Wednesday 14 December 2011

No 10334, Wednesday 14 Dec 11, Gridman

Gridman starts off this round with a Pangram.
ACROSS
1   - Brightness of artist, one in ballroom activity (8) - RADIANCE {RA}{D{I}ANCE}
5   - Nullify sign by changing sides (6) - CANCEL CANCE(-r+l)L
9   - How one puts in extra hours? (8) - OVERTIME [CD]
10 - 50-50 chance to secret service in a higher position (4-2) - TOSS-UP {TO}{SS}-{UP}
12 - Pitcher, more recent with cap lost (4) - EWER nEWER
13 - Carefully tend physio under a spell (10) - HYPNOTISED*
15 - Moist for a small measure in soil (6) - CLAMMY {CLA{MM}Y}
17 - More gloomy and ultimately morose in fog (5) - BLUER {BLU{E}R}
20 - Having a good physique, the Italian enters objection (5) - BUILT {BU{IL}T}
21 - Police officer goes over fine lives (6) - DWELLS {D{WELL}S}
24 - The charge for a traveller's extra burden (6,4) - EXCESS FARE [E]
27 - Was privy to fresh hearing (4) - KNEW(~new)
29 - Colour of voile spread on tabletop (6) - VIOLET {VOILE*}{T}
30 - Weapon supplierour withdrawal makes no difference to him (8) - ARMOURER {ARM(OUR)ER}
31 - Jacket needed for sail reducer (6) - REEFER [DD]
32 - Praise for more inane youth (8) - FLATTERY {FLATTER}{Y}
1   - Begin again with oner's disposition attracting beginners in physical education (6) - REOPEN {REO{PE}N*}
2   - Backward editor takes ultimately inquisitive writer to dig more (6) - DEEPEN {DE<-}{E}{PEN}
3   - Culturally pretentious pastor goes out of faction (4) - ARTY pARTY
4   - Snug male-female in company (5) - COMFY {CO{M}{F}Y}
6   - A daughter to choose to take a stray in (5) - ADOPT {A}{D}{OPT}
7   - Expels accountants and notorious touts (5,3) - CASTS OUT {CAS}{TS OUT*}
8   - A rapidly working stone-cutter (8) - LAPIDARY*
11 - Catalyst is last letter enemy scattered around (6) - ENZYME {EN{Z}YME*}
14 - Good instrument broken in pack (4) - GLUT {G}{LUTe}
16 - Ministry of Defence provided unknown quantity to repair (6) - MODIFY {MOD}{IF}{Y}
17 - Leave lightning-like? (4) - BOLT [DD]
18 - Old boy's domestic watchman (8) - OBSERVER {OB}{SERVER}
19 - Reveal girl's seal (8) - DISCLOSE {DI'S}{CLOSE}
22 - Treacherous manoeuvre of U-turn to end of avenue (6) - UNTRUE{UTURN*}{E}
23 - We're almost smothered by a small bunch of key characters (6) - QWERTY {Q{WERe}TY}
25 - Is back to woman with a riddle (5) - SIEVE {SI<-}{EVE}
26 - Head right to mountain country (5) - RURAL {R}{URAL}
28 - Shock beloved one in Scotland with empty list (4) - JOLT {JO}{LisT}



18 comments:

  1. Nice pangram, Gridman. A rare occurence, the Q is not followed by an U.

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  2. Or to correct myself, should I say, a Q followed by not single, but double U.

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  3. The server in 18d reminded of ole Gundu Rao in Server Sundaram.

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  4. Kishore's range seems to be very wide to include server sundaram of Nagesh fame.
    I was nowhere near the 'key characters'- must learn to think differently.

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  5. Paddy, an unforgettable scene was where he picks up the same coin several times and puts in his pocket with a hole, just to have it fall out again and to put it in programming terms, the iteration continues looping for sometime. Also, a balancing act when serving.

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  6. Yes Kishore. It was a very nice picture in many ways. talking of coins, I was reminded of the coin AB had in a picture ( Sholay?) with 2 heads, whenever he supposedly wanted to make a decision (!)Coming closer WI captain wanted a coin with 2 heads since he always lost calling for 'heads'!

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  7. Paddy, another movie, involving a toss, Odds and Evens, starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer has a peculiar ending when the coin is tossed up...

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  8. Good start to this round. QWERTY helped in achieving the pangram I guess, and have to say that while I got it, I wouldn't have thought it actually qualifies as a 6 letter word!

    Overall nice one, could have had smoother surface in a couple of cluies, eg 11D

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  9. BRA- ZEN Skills




    Q: Which is the striped BRA? zeBRA

    Q: Poisonous BRA? coBRA

    Q: Mathematical BRA? algeBRA

    Q: Zodiacal BRA? liBRA

    Q: Magical BRA? aBRAkadaBRA

    Q: Religious BRA? BRAhmin! BRAhma!

    Q: Metallic bra? BRAss

    Q: Anjelina Jolie's Bra? BRAd pit...

    Q: Botany BRA? BRAnch

    Q: Marketing BRA? BRAnd!

    Q: puctuation bra? BRAcket

    Q: Scary bra? GhaBRAahat!!!!

    Q: A room where BRA's are kept? LiBRAry

    Q: Bra which became the American President and inspired the whole world? ABRAham Lincoln!

    Q: Which bra is very important for any vehicle? BRAke

    Q: Brave Bra - BRAvado

    Q: Donkeys language? BRAying

    Q: Where do naughty thoughts originate? BRAin


    AND U THOUGHT ONLY WOMEN USE A BRA ???

    Your mind is wicked !1 what can I tell?

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  10. Bhala, Qwerty is a valid word in a Dictionary including the OED

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  11. Gridman always prides himself for doing hid 'Dictionary work'.

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  12. That is new to me Suresh! I thought ASDF was more familiar.

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  13. In yesterday's crossword, did Sankalak get his inspiration for CALVARIA from KOLAVERI ? I had known about Calvary but not Calvaria. Caused me KOLAVERI to get it through. I was on the roads, doing this, tackling Road VERI in CBE and didn't have any access to a dicky-book.

    THERMIDOR is an exotic word and reminded me of a restaurant in Nairobi with the name LOBSTER POT, serving Lobster thermidors.

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  14. Or lobster thermidore at the Sky Room in Kolkata. Fantastic stuff.

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  15. Server Sundaram was remade into Hindi as Main Sundar Hoon with Mahmood and Leena Chandavarkar. I felt there was a word-play there. While Mahmood's character said his name was Sundar, Leena could say she was pretty. The movie had very catchy songs.

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  16. I don't mind the truth but I prefer Flattery
    -Oscar Wilde

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  17. EXCESS FARE of four and five letter words for a change. Nothing to be HYPTONISED or get CLAMMY about.

    JOLT, BOLT, GLUT, CASTS OUT in the TOSS UP.

    QWERTY was pretty though.

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