Saturday 17 September 2011

No 10261, Saturday 17 Sep 11, Neyartha

ACROSS
1   - Happy to drive in circles at the amusement park features (5-2-6) - MERRY-GO-ROUNDS {MERRY}-{GO}-{ROUNDS}
9   - Westbound bridges initially icy in the winter spells (4,5) - COLD SNAPS {COLD} {SNAPS<-}
10 - Farewell article by auditor's expected (5) - ADIEU {A}{DIEU}(~due)
11 - Nightmare about African antelope coming back carrying a baby (7) - INCUBUS {IN{CUB}US<-}
13 - Magazine supply for future use (7) - ARSENAL [CD]
14 - Muse in Italian city quietly taken out by the Oriental (5) - ERATO (-p+e)ERATO
15 - Install frame for Singh's modified catapult (9) - SLINGSHOT {SL{INGHS*}OT}
17 - Ray and Al participate in wagers about the acts of Judas and Brutus (9) - BETRAYALS {BET{RAY}{AL}S}
18 - What a pin-up star may cause the heart to do? (5) - THROB [CD]

SEE THIS CARTOON

20 - Weight inside the Egyptian mummy case goes missing in massacre (7) - CARNAGE CARtonNAGE
22 - Gift dye blend to the impatient (7) - FIDGETY*
23 - Smell of tyrosine contained by the noble (5) - LOFTY [T]
24 - Almost sheer piece of corded silk (9) - GROSGRAIN {GROSs}{GRAIN}All Medal ribands are made with this type of material.
26 - People may go to the theatre for this (13) - ENTERTAINMENT [CD]
DOWN
1   - The Spanish cut off the no-name poisonous tree with a robot (7) - MACHINE MAnCHINEel*
2   - Averse to the storm about the Spanish cut out (9) - RELUCTANT {R{EL}{UCT*}ANT}
3   - Man, a sycophant? (3) - YES [CD]
4   - Some gemstones for the Oriya chief to blow up (5) - OPALS {O}{PALS<-}
5   - Use Orissa building to house the receptacles for bones (9) - OSSUARIES*
6   - Darkened envelop for the sound sensors made by the half-blind (11) - NEARSIGHTED {N{EARS}IGHTED}
7   - David's city reportedly getting a branch (5) - SCION (~zion)
8   - Capsized barrel hiding a liberal with the French missile (6) - BULLET {BU{L}{LE}T<-}
12 - Enzyme, for example, carried by the LA city boats at sea (11) - BIOCATALYST*
15 - I leave after breaking down the grievances of the junk collector (9) - SCAVENGER GRiEVANCES*
16 - Foolish hero cares about the Ascot event (5,4) - HORSE RACE*
17 - Steady characters in the Quebec almshouse (6) - BECALM [T]
19 - British noble and king forced out by the Yankee with a sword (7) - BAYONET BA(-r+y)YONET
21 - Search for a weapon (5) - RIFLE [DD]
22  - Plants I'd lost in the American state (5) - FLORA FLORidA
25  - Piece on the African antelope going up for all to see (3) - GUN  G(+u)UN(-u)

GRID


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18 comments:

  1. Deepak Gopinath17 September 2011 at 08:33

    Msg from Venkatesh Prabhakar
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    Posted the crossword puzzle under Crossword No. 2 @ VPs CROSSWORDS
    I have opened it to 4 answers per solver over the weekend, with comments on clues welcome anytime.
    Please do provide this info with tomorrow's post.
    Once again, thanks a whole lot Colonel, really appreciate all the help.
    Unquote

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  2. Bhavan17 September 2011 at 08:34

    Arms theme?

    I feel using words like manchineel, suni, cartonnage or prato as part of the wordplay is a little hard on the solvers.

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  3. Deepak Gopinath17 September 2011 at 08:35

    Weaponry theme

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  4. Deepak Gopinath17 September 2011 at 08:37

    Bhavan @ 8:34,

    But not as bad as yesterdays AMBO to A.S.B.O

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  5. Bhavan17 September 2011 at 08:42

    Col In fact I thought it was the other way. Yesterday it was only one, today many more.

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  6. David Dobson17 September 2011 at 08:53

    I actually liked today and didn't have Amy issues, my only worry was that I was embarrassingly left with David's City until inspiration finally arrived.

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  7. Deepak Gopinath17 September 2011 at 08:56

    Bhavan,
    I didn't mean the number of such words but the degree of difficulty in arriving at the solution from the clue

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  8. Suresh17 September 2011 at 09:36

    Congrats to Deepak on annos for CARNAGE, MACHINE. I had no clue on the annos, though the answers were obvious from the crossings.

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  9. Anonymous17 September 2011 at 10:08

    Sub theme of passtimes:

    MERRY GO ROUND
    SLINGSHOT (William Brown ;-))
    ENTERTAINMENT
    MACHINE (slot ?)
    HORSE RACE

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  10. mathi17 September 2011 at 11:14

    Anno for 1D is tough and pretentious. Can't exactly get the anno for 25D, though it is from GNU*. Nice puzzle otherwise.

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  11. Deepak Gopinath17 September 2011 at 11:21

    Mathi,

    Piece = Definition
    on the
    African antelope = GNU
    going up = Indicator for repositioning
    for all to see = U (Universal)

    So GNU = G(+u)UN(-u)ie 'U' going up = GUN

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  12. VP17 September 2011 at 11:34

    Col, thanks for providing the link.

    Kishore, not sure if you are still facing the "cartoon not showing up" problem with FF. I hit the problem again the last couple of times (including today). One trick that worked for me was a refresh of the page which then displayed the cartoon correctly :)

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  13. mathi17 September 2011 at 11:35

    Thanks. I missed the Universal part, not for all to see!

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  14. Suresh17 September 2011 at 11:55

    Yes VP. Strangely refreshing works.

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  15. Anonymous17 September 2011 at 12:00

    Thanks, VP 1134, that was refreshing.

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  16. Padmanabhan17 September 2011 at 14:08

    Yes,it worked for me too.Thank you.Till now I used to switch to IE to see the cartoon (not coming up with firefox)

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  17. Anonymous17 September 2011 at 19:04

    13A is probably an E (to say, by definition).

    What about 3D? Is it a univeral confirmation (at least among with those who solve crosswords) that Man is a sycophant?

    Kishore,
    Indeed. Initially, I thought the theme was vices. :D

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  18. Anonymous17 September 2011 at 20:56

    The Guardian Quick CW 10598 in Metro Plus Bang Ed is a pangram today.

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