Friday, 25 February 2011

No 10087, Friday 25 Feb 11, Nita Jaggi

NJ's back to her weird ways again!!
ACROSS
4   - Combatant will first pause for the French King (8) - {W}{REST}{LE}{R}
8   - One who's left the regime group (6) - EMIGRE*
9   - Venue for many a performance (10) - AUDITORIUM [CD]
10 - Identical Uncle is in the east (4) - {SAM}{E}
11 - Third place in an exhibition (4) - SHOW What third place? Anno pending
13 - Is seen somehow in the cryptozoology figure (6) - NESSIE*
15 - Unfavourable nowadays in poetry (7) - {AD}{VERSE}
17 - Knight has leaders in London now in a hot spot (4) - {K}{I}{L}{N}
18 - Show the girl to do work ultimately (4) - {L}{O}{O}{K} Are Show and Look synonymous?
19 - Elemental form is round at the summit in England (7) - {IS}{O}{TOP}{E}
21 - Took on over possessing you (6) - {END{U}ED}
22 - Talk big about the bird (4) - CROW [DD]
25 - Let go of an odd farmer in the East (4) - {FaRmEr}{E}
26 - Material that may keep all the pieces intact? (10) - SHOCKPROOF [CD]
27 - Produce this fruit (6) - EFFECT ?[DD]
28 - Stiffened fabric (8) - STARCHED [CD]
DOWN
1   - It's uplifting to vote for the holy man (5) - {YEA}{ST}
2   - Difficult at times following the king of fortune (6) - {K}{ISMET*}
3   - First boys will individually run ashore (5) - {B}{EACH}
4   - Woman left behind half of the will words heartlessly in retrospect (5) - {WIll}{DrOW<-} How is the 'S' deleted?
5   - Compact accord (7) - ENTENTE [E]
6   - Set of tiles arranged at the subway entrance (9) - {TURN}{STILE*} How is 'set' and 'turn' connected?
7   - Extensive knowledge of printing on an over-run contract (9) - ERUDITION Don't ask me how but it fits the crossings!! (Eureka - I think it is {E{RUn}DITION})
12 - Follows the order of the youth leaders (5) - {OBE}{Y}S 'S' from?
14 - It may be served fresh from the oven? (6,3) - PIPING HOT [CD]
15 - Girl is a little bit on this side of the news reader (9) - {ANN}{OUNCE}{R}
16 - Mythical creature did nothing for a year (5) - {SAT}{YR}
19 - Very detailed popular department of primary health (7) - {IN}{DEPT}{H}
20 - Accepted to collect a degree out here finally (6) - {A}{GREEDe*}
22 - Three, they say are in a big fight in the cabstand at the edge (5) - {C{ROW}D}
23 - Officier is not in charge of the tender (5) - OFFicER Seems to be a typo in the spelling of Officer
24 - Poet takes a decision (5) - KEATS*

GRID


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22 comments:

  1. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 08:33

    Hi,
    NESSIE is my cod, after all she is a water creature. Liked YEAST, ANN-OUNCE-R,

    Wondered where the s disappeared in 4d.
    11a show what ?

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  2. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 08:37

    12 - Follows the order of the youth leaders (5) - {OBE}{Y}S 'S' from?

    I reverse engineered it as
    youth leader=Y
    youth leaders=Ys

    On the principle of conservation of mass, I would say the s came from 4d where it disappeared. A veritable wormhole.

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  3. SandhyaP25 February 2011 at 08:39

    11 - Third place in an exhibition (4) - SHOW What third place? Anno pending

    (DD)
    Show: To finish third or better in a horse or dog race (Word web)

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  4. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 08:39

    18 - Show the girl to do work ultimately (4) - {L}{O}{O}{K} Are Show and Look synonymous?

    I would rather put them in the action reaction pair. You show and others look.

    Conservation of mass, action reaction, I think I am giving a physics session.

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  5. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 08:40

    Thanks,Sandhya.

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  6. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 08:41

    7 - Extensive knowledge of printing on an over-run contract (9) - ERUDITION Don't ask me how but it fits the crossings!! (Eureka - I think it is {E{RUn}DITION})

    I think contract serves as the deletion indicator.

