Saturday 6 June 2009

No 9522, Saturday, 06 Jun 09, Sankalak

When I started off today, the visitor number hit counter was at 9928, just out of curiosity I would like to know who the 10,000th is, and he/she is welcome to join me for dinner at home on 11 Jun in Bangalore, so watch the counter when you visit the page and enter your name in the comments section if you are the 10,000th
Well today's CW is literally a walk in the park, like I have said earlier a hot knife through butter.
ACROSS
1 - They show up the player’s (or umpire’s) skill in retrospect (6,7) - ACTION REPLAYS [CD]
10 - Some smart, strange monkeys (9) - MARMOSETS*
11 - Poetry that a believer serves here (5) - VERSE [T]
12 - The French object, unknown to people without a specific occupation (5) - {LA}{IT}{Y}
13 - Creature, brachiopod, may help small changes (9) - LAMPSHELL*
14 - Deficient in quantity is silver found in lake (6) - ME{AG}RE
16 - Indifferent to a simpleton returning (5) - A{LOOF<-}
19 - Such steps are hard on the aged (5) - STEEP [CD]
20 - Snake from which one may get a crush (6) - PYTHON [CD]
25 - Where in Alaska one may moor a vessel (9) - ANCHORAGE [DD]
26 - Inventor who could broadcast in hollow band (5) - B(-an){AIR}D Inventor of the idiot box!!
27 - Apply the squeeze on print media (5) - PRESS [DD]
28 - In the skin it is deep sir: I’m surprised (9) - EPIDERMIS*
29 - Check the announcement for restoration (13) - {REIN}{STATEMENT}
DOWN
2 - Festive time that a rival can ruin (8) - CARNIVAL*
3 - Press youth leader with sarcasm (5) - {IRON}{Y}
4 - Require French article? A sewing accessory? (6) - {NEED}{LE}
5 - Group of singers in reconstructed Belsen take me back in (8) - ENS{EM<-}BLE*
6 - Erich Segal’s romance (4,5) - LOVE STORY [CD] I liked the movie better than the book
7 - A delivery at Lords from a Virginia county (6) - YORKER [DD]
8 - A symbol that may seem blemishless in part (6) - EMBLEM [T]
9 - Greeting Hades with love (5) - {HELL}{O}
15 - Pest exterminator (3,6) - RAT POISON [CD]
17 - Self-indulgent for ten years, not heartlessly (8) - {DECADE}{N(-o)T}
18 - One like Mao? (8) - CHAIRMAN [CD]
21 - Knotty feature covers party (6) - NO{DO}SE New word for me
22 - Conflict over post script produces distortions (5) - {WAR}{PS}
23 - A plan to shorten the study of elements and substances in secondary education initially (6) - S{CHEM}E
24 - Indigenous Indian way to stop doing something (6) - {DESI}{ST}
26 - Fish, an amber sort (5) - BREAM*

4 comments:

  1. Hi Col!
    There the counter is 10k! I believe I'm the 10kth vistor to your blog! Can I get a rain check for the lunch till I visit India?

    Thans,
    -Bala.
    P.S.: The counter looks at the page load and not at unique visitors. So a refresh of the page increases the count.

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  2. I find the counter reads 10,002 and no-one has owned up, so the dinner invitation has gone abegging!!

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  3. Hi Bala,
    Your rain check is awaiting collection whenever you visit India next time, it is without an expiry date, the 11th was fixed as Chaturvasi and Shuchi will be coming over for dinner on that day.
    Yes I know even page refreshes count as a hit, notwithstanding the page has had 10,000 hits since beginning feb when I started

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  4. Bala,
    You must have refreshed the page more than 70 times. Did you have any trick to achieve the 10,000 goal? That's the question!

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