Saturday 3 April 2010

No 9807, Saturday 03 Apr 10, Nita Jaggi

ACROSS
1   - Short time in the steamship results in the modification (13) - META{MO}{R}PH{O}SIS* Don't know the origin of the R and the O
8   - Paid her to disturb the goddess (9) - APHRODITE*
9   - Left out player in the sanctuary (5) - BOW(-l)ER
10 - Patch of an extraordinary rag is cut out from the costume (7) - {ODD}{(-gar*)MENT}
12 - Embarks upon the techniques behind the street (6) - {ST}{ARTS}
14 - City that is for each person (5) - {IE}{PER}
16 - Initially archaeologists leave aside eaten insect wings (4) - {A}{L}{A}{E}
19 - Vibrations in the air (4) - AERO or AIRY ?
20 - Seek shelter in a cavern guarded by the purchaser (4,5) - TAKE {COVE}R
21 - Go together with us in silence (4) - {ME}{SH} How does US become ME ?
22 - Let out the limited kind of women's clothing (4) - MIDI(-let)*
25 - Sticky substance is over the small tin without cover (5) - {RO<-}{S}{(-t)IN} )
27 - Big numbers found right in companies (6) - C{R}ORES ?
29 - Continue to have an affair (5,2) - CARRY ON [DD]
32 - Old lady loses the diamond in the queue for a garment (5) - BUR{Q}{A} ? Anno pending ( Addendum - {BUR(-ma)}{Q}{A} - Thanks to Kishore)

33 - One who forces the firm politician to tip off the bank clerk (9) - {CO}{MP}{(-t)ELLER}
34 - Still form of punishment (5,8) - {DEATH} {SENTENCE}
DOWN
2   - Mammal can hide camouflaged (7) - ECHIDNA*

3   - Foregoing sailor has no victory (5) - {AB}{O}{V}E ?
4   - After an operation, I took in a sedative (6) - {OP}{I}{ATE}
5   - Look at the mountain, overheard (4) - PEEK(~peak)
6   - Revolve the eye socket (5) - ORBIT [DD]
7   - Protected the elders in the group (9) - SHELTERED* Nice clue
8   - Smell in a foreign capital (5) - {A}{ROMA}
11 - Boy will regularly hear a bit of subtle sounds made by horses (7) - {NICKE}{E}{R}{S}
12 - Demon king follows the fasts ending in the holy month (7) - {S}{RAVANA}
13 - It goes off in an emergency! (5) - ALARM [E]
15 - Wraps up the containers (5) - PACKS [DD]
17 - Hang around idly to continue a session (3,6) - {LIE} {A}{ROUND}
18 - The sky here changes over time (5) - E{T}HER
23 - Perfect place I would finally say for a couple of learners I see (7) - {I'D}{Y}{LL}{I}{C}
24 - It may be the seamless kind of wear (5) - INNER [CD]
26 - Killer is in charge of an Asian worker (6) - {IC}{E}{MAN}
28 - Praise the one time good officer (5) - {EX}{A}{LT}
30 - Pass through the right side at last with the lady (5) - {R}{E}{EVE}
31 - Figures on playing cards (4) - ACES [CD]

HERE is a photograph of Kishore and his family

32 comments:

  1. Been having trouble with the new editor of blogger so there may be inadvertent errors in my posts due to the rush to meet my deadline

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  2. Good Morning All:
    32A Burma (a variety of diamond) loses old lady (-ma)=BUR+Q+A

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  3. Did not like clue for 17d: Both the clue and answer use the same word 'around'

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  4. Apropos the Gitas, Nita Jaggi anagrammed would be Gita Jangi, Gita the warrior !

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  5. @ Col: I Missed on Metamorphosis but had the same issues with Crores, Airy/Aero/Airs, Above : all those supernumery alphabets..

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  6. Good morning everyone

    1A - Made a bold guess and put it down as METAMORPHOSIS, clueless about a couple of characters.

    21A - 'us' may be because of the practice of saying 'hum' in Urdu or Hindi even for first person singular. ;-)

    3D - Can't account for E at the end.

    12D - Good clue, but could not get the answer.

    Some saving grace - a few good clues and anagrams like 8A, 2D, 7D, 8D, 18D and 23D.

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  7. @ Richard: Seems like yesterdays max post record is matched by today minimum ? Thanks to Col for maxing it.

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  8. 19A I thought may be AURA

    27 - Big numbers found right in companies (6) - C{R}ORES ? Maybe NJ meant Corps, which is pronounced as Cores

    25 - Sticky substance is over the small tin without cover (5) - {RO<-}{S}{(-t)IN} )I think this could also be RESIN. RE standing for over (meaning about)

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  9. @Suresh,
    RESIN looks better than ROSIN

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  10. I do believe metamorphosis is from STEAMSHIP and MORO (short for tomorrow)

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  11. Only military corps are pronounced cores, Citicorp is not pronounced citicore, so companies = coporates can be only pronounced corps in short, I think. I agree on Resin.

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  12. I know Kishore. Just imagining what NJ meant.

    What is the view on 19A

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  13. Not finding fault but just making a point. CORPS being of French origin is pronounced 'core' as singular. Plural is spelt the same way but pronounced 'corez'. Phew, these funny languages !

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/corps

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  14. @ Richard: Agree with you that plural Corps is pronounced corez. Quite a few mispronounce these 'romantic' language words and put up a brave 'foosad' ..., when they say corpse.

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  15. Contd: I have purposely put romantic in quotes, the correct usage would be romance...

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  16. @ Kishore, you indeed have a way with words.

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  17. @ Richard: Thanks. That is what comes out of being a legume enumerator.

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  18. @ Richard: Answer to yesterday's clue from ET that I had given in yesterday's post is "Wicket Keeper". Nice play on ball and miss in the clue. And bowler in todays THC becoming bower. Must be IPL- How I detest it!

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  19. @ Suresh: No offense. Strange are the ways of New Jersey that we cannot fathom...

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  20. @ Suresh: Hi to 80974 from 23148. And you stay at Geetanjali? Another Gita, spelt differently, of course.

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  21. Interesting thing happened today. I was doing the crossword, and was stuck with 1A because of the incomplete anagram fodder. my 11 yearold daughter looked over my shoulder at 1A and without a second thought, nonchalantly mentioned 'metamorphosis'.

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  22. KISHORE.
    Maybe I am feeling so bright, but I did not get the numbers

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  23. Kishore, Are u practicing too. And wgere do u stay

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  24. Suresh, Bangalore.

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  25. Suresh, Andaru Mahanubhavulu, Kaada?

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  26. tpa: you just got a Third Party Administrator !

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  27. @ Suresh, legume enumerators, bean counters...

    I am sure there are quite a few CAs out here on this forum. I had a couple of friends, who used to practise book-keeping very diligently. They kept the books borrowed from me for themselves and never returned. No offence, guys.

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  28. Richard I hav a lot of book keepers like that too

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  29. Richard: Didn't they borrow your bookshelves too?

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  30. @ Kishore, they must have deemed that bit of job too cumbersome.

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  31. Richard: Plum says: He was by profession a chartered accountant, and inclined to be stout; and all rather stout chartered accountants are sentimental. Also, "All chartered accountants have hearts as big as hotels. You think they're engrossed in auditing the half-yearly balance sheet of Miggs, Montagu and Murgatroyd, general importers, and all the time they're writing notes to blondes saying 'Tomorrow, one-thirty, same place.' "

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