ACROSS
1 - It may be cooked in a semiconductor fab (7,4) - SILICON CHIP [CD] 'fab' or 'lab' ?
9 - Anticipate return of the Indian griddle with iodine inside (5) - AWAIT {AWA{I}T<-}
10 - Spool set differently for machine made laces (9) - BOBBINETS {BOBBIN}{ETS*}
11 - Hand-picked segment of a free lecture (5) - ELECT [T]
12 - Greek character's old catalogue given to the stamp collector (11) - PHILATELIST {PHI}{LATE}{LIST}
13 - Wax stick model of a rigid area of the earth's crust gets an unknown replacement (6) - CRAYON {CRA(-?+y}YON} (Addendum - {CRA(-t+y)YON} - See comments)
14 - Assignee scratching head in confusion at dawn (7) - GENESIS aSSIGNEE*
18 - Plump female embraced by Rose (4-3) - WELL-FED {WELL-{F}ED} My COD
20 - Sick on losing 33 per cent at the centre? Walk through mud… (6) - SQUISH {SQU
24 - … and become an unwelcome guest (11) - GATECRASHER [CD]
26 - Clean broom (5) - BRUSH [DD]
27 - Catch in a no-win situation (6-3) - TWENTY-TWO [CD]
28 - The first lady is sent back with a strain (5) - SIEVE {SI}{EVE}<-
29 - Scrollable drying aid (6,5) - ROLLER TOWEL [CD]
DOWN
1 - Pause CBS broadcast about a mathematical set (8) - SUBSPACE*
2 - Grease with Beirut lac mixture (9) - LUBRICATE*
3 - Comedian Marx hoards silver in the city (7) - CHICAGO {CHIC{AG}O}
4 - English leader in French resort with a relative (5) - NIECE {NI{E}CE}
5 - Enemy troops in France disregarded the rifle shots by mistake (8) - HOSTILES {rIfLE+SHOTS}*
6 - The armour joint plate is according to the listener's taste (7) - PALETTE (~pallet)
7 - Tabloid salesman upset by father at first (5) - PAPER {PA}{PER<-}
8 - Condition of the assets needs no introduction (5) - STATE eSTATE
15 - Hindu sage finally goes up in agitation over the meat-and-vegetables dish (5,4) - IRISH STEW {(+i)IRISH(-i)} {STEW}
16 - Stay dry at the golf course clearing lot (8) - TEETOTAL {TEE}{TOTAL}
17 - Drawing stick with a very dark grey colour (8) - CHARCOAL [DD]
19 - Highlight error in concealing the barge (7) - LIGHTER [T]
21 - Ensemble questioning Uma initially about the northbound tropical fishes (7) - QUARTET {Q}{U}{ARTET<-}
22 - Humble and insult a substitute for all to see (5) - ABASE AB(-u+a)ASE
23 - Auditor's promise to get a plumber's snake (5) - AUGER (~augur)
25 - Pancake on decorative paper (5) - CREPE [DD]
Drawing and Painting day:
ReplyDeleteCRAYON, BRUSH, ROLLER, PAPER, CHARCOAL, PALETTE
Craton (n) : Any of the comparatively rigid and immobile areas in the earth's crust.
ReplyDeleteAnd in case the art turns out to be horrible:
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13 - Wax stick model of a rigid area of the earth's crust gets an unknown replacement (6) - CRAYON {CRA(-?+y}YON}
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craton (rigid area of earth's crust) - t (model, Ford) gets unknown (y) replacement.
I am unable to understand the connection between ROSE and WELLED. Since it is Col's COD, I am interested in understanding that.
ReplyDeleteRose= welled
ReplyDeleteFor eg in the sentence:
Blood welled out from the wound.
Blood rose out from the wound.
Capitalisation of R is a Red Herring.
@Rengaswamy: Rose = came up = welled
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ReplyDeleteThank you Kishore and Sandhya. It is so simple after you both explained.
ReplyDeleteRef in 3D to Marx and answer of 19d LIGHTER reminded me of the once popular Zippo Lighters.
ReplyDeleteBack from Delhi, and enjoyed today's artistic offering - reminded me of my trip to the museum of modern art in the capital.
