Wednesday 9 February 2011

No 10073, Wednesday 09 Feb 11, M Manna

ACROSS
1   - Capital I invested in building Casino (7) - {NICOS(I)A*}
5   - Odour of desert rat (4,3) - {MUSK} {RAT} My COD Except for the enumeration.
9   - Exaggerate to draw out (7) - STRETCH [DD]
10 - One arguably blunt in the German style (7) - {DE{BATE}R}
11 - Veer out to lake to make merry (5) - {REVE*}{L}
12 - Not a well earned rest (4,5) - SICK LEAVE [CD]
13 - People, I agree, are wrong to have captive animals (9) - {MEN}{AGERIE*}
15 - Tired out after observance of liturgies (5) - RITES How did D become S ? Seems to be a Typo of Tires.
16 - Suitable for dad to be at Germany (5) - ADAPT Anno pending
18 - Trying to get twine around, in a tizzy (9) - {STR{AIN*}ING}
21 - Duck below the bedcover (9) - {EIDER}{DOWN}
24 - Saint turns pale by comparison (5) - STAIN* ?
25 - Physician moved slowly and cleaned out a channel (7) - {DR}{EDGED}
26 - Train for instance, to be resolute and unyielding (7) - (G)RANIT*(E)
27 - Wanted to see schoolmaster in action (7) - {DE{SIR}ED}
28 - Arrange to seat her with you to be acquainted (7) - THERESA*  What's the definition?
DOWN
1   - Remedy found in no way strange (7) - {NO}{ST}{RUM}
2   - Transport a front for a mobile home (7) - {CAR}{A}{VAN}
3   - Fire and see, lying back inside, dead (3,6) - {S{ET AL<-}IGHT}
4   - The result of playing matches? (5) - ACHES [CD]
5   - Left no doubt one would be forced to exonerate (4,5) - {MADE} {CLEAR}
6   - She may be sly but has an International Baccalaureate degree (5) - {S{IB}YL*}
7   - Withdraw what one has said about a pamphlet (7) - {RE}{TRACT}
8   - Jack gets his objects aimed at (7) - {TAR}{GETS}
14 - What one did when asked about the water needs spreading? (9) - RESPONDED* (needs+drop)
15 - Pull in, you say, and put it back (9) - {REIN}{STATE}
16 - With a view to improvement made end become better (7) - AMENDED*
17 - Concentrate on where one lives (7) - ADDRESS [DD]
19 - Some claim a gin enables one to carry on — fancy! (7) - IMAGINE [T]
20 - Artilleryman is given a plant (7) - {GUNNER}{A}
22 - He may acknowledge signal message received (5) - ROGER [DD]
23 - Thing develops after day is over (5) - NIGHT*

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  1. Anonymous9 February 2011 at 08:31

    Hi

    ASHES my cod, in spite of my dislike of cricket !

    ROGER reminded me of other radio responses: The US version ‘Copy’ and my favourite ‘Wilco’ (an abbreviation for Will Comply, which indicates compliance in addition to mere acknowledgment. Also, reminded me of a favourite dodge of some people: Feigning radio malfunction when ordered to do something the recipient does not want to comply with. Though this does amount to technical ‘indiscipline’, it is usually given a Nelson’s eye if the result of the disobedience is favourable in the overall scenario, though sometimes individually conclusive.

    BTW, Veer stars in 11a.
    Hoping it is a printer’s devil and thankful that it did not become ‘tyred’ instead of ‘tires’.

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  2. Suresh9 February 2011 at 08:34

    4D should be ASHES not ACHES

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  3. Deepak Gopinath9 February 2011 at 08:35

    Kishore,
    Your COD could be ACHES as well as it's a CD.

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  4. Anonymous9 February 2011 at 08:37

    4 - The result of playing matches? (5) - ACHES [CD]

    Deepak, I took it as Ashes, the cricket trophy which is won after playing matches. Maybe I was influenced partly by the immediate previous clue with resulting in another arson-ic answer SET ALIGHT, so I interpreted matches in two ways, matchstick and cricket match, though it is clear that it is not playing with matches.

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  5. Deepak Gopinath9 February 2011 at 08:43

    Suresh,

    Why can't it be ACHES, it's a CD after all ?

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  6. Anonymous9 February 2011 at 08:48

    Repeating today's early morning response to Deepak's query from yesterday:
    "
    Deepak,
    I am just trying to improve my knowledge of aircraft and flying by soliciting any aviator/s who just might land here ..
    "
    Additionally learnt that Red Bull team is also here. Though I used to regularly attend Air shows right from the first, I stopped going, traffic being one of the problems. The other being, that the last day I visited (in 2007), Sqn Ldr Baldev Singh had an accident and the IAF commentator was so flabbergasted that he used a four letter word on the PA system !
    Baldev had another undercarriage problem in 2009 too.

