Wednesday, 5 October 2011

No 10276, Wednesday 05 Oct 11, Gridman

On board the Coimbatore express headed for Bangalore from Mumbai.
Plenty of tools today on Ayudha Pooja Day.
Incomplete CW will appear at 8:30 as the net connection on the train is erratic today.
ACROSS
1   - Lever headless Agra's public house in statistical chart (3,5) - BAR GRAPH {BAR} {aGRA*}{P}{H}
5   - Revive from oblivion: “Scoundrel's active!” (4,2) - RAKE UP {RAKE} {UP}
9   - Top to bottom, say. The very 13! (8) - OPPOSITE [CD]
10 - Danes' clumsy writing tool (6) - SANDER {SANDE*}{R} R from writing?
12 - Leaders of certain labourers' associations worst chela (4) - CLAW {C}{L}{A}{W}
13 - Atheists in whirl? Just the opposite! (10) - ANTITHESIS*
15 - Think of old engineer's large tool for plasterwork (6) - TROWEL TROWE{L} Anno pending (Addendum - {TROW}{E}{L} - See comments}
17 - Beer splashed on head of tweezers' cap (5) - BERET {BERE*}{T}
20 - Sending a message: “Didn't start lumberjack's activity” (5) - AXING fAXING
21 - Dead wrong to screw (6) - EXTORT {EX}{TORT}
24 - Cabinet member disconcerted initial cop (10) - POLITICIAN*
27 - Put away nail-repair device (4) - FILE [DD]
29 - Quickly aware of following heartless pricker (6) - PRONTO {PrickeR}{ONTO)
30 - Being in the dark, Indian NGO broadcast angry speech (8) - IGNORANT {I}{GNO*}{RANT}
31 - Kim's one thousand snaps of an Indian State (6) - SIKKIM {KIMS+I+K}*
32 - One thousand rue dissipation of stateliness (8) - GRANDEUR {GRAND}{EUR*}
DOWN
1   - Open the topic: relation gets a couple of chisels (6) - BROACH {BRO}{A}{CH}
2   - Special tool to make cuts on a wicket (6) - RIPSAW {RIPS}{A}{W}
3   - Artist's special file (4) - RASP {RA}{SP}
4   - Mountaineer's peg – mine in position (5) - PITON {PIT}{ON}
6   - Hindu leader's tool, accepted and thrown back, is floating on the water (5) - AWASH {A}{WAS}{H}<- A from accepted?
7   - Stop playing ruses on people for whom tools are made (3-5) -  END-USERS {END}-{USERS}
8   - Soldier on location is a hanger-on (8) - PARASITE {PARA}{SITE}
11 - Force one member to allow hand tool (6) - GIMLET {G}{I}{M}{LET}
14 - Brother sees nothing good in Scot's awl (4) - BROG {BR}{O}{G}
16 - Rogue loses time getting new tool (6) - WRENCH {WRE(-t+n)NCH}
17 - Rough edge in tool (4) - BURR [CD] These are rough edges on machined parts. Didn't know they were on tools as well. (Addendum - [DD] - See comments)
18 - Sacks to carry boy's extremely fragile instruments (8) - BAGPIPES {BAG{PIP}{E}S}
19 - William to steal cutting tool (8) - BILLHOOK {BILL}{HOOK}
22 - Dart around, holding one note in outburst (6) - TIRADE {DART+I+E}*
23 - Rouse with engineer's arrow in Delhi (6) - CENTER ? Anno pending (Addendum - BESTIR {BE'S}{TIR} - See comment}
25 - Boob – stop short of another boob – with Andhra's instrument (5) - TITTI {TIT}{TIt}
26 - A user's primary German tool (5) - AUGER {A}{U}{GER}
28 - What you do with tools on Ayudha Puja Day and worship (4) - DOWN [CD]

GRID


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24 comments:

  1. Deepak Gopinath5 October 2011 at 08:31

    Somehow manged to squeeze it in by the scheduled time

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  2. Anonymous5 October 2011 at 08:36

    17 - Rough edge in tool (4) - BURR [CD] These are rough edges on machined parts. Didn't know they were on tools as well

    DD, burr is also a tool

    6 - Hindu leader's tool, accepted and thrown back, is floating on the water (5) - AWASH {A}{WAS}{H}<- A from accepted?

