Tuesday, 15 February 2011

No 10078, Tuesday 15 Feb 11, Cryptonyte

Online edition says Spiffytrix, print says Cryptonyte... Stylewise this is Cryptonyte.
ACROSS
8   - To a lesser extent north pole leaves Napoleon confused (comparatively short ruler) (2,1,7,5) - {nON Apole*} {SMALLER SCALE}
10 - Narrate scriptures in the end to get well almost fully (7) - {RECOUp}{NT}
11 - Wonderful piano note, it's relative (7) - {GRAND}{AD} (To be read with 12A before seeing the picture below it!!!) (Addendum - {GRAND}{P}{A} - See comments)
12 - Romeo you and daughter run into by the road (4) - {ST}{U}{D}
13 - Reduced the load when thin edge cracked (9) - {L}{IGHTENED*} L for load?
15 - Remedy that might give a guitarist withdrawal symptoms? (7) - {NO}{STRUM}
17 - Parade held against the ruler (7) - {M{ON}ARCH}
19 - Tennis is played a lot here, mind elbow injury (9) - WIMBLEDON*
21 - Want massage I say (4) - NEED(~knead)
24 - Can be carried to the counter (7) - {TO}{TABLE}
25 - Understand the truth about a great boxer's energy (7) - {RE}{ALI'S}{E} My COD
26 - They made the first capital investment in Italy (7,3,5) - ROMULUS AND REMUS [CD]
DOWN
1   - Pursue someone to accept love, in short (5) - {C{O}URT}
2   - Mother's firm, time to get a lucky charm (6) - {MA'S}{CO}{T}
3   - Smoke on the side of the road, taking hand off for a mile (8) - S(-h+m)MOULDER
4   - Salesman titled crazy due to a spark of insanity (1,6,7) - A LITTLE MADNESS*
5   - Crooked worker's age, sex, location noted down at first (6) - {A}{S}{L}{ANT}
6   - Store a bit of drug (ecstasy) inside for a pothead? (8) - {GAR{D}{E}NER} Can a gardener be called a pothead?
7   - Rave review on “Artistry of Hands” in the galleries (9) - {VERA*}{NDAHS*}
9   - Busy tone on the phone? It may be a sign that one's unavailable (10,4) -  ENGAGEMENT RING [DD]
14 - Toss won, Mr. Harry creates a blizzard (9) - SNOWSTORM*
16 - Signs unknown politician put in road, nothing makes sense initially (8) - {S{Y}{MP}T}{O}{M}{S}
18 - Agree to put in name, tag “fresh, without milk” (3-5) - {NO{N}-D}{AIRY}
20 - Judges defamation suits with a proxy for one (6) - L(-i+a)ABELS 
22 - A gem in cryptic puzzle (6) - ENIGMA*
23 - Jack perhaps to trump ace coming in (5) - {BE{A}ST}

GRID


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27 comments:

  1. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 08:33

    Hi
    I REALISEd that with COURT, STUD, ENGAGEMENT RING, SMOULDERing passion, Cryptonyte possibly planned this for yesterday to bring A LITTLE MADNESS in our lives, albeit ON A SMALLER SCALE, but probably overshot by a day due to some special coming in (possibly January first).

    My cod, WIMBLEDON, specially for the tennis elbow.

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  2. Suresh15 February 2011 at 08:35

    The urban dictionary gives gardener as a person who sells cannabis. An underworld slang.

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  3. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 08:35

    Terrific cross referenced cartoon, Deepak. The icing on the cake is of course the website reference: Oldnuts.com, which says it all.

    Remember the Black Superman, who use to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Cassius Marcellus Clay.

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  4. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 08:48

    11a - Wonderful piano note, it's relative (7) - {GRAND}{AD}
    It appears to be {GRAND}{MA}

    Well, here is the third twin:

    It also appears to be Grand-pa, p for piano and a for note

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  5. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 08:51

    Well, the post referred by me in my 848 seems to have been withdrawn !

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  6. Venkatesh15 February 2011 at 08:52

    Kishore,
    It can be {GRAND} with either (P)(A) or (MA) but not with (AD) as it ends in A not D

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  7. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 08:57

    Quite correct, Venkatesh, it cant be Grandad (though that spelling exists in addition to grand-dad), the a in the verandahs clinches it. But how do you account for the ma. I have given my anno for the pa.

