Monday, 8 February 2010

No 9760, Monday 08 Feb 10, M Manna

I totally forgot that my Blog completed a year on 04 Feb. Belated Happy Birthday to me!!
A big thank you to all the visitors to my blog.
Manna as usual has stumped me with 2D.
ACROSS
1 - Diana has requested that it be put in a confusing way (10) - {DIS}{ORDERED}
6 - Toiletry obtained from capital chemists (4) - TALC [T]
9 - You may find her in a salon for railway guests (7) - ROSALYN ?
10 - Little in the gun to make it easier to take (7) - S{WEE}TEN

12 - Scores surprisingly against the French in the game (8) - {LA}{CROSSE*}

13 - Try a little discrimination (5) - TASTE [DD]
15 - Eastern dawn possibly boosted bristly growth of barley (5) - AWN{E}D*
17 - Awful cretin set to cause split (9) - INTERSECT*
19 - The exhausted feeling new residents can get (9) - TIREDNESS*
21 - There’s a great deal to this game (5) - {LOT}{TO}
23 - Moving arm mechanism for screen cleaning (5) - WIPER [E]

24 - Young gangster means to swindle the principal (8) - {SKIN}{HEAD}
27 - A clergyman outside the nuclear device (7) - RE{A}CTOR
28 - Darkening of the upper body? (7) - ECLIPSE [CD]

29 - Hut in slough, we hear (4) - SHED [DD]
30 -Prison seen differently by old people (10) - PENSIONERS*
DOWN
1 - Lawman goes right to make a sudden forward movement (4) - {DA}{RT}
2 - Land old man in unacceptable activity (7) - SUSTAIN ? This is the only thing that fits here if 9A is correct
3 - A strip for drawing lines (5) - RULER [CD]
4 - Girl might resent change in the east (9) - {ERNEST*}{IN}{E}
5 - Boat seen to follow (5) - ENS{U}E*
7 - The entertainer rates it differently (7) - ARTISTE*
8 - A caucus to learn about on opening one (10) - {C{ON}{VENT}{I}ON}
11 - Hold spellbound in an awful lather finding a way in (7) - E{N}THRAL*
14 - The marrow’s adversely affected by creatures in the soil (10) - EARTHWORMS*

16 - Encyclopedist ripped up after having done the job (7) - {DID}{EROT<-} )
18 - Headstrong to test ship in course manoeuvres (9) - {TEST}{IN}{E}{SS} Poor clue
20 - Put back the pieces of material (7) - REPLACE [CD]
22 - Tread roughly on a walking tour with the French (7) - {TRAMP}{LE}
24 - Sudden rush of electricity — or wave power? (5) - SURGE [DD]
25 - “It’s ghastly, love," is the first thing said (5) - {HELL}{O}
26 - I get on ship for a dish of food (4) - {ME}{SS}


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26 comments:

  1. Richard8 February 2010 at 08:34

    9A - You may find her in a salon for railway guests (7) - ROSALYN ?

    2D - Land old man in unacceptable activity (7) - SUSTAIN ?

    Yes, Colonel, they are the only ones that fit there. Don't ask me for the annos, either.

    Richard

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  2. Richard8 February 2010 at 08:41

    BTW, congrats on completing a year. While on a Google search a few days ago I happened to trace the origin of this blog to February 2009. Missed reminding you.

    I guess you haven't missed a single day in the past year, your tour schedules and holidays notwithstanding. Something remarkable !

    Richard

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  3. Shuchi8 February 2010 at 08:44

    Good morning Colonel,

    Happy Birthday to your blog, best wishes for its continued success.

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  4. SandhyaP8 February 2010 at 08:49

    Congratulations Colonel! Wish your blog many a hit this year too.

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  5. Col_Gopinath8 February 2010 at 08:50

    @Richard and Shuchi,

    Thanks. I did miss one day over the year and that was somewhere in the beginning when I didn't have a laptop and one of those USB modems with a broadband connection, which I now possess, after which I have not missed a single day. But the obsession to meet the 8:30 AM deadline does get me dirty looks from my better half at times, especially when she is rushing off to school in the mornings and wants to give me instructions about some household requirement!!

