Saturday, 16 April 2011

No 10130, Saturday 16 Apr 11, M Manna

ACROSS
1   - Entertaining reason for not letting some borrow your tool (7) - {AM}{USING}
5   - Company made out cards for agreements (7) - A(C)C(O)RDS*
10 - Now Rose appears to love intensely (6) - {AD}{ORES*}
11 - Confirm tea laid out after five (8) - {V}{ALIDATE*}
12 - Claim made by member in the drink (6) - {AL{LEG}E}
13 - Former name of African southern region (8) - RHODESIA [E]
14 - Slowly on the piano perhaps (6) - ADAGIO [CD]
15 - Question Ted about work undertaken (6) - {T{EST}ED} (Addendum - {T{ASK}ED} - See comments)
18 - Power to produce intense fear (6) - HORROR ?
20 - Draw forth lie with contempt at builder (6) - {ELI*}CIT Anno pending
23 - Request seasoning for the crisps (4,4) - {SALT} {MINE} ?
25 - Guard assembled company pile (6) - P(O)LI(C)E*
26 - Pub in new place on top of a mountain (8) - {P{INN}ACLE*}
27 - An eight foot long snooker rest (6) - SPIDER [DD]
28 - Recreation that is breaking rules? (7) - L(EI)SURE*
29 - New reserve set — more stringent (7) - SEVERER*
DOWN
2   - Led English doctor foolishly, to interfere unnecessarily (6) - MEDDLE*(e+md+led)

SEE THIS CARTOON

3   - Getting more confident about split, give up (9) - {SUR{REND}ER}
4   - An inducement to lay up reserve capital (4,3) - {NEST} {EGG}
6   - Cry when the batting side makes exactly 100 (4,3) - {C}{ALL OUT} My COD
7   - A song popularized, considerable time ago (5) - OLDIE [DD]
8   - Keep notes on someone who is held (8) - {DETAIN}{EE}
9   - Look away as every one asset is removed (5,4,4) - AVERT ONE'S EYES*
16 - The picture is silent — a biography (5,4) - {STILL} {LIFE}
17 - As an enemy deserter, I'm interned temporarily (3,1,4) - {FO{R A T}{I'M}E}
19 - A self-propelled coach (7) - RAILCAR [E]
Used at Matheran
21 - In semi-panic, the fool turns into a dead end (7) - {IMP{ASS}E*} (Correction - {IM{PAS<-}SE*} - See comments)

SEE THIS CARTOON

22 - Arranged last month for expert to arrive (6) - ACCEDE*(ace+dec)
24 - Temporary camps (5) - TENTS [CD]

GRID


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20 comments:

  1. Anonymous16 April 2011 at 08:35

    15 - Question Ted about work undertaken (6) - {T{EST}ED}

    T(ASK)ED

    Three continuous Ls in 16d

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  2. Suresh16 April 2011 at 08:37

    20A ELICIT CIT may stand for City Improvement Trust?

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  3. Suresh16 April 2011 at 08:40

    HORROR is probably a CD meaning something which produces intense fear like a horror movie.

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  4. Deepak Gopinath16 April 2011 at 08:40

    Thanks Kishore

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  5. Ramiah16 April 2011 at 09:09

    Col Saab,

    1.AC. plese explain what AM represents ? Does USING mean borrow ?

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  6. Suresh16 April 2011 at 09:13

    Ramaih It is 'am using' which is a reason for not wanting to lend a tool.

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  7. Suresh16 April 2011 at 09:14

    27A There are shorter spiders too in Billiards

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  8. Venkatesh16 April 2011 at 09:15

    21 - In semi-panic, the fool turns into a dead end (7) - {IMP{ASS}E*}

    It should be {IM(PAS<-)SE*}
    the fool SAP turns <- in SEMI* (panic - AnagrInd)

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  9. Vikram16 April 2011 at 09:16

    True to type 'Mannaish' cluing. For example Semi-panic(21) if it is meant to be an anagram of semi cannot be imps(probably Manna went into 'panic' while cluing). Similarly for 28 the word play that is translates to ie, but in the solution it is 'ei' with no AInd. I presume 'breaking' is the AInd for rules and cannot apply to both ie and rules since they are placed on either side of it.

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  10. Vikram16 April 2011 at 09:18

    @venkatesh -guess our posts crossed. I buy your explanation for 21

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  11. Ramiah16 April 2011 at 09:45

    Thank you very much,Suresh,for entertaining my question. Does this clue come under DD category

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  12. Padmanabhan16 April 2011 at 10:33

    Suresh@8.14
    I think the "eight foot"does not refer to length since the spider as shown in the figure is just a rest.It is the live spider which has eight feet.

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  13. Suresh16 April 2011 at 13:12

    Of course, Padmanabhan. Could not think beyond half butts and full butts.

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  14. Bhalchandra Pasupathy16 April 2011 at 13:30

    Some brute force and guesswork was the order of the day today, and annotating was a post facto exercise!
    A lot of red herrings not relevant to the clue thrown in by Manna for good measure to confuse! eg in 1A where is the need for 'your tool'?
    17D is my CoD, got a lot of pleasure in solving that

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  15. Navneeth16 April 2011 at 13:49

    Ramiah@09:45,

    Does this clue come under DD category

    I don't think so, since the answer is clearly 8 letters long. A DD is a single word or phrase with two different meanings. (AM USING != AMUSING.) Compare this with READ A STORY from yesterday's grid.

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  16. Padmanabhan16 April 2011 at 13:50

    Isn't a tramcar more of a self propelled device? Filled it in and got stuck.

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  17. Navneeth16 April 2011 at 13:51

    Bhala@13:30,

    in 1A where is the need for 'your tool'?

    I guess it would make a bad surface, one with an abrupt ending, without it.

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  18. Meghna Agarwal16 April 2011 at 16:00

    1A is odd. Am in place of I am or I'm? I've never seen it done outside chatrooms.

    Is `on' a good link word between wordplay and definition?

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  19. HarveyBirdman16 April 2011 at 20:20

    In spite of all the difficulties already mentioned, this was a vast improvement over yesterday's puzzle, at least for me. I had TERROR for 18A.

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  20. HarveyBirdman16 April 2011 at 20:49

    Oh, and I should have added, that was wrong!

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