Friday, 22 April 2011

No 10135, Friday 22 Apr 11, M Manna

ACROSS
1   - A British soldier (7) - REDCOAT [E]
5   - Synthetic most recently put in the picture (7) - {P{LAST}IC}
9   - Firm having a last fling at Goa, maybe (7) - {CO}{A}{STAL*}
10 - One father in dreadful mess responsible for holdup (7) - {I}{M{PA}SSE*}
11 - Surpass in an open air party (5) - {OUT}{DO}
12 - Professional mobility being given encouragement (9) - {PRO}{MOTION}
13 - This fruit is not downed (9) - NECTARINE [CD]
15 - Incident at range produced hot displeasure desiring retaliation (5) - ANGER*
16 - An equal contest (5) - MATCH [DD]
18 - Will try to have the last word on the leader (9) - {TEST}{AMEN}{T}
21 - Check the impulse to give support (9) - {REIN}{FORCE}
24 - A cricket club for a Royal Academy in an African city (5) - {A}{CC}{RA}
25 - Substance with capability of activating genes within a cell (7) - INDUCER [E]
26 - Hold the small child in inane fashion (7) - {EN{CH}AIN*}
27 - Fancied one at the party, we hear (7) - GUESSED(~guest)
28 - An apparatus to cook food in water vapour (7) - STEAMER [E]
DOWN
1   - The fur from a small American animal (7) - RACCOON [CD]
2   - Doctor for spasmodic twitch that's quite severe (7) - {DR}{AS}{TIC}
3   - The sap too irrational to be a manipulator (9) - OSTEOPATH*
4   - A perennial bulbous herb (5) - TULIP [CD]
5   - Convicts a boy entrapped by spies (9) - {PRI{SON}ERS}
6   - Briefly, father returns in favour, with a formal endorsement (5) - {AP<-}{PRO}
7   - Examining critically for fitness (7) - TESTING [CD]
8   - He takes care the lake quarter is free from radioactive fallout (7) - C(L)(E)A(N)ER*
14 - Joints of tender rib produced within the family (9) - INTERBRED*
15 - Snow drop? (9) - AVALANCHE [CD]
16 - A beast returning phone call and doing harm (7) - {MAR<-}{RING}
17 - To play with finger idly (7) - TWIDDLE [E]
19 - Demand to support former wife makes one cry out (7) - {EX}{CLAIM}
20 - He prepares horses for a race (7) - TRAINER [CD]
22 - Assertion of truth as distinguished from mere statements (5) - FACTS [CD]
23 - Bets placed on equal basis (5) - EVENS [CD]

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20 comments:

  1. Suresh22 April 2011 at 08:35

    Breakfast time maybe, I kept reading the last word in 17D as Idli and spent a long time on it.

    Too many E and CDs again. Getting tedious. Tax refund time, maybe.

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  2. SandhyaP22 April 2011 at 08:37

    1 - The fur from a small American animal (7) - RACCOON [CD]

    DD: 1. An omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America.

    2.The fur of the North American raccoon. (Wordweb)

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  3. Anonymous22 April 2011 at 08:37

    13 - This fruit is not downed (9) - NECTARINE [CD]

    The nectarine cultivar group of peaches have a smooth skin. It is often referred to as a "shaved peach" or "shaven peach" due to its lack of fuzz or short hairs.

    Since it does not have hairs, it is not 'downed'.

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  4. SandhyaP22 April 2011 at 08:41

    @Suresh: Feels good to know I was not alone in mistaking IDLY for the breakfast item :P

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  5. Bhavan22 April 2011 at 08:46

    On the bright side, this is the last in this series. Neyartha is up next.

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  6. Deepak Gopinath22 April 2011 at 08:56

    Neyartha before and after the weekend!!

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  7. Rengaswamy22 April 2011 at 09:01

    8 D - He takes care the lake quarter is free from radioactive fallout (7) - C(L)(E)A(N)ER*

    I am not clear with the ANNO. Where did L E N spring from? is L for Lake and E&N for quarter(s)? Can someone explain?

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  8. Bhavan22 April 2011 at 09:46

    It is an anagram of CARE + L + NE (quarter)

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  9. SandhyaP22 April 2011 at 09:47

    @Rengaswamy:

    L: lake
    NE: quarter(North-East)

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  10. Rengaswamy22 April 2011 at 09:57

    Thanks Bhavan & Sandhya. I am under the impression that Quarter is N, E W S only and hence I was looking for quarters to indicate N and E. Normally corner is used to represent NE, NW, SW and SE. May be I am wrong.

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  11. HarveyBirdman22 April 2011 at 11:20

    Kishore @08:37, thanks, I was wondering about "downed".

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  12. HarveyBirdman22 April 2011 at 11:53

    By a coincidence, the answer to 18A also appears in THC 8981, which I happened to be working out. There, the clue is "Will change statement". Easier, but in my opinion, elegant. Maybe "Will changes statement" would have been a tad better.

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  13. Anonymous22 April 2011 at 16:13

    A little special for a balmy day:(thanks to Lavesh)

    As all of you know a palindrome is a word that reads the same when spelled backwards (eg rotavator). How could the following word be considered a palindrome?

    FOOTSTOOL

    It takes a balmy/barmy person to solve it.

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  14. Suresh22 April 2011 at 18:00

    Kishore.@ 16:13 All it takes is an additional drink.:)

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  15. Deepak Gopinath22 April 2011 at 19:17

    Suresh,

    Just 'an' additional ?

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  16. Anonymous22 April 2011 at 20:27

    You could dash for a drink, but you gotta be dotty too ;-)

    ..-. --- --- - ... - --- --- .-..

    I told you one has be a ..-. --- --- .-.. to get it !

    BTW, that too is a palindrome !

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  17. Venkatesh22 April 2011 at 20:41

    Kishore,
    You have given away the answer:
    When written in Morse code, it appears

    ..-. --- --- - ... - --- --- .-..

    So, it is a palindrome.

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  18. Venkatesh22 April 2011 at 20:43

    ..-. --- --- .-.. is a FOOL. When written in Morse, that too is a palindrome.

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  19. Anonymous22 April 2011 at 20:44

    Venkatesh, I did that because I did not want anyone here to prove that they belong to the set described by the second palindrome ;-)

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  20. Anonymous22 April 2011 at 20:52

    Well, some words are palindromes in their alphabetical versions as well as Morse versions. Can you get one which even a doggie can do?

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