Saturday 30 June 2012

No 10503, Saturday 30 Jun 12, Buzzer

Buzzer practising for the cricket tournament?  
ACROSS
1   - 20-20 match numbers (6) - SCORES [DD]
5   - Get over bowled by coach? Not right (6) - OBTAIN {O}{B}{TrAIN}
10 - Fanciful and always entertaining — Irish leprechaun (4-5) - AIRY-FAIRY
11 - Red wine tipsy jailor left spilt (5) - RIOJA JAIlOR*
12 - Occupied with endless signs of negativity (2,3) - IN USE mINUSEs
13 - Spooner’s split head leaves one speechless perhaps (3-6) - LIP-READER (-r+l)LIP-(-l+r)READER
14 - Unscrupulous character like a crooked bowler may be (1,3,3) - A BAD HAT {A} {BAD} {HAT}
16 - Failure in orals bothered one (4-3) - ALSO-RAN {ALSO-R*}{AN}
18 - Speaker’s aura tricks another (7) - ORATRIX (~aura){ORA}{TRIX}(~tricks)
20 - Name on promissory notes is in question (7) - DUBIOUS {DUB}{IOUS}
21 - Force to join army (5-4) - PRESS-GANG [E]
23 - Nice way to bid goodbye (5) - ADIEU Anno pending (Addendum - [CD] - See comments)
25 - Approach taken by a pacer to manage over (3-2) - RUN-UP [DD]
26 - Rest? Very rare when in motion for her (9) - TRAVERSER {REST+V+RARE}* Traverser and Her ? Not clear to me?
27 - Huntsman fished out serran (6) - SNARER*
28 - Material to fill an empty eiderdown (6) - SATEEN {SATE}{EiderdowN}
DOWN
2   - Bureau of air cargo traffic ends up in Greek island (5) - CORFU {C}{O}{R}{F}{U} <-
3   - Money paid to barman for a tonic (9) - REFRESHER [DD]
4   - Craft hovering over an alien vessel (7) - SKILLET {SKILL}{ET}
5   - Place in Washington DC lacking in diplomacy for a change (7) -  OLYMPIA dIPLOMAcY
6   - Hear pitch is fit (5) - THROE (~throw)
7   - Tried on or dressed for (2,5,2) - IN ORDER TO
8   - Lima or pea say? (7,2,4) - CAPITAL OF PERU [DD] ? (See comments)
9   - Just a couple of market places (4,3,6) - FAIR AND SQUARE {FAIR} {AND} {SQUARE}
15 - This king is a hit among men (9) - AGAMEMNON {A}{AMONG+MEN*}
17 - Lying under abject Sun, tanning (9) - SUBJACENT*
19 - Vote for outstanding show of special talent (1,6) - X FACTOR {X} {F{ACT}OR}
20 - A setter’s stupor it is said leads to period of inactivity (3,4) - DOG DAYS {DOG} {DAYS}(~daze)
22 - Excellent meal taken half-heartedly (5) - SUPER SUPpER
24 - Problem child (5) - ISSUE [DD]




16 comments:

  1. 23a ADIEU - As you know it's a French word and in the French city, Nice, they are apt to use it.

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  2. Wow.you are nothing short of genius.i was thenarifying with some qs.super job. :p

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  3. 8 - Lima or pea say? (7,2,4) - CAPITAL OF PERU [DD] ?

    Yup, DD. P(~pea) is the capital of Peru, as is Lima

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  4. 26a TRAVERSER - This is a noun for a person who traverses.

    The clue type is an &lit - full or semi, I don't know.

    Buzzer probably did not want to use 'him' and incur the wrath of women for having excluded them. So he uses 'her' - which I say is reverse discrimination.

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    1. Continuing the banter from another time and place,let us not call it a full or semi -lit, but a quarter lit, the type when you are lit with a quarter inside you.

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  5. Only W,Z missing...

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  6. Just liked it 9D (fair & square!)

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  7. Great Crossword, Buzzer. Loved it. Took a little longer, but just the way I like it a ha ha ha

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  8. Very entertaining and a different mindset needed for this. Loved 8D, 9D in particular. While 8D was eminently gettable, 9D would be quite a challenge without crossings.

    Not in favour of initial letters of words being used as fillers, unless indicated, or they are standard abbreviations, eg OB for over bowled (or is this fair game?)

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  9. I think O B from 'over bowled' is OK.

    In cricket scorecards where bowling analysis is given, O M B W, doesn't O stand for 'Over' and B for 'Bowled'?

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    1. That, as I remember it, is OMRW, with R for runs...

      However, b for bowled is used in giving individual scores and method of dismissal as in

      Gavaskar b Lillee

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    2. Kishore
      Thanks for correcting me. I was less than careful in writing that comment.

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  10. Yesterday's Crossword by Gridman:

    I enjoyed it.! May be Gridman heard and got piqued with my comment earlier: When is the next compiler in?

    He was at his 5 down best. I was a bit 17down (TICKLISH) wqhen I cracked B(branch). Arm-in-Arm.

    Mayb e now that MMSardarji is back with his Finance portfolio, he might as well give a go a 4 down. DOLLAR DIPLOMACY?

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  11. I didn't fair well today, but it's my failing. I love the cluing style -- we need more like this in THC. Some of the clues for which I did not have an answer, I at least had a partial solution; e.g. 5D I knew was an anagram of IPLOMAY, but couldn't for the life of me find the proper word (without referring to external sources). Like Bhala, I loved 8 and 9D, especially the latter with it's nice surface. But unlike him, I understood what was required almost immediately. :)

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