Tuesday, 2 July 2013

No.10814, Tuesday 2 Jul 13, Gridman

As usual a good mix of clues from Gridman amounting to a satisfactory solve. Liked the way both the long answers were clued.

ACROSS
1 Extremely old and clever account about one (7) ARCHAIC (ARCH + AC outside I)
5 Insect makes Latin deputy stop short on street (6) LOCUST (LOCUm + ST)
9 Cherished object of the Spanish hidden in endless heap of hay (5) RELIC (EL inside RICk)
10 Range line shifted for the most part (2,7) IN, GENERAL (RANGE LINE)*
11 Leader of servants to puke up violently in final act like harakiri (7) SEPPUKU (S + PUKE UP*)
12 Country modifies ratio in California (7) CROATIA (RATIO* inside CA)
13 Swimmer emerges from the first drubbing (5) TROUT (T + ROUT)
14 Cry that may be heard before a rabbit appears magically (3,6) HEY, PRESTO (E)
16 Chastise old girl friend doling out erotica (9) EXCORIATE (EX + EROTICA*)
19 Provide food to animal with hesitation (5) CATER (CAT + ER)
21 Outstanding Freud revolts, looking back partially (7) OVERDUE (T<=)
23 Annoy Sid and Burt by shaking them (7) DISTURB (SID BURT)*
24 All set before a planned trip, perhaps (5,2,2) READY, TO, GO (CD)
25 Language team accepts artist’s query at first (5) IRAQI (11 outside RA + Q)
26 Like our roads after rains — or most TV serials (6) SLUSHY (DD)
27 In which E is for egg, possibly (7) ENGLISH (GK)
DOWN
1 How men move is equally applicable to all classes (6-3-5) ACROSS-THE-BOARD (DD)
2 Coy pals improvise West Indian music (7) CALYPSO (COY PALS)*
3 Story of Bill, the nobleman (7) ACCOUNT (AC + COUNT)
4 Dog Greek character going to dance after dance without pounds (9) CHIHUAHUA (CHI + HULA + HULA)
5 You apply it while reasoning, of course (5) LOGIC (E)
6 Cold and grumpy, lacking dead leader’s openness (7) CANDOUR (C + AND + dOUR)
7 Mischief-makers persist in driving away (7) SPRITES (PERSIST)*
8 What lazy conservancy staff leave behind them? Nonsense! (1,4,2,7) A, LOAD, OF, RUBBISH (DD)
15 Hype oldie generated may give optimism (5,4) YIELD, HOPE (HYPE OLDIE)*
17 Bald hint received by party (3,4) CUE, BALL (CUE + BALL)
Cartoon by Rishi
18 They are visible manifestation of sleeplessness (3,4) RED, EYES (CD)
19 Stage job caught by a deception (7) CASTING (C + A + STING)
20 USA mint destroyed in a natural calamity (7) TSUNAMI (USA MINT)*
22 English lad going round new jet (5) EBONY (E + BOY outside N)


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19 comments:

  1. Suresh2 July 2013 at 08:36

    Never realised that I was nearly a cueball.

    And the cartoon says it all

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  2. Deepak Gopinath2 July 2013 at 09:14

    The online paper continues to be Triple X plus X

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    1. Richard2 July 2013 at 09:21

      Could be the weekend hangover aftermath - quite ga-rum!

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    2. Padmanabhan2 July 2013 at 17:58

      The online paper number changes to normal later- at least it did so yesterday. +1 for being nearly a cue ball.

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  3. Chaturvasi2 July 2013 at 09:39

    Yesterday I wrote to TH about XXXX in THC title. The number was included in the online edition subsequently. Today I am not writing; let's see if the correction is made.

    Yesterday I also wrote a letter about the layout changes.

    Today I followed it up with another:

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    From my school days and also through all my adult life, I have been an ardent reader of The Hindu.

    In fact, several decades ago when layout changes were made one day (when I was not an employee of M/s Kasturi & Sons), my letter was published as the lead letter the next day.

    What I liked most about the paper was consistency and predictability.

    Alas, on Day Two of your recent layout changes, I find that the page shoulder for the Editorial page is reduced.

