Thursday, 18 October 2012

No 10597, Thursday 18 Oct 12, Lightning

Relief after yesterdays mayhem.

ACROSS
8   - Certain to prosecute without a trace of reluctance (4) - SURE {SU{R}E}
9   - Movie on peacekeepers’ conviction, complete, for the most part (10) - UNFAITHFUL {UN}{FAITH}{FULl}
10 - Inactivity of former German Police head of staff (6) - STASIS {STASI}{S}
11 - A bridal aid to eliminate unwanted gifts? (8) - REGISTRY [CD]
12 - Royal force surrounds Paris, shelled in rebellion (8) - IMPERIAL {IMPE{pARIs*}L}
14 - Metal worth five pennies (6) - NICKEL [DD]
16 - Change direction to the left (4) - EDIT <=
17 - Scientist returns aluminum after incomplete examination (5) - TESLA {TESt}{LA<=}
18 - Carry a child with energy (4) - TOTE {TOT}{E} &lit
19 - Martial art from Mount Tai, China (3-3) - TAI-CHI [T]
21 - Defence subsequently withdrawn? On the contrary, admitted (8) - REBUTTAL {RE{BUT}TAL<=}
23 - An impractical person’s plan on the agenda (8) - IDEALIST {IDEA}{LIST}
26 - Depression, yet, a bit of room for some hope (6) - TROUGH T(-h+r}ROUGH
27 - An aggressive sports team’s influence on the audience (10) - POWERHOUSE {POWER}{HOUSE}
28 - Transmit bits of specially encrypted national document (4) - SEND {S}{E}{N}{D}

DOWN
1   - To begin with, Madras University assembled a limited number of content forms in educational presentation (10) - MULTIMEDIA {MU}{A+LIMITED*}
2   - Strengthen engineer’s claim (8) - REASSERT {RE}{ASSERT}
3   - Use milk without potassium to make breakfast item (6) - MUESLI {USE+MILk}*
4   - Long way away from an expedition without limits (4) - AFAR sAFARi
5   - Mary, say, of lowa is known as the Mother of Presidents (8) - VIRGINIA {VIRGIN}{IA}
6   - Cathartic medicine from incomplete branch of science (6) - PHYSIC PHYSICs
7   - The sound of a happy animal in Nagpur racecourse (4) - PURR [T]
13 - Unsuccessful person changing roles (5) - LOSER*
15 - Alienating a nationalist trapped by devious gangster (10) - ESTRANGING {ESTRANG{IN}G*}
17 - West Indies rookie caught in tense period around end of day (8) - TWILIGHT {T{WI}{L}IGHT}
18 - Questionable timeout taken around initial signal by Bird (8) - TITMOUSE {TITMOU{S}E*}
20 - The Open Champion holds this jug for red wine (6) - CLARET [DD]
22 - After losing ring, trouble brewing for Alfred of Wayne Manor, perhaps (6) - BUTLER TRoUBLE*
24 - Leave medic at work (4) - DROP {DR}{OP}
25 - Criminal’s hand in struggle (4) - THUG {T{H}UG}

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38 comments:

  1. Richard18 October 2012 at 08:32


    Hi everyone

    Missed a few at the bottom level. Put in many by way of guess, which fitted in perfectly from all sides, but still clueless about anno.

    SURE, UNFAITHFUL, STASIS, NICKEL, TAICHI, MULTIMEDIA, MUESLI, PURR, ESTRANGING, DROP, BUTLER and others were easy. Religion helps in getting answers like VIRGINIA. Got to know PHYSIC as a cathartic medicine.



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    1. Richard18 October 2012 at 08:36

      Cartoon for 9A well-cooked.

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    2. Dr.gayathri Sreekanth18 October 2012 at 08:39

      we dont "cook" muesli, do we? how have u been Richard? no lyrics today?

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    3. Richard18 October 2012 at 08:42

      Feeling better after a greet from you. Life could be plain prosaic at times, you see...

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    4. Unknown18 October 2012 at 15:51

      No, Gayathri, you don't cook Muesli!! But the guy in the 9A cartoon must have had his goose cooked, for sure!!

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  2. David Jayaprakash John18 October 2012 at 08:35

    Lightning comes in as a relief just like the monsoon in Chennai

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    1. Dr.gayathri Sreekanth18 October 2012 at 08:39

      exactly David John, It s raining here and the lightning strikes, but pleasantly. after the cranium shaking skulldugger ride, life goes on a bit smoothly. could finish almost 3/4th of the THC, which goes to show, thought block is a major enemy to conquer in the crossword World.

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    2. Bhavan18 October 2012 at 09:02

      Ditto. Excellent puzzle from Lightning. Very entertaining and not so hard.