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  8. Deepak Gopinath15 February 2011 at 09:01

    Kishore & Venkatesh,
    My mistake,I put in GRANDAD (linking Piano and Grand) first, as I was doing it online I didn't notice that it wouldn't fit when I put in VERANDAHS, the online app does not overwrite earlier entries but retains them

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  9. Venkatesh15 February 2011 at 09:01

    I had initially put (P)(A) but then thought (MA) - from the Indian Style of naming the notes as Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Da Ni - may also fit in if we take piano note as one.

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  10. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 09:02

    Aah, the desi cadence fits ;-)

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  11. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 09:05

    This is the story of Cassius Clay,
    Who changed his name to Mohammed Ali,

    ...

    What a rage it was in those days ...

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  12. Chaturvasi15 February 2011 at 09:12

    S&B III, Chennai, Mon Feb 21 update

    Intending participants

    Myself
    Bhavan
    Bhargav
    Vijay
    Padmanabhan
    Sankalak (now on a visit to Madras, he called me this morning to say he would come)

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  13. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 09:16

    How could I ?! It is Muhammed not Mohammed. in 905

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  14. Deepak Gopinath15 February 2011 at 09:21

    CV,
    In yesterday's post at 00:06 this morning Hari has mentioned he would 'love to attend' S & B III. Don't know if he is in Chennai. If he reads this I suppose he will clarify.
    Wish I could attend, but notice was too short

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  15. Chaturvasi15 February 2011 at 09:36

    Further updating

    S&B III, Chennai, Mon Feb 21

    Intending participants

    Myself
    Bhavan
    Bhargav
    Vijay
    Padmanabhan
    Sankalak (now on a visit to Madras, he called me this morning to say he would come)
    Hari (with thanks to Deepak for alerting me about a late message in yesterday's thread)

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  16. Chaturvasi15 February 2011 at 11:34

    If a crossword is marked 'Good' or 'Poor', it is the thinking that makes it so!

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  17. Bhavan15 February 2011 at 12:00

    Piano = P is a standard abbreviation, so I don't think there is any confusion with 11A being GRANDPA.

    And I don't get how a "Piano Note" is MA.

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  18. Bhavan15 February 2011 at 12:04

    I can understand to an extent why someone would mark this as tough, but poor ?

    Agreed the reactions are all individual and subjective but I can't figure what was poor - cluemanship or grammar or obscurity of words or something else ?

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  19. VMA Nair15 February 2011 at 12:16

    Good One from Cryptonyte. Did not get Romulus and Remus and beast . 9 D my COD.

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  20. Chaturvasi15 February 2011 at 12:40

    @Bhavan12:04

    Probably Poor in not making stupid mistakes, not missing anagrinds, not using way-out abbreviations, not using US spellings, etc, etc.

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  21. Suresh15 February 2011 at 13:03

    Or maybe poor in accepting good work by others and outstanding in not admitting own mistakes.

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  22. Padmanabhan15 February 2011 at 13:41

    Thank you CV. I saw my name included.

    I was looking for clarification if 'a' is accepted as note,but got my doubts strengthened!

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  23. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 14:28

    Paddy,

    In western musical notation, on the natural scale, A is the sixth note in the sequence:
    CDEFGAH, corresponding to La in DoReMiFaSoLaTi or Dha in SaReGaMaPaDhaNi

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note

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  24. Anonymous15 February 2011 at 18:14

    17 - Parade held against the ruler (7) - {M{ON}ARCH}
    compare to

    Bang-ed ET4559 today 23a: The Queen could get going within a month (7)

    BTW, I dont know if this is the case with all ed.s of ET. There seems to be a change in the layout. Bang-ed CW looks better, but has concatenated clues today.14-16a and 13-14d.

    Also, looks like a column I liked 'Cosmic uplink' by Vithal Nadkarni, Mukul Sharma, etc seems to have got the chop.

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  25. Navneeth15 February 2011 at 18:25

    Kishore@14:28,

    CDEFGAH

    When the notation is written in English, that last note is B. However, in German, for example, it is as you've written (H), and it gives rise to things like the B-A-C-H motif.


    Chaturvasi,
    Count me in for S&B III for the time being. If I am able to make it on that day, I will join you at New Woodlands.

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  26. Chaturvasi15 February 2011 at 20:04

    Navneeth
    OK.
    I will update the list here tomorrow. In the Orkut community: The Hindu Crossword Solutions it's done on a more regular basis.

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  27. Anonymous16 February 2011 at 08:05

    Yup, Navneeth, that is the correct one as per the English notation. Now that you brought up BACH, I was probably influenced by the Eternal Golden Braid when I typed the notes from memory.

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