Saturday 23 October 2010

No 9981, Saturday 23 Oct 10, Neyartha

Today is Audio-Video day
ACROSS
1   - Elaborating on deporting ousted monarch (11) - EXPATrIATING 
9   - Spoke (multiple times) with the princess housed by Aishwarya (5) - {RA{DI}I} Neat
10 - Food for one taken out by the English supplier (9) - PROV(-i+en)ENDER
11 - Selection of ideas patented in a rush (5) - SPATE [T]
12 - Ace jester to develop a pilot's backup aid (7, 4) - EJECTOR SEAT*


13 - English chief shielded by political leaders from the east gets a fine fabric (6) - {SAT{E}EN<-}
14 - Remove and make separate place for a comb in error (4, 3) - WIPE OFF ?(Addendum {HIVE} {OFF} - See comments)
18 - Following remains the same despite the knight getting banished (7) -TRACkING
20 - Courthouse providing box for silver (6) - {HOM{AG}E}
24 - Gem in passageway said to be from Ireland (7, 4) - {EMERALD} {ISLE}(~aisle)
26 - Angling gear found with the auditor's old Spanish coins (5) - REELS (~reals)
27 - Record after 8 onto this cassette (9) - {VIDEO}{TAPE}
28 - Perfume ingredient concealed in the Secret Service counter (5) - ESTER<-
29 - Pull a flower out for the totalitarian (3-8) - ALL POWERFUL*
DOWN
1   - A shot of this might perk you up! (8) - ESPRESSO [CD] Didn't like this
2   - Design alternative for this optical device (9) - {PROJECT}{OR}
3   - Rate the hopeless playground? (7) - THEATRE*
4   - Summer (5) - ADDER [CD]
5   - Goddess giving shelter to old king backed by some Asians (8) - {IS{RAEL<-}IS}
6   - Cut determined by ostler losing margins with inedible part of meat (7) - {GRIt}{oSTLEr}
7   - Perfect European fish for the gangster (5) - {IDE}{AL}
8   - Picture on Roman poet's love goes down south to entertain Elizabeth I (5) - {(-o)VID{E}(+o)O}
15 - Pole in Arizona town (9) - FLAGSTAFF [DD]
16 - Wait period (8) - INTERVAL [DD]
17 - Slovene realises he is hiding a type of disease (8) - VENEREAL [T]


19 - Interruption in a plan brought up for introduction in California (7) - {C{A}{ESUR<-}A}
21 - Colour which upset Dolores (3, 4) - OLD ROSE*
22 - Injured opener goes out to get prepared for combat (5) - hARMED
23 - Accommodates chairs (5) - SEATS [DD] Wasted a lot of time with HOLDS here
25 - Sound from a ball for the model under investigation (5) - AUDIO Anno pending (Addendum - AUDI(-t+o)O - See comments)

35 comments:

  1. Hi
    The movies: AUDI-O, (-o)VID(E)+O, VIDEO TAPE, INTERVAL, PROJECT-OR, SEATS.
    Liked RA(DI)I, remembered the first famous Aishwarya, the queen. Of course, the present celebrity’s surname was not pronounced traditionally (rhyming with pie) in the way it is now (ra-i , matching with Harivansh Rai). Also liked PRO-VENDOR, the victuals, A repeat of the ROSE motif, yesterday ROSE CUT, today OLD ROSE.
    Incidentally, the clue for 6d GRI-STLE*(-or) (did not get the anno for GRI) also gives another answer it working gridless, but this is edible, not inedible: CUT-LETS*(-or), but then determined would be superfluous... Incidentally, had first hear of Ostler in the Highwayman poem cited yesterday.
    Ravi’s prize car got nothing, I heard (5)
    Account checker, not Rt. Rev., is sound (5)

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  2. 25 - Sound from a ball for the model under investigation (5) - AUDIO Anno pending

    AUDIT -t +O = AUDIO

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  3. 14 HIVE OFF, ref to Honey comb :-)

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  4. Cut determined by ostler losing margins with inedible part of meat (7) - {GRI}{oSTLEr} Anno pending for GRI

    cut determined = GRIM -m = GRI

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  5. 25 - Sound from a ball for the model under investigation (5) - AUDIO Anno pending

    AUDI= Car model, ball=o, sound=AUDIO

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  6. Kishore,

    Bhavan's AUDIO sounds better !!

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  7. @Colonel:
    I thought so too, but Grit would mean determination right ? Hence settled on Grim for determined.

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  8. Re: Illustration for 12a, looks more like an(e)JE(c)T project.

