Saturday, 3 December 2011

No 10325, Saturday 03 Dec 11, Mover

ACROSS
1   - Pupil could be teacher's favourite (5,2,3,3) - APPLE OF THE EYE [CD]
10 - Melancholy feelings for some butterflies (5) - BLUES [DD]
11 - Necessary part, Bilbao got resettled (9) - OBBLIGATO*
12 - Pet mice, in other words, could be of interest to a horologer (4-5) - TIME-PIECE*
13 - Pointless dissertations for the ones here (5) - THEME {THEM}{E} (Addendum - THESE THESEs - See comments)
14 - Mesh realising a profit from fishing? (7) - NETTING [DD]
16 - A musical group playing with lack of restraint (7) - ABANDON {A}{BAND}{ON}
18 - Greek courtesan working the area (7) - HETAERA*
20 - Decapitated apostles may be headless (7) - TOPLESS aPOSTLES*
22 - Alarm temptress (5) - SIREN [DD]
24 - Headless, will he somehow halt diseased condition? (3-6) - ILL-HEALTH {wILL}-{HE}{HALT*}
26 - Cloth Dean tailored for athletic event (10) - DECATHLON*
27 - Unfair Ernest concealed a clotheshorse (5) - AIRER [T]
28 - This British crossword compiler is a dog! (7,6) - ENGLISH SETTER {ENGLISH} {SETTER}
DOWN
2   - Drop straight down for choice weather (7) - PLUMMET {PLUM}{MET}
3   - Right tie-clip could give you marketing information of value (4-5) - LIST-PRICE {R+TIE-CLIPS}* Typo for 'tie-clips'?
4   - Three ducks go astray for invigorating fresh air (5) - OZONE Anno pending (Addendum - 3O to O3 - See comments)
5   - Let basalt yield seasoning (5,4) - TABLE SALT*
6   - Drive out strange civet (5) - EVICT*
7   - Yearned badly for 31st December (4-3) - YEAR-END*
8   - Deviant idiots behind sexual indiscretion (1,3,2,3,4) - A BIT ON THE SIDE Anno pending
9   - Suffer wardrobe theft or gambling mishap? (4,4,5) - LOSE ONES SHIRT [DD]
15 - Maybe the loud gal is Lily (9) - GLADIOLUS*
17 - Don't upset this, but place trap cunningly (9) - APPLECART*
19 - Flapping curtain for a red dye (7) - TURACIN*
21 - Increase cameraman's prospects? (7) - ENLARGE [CD]
23 - South African region of birth (5) - NATAL [DD]
25 - Frankfurters, for example, found on the golf course (5) - LINKS [DD]

GRID


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22 comments:

  1. Bhavan3 December 2011 at 08:40

    4 - Three ducks go astray for invigorating fresh air (5) - OZONE Anno pending

    Three ducks = 3 O
    Go astray = O3 = Ozone ?

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  2. Bhavan3 December 2011 at 08:42

    I'd say this puzzle has too many anagrams

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  3. Anonymous3 December 2011 at 08:45

    Oz 1 solved the ozone problem!

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  4. Veena3 December 2011 at 09:14

    13A Pointless dissertations for the ones here (5)
    I thought this was THESE (THESES minus S). Any thoughts?

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  5. Anonymous3 December 2011 at 09:34

    VeeVen, I agree with you. That is what I filled up.

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  6. Bhavan3 December 2011 at 09:40

    I'm with them (v,k) on these

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  7. Col_Gopinath3 December 2011 at 09:43

    Bhavan @ 8:42,

    Mover's apple of the eye - Anagrams

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  8. Col_Gopinath3 December 2011 at 09:43

    Thanks Veeven

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  9. Bhavan3 December 2011 at 09:45

    @Colonel, he is just living up to his name then?

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  10. Padmanabhan3 December 2011 at 09:47

    I am glad I got 'these'!

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  11. Padmanabhan3 December 2011 at 09:51

    Grat Bhavan- for O 3. They say O podu for appreciation,right? Though I filled in ozone, I could not get the anno.
    What is the connection between links & Frankfurter?

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  12. Padmanabhan3 December 2011 at 09:55

    17D- Applecart-
    In today's Guardian quick ( published in Chennai Chronicle), the clue is "Fruit carrier often upset"

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  13. Padmanabhan3 December 2011 at 09:56

    Sounds more cryptic?

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  14. Krishnan3 December 2011 at 10:00

    Dear Padmanabhan, this is what I see as definition of frankfurter: A smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork made in long reddish links.

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  15. Venkatesh3 December 2011 at 10:10

    8 - Deviant idiots behind sexual indiscretion (1,3,2,3,4) - A BIT ON THE SIDE Anno pending

    Deviant is AnagrInd
    Fodder is IDIOTS+BENEATH (behind)
    Defn: sexual indiscretion A BIT ON THE SIDE*

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  16. Bhavan3 December 2011 at 10:21

    @SR good spot. Sadly that takes the indirect anagram count for the puzzle to 3.

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  17. Padmanabhan3 December 2011 at 11:31

    Thank you so much for the clarification Krishnan.

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  18. Bhalchandra Pasupathy3 December 2011 at 12:43

    Overall good one I think. Anybody notice that 26A is indicated as 10 letters but is actually only 9?

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  19. Anonymous3 December 2011 at 20:06

    I don't understand the connection between "invigorating fresh air" and OZONE. It's actually toxic to inhale!

    Bhala,
    I did.

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  20. veer3 December 2011 at 20:12

    Don't think Mover's puzzles can be called cryptic crosswords - they are quiptics if anything. Mover's clues are very simplistic and have almost no element of misdirection or humor or superior wordplay penny drop moments that characterize the clues of our other friends like Sankalak, Gridman, Buzzer or Scintillator etc. Hopefully Mover works on polishing his craft to better humor his band of solvers and watch out for the many pitfalls that lie for setters like wrong wordplay, indirects, poor homophones etc..

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  21. Anonymous3 December 2011 at 20:47

    I don't understand the connection between "invigorating fresh air" and ozone. The latter is toxic when inhaled!

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  22. Bhavan4 December 2011 at 04:26

    @navneeth from Chambers : Ozone (n) Brit. informal fresh invigorating air, especially that blowing on to the shore from the sea.

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