Today's Buzz is that Buzzer has not given any Monday morning blues. Hence, this line is not blue.
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1 Perhaps end of this rash mountaineer (11) ENUMERATION (MOUNTAINEER)*
9 Master class about unity (6) GENIUS (GENUS around 1= unity) In arithmetic 1 is also called the multiplicative identity in a system where nx1=n. Can anyone give me another example of a multiplicative identity (other than 1) ?
10 Former anti-terrorism legislation body ends underground developments (8) POTATOES (POTA TOES) My COD
11 Off-white creeper’s yellow on the inside (5) IVORY (IVY around OR) FYI, for people who dream of seeing the giant ivory tusks displayed on Moi Avenue in Mombasa: They are a disappointment: made of sheet metal (close up, the riveting is visible) and painted off-white.
12 Lies outright to get good cigars (7) STOGIES (STORIES -R +G)
13 Sieve had filtered paste (8) ADHESIVE (SIEVE HAD)*
15 Revolutionary many assume is betrayed (4,2) TOLD ON (LOT< DON)
16 Sit at leisure turning page around to doodle (6) SCRAWL (SPRAWL -P+C) My handwriting is so beautiful that doctors would admit me (to their profession) without batting an eyelid or two. It is not only illegible (except to me), it would most probably be illegal too. I even doubt whether the guys from the third to fifth letters can decipher it without my help.
18 Stand at ease? On the contrary remain firmly in place (3,5) SIT TIGHT CD
20 Acknowledge a welcome hug (5,2) AGREE TO ( A GREET O from OXOX...Hugs and kisses)
21 Bachelor, say, hesitating to get title (5) BEGUM (B EG UM) One might have to beg, um, one of the ladies to take that role
22 Reverse earlier decision following stupid IPL fiasco (4-4) FLIP FLOP (F IPL* FLOP) Describes news reports about what was supposed to happen and what really happened at BCCI yesterday night
23 Drop a question that’s unintelligible (6) OPAQUE (T)
24 Mechanic has repaired ATM (4,7) CASH MACHINE (MECHANIC HAS)* My pseudonym (known only to my children)
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2 Din without order is disagreeable (7) NOISOME (without OM, this is NOISE)
3 Feature of hippopotamus typically is smelling stale (5) MUSTY (T)
4 Counter attack is rightly not very sportive (7) RIPOSTE (SPORTIvE)*
5 Retaliation from time to time describes trait of nuts (3,3,3) TIT FOR TAT (T (TRAIT OF)* T)
6 Up in a court // when under probation (2,5) ON TRIAL 2
7 H-He might be topping this chart (8,5) PERIODIC TABLE (CD) which starts with H-ydrogen and He-lium. Initially thought this was a stuttering clue
8 Building more funhouses in appreciation of wit (5,2,6) SENSE OF HUMOUR (MORE FUNHOUSES)*
14 Iodine will cure most of the disease (3,6) ILL HEALTH (I'LL HEAL THe)
17 Support group displaying a chart of Jesus’ sayings (7) AGRAPHA (A-lcololics A-nonymous outside GRAPH) Oral morals may also be included in these
18 Vegetable starving apes gobbled at once (4,3) SNOW PEA (APES* around NOW)
19 Popular cereal root (7) INGRAIN (IN GRAIN)
21 Stall // a killer (5) BOOTH 2 When JW Booth killed Lincoln, the president was sitting in a stall they called the President's Box. Well, he did end up in a box. Actually both of them.
16 Sit at leisure turning page around to doodle (6) SCRAWL
ReplyDeleteS{-p}{+C}RAWL
Thanks, Sandy, I forgot to type it in.
Delete24 Mechanic has repaired ATM (4,7) CASH MACHINE (MECHANIC HAS)* My pseudonym (known only to my children)
ReplyDeleteI guess that name holds for all parents :P
Even the ones who print it in the basement.
DeleteSadly, yes!
DeleteWhat happens when this cash machine breaks down?
DeleteLiquidity is hit - no more booze.
DeleteBut you are a TT, aren't you?
DeleteNo more booze, only boos from the cash aspirants, maybe...
I am, the cash machine broke down long back.
DeleteMy hubby is a Banker, many people think that he is a cash machine!
DeleteBut he is an ATM for me,most of the days I will get a message as "Your request cannot be processed".
:)
DeleteIf hubbies were to be mobiles, the most oft-heard message would have been, 'The person you are trying to contact is currently out of reach'...
Some hubbies, i understand, save their wives number under the heading ' wrong number'
DeleteKishore,
ReplyDeleteYou have a day-night mismatch in your comment at 22A ;-)
A flip flop on my part. As Richard put it once, when it is night, we call it a day ...
DeleteMy original quote was, 'Shall we say good night and call it a day'? :}
DeleteWhy is it always called 'first night'?
ReplyDeleteIt may not always be, what with PMS (not the regular unmentionable periods)
DeleteI am also reminded of announcements in the bus stands - 'The last bus to .... will not be operating today.'
DeleteCV, another of your 'leading' questions!
Or should we call it Miss-leading ?
DeleteExcellent set of clues, as usual by Buzzer, with his awesome anagrams.
ReplyDeleteDropping a question about 23 A's indicator for the [T]?
Drop a question that’s unintelligible
DeleteThat's = 'That is' in the surface reading
That's = 'That has' in the Cryptic reading
Got it. Thanks.
DeleteS{-p}{+C}RAWL
ReplyDeleteWhat's C in place of P?
around is circa - C and Page is P
DeleteOverlooked that. Thanks.
DeleteKishore, what did you call that, biting the bait?
ReplyDeleteCartoon for 8D has misspelt 'Aqueous' as 'Acqueous'... :)
Good spotting. I shall replace it.
Delete16A - There could be people who would not be able to read their own handwriting after a few hours elapse...
ReplyDeleteIn my college days , whenever I went home for holidays, My mother used to bring a sheaf of Inland letters and asked me to read out underlined portions which she could not decipher. Needless to say , I was studying Medicine. I still do not know how my examiners read my answer papers and still passed me.
ReplyDeleteThe examiners would have given the answer papers to their children in school vacation to value them.
DeleteThis goes back to the old joke-
ReplyDelete2 people understood it when it was written (read God & me) Now only one knows and that is not me.
Day- night mismatch. OK for Raju & me( from across the globe), but others?
Can somebody explain ENUMERATION? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteEnumeration = count at 'the end of' each clue shown in brackets.
DeleteGood one as usual from Buzzer. 1A & 7D were my CoD.
ReplyDeleteHad a question regarding 18D
Is starving a valid anagrind ?
I felt starve as in suffer fits
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ReplyDeleteGreat one from Buzzer.
We can even name this as BLOGS OF HUMOUR OR BLOBS OF HUMOUR OR GOBS OF HUMOUR
OR MAYBE, A HOUSE OF HUMOUR?
Keep em' come in, Kishore and Richard . I enjoy the thrust and parry of your punning duel. Great ONE- PUN and FUN. NONE TO GET YOU DONE.