Thursday, 13 June 2013

No 10798, Thursday 13 Jun 13, Textrous

Good outing from Textrous. Tried Chaturvasi's formatting style, too much of effort involved.


ACROSS
8
CAREER
Nurse takes English course (6)


{CAR{E}ER}
9
CHARADES
After endless babble, criminal dares blatant deceptions (8)


{CHAt}{DARES}*
10
DETECTOR
Sensor to prohibit top executive getting in (8)


DETECTOR {DETE{CTO}R}
11
CARPEL
Part of flower originally recognised in place abroad (6)


CARPEL {CA{R}PEL}*
12
LASSIE
Young girl’s fabrication about dope (6)


{L{ASS}IE}
13
SORCERER
Wizard angrier about church rector (8)


{SOR{CE}{R}ER}
14
DECEASE
Passing the last month free from worry (7)


{DEC}{EASE}
16
FLUSTER
Upset fellow with pathetic result (7)


{F}{RESULT}*
20
SCRAMBLE
Move quickly, secure regularly, then move slowly (8)


{SeCuRe}{AMBLE}
23
RADIUS
Spoke goodbyes, leaving England after the end of October (6)


{R}{ADIeUS}
25
ARRIVE
Come to a group of clear rivers (6)


ARRIVE [T]
26
RHEOSTAT
Toaster redesigned to allow a bit of heat and variable resistance (8)


{TOASTER+H}*
27
RESTLESS
Left tresses loose outside, tossing and turning (8)


{REST{L}ESS}*
28
STAVES
Prevents rescues taking time (6)


{S{T}AVES}

DOWN
1
LACERATE
Cut and tear off delicate fabric at the beginning (8)


{LACE}{TEAR}*
2
RECESS
Temporary withdrawal from work bay (6)


RECESS Anno pending [DD] - See comments
3
TROTTERS
Scoundrels chasing the first of the brisk walkers (8)


{The}{ROTTERS}
4
ACTRESS
Casters might arrange for her (7)


ACTRESS*
5
LANCER
Cavalryman left with deadly disease, decapitated (6)


{L}{cANCER}
6
HAIRLESS
Shaven horse’s out of breath (8)


{H}{AIRLESS}
7
RENEGE
Cop out of gene mutation (6)


{RE}{GENE}*
15
EMACIATE
I reached over and had nourishment to become lean (8)


{EMAC}{I}<={ATE}
17
LARGESSE
Gift from the capital of Singapore, I’m told (8)


LARGESSE (~large S)
18
EDUCATED
Taught bridge players to conceal gold coin with many (8)


{E{DUCAT}E}{D}
19
REFRESH
Enliven an umpire, he’s disoriented after run (7)


{REF}{R}{HE'S}*
21
CURFEW
Ceaselessly treat some to a ban on movement (6)


{CURe}{FEW}
22
BEEPER
Paging device’s alarm call ignored by apiarist (6)


BEEkeePER How is KEE an alarm call? (Addendum - BeekEEPER - See comments)
24
DISBAR
To expel one from the legal profession is bad, not exactly right (6)


{D}{IS}{BAd}{R} First D from? (Addendum - {IS+BAD}*{R} - See comments)




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50 comments:

  1. Anonymous13 June 2013 at 08:31


    2d DD Temporary withdrawal from work, bay

    Apropos 17d, compare with clue from today’s HT23720:
    8 Capital letter, some say, for Bounty (8)

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  2. Anonymous13 June 2013 at 08:32

    24

    DISBAR

    To expel one from the legal profession is bad, not exactly right (6)
    {D}{IS}{BAd}{R} First D from?

    ISBAD* R

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  3. Venkatesh13 June 2013 at 08:32

    2 RECESS
    DD
    Temporary withdrawal from work
    Bay

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  4. Anonymous13 June 2013 at 08:33

    22

    BEEPER

    Paging device’s alarm call ignored by apiarist (6)

    BEEkeePER How is KEE an alarm call?

    BeekEEPER

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  5. Venkatesh13 June 2013 at 08:34

    22d BE[-eke]EPER

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  6. Deepak Gopinath13 June 2013 at 08:37

    Thanks Kishore & Venkatesh. Spent too much type on trying out this format.

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    1. Anonymous13 June 2013 at 08:40

      The results look nice, but as you say it may be difficult to apply given the time available. I will see if I can achieve the same results using some other method of formatting.

