Tuesday, 11 June 2013

No.10796, Tuesday 11 Jun 13, Mover

ACROSS
1 Alas! Radha Krishnan initially went astray in African villages (6) KRAALS (ALAS RK)*
4 Want fish to be annoying (8) NEEDLING (NEED + LING)
9 Change in hay pH could result in fungal growth (5) HYPHA (HAY PH)*
10 Show sadness when fruit gets cut out (4,1,4) SHED, A, TEAR (DATE inside SHEAR)
11 Authentic // old coin (4) REAL (DD)
12 A fool providing information (4) DOPE (DD)
13 Lion’s leader publicises dens (5) LAIRS (L + AIRS)
15 Unusual dog to establish state unit (7) BASENJI (BASE + NJ + I)
16 Nothing more than a distress signal, neither good nor bad (2-2) SO-SO (SOS + 0)
19 Tease tense intellect (4) TWIT (T + WIT)
20 Granny eager for cotton cloth (7) NANKEEN (NAN + KEEN)
23 Hollow // light measure (5) LUMEN (DD)
24 Cheese made up (4) EDAM (MADE<=)
25 Herring basket brought back for a federal agent (4) NARC (CRAN<=)
27 A plural in awkward shape for a woman who has never given birth (9) NULLIPARA (A PLURAL IN)*
28 Divine instrument for drilling, one hears (5) AUGUR (~AUGER)
29 Swimmers taken by waterways (8) HADDOCKS (HAD + DOCKS)
30 Moves smoothly, these glass mounts (6) SLIDES (DD)

DOWN
1 Eye makeup with winter harvest vegetable (8) KOHLRABI (KOHL + RABI)
2 Acclaim gold’s found inside fruit (8) APPLAUSE (AU'S inside APPLE)
3 Live // wire found in a pencil (4) LEAD (DD)
5 Samson described by Huxley? (7,2,4) EYELESS, IN, GAZA (GK)
6 Fatal errors? (6,4) DEADLY, SINS (E)
7 Boiled in rice peacefully (6) IRENIC (IN RICE)* Definition is an adverb and answer is an adjective
8 Showy part of a cigar is hidden (6) GARISH (T)
10 Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4) SHOT,IN,THE,DARK (CD)
14 Nocturnal animal gnaws endlessly on bait mixture (10) ANGWANTIBO (GNAWs ON BAIT)*
17 Crazy bell sounded indeed! (8) DERANGED (RANG inside DEED)
18 Nico runs around fabulous animals (8) UNICORNS (NICO RUNS)*
21 Start state measurement (6) FLINCH (FL + INCH)
22 Took risks, lost head and walked leisurely (6) AMBLED (gAMBLED)
26 Announce Cinderella’s fateful destination and cry (4) BAWL (~BALL)


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  1. Venkatesh11 June 2013 at 08:34

    10 Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4) SHOT,IN,THE,DARK (CD)

    I would classify this as double and cryptic definition
    (d&cd)
    straight defn: Guess
    cryptic defn: what the benighted marksman did?

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    1. Col_Gopinath11 June 2013 at 08:54

      What is a double and cryptic definition, does that mean two definitions besides a Cryptic definition?

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    2. Venkatesh11 June 2013 at 09:02

      It has double definitions - one straight and one cryptic.
      Depending on their positions, we put it as
      d&cd - where cryptic definition comes second
      c&dd - where cryptic definition comes first

      For details, pl refer http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2010/02/cryptic-double-definitions.html

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    3. Chaturvasi11 June 2013 at 09:04

      Now, tell me if the second def is indeed cryptic.

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  2. Chaturvasi11 June 2013 at 08:47

    I disagree.

    What is 'cryptic' about the second def 'what the benighted marksman did'? It is another definition, maybe more descriptive, picturesque, pointed, precise than the other.

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  3. Richard11 June 2013 at 09:00

    15A BASENJI, I am coming across this word for the first time, Ji...

