Monday 18 March 2013

No.10723, Monday 18 Mar 13, Gridman

Nice opening from Gridman, pushing the envelope by introducing themed clues, all of them anagrams

Clues in block capitals are jumbles of words from a single category.
 
ACROSS
1 PINGS INN (8) SPINNING (PINGS INN)*
5 Hotheaded person that he is, scholar hurried back without a bit of equanimity (6) MADCAP (MA PACeD<)
9 GAIN PINT (8) PAINTING (GAIN PINT)* Here's an impromptu painting titled "A pessimist's view of the future". I am sorry you are unable to read the artist's name because he signed it before he painted it all black.

10 My artist’s left the enclosure (6) CORRAL (COR+RA+L) My! as an exclamation being equivalent of Cor!
12 It is within the range of a Slovenian (4) OVEN (T) which may also be referred to as a range
13 BREAKING ME (10) Beats me BEERMAKING?? We do this all the time as long as our kidneys function
15 Burning desire to live (6) RESIDE (DESIRE)*
17 Great! A bad end is kept out of bombast (5) BRAVO (BRAVadO)
20 KITAB (5) BATIK (KITAB)*
21 Sylvester’s snooze? (6) CATNAP CD (Sylvester, the cat of the Tweety-Sylvester duo: I tawt I taw a putty tat)
24 HOTEL SYRUP (10) UPHOLSTERY (HOTEL SYRUP)*
27 Hot stuff conservatives removed from loos (4) LAVA (LAVAtories) The clue makes me think conservatives worked in the conservancy lanes of yore removing nightsoil from loos
29 A man’s representatives (6) AGENTS (A GENT'S) What would woman's representatives be called?
30 QUIN GILT (8) QUILTING (QUIN GILT)*
31 Introduction, by a measure, to growth (6) ENTREE (EN TREE)
32 RAISE COB (8) AEROBICS (RAISE COB)* The only way I can tie this up with the other themed words is by doing aerobics in a place surrounded by upholstery, painting, quilting, batik, etc. I though of activities as another theme, but some items were nouns.

DOWN
1 Draw drink slowly, sweetheart (6) SIPHON (SIP HON)
2 I’m about to stand by in the same place (6) IBIDEM (I'M around BIDE)
3 Pay heed to // piece of music? (4) NOTE 2
4 For the time being national leader’s on church (5) NONCE (N+ON+CE)
6 Abstainers hoard memory of sweet smell (5) AROMA (AA around ROM) Sorry, cannot give you a sample unless you install the smeller (an output device that can emit smells based on data in a computer file, yet to be invented. I am just patenting the name)
7 Jack, for one, to gain altered sweater (8) CARDIGAN (CARD+GAIN*)
8 One who speaks in many languages but one voice (8) POLYGLOT CD A one man tower of Babel
11 Papa tries strenuously to become a spiritual leader (6) PRIEST (P+TRIES*) A toaster too is a spiritual leader
14 Each king gets added incentive (4) PERK (PER K)
16 Move is visible, we hear (6) INCITE (~IN SIGHT)
17 Partial attitude of one in low French (4) BIAS (I(one) inside BAS=low in French)
18 Cast out bread that is hard (8) OBDURATE (OUT BREAD)*
19 Most eager appeal to head trimmed by the way (8) ITCHIEST (IT CHIEf ST)
22 Animal — the thing with one foot — trips up (6) WAPITI (IT A PAW<) Also the first aircraft flown by the Indian Air Force in 1932 from Drigh Road, Karachi, presently PAFB Faisal


23 That man’s having a doubly good dish (6)  HAGGIS (HIS around A G G)


25 Tardy, consuming last of hot coffee (5) LATTE (LATE around T)
26 Rake grabs good cosmetic that makes one blush (5) ROUGE (ROUE around G) I hope my not solving one entry does not leave me red-faced
28 Muse about animal having lost its tail (4) CLIO (C LIOn)

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52 comments:

  1. Deepak Gopinath18 March 2013 at 08:34

    I didn't get the intended category :-(

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  2. Chaturvasi18 March 2013 at 08:38

    Try

    Home activities (could be verb or noun)

    Hobbies

    Leisure pursuits

    Personal interests

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    1. Kishore18 March 2013 at 08:42

      I did think of activities after coming across gerunds like spinning, painting, beermaking and also aerobics. But let it go in view of nouns like batik, upholstery etc.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath18 March 2013 at 08:44

      In my view Upholstery wouldn't fit in there.

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    3. Kishore18 March 2013 at 08:46

      You would like that kind of thing if that is the kind of thing you like

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    4. Deepak Gopinath18 March 2013 at 08:53

      This category could be stretched to anything in that case blogging included :-)

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    5. Richard18 March 2013 at 09:41

      In your perspective, in which category does blogging fall - home activity, hobby, leisure pursuit or personal interest, may I ask...

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    6. Col_Gopinath18 March 2013 at 09:45

      All of the above

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    7. Richard18 March 2013 at 10:06

      :-)

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    8. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 10:11

      Also train activity for the Col. sometimes

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    9. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 10:13

      Especially when he is out of station

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    10. Deepak Gopinath18 March 2013 at 10:17

      Could we call that Train-ing then?