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  9. Remove and make separate place for a comb in error (4, 3) - WIPE OFF ?

    I had this as WIPE OFF too, but Anish's answer in the orkut community looks better:

    FILE, OFF

    Does FILE mean COMB or search ?

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  10. Deepak, yes it does !

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  11. Bhavan

    Cut - Curtail
    dtermined - GRIT

    Cut determined - GRI(-t)

    Howzzat

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  12. Bhavan, you have shown the way:

    Determination=grit, cut it, ie. gri

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  13. I think we have been initially misled by NJ's use of determination as a indication of what to do.

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  14. 14 HIVE OFF is removing and making a separate place, as in hiving off a division of a company.

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  15. @Colonel, @Kishore:

    I understand that GRIT is determination(n).
    But the clue says determined(adj) so was wondering if Grit fits.

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  16. Pinocchio requires de-termitation.

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  17. @Kishore, HIVE OFF is probably the best fit for that clue. Now I get the COMB reference.

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  18. @ Bhavan: Then how about Gritty (determined), duly docked.

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  19. @Kishore, that Gritty much fits.

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  20. I also had GRI(-t)STLE, Grit as in small cuts (particles)of stone with determined as the deletion ind. Maybe Neyartha will step in to give the intended anno.

    I had interpreted 18A as TRA(-n)CING. But your anno is obviously the right one.

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  21. Another enjoyable puzzle from Neyartha. Gita is definitely vindicated today for her nice comments.

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  22. 14 - Remove and make separate place for a comb in error (4, 3) - WIPE OFF ?

    FILE OFF

    Remove and make separate place - Defn

    Comb in error - CD as in when the file(teeth) of a comb is in error ( has become skewed due to prolonged use), it's file is off

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  23. @Colonel:
    A shot of this might perk you up! (8) - ESPRESSO [CD] Didn't like this

    Is it because there was no way to assert EXPRESSO Vs ESPRESSO or was it simply not your cup of tea

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  24. @Col - A shot of this might perk you up! (8) - ESPRESSO [CD] Didn't like this

    A shot of Espresso doesn't just perk me up...it gives a bloody kick comparable to that of any Patiala!

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  25. @Col - A shot of this might perk you up! (8) - ESPRESSO [CD] Didn't like this

    You have just espressed your opinion.

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  26. Neyartha seems to be in a mood to 'banish' people in this round of crosswords!

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  27. Bhavan,

    I didn't like it as I thought it is too vague. Yes definitely not my cup of tea!! Give me tea any day.

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  28. @Sandhya : lol. He was violent too with the tennis references of smashing, chopping etc yesterday.

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  29. Off topic
    As a former journalist I was interested in reading the following article by a newspaper chief.
    Frankly, for several months I used to skip the column as I was annoyed by the chief's use of some word relating to a bodily function in an earlier column of his. (On that occasion I think I wrote a mail to the person. However, a four-letter word appeared in a headline the other day with the adjective 'holy' in the very same newspaper. It caused a revulsion in me.)

    http://epaper.newindpress.com/NE/NE/2010/10/23/ArticleHtmls/23_10_2010_010_008.shtml?Mode=1

    If what is stated correct, I can't understand how someone can allow a signed article attributed to him can delegate someone else to write it. This is unthinkable for me.

    As for GRIT, I was stunned by the irony of it all when I saw a pic in the same paper today.
    http://epaper.newindpress.com/NE/NE/2010/10/23/ArticleHtmls/23_10_2010_002_003.shtml?Mode=1
    Please resize and try to see the entire pic.
    This man has entered a manhole and is removing bucketfuls of dark, dirty grit. But look at what is written on the T-shirt that he is wearing.
    Such contradictions I have often noted in T-shirts worn by ragpickers and other poor people to whom someone may have given or handed down the garments.

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  30. In the above please read "...someone allowing a..." instead of "someone can allow a"

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  31. Take off from yesterday.Colonel@1746. That was in the recent past - about 45 years ago.
    Navneeth @1859. It has happened so many times. I had the whole house awakened by my uncontrollable loud shriking in the middle of the nignts while reading PGW.

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  32. My father was in railways. I picked up this taste from my Anglo Indian friends. I have to thank them for inculcating reading habit.

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  33. Muthaiah: Even in earlier days, I somehow did not get along with Bills and Moon.

    But at the same age, I did not like PGW too. The addiction came later, with better knowledge of the language.

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  34. Tharoor on PGW in The Hindu 8 years back:
    http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/02/17/stories/2002021700150300.htm

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