Tuesday, 28 May 2013

No.10784, Tuesday 28 May 13, Gridman

Gridman's fine run continues. Specially liked the LUNATIC, FASCINATE, SURE-FIRE and PHYSIOTHERAPY

ACROSS
1 Confine a Tamil leader inside as being inexperienced (8) IMMATURE (A T inside IMMURE)
5 I therefore block line on map (6) ISOBAR (I + SO + BAR)
9 Crazy person involved in a cult (7) LUNATIC (IN A CULT)*
10 Soldiers look back for umbrella (7) PARASOL (PARAS + LO<=)
11 Haphazard pals working hard to get PC program by end of July (4-5) SLAP-HAPPY (PAL* + H + APP + Y)
12 Levels // apartment building? (5) FLATS (DD)
13 Surpassing // deliveries? (4) OVER (DD)
14 One women’s institute gets result after kilo of something to eat (4,5) KIWI, FRUIT (1 W I + FRUIT after K)
17 In a different way, fiesta can charm (9) FASCINATE (FIESTA CAN)*
19 The national who goes free, so to speak (4) SCOT (CD)
23 Apostrophising a fellow, one foreign national (5) OMANI (O'MAN + I)
24 Efficient // spy (9) OPERATIVE (DD)
25 Bulk of allotment? (7) QUANTUM (CD)
26 Scholars wrongly made expert to go around (7) ACADEME (ACE outside MADE*)
27 Tempt ten cunningly with diamonds (6) ENTICE (TEN* + ICE)
28 Exercises by tribal chief at a riding event (8) GYMKHANA (GYM + KHAN + A)

DOWN
1 Fancy changing head of reference (8) ILLUSION (ALLUSION with I for A)
2 Muni rejected one European’s routine (7) MUNDANE (MUNi + DANE)
3 Sir leaves stitchery terribly cross (6) TETCHY (sTiTCHErY)*
4 Welcome part of a building? (9,4) RECEPTION, ROOM (CD)
6 The kind of success an arsonist would like to have? (4-4) SURE-FIRE (CD)
7 Rice for mother in Indian slum (7) BASMATI (MA inside BASTI)
8 Enjoy // pickle (6) RELISH (DD)
10 The art of the rubber? (13) PHYSIOTHERAPY (CD)
15 Quote recalled about scene showing round figure (8) ECLIPTIC (CITE<= outside CLIP)
16 Alien may react wildly about quarter and so on (2,6) ET, CETERA (ET + REACT* outside E)
18 A bar on worker is hard (7) ADAMANT (A + DAM + ANT)
20 Fancy ring given to the artist (7) CHIMERA (CHIME + RA)
21 Right quote circulated for a kind of necklace (6) TORQUE ( R QUOTE)*
22 Daughter and Mother to inquire about table linen (6) DAMASK (D + MA inside ASK)


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31 comments:

  1. Chaturvasi28 May 2013 at 08:47

    The parasol pic is 'technical', as a bachelor friend of mine would describe 'sex' whenever the subject came up among friends.

    I can't imagine a parasol without a woman in bikini in its shade.

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    1. Anonymous28 May 2013 at 11:10

      Bhavan has given us the bare essentials

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  2. gxdxr28 May 2013 at 08:52

    Can somebody explain the PHYSIOTHERAPY clue? Thanks.

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    1. Anonymous28 May 2013 at 09:37

      Rubber= Masseur

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    2. Chaturvasi28 May 2013 at 10:30

      In my dictionary...

      Rubber = masseuse

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    3. Vasu28 May 2013 at 11:03

      RUBBER FOR 'MIS(S)USE?

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    4. Anonymous28 May 2013 at 11:08

      CV 1030,

      Perhaps under the aforementioned parasol ?

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    5. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan28 May 2013 at 12:21

      Both Masseur/masseuse is given in Dictionary.com- a person who gives massages ;Masseur or masseuse.

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    6. Anonymous28 May 2013 at 13:09

      LV, What CV perhaps meant was that he would prefer a masseuse to a masseur ...

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    7. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan28 May 2013 at 16:38

      :-)

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    8. Richard28 May 2013 at 20:50

      Boys will be boys!

