Saturday 30 March 2013

No 10734, Saturday 30 Mar 13, Arden

Samosa days are here again. Give me Arden anyday.

ACROSS
1   Perhaps depart before two, having split (6,7) PARTED COMPANY {DEPART*} {COMPANY} From two's company, three's a crowd
10 Box to inform in church (5) CRATE {C{RAT}E}
11 All round visual protection of our central bank (9) ORBICULAR {O{RBI}CULAR}
12 Single murder in a building (9) UNMARRIED*
13 It may be sticky time out from others at home (5) RESIN {RESt}{IN}
14 Arranging chairs around backend of the pedicab (7) RICKSHA {RIC{K}SHA*}
16 Friend keeps an oriental sirenian (7) MANATEE {M{AN}ATE}{E}
18 Propriety of code breaking is strange (7) DECORUM {CODE*}{RUM}
20 Annoys when let out during practice (7) NETTLES {NET{LET*}S}
22 Struck date out when covered with bristles (5) TINED dINTED* (Addendum - AWNED dAWNED - See comments)
24 It is sweet like ….. and on average mild (9) ASPARTAME {AS}{PAR}{TAME}
26 Natural at design — a webmaster perhaps (9) TARANTULA*
27 It is alright to have a relationship with the animal (5) OKAPI {OK}{A}{PI}
28 Shocked at fat breasted girl characters (13) FLABBERGASTED {FLAB}{BREASTED+G}*

DOWN
2   Came in a confused weak state (7) ANAEMIC*
3   He supposes that an article could be rosier (9) THEORISER {THE}{ROSIER*}
4   It is worn by many sweltering in India (5) DHOTI [CD] (Addendum - {D}{HOT}{I} - See comments)
5   Million flowers yet to bloom in a country, according to this official (9) OMBUDSMAN {O{M}{BUDS}MAN}
6   Publicity surrounding champion bowler (5) PACER {P{ACE}R}
7   Empty mathematical group (4,3) NULL SET [E]
8   Appreciation got with state constitution (8,5) ACQUIRED TASTE {ACQUIRED} {STATE*}
9   Apprentice sprinter, running wild, stayed back (8,5) PRINTER'S DEVIL {SPRINTER*} {LIVED<=}
15 Made mistake with a certain way to apportion (9) ADMEASURE {MADE*}{A}{SURE}
17 Refusal to take credit notes which are disreputable (9) NOTORIOUS {NO}{TO}{R}{IOUS} Anno for R not clear See comments
19 Calm about old Indian moviestar getting power (7) CONTROL {CO{NTR}OL}
21 Said to be protected enclosure losing water (7) LEAKAGE (~lee){LEA}{KAGE}(~cage)
23 A study be taken up on a river (5) DENEB {DEN}{EB<=} Couldn't find this river on the net? See comments
25 Jumped seconds away before crash (5) PRANG sPRANG

A COLLECTIVE PRANG

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44 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 08:31

    The awesome anagram in 28a left me flabbergasted. Also, the novel treatment of an Okapi. And, course, the intended printer’s devil was a real delight. Arden comes like a breath of fresh air ‘amidst the encircling gloom’. The gloom, of course, caused by my inability to complete yesterday. Was nice to see my old schoolmate Balakrishna’s father’s name pop up in 19d. Though he was an Indian actor, I doubt if anyone from other parts of India (other than the south) would recognise his name easily. I don’t know if Balakrishna is in the movies anymore. Last heard in the newspapers, the actor was allegedly involved in a shooting. AWNED was new. Surprised to see the Deneb river from Dekaron.

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  2. Bhavan30 March 2013 at 08:32

    17 Refusal to take credit notes which are disreputable (9) NOTORIOUS {NO}{TO}{R}{IOUS} Anno for R not clear

    take = R from Recipe (Latin)

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    1. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 08:41

      Also the source of Rx in what our medicos prescribe.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath30 March 2013 at 09:05

      Second time I'm missing out on the 'R'. I must brush up on my r's ;-)

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  3. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 08:32

    4 It is worn by many sweltering in India (5) DHOTI [CD]

    many=D
    sweltering =HOT
    India=I

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  4. Bhavan30 March 2013 at 08:33

    @Col

    22 Struck date out when covered with bristles (5) TINED dINTED*

    This is AWNED like Kishore mentioned (d-)AWNED

    You have the right answer at 8D here, but in the completed solution grid you entered STATE for TASTE hence the confusion

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    1. Deepak Gopinath30 March 2013 at 09:15

      Thanks Bhavan, I've amended both the answer as well as the Solution

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  5. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 08:35

    Nice cartoon for Prang, Deepak. Planes of a wing crash together.

