Tuesday, 27 September 2011

No 10269, Tuesday 27 Sep 11, Sankalak

Another smooth and excellent opener, except for 7D.
ACROSS
1   - Legal set of rules by a student (14) - CONSTITUTIONAL {CONSTITUTION}{A}{L}
8   - Monastery Hari restored in Virginia (6) - VIHARA {V{IHAR*}A}
9   - Release a French man and wife (8) - UNCOUPLE {UN}{COUPLE} My COD
11 - Relief from suffering for engineer with a purpose (9) - REMISSION {RE}{MISSION}
12 - Went wrong in a sinister redeployment and … (5) - ERRED [T]
13 - … criticised action to suppress crime without me (7) - DECRIED {DE{CRIme}ED}
15 - Mammal and insect combine in a waterproofing stuff (7) - SEALANT {SEAL}{ANT}
17 - Ballet artist and a karate expert? Sure funny! (7) - DANSEUR {DAN}{SEUR*}
19 - A Chinese dog with the German soup (7) - CHOWDER {CHOW}{DER}
21 - Trainer in a part of a train (5) - COACH [DD]
23 - Flowering plant — soft, hairy variety (9) - FORSYTHIA*
25 - Deny knowing little Diana's demand (8) - DISCLAIM {DI'S}{CLAIM}
26 - The direction taken, we hear, is lacking in refinement (6) - COARSE (~course)
27 - Herb senses salt, suffers difficulty in respiration (14) - BREATHLESSNESS*
DOWN
1   - Schoolmate escorting retired priest is not open (7) - COVERED {CO{VER<-}ED}
2   - Human interpretation of a biblical book (5) - NAHUM*
3   - Move with elegance, say, at the gate (9) - TURNSTILE {TURN}{STILE}(~style)
4   - A number of social creatures — they pay rent (7) - TENANTS {TEN}{ANTS}
5   - Element of Australian unity (5) - OZONE {OZ}{ONE}
6   - It is a symbol — and is represented thus (9) - AMPERSAND [CD]
7   - Wield the blue pencil again (6) - REEDIT [CD] Word not found in Chambers. If this is correct shouldn't the enumeration be (2-4)? (See comments)
10, 19 - Untamed, funny person but he gets special entry into a sports event (4,4) - WILD CARD {WILD} {CARD}


14 - In moving English cars and vans, he campaigns for votes (9) - CANVASSER* {E+CARS+VANS}

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16 - Soon, unknown cartoon character, missing tail, becomes nameless (9) - ANONYMOUS {ANON}{Y}{MOUSe}
17 - A fairly long time for a discourteous person to stay in a river (6) - DECADE {DE{CAD}E}
18 - Flashy swimmer comes after British service (7) - RAFFISH {RAF}{FISH}
19 - See 10
20 - Where would bookshops be without them? (7) - READERS [CD}
22 - Game played in crumbling mahal (5) - HALMA*
24 - An Arab, maybe (5) - HORSE [CD]

GRID


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19 comments:

  1. Chaturvasi27 September 2011 at 08:35

    Deepak

    See if at the foot of the Re- pages in BRB, there is a list of words (without meanings appended) that can be formed with re-.

    If there is such a list in the 12th edn that you have (I have not seen it) it will have re-edit.

    I do agree that the word is to be hyphenated. This I would do especially when two vowels run together.

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  2. Chaturvasi27 September 2011 at 08:38

    I agree 9a is an excellent clue and the setter can be proud of it.

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  3. Deepak Gopinath27 September 2011 at 08:41

    CV @ 8:35,

    Thanks, and yes 'RE-EDIT' is there at the foot of the Re-pages and it is hyphenated so the enu should have been (2-4)

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  4. Deepak Gopinath27 September 2011 at 08:55

    Isn't editing done with a red pencil?

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  5. Bhavan27 September 2011 at 08:58

    Sankalak is in top form with this puzzle.

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  6. Padmanabhan27 September 2011 at 09:03

    A very nice and enjoyable CW with an equally enjoyable election canvassing.Thank you Col.

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  7. VP27 September 2011 at 09:14

    Thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle, especially liked the reference to ampersand, given how often folks like me use it when programming :)

    I could not view the cartoon with this error (not sure if everyone is seeing the same error). Would not want to miss out on a NFL wild card joke ...

    Forbidden

    You don't have permission to access /images/011411_nfl_wild_card_playoffs_nfl_football_sports_comic_strip_cartoon_sperm_egg_sex_jokes_humor_humour.gif on this server.

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  8. Suresh27 September 2011 at 09:33

    VP I got the same message

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  9. Chaturvasi27 September 2011 at 09:36

    As a former journalist I can say that "blue pencil" is said to be traditionally used for correcting, emending, etc., of MS. But that's all!

    In my 35 years of work at newspaper offices, I have not seen anyone use a blue pencil.

    They may use fountain pens, ball-point pens, black pencils such as what schoolchildren use - each according to their fancy. (Now they may not be using any of these!)

    However, I - like others - have used blue pencil myself. That was when photo-composing came to India and when bromides had to be stuck on a lay-out sheet before further pre-press processing. At that time while making up the page, we had to accommodate items within the page under some constraints. For editing, we used blue pencils - these were what you call markers - which can be used on the bromides when your ordinary pencil (or even ball-point pens) won't work.

    But I suppose the expression comes from before that time. How and why, I don't know.

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  10. David Dobson27 September 2011 at 09:39

    Thought this was very smooth. Particularly liked ampersand & uncouple.
    We get another outing for card, and this time we have a cad in tow too, both words sounding of the same era (somehow they sound very 1920's to me)

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  11. Anonymous27 September 2011 at 09:54

    Liked the CW. Could not see the cartoon referred here-in-above. Liked the election cartoon. The politician has a strong resemblance to Billoo Badshah.

    Regarding the cad, I recollect this line:

    You, Sir, are a cad, a cheat and a bounder.

    Probably DD can help me place the quote.

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  12. Deepak Gopinath27 September 2011 at 09:59

    Since none of you are able to see the cartoon, here is the link

    http://artjar.blogsome.com/images/011411_nfl_wild_card_playoffs_nfl_football_sports_comic_strip_cartoon_sperm_egg_sex_jokes_humor_humour.gif

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  13. David Dobson27 September 2011 at 10:05

    I use it (affectionately) with my offspring.
    But I can't place it's origins, it has somehow just seeped into my repertoire. In my mind's eye it us uttered by military chaps in cricket whites!
    For lovers of 20's 30's fiction can I strongly recommend Nancy Mitford, especially the pursuit of love and love in a cold climate. Her Uncle Matthew creation (modelled on her father Lord Redesdale) is a comic masterpiece and was my child rearing inspiration.

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  14. Chaturvasi27 September 2011 at 10:07

    Just a while ago I happened to stumble on this:

    http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=205415&sectioncode=26

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  15. VP27 September 2011 at 10:39

    Col, thanks for the link to the cartoon, hilarious one ...

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  16. mathi27 September 2011 at 11:22

    Another easy and smooth one, except for dan in
    17A.
    We just did words like card and Dee a few days ago!

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  17. Anonymous27 September 2011 at 12:06

    Thanks, D, for the cartoon link, DD, for the refs to cads et al and CV, for the piece.

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  18. Bhalchandra Pasupathy27 September 2011 at 12:34

    Good, enjoyable offering from Sankalak today. In the past there were a lot of very simple straighforward clues, but today there is a nice balance. High integrity as usual in his clueing style.

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  19. Suresh27 September 2011 at 12:48

    Surprisingly my American edition of OED, which cme packaged with my Laptop spells re-edit without the hyphen

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