Thursday, 17 January 2013

No.10672, Thursday 17 Jan 13, Scintillator

ACROSS
1 Grand walk in lungi, for sure (6) SASHAY (SASH + AY)
4 Rotten roses given to actor-politician and electors (8) CHOOSERS (CHO + ROSES*)
9 Initiate a virtue only (6) NOVICE (NO VICE)
10 Disorder returning after a blind one’s butchery (8) ABBATOIR ABATTOIR (RIOT<= after A BAT)
12 Motorless, for example? (8) UNNERVED (CD)
13 A country reporters find slippery? (6) GREECE (~GREASE)
15 Numbered plate rewound and put down (4) LAID (DIAL <=)
16 I design these to meet promises (10) CROSSWORDS (CROSS + WORDS)
19 Spanish MIG is crashing and deforming (10) MISSHAPING (SPANISH MIG)*
20 Scrap letter (4) SPAM (CD)
23 Endearing one opens lid of liquor bottle (6) DARING (DARlING)
25 Variable tetrode with carbon-filled smoke alarm (8) DETECTOR (TETRODE* outside C)
27 Extravagant lover eats bananas after gulping the last drop of coffee (8) AESTHETE (EATS* outside THE + E)
28 No wobbly // group of horses (6) STABLE (DD)
29 To train in IT, one’s worried (8) INITIATE (IN + IT + I + ATE)
30 Y-fronts — short and sexy in front (6) BRIEFS (BRIEF + S)

DOWN
1 Medical officer leaves debauched laundress horny (7) SENSUAL (LAUNdrESS)*
2 An endless restiveness characterised the period of Emergency (9) SEVENTIES (rESTIVENESs)*
3 No refusal to give current cable (6) ACCORD (AC + CORD)
5 Yawing bus near top of hill stops hearts (4) HUBS (BUS* after H) Not sure what is the role of "stops"
6 Has become too big? Wrong! (8) OUTGROWN (WRONG*)
7 A place in TN // to eat at (5) ERODE (DD)
8 Probes into // polls (7) SURVEYS (DD)
11 Point to criticise before crack (7) DECRYPT (PT after DECRY)
14 You should, in part, tear supports and underwear into pieces (7) ASUNDER Anno pending
17 Reliable salesman meets you with a piece of furniture (9) REPUTABLE (REP + U + TABLE)
18 Entice into taking drug // from China? (8) SHANGHAI (DD)
19 This could be any South Indian! (7) MADRASI (CD)
21 Ultimately, steam boat set out for trade (7) MARKETS (M + ARK + SET*)
22 Regret test turning up to constrain me (6) SETTER (T<=)
24 Noble sage’s silent when locked up in R2 (5) RISHI (SH inside R II) Is silent =sh? I thought silence(v) = sh
26 Smartest ethnic groups let them stand (4) STET (T)


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44 comments:

  1. Deepak Gopinath17 January 2013 at 08:37

    There will be a special at 10:30 today in honour of CV's 70th B'day

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  2. Richard17 January 2013 at 08:38

    13A being a nice clue apart, can Greece and Grease be homophonic?

    24D - tribute to the birthday boy.

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    1. Chaturvasi17 January 2013 at 08:46

      Re the homophones, see

      http://www.homophone.com/results.php?how=include&searchfor=greece

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    2. Bhavan17 January 2013 at 08:46

      They are Richard in the dictionary sense even if they don't sound like that to Indian tongues/ears

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    3. Suresh17 January 2013 at 10:26

      They would definitely be homophones in Kerala.

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    4. Scintillator17 January 2013 at 16:33

      Er... I am missing something here. How do Indians/Keralites pronounce them? Is it because one of them is "gr-eez" and the other "gr-ees"? The surface alludes to the slippery economy, btw.

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  3. Richard17 January 2013 at 08:42

    Many more happy returns of the day, CV. On to a century and beyond!

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  4. Chaturvasi17 January 2013 at 08:47

    Thank you, Richard, and everyone else who are making the day special to me.

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  5. Richard17 January 2013 at 08:50

    10A - ABATTOIR is the most common spelling. Could ABBATOIR be a misspelling? Correct me if I am wrong. I have not referred to other dictionaries.

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    1. Bhavan17 January 2013 at 08:56

      My mistake. I had the wordplay written out the way it was intended, but goofed up in putting down the answer.

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  6. Chaturvasi17 January 2013 at 09:00

    Abattoir is indeed the correct spelling. When I read this, initially I wondered whether the grid had it differently and how could I or the desk have missed it.

    Why on earth did you have to think of the misspelt 'abbatoir'?

    The music group probably had/have it that way. I was never aware of the group, anyway.

    As you know, many brand names, trade signages deliberately misspell well-known words so that it gets stuck in your mind. The music group probably wanted 'Abba' as part of their name.

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    1. Anonymous17 January 2013 at 09:09

      To illustrate FCUK, a brandname...

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    2. Anonymous17 January 2013 at 09:14

      .... Of a Fasion Company from the UK

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    3. Richard17 January 2013 at 11:02

      Fasion, Mr Kisore? (Guju style!)

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    4. D.Srinivasan17 January 2013 at 11:41

      French Connection U K

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  7. VJ17 January 2013 at 09:00

    Scintillator?? Is there a change in order or what?

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  8. Anonymous17 January 2013 at 09:04

    Many happy returns CV and all the very best of health and cheer for the future.

    Scintiillator seems to have woven a message for Gridman in the form of an acrostic in the firt letters of clues. Well done.

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    1. Bhavan17 January 2013 at 09:07

      Thanks Kishore for pointing it out. I'd missed it.

