Tuesday 23 April 2013

No.10754, Tuesday 23 Apr 13, Gridman

Some really good clues here while the overall puzzle has the Gridman stamp. Liked VEILING, ABOLISHED, ISLE, SEER, SUPPOSE, AT ISSUE and ARROW.

ACROSS
1 Advocacy, with the sixth sense, for backward artist to abandon stimulation (8) ESPOUSAL (ESP + ar<=OUSAL)
6 Yell king is out of fight (4) BAWL (BrAWL)
9 Choose one mother for ideals (6) OPTIMA (OPT + 1 + MA)
10 Live wickedly in good covering (7) VEILING (LIVE* + IN + G)
13 Put an end to spilling oil in a second-rate warehouse (9) ABOLISHED (OIL* inside A + B + SHED)
14 For six, it’s unusual sojourn (5) VISIT (VI + IT'S*)
15 Retain // stronghold (4) KEEP (DD)
16 Reason with nobody at WTC site in New York (6,4) GROUND, ZERO (GROUND + ZERO)
19 What six of one is of the other, proverbially (4,1,5) HALF, A, DOZEN (E)
21 Piece of land one’s almost leased (4) ISLE (1'S + LEt)
24 Top saint’s practice (5) USAGE (U + SAGE)
25 Mail raising fear of danger? Not exactly (5,4) ALARM, POST (CD)
26 Collector is more difficult about circle (7) HOARDER (HARDER outside O)
27 “__ not to reason why” (Tennyson) (6) THEIRS (GK)
28 Prophet given some weight in India in the past (4) SEER (DD)
29 How a person looks in wonder (4-4) WIDE-EYED (E)

DOWN
2 Imagine spouse, annoyed, keeping quiet (7) SUPPOSE (SPOUSE* outside P)
3 Short grunt about a veda’s beginning (6) ORIGIN (OINk outside RIG)
4 Hit Oriental jumper, hit! (9) SMASHEROO (SMASH + E + ROO)
5 Angry as strikingly bright leader makes room for novice (5) LIVID (VIVID with L for V)
7 A complex accumulation is up for debate (2,5) AT, ISSUE (A + TISSUE)
8 Bright times when there’s no tension (5,7) LIGHT, MOMENTS (LIGHT + MOMENTS)
11 Penetrate one new Veda rendition (6) INVADE (1 + N + VEDA*)
12 These occur when one is brooding dismally (4,8) DARK, THOUGHTS (CD)
17 Botched up Texan duel not celebrated (9) UNEXALTED (TEXAN DUEL)*
18 Termination where there might be a filter (3,3) FAG, END (CD)
20 What escapes owing to a pipe problem, perhaps (7) LEAKAGE (CD)
22 Standing firm in the rush to plague (7) SCOURGE (CO inside SURGE)
23 I’m deep-set to hinder (6) IMPEDE (I'M + DEEP*)
25 Limited non-nuclear missile (5) ARROW (nARROW)


32 comments:

  1. 28 Prophet given some weight in India in the past (4) SEER (DD)

    Fish in Mangalore !

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    1. In the olden days would they have said "Give me one seer of Seer?

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    2. ... to feed a seer.

      Someone may say ayyo !

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    3. 'Seer' was also a measure of volume for grain. It was made of four 'pavs' (plural of pav). I remember, as a kid, having seen at home a shining cylindrical receptacle made of copper, used to measure rice.

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  2. In Tamil we had 'aazhaakku'.

    I don't know how many of these made something else ("padi"?), but every home had this measure at home.

    Street vendors would use it while selling goods. Housewives might use it for measuring ingredients while cooking.

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    1. 8 aazhakkus made 1 padi & 4 padi made 1 marakka. Seer (pronounced as 'saer' in Tamil) was a measure of weight.
      Cooking quantities have shrunk with shrinking of families (nuclear?) and aazhakku is considered too big!

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    2. Wasn't 8 padi one marakkal? There is a Mukuruni Pillayar in Meenakshi Amman Temple. We were told that they make one big kozhukattai made out of 3 Kuruni's (aka Marakkaal). But the math doesn't work correctly. Any insights?

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    3. Sorry , missed out something .. And one kuruni was supposed to be 6 Padi

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    4. You are right. There are 2 variants of marakkal- 4 & 8 padis.

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    5. I came across "mukuruni pillayar" in a Tamil story that I was reading. Didn't know the background to the name. Thanks, AD, for your note.

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  3. Kishore

    Did you know that the crossword blog on The Guardian has been suggesting answers to clues embedded in PGW's 'Something fishy'?

    Today I have suggested an answer to the last of the clues.

    Visit

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/crossword-blog/2013/apr/18/crossword-blog-help-solve-missing-wodehouse-clues?commentpage=1

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    1. Thanks for the ref. I am flummoxed for the nonce.

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  4. I think 25 dn ARROW is the best of all.

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  5. Took a long time getting it until I narrowed down the possibilities!

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  6. Replies
    1. Hit = SMASH
      Oriental = E
      jumper = ROO (kangaroo)
      hit = Definition = {SMASH}{E}{ROO} meaning a person or thing of superlative quality, importance, etc, eg a smash hit (from Chambers)

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    2. Thank you Col.I could not get the 'roo' part. It is clear now.

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  7. Very good crossword, some brilliant clues, like 4D and 16A!
    Good morning all.
    Missing Doc - Sandhya, hope all is well with you!

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    1. If you are referring to me - I'm fine, thank you! :)

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  8. Apologies for the lack of pictures and links to wikipedia or wiktionary or such to clarify uncommon words/references. Had very little time to spare in the morning.

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  9. I thought it had something to do with the copyright issue.

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  10. Gridman has added vigour to my morning

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  11. The other day a TV news channel has

    ALLIANCE DALLIANCE

    as a caption.

    Your task is to write a clue for either word using the other word for wordplay.

    One poster, one chance only.

    Write the word chosen with a colon and then the clue, the wordplay using the other word that need not be mentioned openly.

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    1. Has Gridman added rigour to our afternoon, Suresh?

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  12. In response to CV sir's invitation for a clue:

    David's bond with flirtation? (9)

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  13. Enjoyable one today. Surface in 2D brought a smile.

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  14. Alliance: Courting, after relinquishing some money, leads to marriage (8)

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  15. Punch in 18 d is quite nice.12d-gives food for thoughts.

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  16. Agreement after start of day leads to dawdling.

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  17. DALLIANCE: Duke's affinity for flirtation.

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