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  6. Col_Gopinath8 February 2010 at 08:50

    Thanks Sandhya

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  7. sriks78 February 2010 at 10:01

    Congrats Colonel! (belated)
    Our thanks to you & to your better-half for indulging your blogging (dirty looks not withstanding), please convey our sincere thanks to her as well.

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  8. Col_Gopinath8 February 2010 at 10:30

    Thanks sriks7

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  9. Gita8 February 2010 at 11:39

    Colonel, thy a drab hippy muddled!

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  10. Richard8 February 2010 at 11:46

    A nice anagram, that, Gita !


    Richard

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  11. Gita8 February 2010 at 11:49

    I hate anagrams, so ....happen without directions but start of yatra sounds like a train's sleeping place with lawyer at end of day.

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  12. Gita8 February 2010 at 11:53

    The SUSTAIN thing - I think it's old man SUTA in SIN?

    And, ROSALYN is anagram of SALON plus RY for railway ..

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  13. Richard8 February 2010 at 11:58

    Thanks, I did find ROSALYN as an anagram of salon and ry in the morning. But just wondering what the 'guests' could be doing there?

    Richard

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  14. pavalamani pragasam8 February 2010 at 12:02

    Congrats, for the great achievement, colonel! Many happy returns of the Day!
    As for the domestic scene, I don't know where my sympathies lie! Fairly 50-50!!!lol

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  15. Richard8 February 2010 at 12:07

    And about the SUSTAIN thing, it seems to be USTA inserted in SIN and not SUTA, without any hint of a jumble. The clue is so confusing.


    Richard

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  16. Shrikanth8 February 2010 at 12:14

    Congrats Colonel and many happy returns of the day too. And should I even say that your obsession is infectious and we aren't spared of dirty looks either?! :)

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  17. Richard8 February 2010 at 12:22

    Colonel

    Sorry to hear of the 'occasional-dirty-looks-at-home-while-on-PC' predicament of yours.

    May I take the liberty of proffering a solution?

    Some brilliant brain from this forum could devise a software, whereby your better half can key in the necessary household instructions via Blackberry or Bluetooth or whatever, which can be simultaneously be stored in your PC, only to appear in a pop-up window, when your mission is done at 8-30 am.

    Does it sound complicated?:-)


    Richard

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  18. Col_Gopinath8 February 2010 at 12:23

    Thanks Gita, PP and afterdark

    @ Gita,
    Who is Old Man SUTA?

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  19. Gita8 February 2010 at 12:25

    Suta of Puranic lore? Just guessing.

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  20. Gita8 February 2010 at 12:26

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sūta

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  21. Gita8 February 2010 at 12:29

    I get the 'dirty looks' because I'm at some event or meeting, sometimes formal, serious or religious ones working my puzzle on my iPhone ;-(.

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  22. Col_Gopinath8 February 2010 at 12:33

    Well my guess about 2D is that Mr Manna has typed in the wrong clue at the time of submission. I see no connection whatsoever between the clue and the Answer, SUTA not withstanding!

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  23. Gita8 February 2010 at 13:08

    Good guess - I have learned that setters like Manna are far from infallible ;-(.

    Aham Gitasmi

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  24. Richard8 February 2010 at 14:12

    Tathastu !


    Richard

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  25. Richard8 February 2010 at 21:09

    Just in case any of you has missed this post above:

    happen without directions but start of yatra sounds like a train's sleeping place with lawyer at end of day.

    HAPP(minus E and N) + start of Y(atra)
    BIRTH ('berth') + DA + Y

    I could unravel it immediately. Cute one. Since no one commented, thought of appreciating it.


    Richard

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  26. C.G. BHARGAV8 February 2010 at 23:03

    Congratulations Colonel!

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