Friday, 21 September 2012

No.10574, Friday 21 Sep 12, Sankalak

Sankalak, true to his style, finishes this run with a puzzle that is easy to unravel and enjoyable at the same time. A lot of clues and surfaces to appreciate, especially 22A, 30A, 32A , 2D, 4D, 6D, 9D,23D but my favourite is 20D

 ACROSS
1 Business representative to work for agreement (7) COMPACT (CO + MP + ACT)
5 Flaccid alien, one that likes to stick to others (6) LIMPET (LIMP + ET)
11 Nobody goes back after unknown gas (5) XENON (X + NONE<=)
12 Chemical change to produce a toxin, I do suspect (9) OXIDATION (A TOXIN I DO)*
13 Object — to contain impetuous hiding (9) THRASHING (THING outside RASH)
14 Angry deserter held in the centre of pier (5) IRATE (RAT inside pIEr)
15 Name a Turkish chief or an Indian (4) NAGA (N + AGA)
17 Supporter puts paid to great old tales (7) LEGENDS (LEG + ENDS)
21 Cup, seal broken, found in medicine holder (7) CAPSULE (CUP SEAL)*
22 Carriage for child artist in the afternoon (4) PRAM (RA inside PM)
26 Many-headed creature, hardy variety (5) HYDRA (HARDY)*
27 Emotion-packed play in a male dorm fails (9) MELODRAMA (A MALE DORM)*
29 Xerox, say (9) PHOTOSTAT (E)
30 Some Americans visiting Spain casually (5) INCAS (T)
31 Gave a dirty look, making old general flushed (6) LEERED (LEE + RED)
32 Tom the plagiarist? (7) COPYCAT (CD)

DOWN
2 Man with something new, different, in the operating room (5) OWNER (NEW* inside OR)
3 Impose penalty for using force around North India (6) PUNISH (PUSH outside NI)
4 A snack, for one in the kitchen, that is (6) COOKIE (COOK + IE)
6 Head of government in media manoeuvre? That can be visualised (8) IMAGINED (G IN MEDIA)*
7 Play around but also gratify a desire to suppress beginnings of hurtful, immoral longing (9) PHILANDER (PANDER outside H I L)
8 Metal, German article that can be used to light fires (6) TINDER (TIN + DER)
9 Going out is titillating if not caught inside (7) EXITING (EXcITING)
10 Butterfly with a bit of curled hair! (7) RINGLET (DD)
16 Change organised to get imposing (9) GRANDIOSE (ORGANISED)*
18 Look out in flight for a cut of veal (8) ESCALOPE (LO inside ESCAPE)
19 Its change bodes ill for humanity (7) CLIMATE (CD)
20 My bases get shifted for a mission abroad (7) EMBASSY (MY BASES)*
23 Church primate included in honour list initially (6) CHAPEL (APE inside CH, L)
24 Drunken lawyer with a German following (6) BLOTTO (BL + OTTO)
25 A strange thing, not even unknown, about information technology (6) ODDITY (ODD + Y outside IT)
28 A volume by artist in African city (5) ACCRA (A + CC + RA)

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32 comments:

  1. Anonymous21 September 2012 at 08:32

    Nice puzzle.

    Great illustration for photostat, Bhavan. I especially liked the hiding place for the Top Secret message.

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  2. Deepak Gopinath21 September 2012 at 08:34

    Before we proceed further three cheers to Arden for yesterdays Jumbo special

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  3. Anonymous21 September 2012 at 08:39

    8d reminded me of

    http://hca.gilead.org.il/tinderbx.html

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  4. Vasu21 September 2012 at 09:35

    23 D - Church primate included in honour list initially (6) CHAPEL (APE inside CH, L)

    Is Church the definition? Is it doing double duty (CH)in the answer?

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    1. Anonymous21 September 2012 at 09:39

      CH stands for honour. See the link provided! :)

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  5. Padmanabhan21 September 2012 at 10:01

    CH for companion of Honour was new to me, though I was able to fill in. Thank you Bhavan for providing the link.

