Friday 5 July 2013

No.10817, Friday 05 Jul 13, Neyartha

Neyartha's locational and communication devices include a jungle messenger for the Phantom in 10a

Setter's Note: The three-word term split across (5ac.,4dn.,25ac.) has been clued thrice.*
ACROSS
1 Bad typo in script from a 1880s printing machine (8) LINOTYPE (TYPO* inside LINE)
          Remember those days in the typing classes of yore, wherever every mistake was marked out and you 
          could not get away with saying 'it was a typo'
5, 4dn., 25 American aid to help travellers find their way? (6,11,6) GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
9 Determined wife gets rid of model showing the nature of communication in (5ac., 4dn., 25ac.) (8) WIRELESS (W replacing T from TIRELESS)
          Determined wife is a tautology: every wife is determined: to change her husband, for the better or for the worse
10 Jerry’s rival counters clever remark with a musical instrument (3-3) TOM TOM (Jerry's rival=TOM, MOT<, mot or more correctly bon mot is a clever remark, French for 'good word'
          Remember Bertie Wooster's quest for the 'mot juste', the right word for the right occasion, one which is usually
          on the tip of one's tongue but refuses to jump off it
11 Sewing aid with an alignment property? (8,6) MAGNETIC NEEDLE (CD)
14 Surrender supply (5) YIELD 2
16 In cruise, king misplaced broken pestle after the Oriental left and awoke late (9) OVERSLEPT (ROVE with R misplaced, PESTLE*)
          Reminded me of Rip van Winkle
17 Leaves behind the bar involved in exposes (9) OUTSTRIPS (STRIP in OUTS)
          Reminded me of the Panda who eats, shoots and leaves


19 Pick a cosmetic (5) CREAM 2
20 Nick’s behind the sound heard by guests at the firm with controlling shares (7,7) HOLDING COMPANY (~hole HOL DIN G COMPANY) Firm on double duty See comments
23 Afternoon nap in the Parsi estate (6) SIESTA (T)
24 Headless board gets besieged by revolutionary tunes from the country (3,5) SRI LANKA (pLANK in AIRS* AIRS<) See comments
          A rather Serendipitous discovery
5, 4dn, 25 Navigator from 10ac. might need this for proper functioning (6,11,6) GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
26 Receptacles for smokers in an awfully trashy box of arsenic (8) ASHTRAYS (TRASHY AS)* (TRASHY* in AS) See comments
           Notice to smokers to leave their butts in the toilets: If you smoke in our toilets, guess what we'll do in your ashtrays

DOWN
1 Suggestive of a malfunctioning weld (4) LEWD (WELD)*
          Either way: <> Evil I did dwell - lewd did I live
2 Not quite the typical constellation (5) NORMA (NORMAL)
3 Cut upset imprisoned criminal circle equipped with claws (7) TALONED (DENT< around AL O)
5ac.,4, 25ac,19dn. In real life or on a smartphone, may rely on this (6,11,6) GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
6 Greek character goes missing with emulsions prepared for a wild cat (7) LIONESS (EmuLSIONS)*
7 Desire to be immersed in LPG component used in synthetic rubber manufacturing (9) BUTADIENE (DIE in BUTANE)
8 Let mum copy adjustment after surgical removal (10) LUMPECTOMY (LET MUM COPY)*
12 Kings and queens may be found here (11) CHESSBOARDS (CD)
           This is the only place a female gives a male some money in the form of a cheque
13 Film development agent’s article on silicon and sulphur leads to speculation (10) HYPOTHESIS (HYPO THE SI S)
          The Sodium-thiosulphate reminded me of "With the photographer" by Stephen Leacock
15 Teller’s ox trained by communicators of high praise (9) EXTOLLERS (TELLER'S OX)*
18 Time for the Welsh leader to call for a prickly plant (7) THISTLE  (T replacing W in WHISTLE)
19 Firm old Roman governor in conversation with an airplane crew member (7) COPILOT (CO. ~PILATE)
          Was this pilot involved in the flight of the Israelites?
21 Japanese martial art expert’s letters from a Kalinin jail (5) NINJA (T)
22 Returning unwanted e-mails? Those may be essential for 10ac. and 19dn. (4) MAPS (SPAM<)

* Accordingly, I have keyed in the answers thrice in the above post

61 comments:

  1. 20 Nick’s behind the sound heard by guests at the firm with controlling shares (7,7) HOLDING COMPANY (~hole HOL DIN G COMPANY) Firm on double duty

    I think COMPANY = guests, so no double duty for FIRM

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    1. Anno not clear to me. Where do 'hole' and 'G' come from?

