Monday, 25 January 2010

No 9748, Monday 25 Jan 10, Nita Jaggi

Finally NJ has now gone over my head, not making any comments today, except one as I am fed up.
ACROSS
 8  - Representatives surround the news agency regularly in trance reviewing the messages (14) - COMM{UNI}{C}{A}{T}{I}ONS  
9  - Scram for the Michael Jackson song (4,2) - BEAT IT [DD]
10 - Tea maker finally has to regularly cook with mostly all the fuel (8) - {CHA}{R}{C}{O}{AL(-l)}
11 - Device in a shrine briefly is in there (8) - {A}{TOM(-b)}{IS}{ER}
13 - It is blown out before you eat the cake! (6) - CANDLE [E]
14 - Refined background is not for us (6) - DECENT Anno pending
16 - Take position on a ship initially used by the soldiers endlessly (6) - {A}{SS}{U}{ME(-n)}
19 - Gone back over at midnight to take the last peg of drink (6) - E{G}{G}NOG<- )
21 - Appraisal conducted by a police team out in the morning on the street (4,4) - {A}{CID} {TE(-am)}{ST}
23 - Rare ape is ready to over exercise to come into sight again (8) - REAP{P}EAR*
24 - Oddly, German mummy wins an award (6) - {G}{R}{A}{M}{M}{Y}
26 - Break-up of trading ties is accepted to be a part of the instructions given (14) - DISINTEGRAT*{ION}
DOWN
 1  - Agreed upon a carbon copy of the first early prints taken by an editor (8) - {A}{CC}{E}{P}{T}{ED}
 2  - Discharge half of them in one final judgment (4) - {EM}{I}{T}
 3  - They may be the exact words of another person! (4) - QUOTES [CD]
 4  - Pick out a record from the internet (7) - {DISC}{ERN}
 5  - Equalizes the scales (8) - BALANCES [DD]
 6  - Bad behaviour of the girl is cut short by the politician from the French court on both sides (10) - {MIS(-s)}{CON}{DU}{C}{T}
 7  - Measure the Thai outhouse left on the landed estate (6) - {EN}{T(-h)AI}{L}
12 - Man has no spices sprinkled over around the herb (10) - {M}{ECON{O}PSIS*} This is a flower or a plant how is it a herb?

15 - Forgets about the gentle swallows initially caught (8) - NEGLE{C}TS*
17 - Right-of-way in the written agreements without an agent in hand (8) - EASEMENT Anno pending
18 - Firing on the river dam (7) - BARRAGE [DD]
20 - Language in charge is following a girl in England (6) - {GA{E}L}{IC}
22 - Working well, I leave Nigeria in chaos (2,4) - IN GEAR(-i)*
25 - Keen to miss out an examination (4) - AVID Anno pending


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25 comments:

  1. Richard25 January 2010 at 08:49

    Good morning, friends

    In a tizzy. That would describe a crossworld-solver's state today. Looking forward to the end of the ten-day 'sentence'.

    Richard

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  2. Col_Gopinath25 January 2010 at 09:09

    The ORKUT group has boycotted NJ today as no one has started the thread of today's CW there!!

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  3. Unknown25 January 2010 at 09:11

    Ref: 12D
    As per WordWeb dictionary,'Meconopsis' is defined as 'Herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet'

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  4. veer25 January 2010 at 09:11

    Have a question on clues such as 26AC: Break-up of trading ties is accepted to be a part of the instructions given (14)

    Is it a fair clue if the setter does not really give any idea of which part of the word "instructions" the solver is to use? Of course, one can work out DN clues around it and get it from the crossings but that would not make the crossword entirely cryptic, IMHO.
    Thank you

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  5. Suresh25 January 2010 at 09:41

    25D Anno AV(-O)ID. O is an abbreviation in the long list for examination. Probably meant to stand for oral

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  6. Suresh25 January 2010 at 09:49

    After a long time I managed to complete an NJ without much problem. Anno for EASEMENT of course not known, notwithstanding.

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  7. Chaturvasi25 January 2010 at 10:03

    I can't stop from giving ane xplanation when I can give one.
    So in that spirit - O as in O-level exmaination in the UK. Cf. A for 'A-level' exam.
    From yesterday:
    "Hats off" is the correct expression - without any pronoun going before it. I was just kidding about Richard's rich haberdashery.

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  8. Suresh25 January 2010 at 10:08

    Thanks CV.

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  9. Col_Gopinath25 January 2010 at 10:20

    Can AVOID and MISS be considered synonymous

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  10. Shuchi25 January 2010 at 11:50

    Can AVOID and MISS be considered synonymous

    I think so, in a sentence like: "I plan to miss the movie and watch some cricket instead."

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  11. Col_Gopinath25 January 2010 at 12:03

    @Veer
    For NJ anything and everything is fair!!

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  12. Col_Gopinath25 January 2010 at 12:04

    Thanks Shuchi I was trying to find a sentence where I could replace one with the other.

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  13. Col_Gopinath25 January 2010 at 12:06

    @Chaturvasi,

    At some places on the web it is shown as 'Hat's off' thus my doubt

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  14. Suresh25 January 2010 at 12:38

    14A DECENT Anno
    DE(-S)CENT. S is often used by NJ for us derived from 's I think

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  15. Col_Gopinath25 January 2010 at 13:30

    @Suresh,
    You are becoming an expert at reading NJ's mind ;-)

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  16. Suresh25 January 2010 at 13:35

    Actually the long list of abbrs is an essential tool for annotating NJ's CWs.

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  17. Suresh25 January 2010 at 13:50

    Now I look at the list and find that g=agent and r=hand.
    So 17D EASEMENT is an anagram of agreements - g - r.

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  18. Suresh25 January 2010 at 13:53

    G is short for G agent which is a nerve gas.

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  19. Deepak Gopinath25 January 2010 at 14:14

    G can also come from G-man who is also an agent

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  20. Suresh25 January 2010 at 14:20

    Yes Colonel. I did not know this

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  21. Chaturvasi25 January 2010 at 15:03

    Right-of-way in the written agreements without an agent in hand (8)

    Any abbreviation used in a crossword clue must be a recognised abbeviation that is in a standard dictionary or at least a Dictionary of Crossword Abbreviations.

    What is 'in' doing there? You delete G (from an agent) and R (from hand) as you say, but what about in?

    I am not sure if G for agent stands up to this test.

    That apart, what is the anagraam indicator in the above clue? Written? If so, is it acceptable?

    Such questions arise.

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  22. Chaturvasi25 January 2010 at 15:06

    And in surface reading, what does "an agent in hand" mean? Anyone know?

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  23. Suresh25 January 2010 at 15:35

    @ Chaturvasi.
    I am not saying anything. This is apparently the thinking of NJ

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  24. svemuri25 January 2010 at 16:27

    17DN - Right-of-way in the written agreements without an agent in hand (8) - EASEMENT Anno pending
    This may be {(-)App}easement

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  25. svemuri25 January 2010 at 16:34

    Addendum- A Public Prosecutor(APP)

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