ACROSS
5 - Walk out from Gobi, say (6) - DESERT [DD]
10 - I am one to say no head is to copy (7) - {I'M}{ITATE}
11 - Translate from printer output and put out in French (9) - {INTERP*}{RET}
12 - Gush once with due preparation (5) - {EX}{UDE*}
13 - Storyteller's link in the beginning of novel (4) - TIES ?
14 - Shouted boisterously at artist and cook caught in a situation of undress (9) - {BAR{RA}{CK}ED}
17 - Herald the appearance of beaten-up rep and vile fellows with gold (9) - {PRE*}{CURS}{OR}
19 - Orderly to cut prune (4) - TRIM [DD]
23 - Queen with a couple of fellows to drink (5) - {QU}{A}{FF}
24 - Molested lady holding a man caught finally in a stubborn manner (9) - {AD{A}{MAN}{T}LY*} Unlike Gridman to use A MAN as it is
25 - A girl model is fat (7) - {A}{DI}{POSE}
26 - Account for one northern village officer having diamonds (7) - {I}{N}{VO}{ICE}
27 - Fixed the girlfriend (6) - STEADY [DD]
28 - Pole, penniless, in unit losing the thing is not thrown into disorder (8) - {U{N}{BROKE}Nit}
DOWN
1 - Axe TU: I've some characters to cast off (8) - EXUVIATE* Another new word for me.
2 - One who gets something willingly from someone else (7) - LEGATEE [E]
3 - New ball for the woman to shout about (6) - {C{HER}RY} New ball as in cricket!! Was foxed for quite a while
4 - Remigrate rani for having arranged union within a group (13) - INTERMARRIAGE*
7 - Rubbing out a period? Yes! (7) - {ERA}{SURE}
8 - Link engineer to Head of Department – not level (6) - {TIE}{RE}{D}
10 - The kind of point that raises a question (13) - INTERROGATION [CD]
15 - Framework for building gone up in heat (8) - {SCA{FFO<-}LD}
18 - Get to understand one serial flopped (7) - {REAL{I}SE*}
20 - After which one might come to a different decision (7) - RETHINK [CD}
21 - Meets peers (6) - EQUALS [DD]
Hi
ReplyDeleteLEGATEE cold be defined as ‘an article between two supports’ (continuing to support the thread yesterday in connection with the use of ‘support’ by setters. It would be a salve, ointment or UGUENT to them, so that they don’t subject us to third degree INTERROGATION. Coming across this sense of STEADY after a long time, as nowadays, both jobs and girlfriends seem to be short term. Exuviate was a new word.
Hi everybody
ReplyDeleteAnother good puzzle. Some interesting clues.
26A - INVOICE - anno not clear on diamonds.
Liked ECLECTIC, EXUDE, PRECURSOR, QUAFF, ADIPOSE, STEADY, LEGATEE, SCAFFOLD, EQUAL and a few others.
13A - TIES looks OK, since 8D too has 'link'.
Nice to learn new words like EXUVIATE.
ReplyDelete@Richard,
ReplyDeleteDiamond = ice, I think
22d: As YM refers to elasticity, are words 'a plastic' to be read together to mean aplastic? If plastic is an AnInd, and loss of 'a' is taken literally as REVEALS(-a), then it does not anagram to SALVER, though Salver meets the def.
ReplyDelete13a Not clear what role 'novel' plays
6D, where did the C come from?
ReplyDeleteSatya
ReplyDeleteAbout - c or ca for circa as in your bibliographical notes
The pdf link containing the daily crossword and the solution in the online edition seems to have gone missing. It is useful if one just wants to print out the crossword to solve (neatly organized in a single page along with the solution of previous day's puzzle). It should survived the move from beta.
ReplyDeleteStoryteller's link in the beginning of novel
ReplyDeleteTIES is not the answer.
Try again!
Then come here!
There is a role for 'novel'.
Yes, I am also unhappy with the way the crossword appears on the new website.
ReplyDeleteNo space between the number and the clue's first word.
I don't take prints so I am not sure if you are able to get the grid as well as the clues on a single page.
PDF is still available on the old website.
