Tuesday 14 June 2011

No 10180, Tuesday 14 Jun 11, Nita Jaggi

ACROSS
7   - High-handed sailors have a hollow pear-shaped instrument (8) - {ABS}{O}{LUTE}
9   - Song and dance today (6) - {BALL}{AD}
11 - Sees no old commitments of an unfinished business (5,4) - LOOSE ENDS*
12 - A model's position reviewed by the fable writer (5) - {A}{ESOP<-}
13 - Downhill racers (6) - SKIERS [CD]
14 - Why not, I surely used up my wife's locked up material wealth (8) - LUXURIES Anno pending (Addendum - {L{UX}URIESy*} - See comments}
17 - Substitute of a retired American bishop is around at the doorway (9) - {SU<-}{RR}{O}{GATE}
22 - Former Austrian prince (8) - ARCHDUKE [E]
23 - Horse-drawn vehicle in Helen's land is left in Bikaner (6) - TROIKA ? Anno pending (Addendum - {TROy}{IKA} - But how do we extract IKA from Bikaner?)
25 - You are in it with an Eskimo (5) - {IN}{U}{IT}
27 - God man you judge before the mathematician (9) - {RA}{MAN}{U}{J}AN Anno for 'AN' not clear
28 - Take money as from banks (6) - BORROW [CD]
29 - Momentary glance for a short time (8) - FLEETING [CD]
DOWN
1   - It helps an Armada member to settle down (7) - BALLAST [CD]
2   - Antiheroes criticised her out in this country (7) - ESTONIAher*
3   - Medical tube is heartlessly set by a specialist (5) - {SeT}{ENT}
4   - Coffee on Jakarta's island (4) - JAVA [DD]
5   - Kind of surgery to pull off faces (7) - PLASTIC [CD]
6   - Fatty tissue (7) - ADIPOSE [E]
8   - Be idle frolicking on our land that is covered (3,6) - {L{IE} AROUND*}
10 - Mollify a wise guy holding us back (7) - {A{S{SU<-}AGE}
15 - Vocal expression (9) - UTTERANCE [E]
16 - The caddoan language (7) - ARIKARA [E]
18 - Two degrees on the edge of an instrument (7) - {MA}{RIM}{BA}
19 - Collect the bill for a headless escort (7) - {AC}{sQUIRE}
20 - Separate the husband finally from his sweetheart at home (7) - {D}{hIS}{JO}{IN}
21 - Same as massacre (7) - CARNAGE [E]
24 - Remove impurities from the metal fish (5) - SMELT [DD]
26 - Return the stolen money for the machine (4) - TOOL<-

GRID


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  1. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 08:36

    23 - Horse-drawn vehicle in Helen's land is left in Bikaner (6) - TROIKA ? Anno pending

    Alternate spelling for Troy (Helen's land)or homophone of Troy?

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  2. Venkatesh14 June 2011 at 08:37

    23 - Horse-drawn vehicle in Helen's land is left in Bikaner (6) - TROIKA ? Anno pending

    (TRO[-y])([-b]IKA[-ner])!

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  3. Deepak Gopinath14 June 2011 at 08:38

    Kishore,
    I hit upon the Anno for TROIKA after 8:30, have added it in the main post

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  4. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 08:43

    14 - Why not, I surely used up my wife's locked up material wealth (8) - LUXURIES Anno pending

    "surely i-y (why not)" is the fodder
    sureli

    wife=ux (genealogy)

    locked up=instered

    L(UX)URIES*

    used=Aind?

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  5. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 08:44

    Deepak,
    Yes, I noticed that. But as you rightly say, IKA is still unclear.

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  6. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 08:44

    My 843;

    The full form of ux is uxor in Latin.

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  7. SandhyaP14 June 2011 at 08:46

    @Kishore: Great cracking of LUXURIES!

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  8. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 08:48

    23 - Horse-drawn vehicle in Helen's land is left in Bikaner (6) - TROIKA ? Anno pending (Addendum - {TROy}{IKA} - But how do we extract IKA from Bikaner?)