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    2. Bhavan13 June 2013 at 08:44

      Might be easier if this formatting is done in MS Word and the resultant table copied and pasted into the blog post ?

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    3. Deepak Gopinath13 June 2013 at 08:53

      That's what I did. But in doing so I had to copy paste each clue and then type out the answers and the annotations in the relevant cells which took time. Besides this I had done the normal formatting also in case this didn't work out. Maybe if I had done only the Word version I would have been able to do it comfortably.

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    4. Chaturvasi13 June 2013 at 08:55

      Please see related post of mine down below.

      Any facility that does not make us visit any website of the app producer and which imports clues from the paper's website - is such a thing possible?

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    5. Kishore13 June 2013 at 08:57

      I have just worked on it in MS Excel using len, left and right functions on a text string. Seems to work ok. I just have to see how the font looks.

      I have saved a Test version in blogger for Deepak's review.

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    6. Kishore13 June 2013 at 09:04

      I could set a colour format in Excel for the answers, but when copied into Blogger, the colour disappeared, so I had to manually color the answers. Unfortunately, there is no format painter in the Blogger.

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    7. Deepak Gopinath13 June 2013 at 09:14

      I have solved theproblem of copy/pasting into each cell by using the facility of 'Convert text to table' in Word. Now that will leave only the problem of adding additional columns to the left for the clue number and the answer and adding rows between each clue for entering the annotations and pictures/cartoons

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    8. Deepak Gopinath13 June 2013 at 09:15

      Kishore@ 8:57

      Looks OK

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    9. Anonymous13 June 2013 at 09:19

      Will try tomorrow, Skullduggery permitting.

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    10. Anonymous13 June 2013 at 09:20

      Deepak @ 9.14

      Please look at mail attachment sent to you

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    11. Deepak Gopinath13 June 2013 at 09:41

      Tomorrow should be Tester

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    12. Anonymous13 June 2013 at 09:46

      Don't know. Tester missed out in Apr and May.

      Delete
  7. Anonymous13 June 2013 at 08:39

    Apropos CV's post today wrt yesterday's post:

    Remove all traces of them, I say!

    What ?! and give up English crossword puzzles ???

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    1. Chaturvasi13 June 2013 at 08:53

      Come on, Kishore!

      I didn't include the English language in that list, did I?

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    2. Kishore13 June 2013 at 08:58

      Quote "All traces" Unquote

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    3. Chaturvasi13 June 2013 at 09:22

      Yes, I wrote: "Remove all traces of them," The list that goes before that does not include the language!

      Delete
  8. Venkatesh13 June 2013 at 08:40

    Kishore,
    You have it right - B[-eek]EEPER.

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  9. Chaturvasi13 June 2013 at 08:50

    With so many computer professionals around here...

    I am just wondering if someone can't produce an app/program/whatever of a 'post template' which will let us produce this (or similar) effect easily.

    If that app gets the clue text from the website so that we needn't type/copy-paste the clue text, so much better!

    However, if that has the latter capacity as well, I don't know if the app can be sent to a poster and let it reside in his computer (I am using 'his' advisedly as we don't have a woman blogger as yet).

    Any thoughts/comments from visiting computerwallas and -wallis?

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    1. Kishore13 June 2013 at 08:59

      Your usage of -wallis reminds me of the ladies who sell maize/bhutta/joLa:

      Can we call them Corn-wallis ?

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    2. Chaturvasi13 June 2013 at 09:18

      அப்பா, உன்னை வாà®°்த்தை விளையாட்டில் யாà®°ுà®®ே வெல்லமுடியாது.

      appaa, unnai vaarththai viLaiyaattil yaarumae vellamudiyaathu.

      (Buddy, none can beat you in wordplay.)

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  10. Venkatesh13 June 2013 at 08:51

    Bhavan,
    Thanks for putting up the CW at the Orkut site by 3AM daily, much before the paper comes out.
    It becomes easy to make the grid and solve it.
    Is there some arrangement with the setters?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath13 June 2013 at 08:57

      Bhavan has a paid subscription to the e-paper of the Hindu which comes up at 2 or so in the morning as the normal online Hindu used to come up earlier.

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    2. Venkatesh13 June 2013 at 09:03

      Thanks, Col.

