Tuesday, 18 December 2012

No.10647, Tuesday 18 Dec 12, Arden

Solid opener from Arden

ACROSS
1 A piece written off, a hit perhaps with a creed (7,2,5) ARTICLE, OF, FAITH (ARTICLE + OFF A HIT*)
10 Bill put up with bother (3,2) ACT, UP (ACT + UP)
11 One hundred one of a kind (9) SINGLETON (SINGLE + TON)
12 Sounded very happy about a point when appointed by invitation (2-5) CO-OPTED (COOED outside PT)
13 Instrument for a Greek character arranging a loan (7) PIANOLA (PI + A LOAN*)
14 Climber goes up a peg (5) LIANA (A + NAIL)<=
16 Asian served up wine at sea (9) TAIWANESE (WINE AT SEA)*
19 Vessel taking sides (9) STEAMSHIP (TEAMS inside SHIP)
20 Extremely tender, will finish in style (5) TREND (TendeR + END)
22 Refused when asked to come after work (7) OPPOSED (POSED after OP)
25 Wayward boy has to snitch (7) ERRATIC (ERIC outside RAT)
27 Moving one inch, it will be at risk (2,4,3) ON, THIN, ICE (ONE INCH IT)*
28 No money, but regular burden while getting approval (5) BROKE (OK inside BuRdEn)
29 Deception reduces reportedly with charades (5,9) FALSE, PRETENCES (~FALLS + PRETENCES)

DOWN
2 Explanation for keeping Charlie out of real action, surprisingly (9) RATIONALE (REAL AcTION)*
3 Could be a signal when the Russian leader’s name is circulated twice (5) INPUT (PUTIN => NPUTI => INPUT)
4 A shoe maker’s model will abandon final stand (4-5) LAST-DITCH (LAST + DITCH)
5 Confess perhaps now one is astride (3,2) OWN, UP (NOW* + UP)
6 Before winter a component will break down (4,5) FALL, APART (FALL + A + PART)
7 Presentation from the Latin troupe (5) INTRO (T)
8 It could be deadly curse below the layer (7) HENBANE (BANE below HEN)
9 The scoundrel shuttled between Chennai-Kolkata once (6) RASCAL (madRAS-CALcutta)
15 Member cities make a hash of the ceasefire (9) ARMISTICE (ARM + CITIES*)
17 Tool // put into use (9) IMPLEMENT (DD)
18 Conductor can pick as one travelled by bus (9) ELECTRODE (ELECT + RODE)
19 Programme cancelled by the exhibitionist (4-3) SHOW-OFF (SHOW + OFF)
21 A bull made to recede (6) DECREE (RECEDE)*
23 Partly flower power for reviving the dead (5) PETAL (P + LATE<=)
24 Carried out calcium extraction from silica gel, for example (5) DRIER (caRRIED)*
26 One born out of a bird (5) ROBIN (I BORN)*

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20 comments:

  1. Anonymous18 December 2012 at 08:33

    Nice one!

    9 The scoundrel shuttled between Chennai-Kolkata once (6) RASCAL (madRAS-CALcutta)

    brought back memories of schooldays where the u was purposely mispronounced to get the Hindi word for dog resulting in a

    mad, rascal, kutta

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    1. Unknown18 December 2012 at 14:20

      Remember this from school, too!! Mad - rascal - cutta!

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

    hahaha , kishore. mad, rascal, kutta...nice!!

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  3. RameshJ18 December 2012 at 08:58

    Nice one.

    ABCDE :

    Perhaps Darius's footwear used by a consultant to store tobacco ? (7,7) .e...a. s......

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    1. RameshJ18 December 2012 at 10:41

      Perhaps Darius's footwear used by a detective to store tobacco ? (7,7) .e...a. s......

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    2. VMA Nair18 December 2012 at 12:22

      Persian ???????

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    3. VP18 December 2012 at 12:39

      Persian slipper

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    4. RameshJ18 December 2012 at 12:45

      :)

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    5. Anonymous18 December 2012 at 12:50

      Persian Slipper.

      Elementary (ha,ha, ha! ), my dear Ramesh ...

      Found in Holmes's home...

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    6. Anonymous18 December 2012 at 12:52

      Counterattack:

      How do you put 3 Nuns into one slipper?

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    7. RameshJ18 December 2012 at 13:06

      Along with yesterday's coal scuttle ( to hold cigars ) and a jack-knife to hold letters.

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    8. RameshJ18 December 2012 at 13:11


      How do you put 3 Nuns into one slipper?
      By not caring about the smell when you light it (them)

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    9. VP18 December 2012 at 14:33

      Did not get the theme from y'days coal scuttle, Persian Slipper was more striking in that aspect.
      Was fortunate enough to visit the Baker Street museum and get a collector's edition of the book, the one time I had a chance to go to London. Perhaps its time to take it out of the bookshelf again !

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  4. Deepak Gopinath18 December 2012 at 09:27

    I had promised Kishore that I would put up some snaps of the Bit=rthday bash on the THCC Families blog, couldn't do so as there seems to be some uploading problems. Will try again today and put up the link tomorrow

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    1. Anonymous18 December 2012 at 09:38

      Lamha lamha intezar kiya us lamhe ke liye
      or woh lamha aya bhi to bus ek lamhe ke liye,
      guzarish yehi hai khuda se ke kash
      woh lamha phir aye ek lamhe ke liye.

      (Unknown)

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    2. Richard18 December 2012 at 10:33

      BaDi khoob shayari aap ne adaa ki hai, janaab-e-Ali
      Iska andaz aur matlab rahega adhoora,
      Is liye agar ek tarjuma pesh ho jaaye,
      Aap ka hausla ho jayega poora...

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    3. Anonymous18 December 2012 at 10:41

      Pesh hai, huzoor !

      Waited every moment for that moment,
      And when it came, it came just for a moment,
      I pray that, if possible,
      that moment come back again, if only for a moment.

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  5. VMA Nair18 December 2012 at 10:03

    10 A. I had it as

    AC + TUP <<-
    But it is an across clue

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  6. Anonymous18 December 2012 at 10:08

    3 Could be a signal when the Russian leader’s name is circulated twice (5) INPUT (PUTIN => NPUTI => INPUT)

    TH remembered to put in Putin's photo on page 13 today (Bang ed)

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