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  7. Suresh25 February 2011 at 08:44

    4 - Woman left behind half of the will words heartlessly in retrospect (5) - {WIll}{DrOW<-} How is the 'S' deleted

    'Left behind' would be the deletion indicator for S.
    Doing double duty too

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  8. Deepak Gopinath25 February 2011 at 08:56

    Suresh @ 8:44,

    That is the height of imagination :-)

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  9. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 13:33

    Low traffic. Time for moonshine ;-)

    For the numerically oriented (from Oscar Rojas, Costa Rica who wants us to figure out his car plate number):
    1) The plate is a six-digits even number, that may be taken as the concatenation of three two-digits numbers L, M, R. (Left, Middle, Right)
    2) There exist another two-digits number G, that is the "generating number". It is easy to remember because it is a power of 2.
    3) M is generated by repeating one of the two digits of G. I mean, the two digits of M are the same digit and this digit is in G.
    4) L = G + M.
    5) R = G - M.
    No brute force searches please, logic to be explained.

    For the spatially oriented ones, (from Varunesh):
    Coming back from Yoga in the early morning , saw the Moon near the horizon....
    As big as a Full Moon ..
    The time was such that morning or evening looked alike .
    Supposing ,you were disoriented in time & space , that is , you couldn't make out whether its morning or evening , which is East & which West ..
    Looking briefly at the Moon ( similar to what I saw this morning ) big & bright near the horizon , how can you tell :
    ( a ) Whether its morning or evening ?
    ( b ) Which direction is East ?
    ( You are allowed to only have a brief look , no extended gazing like a Valentine stuck lover , and yes , no stars are visible please . )

    For the disoriented ones, well we are orientals ;-)

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  10. Barry25 February 2011 at 13:34

    What is My COD ?

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  11. Shyam25 February 2011 at 13:42

    Kishore

    M even, G power of 2, M < G =>

    G =(could be) {16, 32, 64}

    M =(could be) {22, 44}

    LMR is 542210}

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  12. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 13:54

    That's light !

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  13. Padmanabhan25 February 2011 at 17:02

    for the 2nd one-

    Sun will be red/orange at that angle ( OR of VIBGYOR will only be visible)whereas moon will be golden yellow in colour.I must confess that I have not got up that early in the morning!

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  14. Padmanabhan25 February 2011 at 17:06

    1D-

    For voting, one says 'aye' & not 'yea' though both may mean yes.

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  15. Navneeth25 February 2011 at 18:29

    Colonel,
    "Turn" is provided as a synonym for "set" at thesaurus.com. The meaning, when they are taken as nouns, is "physical bearing". And when they are verbs, it's "position, place". Not surprising given that SET is a word with a lot of (most?) meanings in a dictionary.

    http://thesaurus.com/browse/set

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  16. Navneeth25 February 2011 at 19:41

    Kishore,
    I'll know whether the Moon is setting or rising based on how the the "hare on the Moon" is oriented.

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  17. Navneeth25 February 2011 at 19:50

    [Noticed this after posting my previous comment]

    For the disoriented ones, well we are orientals ;-)

    Incidentally, Mare Orientale, for the Earth-based observer, is a rare sight, being right on the western limb. (Unless, of course, the person is looking at pictures sent back from spacecraft.)

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  18. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 20:41

    Right Navneeth, the rabbit is right side up when moon is rising and upside down when setting.

    The line on orientals was just a play on disoriented orientals and not connected to Mare Orientale.

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  19. Padmanabhan25 February 2011 at 21:10

    I seem to be a novice out here-disoriented oriental?

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  20. Navneeth25 February 2011 at 21:43

    The line on orientals was just a play on disoriented orientals and not connected to Mare Orientale.

    I knew that, and that's why what I said was incidental. ;-)

    Oh, and why isn't 862242 a solution for the first teaser?

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  21. Padmanabhan25 February 2011 at 22:14

    Navneeth,
    Your G=64.But your M is 22-which is not a repeat of either digits of G.

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  22. Navneeth25 February 2011 at 22:42

    Ah, yes. Thanks.

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