Tuesday 26 March 2013

No.10730, Tuesday 26 Mar 13, Neyartha

Liked FRANCHISE, POCKET, LIE-IN, NERVE CENTRE and SIDECAR. I've depicted what I thought were the theme entries, let me know if I missed any.

ACROSS
1 American football player and journalist entertain gangster on Facebook (8) HALFBACK (HACK outside AL + FB)
5 This may be pressed in panic (6) BUTTON (CD)
9 Individual grasping balance problem of the outgoing inspector-general gets the hint (8) OVERTONE (ONE outside VERTigO)
10 A cover for the arm in a thin cardboard container (6) SLEEVE (DD)
11 In Greenland, doc arranged for a hormone source (9,5) ENDOCRINE, GLAND (IN GREENLAND DOC)*
14 Reportedly snatches the hinges (5) RESTS (~WRESTS)
16 Team packs rocks sculpted with a bottle opener (9) CORKSCREW (CREW outside ROCKS*)
17 A European country confiscated his licence (9) FRANCHISE (FRANCE outside HIS)
19 Parsi salesman’s selection of agave fibre (5) SISAL (T)
20 Trainee briefly free when not at home for something mutually beneficial (14) INTERDEPENDENT (INTERn + inDEPENDENT)
23 Anger may result in heating up of the space under this (6) COLLAR (CD)
24 Disconnected Roman censor follows felines in retreat (8) STACCATO (CATO after CATS<=)
25 Tower’s resistance overcome by the power of money (6) POCKET (ROCKET with P for R)
26 Worn-out Democrat’s ouster predicted by accident (8) DECREPIT (PREDICTEd)*

DOWN
1 Thug’s scarf (4) HOOD (DD)
2 Oversleep like infants enlisted in nurseries initially (3-2) LIE-IN (Acrostic)
3 In speech, reforms everyone in the pool (7) BETTORS (~BETTERS)
4 Tending to draw in after having let narcotic break down (11) CONTRACTILE (LET NARCOTIC)*
6 Leakage losses rile revolutionary captured by angry Sue (7) ULLAGES (GALL<= inside SUE*)
7 Synonym finder’s suture has unravelled (9) THESAURUS (SUTURE HAS)*
8 Lone welder getting a facelift is a wastrel (4-2-4) NE'ER-DO-WELL (LONE WELDER)*
12 Headquarters may never let the king move up to the hub (5,6) NERVE, CENTRE (NE(+R)VE(-r) + CENTRE)
13 Policeman on the road finds the jam maker’s business page (7,3) TRAFFIC, COP (TRAFFIC + CO + P)
15 Streetcars sent up to ex-cricketer Bedser by a know-all (5,4) SMART, ALEC (TRAMS <= + ALEC)
18 A bouquet for the daughter clearing out the sulphur in the ship’s ropes (7) CORDAGE (CORSAGE with D for S)
19 Criminal disgrace to get rid of the good cocktail (7) SIDECAR (DISgRACE)*
21 American civil rights organisation’s tax ID written backwards in internal account (1,1,1,1,1) NAACP (PAN<= outside AC)
22 Frijol, temporarily concealed, may give this to a Mexican cook (4) JOLT (T) Not quite sure how this ties with the definition


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38 comments:

  1. Chaturvasi26 March 2013 at 08:49

    Bhavan

    Could halfback be the choli which some women wear exposing half of their back below their scruff?

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  2. Chaturvasi26 March 2013 at 09:13

    Kishore

    Did you get privately any solution to your 'assignation venue' puzzle?

    Incidentally, I offered to give two more hints to anyone who might want them.

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  3. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 09:29

    Yes, Ajeesh got it right. One other person answered 'bedroom' and then I gave him the correct answer. That's it. No other bites.

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    1. Col_Gopinath26 March 2013 at 09:36

      Venues of the 2 S&B's held in Bangalore ;-)

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    2. Chaturvasi26 March 2013 at 09:46

      Deepak, I like that!

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    3. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 10:02

      The correct place for assignations

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    4. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 10:09

      A Padmanabhan got it right and a Padmanabhan got it wrong!

