Tuesday 9 October 2012

No.10589, Tuesday 9 Oct 12, Arden

Another fine run from Arden. Several clues to savour in this puzzle. Liked 12A, 18A, 28A, 2D, 17D and 25D.

ACROSS
1 Doesn't make sense to create friction without hard back up support (7) RHUBARB (RUB outside H + BRA <=)
5 Doctor removes bone out of the fish (7) SURGEON (StURGEON)
9 Complaint when the girl is good enough to eat (5) GRIPE (G + RIPE)
10 Angry about one worker getting a roll (9) CROISSANT (CROSS outside I + ANT)
11 Missile he tracks after a brief while (9) MINUTEMAN (MAN after MINUTE)
12 It is a leaf insect, reportedly (5) BETEL (~beetle)
13 Boast over one’s clothing (4) GARB (BRAG <=)
15 Run into decay with one creating disturbance (4,4) RACE, RIOT (RACE + I inside ROT)
18 Gets them out cheaply in a game (8) SKITTLES (DD)
19 Badly want to hear a story (4) YARN (~yearn?)
22 Army regulation issue could be a crime (5) ARSON (A R + SON)
24 Has help at another place of rest and recuperation (6,3) HEALTH,SPA (HAS HELP AT)*
26 Censure a salesman going over the edge and trailing behind (9) REPRIMAND (REP + RIM + AND)
27 It will grow in size when left in the vessel (5) BLOAT (L inside BOAT)
28 Procession will get back into the centre (7) CORTÈGE (GET<= inside CORE)
29 He believed in booze without a job (7) APOSTLE (ALE outside POST)

DOWN
1 The powers that be lined up two soldiers before me (6) REGIME (RE + GI + ME)
2 A standard card after marriage (5,4) UNION, JACK (JACK after UNION)
3 He represents time before a contract (5) AGENT (AGE + N'T)
4 Agitated Blair arrived inside having two houses to face (9) BICAMERAL (CAME inside BLAIR*)
5 Small hooter cut to size (5) SHORN (S + HORN)
6 Disapproval for a fruit (9) RASPBERRY (DD)
7 Stick up time to make laws (5) ENACT (CANE <= + T)
8 It is an irritant to catch and let loose (6) NETTLE (NET + LET*)
14 Back one up, angry with the unpleasant fellow (4,5) BÊTE,NOIRE (BET + ONE<= + IRE)
16 Caught a fool and an artist, but none believed her words (9) CASSANDRA (C + ASS + AND + RA)
17 Given a choice teacher will return to cheer Herb (5,4) ORRIS, ROOT (OR + SIR<= + ROOT)
20 Force to ask for a building block material (6) FABRIC (F + A + BRIC) (~a brick)
21 Acacia gives some power to the French (6) WATTLE (WATT + LE)
23 Fantastic to dine with the Queen (5) SUPER (SUP + ER)
24 Throw the fellow on the way (5) HEAVE (HE + AVE)
25 Check before castle is a no-no (5) TABOO (TAB + O-O)

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33 comments:

  1. Richard9 October 2012 at 08:30

    Good morning

    Missed a few in the northwest corner for want of time. SURGEON, CROISSANT, BETEL, ARSON, HEALTH SPA, REPRIMAND, CORTEGE, BICAMERAL, RASPBERRY (Is the definition full here?), ENACT and some others were good.

    Do you know how I got CASSANDRA? By way of CROSSING(s), of course!

    Was a 'French' indicator necessary in HEAVE?

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    1. Dr.gayathri Sreekanth9 October 2012 at 08:52

      ooh, i had nystagmus and my head reeled. looks like arden was in a great mood,when he set clues.

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    2. Richard9 October 2012 at 08:55

      Nystagmus drove me to the dictionary. Nice to learn a new medical term.

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    3. Padmanabhan9 October 2012 at 08:59

      So did I and rolled my eyeballs!

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    4. RameshJ9 October 2012 at 11:19

      Or a shortening indicator ( ave = short for avenue)

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  2. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2012 at 08:33

    I don't see a homophone indicator in 20D, nor is there an indicator to delete the 'K'

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    1. Richard9 October 2012 at 08:38

      I too had a similar doubt with FABRIC but meekly submitted without questioning.

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    2. Richard9 October 2012 at 08:42

      On second thoughts, 'to ask for' could be a homophone indicator.

