Monday, 6 August 2012

No 10534, Monday 06 Aug 12, Arden

11A from yesterday continues...

ACROSS
1   - For sending eggs up with a box holding them, one may delay (13) - PROCRATSTINATE {PRO}{CRA{STIN<-}ATE}
10 - Go around with a notice around mid-afternoon (5) - ORBIT {O{R}BIT}
11 - Phosphorus has the scope to turn into a Bromide (9) - PLATITUDE {P}{LATITUDE}
12 - He gets to transform entire picture, in short (9) - RECIPIENT {ENTIRE+PIC}*
13 - One to profit repeatedly (5) - AGAIN {A}{GAIN}
14 - Study target country (7) - DENMARK {DEN}{MARK}
16 - Finish with major one furthest away (7) - ENDMOST {END}{MOST}
18 - One claims creation of a religion (7) - ISLAMIC {1}{CLAIMS*}
20 - The group’s got a marketing concept which is considered iffy (7) - SUSPECT {S{USP}ECT}
22 - It is silly to get in the van ticketless (5) - ANTIC [T]
24 - Talk of space in a luxury accommodation (9) - STATEROOM {STATE}{ROOM}
26 - Preserve animal without disease, mostly (9) - MARMALADE {MAR{MALADy}E} Part of my breakfast menu!!
27 - Foreigner has a right (5) - ALIEN {A}{LIEN}
28 - Imam converted perhaps to highlight a quotation (8,5) - INVERTED COMMA*
DOWN
2   - Difficulty with graphic representation would be a point of no return (7) - RUBICON {RUB}{ICON}
3   - Costly map prepared being part of a cell (9) - CYTOPLASM*
4   - Enough to keep some cops in drink (5) - AMPLE {A{MP}LE}
5   - Initially rechargeable energy storage system follows a characteristic, which she betrays (9) - TRAITRESS {TRAIT}{R}{E}{S}{S}
6   - Money from thin air? A joke! (5) - NAIRA [T]
7   - A business travel in front of a bird (7) - TOURACO {TOUR}{A}{CO}
8   - Card: A misnomer, perhaps for a fellow traveller (7-2-4) - COMRADE-IN-ARMS*
9   - To get someone back on the job, have control over accounts (13) - REINSTATEMENT {REIN}{STATEMENT}
15 - Attacks loose woman to give impetus (4-5) - KICK-START {KICK-S}{TART}
17 - For some French, each trouble is criminal (9) - DESPERADO {DES}{PER}{ADO}
19 - Learn to adjust in future (5,2) - LATER ON*
21 - More will have sit in, over depicting passion (7) - EROTISM {ERO{TIS}M}<-
23 - Stretch one’s neck to see the bird (5) - CRANE [DD]
25 - Change exactly at noon (5) - AMEND {AM}{END}




27 comments:

  1. 17d, the recently newsworthy Antonio Banderas (due to his cavorting with Ms Sherawat at Cannes) has sung the title song (also called El Mariachi), of a movie of this name, which is presently my ring tone:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtxDvQ1gnBQ

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  2. Felt extremely happy to have almost completed a very interesting puzzle- I could not get 7D, a new (at least to me) bird.
    Also, I had my doubts about 'platitude' since I could not connect to a bromide.

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  3. I was under the impression that traitor is a common gender word.

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    1. Seeing that the paper uses 'actor' for 'actress' I am not surprised that you were under that impression.

      Even 'testator' has a feminine form.

      But the trend nowadays is to hide the feminine form of words though the feminine form itself may not be hidden appropriately.

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  4. I like Arden and Sankalak's difficulty level. It's a pleasure to solve.

    @Kishore, I hope you've seen El Mariachi. It's a classic isn't it? I totally liked the style. Brilliant work.

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    1. Oh, I have ;-)

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    2. +1 for the comment about Arden and Sankalak's puzzles

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    3. +2

      Lovely one again today. But just as a matter of curiosity, isn't 28A always used in the plural?

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  5. Deepak

    Your mention of part of your breakfast menu takes me back to the fifties when we were living with our father wherever he was posted as an IAF officer.

    We were children. In Madras living with our grandparents we may not have had processed foods - jams, squashes, corn flakes, oats, cream biscuits and such other things. At that time Madras may have had these items but in select outlets such as Spencer's to which we would have had no chance of going. The 'Shastri kadai' right opposite our grandfather's house stocked only 'maligai' and not canned items.

    For us children the package brought by the bearer from the office canteen had some veritable treats.

    Now a swank supermarket in the very place the Shastri kadai stood stocks a bewildering variety of the very same items mentioned above.

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  6. My problem with BSNL Broadband persists.

    Is there any visitor to my blog who is from Bangalore and is using a BSNL Broadband connection? If so are you having any problem in accessing my blog page?

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    1. I use BSNL broadband and have faced no issue.

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    2. Remember our earlier discussion on BSNL - Boringly Slow Network Line?

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  7. CV@ 09.19-
    'testatrix' is the feminine form-am I right?

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    1. What is the masculine form of Beatrix?

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    2. Beatnik?

      In that case what would be the feminine form of Asterix?

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  8. Question in response to a question? I don't think it is the feminine form of any word. It sounds like the name of a girl. A googly?

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  9. dear deepak,
    i also use BSNL broadband. i experienced the same problem for three days lat week.
    krishnamurthy.
    reg. S&B i had informed bhargav i will be attending.
    iam leaving dor madurai on 11th. sorry to miss meeting fiends.

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    1. Krishnamurthy,

      I am confused, Bhargav's comment at 10:17 this morning on the S&B post says you are coming. Your comment here at 11:54 says you are not?

      Please clarify.

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    2. How rightly he labels us ;-)

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  10. Mrs PP

    Swearing by my Chambers, 'fiend' has the sense of 'devotee, addict'. We, members of this forum, are all fiends!

    We are friends but unrightfully.

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  11. Used to reading every letter of all clues, we have started minding the 'R's !!

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  12. Another good one from Arden

    Today's' crossword was :

    Unpaid position is back in the pavilion first (11)

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