Wednesday 31 October 2012

No 10607, Wednesday 31 Oct 12, Gridman



ACROSS
1   Left section, indeed (8) DEPARTED {DE{PART}ED}
6   Let hustler emerge in this manner (4) THUS [T]
9   Composer, moreover, goes through almost unbearable experience (6) HANDEL {H{AND}ELl}
10 Car leaves court of law: there’s stampede and efflux (7) OUTFLOW {cOUrT OF LaW}*
13 Advancing in years and faring well (7,2) GETTING ON [DD]
14 A party to bring shame (5) ABASH {A}{BASH}
15 Evildoer withdraws attempt on engineer (4) OGRE {OG<=}{RE}
16 On these many deals take place (4,6) CARD TABLES [CD]
19 Make waves with one ensconced in novel U.S. car seat (5,1,4) CAUSE A STIR {CAUSE A ST{1}R*}
21 Small jokester’s swaying movement (4) SWAG {S}{WAG}
24 Leader recalls publicity material on area near Delhi (5) NOIDA {NO1}{DA<=}
25 He always looks at the empty half of the glass (9) PESSIMIST [CD]
26 Lifts right out of shattered fireside (7) EDIFIES FIrESIDE*
27 Officer Commanding and copper, extremely prissy, take possession (6) OCCUPY {OC}{CU}{PrissY}
28 Abound in proper comeback (4) TEEM <=
29 A chatty relation (8) ANECDOTE [CD]

DOWN
2   One who demands a description of former thespian (7) EXACTOR {EX}{ACTOR}
3   Takes into consideration a money instrument by mistake (4,2) ADDS IN {A}{DD}{S IN}
4   Meg alters contrived messages of old (9) TELEGRAMS*
5   Soak right into this set of clues (5) DROWN {D{R}OWN}
7   Bag, worn-out, kept in room (7) HOLDALL {H{OLD}ALL}
8   What the tourists did with their eyes (3,3,6) SAW THE SIGHTS [CD]
11 Beat horribly? A good refreshment item is here! (6) TEABAG {BEAT*}{A}{G}
12 That is when one is old enough to get it off (3,2,7) AGE OF CONSENT [CD]
17 Stalactite or stalagmite? Portends I will have it uncovered (9) DRIPSTONE*
18 Plane crashes on one national (6) NEPALI {PLANE*}{I}
20 Til Sue and I managed to put to good purpose (7) UTILISE {TIL+SUE+I}*
22 Woman swinging with favourite dog (7) WHIPPET {W}{HIP}{PET}
23 See, I said: not adult but child is sticky (6) VISCID {V}{I}{S(-a+c)CID}
25 Beyond taking a dish from Italy (5) PASTA {PAST}{A}

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12 comments:

  1. Richard31 October 2012 at 08:30


    Hello everyone

    100% success. Unsure of exact anno for 10A, 3D and 23D.

    First-look shootdown: DEPARTED, THUS, ABASH, NOIDA, PESSIMIST, TEEM, OCCUPY, EXACTOR, TELEGRAMS, HOLDALL, DRIPSTONE, NEPALI, UTILISE, WHIPPET and PASTA.

    Liked HANDEL, GETTING ON, OGRE, CARD TABLES, CAUSE A STIR, EDIFIES,

    Special mention: ANECDOTE, DROWN, SAW THE SIGHTS, TEABAG, AGE OF CONSENT,

    An observation: The newer generation may not be aware that NOIDA is the abbreviation for New Okhla Industrical Development Authority. The acronym has become the permanent name of the place.

    I feel 20A should read 'Til Sue and I.... (the initial apostrophe could be missing).


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  2. Padmanabhan31 October 2012 at 08:59

    til by itself has been accepted into English for sesame. The initial apostrophe might have been misleading.
    Could not get 7D,23D (still not sure where the 'V' comes from) 9A (got confused thinking of 'also'for 'and') 10A.
    Not much participation today- Neelam effect?

    Richard- Though I am from the old generation, I did not know the acronym of NOIDA. Knew about the Okhla ind. area, though.Just did not connect the two.

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    1. Richard31 October 2012 at 09:06

      23D - There was a discussion here recently on V = vide (Latin) = see.

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  3. Chaturvasi31 October 2012 at 09:01

    Til is a boy's name (German). There should have been a comma after that. It means 'people's rule".

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    1. Richard31 October 2012 at 09:13

      Oh, that is. Did not know it.

      On a lighter note, Til is sesame or gingelly in many Indian languages. It has led to tailam for oil.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath31 October 2012 at 10:34

      Til/Sesame seed is there in Chambers also.

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  4. VMA Nair31 October 2012 at 09:10

    Nice crossword today.

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  5. svemuri31 October 2012 at 11:15

    Neelam effect is felt here in Nellore,anyway a cool crossword

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  6. Bhalchandra Pasupathy31 October 2012 at 11:41

    Only 8 comments, so this is the calm before the storm!
    Liked 9A.

    But what exactly is the definition for 12D? Get it off? Not sure how that works, even if the intent of the clue was obvious

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  7. VP31 October 2012 at 12:25

    Nice one today. Made a mistake though in the NE corner and went around in circles for a while. Enjoying this run from Gridman.

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  8. raju umamaheswar31 October 2012 at 12:26

    Appreciate your comment but I feel that each clue must lead to a proper word or phrase parsed ouy. Agreed, the theme is the common factor and once you get one word, others can be connected up and deduced, but not rationalized as to why it should be so. For example, Ragtag, Blazer, Apron, Lorica, and Philibeg,Nightcap do not make a clue with an answerto justify. Again, Angora is a word derived by replacing L for R, being a SAn country. Another weak clue was ' Don't like to hold back Scot's outfit' to mean KILT. Definitely offbeat for even a seasoned solver. May be my crabbiness got the better of me due to my late night solving and the exacerbation of such poor compilation.
    It takes all kinds to be a solver and a critic, right?

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