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    2. Nick=hole
      sound=ding

      but a bit sketchy, I thought

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    3. Odd synonyms today: 20 A, Nick - hole and 3 D, Dent = cut. Think we could swap cut for hole.

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    4. Kishore,
      Nick = Hole okay but where is the homophone indicator ?

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  2. 24 Headless board gets besieged by revolutionary tunes from the country (3,5) SRI LANKA (pLANK in AIRS*)

    AIRS is reversed, so no indirect anagram here.

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  3. Surprised to see really odd surface readings in some clues (Ac: 9,10,16,20,24 and Dn: 3,6,13,15,18)

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  4. Re the cartoon.

    I don't understand.

    I thought that when we are in a nudists' colony we are already stripped. Any denizen who is snooped on from a high perch must already be in the altogether. So where is the question of those guys timing the time taken for stripping.

    I enjoyed the glance at the Ext Aff Minister who brushed off the spying episode.

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    1. Out of sight of the cartoon viewer, the neophytes are dressing down on the verandah of the club house. Picture it in your mind's eye (as I am sure you can). Saved me drawing 'noods'. Happy you noticed the mantriji in charge of external affairs.

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    2. He,he,he. Ha, ha,ha. (Even Mukundala would know it is LOL.). Do nudists' colony exist in India? In Chennai? If so, how are they advertised? You know that we Indians are never straightforward. A massage parlour may be a mask for something else. What is the mask for the nudists' colony? Are the chairs and benches inside the colony smooth? Are there any rooms within that are temperature-controlled? Do the bathroom doors have those incomprehensible figures? Do the towels have HIS and HER discrimination? Please clarify.

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    3. Do nudists' colony exist in India?

      I will look into it.

      If so, how are they advertised?

      Openly

      Do the bathroom doors have those incomprehensible figures?

      Figure it out for yourself.

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    4. in Chennai, I think it is located in Nanganallur

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    5. ...I am kind of a novice to abbreviations ! Could u please strip LOL !?

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    6. Why should I strip?

      LOL= Laughing out loud

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    7. Ha! Ha! Ha! I wanted CV Sir to strip(LOL) !!

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    8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam

      Here is a list of Net-related abbreviations.

      In fact, I am looking for a suitable abbreviation for Mukundala Balasubramanyam. ;-) No offence, please.

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    9. MB 9:48 Strip-tease, eh?

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    10. Is Nanganallur near Dhobi Ghat?

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    11. ;!) ! It's my pleasure ! Please go ahead. Thanks for the list of Net related abbreviations.

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    12. my above reply is meant for CV Sir.

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    13. CV, Sir, you are still in demand. MB wants you to strip.

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    14. Correction: Read Friend Richard for CV Sir !

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    15. Oh! It's all confusing !! No more stripping, tripping !!! Richard, u are at liberty to give me a suitable name which I shall accept gleefully

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    16. Please read "suitable abbreviation" in place of "suitable name"

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  5. I think anno for 26A should be {A{TRASHY*}S}

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  6. 17A I was reminded of the headline 'NUT, SCREWS AND BOLTS'

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    1. There is a slightly longer version:

      NUTS, SCREWS WASHERS AND BOLTS

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    2. Once a headline screamed in a British newspaper:

      Miscreants Create Hole in Enclosure of Nudists' Colony - Police Looking into it

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    3. The police will have to wait. I got there first. At 931

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  7. Yesterday : I faced a Bumpy Ride ! Today : A huge Roadblock !! Result : A complete Mental Block !!!

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    1. That is because of what Bhavan said at 8.41

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  8. 22 Returning unwanted e-mails? Those may be essential for 10ac. and 19dn. (4) MAPS (SPAM<)

    What is relation of Maps with TOM TOM ( 10 AC)?

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    1. I think the ref should have been 5a and not 10a

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    2. Agreed, Like you said The Phantom would use these tom-toms rather than maps.

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    3. TomTom is a well known navigation system maker.

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    4. That explains it. Thanks once again.

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  9. 12Dn CHESSBOARDS (CD) This is the only place a female gives a male some money in the form of a cheque.

