Saturday 8 February 2014

No 11003, Saturday 08 Feb 2014, Neyartha


Neyartha making up for the easy run he gave us yesterday. Not able to process 24A :-(

ACROSS
1   Russia and Portugal go behind financial institution in liquidation (8) BANKRUPT {BANK}{RU}{PT}
5   Vocal promotions afoot? That makes sense! (4,2) ADDS UP (~ads up)
9   Cuspidor and skewer brought in for the Chinese military force unit (8) SPITTOON (-pla+spit)TOON
10 Main course has a selection of succulent reeds (6) ENTREE [T]
11 Supports the frontiersmen at sea, protecting the church (14) REINFORCEMENTS {REINFOR{CE}MENTS*}
14 Be in it to have a higher probability of being chosen (5) FRAME [CD]
16 Stop and take charge of the European, say (9) SCOTCHMAN {SCOTCH}{MAN}
17 Get me out of the planetarium mess to obtain waterproofed canvas (9) TARPAULIN PLANeTARIUm*
19 Limits the Russian leader moving to the front in exasperation (5) RANGE (+r)RANGE(-r)
20 Grand bird at home in the cold? (7,7) EMPEROR PENGUIN [CD]
23 Disorderly Democrat participates in break down of unity (6) UNTIDY {UNTI{D}Y*}
24 German art made from bits and pieces to show an image processing operation (8) ?E?O?A?C (Addendum - DEMOSAIC - {DE}{MOSAIC} - See comments)
25 Strain’s created by a magical love-potion, according to hearsay (6) FILTER (~philter)
26 In retreat, time to capture pose with bridge partners, so to say (2,2,4) AS IT WERE {A{S IT} {W}{E}RE<=}

DOWN
1   This shell’s a hit! (4) BUST [DD] (Addendum - BASH [DD] - See comments)
2   Om moves away from the repulsive racket (5) NOISE NOISomE
3   Attendants pursue an engineer to make the fraud go away (7) RETINUE (-con+re)RETINUE
4   Run out with the diplomat to get the standard envelop of a Roman official (11) PROCONSULAR {P{RO}{CONSUL}AR}
6   Spirited police department pulled up after hiding multiple reversals (7) DYNAMIC {D{YNAM<=}IC<=}
7   Some circus performers in the new government’s village outskirts are cut off (9) STRONGMEN GOveRNMENTS*
8   More gratifying for the worker to interrupt catastrophic relapse (10) PLEASANTER {PLEAS{ANT}ER*}
12 Treasure in the Tower of London? (5,6) CROWN JEWELS [GK]
13 Remark made with little preparation (3-3-4) OFF-THE-CUFF [CD]
15 Revolutionary, late, puts deformed copra up in the direction of the plant tip (9) ACROPETAL {COPRA*}{ETAL<=}
18 Cut short by CM’s departure from the English university town (7) ABRIDGE cAmBRIDGE
19 Upset sailor’s enclosure to grow mutated weed (7) RAGWORT {RA{GROW*}T<=}
21 Picture concealed by the claim agent (5) IMAGE [T]
22 Desire pain (4) ACHE [DD]

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  1. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:32

    24 German art made from bits and pieces to show an image processing operation (8) ?E?O?A?C

    DE MOSAIC

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    1. Deepak Gopinath8 February 2014 at 08:34

      DE for German?

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    2. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:34

      The country code

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    3. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:37

      for Deutsch. Also, domain code. But I am not sure if it works only with Germany in the clue or German is also kosher

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    4. Deepak Gopinath8 February 2014 at 08:39

      This word is not there in Chambers. An internet search throws up 'Demosaicing' as the process

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    5. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:49

      I don't find in my Chambers too. However, I have come across it in image processing and math:

      http://www.mathworks.in/help/images/ref/demosaic.html

      I think it is a jargon specific to certain uses.

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    6. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:58

      Wiktionary too has it:

      http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demosaic

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  2. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:34

    Words like Adds Up, Frame, Range, Filter, Dynamic, Image and De-mosaic seem to point to some computer processing, I am not sure if its some spreadsheet/image processing software.

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    1. Bhavan8 February 2014 at 08:47

      I had 1d BASH which is a unix shell also as one of the themed entries.

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    2. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:51

      I too had Bash. I am not familiar with Unix. I could only make out that some image / data processing was involved. Is that the theme?

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    3. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:54

      Bhavan, what is your opinion on German=DE. Is that ok or does it have to be Germany?