    To make a statue of an elephant, take a large block of stone and chip away anything/everything that does not look like an elephant.

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  9. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 08:49

    Thanks, Sandy. I just cracked it after my ux left the room.

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  10. Venkatesh14 June 2011 at 08:53

    Kishore,

    Great solving of LUXURIES. I was puzzling over UX.

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  11. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 08:54

    In my 843, please read 'inserted' instead of 'instered'

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  12. veer14 June 2011 at 08:55

    27 - God man you judge before the mathematician (9) - {RA}{MAN}{U}{J}AN Anno for 'AN' not clear

    Wonder if AN refers to "ante" (before) abbreviated commonly as "a" as in "am" but in a NJ twist, "a" can then be "an" since they are both indefinite articles.

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  13. Venkatesh14 June 2011 at 08:57

    I thought it might be UX or XU with outer letters of the word deleted.

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  14. veer14 June 2011 at 09:00

    27 - God man you judge before the mathematician (9) - {RA}{MAN}{U}{J}AN Anno for 'AN' not clear

    Or maybe NJ is looking at "before the" as the charade component and solving it as "an"..The articles are commonly ordered as A, AN and THE when we study English Grammar back in 1st grade (?) - yesterday was KG today it only makes sense we move up b'cos we are still here standing and taking the punishment !!

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  15. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 09:12

    Veer, congrats on promotion to 1st grade ;-)

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  16. veer14 June 2011 at 09:15

    @Kishore" Solving "Luxuries" has unfortunately earned you a double promotion to IInd grade!!

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  17. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 09:29

    @Veer: That gives me opportunity to solve tomorrow's complicated clues:

    1 Four by four (7)

    16 Four by four (1)

    Answers are already given above.

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  18. B Shyam Sundar14 June 2011 at 10:11

    14 - luxuries

    wife = ux
    material wealth - lures
    i - i

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  19. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 10:35

    BSS,

    Material wealth is the definition for luxuries.

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  20. Deepak Gopinath14 June 2011 at 10:59

    BSS,
    See Kishore's explanation in his 8:43 post

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  21. Bhavan14 June 2011 at 11:06

    Kishore @8.48 : lol

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  22. Richard14 June 2011 at 16:31

    Ux-uxor etc. brought back old memories. In college, in one of the novels we had to study as part of English literature, I had come across the word - uxorious (= extremely attached to or dependent on one's wife) :)

    Uxoricide is another matter.

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  23. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 16:35

    And nUX vomica can be used for Uxoricide.

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  24. Suresh14 June 2011 at 16:37

    Really? Kishore. I use it all the time for stomach upsets.

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  25. VP14 June 2011 at 16:50

    Quick question:

    20D Separate the husband finally from his sweetheart at home (7) - {D}{hIS}{JO}{IN}

    How is "h" taken out of "his" ? I thought the finally was just for taking the "d" out of husband.

    Thanks,
    -VP

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  26. Richard14 June 2011 at 17:40

    Kishore 1635

    I'm afraid you may have invited the mischief of the Criminal Procedure Code, section... for abetment...

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  27. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 18:58

    Suresh,Richard:

    Nux vomica better known as strychnine is a poison, a strong one at that and capable of causing death. However, like many other poisons like aconite, it is used in Homeopathy in very small doses as a medicine.

    So, if you guys are using arsenic, bring out the "Old lace". ;-)

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  28. Padmanabhan14 June 2011 at 19:54

    Strychnine as a poison is very difficult to trace as per one of Agatha Christe's book which I read some time ago!No Cr.P.violation here I suppose.

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  29. Richard14 June 2011 at 20:22

    Speaking of small doses of poison, I am reminded of the following -

    When an alcoholic was chided by a social reformer, saying: "Don't you know it is a slow poison?"

    The guy said, "Hic! I am in no hurry either!"

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  30. Sagar14 June 2011 at 22:21

    Veer @ 9:00 - I thought of the same explanation to deduce "an" as an article "before the".

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