Saturday 6 October 2012

No 10587, Saturday 06 Oct 12, Arden

Across
9 & 10 ac. - A case of a tour operator’s vacation, perhaps (7,7) - BUSMANS  HOLIDAY [CD]
10 - See 9 ac.
11 - Offence you hear makes doctor angry (7) - UMBRAGE {U}{MB}{RAGE}
12 - Sick chasing a grown-up girl (7) - ABIGAIL {A}{BIG}{AIL}
13 - Boy in the moving train has the canvas (9) - TARPAULIN {TAR{PAUL}IN*}
15 - Old hunter given an option of leading one with charge (5) - ORION {OR}{1}{ON}
16 - A friendly drink (7) - CORDIAL [DD]
19 - Mad anti-revolutionary got in almost by chance (7) - LUNATIC {LU{ANTI*}Ck}
20 - Mark the country, taking time off for parking (5) - STAIN S(-p+t)AIN
21 - They sustain initial growth in case you burn out (9) - CAUTERISE  {CA{U}{TERI}SE} Anno not clear
25 - To catch up after the doctor is to make it wet (7) - MOISTEN {MO}{IS}{->NET}
26 - See 18 dn.
28 - Tell one on direction as they are apportioned (7) - RATIONS {RAT}{1}{ON}{S}
29 - Pouch a game…. almost managed it (7) - SPORRAN {SPORt}{RAN}

DOWN
1   - Sailor on a passage to Shanghai (6) - ABDUCT {AB}{DUCT}
2   - The pressure is maintained evenly all along the line (6) - ISOBAR [E]
3   - Story of a southern Turkish commander (4) - SAGA {S}{AGA}
4   - Nothing to rustle but something like a bone (6) - OSTEAL {O}{STEAL}
5   - Quiet knock Leonard came up with is but a small fragment (8) - SHRAPNEL {SH}{RAP}{->LEN}
6   - A little quantity will toss around Lucinda evenly (5,5) - FLUID OUNCE {FL{lUcInDa} OUNCE}
7   - By thought and inclination he is not very practical (8) - IDEALIST {IDEA}{LIST}
8   - He is sceptical about partly cloudy, but stormy weather (8) - CYCLONIC {CY{CLOudy}NIC}
14 - A deception on land leads to estrangement (10) - ALIENATION {A}{LIE}{NATION}
16 - Just after money — it is a fleece (8) - CASHMERE {CASH}{MERE}
17 - Saltires would make them pragmatic (8) - REALISTS*
18 & 26 ac. - It is elusive to see something new in a game to get mentors agitated (4,4,7) - LOCH NESS MONSTER {LO}{CH {N}ESS} {MONSTER*}


22 - Reveal query behind regular surname (6) - UNMASK {sUrNaMe}{ASK}
23 - Young doctor at home with a bird (6) - INTERN {IN}{TERN}
24 - Looking for adventure, hesitate to show anger (6) - ERRANT {ER}{RANT}
27 - It is considered inert in the zone only (4) - NEON [T]

23 comments:


  1. Hello everybody

    Could not get a few in the northwest corner. Liked ABIGAIL, TARPAULIN, CORDIAL, MOISTEN, MONSTER, RATIONS, SPORRAN, SHRAPNEL (guess - anno not clear), IDEALIST, CYCLONIC, ALIENATION (really good one!), REALISTS, LOCK NESS MONSTER (this one haunted me for some time), UNMASK, CASHMERE (another good one) and others.

    'Evenly' and 'odd' reminded me of our once-'favourite' setter.

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  2. 21 - They sustain initial growth in case you burn out (9) - CAUTERISE {CA{U}{TERI}SE} Anno not clear

    CA{UTERI}SE

    Uteri: plural of uterus

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    1. super. got the word but not the anno. Took rise for growth and got stuck to parse

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  3. 15 - Old hunter given an option of leading one with charge (5) - ORION {OR}{1}{ON}

    Could this be {OR}{ION}

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  4. You are on the dot, as usual, Sandhya.

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  5. Arden's CW gives a lot of satisfaction after solving. Neither simple nor very hard. Loved LOCH NESS MONSTER cluing. It eluded me till Shenoy solved it.

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  6. 15A- Could it be (OR)(I) (ON)?
    Or- option
    I- one
    On- charge

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  7. A doubt about 25 A-
    'ten' is the reversal of net. But is it ok to use 'up' as a reversal indicator is an Ac. clue?

    Connection of abduct to Shanghai?

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    1. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=Shanghai

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    2. You are right Paddy, Up in an ac. clue is an aberration.

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  8. Loved the Loch Ness Monster cartoon. Reminded me of a cousin in Bangalore, also a Fiat lover, who also has no mobile and no email.

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  9. Good Morning all! Great start to the day - easy but interesting CW. Thank you Arden. Loved Fluid Ounce and, of course, Loch Ness Monster!

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  10. 4D Defn: something like a bone - OSTEAL
    It is surprising that Arden makes such a mistake.
    Osteal means 'of or relating to bone or to the skeleton'. It is not 'something resembling a bone'.
    Another lapse was pointed out - using 'up' as a reversal indicator in an Across clue (25A).

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    1. This is what Chambers has

      adj relating to, compound of, or resembling bone; sounding like bone on percussion.

      So Arden is on the right lines

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  11. Reference my remark in yesterday's post.

    I had mail from CV informing me that all is well.

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  12. Nice one again. Loved 24D. ERRANT reminded me of Don Quixote, and more recently 'Sir Nigel' by Arthur Conan Doyle. Discovered a huge store of books by ACD on Gutenberg, free downloads, and discovered a whole new world outside of Sherlock Holmes

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  13. Good to begin another day with an Arden crossword.

    I am ..... today:

    Dull asphalt colour almost (5)

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