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    2. Richard17 January 2013 at 09:28

      Scintillating setting of acronym. Perhaps not many would have noticed it, had Kishore not pointed it out.

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  9. Anonymous17 January 2013 at 09:07

    Further of course Madras, Erode, Rishi etc

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    1. Anonymous17 January 2013 at 09:42

      Not to forget ref to Cho, lungi and inner vestments!

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  10. dr.r.pankajam17 January 2013 at 09:14

    CV,Many many happy returns of the day!

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  11. Anonymous17 January 2013 at 09:16

    My net is malfuntioning, hence net silence from me. So long...

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  12. Rengaswamy17 January 2013 at 09:17

    Many happy returns of the day, CVji. I wish I could have wished you in person yesterday itself when I was lucky to bump across you at T.Nagar, Burkit Road, near my home.

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  13. Chaturvasi17 January 2013 at 09:21

    Just as I missed the message in a famous puzzle by Cryptonyte, I did not see the message in today's crossword either until it was pointed out here.

    Congratulations to Scintillator for working on the special effect.

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  14. Raghunath17 January 2013 at 10:25

    5 DN: "stops" added to aid in sentence formation?

    Couple of questions:
    6 DN: OUTGROWN (WRONG*) Is this an acceptable anagram, with 'out' preceding and not following like say TURN OUT, BLOW OUT (assuming turn and blow could be anagrams)? Or say OFF...., OFF... etc?
    24DN: What is R II?

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  15. Suresh17 January 2013 at 10:28

    Scintillator is scintillating as usual.

    Great Gridman special to boot.

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  16. Chaturvasi17 January 2013 at 10:31

    24DN: What is R II?

    Rather, what is R2 (which becomes R II in wordplay).

    R2 maybe an indicator to a police station. In Chennai police stations are identified as D2, etc.

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  17. Padmanabhan17 January 2013 at 10:52

    24D-
    You have yourself given the answer by giving 2 as II. It is 2 I's & R and 'Sh'

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  18. Bhalchandra Pasupathy17 January 2013 at 11:40

    Great puzzle, and Nina in the clues. Well spotted Kishore. Would have probably missed it, but had an indirect alert from CV when talking with him to wish him (he warned me not to look at the blog in a hurry). So looked a bit closer!

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  19. Krishnan17 January 2013 at 11:50

    CV Sir, Happy Birthday Sir. May Lord bless you with best of health and spirits. Like we say in SriVaishnavite prayers, இன்னுà®®ொà®°ு நூà®±்à®±ாண்டு இருà®®்!!!

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  20. Bhalchandra Pasupathy17 January 2013 at 11:52

    Been breaking my head for 14D anno, but can't get it. There must be a logic I am sure

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  21. Chaturvasi17 January 2013 at 12:11

    Re

    4 You should, in part, tear supports and underwear into pieces (7)

    I didn't see the anno immedaitely nor even after reading the wonderment expressed above.

    Bhala's Comment made me revisit it and I now see light, hazy though it might be.

    It is anag from partials.

    Take AR from 'tear' S from 'supports' and UNDE from 'under'.

    If you 'tear', anagram, these partials, you get ASUNDER, 'into pieces' being the def.

    Idhu eppadi irukku?

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    1. Suresh17 January 2013 at 12:38

      Romba mosama irukku.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath17 January 2013 at 15:21

      Cricket ball bouncer madhiri irukku!!!

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    3. Scintillator17 January 2013 at 16:10

      You should, in part, tear supports and underwear into pieces (7)

      It can't be a Gridman-special without "support", can it? The anno I had intended was {-BR}+AS+UNDER-{WEAR} - you should tear away the BR and WEAR parts.

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  22. raju umamaheswar17 January 2013 at 12:17

    Dear Rishiji,

    Tried calling you on the mobile. Seems to have forgotten at some place? Or is it deliberate?

    Here's wishing you a very stepping into the septuagenarian era and may the good Lord keep you in good health and cheer.I join other bloggers here in wishing you many more happy years of compiling for all of us . ENJOY THE BLOGGERS' PARTY ORGANIZED AND i SHALL BE HAPPY TO SEE THE PICS WHEN POSTED.
    GOD BLESS YOU

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  23. raju umamaheswar17 January 2013 at 12:19

    A VERY LIVELY STEPPING INTO THE SEPTUAGENARIAN ERA

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    1. Chaturvasi17 January 2013 at 12:31

      Thank-you Raju and everyone else.

      I am sorry I didn't pick up the mobile (with which I am rather remote).

      Since morning I have been receiving calls constantly from relatives and friends on the two landlines.

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  24. Scintillator17 January 2013 at 16:20

    5D: 'Stops' could mean 'holds' in the sense of the wordplay holding the answer. Not standard, but helps the surface, I think.

    6D: 'Out' can be placed before or after the fodder, but the bigger problem with this clue is that the part of speech of the definition looks awry.

    24D: Yeah, I have goofed this by mixing up 'Silent' with 'Mum'!

    This was my first attempt to write clues by constraining their first letters and I can certainly vouch that this was quite difficult, especially when you need clues starting in Y as in 5D and 14D. I concede some of the clues were less than perfect and I am sorry for that.

    Many happy returns to GM once again and wish him all happiness for many more years to come!

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  25. VP17 January 2013 at 16:27

    Wishing Gridman a very happy birthday. And kudos to Scintillator for an excellent puzzle with the message.

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  26. Ramani17 January 2013 at 19:02

    Seek your blessings

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  27. RameshJ17 January 2013 at 22:42

    Joining in very late... CVji Many happy returns of the day. Going across now to see what the special has in store

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