Monday, 13 February 2012

No 10384, Monday 13 Feb 12, Sankalak

Photographs of S&B 4 and link to article which appeared in The HINDU are available at the THCC Families blog, link to which is available under 'LINKS' in the left hand side panel of this blog.
ACROSS
1   - Restoration of rights over a place to live in, accommodating 51 (14) - REHABILITATION {REHABI{LI}TATION}
8,12 - Closely associated worker, moonstruck, accepts first of girls (4,2,5) - HAND IN GLOVE {HAND} {IN {G{LOVE}
9   - Accused of crime and shown to have lost article (8) - INDICTED INDICaTED
11 - Overly praising and lauding a troop leader? Odd (9) - ADULATING {ADULA{T}ING*}
12See 8
13 - Worship of Kailasnath, say (7) - SAIVISM
15 - The highest, with but one change, found on a ship (7) - TOPMAST TOPM(-o+a)AST
17 - Experience being part of a sounder government (7) - UNDERGO [T]
19 - Young Herbert, he started dozing, was given a place to sleep (7) - BERTHED {BERT}{HE}{D}
21 - Growth provided backing by conservative American (5) - FICUS {FI<-}{C}{US}
23 - Bears and rams, let loose, cause discomfiture (9) - EMBARRASS*
25 - To restrict the supply of aluminium is logical (8) - RATIONAL {RATION}{AL}
26 - Revere a district officer with anger (6) - ADMIRE {A}{DM}{IRE}
27 - Shatter log to outdo the previous best (5,3,6) - BREAK THE RECORD {BREAK} {THE RECORD}
DOWN
1   - Once again warms up oriental hearts somehow (7) - REHEATS {E+HEARTS}*
2   - A possible follower of 13 (5) - HINDU [CD]
3   - Army officer to rebuild air bridge (9) - BRIGADIER*
4   - Today after dusk (7) - TONIGHT [CD]
5   - Making a connection and drawing level (5) - TYING [DD]
6   - Specialist healer covers rising versifiers with promise (9) - OSTEOPATH {O{STEOP<-}ATH}
7   - Arrival of notice on opening (6) - ADVENT {AD}{VENT}
10 - Photographic material used in '49 carried by finance minister (4) - FILM {F{IL}M}
14 - A sign for changing acid into radical initially (9) - INDICATOR {ACID+INTO}*{R}
16 - Separate and free good, English bird (9) - PARTRIDGE {PART}{RID}{G}{E}
17 - Spread out a French material, bit of lame (6) - UNFURL {UN}{FUR}{L}
18 - Finished with performance? Ham up (7) - OVERACT {OVER}{ACT}
19 - Childish chap, sailor caught in the limits of bureaucracy (4) - BABY {B{AB}Y}
20 - Go down and play scene in Indian TV (7) - DESCEND {D{SCENE*}D}
22 - Pore found in leaf of luscious tomato (5) - STOMA [T]
24 - A fighter beginning to outdo friend (5) - AMIGO {A}{MIG}{O}

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21 comments:

  1. Suresh13 February 2012 at 10:06

    Another fitness crossword from Sankalak:))

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  2. Padmanabhan13 February 2012 at 10:29

    Missed you at the Chennai meet,Suresh.

    Another smooth flowing enjoyable typical Sankalak CW. Loved 6D & 10D.

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  3. Chaturvasi13 February 2012 at 10:38

    I believe the Roman numeral for 49 is XLIX.
    Crossword setters do use IC for 99 but it is considered inexact.

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    1. Col_Gopinath13 February 2012 at 11:55

      We had a discussion on 49 and 99 some time ago if I remember right

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    2. Chaturvasi13 February 2012 at 13:30

      Really?

      IC for 99 has been used by Gridman once or twice. (He may have got wiser now!) Its use was inaccurate, but you can't use XCIX instead!

      IC for 99 is indeed recorded in a crossword dictionary but crossword editors disallow its usage, whatever authority you try to cite.

      IC for 99 I have definitely seen used in some lesser-known non-mainstream UK newspaper crosswords bit not IL for 49. Have you?

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    3. Suresh13 February 2012 at 13:31

      We did have a discussion and the setter was you know who. The discussion was also on similar lines.

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    4. Bhavan13 February 2012 at 13:41

      It is wrong as per the roman numeral technical spec, but it isn't if you look at it along the lines of IX (nine) is one less than X (ten) - so why not IL or IC.

      http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2010/06/roman-numerals.html

      I agree with veer when he says IL for 49 and IC for 99 can be taken as a bit of cryptic crossword license.

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  4. Anonymous13 February 2012 at 14:07

    Chaturvais@12:00AM (???)
    [Y]ou can't use XCIX

    You can, standing upside down with determination. ;-)

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  5. Col_Gopinath13 February 2012 at 17:05

    This timeline in the comments is a pain. I've tried all I can but I can't get it back to IST!!

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    1. David Jayaprakash John13 February 2012 at 22:08

      Col,

      I've sent you the steps to change the time zone by email. Not sure if you've already tried it.

      Please let me know either ways. There should be a way out.

      Regards,
      David

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    2. Deepak Gopinath13 February 2012 at 23:03

      The time zone setting in the blog is IST, time of publication shows up correctly. It is only the time stamp with each comment which is showing a different time.
      When I check the comments after going to 'Comments' under 'Design' each comment is showing the right time over there!!

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  6. Deepak Gopinath13 February 2012 at 18:24

    The comments timeline is 13 1/2 hours behind, West Coast US time?

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  7. Padmanabhan13 February 2012 at 19:01

    Yes, it is West coast U.S.time, 4 hours behind East coast time.

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  8. Padmanabhan13 February 2012 at 19:07

    Thank you all for the clarification on Roman numerals. Logically,I was accepting IL as 49 & IC as 99. maybe, as Bhavan says,let us call it the cryptic part.

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  9. Appu13 February 2012 at 20:31

    Hi...been a regular follower of this blog, but never got to comment! Jumping on one! Isn't a pore in the leaf called 'stomata'?

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    1. Col_Gopinath13 February 2012 at 21:00

      Appu,

      Stomata is plural of Stoma. See the link over the word Stoma in the main post

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    2. Appu14 February 2012 at 12:11

      Thank you for the clarification! I missed the link :)

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  10. Krishnan13 February 2012 at 21:05

    Appu: Plural of stoma is stomata.

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  11. David Jayaprakash John13 February 2012 at 22:10

    17d reminds me of the discussion we had on Saturday w.r.t 'a French' translating to 'un'

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  12. Deepak Gopinath13 February 2012 at 23:21

    Checked the Blogger Help forum. The incorrect Time stamp with comments, non-availability of 'Delete' and 'Quick edit' buttons appear to be bugs in their system. Hope it gets sorted out soon

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