    Then the title for Engagements column has some strange terms such as Eat/travel/sale. Just wondering who will invite me to lunch. Also I fear if the Advt johnnies are going to enter there too. The idea of a highlight with a pic for an item in the Engagements column is bizarre.

    Putting 'Corrections and Clarifications' in a tinted box is not a good idea at all. Using a light, thin, sans-serif type in it makes reading less easy.

    Yesterday there were no horizontal separator lines on the Edit page. Today I find them. And not putting the separator line below the cartoon today makes it part of the Mail Box - only yesterday I praised you for giving Cartoonscape its due place.

    Any layout changes introduced must be comprehensive and fixed. This kind of day-to-day variations is not desirable.

    I despair.
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    1. Deepak Gopinath2 July 2013 at 10:05

      They seem to have heard you at least as far as the CW Number is concerned. The number 10814 is there now.

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  4. Krishnan2 July 2013 at 10:30

    Colonel & Kishore: Thought you would have some views on this piece. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/remembering-kumaramangalam/article4870301.ece

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    1. Richard2 July 2013 at 11:29

      Further to the lineage of Kumaramangalams, here is an interesting piece of information.

      Dr Paramasiva Subbaroyam, the veteran Tamil Nadu politician who had served in various high posts like member of Lok Sabha, chief minister of Madras Presidency, Union minister, ambassador to Indonesia and others, was the father of the Kumaramangalam brothers. Their mother was Radha Bai from Mangalore, whom he had met while studying at Presidency College in Madras, now Chennai.

      One of their sons was Mohan Kumaramangalam, a minister in Indira Gandhis cabinet. Another son, General P P Kumaramangalam, was an Army Chief of Staff. The third son, Gopal Kumaramangalam, was chief executive of important public sector undertakings. Three generations of this family were Union cabinet ministers - Subbaroyan serving in Nehru's Cabinet, Mohan Kumaramangalam in Indira Gandhi's, and his son, Rangarajan Kumaramangalam in the NDA government.

      Radha Bai's father Kudmul Ranga Rao, hailing from a conservative Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family in Mangalore, broke new ground by associating himself with the downtrodden. Consequently, his community ostracized him, even denying him entrance into their temples.



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    2. Richard2 July 2013 at 11:31

      Please read the name as Dr Paramasiva Subbaroyan.

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  5. Krishnan2 July 2013 at 11:31

    Thanks for additional info, Richard. Fascinating family for sure.

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  6. PKPSwami2 July 2013 at 12:06

    1&11a usage new to us.well chiselled clues lead to destination.(definition)19d clues finely fits into definition.Even long phrasal verbs eazily decipherable.In fine a wholesome enteetainer.

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  7. Mukundala Balasubramanyam2 July 2013 at 12:12

    Hi friends! I became a member of this blog on 8-2-13 with a Batman Logo. Same day col. Saheb greeted me "Welcome Batman!"
    I felt so happy and wanted to thank him immediately but failed because I could'nt locate the "Sign in" column/symbol/mark,
    whatever u call it, on that day. It looks so small and hardly visible (at first glance)! Can something be done to make it
    look BOLD and BRIGHT ? It took me some time to spot it, hence the late entry into comments column. Happy to be sharing and
    enjoying views,pun etc etc of many stalwarts of this blog.

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  8. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan2 July 2013 at 16:08

    Link given by Shuchi sometime back in Twitter : Colour idioms in different languages - http://www.starchamber.com/colors/color-idioms.html

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  9. Venkatesh2 July 2013 at 17:06

    Gen Kumaramangalam's grandfather Bala Gounder was a general of Tipu Sultan, who awarded his forefathers with the state of Kumaramangalam.

    His nephew, Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, served as the Minister of State for Law, Justice and Company Affairs in the Narasimha Rao Government from July 1991 to December 1993 and as the Union Minister for Power and Parliamentary Affairs, holding additional charge of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, and Mines in the Vajpayee Government from 1998 to 2000. His mother, Kalyani Mukherjee, hailed from one of West Bengal's well known political families.

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  10. Venkatesh2 July 2013 at 17:12

    For 'state', please read 'estate'.

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  11. VMA Nair2 July 2013 at 18:27

    Tough for me today :(

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  12. Aravind2 July 2013 at 18:50

    25A - Is Iraqi a Language?

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