    On the occasion of 50 years of IAF, there was an air show over Agaram grounds and the previous day an Iskra had crashed, killing the pilot.

    Do not want to witness further disasters, whether by accident or negligence.

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  7. Anonymous9 February 2011 at 08:50

    I am 'veer'ing towards Deepak's interpretation of 4d

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  8. veer9 February 2011 at 09:41

    Hard to imagine a seriousnik like myself can inadvertantly be cause for a chuckle here and there. Honestly, I thought today's crossword would be panned more than has happened here.

    IT has a full complement of the murderer's row I thought: poor CD (aches/ashes), wrong enu. (muskrat), indirect anagram (responded), undefined solution with no reasonable surface (theresa), typos (?, tired), none regulation NJ clue (adapt), unclear spelling (sibyl or Sybil, I am "veer"ing to the latter which makes the clue defective), gratis words in clue (tarGETS), some gratuitous padding or dodgy def. again (stain). Given all this, I was giving concentrate as a def. for address a pass.

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  9. veer9 February 2011 at 09:42

    Pls. read "one regulation NJ clue" for none regulation NJ clue..

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  10. Padmanabhan9 February 2011 at 09:48

    I am 'veer'ing towards ASHES after filling in ACHES! Agree with Veer that there are a lot of 'ifs' today and it is a mixed bag with some good ones too.

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  11. Suresh9 February 2011 at 10:04

    Deepak, It must be ASHES. Ashes is the result of lighting matches

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  12. Shyam9 February 2011 at 10:13

    I suppose it is a vague attempt at a D&CD. 'The Ashes' trophy is the result of playing matches, ie the winning team gets it. The second meaning is explicit. MM has possibly missed the trick of the article 'THE" in the first explanation.

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  13. VMA Nair9 February 2011 at 11:31

    Suitable for dad to be at Germany (5) - ADAPT Anno pending

    (pa+at+d)*
    d -Deutschland
    for -AnInd :)

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  14. VMA Nair9 February 2011 at 11:42

    Train for instance, to be resolute and unyielding (7) - (G)RANIT*(E)

    (train+ eg)*
    I thought resolute is AnInd :D

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  15. Anonymous9 February 2011 at 11:55

    Ajeesh, 'to be' is AInd IMO.

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  16. Anonymous9 February 2011 at 11:57

    Anyhow its aches in the body and ashes in the mouth. The morrow shall unveil the intended.

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  17. Anonymous9 February 2011 at 11:58

    My cod is now positively smelling ;-)

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  18. VMA Nair9 February 2011 at 12:20

    Thanks Kishore. So 'to be ' is AInd for both the above clues :)

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  19. Deepak Gopinath9 February 2011 at 12:20

    We are in for some serious thinking on the next two days with Neyartha which will drive all all the aches and pains of the last few days.

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  20. muthaiah9 February 2011 at 13:26

    The link BATE has not led me to blunt. Am I missing something here.

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  21. VMA Nair9 February 2011 at 14:54

    Hi Muthaiah,
    I saw both blunt and bate/abate are synonymous with weaken.
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/weaken

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  22. muthaiah9 February 2011 at 15:06

    Thanks Ajeesh.

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  23. Suresh9 February 2011 at 16:51

    My cod is now positively smelling ;-)

    A positive smell is better than a negative one.

    If COD is defined as the clue that attracts most comment during the day, the it is ASHES or ACHES

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  24. Navneeth9 February 2011 at 21:22

    How could I miss EIDERDOWN, I had just learnt about EIDER and EIDERDOWN sometime in the past week, thanks to EIDER appearing in one of Manna's grids (or was it one of Gridman's?)!


    What's enumeration in a CW context? 5A was indeed a good one.

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  25. Chaturvasi9 February 2011 at 21:52

    Navneeth
    Enumeration (we in the Orkut community use the abbr. 'enu') is the number within brackets at the end of a clue.
    To answer your query: I checked my dB of words in more than 600 crosswords of Gridman and surprisingly he has never had EIDERDOWN ! He did use the word as part of a clue for another word.

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  26. Navneeth9 February 2011 at 21:59

    Thanks on both counts, Chaturvasi. It was indeed a Manna grid that I was thinking of. Feb 3 2011, the one with the many ducks.

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