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    3. Bhavan13 June 2013 at 09:07

      @Venkatesh,

      Colonel is right. I took a subscription because of the unpredictability of the on-line Hindu paper showing the crossword.

      I post it as soon as I can access it so that others like Gita Iyer in different time zones can get to it.

      Also on days when thehindu.com doesn't show up the puzzle soon enough, it gives time to people like Colonel and Kishore who have to prepare the blog post.

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    4. Anonymous13 June 2013 at 09:13

      Bhavan's posting of a link to the grid is also helpful, when the Orkut app. does not pick up the grid from the paper. If not for that, I need to either create the grid based on the clue lengths or to hunt for past grids of the same setter taking up a bit of a time.

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  11. Raghunath13 June 2013 at 09:23

    Excellent and crisp one from Textrous, as is normal in his case. Probably a bit more tricky than usual. Just wondering whether a QM could have been placed at end of clue 15 Dn. The clue as it is does not sound plausible.

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  12. Chaturvasi13 June 2013 at 09:41

    Col Deepak

    In the preamble, it must be Chaturvasi's.

    Chaturvasi is not married, he has not raised a family! So there are no Chaturvasis.

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  13. Venkatesh13 June 2013 at 12:47

    18 D Taught bridge players to conceal gold coin with many (8) {E{DUCAT}E}{D}

    Generally, bridge players are used to indicate a mixture of two (not necessarily partners), and sometimes three or rarely even four out of N,S,E and W. Here, it is used to indicate the same player (E) twice!

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  14. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan13 June 2013 at 12:53

    @ Col I can't understand the anno for 17 D .Can you please explain.




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  15. Chaturvasi13 June 2013 at 13:06

    Gift from the capital of Singapore, I’m told (8)

    Gift - def
    from - link
    the capital of Singapore, - lietrally the capital or initial letter of the following word - S
    I’m told - the setter hears it as LARGE S - that is LARG(e) ESSE

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    1. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan13 June 2013 at 13:25

      I can understand Def - gift And S- Singapore.But I don't understand the "LARGE" part.

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    2. Chaturvasi13 June 2013 at 13:43

      The capital of Singapore is S - which is a large S - though we usually refer to it as big S or capital S. The setter has it as 'large S' and in expressing your doubt repeatedly you have raised a valid query whether it is correct - something all of us overlooked earlier

      In any case say LARGESSE as the setter want us to

      What do you hear?

      LARGE S

      that is

      LARG[e] ESSE = LARGESSE = gift

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    3. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan13 June 2013 at 16:00

      Thanks CV Sir.

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    4. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan13 June 2013 at 16:14

      Still I am not convinced with Large used for capital in this clue.

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  16. Raghunath13 June 2013 at 14:04

    Good point brought out by Lakshmi. Then how is it different from this which appeared in the HT today:

    8 Capital letter, some say, for Bounty (8) LARGESSE (~large S).

    I thought CV or some veteran solver would reply to my comment of 9.23

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  17. Col_Gopinath13 June 2013 at 14:08

    Off to Coimbatore this afternoon, will be back on Sunday

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    1. raju umamaheswar14 June 2013 at 05:14

      Sorry since I am away, we will miss each other ! have a good stay and give our regards to your sister and family

      Raju & Sapna

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  18. VP13 June 2013 at 16:51

    Nice & smooth one from Textrous.

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  19. Padmanabhan13 June 2013 at 19:42

    Kishore/ Bhavan,

    Is there a link to the grid in Bhavan's entry in Orkut? It would be very useful to me now that I am in U.S. Could you pl. let me know how to access it? I should add that my computer knowledge is not all that good. I shall take some help here after your reply.

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    1. Kishore14 June 2013 at 08:27

      Yes, but not everday ;-)

      It is there for today (Friday's) CW just after the clues. It is not an interactive one, but an image similar to the one you will find on TH page earmarked in this blog

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  20. RameshJ13 June 2013 at 21:28

    Nice one from Textrous. A tad easier than usual?

    Q: Can rheostat be variable resistance ? It provides a way of varying resistance. It can be defined as a variable resistor but can it be as variable resistance ? Or am I missing something ?

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  21. Chaturvasi14 June 2013 at 05:53

    No, you're not missing anything.

    You've a point! The definition is not precise.

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