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)




52 comments:

  1. I didn't get the intended category :-(

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  2. Try

    Home activities (could be verb or noun)

    Hobbies

    Leisure pursuits

    Personal interests

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    1. 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. In my view Upholstery wouldn't fit in there.

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

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

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    5. 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. Also train activity for the Col. sometimes

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    7. Especially when he is out of station

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    8. Could we call that Train-ing then?

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

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    2. Men can always bank on women...

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    3. Banking involves despositing and withdrawing

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

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    5. That is why they call is recurring deposit

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  4. 26D How come Kishore missed commenting on M....n Rouge?

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  5. 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. Viva Lisboa !

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

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

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  10. 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. 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. High fun there would work better...

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    3. I got to make a dash for it

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  11. 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. What is artistic about beermaking?

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  13. Kishore,

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

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

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

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    1. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. Re: the painting

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

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