Tuesday, 26 June 2012

No.10499, Tuesday 26 Jun 12, Gridman

Typical Gridman. Entertaining but not too hard. Some surfaces like 5A, 14A, 2D, 3D were quite good. The very smooth 4D was my CoD.
ACROSS
1 International show certain to bring revelation (8) EXPOSURE (EXPO + SURE)


5 Bill after bill I stuck on a tree (6) ACACIA (AC + AC + I + A)
9 Grief dispelled over act in the hearth (7) FIREDOG (GRIEF* around DO)
10 Trying time with a musician (7) TASTING  (T + A + STING)
11 Oops! Takes go haywire, as one might say (2,2,5) SO,TO,SPEAK  (OOPS TAKES)*
12 Hot glower from house electee losing capital (5) EMBER  (mEMBER)
13 Creepy thing six nearly catch (4) VINE  (VI + NEt)

14 People who mix well could also be troublemakers (9) AGITATORS (DD)
17 Confused about being awash at the highest (2,4,3) AT, FULL, SEA (AT SEA around FULL)
19 Water initially all quarters utilised abundantly (4) AQUA (acrostic)
23 Bumpkin's shout almost drowns acceptance (5) YOKEL (Y(OK)ELl)
24 Making it big by learning afresh to possess gravity (9) ENLARGING (LEARNING* around G)
25 Quite! Old star's performance extremely lazy! (7) EXACTLY (EX + ACT + LazY)
26 What one has on when one is nude (7) NOTHING (CD)
27 Importance for a short while? (6) MOMENT (DD)
28 Fellow leasers unusually venturesome (8) FEARLESS (F + LEASERS*)

DOWN
1 Oriental following us to vie madly in being big-mouthed (8) EFFUSIVE (E + FF + US + VIE*)
2 Morally strict girl trapped in double entendre (7) PURITAN (RITA inside PUN)

3 Sheer cruelty of dasis' wicked master (6) SADISM  (DASIS* + M)
4 Regularly goes around to see group of disreputable people (6,7) ROGUES,GALLERY (REGULARLY GOES)*


6 Endless lawsuit on Gridman's briefcase? (8) CASSETTE (CASe + SETTEr) The "on" feels intrusive for tail deletion to be applied to two words
7 Note agile socialite wannabe (7) CLIMBER (C + LIMBER)
8 Indication is royal has lost way online (6) AUGURY (AUGUst + RY)
10 What a foolhardy swimmer might do? (4,3,6) TAKE,THE, PLUNGE (CD)
15 Report: "Type of investor losing pounds allowed entry" (8) BULLETIN (BULl + LET IN)
16 Graduate on good river loses new bundles (8) BAGGAGES (BA + G + GAnGES)
18 What you should do before you shoot - make it a different one! (4,3) TAKE,AIM (MAKE IT A)*
20 Five in last institute offer specific for malaria (7) QUININE (QUIN + IN + E) Is quin five or one in five?
21 Some school over which Alyce ummed and ahed (6) LYCEUM (T)
22 Author is more correct - if only you hear (6) WRITER (~righter)

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21 comments:

  1. Anonymous26 June 2012 at 08:33

    Was reminded of Julius Ceasar, where Brutus uses the phrase 'at full seá'

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  2. Anonymous26 June 2012 at 08:40

    Enjoyed both the cartoons, especially the one where Superman is accused of being Flash Gordon.

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  3. Chaturvasi26 June 2012 at 08:50

    Re the query at 6d, there might be an acceptable explanation!

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  4. Chaturvasi26 June 2012 at 08:55

    Quin is short for 'quintuplet'.

    BRB meaning for Q is 'a set of five'; 'one of five'.

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  5. Suresh26 June 2012 at 09:35

    6 Endless lawsuit on Gridman's briefcase? (8) CASSETTE (CASe + SETTEr) The "on" feels intrusive for tail deletion to be applied to two words

    Deletion indicator for Setter is Brief, and Case is the def.

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    1. Suresh26 June 2012 at 09:36

      Ah! CV has already hinted at it, I notice.

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    2. Chaturvasi26 June 2012 at 09:37

      That's it, Suresh!

      'Case' is more apt def for 'cassette'.

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    3. Anonymous26 June 2012 at 10:03

      CV has lured most of us into wondering, at least for the moment, how briefcase could be casette. And then the brief penny dropped.

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    4. Bhavan26 June 2012 at 11:26

      Should have seen that. Thanks Suresh.

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  6. Chaturvasi26 June 2012 at 10:23

    At left, up in the cloud, Gridman is fast approaching NJ.

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    1. Suresh26 June 2012 at 11:20

      In quantity, not in quality we hope

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    2. Padmanabhan26 June 2012 at 15:06

      If possible, please pass NJ without being on the same score !

      Enjoyed 'briefcase' and the comments on it.

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    3. Navneeth26 June 2012 at 17:06

      The 'online' in 8D brought back memories.

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  7. Bhalchandra Pasupathy26 June 2012 at 10:50

    Interesting today. Though I feel some surfaces could be smoother. And why 'foolhardy' in 10D, not needed? (or perhaps occupants of 10D are indeed foolhardy!!)

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    1. Navneeth26 June 2012 at 17:08

      I agree with your comment on 10D.

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    2. Chaturvasi26 June 2012 at 18:08

      TAKE THE PLUNGE any swimmer would - and does. It is a straightforward action. Any non-swimmer when he doesn't exercise due caution, when he is ready to take risks, when he is foolhardy would TAKE THE PLUNGE.
      So perhaps 'foolhardy' does have a role to play in that clue.

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    3. Anonymous26 June 2012 at 19:13

      As any married man who has taken the plunge would vouch for, it was certainly foolhardy of him to have jumped off the dock.

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    4. Navneeth26 June 2012 at 19:19

      The issue I have, and perhaps Bhala too, is that taking a plunge need not necessarily equate to being foolhardy. I see it as a making a decision on an issue which has occupied one's thoughts for a while. It of course could involve elements of risk, but then there are calculated risks too. IMHO, a suitable answer to your clue/question, disregarding the enumeration and grid structure for a moment, would be 'go off the deep end'.

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  8. Suresh26 June 2012 at 15:09

    Just noticed the great definition of Puritan, Bhavan. Good one

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  9. Suresh26 June 2012 at 21:13

    Agree with Navneeth et al re. the meaning of taking the plunge. It is something which is generally not used for foolhardy acts, but for taking hard decisions.

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