Tuesday 17 January 2012

No 10362, Tuesday 17 Jan 12, Gridman

ACROSS
1   - Proverbially, one of this deserves another (4,4) - GOOD TURN [GK]
5   - Tease cranky lad for being foul-mouthed (6) - RIBALD {RIB}{LAD*}
9   - Exalt no nether misadventure (8) - ENTHRONE*
10 - One who takes international to eminence (6) - CAPTOR {CAP}{TO}{R}
12 - No good to live badly (4) - EVIL*
13 - A man of religion, he gets involved in a looting gone awry (10) - THEOLOGIAN {T{HE}OLOGIAN*}
15 - Greek character's vulgar plagiarism (6) - PIRACY {PI}{RACY}
17 - Be in position to just about receive a loyal subject (5) - LIEGE {LI{EG}E} (Addendum - {LIE}{GEt} - See comments)
20 - Half-a-dozen circle boy recalling Shakespearean character (5) - VIOLA {VI}{O}{LA<-}
21 - Old cricketer becomes more realistic (6) - SOBERS [DD]
24 - Sirs shaken by violence of an aspect of a jaunty ship (10) - RAKISHNESS*
27 - Old politician has a bit of theory on mine (4) - PITT {PIT}{T}
29 - Torment doesn't begin — that is a relation (6) - AUNTIE {tAUNT}{IE}
30 - Prime Minister takes everything — everything — in London's fashionable street (4-4) - PALL-MALL {P{ALL}-M}{ALL}
31 - Team leader, sexually excited, is difficult (6) - THORNY {T}{HORNY}
32 - Paying for lodging (8) - SETTLING [DD]
DOWN
1   - Ebenezer Scrooge, once sober, left sozzled as coot (6) - GEEZER {EbEneZer scRooGE}*
2   - Old boy ain't prepared to fetch (6) - OBTAIN {OB}{AINT*}
3   - Beginner with list is Alpine native (4) - TYRO TYROl
 (Addendum - TYROlean - See comments)
4   - Hurried to church estate (5) - RANCH {RAN}{CH}
6   - I would take a semi-home in US State (5) - IDAHO {I'D}{A}{HOme}
7   - Won a game? Capital, boy! (8) - ATTAINED {A}{TT}{A1}{NED}
8   - Insane matriarch has girl pushed down indeed (8) - DERANGED {DE{(-g)RAN(+g)G}ED}
11 - Cry, mob destroyed flat-topped flower cluster (6) - CORYMB*
14 - Detective when on the rise in Italian city (4) - PISA {PI}{SA<-}
16 - Sailor fired away (6) - ABSENT {AB}{SENT}
17 - Apprentice on ship to have fun (4) - LARK {L}{ARK}
18 - Accomplished actors threatening (8) - OVERCAST {OVER}{CAST}
19 - Faced with a problem, what an examiner would do visually (4,4) - LOOK INTO [CD]
22 - Girl applies legislation retrospectively to Indian festival (6) - DIWALI {DI}{WAL<-}{I}
23 - Last out at a German POW camp (6) - STALAG {LAST*}{A}{G}
25 - Leader's going up to tackle key issue (5) - SCION {S{C}'1ON<-}
26 - Haphazard races cause alarm (5) - SCARE*
28 - Sexy walk! The woman is out to show skirt opening (4) - SLIT SLITher



15 comments:

  1. CV, Gridman seems antlered today ;-) A theme:

    5A RIBALD
    15a vulgar RACY
    31a sexually excited HORNY
    17d LARK
    28d Sexy walk, skirt opening

    I wonder what he was 19d. May be he was a rake at a stag party ...
    And antlers was the nearest I could think of to horns...


    Nice to see Garfield's photo, Deepak.

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  2. Kishore

    I suspect every GEEZER is... (at least in his heart)

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  3. A little difficult,or probably a little tricky today or probably a new start made it so. But kicked myself for not getting the best cricketer ( my mistake to have been thinking of only an Indian one!)

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  4. As Col. said yesterday the time line is playing tricks today aclling it PM? If it is AM,does it mean that the post was in by 7 am?

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  5. 3D I think would be TYRO (-LEAN)

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  6. Did not know that slithering was sexy. Always thought it was creepy.

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  7. Comments are showing a time 13 1/2 hours earlier than the actual time!!

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  8. Col, Any chance under settings/formatting in the dashboard, the time zone changed to PST ?

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  9. COL:

    Aren't we expected to know the results of yesterday's Arden's special?

    Apart from the solutions limited to three, how come there are no comments on that great puzzle? especially TIANANMAN SQUARE?

    Any way,I thoroughly enjoyed doing that on line. I wish the Hindu ones are also put on line in a similar mode, grid and all.

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  10. Raju,

    All the answers to yesterdays special are there under the comments

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  11. 17A Anno I think would be LIE GEt

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  12. Col @ 11 26 pm - Probably Sri Raju (like me) anticipates our usual clue ... answer model, which is very easy to assimilate, then and there. Or else, a lot of going down and up involved.

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  13. Raju, 1043, I did notice the arithmetical problem with the T square yesterday, but chose to keep mum in gratitude to Arden for the excellent puzzle.

    Deepak, 848, this was first noticed in Raju's 1211 which had 1345 in the body of the post !

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  14. CV 712, Geezers are like geysers. The get hot and steamy now and then, but remain Old Faithful.

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  15. Col: Ram is correct. Please make our lives easier, after struggling with the crosswords.

    Kishore: T- SQUARE or Trafalgar Sqaure? or TEHREER SQUARE or TIANANMAN SQUARE?TIMES SQUARE ?

    Or LOGGING TIME?

    Today's : Too many four and six lettered answers. My mood got OVERCAST and mind ot DERANGED. Gridman: Please do us GOOD TURN. Gve us phrases and idioms too.

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