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    11. Richard18 March 2013 at 10:34

      Or getting coach-ed...

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    12. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 12:09

      I dont know if you train in the coach or coach in the train, but you dont use any station-ery

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  3. Kishore18 March 2013 at 08:44

    After reading the FM's budget speech, somebody asked me if a women's bank was a good idea. I felt, why not, blood banks are working quite well ... ;-)

    Disclaimer: Tongue firmly in cheek

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    1. Deepak Gopinath18 March 2013 at 08:54

      Does that mean that all banks now are Men's banks?

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    2. Richard18 March 2013 at 09:02

      Men can always bank on women...

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    3. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 09:22

      Banking involves despositing and withdrawing

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    4. Richard18 March 2013 at 09:33

      ..making sure that one doesn't lose interest...

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    5. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 09:36

      That is why they call is recurring deposit

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  4. Richard18 March 2013 at 09:05

    26D How come Kishore missed commenting on M....n Rouge?

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  5. Chaturvasi18 March 2013 at 09:14

    This blog has created an immense sense of camaraderie among members.

    Last evening Dr. Sundaresan Prabhakar met me at home. We had a pleasant time together for an hour or so.

    He is a retired Professor who now lives in Lisbon. He was in the US and the UK previously.

    Dr Prabhakar had met the Col. in Bangalore some three years ago. The Col had suggested that he meet me when in Chennai. He remembered that and so the meeting took place.

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  6. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 09:18

    Viva Lisboa !

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  7. Padmanabhan18 March 2013 at 09:25

    I liked 'THE Col.'- The one and only Col. as far as we are concerned!

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  8. Richard18 March 2013 at 09:26

    29 A man’s representatives (6) AGENTS (A GENT'S) What would woman's representatives be called?

    Woo-men, perhaps...

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  9. Padmanabhan18 March 2013 at 09:26

    Punning twins are having a great day again and in good spirits!

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  10. Padmanabhan18 March 2013 at 09:32

    Normally we search only for words, but today we seem to be searching for the theme. To be frank that kept me doubting a few entries until I saw the blog for confirmation- esp. beermaking! (by the way,is it 10 or 4,6?)

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    1. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 09:39

      If it is a continuous stream, it is 10. If it is start, stop, start, then it is 4,6 or 4-6

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    2. Richard18 March 2013 at 09:42

      High fun there would work better...

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    3. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 09:45

      I got to make a dash for it

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  11. Dr.gayathri Sreekanth18 March 2013 at 09:47

    The comme.ts are fun to read,what with beermakin
    g and rouge...thanx mr.suresh.nice of u to remember me

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  12. Suresh18 March 2013 at 10:07

    What is artistic about beermaking?

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  13. Deepak Gopinath18 March 2013 at 10:32

    Kishore,

    Lovely painting at 9A, I wish I could paint like that.

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    1. Richard18 March 2013 at 10:35

      All the more appreciable because I am told the artist was blindfolded...

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    2. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 13:12

      And the artist did not have worry about colours, palettes and whatnots. A rodent sufficed. BTW, the art was 'inspired' by a cartoon (the late Mario's?) in the IWOI about 40 years back, where the artist painted several similar pictures with various titles like Black Money, Black market, The future and similar names.

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  14. Padmanabhan18 March 2013 at 11:06

    So are the viewers:-)

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  15. Padmanabhan18 March 2013 at 12:10

    Can Kishore be classified as 8D?
    11D- toaster as spiritual leader? You mean spirited?:-)

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    1. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 13:09

      For 8d, I thought of putting my own photo as illustration, but refrained, for the same reason as given a few days back.

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  16. PKPSwami18 March 2013 at 12:32

    Painting, Beermaking &Aerobics are disjointed categories. All other clues in capital somehow or other relate to textile industry. Clues iendig witn ing have made the job easier. I enjoyed the punch in 7d. Overall a nice puzzle.

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  17. PKPSwami18 March 2013 at 13:09

    6d equally nice.led us upon the garden path..For abstainers normally t t is used.here a is used. Interesting&intriguing.Memory is tweaked in betwen by ROM.Quite entertaining.

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  18. raju umamaheswar18 March 2013 at 14:47

    Kishore: re your comments on brewing for money--- a la- Vijay Mallya? Not to speak of the trouble brewing for him now?

    High-fliers always nosedive and crash-land?

    A classic example of one gereation generating wealth, the next generation enjoying it and the next destroying the whole thing?

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  19. raju umamaheswar18 March 2013 at 14:57

    Banking, depositing, withdrawing, not losing interest, continuous stream, stop, start and resume, home activity, leisure, woo-men, oh ! ye men ! do the readers' thought process not lead them up the garden path to analogous situations?

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  20. Nadathur Rajan18 March 2013 at 15:28

    All themed words are listed under Crafts & Hobbies. [Ref: Crossword Lists & Crossword Solver: Over 100,000 potential solutions ... By Anne Stibbs Kerr]

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  21. Navneeth18 March 2013 at 21:38

    Re: the painting

    Kishore & Colonlel, unless it's the original, whoever painted that totally ripped off Kazimir Malevich. ;-)

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