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    3. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2012 at 09:00

      Could be, but not convincing

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  3. Padmanabhan9 October 2012 at 09:02

    Are we into a botanist special today?
    I was waiting to hear what the doctor did to remove the T bone?

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  4. Padmanabhan9 October 2012 at 09:04

    Though with 'believer and crossings, I filled in apostle, I could not get the anno until I saw it in the blog. Perhaps the 'booze' created a doubt in my mind!

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  5. Padmanabhan9 October 2012 at 09:07

    13A-
    I took boast as the def. and filled in 'Brag' and had a hold up. 'Bete noire' cleared it for me.

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  6. Suresh9 October 2012 at 09:50

    In today's Guardian ' Annoyed about one social worker's role, say (9)'

    Keep wondering about how the same word appears on the same day, clued differently in different papers, so often.

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    1. Richard9 October 2012 at 09:52

      Yes, Suresh, an ideal subject for PhD dissertation...

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    2. Suresh9 October 2012 at 10:00

      Fit for an Ignobel

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    3. Venkatesh9 October 2012 at 10:47

      The Guardian's clue is nice. The definition is 'role, say'. The homophone of role is roll - CROISSANT.

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  7. Bhalchandra Pasupathy9 October 2012 at 10:59

    Enjoyable as always.

    Apropos Col comment on 20D, I guess 'ask for' has to be considered as the homophone indicator, else it does not fit in the clue.

    14D also seems to have a minor flaw: IRE would be anger, not angry.

    But who's complaining!

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    1. Bhavan9 October 2012 at 11:32

      I thought the same too, that an adjective like angry cannot give the noun ire.

      But then I checked in Chambers where angry is defined as a transitive verb meaning "to make angry" or "to irritate". So extrapolating it "to ire" seemed reasonable.

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  8. RameshJ9 October 2012 at 11:12

    Loved today's crossword. Took some time to fill up. Did not get wattle. Liked union jack the best.

    You may need a good grounding in this to answer Suresh's question@9:50 :

    Chance for British talent (11)

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  9. Venkatesh9 October 2012 at 12:10

    (PRO)(B)(ABILITY)

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  10. RameshJ9 October 2012 at 12:18

    :)

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  11. Suresh9 October 2012 at 13:32

    27 It will grow in size when left in the vessel (5) BLOAT (L inside BOAT)

    I found the 'It will" bit jarring and irrelevant, since we cannot say that a bloat will grow in size.

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  12. VP9 October 2012 at 15:18

    Struggled a bit today, but managed to finish it. Enjoyed this run from Arden. 18A reminded me of the number of times our team gets "skittled" on seaming tracks abroad :)

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  13. Padmanabhan9 October 2012 at 15:40

    Yes, 'skittled out' is more of a cricketing (Indian?) term.

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  14. RameshJ9 October 2012 at 18:41

    In ET today ( Hyd edition) I came across this clue.

    Go off course like an Australian female (7) (D_G_E_S)


    The crossings suggest digress which is confirmed by the definition ("Go off course"), but I am unable to explain further. Can some one provide a complete explanation ?

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    1. Richard9 October 2012 at 19:21

      Anything to do with Oz? Bhavan could show the way!

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    2. RameshJ9 October 2012 at 19:34

      Go off course like an Australian female ? (7) (D_G_E_S)

      I missed putting in the '?' at the end

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    3. Suresh9 October 2012 at 20:23

      Did not find the clue on online edition of Hyd ET

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    4. RameshJ9 October 2012 at 20:53

      http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=ETNEW&BaseHref=ETBG/2012/10/09&PageLabel=13&ForceGif=true&EntityId=Ar01301&ViewMode=HTML

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    5. Padmanabhan9 October 2012 at 22:33

      This link leads me back to our blog !!

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    6. RameshJ9 October 2012 at 22:44

      If you are having difficulties try going to http://epaper.timesofindia.com

      There choose 'Economic times' Bangalore Edition. And go to page 13 in the epaper & click on the crossword that you see at the bottom of the page

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    7. Bhavan9 October 2012 at 22:52

      Digger (n) : Austral./NZ informal a man, especially a private soldier (often used as a friendly form of address)

      So the female equivalent of that would be diggress or digress in the clue's cryptic reference.

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    8. RameshJ9 October 2012 at 23:02

      Thanks :)

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