Saturday 8 June 2013

No 10794, Saturday 08 Jun 13, Arden

 Some more awesome anagrams besides some slips showing today.

ACROSS
1   Farce of a tea party in a filthy place (8) TRAVESTY {T}{RAVE}{STY}
5   Payment managed with a little, reportedly (6) RANSOM {RAN}{SOM}(~some)
10 Lawyer’s quiet over the top man (7) PLEADER {P}{LEADER}
11 Dry road will help when there is such an attack (3,4) AIR RAID {AIR} {R}{AID}

AIR RAID SHELTER

12 An Asian city has invaded an American city (5) LHASA {L{HAS}A}
13 Unusual drama with sick old creature (9) ARMADILLO {DRAMA*}{ILL}{O}
14 Went crooning at sea controlling a battleship from here (7,5) CONNING TOWER*
18 Put off by one who spoke, things worsened (12) DETERIORATED {DETER}{1}{ORATED} My COD
21 Ridiculed for examination done badly under light (9) LAMPOONED {LAMP}{O}{DONE*}
23 A presence in the initial phase (5) ALPHA [T]
24 Perception can be seen (7) INSIGHT {IN}{SIGHT}
25 Most conceited natives perhaps (7) VAINEST*
26 Mission doubtful over some money (6) ERRAND {ER}{RAND}
27 Ships with many sick and nothing covering them (8) FLOTILLA {F{LOT}{ILL}A} Anno for FA pending (See comments)

DOWN
1   Drink up with a little help, pity and understanding (6) TIPPLE [T<=]
2   Places gain initial notoriety in various fields (6) ARENAS {ARE{N}AS}
3   Evade questionable name before our struggle (9) ENDEAVOUR {EVADE+N}*{OUR} As per the clue this should have been {EVADE}*{N}{OUR}
4   Incite arrogant characters in an unknown place (5,9) TERRA INCOGNITA*
6   Bill free to be bitter (5) ACRID {AC}{RID}
7   Meekly accepts the birds (8) SWALLOWS [DD]
8   Ordinary doctor has love for the soldier (8) MEDIOCRE {MEDI{O}C}{RE}
9   Ricky Ponting, say, lived up to be a carnivorous beast (9,5) TASMANIAN DEVIL {TASMANIAN} {LIVED<=}
15 The criminal can heal (9) THERAPIST {THE}{RAPIST}
16 City resurrected with some media led activity (8) ADELAIDE {mEDIA+LED+A?}* Where does the second A come from? (Addendum - ADELAIDE [T<=] - See comments)
17 Spray makes a cat rise unsteadily (8) ATOMISER {A}{TOM}{RISE*} The definition should have been sprayer? (See comments)
19 A request has a quiet ring to it (6) APPEAL {A}{P}{PEAL}

FOURTH UMPIRE

20 The catchword in human trafficking (6) MANTRA [T]
22 An eye instrument for example (5) ORGAN [DD]

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33 comments:

  1. Kishore8 June 2013 at 08:36

    27a nothing=Fanny Adams=FA

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    1. Kishore8 June 2013 at 08:38

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Adams

      Lots of the navy in Arden's run this time

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    2. Col_Gopinath8 June 2013 at 08:39

      Understandable from a Seafaring man

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  2. RameshJ8 June 2013 at 08:38

    16 City resurrected with some media led activity (8)

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  3. Kishore8 June 2013 at 08:39

    17d a spray can also mean an atomiser. ask the ladies who tote a pepper spray in their tote bags

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  4. Kishore8 June 2013 at 08:41

    22d I see with my eye organ, hear with my ear organ, smell with my nose organ and taste with my mouth organ

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    1. RameshJ8 June 2013 at 08:48

      I'll bite...

      What do you with the plain organ ?

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    2. Chaturvasi8 June 2013 at 08:53

      He writes puns for it.

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    3. Col_Gopinath8 June 2013 at 08:57

      He flies around in it!!

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    4. Anonymous8 June 2013 at 09:01

      I play with it (but the music I generate can only be called noise, since it attracts neighbourhood cats who mistake it for a mating call)

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    5. Anonymous8 June 2013 at 09:10

      My answer would have been what the Col. has stated at 8.57, if he had not beat me to it...

