Saturday, 23 February 2013

No 10704, Saturday 23 Feb 13, Scintillator

Cakewalk if compared with normal Scintillator standards. Quite a few Anagrams, don't recall so many in his earlier offerings.

ACROSS
1   Summarises engineers’ limitations (6) RECAPS {RE}{CAPS}
4   What you get with naive sympathy? (5,3) GREEN TEA {GREEN} {TEA}
9   Can splits deter a guy initially during courtship? (6) DATING {D}{A}{TIN}{G}
10 Depressed practitioner’s working for a long time (4,4) BLUE MOON {BLUE} {MO}{ON}
12 Fantastic sea view encompasses fifty fish (8) ALEWIVES {A{L}EWIVES*}
13 Account with tax entry (6) ACCESS {AC}{CESS}
15 Cure dirty linen (4) ECRU*
16 Research on chocolate causing absent-mindedness (5,5) BROWN STUDY {BROWN}{STUDY}
19 Sensational warning for Beckham? (6,4) YELLOW CARD [CD]
20 Reports say ranks took up arms (4) ROSE (~rows)
23 Not quite a colour-blind individual (6) RACIST [CD]
25 Girl’s left out request for falafel ingredient (8) CHICKPEA {CHICK}{PlEA}
27 Dream on wildly about love that’s abandoned (8) MAROONED {MAR{O}ONED*}
28 Evacuated vehicle with two lives in distress (6) CRISIS {CaR}{IS}{IS}
29 Ancient Israeli lifeboat (5,3) NOAH'S ARK [CD]
30 Hushed voices from champion teams (6) ASIDES {A}{SIDES}

DOWN
1   Bureaucracy not just limited to communist states (3,4) RED TAPE [CD]
2   Car halted around St. Paul’s? (9) CATHEDRAL*
3   Least significant digit? (6) PINKIE [E]
5   Some members of revolutionary cartel irritate and annoy (4) RILE <=
6   Leaderless Congress, before start of campaign, is absorbed in a trying task (8) EXERCISE {sEX}{ER{C}{IS}E}
7   Tire of poet regularly coming up with cliche (5) TROPE {Ti}{Re}{Of}{Po}{Et} Why 'coming up'?
8   Discharge from any stem transplant (7) AMNESTY*
11 Support CD broke into pieces (7) BEDROCK*
14 Black opponents of yore are heavily disheartened (7) SWARTHY {SWART}{HeavilY} Not too sure of Anno. (Addendum - {SW}{ART}{HeavilY} - See comments)
17 Free of rivalry, popes undo conversion (9) UNOPPOSED*
18 Criticisms elevate excellent snaps (8) POTSHOTS {POT<=}{SHOTS}
19 A railway worker or a police officer in London? (7) YARDMAN [DD]
21 Slips by as sleep fades away (7) ELAPSES*
22 Money from unpleasant chores (6) OCHRES* Didn't get the connection to money?
24 This is about Indian government being terminated before conclusion (5) CIRCA CIRCAr
26 Fruit peel, say (4) PEAR (~pare)

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26 comments:

  1. Deepak Gopinath23 February 2013 at 08:46

    Received from Kishore via landline!!

    14 opponents- S W
    of yore are - Art
    Heavily disheartened- H Y

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    1. veer23 February 2013 at 08:53

      I thought that was what was probably intended but was not sure what the definition of "art" in archaic English was.. I have heard of sentences that go Thou art...but when I saw the dictionaries online, they seem to convey that the archaic definition of art is closer to "be" (2nd person singular present)..

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    2. VJ23 February 2013 at 09:22

      I thought disheartened was appropriate to indicate removal of middle letter alone - like Heavily disheartened leading to HEA(-v)ILY.

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    3. Bhalchandra Pasupathy23 February 2013 at 10:47

      @Veer 8:53: Haven't checked dictionary, but 'art' in usage does give 'are'. The sentence 'Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return' as an example

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    4. Chaturvasi23 February 2013 at 11:47

      Re Heavily disheartened

      As long as we are left with even number of letters on either side, disheartend can delete any number of letters within.

      Thus H Y
      HE LY (if there is such a word; I know there isn't here)
      HEA ILY

      We can't derive H ILY (because the letters on either side are not even.

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  2. Chaturvasi23 February 2013 at 08:50

    'ochre' has also the meaning of 'money', esp. gold (because of the colour).

    BRB has this as the last of the meanings under the word.

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    1. Col_Gopinath23 February 2013 at 08:58

      Ochre/money ok. But like Suresh has mentioned below, what is OCHRES?

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  3. Suresh23 February 2013 at 08:50

    Relatively easy as Deepak said. But, what is ochres?

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  4. Chaturvasi23 February 2013 at 08:54

    In 7d Tire of poet regularly coming up with cliche (5), 'coming up' is not a rev ind but rather a link phrase. 'Tire of poet regularly with cliche' won't make sense. The use of 'coming up' makes a complete and meaningful sentence. Many clues make use of such combination words. I think you've noticed it here because it does not play the role of rev ind.

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  5. Padmanabhan23 February 2013 at 09:53

    7D- as I read it
    'tire of poet' -alternate letters starting with e,p,o,r,t going in reverse

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    1. Col_Gopinath23 February 2013 at 10:01

      'Tire of poet' regularly gives TROPE there is no reversal involved

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    2. Padmanabhan23 February 2013 at 12:30

      Read it in reverse starting from 'e' of poet.

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    3. Padmanabhan23 February 2013 at 12:31

      TiRe Of PoEt.

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    4. Deepak Gopinath23 February 2013 at 13:04

      In that case your answer will be EPORT

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  6. Padmanabhan23 February 2013 at 09:59

    Liked the 'yard man' & Noah's Ark.
    Tea & sympathy was new to me.

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    1. Bhalchandra Pasupathy23 February 2013 at 10:49

      Tea and sympathy generally goes together as a phrase. Not sure if one can be substituted for another? It's a bit like saying motherhood = applepie?

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    2. Suresh23 February 2013 at 14:30

      There is no substitution Bhala as I see it. If you read the entire clue. It is what you may get with naive sympathy

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    3. Bhalchandra Pasupathy23 February 2013 at 23:44

      Not my read Suresh. I think 'naive' was intended to be 'green' and 'sympathy' for 'tea'

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  7. Bhalchandra Pasupathy23 February 2013 at 14:09

    Col: re 21D: Is the def 'slips by' or 'fades away'. I was inclined to think the latter, since fades doesn't work so well compared to slips as an anagrind

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    1. Deepak Gopinath23 February 2013 at 15:42

      to slip or glide away is the dictionary meaning of 'elapse' as per Chambers dictionary

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    2. Bhalchandra Pasupathy23 February 2013 at 23:43

      Accepted, but then I can't see how 'fades away' indicates an anagram

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  8. VP23 February 2013 at 14:16

    Definitely easier for a Scintillator puzzle, but an enjoyable and really good one.

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  9. Scintillator23 February 2013 at 16:37

    Seeing an "easy" under my pseudonym for the first time! Glad it was enjoyed. 9 anagrams is not a lot, but the full anagrams were high, I think.

    Is it not fashionable to mention themes anymore? :)

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    1. Raghunath23 February 2013 at 16:49

      You've not clarified about the OCHRES issue?

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    2. Deepak Gopinath23 February 2013 at 16:58

      Scintillator you're very colourful today ;-)

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    3. Scintillator23 February 2013 at 17:06

      OCHRE can mean gold coin or wealth/money in general. I do not an issue with the plural, though the usage is not common. In hindsight a definition of PIGMENTS would have had me in safe territory :)

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