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  3. Anonymous28 May 2013 at 09:38

    Liked the firebug best. Remembered Stephen King.

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  4. Anonymous28 May 2013 at 09:38

    Hey guys and gals,

    Did you have a dekko at my new topless profile photo ?

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  5. Deepak Gopinath28 May 2013 at 10:00

    The profile photo is too small to see if there is a top or a bottom to it ;-)

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    1. Chaturvasi28 May 2013 at 10:29

      When the avatar first appeared, I tried to figure out what it was, but it was very small. I was too lazy to do any brahmaprayatnam to reach conclusions.

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  6. Anonymous28 May 2013 at 11:05

    Just the screen zoom will suffice

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  7. Navneeth28 May 2013 at 11:55

    The line at the top says "ancient geek". The picture at the bottom is the capital letter G modeled to resemble a Roman helmet, which Wiki tells me is called a Galea, sitting on what looks like a version of the letter Pi; the whole thing looks like stick figure of a soldier. Very nicely done, Kishore.


    Kishore/Gridman,
    I must apologise for my comment from last week, which was posted in some haste (regarding the unit for work/energy). I'm not sure what I was thinking which led me to post that.

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    1. Anonymous28 May 2013 at 12:04

      The design is from Lloyd King, and it spells out GEEK, set around in te form of a Greek helmeted head, with te horizontal portion of te G forming the eye

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    2. Chaturvasi28 May 2013 at 12:11

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    3. Chaturvasi28 May 2013 at 12:13

      Navneet, no problem about that.

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    4. Navneeth28 May 2013 at 12:20

      Ah! I went with the Greek/Geek theme and saw it as Pi, rather than a rotated K. And of course, I completely missed the E's.

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  8. Venkatesh28 May 2013 at 13:59

    Relish (8Dn)
    Remembered the story 'Two Bottles of Relish" by Lord Dunsany.
    Smithers, who sells Num-numo, a relish for meats & savories, poses a challenge to his roommate Linley, an Oxford educated man with a very sharp mind, to have a go at solving a strange murder case.
    A girl is staying with the suspect. She was not seen for 20 days. When the police entered the cottage, there was no sign of her or her body. The suspect, a strict vegetarian, had not left the house at all. He had been cutting down all the trees in the garden, piling them up. He had also bought 2 bottles of Num-numo!
    Linley tells Smithers to ask the grocer whether the suspect bought the 2 bottles of num-numo together or on different occasions. Based on the answer, Linley comes up with a startling solution that may be difficult for most of us to 'stomach'.

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  9. Unknown28 May 2013 at 14:25

    Agree!!

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    1. Chaturvasi28 May 2013 at 18:15

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    2. Chaturvasi28 May 2013 at 18:16

      This is one of my most favourite short stories. I wrote about it in a blog since not maintained.

      http://cgrishikesh.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/lord-dunsany-two-bottles-of-relish/

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    3. Chaturvasi28 May 2013 at 18:36

      In that blog I referred to another story. You might want to know which one it is.

      http://cgrishikesh.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/

      I should probably resume writing in that blog. Hope the abandoned blog settings will allow me to do so.

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    4. Chaturvasi28 May 2013 at 18:39

      Re the Lord Dunsany story.

      You will note that my summary does not in any way give a clue to the person who is yet to read the story as to how it might end.

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  10. VJ28 May 2013 at 15:40

    23: How is Apostrophising = O'?

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  11. PKPSwami28 May 2013 at 16:58

    Apostrophising is addressing someone

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  12. raju umamaheswar28 May 2013 at 20:47

    Another excellent one from Gridman.

    My clue of the day: ECLIPTIC: Clever use of the word CLIP to mean a scene, as in a clip of a movie.

    Again, GYMKHANA is a beautiful usage. Etymology of Gymkhana is worth looking into . GEND KHANA
    later on assumed to be from Jamat Khana - a place of assembly by Ismailis in Nairobi, usually very familiar with the Aga Khan followers. It is their socio-religious custom, where prayers, weddings and funeral meetings take place.

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