    I took it as:
    A 'H' is a Hindu leader
    tool is a saw which is accepted (taken in) and thrown back (reversed)

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  3. Bhavan5 October 2011 at 08:39

    23 - Rouse with engineer's arrow in Delhi (6) - CENTER ? Anno pending

    Engineer's = BES
    Arrow in Delhi = TIR
    Rouse = BESTIR

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  4. Bhavan5 October 2011 at 08:40

    15 - Think of old engineer's large tool for plasterwork (6) - TROWEL TROWE{L} Anno pending

    From OED

    TROW (v) archaic think or believe: why, this is strange, I trow!
    Engineer = E
    large = L

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  5. Anonymous5 October 2011 at 08:40

    Pic for Billhook reminded of the fav weapon in Tamil movies, the machchu, machchan !

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  6. SandhyaP5 October 2011 at 08:41

    15 - Think of old engineer's large tool for plasterwork (6) - TROWEL TROWE{L} Anno pending

    {TROW}{E}{L}

    Trow: To think(Archaic) -- Freedict

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  7. Anonymous5 October 2011 at 08:42

    Talking of bagpipes, I remember this definition:

    A gentleman is a person who owns a bagpipe, but refrains from playing it.

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  8. Anonymous5 October 2011 at 08:45

    Yesterday some one was commenting on short sales but today he loves the tools.;-)

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  9. Deepak Gopinath5 October 2011 at 08:48

    Thanks,
    Kishore, Bhavan & Sandhya

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  10. Chaturvasi5 October 2011 at 08:48

    I couldn't immediately recall any line from poetry where I have come across the word 'trow'.

    Now, googling, I landed upon the following:

    http://www.poetry-online.org/wilde_her_voice.htm

    This I have not read before. Typical Wilde, though.

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  11. Anonymous5 October 2011 at 08:52

    A distinct Caledonian undertone:

    Scot's in 14d, a beret and bagpipes.

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  12. Anonymous5 October 2011 at 08:53

    Thanks, CV, as Wilde as ever.

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  13. Bhavan5 October 2011 at 08:55

    A for accepted and R for writing are given in the Chambers XWD dictionary of abbreviations, In what sense, I don't know.

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  14. David Dobson5 October 2011 at 09:30

    I thought R for writing came from the phrase "the three R's" - reading, writing and arithmetic (Reading Riting and Rithmatic)

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  15. Anonymous5 October 2011 at 09:40

    Deepak, nice to note clues 1d to 28d are enclosed between DOWNs, since DOWN is a Down clue.

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  16. Padmanabhan5 October 2011 at 12:43

    Bhavan@08.39-
    Arrow in Delhi- TIR ?

    I am not able to follow.

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  17. raju umamaheswar5 October 2011 at 12:58

    Thanks for your comments, CV. I still feel that abbreviation is the body of prose as brevity is the soul of wit.

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  18. mathi5 October 2011 at 13:04

    Though very appropriate and very Indian, found it
    difficult! Never heard of TITTI, though we live in
    India! Why arrow in Delhi=TIR, A=accepted and R=writing?
    Am I missing something? The CD 28D was also a letdown for me!

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  19. SandhyaP5 October 2011 at 13:07

    @Padmanabhan (12:43): TIR/TEER means ARROW in Hindi.

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  20. Anonymous5 October 2011 at 13:17

    Raju, continued post on Sandy yesterday.

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  21. Suresh5 October 2011 at 13:49

    I only knew titti to be a nipple. Never realised you could play music with them

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  22. Padmanabhan5 October 2011 at 13:50

    Thank you Sandhya. I was stumped though knowing Hindi. Just did not connect.

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  23. Col_Gopinath5 October 2011 at 18:06

    Tomorrows special will be up at 8 AM with the restriction of 3 PP, that is 3 answers per commenter

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  24. raju umamaheswar6 October 2011 at 11:30

    So many tools to thresh us with; had gr(e)ating time chiselling through and hammer the clues into some shape.

    What's Andhra's TITTI?

    It is quite amazing to note how an Indianized cryptic crossword has been compiled mainly on the theme of the day. We Indians have really taken the cryptic clues up several rungs in the ladder.But, isn't that what we do in anything that we do? But then, why are we still where we are, like a chicken looking for grains , pecking away at the same place? Ten steps up and twenty steps down in the well? Has any one thought of insuring and patenting the compilers'( and also, ahem , we solvers!) genes, for posterity?

    Had a very memorable day worshipping Goddess Saraswati, solving today's crosswords. Thanks, Gridman.

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