@CVasi sir,
ReplyDeleteThank you. There's that ubiquitous yet mysterious word - "about". No wonder Shuchi had to dedicate a whole article to just that word ABOUT.
Giridhar and others interested
ReplyDeletePlease send email to the readers' editor requesting for PDF on new website.
CV,
ReplyDeleteWhich is the link to the old website?
Kishore
ReplyDeleteRemember PGW's novel Frozen Ice?
Try
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hindu.com/2010/06/25/stories/2010062599951000.htm
http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/25/stories/2010062598780900.pdf
CV,
ReplyDeleteThe printout ran into two pages today. The grid, across and down clues are all vertically arranged with lot of white space wasted. As you have pointed out the lack of space between clue number and clue also affects readability.
Are you saying the pdf version of the crossword is still being published? If so, what is the link?
CV
ReplyDeleteYou answered my question as I was posting it :-)
Thanks
Reveals loss of a plastic tray (6)
ReplyDeleteThe above clue is defective.
The mistake has escaped every stage of checking, it seems.
'plastic' is AInd. 'tray' is def. We are told to delete A from 'reveals' and jumble the letters to get SALVER. But, alas, what needs to be removed is an E (of which there are two in 'reveals').
Gridman owes us a word of apology.
Giridhar said,
ReplyDeleteThe pdf link containing the daily crossword and the solution in the online edition seems to have gone missing. It is useful if one just wants to print out the crossword to solve (neatly organized in a single page along with the solution of previous day's puzzle). It should survived the move from beta.
Giridhar, I am pretty miffed about the pdf document's disappearance, too.
Cvasi sir, at least yesterday and today, the latest crossword did not show up on the new website at the usual time of around 3 P.M. Central of the previous day. Though the rest of the articles were updated, the crossword was not. And as Giridhar pointed out, the missing pdf is a major pain in the neck. I always relied on being able to print the pdf document and working with xwd in my classroom, home, car (at the traffic light), etc. Could you please speak to The Hindu people about this? I am sure others would sincerely appreciate that just as I would. Thank you, sir.
13 - Storyteller's link in the beginning of novel (4)
ReplyDeleteI'd say this is {THE}{N}
I don't have a voice in paper.
ReplyDeleteWhat I suggest is please write emails to the readers editor and most likely the requirement will be met.
I agree with Giridhar about the lack of imagination in the layout of the crossword on the new website.
Email ID as given in the paper:
readerseditor@thehindu.co.in
Then there is no more clue to solve in this crossword.
ReplyDeleteThanks CV for the email id.
ReplyDeleteWhat then is the connection between Storyteller's link and THEN ? I still don't get it?
ReplyDeleteI thought of THEN too but the storytellers link appeared farfetched. Maybe I am also missing something
ReplyDeleteEarlier there was an RSS feed which went direct up to the CW same is not available now as such I had to remove that link and put in a new one
ReplyDeleteWhen a long story is narrated the storyteller tends to use 'Then' everytime he adds a detail.
ReplyDeleteWhich I used in my message above without revealing the answer.
And then there was rain.
The blue paint on the fox washed off in the copious downpour.
Then the fox's game was up.
Earlier there was an RSS feed which went direct up to the CW same is not available now...
ReplyDeleteDeepak
I don't know what this is.
You might probably mention this in a mail to the webmaster/readers' editor.
The webmaster's email ID is at the bottom of the front page of the new website.
CV I got the explanation then, but then I felt that it was a bit remote, but then I suppose then is the best fit. Then, of course, it is a cryptic cw and exercise of imagination is expected. Then I suppose then is alright
ReplyDeleteYou see "Storyteller's link (4)" in a cryptic or even in a straightforward xwd will be farfetched. But with THE (given gratis) and N (the beginning of novel) the clue should be attainable.
ReplyDeleteThe most terrible line in a famous novel:
And then there were none.
@CVasi sir,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the link. I'll be sure to send the webmaster an email.
@Suresh,
I completely understand the sense in which you used the sentence at 10:24. But if I were to say that in my classroom, oh my goodness!, I will be fired before I take the next breath. Yup. Somehow, the "N" word is very, very sensitive in these parts of the world.
