}{DLE*}-{PIP}Had to google search this.
6 - Drank regularly round base (5) – DEPOT Anno pending (Addendum - DEPOT <- -See comments)
9 - It's more than likely this'll give you a good run for your money (4-2,9) – ODDS-ON FAVOURITE [CD]
10 - Sympathetic cheering (6) – GENIAL [DD]
11 - Knife fight about cash register with one pound missing (8) – {S{TILl}ETTO}
13 - Lie in bed, poorly, not fit enough to eat (8) – INEDIBLE*
14 - The pair answer a South African politician (5) – {BOTH}{A}
17 - Father embracing sapper, 22 (5) – {D{RE}AD}
18 - A setter barking round end of rose bushes (3,5) – {TEA TR{E}ES*}
20 - Spelunkers sheltering notice corpses (8) – {C{AD}AVERS}
22 - Troublesome child, last to admit mistake (6) – {T}{ERROR}
24 - Two articles about unseen spymaster in film (3,9,3) – {THE} {INVISIBLE} {MAN}
(Correction - {THE} {INVISIBLE} {M}{AN} - See comments)
25 - Poor performer spending time with teacher (5) - RABBIt
26 - Orchid exposed by peeress (5,4) – {NAKED} {LADY}
DOWN
1 - Right in grip of hard depression (6) – {T{R}OUGH}
2 - One restricted by guns regulation (9) – {ORD{I}NANCE}
3 - Vindaloo and rice prepared for a famous painter (8,2,5) – LEONARDO DA VINCI*
4 - Seabird's lost in gust (4) – PUFFin
5 - Pedestrianise, to make progress easier? (4,3,3) – PAVE THE WAY [CD]
6 - Ambiguous, like Sackville-West? (6-9) – DOUBLE-BARRELLED [CD] 
7 - Suggest a tip (5) – POINT [DD]
8 - Abstemious count after support (8) – {TEE}{TOTAL}
12 - A cleansing process alien to Serbians (10) – ABSTERSION* New word for me.
15 - Teacher confused about one mass, a peninsula (3,6) – {THE CR{I}{M}EA*}
16 - Teacher courted a disaster (8) – EDUCATOR*
19 - Alcoholic drink, make unknown (6) – {BRAND}{Y}
21 - Boring type starts to discuss weatherman's early evening broadcast (5) – {D}{W}{E}{E}{B}
23 - Cream plectrum? (4) – PICK [DD]

27 comments:

  1. 6 - Drank regularly round base (5) – DEPOT Anno pending

    DEPOT<-
    (Toped: Drink excessive amounts of alcohol...Wordweb)

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  2. Had heard of Toodle-oo and Pip-pip. Toodle pip was a new combo.

    Memory of spy novels: M in 24a and Stiletto in 11a (Nick Carter novels)

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  3. 24 - Two articles about unseen spymaster in film (3,9,3) – {THE} {INVISIBLE} {MAN}

    Correct Anno is:

    Two articles: The, an
    unseen=invisible
    spymaster=M from James Bond
    film=THE INVISIBLE M-AN

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  4. Kishore, how's James Bond = M?

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  5. @VJ : M is James Bond's boss, spy-master.

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  6. Toodle-pip - Reminds me of Bertie Wooster in PG Wodehouse novels.

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  7. Thanks Bhavan. I think I must be the only guy who's never watched a James Bond movie.

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  8. 26A Godiva ?

    15d reminded of The Charge of the Light Brigade and Florence Nightingale.

    Talking of Vindaloo, the aloo has nothing to do with the Hindi word for potato. It comes from the Portuguese dish Carne (Meat) de Vinha (wine) de' Alhos (garlic).

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  9. @VJ (08:41): I just can't believe that!!

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  10. VJ, you must be one in a million billion godzillion !

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  11. @Bhavan (08:45): "Right Ho" would have been a better answer! :D

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  12. VJ,

    "M" is a code letter and name for the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service,MI6 in James Bond novels.(?Sir Miles Messervy)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(James_Bond)

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  13. @Sandhya, that's what I meant. Ignore the typo : )

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  14. Sandhya, I think I'd rather watch plants grow. I don't know why I hate 'em so much (without even having tried one)

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  15. Sandhya and Bhavan: Tinkerty tonk.

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  16. Kishore, LOL... Godzilian!! Hmmm here's another strange one. Godzilla is one of my most favorite movies and everybody I know hated it.

    Venkatesh, Thanks! :)

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  17. Anyone knows what 'ECHOLALIA' means without looking it up on the net or a dictionary?

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  18. Nope, the ending sounds like some plant mebbe like magnolia or mebbe some feeling like melancholia

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  19. Something to do with sound maybe...

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  20. Anyone knows what 'ECHOLALIA' means without looking it up on the net or a dictionary?

    Yes, now I know, having looked it up. :-)

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  21. Looked it up. Nice word and nice definition.

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  22. 12D.
    - Was also reminded of the CWG "standards of hygiene" comment...
    - Also reminded of ethnic cleansing & genocides..

    6D.
    was CD , DD and possibly TD given that Vita Sackville-West apparently was bisexual!

    13A & 24A...

    "unseen" is not "invisible"...and "not fit enough to eat" is not "inedible" x-(

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  23. Deepak
    'echolalia' - not a word that we use every day.
    But we can't expect every word that we know - or even come across - to be used.
    If a word is in context, we can guess the meaning of a word that we don't know.
    In this case I guessed the meaning from the 'roots' - 'echo' (not difficult to guess) and the latter part.
    Later I checked the dict. and found that I was 90 per cent correct. I missed 10 per cent of it!
    I am not giving the meaning that I had as I don't want to be a spoilsport - of whom there are many on the Net - even people who write book reviews and cinema reviews.

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  24. "unseen" is not "invisible"...and "not fit enough to eat" is not "inedible"

    I do understand the thought behind the above statement and the spirit in which it is made.

    However, I am afraid I disagree with this.

    I think 'unseen' and 'inedible' have been given perfect synonym/definition of the required words.

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  25. I had a classmate who had echolalia, though she was otherwise fine. I became aware of the term,since then.

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