Sunday, 27 March 2011

No 2627, Sunday 27 Mar 11

ACROSS
1   - A master of light farce with point to get across (8) - {TRAVERS}{E} Had to cheat on this. Couldn't find any Travers? (See comments)
5   - Wrong answer for peninsula (6) - {CRIME}{A}
9   - Aunt Sally, perhaps? (4,4) - FAIR GAME [CD]
10 - Dessert - seconds accepted by timid type (6) - {MOU{S}SE}
12 - Suffer, popular course of remedial treatment incomplete (5) - {IN}{CURe}
13 - Malibu, drab for us surprisingly (9) - SURFBOARD*
15 - Type of rhyme senior eleven composed (7,5) - LEONINE VERSE*
18 - Novel author left out all the time, at first (7,5) - {FOREVER} {AMBlER}
21 - The old one getting out of bed is a speculator (9) - {THE}{O}{RISER}
22 - Daring support garment, extremely versatile (5) - {BRA}{V}{E}
23 - Spotted motorway leading to Yorkshire town (6) - {M}{OTLEY}
25 - Little known about Greek character, a monster (8) - {MINO{TAU}R}
26 - Follow notice in programme (6) - {SH{AD}OW}
27 - Champion eight reportedly unhappy about capsizing (8) - (~crew){CRU}{SAD}{ER<-}
DOWN
1   - Petty quarrel at home making midday meal (6) - {TIFF}{IN}
2   - A coin for each person (6) - {A}{PIECE}
3   - Agree, oddly, with bearded man, one volunteering for extra work (5,6) - {EAGER*} {BEAVER}
4   - Dickens character, strong man securing power with money (7,5) - {SAM{P}SON} {BRASS} Thanks to Google, Dickens not being my forte.
6   - Letter from Greece from air hostess (3) - RHO [T]
7   - Wholesale slaughter in Israeli port after religious ceremony (8) - {MASS}{ACRE}
8   - City, Lincoln, run by university administrator, we hear (8) - {ABE}{R}{DEEN}{~dean}
11 - Liqueur, one imbibed by imposing George Eliot character (5,7) - {GRAND} {MARN{I}ER}
14 - What some violent troublemakers wear for kicks? (6,5) - BOVVER BOOTS [CD] Thanks to google. Never heard of this before.
16 - Frequently ring two newspapers (8) - {O}{FT}{TIMES}
17 - Beverage teenager brewed (5,3) - GREEN TEA* My daily cuppa.
19 - False rumour an eccentric put about (6) - {C{AN}ARD}
20 - In heart of Vietnam, blunder causes extreme fear (6) - {T}{ERROR}
24 - Italian novelist in the city centre of Bologna (3) - {EC}{O}

GRID


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  1. SandhyaP27 March 2011 at 08:51

    1 - A master of light farce with point to get across (8) - {TRAVERS}{E}

    Benjamin Travers: British dramatist, best known for such farces as Rookery Nook (1926), Thark (1927), and Plunder (1928)(Freedict)

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  2. Deepak Gopinath27 March 2011 at 08:55

    Thanks Sandhya

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  3. Deepak Gopinath27 March 2011 at 09:00

    Since participation is thin, I shall post a CW by Interrobang at 12 noon today. Answers can be given in the comments section, with annotations of course and the restriction of 3 PP.

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  4. Chaturvasi27 March 2011 at 10:15

    PYT - what does this expand to?

    To Palliate Your Tension, let me Put You There!

    In the picture on top left of the back page of Sunday Express, the weekend edition of the New Indian Express.

    I am sorry if you don't like to be in that sort of company.

    Anyway, what is P Y T?

    I am puzzled. Ever since this started appearing, I have been scratching the head but without getting an answer.

    One minute, as I am typing this I wondered if it was Place Yourself There.

    But then if I send a picture of myself to the editor is there half a chance of my being displayed there?

    Years ago the Tamil paper had the pic of a beauty (always a female actor - see I am avoiding the gender-specific term 'actress') on the back page. And, on bottom-left it carried the caption PIN-UP. (Older readers will remember the Blitz back-cover girls.)

    But I am digressing. Excuse my ignorance. What is P Y T? Any funny guesses too welcome, apart from exact expansion. (Excuse my ignorance if this is a common abbreviation in these days of microblogging and texting and I am exhibiting my abject ignorance.)

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  5. SandhyaP27 March 2011 at 10:26

    @Chaturvasi: PYT = PRETTY YOUNG THING :P

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  6. Chaturvasi27 March 2011 at 10:28

    Oh no! You can't make it a chattel!

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  7. Deepak Gopinath27 March 2011 at 10:31

    CV,

    But then if I send a picture of myself to the editor is there half a chance of my being displayed there?

    Maybe if it was sent a couple of decades ago it would have been displayed ;-)

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  8. Chaturvasi27 March 2011 at 11:48

    My wife will agree!

    Never mind that she also ages with me!

    Incidentally - and talking of NO ONE in particular - why is it that women take efforts to look younger and beautiful even when the years are behind them while their own husbands are careless about appearance?

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  9. Anonymous27 March 2011 at 12:05

    While Sandhya's standard expansion of PYT runs on the same lines as the Hindi "kya cheez hai" or "cheez badi hai mast mast", here is an alternative:

    Priming Your Titillation

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  10. Anonymous27 March 2011 at 12:15

    On the same lines:

    Providing You Titillation.

    Or

    Potent Yankee Trollop

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  11. Anonymous27 March 2011 at 12:16

    Or even

    Perk Your Testosterone

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  12. SandhyaP27 March 2011 at 14:56

    Kishore @ 12:16 - :D

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  13. Venkatesh27 March 2011 at 17:15

    Sandhya is correct. It is Pretty Young Thing - PYT made famous by a song with that title by Michael Jackson.

    Some persons also refer to it as Plucky Young Thing.

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