Thursday, 24 March 2011

No 10110, Thursday 24 Mar 11, Sankalak

ACROSS
1   - Necessary component of avoiding population explosion (6,8) - FAMILY PLANNING [CD]

SEE THIS CARTOON

8   - A number find concealment in the freight yard (6) - EIGHTY [T]
9   - Untrue love traps abstainer with high voice (8) - {FALSE}{TT}{O}
11 - Retinue in action got off the express, say (9) - {DE{TRAIN}ED}
12 - Fine material found first in Long Island (5) - {L}{ISLE}
13 - Soldier gets on in years but copes with it (7) - {MAN}{AGES}
15 - In the process of being produced — sodium with a smell! (7) - {NA}{SCENT}
17 - Hard blows for hawks caught slipping (7) - THWACKS* (hawks+ct)
19 - A northern storm breaks bar in window (7) - {TR{A}{N}SOM*}
21 - What a doctor may do to a patient when in doubt (5) - REFER [CD]
23 - Weavers use it with control, to appear large and frightening (9) - {POWER}{LOOM}
25 - A winner, he fights for a cause (8) - CHAMPION [DD]
26 - Looking back, filing suit involving the English shows extraordinary ability (6) - {G{E}NIUS<-}
27 - Poles in dance halls rebuilt in a part of Britain (7,7) - CHA(N)NEL I(S)LANDS*
DOWN
1   - Liberty got when rescued on order (7) - {FREED}{OM}
2   - Power of vision with altered start (5) - (-s+m)MIGHT
3   - The girl accountant, challenged, is lacking in vitality (9) - LETH(A)RGI(C)*
4   - A German standard accepts boy as a fictional hero (7) - {A}{LAD}{DIN}
5   - In the nose a part that is seen as a lesion (5) - NASAL [T]
6   - The total resources (less liabilities) — of a fisherman? (3,6) - NET ASSETS [CD]
7   - A wooded area for unending relaxation (6) - {FOr}{REST}
10 - The burden concerning America (4) - {ON}{US}
14 - A sudden break for media people (4,5) - NEWS FLASH [CD]
16 - Say, look carefully and see the shaft around which you walk up (9) - (~stare){STAIR}{WELL}
17 - Old land in Europe that halved the competition (6) - {THat}{RACE}
18 - Assume that the spouse is wrong to accommodate Penny (7) - {SUP{P}OSE*}
19 - The place to go to do something with enthusiasm (4) - TOWN [CD]
20 - A note repeated once by sibling in an imitative representation (7) - {MI}{ME}{SIS} If repeated it should have been MEME or MIMI
22 - The last word about an old viceroy (5) - {RIP}{ON}
24 - Bulb that may make one's mouth — and eyes — water! (5) - ONION [CD]

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30 comments:

  1. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 08:32

    Hi
    MEMESIS (Mimesis?) was initially a nemesis and guess work and along withTH-RACE required Google. Liked L(ong- ISLE. STAIRWELL (~stare well) my Cod. DIN reminded of old film rolls that went with my Agfa Click-III.
    Harping again on the sojourn reported yesterday, it also put me in close juxtaposition with Plum’s pawnbroker Kieselguhr steeped in nitro-glycerine. This book has a character by name Harold Potter, which name sounds like a prototype of the later, more popular character with that lightning scar, though Harry is supposed to be a nickname of Henry, though my arithmetic tells me that both names have five letters each, so it can’t be called a diminutive. This guy is a rozzer and claims that he was assaulted by the duck pond. The preposition ‘by’ being capable of misleading the auditor is cause for mirth. Also, a passing reference to a few words from Browning’s ‘Pippa Passes’ is made towards the end of the tome. I wonder if the Rev. Dr.Spooner had the occasion to try his magic on the title of the poem.

    Deepak, a mail awaits you at gmail.

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  2. Deepak Gopinath24 March 2011 at 08:36

    Kishore,

    If it is the one dated 18th, I've seen it

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  3. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 08:40

    Ah, Deepak, I thought it was on the Bassein Bridge awaiting delivery.

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  4. Bhavan24 March 2011 at 08:42

    7 - A wooded area for unending relaxation (6) - {FOr}{REST}

    I had this as FOR(-r)EST. Same difference I suppose.

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  5. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 08:44

    Bhavan, I would go with
    for unending=fo
    relaxation=rest

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  6. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 08:45

    Since it is a end-off and not a delection from rest. Of course, moot point as end off could be either end, tho' would call (-r)est as decapitation and not unending ;-)

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  7. Chaturvasi24 March 2011 at 08:45

    I don't have the grid and so I don't have the crossings, but I think MIMESIS is the word and that Deepak's comment is apt.

