Saturday 28 July 2012

No 10527, Saturday 28 Jul 12, Gridman

Watching the repeat telecast of the Olympics opening ceremony and since it's Gridman can do so with ease.

ACROSS
1   - A key copper’s assessment is precise (8) - ACCURATE {A}{C}{CU}{RATE}
5   - Forbidden old daughter is bad (2,4) - NO GOOD {NO GO}{O}{D}
10 - Football player finds mother dressed in sheets (7) - LINEMAN {LINE{MA}N}
11 - Roundabout Goan settlement, there’s herb (7) - OREGANO {O}{RE}{GOAN*}
12 - Father gets pure supplies for the poor person (6) - PAUPER {PA}{PURE*}
13 - Limit to one place social outings in the French surroundings (8) - LOCALISE {L{SOCIAL*}E}
15 - Look at the memo (4) - NOTE [DD]
16 - Pact Lolita broke — to give the finishing touch (2,3,2,3) - TO CAP IT ALL*
18 - Ghastly rounds hero performed (10) - HORRENDOUS*
20 - Capital rookie veterinarians have (4) - KIEV [T]
23 - Panelling Glasgow resident clamped onto wagon (8) - WAINSCOT {WAIN}{SCOT}
24 - Again narrate the story about the archer (6) - RETELL {RE}{TELL}
26 - One for swell treatment? (7) - ICEPACK [CD]
27 - Furiously use bids to settle down (7) - SUBSIDE*
28 - Like a lord perhaps, bird was in the front (6) - TITLED {TIT}{LED}
29 - Out of the blue girl leaves: magazine inserted bit (8) - FRAGMENT  {F(-ig+rag}RAGMENT} How does 'I' get deleted? (Addendum - {F(-irma+rag)RAGMENT - See comments)
DOWN
1   - A very light punishment but quite a handy one (1,4,2,3,5) - A SLAP ON THE WRIST [CD]
2   - Be in charge of show? (7) - CONDUCT [E]
3   - He frolics as Emperor loses capital and falls (6) - ROMPER eMPEROR*
4   - Smack fly moving up (4) - TANG <-
6   - What you do so you can eat some canned food (4,1,3) - OPEN A TIN [E]
7   - Instrument in a radio car in Ambala (7) - OCARINA [T]
8   - Try as hard as one can — in the evening? (2,4,5,4) - DO ONES LEVEL BEST [CD]
9   - What a cricketer would do after a snick (2,3,1,3) - GO FOR A RUN [GK]
14 - It is favourable to be in these of someone (4,5) - GOOD BOOKS [CD]
17 - Twist dupe’s ear in lobby? (8) - PERSUADE*
19 - Train me in manufacture of cloth (7) - RAIMENT*
21 - That is to say, accept Times’ cranky list (7) - ITEMISE {I{TIMES*}E}
22 - Insect that might give one a prick while sleeping (6) - BEDBUG [CD]

25 - Artist by the way exalts a chief (4) -  TSAR {TS}{AR}<-




14 comments:

  1. 29 - Out of the blue girl leaves: magazine inserted bit (8) - FRAGMENT {F(-ig+rag}RAGMENT} How does 'I' get deleted?

    the blue=firmament
    girl leaves= - irma
    mag=rag
    f(rag)ment

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  2. Opened the comments expecting Kishore to solve it "out of the blues" and I was not disappointed.
    A "nice" smooth flowing CW and I am so happy I was able to do it on par with Col. (timewise) except I needed help to get wainscot and of course did not have the anno for 29A.

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    1. Kishore

      Haven't we come across the word 'wainscot' in UK novels, including those of PGW and Agatha Christie? I don't think we would have ever heard it used in India.

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    2. Frankly, I did not recall coming across it in PGW, but on Googling both together, I got a reference.

      Maybe be we don't use it in India, since we hardly use panelling.

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  3. Thank you Col. for the link. I knew lineman only as an official and not a player and was wondering about it.

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    1. The official would be 'linesman' I believe, whether it is soccer or the game across the pond

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  4. You are right. I got confused.

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  5. I agree that we generally know the term 'linesman'. It means " in football, an official who marks the spot at which the ball goes into touch, rules when a player is offside, etc (officially assistant referee); in tennis, an official whose job is to watch a line to see on which side of it the ball falls, a line judge."

    For 'linesman' Chambers has 'a lineman'.

    It defines 'lineman' as 'a player in the line of scrimmage' (American football).

    BTW, linesmen are now known as 'assistant referees' as mentioned in a definition above.

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  6. Too many straightforwardly clued phrases today! :(

    In 1A, wouldn't the equivalent for assessment be RATING (be it the process of appraising [something] or the eventual decision reached by such an action)? I'm trying frame a sentence in which assessment can be replaced by rate, without changing the meaning.

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    1. Thesaurus.com (http://thesaurus.com/browse/assessment) gives rate as synonym when assessment is interpreted as a duty/levy.

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    2. Thanks. I must have missed that.

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  7. Shouldn't 9d
    What a cricketer would do after a snick
    be
    What a cricketer may do after a snick.

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    1. oops.. may should be replaced by might :)

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