Saturday, 26 February 2011

No 10088, Saturday 26 Feb 11, Nita Jaggi

Will have to start thinking of other options on NJ days, I am fed up!!! In no mood to look for cartoons to lighten my mood!!
ACROSS
1   - Ravi talks of some essential things (5) - VITAL [T]
4   - Pump the heart, be there to get some air (7) - BREATHE* I need one of these big pumps on NJ days!
10 - Put up, as a computer file (6) - UPLOAD [CD]
11 - Own crew, overheard (8) - PERSONAL(~personnel)
13 - Somehow bring coal outside the small house (3,5) - LOG CABINr*
14 - Measure a frame (6) - {A}{MOUNT}
16 - Agree with the leaders joining in big establishments (4) - {J}{I}{B}{E}
17 - Recline on a part of the big ship (10) - OCEANLINER*
20 - Loud senator in argument over the first treaty (10) - {STEN{T}ORIAN*}
21 - Swamp thing, for short caught the big bird (4) - {C}{ROC}
24 - Big feller will record the girl's race on the contrary with determination (6) - {LOG}{G}{EcaR<-} Deetermination should have left 'AC' and not 'RE'
26 - It may be exhibited in a bitter fight (8) - ACRIMONY [CD]
28 - Same pattern in a crossword grid (8) - SYMMETRY [DD]
29 - Narrow street in Rhode Island city is odd (6) - {ST}{RI}{CiTy}
30 - Latinos go crazy in this city (7) - STALINO*
31 - Total amount of groceries has no rice it's said initially (5) - {GROcerieS}{S} How does the second 'E' get deleted?
DOWN
2   - Encountered some difficulty reading this kind of handwriting (9) - ILLEGIBLE [CD]
3   - These positions of a small animal needs attention seekers initially (6) - {A}{S}{A}{N}{A}{S}
5   - Timid creature cuts back the plant (4) - REED <- Why 'cuts back' ?
6   - Gathering of people for a military meal in the rear of the British company at the end of the day (8) - {A}{SSEM<-}{B}{L}{Y} How is company and 'L' connected? 'Military meal' is not  'MESS'
7   - Caste member is back at the University (5) - {HIND}{U}
8   - Just swim around the French river (6) - {SUT{LE}J*}
9   - A flautist (6) - FLUTER [E] Terrible!!
12 - Open wrong cases in front of the judge finally again (7) - {SIN}{C}{E}{RE}
15 - What's left in an acrobat's skill (7) - BALANCE [DD]
18 - Contractions developed leaving no time for drugs (9) - NARCOTICSnot*
19 - Light, clear sky over each lake in front (8) - {ETHER}{EA}{L}
20 - Sound of a swimming stroke (6) - SPLASH ?
22 - Reserved a love note for the dog (6) - {COY}{O}{TE}
23 - Mob member is on Rhode Island to go up with difficulty (6) - {RI}{OT<-}{ER}
25 - Sweep the area (5) - GAMUT [DD]?
27 - Smile at the dancing girl no longer in Norway (4) - {GRIl*}{N}

GRID


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28 comments:

  1. Anonymous26 February 2011 at 08:37

    Hi,
    We remembered the Scottie Buster a couple of days back. Now we remember his master Fatty starring in the Mystery of the Missing Letters:
    13a BRING COAL*=LOG CABIN + where r gone?
    31a GROCERIES-RICE+S= GROSS+ where e gone?

    20a STENTORIAN my cod. Did not like 9d, 25d, 20d

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  2. Anonymous26 February 2011 at 08:38

    6 - Gathering of people for a military meal in the rear of the British company at the end of the day (8) - {A}{SSEM<-}{B}{L}{Y} How is company and 'L' connected?

    May be Limited as in limited liability :-)

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  3. Deepak Gopinath26 February 2011 at 08:45

    Kishore @ 8:37

    R has gone outside

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  4. Deepak Gopinath26 February 2011 at 08:47

    On NJ days I think we need to have WCOD (Worst Clue of the day) instead of COD so that one has a tough time to pick one

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  5. Anonymous26 February 2011 at 08:49

    DG 837 OMG
    DG 847 A tough choice either way, lack of candidates for COD and too many aspirants for WCOD

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  6. SandhyaP26 February 2011 at 08:50

    6 - Gathering of people for a military meal in the rear of the British company at the end of the day (8) - {A}{SSEM<-}{B}{L}{Y} How is company and 'L' connected?

