Thursday 5 January 2012

No 10353, Thursday 05 Jan 12, Mover

Cryptonyte also gone Spiffy's way?
One square in the grid has not been shaded as such the 'Orkut app' is confused.
ACROSS
8   - Competent sailor the French follow (4) - ABLE {AB}{LE}
9   - Mad, mad appeals for a neck feature in men (5,5) - ADAMS APPLE*
10 - Quiet hen is a performer (6) - PLAYER {P}{LAYER}
11 - Hit and run in a negligent manner (8) - SLAPDASH {SLAP}{DASH}
12 - Mad pilot becomes an embassy official (8) - DIPLOMAT*
14 - Ace seems able to provide seed plant (6) - SESAME {A+SEEMS}*
16 - Gratuity does not begin producing responsibility (4) - ONUS bONUS
17 - Demonstrated how in directions (5) - SHOWN {S{HOW}N}
18 - Therefore District Attorney supplies pop (4) - SODA {SO}{DA}
19 - Longing to reside elsewhere (6) - DESIRE*
21 - Six in an unusual trance provide paper for safe passage (8) - NAVICERT {NA{VI}CERT*}
23 - The army officer and the queen get together for a kitchen implement? (8) - COLANDER {COL}{AND}{ER}
26 - Haggard woman with new hat and a figure-hugging dress? (6) - SHEATH {SHE}{HAT*}
27 - Plant about quake-hit China produces liturgical music (10) - PLAINCHANT {PLA{CHINA*}NT}
28 - Merit bridge player got following listener (4) - EARN {EAR}{N}
DOWN
1   - Exuberance shown by hundred nubile eel swimming (10) - EBULLIENCE {C+NUBILE+EEL}*
2   - Reuses money in terrible secrecy (8) - RECYCLES {RECYC{L}ES*}
3   - Male animal behind another climbing for seaside grass (6) - MARRAM {MAR<-}{RAM}
4   - Five hundred publicity spots for fathers (4) - DADS {D}{ADS}
5   - Two fools take in a hired killer (8) - ASSASSIN {ASS}{ASS}{IN}
6   - Passed shuffled cards (6) - SPADES*
7   - Charity giving Gangster manuscript? (4) - ALMS {AL}{MS}
13 - Prickly Icelandic character? (5) - THORN [DD]
15 - Go-betweens arrange trade among North Africans (10) - MODERATORS {MO{TRADE*}ORS}
17 - Quiet! The Spanish dodge a water bird (8) - SHELDUCK {SH}{EL}{DUCK}
18 - Concealed moment about Edward (8) - SECRETED {SEC}{RE}{TED}
20 - Small credit loss for critical broken typeface (6) - ITALIC crITICAL*
22 - Comes from central Kiev; is it safe? (6) - VISITS [T]
24 - Go back to the French and leer (4) - OGLE {OG<-}{LE}
25 - Genuine old coin (4) - REAL [DD]

GRID
Mover


12 comments:

  1. 8 - Competent sailor the French follow (4) - ABLE {AB}{LE}

    ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA <-->

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  2. 8A- wire without head can do it. (Kishore-Do you remember your Kodai story?)

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  3. Phew! More than a third of the puzzle comprised of anagrams. How else to fit the bill of Mover?
    Did not quite figure out why the woman in 26 needed to be haggard!

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  4. Bhala: She is a famous novel by Rider Haggard.

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  5. Krishnan: Thanks. Never struck me, because the clue works fine without it also! One for the setter.

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  6. Hey Guys,

    I know it sounds completely off the topic here, but since plants and vegetables do crop up in crosswords now n thn, was wondering if anyone knows the Indian equivalent of Quinoa?

    Regds,
    Jeevan

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  7. Does this puzzle truly belong to the Hindu genre?

    Seems to be 2 down from various others ! However, 1% mark for introducing PLAINCHANT and NAVICERT- unusal words.

    KISHORE; Why not Madamimadam ? or Malayalam ?

    what's gthe etymology for Palindrome? FRIEND in the AERODROME?

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  8. Raju, that palindrome was topical to ABLE.

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  9. Quinoa.

    I dont know-a, do you know-a?

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