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    4. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 09:00

      I had taken shell in the sense of 'bombard with artillery fire' and hence bash. I had no idea it had anything to do with Unix.

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    5. Richard8 February 2014 at 09:02

      Sorry for poking my nose.

      Deutschland = Germany, Deutsch for German language or nationals. The official German radio station is Deutsche Welle. I have no opinion.

      As mentioned already, 'de' is the Internet domain extension and international vehicle registry. In the olden days, 'de' was part of telex addresses in Germany.

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    6. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 09:31

      My question to Bhavan was that while Germany is clearly DE, the clue has German and not Germany in it. Is that ok?

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    7. Bhavan8 February 2014 at 10:32

      German = G/GER
      Germany = D/GER/FRG

      Those two are the abbreviations I see in my Chambers dictionary of crossword abbreviations. Other than the internet domain suffix, I don't know how/why German = DE

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    8. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 10:39

      Thanks, Bhavan. Can the internet domain be clued in as German, without specifying it is a domain?

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  3. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:38

    Re the toon, I first drew the central spans and left chasms at the ends. I later realised that a bridge might usually be built outside-in rather than the other way round.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath8 February 2014 at 08:43

      We have a bridge like your first drawing over the railway line behind MEG. The span over the railway line is over but there is no ramp leading up to it as MOD is refusing to part with land

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    2. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:53

      So that too would have worked. But tell me, except in the specific type of case you have mentioned, it would seem logical to build the spans from the banks to the centre rather than the other way round as it would help transport inner spans inwards. Is my logic ok?

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    3. Richard8 February 2014 at 08:54

      I first thought it was an image of the gnashing of teeth or someone's toothy smile...

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    4. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:55

      Your mentally stored image of Marilyn Monroe still haunts you ;-)

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    5. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:57

      You might as well Demosaic it ... or dump it in the Recycle Bin

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    6. Richard8 February 2014 at 09:03

      But unlike your image of MM, here all the teeth are intact.

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    7. Col_Gopinath8 February 2014 at 10:07

      Kishore @ 8:53,

      Your logic is absolutely right, especially in the cases of a bridge across a river

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  4. Nadathur Rajan8 February 2014 at 08:53

    RU Russian; PT Portugal; DE German
    These were language codes used in MS Developer Network for specifying system settings.
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533052(v=vs.85).aspx
    Is Neyartha a software developer?

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    1. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 08:54

      Yes

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    2. Chaturvasi8 February 2014 at 09:32

      I think he is in chips designing. I can only munch on them.

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    3. Padmanabhan8 February 2014 at 09:49

      Read in one of the cartoons-
      "I ate only 45 chips as compared 50 yesterday and I am already feeling healthier'!

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    4. Col_Gopinath8 February 2014 at 10:08

      I got 50 chips as against Mohsin's 45 in the IXL final :-)

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    5. Padmanabhan8 February 2014 at 14:02

      :-)

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    6. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 19:14

      Bana chips from Kozhikode?

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  5. pammechchu8 February 2014 at 08:57

    Me thinks 1 D should be BASH - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)

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  6. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 09:04

    15 Revolutionary, late, puts deformed copra up in the direction of the plant tip (9) ACROPETAL {COPRA*}{ETAL<=}

    I remember that there was a series of boards on Bannerghatta Road about a company called Acropetal. I am not sure if that has any connection with the theme.

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  7. Nadathur Rajan8 February 2014 at 09:05

    19 Reversal indicator to be added.
    Upset sailor’s enclosure to grow mutated weed (7) RAGWORT {RA{GROW*}T<=}
    Upset - Reversal Indicator; sailor TAR, enclosure - Containment Indicator; mutated - Anagram Indicator, Grow*- GWOR
    So, TAR<= around GROW*

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  8. Padmanabhan8 February 2014 at 09:35

    I put 1d as 'Bomb' (out of bombshell) and it bombed on me and I could not 'spit'tton it.
    Neyartha more than made up for yesterday, with my grid hanging out like Kishore's bridge,with quite a few spans missing.

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2014 at 15:15

      Paddy, we two seem to be on same wavelength ! I too put it as BOMB and was groping in the dark to get 9 Across !! (Without any result) :-(

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  9. Chaturvasi8 February 2014 at 09:36

    I don't know if the Colonel is disappointed that one of the answers he had is not BUST.