    BL = British Leyland?

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  7. SandhyaP26 February 2011 at 08:51

    WCOD:
    9 - A flautist (6) - FLUTER

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  8. Suresh26 February 2011 at 08:53

    31A I don't think Rice means removal of any letters. Without the rice bit the clue sounds fine as a homophone. Maybe if you pronounce 'rice' as rees you would get a deleted homophone too.

    Am I making sense?

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  9. Deepak Gopinath26 February 2011 at 08:58

    Suresh @ 8:53,

    You really do get weird thoughts on NJ days!! You will have to pronounce 'rice' as 'eries' in that case to get your answer

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  10. Chaturvasi26 February 2011 at 09:06

    My remark elsewhere was something akin to the above observation of Deepak.
    The -ries in 'groceries' is not pronounced 'rice'.

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  11. Anonymous26 February 2011 at 09:07

    Suresh 853: No, right now you dont. But try your luck after a few years when I enlist into the loony bin and may be I will understand it better. ;-)

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  12. Suresh26 February 2011 at 09:20

    Said initially I took to mean the first part of groceries sounds like gross. I ignored the rice part of the phrase.
    Even if I removed the letters rice I got groes, which incidentally would when pronounced sound like gross.
    Actually I think the clue was meant as a homophone and NJ got over excited and mucked up with the rice thing

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  13. Suresh26 February 2011 at 09:39

    If you search for BL in Wikipaedia one of the expansions given is British Leyland. they don't say AL for Ashok Leyland. But TELCO and TISCO are common. BL must be a common abbr for British Leyland. Not that I like its usage in the clue, but it is passable.
    NJ probably had a bad dining experience in a military establishment and decided to call it a mess.:))

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  14. Suresh26 February 2011 at 09:40

    Actually, I quite enjoyed today's CW, with and for all its oddities

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  15. Anonymous26 February 2011 at 09:47

    Wonderful clue in the Telegraph:

    7d Informal ballot gets Labour politician c-cut up (5,4)

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  16. Anonymous26 February 2011 at 09:53

    Remembered Wile E. Coyote.

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  17. mathu's memoirs26 February 2011 at 10:35

    Good morning

    I ve given up after half an hour. The intial euphoria of getting some words died after some heavey scratches in my head.

    5 d timid creature...i thought deer being reversed as taking cuts back as reversal indicator.

    without knowing anno some words just got filled up on its own.

    with great reluctance i could pick 18 D as COD.

    24 a 6d and 12d as wcod..,..though i got all.

    mathu

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  18. mathu's memoirs26 February 2011 at 10:37

    Good morning Col
    The second part is not visible the one below quality/difficulty...though i could mark the status is not there?
    is that a problem with my system?
    mathu.

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  19. Deepak Gopinath26 February 2011 at 10:45

    Mathu,
    There is no second part below Quality/Difficulty it's all in one line

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  20. mathu's memoirs26 February 2011 at 11:05

    Tks col.
    there might be some error in my system...i saw a duplication of boxes..thats y the query.

    tks

    mathu.

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  21. Bhavan26 February 2011 at 11:12

    Quick post while on the move : Looks like I couldn't have chosen a better time to be on vacation even if I had deliberately planned it.

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  22. Navneeth26 February 2011 at 13:15

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  23. Vikram26 February 2011 at 13:17

    @Deepak, must compliment you on your perseverance in solving NJ's Crosswords. I give up after a few minutes to preserve my sanity

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  24. Navneeth26 February 2011 at 13:17

    13A reminds me of a silly maths joke, and since there are at least a few here who dabble in that sort of thing, here goes:

    What is this?

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  25. Anonymous26 February 2011 at 13:49

    Int dx . 1/x=log x + c
    Hence, given term = log cabin + c

    i.e. a seaside log cabin

    I do not know if you intended the sea to come into this, but I thought why leave out the constant.

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  26. Navneeth26 February 2011 at 14:23

    I do not know if you intended the sea to come into this, but I thought why leave out the constant.

    If the sea was unintended, it wouldn't be a silly joke, would it? ;-)

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  27. Anonymous27 February 2011 at 07:03

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  28. Anonymous27 February 2011 at 12:49

    Either way, with or without the sea, both of us agree it is a rea-lly sea-lly joke ;-)

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