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  8. Bhavan24 March 2011 at 08:46

    Kishore, that does seem to be the way most people parsed it.

    Just wondering why can't the deletion indicator apply to the word after it? Time to visit Shuchi's blog I think.

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  9. Chaturvasi24 March 2011 at 08:48

    Would you accept the signal (say) "unending sloven" for 'love'?

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  10. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 08:56

    Liked the 1a cartoon. Thank heavens, they are not fish, the mind boggles atthe amount of fees they would have to shell out for getting them admitted to a school!

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  11. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 08:57

    undending sloven could only be slove not love, loven, IMO

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  12. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 08:58

    supernumery d to ignored in above, please.

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  13. Deepak Gopinath24 March 2011 at 09:02

    CV @ 8:45

    Link to the grid is always available at the bottom right corner of the main post

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  14. Deepak Gopinath24 March 2011 at 09:04

    Kishore @ 8:58

    Supernumery d? Your slip is showing ;-)

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  15. Chaturvasi24 March 2011 at 09:05

    What I meant was I didn't use the grid and didn't enter the letters nor even figured out which letter goes where.

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  16. Meghna Agarwal24 March 2011 at 09:08

    @ Bhavan, 7D, unending relaxation will be RES and not EST. So setter's explanation is most likely to be FOR-r + REST. However, this is not technically sound is my feeling. Here, unending is an adjective qualifying the noun `relaxation'. So it's only natural to take REST to be unending and not `for'.

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  17. Ajay24 March 2011 at 09:18

    Hi cool crossword, quite a breeze except LISLE. Mimesis could mislead us but is the note sometimes written both ways? But the def. was a give away for someone like me who is interested in aesthetics//soundarya shastra and is looking at difference between Indian and western formulations where mimesis/anukriti is such a debatable issue.
    Of course unending relaxation gives one RES and not EST.

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  18. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 09:22

    Another classic from that same book:
    'She is taking a trip to West Indies.'
    'Jamaica?'
    'No, she went of her own free will.'

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  19. Bhavan24 March 2011 at 09:28

    I stand corrected. Apparently unending is used to mean "delete the tail" of a word. So it is FO(-r) and not (-r)EST

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  20. Suresh24 March 2011 at 09:32

    CV@8:48. I would accept 'unending sloven' for love. Removing both ends of the word.

    FOREST I had as removal of R from for, but applying the above logic either way should be possible.

    Maybe I am upsetting the conventional thinking on the subject; but I think we are doing a crossword and this is the kind of licence that gives variety to a crossword.

    If a flower can be a river so can unending represent either end.

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  21. Shyam24 March 2011 at 09:56

    Meghna

    The surface and cryptic readings are two different things totally. The qualifier 'unending' is for relaxation on the surface. In the cryptic reading, the setter tactfully uses it on 'for'. Absolutely nothing wrong at all. Just a case of masterly cluing.

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  22. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 13:11

    Yes, Deepak. However, it is not my slip that is showing, but my senility! The geriatric ward at Colney Hatch has been making overtures at me, but visa isssues have held up actual commitment.

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  23. Padmanabhan24 March 2011 at 16:13

    reg.7dI read the clue as-

    a wooded area for unending,relaxation.

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  24. Padmanabhan24 March 2011 at 16:15

    What I meant was

    wooded are- def.
    unending for- fo
    relaxation- rest

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  25. Padmanabhan24 March 2011 at 16:19

    Kishore-
    your comment about Browning's poem & Spooner brought a smile to my lips.I wondered if you were imagining a jumbo sized diaper!!

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  26. Chaturvasi24 March 2011 at 16:35

    Re MIMESIS
    Wrt my earlier note.
    From the dict:
    mi - the third note of the scale in sol-fa notation
    me - above, 'anglicized in spelling as me'
    Yet I would expect the repetition to be of the same spelling.

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  27. Chaturvasi24 March 2011 at 16:38

    I thought it would be nice if Meghna and Ajay introduce themselves to us - where they live, what they do.
    Almost all others here know some details of commenters though they may not have met.

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  28. pavalamani pragasam24 March 2011 at 19:33

    Yes, I am also curious to know about them!

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  29. Anonymous24 March 2011 at 19:50

    For people who were wondering what my 922 was all about, Jamaica is a homophone for 'Dja make er' or 'Did ya make her?'.

    Hence, the response 'No, she went of her own free will.'

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  30. HarveyBirdman29 March 2011 at 08:54

    Matter of taste, I suppose, but I'd have preferred "The burden on America" for 10D.

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