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  6. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 08:40

    Samosa days are here again. Give me Arden anyday.

    Reminded me of the Thums Up and Mirinda ads:

    Happy days are here again. Aaaaaaaaaaaah! Arden

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  7. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 08:45

    Your nickname can be seen in the first letters of the first five down clues

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  8. Chaturvasi30 March 2013 at 08:59

    And, course, the intended printer’s devil was a real delight.

    I don't think our setter would have intended a misprint to happen in that clue sentence. I would say: "Thank god, the paper did not commit a misprint there."

    Today's misprint in Chennai edition: "Surgeon Mohan Kameswaran recalled how Mr. Pichai had bought a young boy in his 20s with advanced cancer of the throat to him, asking him to give the boy the best treatment, without worrying about the cost. "

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    1. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 09:24

      Wow, good spotting. BTW, my mention of the intended PD was the answer at 9d and not any slip on part of the setter.

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    2. Chaturvasi30 March 2013 at 09:32

      Kishore

      You know what possible misprint I have in my mind in the clue sentence
      "Shocked at fat breasted girl characters,"
      don't you?

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    3. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 09:36

      I have absolutely no clue. As you know, I am quite an innocent chap at that.

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    4. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 09:36

      In college, they were called Manchester.

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    5. Richard30 March 2013 at 09:55

      Old chestnut...

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    6. Chaturvasi30 March 2013 at 10:06

      Frankly, I didn't know the Manchester term. Perhaps you people are latter-day collegians than me!

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    7. Col_Gopinath30 March 2013 at 11:28

      You have to be an 'L' board to detect CV's misprint

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    8. Suresh30 March 2013 at 11:31

      Twiggy was the famous Manchester in those days.

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    9. Raghunath30 March 2013 at 11:58

      An L makes a world of diff between Manchester & it's opp. word.

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    10. Shrikanth30 March 2013 at 14:07

      But the misprint would have not harmed the clue anyway. Shocked is shocked any which way.

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    11. Suresh30 March 2013 at 14:45

      Fat is flab flat is not. So it would have harmed the clue

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    12. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 16:11

      Reminded me of the doctor who told his young patient: "big breaths" and the patient replied " thanks for th compliment. And I am only thixteen!"

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  9. Raghunath30 March 2013 at 09:02

    14 Arranging chairs around backend of the pedicab (7) RICKSHA {RIC{K}SHA*}

    Is backend to mean End of back for K to come in, and is it the right treatment? Otherwise I thought it should have been D.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath30 March 2013 at 09:17

      K fron backend looks ok to me

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    2. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 09:24

      If mid-niGht can be g, bacK-end can certainly be K

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    3. Raghunath30 March 2013 at 09:39

      Because I think it is not one word. In the Chambers and thefreedic.com. it is with a hyphen or a gap between the two.

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  10. Shrikanth30 March 2013 at 09:10

    +1 for the subject line.

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  11. Shrikanth30 March 2013 at 09:17

    14A - isn't Ricksha spelt with a 'w'?

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  12. Chaturvasi30 March 2013 at 09:30

    Any Indian word, for that matter, has spelling variants, thanks to idiosyncratic ways in which the English used them.

    So setters using Indian words need to be careful in wordplay so that it leads to the form used in the grid.

    Perhaps a CD for an Indian word won't do!

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  13. VJ30 March 2013 at 10:58

    28A: Not sure how the word characters is an anagram indicator. Could somebody explain?

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    1. Suresh30 March 2013 at 11:25


      A word derived from the characters of the fodder

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  14. Chaturvasi30 March 2013 at 11:42

    Gridman has had (among others):

    1 Axe TU: I've some characters to cast off (8)

    9 Lured to cite characters in conclusion (7)

    13 Stalin led characters to be put in position (9)

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  15. Shrikanth30 March 2013 at 13:49

    Unable to reply on Kishore's comment on 28A from the BB. But wasn't Manchester conveying an opposite meaning? Like PTC in my college days. Expansion can't be provided in the forum :)

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  16. Anonymous30 March 2013 at 17:13

    Extending a Warm Welcome to DD, who is back in Bangalore. The temperature today is 36 deg. C and expected to rise in the coming days.

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  17. PKPSwami30 March 2013 at 17:19

    Lot of interesting clues.nice steps.26a showd us awebmaster different from we used to think of.Likewise 11a brilliantly took us 'all round' 18a,28a &15d led us up the garden path.Overall nice puzzle.

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