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteA crossword compiled by me has been published on Alberich's wonderful site. He is a reputed crossword setter who sets/have set for FT , The Independent, Times Listener among others. His site is a ready reckoner for anything crossword related, and it is a previlage to be featured there alongside other world class setters like Anax. Do solve and spread the word. For bouqets/brickbats/feedbacks/clarifications you can contact me at anishmadhavan@iitb.ac.in
For the crossword visit - http://www.alberichcrosswords.com/index.html
and click the hyperlink Maddy on the top of the page
Col sir - Apologies for the plug
@Maddy,
ReplyDeleteAwesome puzzle. IITB, huh. Very impressive. You are a Spring Chicken, then, unlike your 7Down. :-)
Why, decades ago when the Christie novel was published in the US the title was what I had in italics above.
ReplyDeleteSuresh
ReplyDeleteI suggest that that post be removed by you or Admin as we all know what the novel is.
24 - Molested lady holding a man caught finally in a stubborn manner (9) - {AD{A}{MAN}{T}LY*} Unlike Gridman to use A MAN as it is
ReplyDeleteA very shrewd observation.
Either he must have overlooked the fact that he is giving away so much gratis to the solvers or he must have thought: already the four-component clue is complicated with a word sum ( a man + t ) in an anagram of LADY, so let me not make it more complicated by expecting the solvers to look for a syn. for man. Let them have it for free!
PDF version of crossword can be viewed at following link. The old site of www.hindu.com is still working
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hindu.com/2010/06/25/10hdline.htm
In mobile version of new site www.thehindu.com the misc., link containg crossword is missing.In absence of computer at home ,saving crossword on mobile until my arrival at office for CW at 9.30 AM.Anyone can help?
Svemuri,
ReplyDeleteIf this link works anywhere between 2 to 3 in the afternoon on our Friday, displaying the Saturday puzzle, of course with the appropriate modification to the URl, I will be a very, very happy man. My sincere thanks to you.
The new TH website is www.thehindu.com. However, the old one is still alive and (perhaps?) promptly updated at www.hindu.com. That's the difference.
ReplyDeleteCV:
ReplyDeleteRe: 9.13 “I don't have a voice in paper.”
Your keyboard hopefully is stronger than your larynx.
Re: 9.01: I don’t remember a book called FROZEN ICE, though I do recollect FROZEN ASSETS and ICE IN THE BEDROOM. Maybe I have missed it.My loss. As the Master himself said: Into each life some rain must fall.
And then, as you pointed out, the then answer was wrong and the new (T) then then replaced the then answer. You will notice that I had expressed my reservations about 13a and 22d in my 840
Maddy @ 10:35,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations.
@ Satya 10.54 - Thanks. Glad that you liked it. Don't read too much into my email id though, thats an old one and am not that spring a chicken as you think :)
ReplyDelete@ Col sir - VMT. Do solve
Re: 9.01: I do recollect FROZEN ASSETS and ICE IN THE BEDROOM.
ReplyDeleteKishore, you're right!
It was I who mixed up the titles.
I have read both of these books but that was eons ago.
@ Maddy: Nice puzzle. Frankly, My Dear, I dont give a damn! The only one is could not quite figure is 24d and the anno to 22a (got the part referring to Timbuku country, but then not the whole anno. I also like the news head line embedded where the leopard went over the herald 10a,11a,12a read continuosly!
ReplyDelete@CV 1504: ICE=ROCKS=DIAMONDS=ICE. Combination of both titles gives FROZEN ASSETS IN THE BEDROOM with its obvious innuendo interpretation.
ReplyDeleteOftentimes my grand-daughter asks me to recite a story and after every sentence or two she will come up with: Then what happened?
ReplyDeleteBut it can also be the storytellers final word when he says 'That's it then'.
ReplyDeleteThen it gave us something talk about then and now
ReplyDeleteSeems like the blog's gone then crazy.
ReplyDeleteThen it should shift HQ to THEN-PATTINAM !
ReplyDeleteNot THEN-PATTINAM but to THENI
ReplyDeleteEgoistic....
ReplyDeleteGood night THEN
ReplyDeleteNow THEN, is that all?
ReplyDelete