ReplyDeleteThe following nostalgia comment follows Raju's letter on Diwali crackers in Deccan Chronicle.
ReplyDeleteHe writes from CBE and my mind goes back to the Fifties when I grew up there in Samier New Street which has changed now beyond recognition.
We would be woken up by grandmother at about 2 or 3 a.m. We could hear crackers bursting in spurts throughout the night. Yes, sound ans smoke were there.
But now Diwali means less - much less - crackers but infinitely more noise in decibel level as well as time stretches, what with 1000- and 10,000 wallahs.
It seems that children now enjoy it much less than we did in the decades immediately after Independence.
The Deccan Chronicle itself is so different. This along with FPJ we were taking when we were in Sec'bad in 1954-58.
ReplyDeleteThe printing press of the paper was opposite Mehboob College High School on King's Way.
Now the paper is just 'kocha-kocha', stuffed with much that you might not read at all. And what regard can I have for a paper that has a gross misprint in the caption to pocket cartoon on the front page (in today's edition where I found Raju's letter too)?
Rengaswamy @ 8:40,
ReplyDeleteKishore & Sandhya have since clarified your doubt, however if you had gone to the link provided with the word 'Rose' in the main post your doubt would have been cleared.
CV, Today's 15d inspired me:
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Kishore-
ReplyDeletewhere is the 'kesh'?
Col.-
ReplyDelete1A- I think fab is short form of fabrication
Paddy,
ReplyDeleteHe is a Mona, Darling. So no kesh.
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Mona_Sikh
To distinguish between the two varieties, clean shaven and bearded, I think Deepak would recall the two famous Kuldip Singhs,
ReplyDeleteLt Gen KS Brar of Blue Star fame and Brig KS Chandpuri of Longewala fame.
The syntax in a few clues takes some getting used to, but a smooth ride overall
ReplyDeleteSilicon chip in 1A as a CD .. Curious to know if Neyartha is a computer techie :)
ReplyDeleteDid dancing David Dobson delight darling daughter during distant Delhi dash?
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I bet it was a moving experience.
Yes, VP. This is what N says
ReplyDelete"Designing and verifying silicon chips is my full time job now,... "
in Shuchi's blog:
http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2011/02/interview-neyartha.html
1A's fab does refer to fabrication, though the abbreviation's usage is as a "fabrication facility" or "fabrication factory". A semiconductor fab is just a more elitist name IMO, for a chip factory.
ReplyDeleteThe early semi conductor science and technology pioneers, Jack Kilby (one of the first inventors of yesterday's INTEGRATED circuit), Fairchild, Bardeen, Schottky, Brattain (inventors of TRANSISTORS and DIODES, surely a clue in Neyartha's mind as we speak), Gordon Moore (of the famed Moore's Law and ex-CEO of Intel) etc were quite strong personalities and probably did not want their creations for mass consumption be made in as crude a place as a factory. For them the work was too highly skilled and required much greater precision than macroscopic assembly factories - hence I suspect, "fabrication facility"..
After all, the oft repeated quote, "Only real men have fabs" has been attributed to Jerry Sanders, the founder of AMD in a show of force /bravado when the industry was realizing the costs of maintaining one. I suspect Neyartha more likely than not, designs and verifies silicon chips in a company that does not have a "fab" - an aberration 20 some years but more the norm today.
I enjoy Neyartha's puzzles for the occasional answer that refers to something I understand a bit better than crosswords.
Thanks for the link Kishore. Was an interesting read.
ReplyDeleteCV: Thanks for the comments on my letter to the press on crackers. With every cracker that is burst, my heart will burn for those small kids in those DARK hovels in Sivakasi who toil for a pittance to light up our hearts on Diwali day. Why not at least form the HCC blog, we vow to desist from buying crackers and send that money saved to any children's NGO to be used for those kids rehabilitation and education?
ReplyDeleteThere was this picture in the press the other day , showing a distraught cow or bull being tied in a stake , ready to butchered in sacrifice to propitiate some tradition, devi or devta. In this 21st Century? So barbaric. I wrote to the papers condemning this but it never saw the light of day, like so many others .
Traditions are to be respected, no doubt, but must we sacrifice living creatures?
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