Tuesday, 5 June 2012

No 10481, Tuesday 05 Jun 12, Scintillator

ACROSS
1   - Curry and rasam served with a bit of dal (6) - MADRAS {RASAM+D}*
4   - Backing timber company and trading yields a source of wealth… (8) - GOLCONDA (GOL<-}{CO}{AND*}
9   - … one lakh is returned to company making cloth (6) - CALICO {CAL1<-}{CO}
10 - Crazy Spooner says, “John, take your time…” (8) - ?O?L?L?Y (Addendum - DOOLALLY {D{OOL<-}ALLY} - See comments)
12 - A primarily vile commercial tax constrains a weaver (8) - AVADAVAT {A}{V}{AD}{A}{VAT}
13 - Spending time alone in a shelter (4-2) - LEAN-TO {T+ALONE}*
15 - Fail to see a mantra's charm (4) - OMIT {OM}{IT}
16 - City corporation registers a gastric complaint (5,5) - DELHI BELLY {DELHI} {BELLY}
19 - With prohibition aplenty, daughter's laid off due to off-shoring (10) - BANGALORED {BAN}{GALORE}{D}
20 - Lend a helping hand to sailor not on land (4) - ABET {AB}{ET}
23 - It could be farcical when my code is debugged (6) - COMEDY*
25 - Shroud PJ in mystery? Pants! (8) - JODHPURS*
27 - Down chips, simple (8) - CASHMERE {CASH}{MERE}
28 - Immature one had evolved to become an enlightened soul (6) - BUDDHA {BUD}{HAD*}
29 - English song about college stress (8) - ENCUMBER {E}{N{C}UMBER}
30 - Remained calm in conversation (6) - STAYED (~staid)
DOWN
1   - Often, having a party is quite some trouble (4,3) - MUCH ADO {MUCH} {A}{DO}
2   - Loyalist in black and white? (9) - DALMATIAN [CD]
3   - ”Curve versus time” on an inverse function (6) - ARCTAN {ARC}{T}{AN}
5   - An instrument of Anglo-Boer fundamentalists (4) - OBOE [T]
6   - Looked up inappropriate belly dance — not complete, not new (6,2) - CALLED BY {BELLY DAnCe}*
7   - Newton's only novel material (5) - NYLON {N}{ONLY*}
8   - Joe is in some female apparel (7) - A???O?Y (Addendum - ANYBODY {ANY}{BODY} - See comments)
11 - Derelict, as the Avon flows (4-3) - HAVE-NOT*
14 - Applaud Harris's opening encore that's incredible (5,2) - CHEER ON {H+ENCORE}*
17 - May start out adorably to huge you (6,3) - LABOUR DAY {ADORABLY+U}*
18 - Notice mother tasting a spice (8) - CARDAMOM {CARD}{A}{MOM}
19 - SP symbol near a CPI symbol, say (7) - BICYCLE (~by sickle)
21 - Did she wax eloquent on Baker Street? (7) - TUSSAUD [GK]
22 - Hanuman chiefly shielded by faith in Ram (6) - THRUST {T{H}RUST}
24 - Harmony set up in addition to saving lives (5) - MUSIC ? Anno pending (Addendum - {MU{SI}C}<- - See comments)
26 - Uncontrolled release (4) - FREE [DD]

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  1. Anonymous5 June 2012 at 08:43

    8 - Joe is in some female apparel (7) - A???O?Y

    ANYBODY, Joe is ref to unknown person, but not sure of the remaining anno

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    1. Anonymous5 June 2012 at 08:45

      I can expand it to

      some=any
      female apparel=body (old usage for bodice/bra)

      but still not sure, if this is what S intended

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    2. Chaturvasi5 June 2012 at 08:46

      some - ANY
      "a legless close-fitting garment fastening at the crotch" (BRB) - BODY

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    3. Anonymous5 June 2012 at 08:50

      I remember old Tamil movies referring to the bra as the 'paDi'...

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    4. Chaturvasi5 June 2012 at 08:51

      Before the bra became popular, women at least in south India used to wear an inner garment (beneath the blouse) much like the male sleeveless banian (made out of material known as 'gada') except that in length it was shorter than the blouse itself. If I remember right, this was known as 'body'. I thought it was a Tamil word.