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    6. Richard8 June 2013 at 09:28

      Kishore 8-41 - Quite an organ-ized activity, so to say...

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    7. Richard8 June 2013 at 09:30

      By the way, the organs that make music are of two kinds, upright and grand. What is yours?

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    8. Richard8 June 2013 at 09:32

      Sorry, another query please. Which organ is used by the Sixth Sense?

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    9. Anonymous8 June 2013 at 09:52

      Grand when upright.

      Esp-hagus, after losing an egg or two depending upon which side of the pond you come from

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  5. Anonymous8 June 2013 at 09:11

    Nice cartoons, Deepak. The DP one is quite topical.

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  6. Raghunath8 June 2013 at 09:24

    1 Farce of a tea party in a filthy place (8) TRAVESTY {T}{RAVE}{STY}
    Wonder if T is an abbrv for Tea?

    3D Evade questionable name before our struggle (9) ENDEAVOUR {EVADE+N}*{OUR} As per the clue this should have been {EVADE}*{N}{OUR}

    I think the 'before' was meant to insert N in the fodder, but it falls short of doing that. Maybe 'in' instead of 'before' would have been better?

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  7. VJ8 June 2013 at 10:25

    18A: Don't think it's such a good clue. "...who spoke" would lead to ORATOR and not ORATED. If it's just "spoke" then "who" is unnecessary

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  8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 June 2013 at 11:39

    Today's quite an organ-ized Tea party turns out to be a Stag party ?

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    1. Kishore8 June 2013 at 12:46

      I thought I'd make a quick buck...

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    2. Richard8 June 2013 at 15:00

      Oh deer!

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    3. Kishore8 June 2013 at 15:51

      You never know, we could end up with a fleet of fleet-footed horny critters

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  9. Unknown8 June 2013 at 12:44

    Hi, everybody. I am Ashok, from Seattle, USA. I am an avid follower of THC. It surely has come of age with this iPhone App with all the reference tools. I immensely enjoy all the conversations in this forum too. Keep them coming.

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    1. Kishore8 June 2013 at 12:49

      Welcome Ashok. I had visited Seattle last fall and made my way up to the top of Little Si, Rattlesnake Ledge and part of the way up Rainier.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath8 June 2013 at 14:11

      Welcome Ashok

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  10. Kishore8 June 2013 at 12:50

    Regarding the pic of the T. Devil, look at the arrangement of nails on that thing's feet

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  11. Unknown8 June 2013 at 18:47



    An appeal to the System Administrator.Take my instance.For the last one month,I was not visiting this site for reasons of being busy otherwise.Now to get the latest page,say of today's (June 8,2013),other than typing the website address,is it the only way that I should go on clicking "Newer Post" for all the past,say 30 days in succession laboriously,OR is there any provision that I can instantly get today's version instantly,say by typing today's date at a designated place?If so,let me know.Please kindly advise.

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    1. RameshJ8 June 2013 at 19:10

      I am not sure what you are looking for. Could you please elaborate.
      If you are looking for the most recent post, you type the http://thehinducrosswordcorner.blogspot.in and then click on the top most post.
      If you are looking for posts before that go to the "Blog Archive" menu on the left of the page ( very close to the bottom ) and select the month that you want to see. The list will expand to show the posts for that month &you can select the day that you want.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath8 June 2013 at 19:25

      Seshagiri,

      I think you are bookmarking a particular date that's how you land up at an old post.

      I suggest you bookmark the link mentioned by Ramesh and after that whenever you go to that bookmark you will see the latest two posts. For older posts you can follow instructions as mentioned by Ramesh. Alternatively you can come to the latest post through the Blog Archive on the left.

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    3. Unknown10 June 2013 at 16:30

      Thank you both.I will follow the instructions.

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  12. raju umamaheswar8 June 2013 at 20:18

    Kishore: You sing with your mouth organ - very PUNny FUNda ! or FUNny PUNda?
    What about other organs of music?

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