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    1. Chaturvasi11 June 2013 at 09:03

      As if you had heard about and seen the nocturnal animal...

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    2. Venkatesh11 June 2013 at 09:15

      While LKA put lots of 'ji' in his missive yesterday to Rajnath Singh'ji': Deendayalji, Nanaji, Vajpayeeji, he overlooked the first in the list probably as it already had a ji - Mookerji!

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    3. Shrikanth11 June 2013 at 09:19

      Was there a need for 'unusual' to be there?

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    4. Chaturvasi11 June 2013 at 09:21

      Great observation. LOL.

      A part of this letter I saw yesterday in a website where while quoting a sentence they had missed out a word and annoyed me. It is quite correct in the original, a facsimile of which appears in today's papers.

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    5. Chaturvasi11 June 2013 at 09:45

      In some religious discourse I heard that names such as Trivedi, Chaturvedi, Banerjee all denote that the person concerned was well-versed with a certain number of vedas.
      If I remember right, Mukherjee too belongs to that category and it is a corruption of Mukhopadhyay.
      So in the abbreviated, corrupt form it already has the honorific ji.
      'Nomphilist' Richard or someone else others might confirm what I have written above from memory.

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    6. Richard11 June 2013 at 10:28

      You are right.

      I am told that Bannerji stands for Bandopadhyay, Ganguly for Gangopadhyay, Chatterji for Chattopadhyay and the like.

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  4. Chaturvasi11 June 2013 at 09:01

    I got LUMEN from the second def. Didn't know the 'hollow' def that I learnt on seeing today's blog and later looking up the dict. Thank-you blogger and blog owner.

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    1. Bhavan11 June 2013 at 10:10

      I didn't know that either until I looked it up.

      I thought I had provided an on-line link to that definition, but forgot. Have updated it now.

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  5. Chaturvasi11 June 2013 at 09:08

    30 Moves smoothly, these glass mounts (6) SLIDES (DD)

    If we say 'Came I', it means 'I came' - after the shift of the parts of the sentence.

    The parts are changed for dramatic effect.

    If we change the parts of the clue sentence, the sentence becomes ungrammatical, as the verb must be 'move'.

    Am I being too persnickety or is there some point in my criticism?

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  6. Venkatesh11 June 2013 at 09:10

    what the benighted marksman did?

    what the marksman did - gives us SHOT
    benighted leads us to - IN THE DARK
    Pl note the ? mark at the end.
    This shows it is not a Straight Definition.

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    1. Chaturvasi11 June 2013 at 09:13

      Thanks for your kind explanation, but I stick to my opinion that the sec def is not a CD, despite all that you say and the QM.

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  7. Raghunath11 June 2013 at 09:58

    I felt references to states in the US; NJ and FL should have been indicated. There are too many meanings to derive for state.

    27 A plural in awkward shape for a woman who has never given birth (9) NULLIPARA

    Could this have been worded differently. 'form' or something similar instead of 'shape', to make better sense?

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    1. VP11 June 2013 at 14:19

      Agree on the "state" comment. But then, I have gotten used to this setter specifying state to mean US state consistently, so I look there first :)

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  8. VJ11 June 2013 at 13:24

    A very quiet blog from Bhavan. No customary opening statement or comments on the clues

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  9. Suresh11 June 2013 at 15:04

    Was there a need for 'unusual' to be there?

    AfterDark's comment above.

    Unusual because the Basenju does not have a bark

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  10. raju umamaheswar11 June 2013 at 19:42

    Alas ! the beginning of today's crossword is my agony as ORKUT refuses to give me a grid and a Black square stares at me !! May have to try loading later .

    CV's link on crosswords was hilarious to watch, but again, alas, my Notebook got corrupted and all my stored data will have to be restored only after getting back to CBE. For the nonce, I'm operating on Google only. Luckily, my wife's side is in Japanese version which is still in tact. She has forbidden me from going there as she's afraid of a similar fate for her too !! Woes of my life !!

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