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    5. Chaturvasi5 June 2012 at 08:54

      Kishore

      'bra' and 'body' are quite different.

      'body' is a piece of garment that is shapeless.

      As for 'bra', let me be silent.

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    6. Chaturvasi5 June 2012 at 08:59

      Tamil magazines used to have lots of silly jokes on 'body' in the sense that I have mentioned above and in the sense of 'corpse'.

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  2. SandhyaP5 June 2012 at 08:45

    10 - Crazy Spooner says, “John, take your time…” (8) - ?O?I?L??

    DOOLALLY (not sure of the anno)
    Meaning: crazy, insane

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    1. Anonymous5 June 2012 at 08:46

      John=Loo
      take your time= dally
      loo dally, spoonered= doo lally

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  3. C.G. BHARGAV5 June 2012 at 08:45

    Harmony is set up it should be. MU{IS}C<-

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    1. Anonymous5 June 2012 at 08:47

      'the saving lives' bit ?

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    2. Padmanabhan5 June 2012 at 09:59

      There is no 'is' in the clue!

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    3. VMA Nair5 June 2012 at 11:48

      set = sum
      set up = mus
      mus+insurance cost lol:-P

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    4. Scintillator5 June 2012 at 12:27

      Bhargav comes close.

      Harmony set up in addition to saving lives (5)

      in addition to - CUM (A cum B = A in addition to B)
      saving - container
      lives - IS

      {C{IS}UM} set up = MUSIC

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    5. VMA Nair5 June 2012 at 14:27

      Thanks S

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  4. Anonymous5 June 2012 at 08:48

    19 - With prohibition aplenty, daughter's laid off due to off-shoring (10) - BANGALORED {BAN}{GALORE}{D}

    one of the places which became a verb, like Shanghai.

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  5. SandhyaP5 June 2012 at 08:49

    @Kishore: Thanks for the anno :)

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  6. SandhyaP5 June 2012 at 09:02

    BODY: a woman's close-fitting one-piece garment for the torso (Freedict)

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  7. Chaturvasi5 June 2012 at 09:28

    17 - May start out adorably to huge you (6,3) - LABOUR DAY {ADORABLY+U}*

    It would appear that there is a printing mistake here!

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    1. Chaturvasi5 June 2012 at 09:32

      May start out adorably to huge you

      If we take May to be the name of a girl (who may conceivably start out adorably to hug you), doesn't grammar require 'starts out' rather than 'start out' - in which case the anagram fodder is affected.

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    2. Anonymous5 June 2012 at 11:59

      Also, huge or hug?

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    3. Scintillator5 June 2012 at 12:26

      Kishore: 'Hug' obviously; newspaper's error.

      CV Sir: Actually I had intended 'May' to be a modal verb and the subject to be absent. For example, "How will he please me on our date?" "Hmmm... (He) May start out adorably to hug you."

      Originally I thought of using "May I", but I for 1 at grid-level is fine, but at clue-level, it was a bit tacky, I thought :)

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  8. Scintillator5 June 2012 at 12:21

    The theme is of 9 Indian cities or places that have entered the English lexicon for different reasons (all in across clues, unfortunately). Especially I found the etymology of DOOLALLY to be very interesting.

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    1. Navneeth5 June 2012 at 16:16

      I'm surprised that the theme wasn't mentioned earlier, especially with its taking up nearly a quarter of the clues -- nicely done! I did not know this usage of 'Golconda' before. I thought 12A had something to do with Amaravat(i), and from there search suggestions helped me hone in on the bird. And DOOLALLY was the one I missed, although I suspected that it had something to do with the LOO.

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  9. Bhalchandra Pasupathy5 June 2012 at 19:56

    Didn't quite manage to finish today, was just not on the same wavelength, but quite happy that I did crack many.
    Kudos to those who got and also annotated Doolally, I think I cheerfully pass!

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    1. Navneeth5 June 2012 at 23:33

      I had difficulties too, initially, but somehow managed to get all but one of the answers.

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