    Please have a bash at writing a clue for BUST.

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    1. Richard8 February 2014 at 09:42

      1. Break up sculpture (4)

      2. America in bio-technology's chest (4)

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    2. Padmanabhan8 February 2014 at 09:45

      Damaged counterfoil?

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    3. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 09:46

      Break a lady's chest (4)

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    4. Richard8 February 2014 at 09:51

      3. Public transport gets model damage

      4. Shirt on underwater vessel reversed damage

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    5. Richard8 February 2014 at 09:52

      Pardon me if my four clues bring back the memories of the reign of a certain setter who many of the bloggers here loved to hate.

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    6. Chaturvasi8 February 2014 at 09:55

      Re Kishore's clue above, I take it that the chest is where the lady keeps her jewels.

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    7. Padmanabhan8 February 2014 at 09:56

      'Public transport' gets model'. (Bus T) No damage.

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    8. Richard8 February 2014 at 09:59

      Paddy, I meant 'damage' as definition, unless you are pulling my legs. ;-)

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    9. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 10:45

      CV, firm support is envisaged. I meant it to be ambiguous. You have added ambiguity by saying 'keeps jewels'. ...

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    10. Richard8 February 2014 at 10:49

      Sounds like the old chestnut...

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    11. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 11:15

      He was probably referring to 12d

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    12. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 12:32

      CV is at the fore-front of affairs ;-)

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    13. Richard8 February 2014 at 12:33

      @ 10-45 What is envisaged can lead to a PERLITE*

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    14. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 13:30

      Incidentally, i have used the term used in Mangalore to refer to wife's sister's husband in short

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    15. Richard8 February 2014 at 13:33

      That is a colloquialism, not found in any dictionary. It is commonly used in rest of the places as well.

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  10. Padmanabhan8 February 2014 at 09:40

    Scotchman for Scotsman, 'De' for German, Demosaic... we have quite q few to make us bankrupt.
    Liked Crown Jewels, Emperor Penguin. Long anagrams were good too.
    Time limit- much longer than yesterday.

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    1. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 11:14

      Johnnie Walker is the only Scotchman I know

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    2. Padmanabhan8 February 2014 at 14:05

      As far as I know, you are a straight walker!

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2014 at 15:26

      The above two posts reminds me of a joke :

      A lonely female crab was walking down the beach one evening when she noticed a male crab coming toward her—but he was walking straight and not sideways!
      Impressed by his talent, she decided to marry him immediately.
      The next morning she noticed him walking sideways like any ordinary crab! She asked, "What happened? Yesterday you were able to walk straight!"
      He answered "What?! I can't get that drunk every day!".


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  11. Col_Gopinath8 February 2014 at 10:12

    So do we add 'THEMED' to the labels?

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    1. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 12:07

      I just noticed some possibly linked words. Some geek will have to confirm what the theme is.

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  12. Nadathur Rajan8 February 2014 at 10:50

    There is even an Emperor Penguin Gnu Linux Notebook!

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  13. Unknown8 February 2014 at 13:55

    It seemsNEYARATHA likes planetariums!

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  14. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2014 at 14:52

    Is Neyartha playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ?! Yesterday it was so simple and today so tough ! Anyway, as long as he sticks to these two roles, it's OK with me ! This way, I'm assured of, If not two, at least one day's 100% enjoyment !! :)

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  15. Col_Gopinath8 February 2014 at 15:59

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY Suresh.

    Thought of putting it as first comment today but forgot.

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  16. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2014 at 16:07

    Many Happy Returns of The Day, Suresh garu ! :)

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    1. Richard8 February 2014 at 16:27

      + 1. సురెశ్-గారు, we have narrowly missed meeting each other in Bangalore. We will do it some day.

      Have a great day, for many years to come.

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  17. Padmanabhan8 February 2014 at 16:54

    Many happy returns of the day, Suresh. Keep cycling,keep solving!

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  18. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 17:31

    Happy Recycling solutions, Suresh

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    1. Anonymous8 February 2014 at 17:42

      He can have a 1d with 16a in attendance

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    2. Richard8 February 2014 at 18:02

      Where is Suresh today? Maybe re-inventing the wheel and carrying on with a 'revolution'...

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  19. Padmanabhan8 February 2014 at 17:50

    Johny walker?

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  20. Suresh8 February 2014 at 20:10

    Thanks everybody for your good wishes.

    Slightly hectic day today. So just about got in.

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