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  3. Bhalchandra Pasupathy18 October 2012 at 09:33

    Very enjoyable. Liked 21A a lot, seamless surface and wordsmithing

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  4. Padmanabhan18 October 2012 at 09:52

    Put in 'status' for 10A and so could not reassert myself. Missed the powerhouse. Otherwise a smooth ride. Lightning is welcome on & off the paper ! (could not have chosen a better day)

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  5. Deepak Gopinath18 October 2012 at 12:34

    Only 9 comments today against yesterdays 96, as we approach the 9 lakh pageview figure.

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    1. Richard18 October 2012 at 12:52

      Ups and downs are part of life, boss... :)

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    2. Richard18 October 2012 at 12:53

      I would like to be the 900.000th...

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    3. Richard18 October 2012 at 12:59

      Here I am at 12:59:15 in my watch...

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  6. Deepak Gopinath18 October 2012 at 13:04

    From 899990 at 12:59 PM

    ......10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

    to 9,00,000 at 1:04 PM

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    1. Richard18 October 2012 at 13:10

      I had waited patiently for 899,999 to come up and posted the comment at 12:59:15 and it immediately showed 900,000.

      Is it possible that the display could differ from PC to PC, from one service provider to another and one server to another? Strange is this cyberworld.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath18 October 2012 at 13:43

      No difference PC to PC, it must be the time in the clock

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    3. Suresh18 October 2012 at 16:01

      Odd. Or am I Watson?

      Richard posts as per the blog's clock at 12:59 and says he reached 900000. And you say the time is 13:04, preumeably as per the same blog clock.

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    4. VMA Nair18 October 2012 at 17:06

      Congrats Col

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    5. Richard18 October 2012 at 18:30

      This is not with an intention to drag the argument nor to claim the 900,000 title, but to clarify.

      As I posted, my PC time mentioned 12:59 and the post too shows 12:59 above, which was obviously the blog clock time also.

      Just wondering how the blog could show two different times at a certain point of time, even if Col's PC is ahead by 4 minutes? Looks curious.

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  7. Padmanabhan18 October 2012 at 14:42

    Hoooorrrrraaaaay Col. Good show. Keep up the work.

    Power off for 2 hrs. in Chennai from today and I missed the moment!

    I have my theory about less participation on easy CW days and it has held up so far. Is there a way to keep track of entries on each day- experts?

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  8. Padmanabhan18 October 2012 at 15:03

    Suresh,

    13D- Loser- appears in Hindu Quickie today as "someone who fails consistently". Duplication seems very common & frequent.

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    1. D.Srinivasan18 October 2012 at 17:10

      Padmanabhan,

      The word SAFARI has been used to clue different words yesterday(11A) and today(4D)by two different setters

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    2. Richard18 October 2012 at 18:37

      Blame it on ESP...

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  9. Suresh18 October 2012 at 15:23

    Anybody does the research on this subject and publish a paper on it will get an award from me.Since the Ig Nobel name has been taken, maybe we could call it 'Ringabel'

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  10. Unknown18 October 2012 at 15:48

    Greased Lightning today - a balm for my aching grey matter, after Skulldugger and KKK!! Still, did not get Powerhouse and Titmouse. For some reason, could not post this in the morning. So, good afternoon, all.

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  11. RameshJ18 October 2012 at 18:05

    Easier one today ( Relatively speaking) & enjoyable none the less.
    Congrats Col on reaching mount 9L.

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  12. Chaturvasi18 October 2012 at 18:39

    *Without comment*

    Newly-wed couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor will team up for a live performance, their first after their marriage, at etc., etc.

    - News on the Internet (attributed to ToI)

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  13. Anonymous18 October 2012 at 19:08

    Congrats, Deepak on the number..., the million is just round the corner now !

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  14. Deepak Gopinath18 October 2012 at 19:34

    Thanks is to all the visitors who make up the numbers

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  15. Rengaswamy18 October 2012 at 21:34

    What is the difference between the near-miss million counter and the one at the bottom which shows the number of visitors since ides of May 2010. Did we have 387764 visitors to the blog? Why these two counters and in what way they count and differ?

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    1. Suresh18 October 2012 at 21:39

      For one the start dates are different. I do not know when the 9lakh counter began.

      Another important difference is that the bottom counter does not get affected when you refresh the page, while the top one will count it as a visitor

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    2. Rengaswamy18 October 2012 at 22:04

      I checked now that even bottom counter changes when you refresh!

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    3. VMA Nair18 October 2012 at 22:25

      With or Without counter this blog is awesome :-P

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  16. VMA Nair19 October 2012 at 00:19

    What is this myzamana ????

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    1. Deepak Gopinath19 October 2012 at 07:40

      Someone appears to have hacked into my account

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