ACROSS
1 - Lick into shape a revolutionary performance (6) - {RED}{ACT}
4 - Cigar-ring drifting over America? Goodness! (8) - {GRACI*}{O}{US}
10 - Cake for member getting in the condiments (7) - {CRU{MP}ET}
11 - Conditioned for expectancy (7) - ALERTED [CD]
12 - Offer goods at reduced prices (4) - SALE [E]
13 - Stock freely distributed to investors (5,5) - SCRIP ISSUE [E]
16 - Half an escudo placed on line of legal document (6) - {ESC}{ROW}
17 - Treasonable legislator? (7) - SENATOR*
20 - List of employees kept on side in different stores (7) - {ROSTE{R}S*}
21 - Restricted to certain class (6) - CLOSED [CD]
24 - Frustrate by removing high C from a disc concert (10) - {DIS
25 - Got into trouble in search for a boy (4) - TONI* Toni is normally a girls name, a male would have been TONY. Reminds me of our discussion on MONA-TONY the other day
27 - Cover up entirely to hide (7) - ENVELOP [CD]
29 - Freckle observed by astronomers (7) - SUNSPOT [DD]
30 - Curse the executive, briefly, for the price set (8) - {EXEC}{RATE}
31 - Loved making a theologian admit alternative point (6) - {A}{D{OR}{E}D}
DOWN
1 - Withdraws into alcoves (8) - RECESSES [DD]
2 - Cheat a score of Romans (6,5) - DOUBLE CROSS I liked this clue.
3 - Many copy to make a sleeveless cloak (4) - {C}{APE}
5 - Accomplished to obtain money by selling property (8) - REALISED [DD]
6 - Tick can be believed (10) - {CREDIT}{ABLE} [CD]
7 - Not in (3) - OUT [E]
8 - Improvised with swift action (6) - SUDDEN [DD]
9 - Animals kept on a farm (5) - STOCK [E]
14 - Displays opera-hat, the one that brings the house down (4,7) - {SHOW S}{TOPPER}
15 - He'll manage to hoodwink a fisherman (10) - {CON}{TROLLER}
18 - What a madman will do if he can't get a jar open? (8) - {CRACK}{POT}
19 - Didn't deny dad met it in a devious way (8) - ADMITTED*
22 - He breaks a bent red stick (6) - {A}{D{HE}RE*}
23 - Grossly stupid to give credit to dope (5) - {CR}{ASS}
26 - One end may be given to her (4) - {EN{I}D}
28 - Bid to put forward in competition (3) - VIE [CD]
Good morning folks
ReplyDeletePosted before going through the Col's annos.)
The only clue that eluded me - 22D. Obviously a proper name?
Not clear about the anno for 2D. The clue having noun / verb ambiguity, was not sure of SALE or SELL. While both fit in, the former in fact holds good.
Otherwise enjoyed solving REDACT, CRUMPET, ALERTED, TONI, SUNSPOT, SHOW STOPPER, CRACKPOT and a few others.
17A - Treason*able legislator? - SENATOR - very cleverly set. But will the lawmakers in the US, Pakistan etc. take it kindly? :-)
5D -The 'real' estate sector seems to have inspired REALISED.
I got stuck on 22D because I took 27A as OVERLAP.
ReplyDelete2D DOUBLE CROSS was superb.Cheat=def. In Roman numbers score=twenty= XX
ReplyDelete10a CRUMPET reminded of Bertie Wooster, Monty Bodkin and the like who order for crumpets in their clubs and give the glad eye to other 'crumpets', as they call them.
ReplyDeleteDeepak, the cartoon for 10A was very apt.
ReplyDelete25A TONI reminds me of my dabble with electronics: A compact portable soldering iron with brand name TONI, it used to have a plastic(bakelite?) handle that could be unscrewed and used as a cover for the metallic part of it.
ReplyDeleteToni is certainly a common girl's name..but is also acknowledged as a common variant of Anthony / Antonio etc. As such, Toni is an uncommon name for men, but nevertheless is also considered a masculine name. I recently dined at a restaurant by the Vatican named Dino y Toni's and I met the owner who introduced himself as Toni (did not spell it for me but the name of the restaurant is as I have spelled it). Toni is also a last name of some popularity in Italy (Luca Toni is a star Italian footballer in the 2010 squad for the world cup). Manna is technically correct in calling it a boy's name but whether it is a nice enough clue is another discussion, IMHO.
