Tuesday 12 September 2017

No 12110, Tuesday 12 Sep 2017, Skuldugger


ACROSS
5   Chambers where Disney (reportedly) had cryogenics at the end (6) VAULTS (~walt){VAULT}{c...cS}
6   Forcibly removed by violent sport (6) FROLIC FORCIbLy*
9   Prohibited in the place of good? On the contrary (6) FORBAD {FOR}{BAD}
10 Get used to a carbon tax (8) ACCUSTOM {A}{C}{CUSTOM}
11 Sinks the eight-ball, for instance, in radical finish (4) POTS Anno pending (Addendum - STOP<= - See comments)
12 Highly unconventional rogues at large hijack rickety auto (10) OUTRAGEOUS {ROGUES+AUTO}* As per the clue it would be {ROGUES}* over {AUTO}*
13 Hardy bronco horsing around in compound (11) HYDROCARBON*
18 Fan in queue turning up for Aristotle Onassis, for example (10) WORSHIPPER {ROW<=}{SHIPPER}
21 Harbour takes up this half of European country (4) PORT PORTugal
22 Mostly uncleared, hazy, like a summer sky (8) CERULEAN UNCLEAREd*
23 Car part (small) in metal spike (6) PISTON {PI{S}TON}
24 Sharpness: being posh in an urban area (6) ACUITY {A}{C{U}ITY}
25 An inkling about going East Side (6) HAUNCH {H{A}UNCH} Anno not clear See comments

DOWN
1   Undone by hubris, become worthless (8) RUBBISHY*
2   Film producer's digs (6) STUDIO [CD]
3   Furniture with allure, aura, according to Spooner (8) ARMCHAIR (-ch)ARM}(+ch)CHAIR (Correction -{-cha+a)ARM(-a+cha)CHAIR - See comments)
4   Pallid sister oddly has permanent wrinkles after chemical treatment (6) PLISSE {PaLlId+SiStEr}
5   Magical ability to court and party, in a manner of speaking (6) VOODOO (~ woo do}
7   It might be repeated in Switzerland or America (6) CHORUS {CH}{OR}{US}
8   Patrician involved in exercise or anybody involved in anything (11) PARTICIPANT {PATRICIAN}* in {PT}
14 Artemis, discovering Pan finally disarrayed, gets arrays (8) RAIMENTS {paN} in {ARTEMIS}*
15 River running upstream joins river to make melodious sounds on the other side (8) OPPOSING {PO<=}{PO}{SING}
16 Public house for retiring senior alumnus (6) BODEGA {AGED}{OB}<=
17 Ornament on small jumper in British court house (6) BROOCH {B}{ROO}{CH}
19 Soundly prosecute arrogant young man to increase power! (4,2) SOUP UP (~ sue pup)
20 Set aside article held by retrograde social outcast (6) REPEAL {A} in {LEPER<=}

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31 comments:

  1. sree_sree12 September 2017 at 08:34

    11a stop<- pots def sinks
    25a AHunch a going right (east)

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    1. Col_Gopinath12 September 2017 at 08:42

      A Hunch going right is HCNUHA

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    2. Col_Gopinath12 September 2017 at 08:43

      How is Radical a reversal indicator

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    3. ranger12 September 2017 at 08:49

      Radical as in 'revolutionary', perhaps

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    4. Vasant12 September 2017 at 08:49

      Radical: one meaning is arising from the root.

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    5. Kolluru Koteswara Rao12 September 2017 at 08:52

      11A Radical = Revolutionary/Rebel, so I think we can accept it.
      25A: A+HUNCH can lead to HAUNCH with ABOUT being anagrind. Then, of course, East will be redundant.
      12AC: I agree with your view. I thought it will be A on B or vice versa.

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    6. Vasant12 September 2017 at 08:58

      A=about is going right..not very convincing though

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  2. Raghunath12 September 2017 at 08:58

    25 An inkling about going East Side (6) HAUNCH {H{A}UNCH} Anno not clear
    H(An)UNCH. 'n' is East part of AN. going East = E is leaving.
    Just a wild guess

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    1. Vasant12 September 2017 at 09:01

      An inkling= A Hunch
      About=A
      About Going East=indicator that A should move to the right.

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    2. Raghunath12 September 2017 at 09:04

      That's correct

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    3. sree_sree12 September 2017 at 09:14

      That's how I also took it.

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    4. Raghunath12 September 2017 at 09:54

      sree_sree is very cryptic, so sometimes his annos are not clearly seen.

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  3. Vasant12 September 2017 at 09:12

    Where is Sandhya, the queen of Annos?
    Except for the occasional birthday cakes she sends on members' birthdays on CCS and 1Across, she is very much conspicuous by her absence

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  4. sree_sree12 September 2017 at 09:16

    3d my understanding (cha)RM (a)ir -> (a)RM (cha)ir

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  5. Padmanabhan12 September 2017 at 09:35

    Off track-
    The link given by Raghu late yesterday seems to be a general registration into IXL. Does not say anything about IXL 17.

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    1. Col_Gopinath12 September 2017 at 09:37

      It is for IXL-17, they have forgotten to change 16 to 17 in the link

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  6. sree_sree12 September 2017 at 10:53

    off track. Wondering the scenario when these abbr make it to cryptics. https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2017/sep/08/tom-gauld-on-saving-time-online-cartoon

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  7. Ramani12 September 2017 at 14:05

    1st round of IXL on 17th inst. at 12 noon. Rest of the rounds at 11.00 hrs every Sunday. All the best to the participants!

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  8. Padmanabhan12 September 2017 at 14:13

    Ram is already ready,raring to go. All the Best Ram.

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  9. raju umamaheswar12 September 2017 at 15:37

    I am now registered. Raju too is ready & raring to go. All the best to all the participants from our blog. May the fastest and the best win. I am not in the race for the trophy, though.

    In today's PLISSE pleased me . A new word for my glossary. FORBAD was my bad ! CERULEAN is a poetic word for all versifiers. I'll use it one day in my poems.

    The acuity of Skulldugger in framing Worshipper makes me a fan of his !

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    1. Padmanabhan12 September 2017 at 16:15

      Re, forbad/ forbade- here is an interesting quote from The Elegy written in a country Churchyard' by Tennison: (Your mention of poem took me there)

      Th' applause of list'ning senates to command,
      The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
      To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
      And read their history in a nation's eyes,
      Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone 65
      Their glowing virtues, but their crimes confined;
      Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,
      And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,

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    2. Vasant12 September 2017 at 16:25

      Nice one Paddy

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao12 September 2017 at 17:33

      Paddy,
      Thanks for sharing the poem.
      The 65 appearing in the stanza above made me inquisitive and I searched on web.
      Astonishingly, the web page I saw says that it is Thomas Gray!
      Is the source right?
      http://graduate.engl.virginia.edu/enec981/dictionary/21grayD1.html

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    4. Padmanabhan12 September 2017 at 18:17

      You have a sharp eye! My bad- It IS by Thomas Gray. Link to the full poem (learnt from my father)
      https://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Elegy-written-in-a-Country-Courtyard.pdf

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