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    5. Chaturvasi26 March 2013 at 10:09

      Motta maadi motta maadi
      Love jodi love jodi
      Ilavasamaa nadakkudhu
      SHOW SHOW SHOW

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    6. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 10:34

      Putting it in Kannada:

      maaDi mele yenu maaDi-daru?

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    7. Col_Gopinath26 March 2013 at 10:36

      Guess maadi!!

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    8. Raghunath26 March 2013 at 10:43

      Kishore,
      I had sent you the answer on Sunday?

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    9. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 11:03

      Sorry, not recd

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    10. Raghunath26 March 2013 at 11:11

      I have resent it again today from: prnath_hyd@dataone.in.

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    11. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 11:59

      This one has not arrived either. Kindly check address: kishoremrao@hotmail.com

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  4. Padmanabhan26 March 2013 at 09:37

    8D- ne'er do well
    Missing letter - though it is common in talk or even writing, is it ok as part of an answer,esp. without a hint about it?

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  5. Padmanabhan26 March 2013 at 09:38

    I am getting better in solving Neyartha- fewer blanks!

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    1. Chaturvasi26 March 2013 at 09:48

      Now you can't say "I 8 with a Neyartha puzzle".

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  6. Padmanabhan26 March 2013 at 10:00

    :-)
    From your answer, I take it that it's 'an in thing'.

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  7. Suresh26 March 2013 at 10:06

    I thought theme entries were BUTTON, SLEEVE, POCKET, COLLAR, HOOD

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    1. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 10:07

      Yes, that is what Bhavan, as informed by him, has 'depicted'

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    2. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 10:08

      Get the picture?

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    3. Chaturvasi26 March 2013 at 10:11

      It is in the very word dePICted.

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    4. Suresh26 March 2013 at 10:12

      Ya. I read the best answers on top and thought they were the theme.

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  8. Col_Gopinath26 March 2013 at 10:35

    Kishore @ 10:09

    How about the second part of the puzzle. What happened next? I can think of a number of options but don't want to spell them out here, so let's have it from the horses mouth.

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    1. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 11:05

      Take your pick out of the alternatives:

      MEAT*

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    2. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 11:13

      Whichever way you solve it, it remains:

      http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=iiW0UV39hPc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DiiW0UV39hPc

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    3. Deepak Gopinath26 March 2013 at 11:30

      That's the name of the game...

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  9. jap26 March 2013 at 10:41

    The "frijol > jolt" solution can be explained thus - Frijol = beans, Java Jolt is the caffeine boost got from drinking the javavanse bean stuff... agree?

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  10. Unknown26 March 2013 at 11:08

    Love the illustrations - specially the 'hood' !

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  11. raju umamaheswar26 March 2013 at 12:32

    No thanks. I have already solved it. It was for future I was enquiring. For Col in reply to your answer for my query. Thanks.

    Shall Is send a few more crosswords for future use?

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  12. Raghunath26 March 2013 at 12:40

    Kishore,

    Resent. Had gmail as your mail server instead of hotmail.

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  13. raju umamaheswar26 March 2013 at 12:46

    Col: I still wonder why compilers should hide behind a pseudonym instead of flaunting their creative work! It must have started from the war days when cryptic crosswords were used to pass on coded messages. (Uncle PGWodehouse had disclosed this ). Is it because it is a solo game, not necessarily selfish, that one does not want to share? After all, it is only due to Internet and blogs like yours and Shuchi's that have brought them on to the public domain. I can assure you that until then , it did tend to make solvers into an esoteric class of highbrows and very unsocial and unsharing kind. Ask me when I experienced this at the Coffee Club at the Naroibi Adda of colonials who used to huddle as a clan and refuse to share, even with each other, with that stiff upper lip and a smug that they could do what ordinary mortals cannot !

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    1. Deepak Gopinath26 March 2013 at 13:09

      Individual choice.

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    2. Padmanabhan26 March 2013 at 14:20

      Maybe the suspense element makes it a bit spicy and they can choose to have the fun of watching things incognito and reveal later at a suitable time. Also, our comments will remain unbiased.

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    3. Anonymous26 March 2013 at 15:57

      The last sentence of the above post is very relevant. Setters may chose to reveal their 'good name' publicly when they think fit.

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