Thursday, 13 October 2011

No 10282, Thursday 13 Oct 11, M Manna

ACROSS
1   - Game country folk without aspiration (9)  - PHEASANTS {P{H}EASANTS}
6   - Steady assistance given to the street (5) - STAID {ST}{AID}
9   - Delightful to eat with the Queen (5) - SUPER {SUP}{ER}
10 - Newspaper which isn't bad at describing periods of prosperity (4,5) - GOOD TIMES {GOOD} {TIMES}
11 - Property confers genuine social standing (4,6) - REAL ESTATE {REAL} {ESTATE}
12 - Neat way to make an advance payment (4) - ANTE*
14 - Diplomats, within light point, treaded heavily (7)  - CLAMPED {C{LAMP}{E}D}
15 - Clubs to propel balls from tees (7) - DRIVERS [GK]
17 - Unusual love for an orange aromatic herb (7)  - OREGANO {O+ORANGE}*
19 - Housing developments across the herring pond! (7) - ESTATES [CD]
20 - A sore point with militant trade unionist (4) - S?A? (Addendum - SCAB [DD] - See comments)
22 - Servicemen conveyed male German in old armoured vehicles (5,5) - OTHER RANKS {O}{T{HER R}ANKS}
25 - He is sociable, but exceptionally green (9) - EXTRAVERT {EXTRA}{VERT}
26 - Capital atmosphere in business (5) - CAIRO {C{AIR}O}
27 - Narrative picture cards to tell fortunes! (5) - TAROT [GK]
28 - Mars of the Trotskyite dream? (3,6) - RED PLANET [DD]
DOWN
1   - Model brain teaser (5) - POSER [DD]
2   - Please Dan, make up a level space for walking by the sea (9) - ESPLANADE*
3   - The drama of TV sport (10) - SCREENPLAY {SCREEN}{PLAY}
4   - Rebel Ned at gate, denied access (7) - NEGATED*
5   - Detected a moral flaw (7) - SPOTTED [DD]
6   - Stiffen a bristle (4) - SETA {SET}{A}
7   - Oddly named copy writers (5) - ADMEN*
8   - Distributes medicines as per the doctor's orders (9) - DISPENSES [E]
13 - Old type of novel (10) - HISTORICAL [CD]
14 - Eye-liners (5,4) - CROWS FEET [CD]
16 - A number in addition (9) - EXTENSION [CD]
18 - Live through the difficult period of stay (7) - OUTWEAR [CD]
19 - Turned out constantly to make hay (7) - EJECTED ? (Addendum - EVERTED {EVER}{TED} - See comments)
21 - Change later (5) - ALTER*
23 - Somebody's opening wine to make merry (5) - SPORT {S}{PORT}
24 - Final cargo (4) - LAST [DD]

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14 comments:

  1. Anonymous13 October 2011 at 08:31

    20 - A sore point with militant trade unionist (4) - S?A?

    SCAB DD

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  2. Anonymous13 October 2011 at 08:33

    8d reminded of the compounder in the clinics of the doctors of yore, who use to concoct ‘mixtures’, liquid and solid, from various tablets and strangely coloured liquid decoctions/infusions possibly made from things like “fillet of a fenny snake, eye of a newt, toe of a frog, wool of a bat, tongue of a dog, adder's fork, blind-worm's sting, lizard's leg, howlet's wing, baboon’s blood “and quite a few other what-nots and having quaint colloquial nicknames like ’horses’ urine’ etc.


    I wonder whether the aforesaid adder was black in colour. ;-)

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  3. Bhavan13 October 2011 at 08:36

    19 - Turned out constantly to make hay (7) - EJECTED ?

    Constantly = Ever
    to make hay = Ted

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  4. Deepak Gopinath13 October 2011 at 09:12

    Thanks Kishore & Bhavan

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  5. Deepak Gopinath13 October 2011 at 09:13

    Refere Sumit's query on the surface reading the clue for ZINNIA yetserday.

    The clue was Last letter in North Arcot accepts one flower (6).

    May not be great but it makes some sense.

    'Letter' means 'one who rents out a property'. The person could be given a flower.

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  6. spellingmisstake13 October 2011 at 12:07

    Isn't 14D Crow's Nest?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow%27s_nest

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  7. Deepak Gopinath13 October 2011 at 12:48

    Spellingmistake,

    It is Crow's Feet see the link CROW'S FEET

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  8. muthaiah13 October 2011 at 12:53

    Crow's feet - lines under the eyes is correct.

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  9. Bhalchandra Pasupathy13 October 2011 at 14:07

    Had Extrovert for 25A and Boot for 24D and thought all was OK!

    Good 'time pass' exercise today, but no warm glow at the end

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  10. Ramani13 October 2011 at 19:22

    Deepak Sir 12:58 You have made a spelling misstake.

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  11. Anonymous13 October 2011 at 19:56

    I would appreciate it if someone could enlighten me on the connection between aspiration and 'H'.

    And is Diplomats=CD a reference to the Corps Diplomatique?

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  12. Deepak Gopinath13 October 2011 at 20:54

    Navneeth,

    This is what Chambers says about 'H'

    Representing in Old English a guttural sound, gradually softened down to a spirant, and now often silent

    You are right about CD.

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  13. Anonymous13 October 2011 at 23:33

    Thanks, Colonel.

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  14. raju umamaheswar14 October 2011 at 18:18

    Kishore:
    In Bombay, there was a Dr. Dhurandhar,a GP, who had a lot of patients. He had this concoction,that you had described, which he used to prescribe for all his patients and tell his compounder to dispense. For all ailments, stomach pains, head aches, cold fever, you name it. Everyone treated by him had to go at least five times to be cured. He used to tell them: Repeat Durandhar mixture!!

    Every one used to get cured merely by the efflux of time, and his specific was only a placebo!!! Hahaha.

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