Saturday 6 August 2011

No 10226, Saturday 06 Aug 11, M Manna

ACROSS
1   - Check engineers' papers (7) - REPRESS {RE}{PRESS}
5   - Security is lifted in the store (7) - DEPOSIT {DEPO{SI<-}T}
9   - Stop hundreds with some expertise (5) - DWELL {D}{WELL} ?
10 - Experimental examination scheme for a high flier (9) - TESTPILOT {TEST}{PILOT}
11 - Reappear after concealment (6) - EMERGE [E]
12 - On which a meal may be cooked or served (8) - HOTPLATE [CD]
14 - Deal with hosting a pleasure excursion (5) - TREAT [DD]
15 - Impervious to removal of train sets (9) - RESISTANT*
18 - As a rule, when the ties are loosened gets going again (9) - REIGNITES {REIGN}{ITES*}
20 - Annoy the French to play on a musical instrument (5) - BUGLE {BUG}{LE}
22 - Open one myself, as a source of extra revenue (8) - OVERTIME {OVERT}{I}{ME}
24 - Respond to in a similar manner (6) - RETURN [CD]
26 - Carnage by real thugs (9) - SLAUGHTER*
27 - A seaman about 50 — a focus of devotion (5) - ALTAR {A}{L}{TAR}
28 - Ironical manner of denunciation (7) - SATIRIC [E]
29 - It's very big and I can't squeeze it in (7) - TITANIC {T{IT}ANIC*}
DOWN
1   - Barker the rubicund stations (3,6) - RED SETTER Anno pending {RED} SETTER ?
2   - Lead producers being quiet about yield (7) - PRECEDE Anno pending {PR}E{CEDE} (Addendum - {P}{RE}{CEDE} - See comments)
3   - Make aware of being easily carried in a rising river (9) - ENLIGHTEN {EN{LIGHT}EN<-}
4   - Area set up for a particular purpose (4) - SITE [CD]
5   - Won't let you have any more (10) - DISPOSSESS [CD]
6   - Father rises to move an appliance upwards (5) - POPUP {POP}{UP}
7   - Fruity female of foreign court (7) - SULTANA [DD]
8   - Let it be an appellation of rank (5) - TITLE*
13 - School subject — a treatise on calculations of numbers (10) - ARITHMETIC [E]
16 - Naval officer not in place to benefit from someone else's occupation (9) - SUBTENANT SUBlieuTENANT
17 - At once divine and human in part blithe and rich (9) - THEANDRIC [T]
19 - An Indiana old play may not be precisely correct (7) - INEXACT {IN}{EX}{ACT}
21 - Excess weight of one who overeats (7) - GLUTTON {GLUT}{TON}
22 - Nothing is like being in one in the desert (5) - OASIS {O}{AS}{IS}
23 - A formidable opponent (5) - TIGER [CD]
25 - Does this work cause worry? (4) - FRET [DD]



18 comments:

  1. Manna had me tied up in knots in the NW corner

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  2. I got ambushed in the North West sector. MM in his element in 10a.

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  3. 2 - Lead producers being quiet about yield (7) - PRECEDE Anno pending {PR}E{CEDE}

    P RE CEDE

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  4. Kishore @ 8:39,
    He's got the enumeration of his elements wrong!!

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  5. Kishore @ 8:40

    What is he 'being quiet' about?

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  6. I think it's CEDE from yield.

    cede = to yield/ grant

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  7. No doubt on the 'CEDE' part of it.

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  8. Lead= precede
    producers being= being made from
    quiet=p
    about=re
    yield=cede

    What is he 'being quiet' about?

    Well, on the contrary, this and previous CW, actually removing the omerta.

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  9. 29 - It's very big and I can't squeeze it in (7)

    I am sure Gridman would have loved this one, what with its innuendo?

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  10. 23 - A formidable opponent (5) - TIGER

    Any ref to Lt Gen AAK 'Tiger' Niazi, Deepak?

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  11. My 851 makes me ponder, quite a few war related words here:

    Repress (in EP), test pilot, reignites (after a flameout?, quite common in the early MIGs and Gnats, I think), bugle, slaughter, Tiger,

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  12. Further to 851, notwithstanding the '71 surrender, he was a MC awardee, and hence can be considered formidable.

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  13. Old timers will recall this stamp:

    http://www.google.co.in/imgres?q=gnat+postal+stamp&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=kbY&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1440&bih=710&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=9mn4vgwXNb42fM:&imgrefurl=http://themephilatelicnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/bharatiya-vayu-sena-s-planes-on-indian.html&docid=UCYrlXm_JjIlPM&w=225&h=204&ei=LLY8TuunIMztrQfusqAa&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=799&vpy=139&dur=3767&hovh=163&hovw=180&tx=130&ty=127&page=1&tbnh=124&tbnw=135&start=0&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0

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  14. Another mention for UK rivers. The Nene is close to where I now live.
    I got tied up with the NW corner too, with dwell and precede going in as more guesswork than skill.

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  15. Well, I'd rather not dwell much on the dwell, but initially I put in C-EASE, and then had to scribble over.

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  16. I too dwelt on Cease for a long time!

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  17. No, no. that was tongue in cheek about NJ. She always make me chew my toenails and twist my legs around my neck.!
    Man , Manna, is an isle. So to enisle is to make an island.Maan gaya. aapke man ko daad dethe hai.!

    A sense of dejavu develops when one does Manna's mania. So many familiar clues that we have cracked before from other puzzles and so many Mannagrams.We have a SURFEIT of it. That was a clever construction-- SURFEIT. We poor 15 downs. EVE & NED got equalled out. Is this cryptic?

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  18. TEST PILOT, HOTPLATE,SUB-TENANT.

    What are the rules relating to such clues of compound words or hyphenated ? Shouldn't the setter spell out, in bracket, the split up in terms of number of letters instead of a single digit?

    I liked THEANDRIC. Thanks Manna for having added on to my knowledge curve.

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