    Joining the three cheers to make it many for Arden for the most enjoyable Jumbo special.

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  6. Padmanabhan21 September 2012 at 10:04

    Looks like Sankalak finished in style raising the bar a little today. I found the left half a little tricky & difficult, enjoyable all the same.
    26A- hardy made me think and look for something connected to Thomas Hardy ! If an anagram could be concealed well, this is it.

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    1. VJ21 September 2012 at 10:29

      In the clue, Hardy's H is not capitalized. So it's unlikely to be connected to Thomas Hardy.

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    2. Bhavan21 September 2012 at 10:53

      I just took hardy as meaning strong/tough which of course goes with the description of the creature

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  7. Padmanabhan21 September 2012 at 10:47

    Yes, I should have been more observant !

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  8. Unknown21 September 2012 at 13:56

    How You friends decipher length of a setter? May be i miss something.

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  9. Bhalchandra Pasupathy21 September 2012 at 14:09

    Another entertaining one. The style is so well liked and not without reason. The giveaways are of course the straightforward definitions

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  10. Padmanabhan21 September 2012 at 14:10

    Fortunately the print edition of Chennai carried the correct 10574 and only that. So no problem for me. I believe there was a print edition yesterday but we did not get it. It must have carried 10573.

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  11. Unknown21 September 2012 at 14:28

    Sankalak, as always, fun to solve! 7D was my favourite to-day. As was 32A.
    Who will be the setter tomorrow? Any guesses? Or do you have it worked out?

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  12. Vasu21 September 2012 at 15:18

    sreelakshmi9:39 AM GMT+05:30
    CH stands for honour. See the link provided! :)

    Thanks for the clarification

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  13. RameshJ21 September 2012 at 16:26

    Enjoyed doing the 10573 & 10574 today. Both of them were

    Board a train with alien hovering around a side providing amusement (12).

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    1. VP21 September 2012 at 16:54

      {ENT {E {R} T} AINING} ...

      Enjoyed Sankalak's run as usual and Arden's Jumbo Special from yesterday (once again many thanks to Arden and Col for providing the special)

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    2. Deepak Gopinath21 September 2012 at 21:51

      Where's the 'R' of ENTRAINING ?

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    3. RameshJ21 September 2012 at 22:00

      ET is around R ( the R that came from En-training)

      perhaps the clue
      Board a train with alien hovering around the side providing amusement (12)
      would have been clearer

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    4. VMA Nair21 September 2012 at 22:43

      Side always leads to L or R :-P

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    5. RameshJ21 September 2012 at 23:01

      May be the next time I should use side for xi or team

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  14. Richard21 September 2012 at 16:40

    Sad news (posted at 4-40 pm)

    Gopalan Kasturi (87), who had served for long 25 years (1965-1991) as editor of The Hindu, passed away at his residence on Kasturi Ranga Road in Chennai around 2 am on Friday, Sep 21.

    He had contributed significantly and substantially to the growth and modernization of the newspaper. He is survived by wife Kamala Kasturi, sons K Balaji, K Venugopal, daughter Laxmi Srinath, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

    He died a day after the newspaper celebrated its 134th birthday on Sep 20. His father Kasturi Srinivasan also had served as editor from 1934 to 1959.

    As a member of the THCC family, I convey my condolences to the bereaved family.

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  15. raju umamaheswar21 September 2012 at 20:48

    Had a great time with CV sir who came visiting me in CBE. We chatted and exchanged notes on crosswords and didn't know how two hours swept by. My only disappointment was that he refused to join us for lunch despite Sapna and I repeatedly requested him.

    We parted company with me wiser having been given an insight as to how the Editors of newspapers handled letters and articles sent to them.

    Thanks CV sir; come again but next time keep your promise to join us for lunch. One more member of the THCCFamily got a face put to his name !!

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  16. raju umamaheswar21 September 2012 at 23:16

    have sent by email.

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deepakgita@gmail.com

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