ReplyDelete24A and 7D...
ReplyDeleteCould have been better.
12A: "Offering of goods....." would have been a nicer way of putting it.
ReplyDeleteKishore @ 8:53
ReplyDeleteI still have one of those soldering irons and I just used it the other day to do a spot of soldering. Bought it in 1979 and it still works.
It is bakelite that's how a small portion of the handle/cover of mine broke of when it fell accidentally
@ Col: Aaaah, you are a soldier with some soldering iron who is soldiering/soldering on !
ReplyDeleteI am no longer soldiering but I definitely solder at times!
ReplyDeleteDeepak,
ReplyDeleteYou had asked in your last post(18:58) yesterday whether what CV had written would be read as 'Theepak Kopinath'. Yes it 'can' be. It could also be read as 'Deebugh Kopinath' or 'Deebugh Kopinadh', etc.
As Kishore and others have mentioned, this is because for Pa, Paa...and Ba,Baa..sounds in Tamil, there is a single set of letters unlike in say Kannada or Telugu where there are two sets of letters. So is the case with Ka/Ga and Tha/Dha.
So, two words similarly spelt in Tamil with Pa/Ba and/or Ka/Ga and/or Tha/Dha would/should be pronounced differently based on the context (which Kishore has explained, and CV and Veeven have given examples).
As a reader, I would pronounce what CV had written in his post as 'Deepak Gopinath' as I know it stands for the name 'Deepak Gopinath'. As you can imagine, there is more of a problem when names are involved. Not so much in the case of 'Coffee' (Ka fee) not (Ga fee) - just an example to indicate the difference.
Thank you Giridhar. So it is like they say for proper nouns in English which can be pronounced any way one likes.
ReplyDeleteOn pronunciation of proper names and our friend Toni, Tony is usually a short form of Anthony, which is pronounced in various ways (not counting variants like Antonio etc): In some places it is pronounced with the th being pronounced as in throw ie. An-th-nee, whereas in Mangalore it is pronounced as un-tony (which itself is funny Tony and un-tony are the same and not opposites, just like flammable and inflammable.)
ReplyDeleteRegarding Col's remark proper nouns in English which can be pronounced any way one likes", I would like to say: 'which can be pronounced as the the person named desires'. Otherwise we end up with problems when pronouncing Dikshit and Shithole.
Well, what I meant was, that there is more of a probability of mispronouncing an unfamiliar name than mispronouncing common words. The fact that the same letter represents two sounds is not a licence to pronounce proper names(especially unfamiliar ones) anyway one likes, but rather a nudge than one should be careful to find the right pronunciation.
ReplyDeleteKishore,
ReplyDeleteThe story behind Punjabi names (Captain Singh, etc.) was a revelation. Thanks.
I am wondering whether there is a similar story behind such first names as Lovely, etc. which go with Punjabi last names.
In my 19:44 post, 'than one' should read 'that one' in the last sentence. Sorry
ReplyDeleteKishore's comments call to mind a Professor in the Goa Medical College in the early eighties who got the spelling of his name changed to DIXIT after riled students mocked him by crossing out IK in his name and writing OG over it on the college wall in Panjim.
ReplyDeleteAll the interesting comments about names reminded me of this old post by Scott Adams. He finds much mirth in the name of "Dikshit". I didn't immediately see what was so funny, as the D/T of "Dikshit" isn't pronounced the same way as the English D/T.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/just_one_catch/
A friend Sai, on an assignment in Singapore, used to be greeted with uncomfortable silences or loud guffaws every time he introduced himself. He soon learnt that the word "Sai" has an not very nice meaning in their local language.
ReplyDelete@Kishore 19.41 Is there any word other than numerable - innumerable (u hv already mentioned flamable)in this set?
ReplyDelete@ Subbu: Off hand, I can think of fatigable & defatigable, flatable & inflatable.
ReplyDeletecontd.
ReplyDeletehabitation and inhabitation may just pass muster