Saturday 19 November 2011

No 10313, Saturday 19 Nov 11, M Manna

ACROSS
1   - The weather is really shocking (8,5) - ELECTRIC STORM [CD]
8   - Encourage the production of meat in a broadcast (7) - ANIMATE*
9   - Rail union celebrate work of tenders (7) - NURSING {NUR}{SING}
11 - Really good guy, we hear, as president (6) - TRUMAN (~true){TRU}{MAN}
13 - Australian brewers profess confidence in the evangelical Graham (8) - BILLYCAN {BILLY}{CAN}
15 - Steward has to veer towards Englishman (5) - REEVE {REEV*}{E}
16 - The person he favours is sure to get cross (7) - ELECTOR [CD]
18 - Deep in the river it causes a vessel to leak (3,4) - POT HOLE
19 - Scottish son of the house is extremely virile (5) - MACHO {MAC}{HO}
21 - Protected with a most widely used metal (8) - IRONCLAD [CD]
23 - Gathering of former students (6) - ALUMNI [E]
25 - Turn in a tailless bird in Africa (7) - NAIROBI {NAI*}{ROBIn}
26 - Starting to develop northern climb (7) - NASCENT {N}{ASCENT}
28 - Sibyl gives vast sum to cashier (7,6) - FORTUNE TELLER {FORTUNE}{TELLER}
DOWN
2   - A garland certain to be enjoyed by those on holiday (7) - LEISURE {LEI}{SURE}
3   - Initially, company possibly dealing with intelligence (1,1,1) - C I A [CD]
4   - A gold bearing vein (4) - REEF [CD]
5   - May I not put pressure on this kind of bridge? (10) - CANTILEVER {CAN'T}{I}{LEVER}
6   - The left started riot in West Australian province (5) - TIROL {TIRO*}{L} Australia??? It should be Austria!!
7   - A self-propelled wheeled carriage on track (7) - RAILCAR [E]
8   - Tolerant, in a strange way, of regular swaps (11) - ALTERNATION*
10 - One who studies descent from egoist angle, oddly (11) - GENEALOGIST*
12 - Later became wide awake and watchful (5) - ALERT*
14 - Wrongly coordinate the colour scheme (10) - DECORATION*
17 - Language of many in the end (5) - TAMIL {TA{M}IL}
18 - So six in favour to induce a condition in the deed (7) - PROVISO {PRO}{VI}{SO}
20 - Met to cope assorted way to contend for the prize (7) - COMPETE {MET+COPE}*
22 - Having power, hit with great force (5) - CLOUT [DD]
24 - Draw together (4) - KNIT [CD]
27 - An old French coin (3) - SOL [E]



10 comments:

  1. It looks like Australia from 13a found its way into 6d.

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  2. 18 - Deep in the river // it causes a vessel to leak (3,4) - POT HOLE

    D&CD

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  3. Reg: 18D, the answer and anno is clear, I just have a question on the clue construction.

    If I read the charade in linear fashion, it yields {SO} {VI} {PRO}. My question is regarding the component in the clue that tells us to swap PRO and SO (OR) read it in a different order. Does the word "induce" suffice ?

    I always had thought if we have to change order, the setter would use words like "after", "followed by" etc ...

    Not sure what I am missing.

    Thanks.

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  4. Maybe the word should be introduce instead of induce

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  5. VP & Suresh,

    Maybe MM intended to use 'induce' as an AInd in which case the anno would be

    So = SO
    six = = VI
    in favour = PRO
    to induce = AInd
    a condition in the deed = Definition = PROVISO*

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  6. Thank you Kishore for yesterday's clarification of ness & cape.

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  8. Paddy, you are a witcape to my helpfulcape.

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  9. Deepak.@14:17. Maybe

    But after the Australia muddle I like my theory better. Besides Introduce improves the surface reading greatly.

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  10. Thanks Bhavan, for your clarification for yesterday's ROSTRUM.

    I have almost stopped referring to dictionaries and reference books. In fact, some new phrases that crop up occasionally in the Hindu, I add on to my my Book of Phrases or in a separate Note Book that I maintain. That's the marvel of cryptic crosswords. Each day, one learns and finds new lights.

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