    During our journalism training, one of the examples given for catchy headlines was, 'Cash is better than Check '. The reference was to the outcome of the Semifinals of Australian Open in 1988 between Pat Cash (Australia) and Ivan Lendl (Czech). [Cash, however, lost to Willander in the Finals in a four-and-a-half-hour encounter.]

    One headline which has come in for much criticism for making fun of (pun on) a serious news item was:
    'Sons of toil buried under tons of soil'. This had appeared in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on 6 March, 1958 reporting a cave-in.

    CV must be having some catchy headlines that he had the occasion to compose during his stint as Sub-Ed, and so must Richard have done for his journal.

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    1. 'Sons of toil buried under tons of soil'.

      That was used by PGW. Let me locate it.

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    2. Remember a headline 'Boy for Cash'. When he had his son

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  10. Galahad at Blandings (1965):

    "It is virtually impossible to retain the schoolgirl complexion unimpaired if you are looking after pigs all the time. Even more closely than Sandy Callender when tidying up Lord Emsworth's study she resembled one of those sons of toil buried under tons of soil of whom Gally had spoken. Nevertheless, probing beyond the geological strata Tipton thought he could discern a pinkness.

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    1. I salute thee, Kishore. What a memory!

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    2. That was Googlekar's memory, not mine.

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    3. Ah haa. Am currently reading "Pigs have wings "

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    4. kishore@3:31

      Your memory of connecting the phrase to PGW between 10;05 to 10:07. That's splendid.

      Google Uncle might have helped you later.

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  11. 2Dn NORMA

    Interstingly, this small and inconspicuous constellation (in the southern hemisphere between Scorpius and Centaurus) owes it name to the Latin word for normal. It refers to a right angle, and represents a rule, a carpenter's square, a set square or a level.

    The Milky Way passes through Norma!

    For more information, pl. see Ian Ridpath's site 'Star Tales' at http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/norma.htm



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  12. Last evening I went to TVSK, the Tamil movie in a theatre in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, where politicians make so much noise about their protecting the classical language.

    I was irritated by the appearance of English subtitles - which distracted me and also annoyed me. You know, these subtitles are mostly error-ridden in usage and spelling.

    I felt that I should have been warned beforehand that the film has these captions - when I could have decided whether to go in or not.

    You also know that Tamilians - with a few rare exceptions - can't speak a sentence in Tamil without mixing English. So often the English sentence has English subtitle.

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    1. In some Tamil serials, they say a line in English and then the Tamil translation (or vice versa) as in:

      Get out, I say ! VeLile po, aiyya !

      In Nanganallur, of course, Hindi is more accepted.

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    1. +1, almost finished it, a record of sorts for me when it comes to Neyartha.

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  14. Kishore has already given a link to the wikipedia site for Norma(constellation).

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  15. Many of the Hindi serials are coming with Tamil soundtracks on various Tamil Channels. While some are done very effectively, others are humourous.

    There was a Hindi translation of 'The Fugitive' where Harrison Ford is on the rooftop of the Hilton Hotel in Chicago and the police in helicopter hovering above are intructed by their controller, "Take him out". Instead of getting the meaning of the slang (eliminate him), the Hindi voice says, "Use baahar le ja" (take him outside!).

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    1. Lots of these subtitles/translations are done by people with know no-ledge of spelling or idioms and sometimes are quite hilarious. It works either way- English to native language or vice versa.

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  16. Kishore @ 9.35
    in Chennai, I think it is located in Nanganallur

    Is it because of the word "Nanga" which means naked in Hindi?

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    1. Yes, of course. Otherwise, what does an innocent soul like me know of nudist colonies in Chennai.

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  17. The name 'Nanganallur' was given by the Maha Periyaval of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi. Because of the Rajarajeswari Temple located in Thillai Ganga Nagar, His Holiness called the area as Nangai-nallur.

    In 1970, when HH visited the ancient Arthanareeswar temple, He got a search instituted for the Sivalingam which was missing. It was later found that a washerman was using the lingam as a washing stone in a pond nearby. Periyaval, then, installed the Lingam.

    Now, Nanganallur is renowned for the Anjaneyar Temple.

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  18. Same term clued thrice & intricately woven works out well.clues 17a & 2&6 d equally nice. In fine a wholesome entertainer.

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  19. Tied to load in Orkut. Found only the Across clues and all the DOWN clus have disappeared into cyberspace down under . Very frustrating !! Any one else had the same experience?

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