Wednesday, 27 February 2013

No 10707, Wednesday 27 Feb 13, Arden

 Delight for 14's fans today.

ACROSS
1   One carat in five might be bogus (7) FICTIVE {F{1}{CT}IVE}
5   Poor Charlie ate twice the salt (7) ACETATE {C+ATE+ATE}*
9   A choice before teacher to return to the root (5) ORRIS {OR}{RIS<=}
10 Helps with neat assembly of animals (9) ELEPHANTS*
11 May be earth work inside makes one go for a quick union (9) ELOPEMENT {EL{OP}EMENT}
12 Builder recalled in Osama’s den (5) MASON [T<=]
13 Throws water over some food (4) STEW<=
15 Drainage gets these animals up in anger (8) SEWERAGE {SEWE<=}{RAGE}
18 On an animal one rides out, as it rusts (8) OXIDISER {OX}{1}{RIDES*}
19 Oddly laid net material (4) LINT {LaId NeT}
22 Tenor in the band store (5) STASH {S{T}ASH}
24 Bid to keep thousands on the run (5,4) GRAND SLAM {GRAND S}{LAM} Trust Arden to have a Bridge clue
26 Wages for shedding some light in book review (9) EMOLUMENT {EMO{LUMEN}T<=}
27 Mark leading in the first half (5) COMMA COMMAnding
28 Dispatched, having played game without a piece (7) SEGMENT {SE{GaME}NT}
29 Carried out without interest by the old lady (7) DOYENNE {DO{YEN}NE}

DOWN
1& 20 dn 14 created wealth kept in cold storage (6,6) FROZEN ASSETS [DD]
2   An element of burden involved in curbing pollution (6,3) CARBON TAX {CARBON} {TAX}
3   Paper has no time for the matter (5) ISSUE tISSUE
4   Seles managed to get even with a break (9) ELEVENSES{EL{EVEN}SES*}
5   See 7 dn
6   Record by Border could be real or transitory (9) EPHEMERAL {EP}{HEM}{REAL*}
7, 5 dn & 17 dn Alternate gunmen sent as replacement for 14’s work (5,5,9) AUNT'S ARENT GENTLEMEN*
8   Reducing fifty while renting (6) EASING lEASING
14 Do we by arrangement shelter a writer? (9) WODEHOUSE {DO+WE}*{HOUSE}
16 Justified action having spoken in anger (9) WARRANTED {WAR}{RANTED}
17 See 7 dn
20 See 1 dn
21 Devil drink will kill (6) IMPALE {IMP}{ALE}
23 A girl gets a day in the middle (5) AMONG {A}{MON}{G}
24 Wind carrying oriental visitor (5) GUEST {GU{E}ST}
25 Condemn if there is no booze around parts of London (5) DECRY {D{EC}RY}

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31 comments:

  1. Rengaswamy27 February 2013 at 08:35

    Pangram today

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    1. Deepak Gopinath27 February 2013 at 08:42

      Not so Rengaswamy, it's 3 short of a Pangram

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    2. Rengaswamy27 February 2013 at 09:59

      Sorry, JKQ are missing. When I saw WXYZ I jumped to the wrong conclusion.

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    3. Anonymous27 February 2013 at 10:17

      Mr Rengawamy, are you a paratrooper by any chance? They usually jump to hasty conclusions.

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    4. Bhalchandra Pasupathy27 February 2013 at 11:46

      Kishore, you simply floor me with a pun for every occasion!

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    5. Rengaswamy27 February 2013 at 12:08

      I was at an ATM yesterday when a little old lady asked if I could check her balance , so I pushed her over.

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    6. Anonymous27 February 2013 at 13:09

      What a pushover!

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    7. Padmanabhan27 February 2013 at 13:40

      parachute salesman-" Our product has never been returned for a replacement for non opening!" Poor paratrooper!!

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    8. Richard27 February 2013 at 14:10

      That reminds me of a deceased friend of mine, who had acted in a movie. As part of his role, he had to die and therefore he lay a coffin. To his horror, he was pinched in the back by a nail from underneath. When he mentioned to the undertaker who supplied the coffin, he explained, "But no one in the past has complained! This is the first-ever...."

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    9. Richard27 February 2013 at 14:11

      Second sentence to read..therefore he lay in a coffin...

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    10. Anonymous27 February 2013 at 17:40

      That reminds me of a deceased friend of mine, who had acted in a movie.

      When he was alive, I suppose. ;-)

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    11. Rengaswamy27 February 2013 at 17:42

      Got back from my friend's funeral. He died after being hit on the head with a tennis ball.
      It was a lovely service.

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    12. Rengaswamy27 February 2013 at 17:47

      A mate of mine recently admitted to being addicted to brake fluid. When I quizzed him on it he reckoned he could stop any time....

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    13. Richard27 February 2013 at 18:11

      Kishore 5:40 pm - As usual, you must be joking!

      You will observe that I used the words "had acted" which certainly conveyed the sense of an earlier period.:-)

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  2. Anonymous27 February 2013 at 08:47

    Delight for 14's fans today.

    Shore was. Arden usually has a Bridge clue or a 'salt' clue

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  3. Richard27 February 2013 at 09:10

    8D Reducing on double duty as both def and deletion indicator? Liked this.

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  4. Padmanabhan27 February 2013 at 10:02

    Thank you Arden for enabling us to wake up to PGW. Gentlewomen at home? Made me get over my difficulties in solving chain clues.

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    1. Anonymous27 February 2013 at 10:16

      FULL MOON, when Aunt Agatha chews broken glass has just gone by a couple of days back.

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  5. Raghunath27 February 2013 at 10:28

    Good puzzle. My only grouse is that Arden does not usually differentiate between reversal indicators in across and down clues.

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  6. VJ27 February 2013 at 10:52

    What's the purpose of having "poor" in 5A

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  7. Raghunath27 February 2013 at 10:59

    1 AC: Abbrv. for Carat (karat) is KT in some dics. CT is usually used for court.

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    1. Bhalchandra Pasupathy27 February 2013 at 12:07

      Extract from Oxford dictionary:


      ct



      Definition of ct

      abbreviation
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      carat:18 ct gold

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  8. Bhalchandra Pasupathy27 February 2013 at 11:49

    Lovely puzzle. Apart from PGW and bridge references that I enjoy, 28A was another great clue, invoking the idea of a chess game with a handicap

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  9. Padmanabhan27 February 2013 at 12:47

    Is 'elevenses' a typical British term for a coffee break(usually taken at 11 am)?

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    1. Raghunath27 February 2013 at 12:53

      e·lev·ens·es (-lvn-zs)
      pl.n. Chiefly British
      Tea or coffee taken at midmorning and often accompanied by a snack... thefreedictionary.com

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    2. Padmanabhan27 February 2013 at 13:34

      Thank you Raghunath.

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  10. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan27 February 2013 at 13:09

    Now reading 7,5,17dn and enjoying:-)

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  11. Padmanabhan27 February 2013 at 13:33

    :-)

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  12. PKPSwami27 February 2013 at 15:34

    Nice puzzle.When the going was tough as in 7,5 &17d( though anagram) and also the likes of 6d I (not being a tough man) could decipher. But alas easier tasks like 21d, 29a & the likes failed me.Overall quiet enjoyable one from Arden.

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  13. PKPSwami27 February 2013 at 15:52

    24a grand for thousand lam for on the run, new usage carbon tax 2d really tickle our fancy. Thank u Arden.

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