Friday, 12 July 2013

No.10823, Friday 12 July 13, Arden

Arden delights like Auden did !

ACROSS
1 No point modifying the classic line of exercise (13) CALLISTHENICS (THE CLASSIC LINE-E)*
10 He penned a few lines in the Claude Neal case (5) AUDEN (T)
         Remembered "Funeral Blues"
         "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
         Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, ..."
11 Dominated boor never misbehaved (9) OVERBORNE (BOOR NEVER)*
12 Live broadcast at hand cut short by a monster (9) LEVIATHAN (LIVE* AT HANd)
13 Man’s caught the right fish (5) BRILL (BILL around R)
14 Outdid with the material (7) WORSTED 2
         How come "Worsted" is same as "Bested" ?
16 Accountant will point out about hundred making money (4,3) CASH COW (CA SHOW around C)
18 Monotonous drone, returning to kill without hesitation (7) HUMDRUM (HUM MURDer <)
20 Measure time with some cloth (7) YARDAGE (YARD AGE)
         Presently Yard-age is 184 years. Robert Peel founded "it" in 1829
22 Fruit imported from Angola (5) MANGO (T)
24 Composed mate, soft spoken…hasn’t changed over time (9) ATEMPORAL (MATE* P ORAL)
26 Member of a religious doctrine, one returning some money (9) UNITARIAN (UNIT NAIRA<)
27 African city didn’t start as a city (5) URBAN (dURBAN)
         Some Indians in suburban Durban wear turbans
28 Being moved mostly by information on church bullheadedness (13) INTRANSIGENCE (IN TRANSIt GEN CE)

DOWN
2 Associated with a few deliveries to the British city (7) ANDOVER (AND OVER)
         "Handover all your money", said the guy in the Land Rover in Andover
3 A royal house may be ancestral (9) LANCASTER (ANCESTRAL*)
4 Groove for an hour in laziness (5) SLOTH (SLOT H)
          A sloth bear may be sloth, but when is after the busy bees' hive, he sure gets the honey
5 A handy cure creates so much commotion (3,3,3) HUE AND CRY (HANDY CURE)*
6 It is not Scottish money which makes him wealthy (5) NABOB (NA="NOT" in Scottish,  + BOB)
         I had thought this was supposed to be Nae, not Na, but I mae be wrong
7 Vehicle back up support — key to matters of heart (7) CARDIAC (CAR AID< C)
8 Girl gives in to indecision, in an hour of black comedy (7,6) GALLOWS HUMOUR (G ALLOWS, UM in HOUR)

9 Man’s groping for camaraderie (6,7) FELLOW FEELING
         What I had when I met Gridman yesterday ! Camaraderie, not groping !
15 Motherland’s divine punishment (9) DAMNATION (DAM=mother NATION) My CoD
17 A river follows a story line as in the good book (9) SCRIPTURE (SCRIPT URE)
19 People turn into something else, say (7) MENTION (MEN INTO*)
         Mention your views, as in AIR them ?
21 Writhing cobra that is living in the air (7) AEROBIC (COBRA I.E.)*
         In the AIR ?
23 Old man from Kerala may be broadcasting (2,3) ON AIR (O NAIR)
         On AIR ?
25 Boredom makes the nine frolic around the youth centre (5) ENNUI (NINE* around U)

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46 comments:

  1. Venkatesh12 July 2013 at 08:33

    18Ac Monotonous drone, returning to kill without hesitation (7) HUMDRUM (HUM MURDer)

    (HUM)(MURDer<=)

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  2. Richard12 July 2013 at 09:31

    13A Man’s caught the right fish (5) BRILL (BILL around R)

    I am surprised that KIshore forgot to mention, Monica, oh my darling...

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    1. Anonymous12 July 2013 at 09:46

      Dark secrets of the White House ...

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  3. Richard12 July 2013 at 09:39

    18A Monotonous drone, returning to kill without hesitation (7) HUMDRUM (HUM MURDer <)

    Blitz weekly's film critic was known for his caustic and acidic - at the same time - comments on Bollywood movies.

    A few decades ago, he (or she?) described the movie Mere Humdum Mere Dost as 'Mere humdrum and mere dust'...

    I faintly remember that the film critic's pen-name was Sagittarius. Can anyone recall?

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  4. Krishnan12 July 2013 at 10:09

    Delighted indeed, finished it within half an hour. A significant achievement for me.

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  5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 July 2013 at 12:12

    23D : Type of anno please ? Is it non-cryptic/easy type clue or something else ?

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  6. Chaturvasi12 July 2013 at 12:43

    To answer a question by Raju yesterday:

    'Debonair' is a used of males; for a female, I would use a word such as charming, elegant, sophisticated, suave, stylish.... Raju preferred the word 'chic'.

    Why the term debonair is associated with males, I don't know.

    Remember, a gentleman's magzine published from India was called Debonair. This mag might have been revived recently but I don't remember exactly. Women of this blog might know.

    If you want to know of women's magazines, ask a male.

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    1. Richard12 July 2013 at 13:29

      By the way, except Sandhya and Lakshmi, women bloggers from here have not been actively participating fpr some time. Hope some of the comments posted have not put them off. :-)

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    2. Richard12 July 2013 at 13:30

      * fpr = for

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  7. Chaturvasi12 July 2013 at 12:46

    On Wednesday I met Col. Deepak at his home. On Thursday, Kishore met me where I was staying in BNG. Both the meetings were agreeable.
    Today I met Neyartha at a private function in Chennai.

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    1. Anonymous12 July 2013 at 12:57

      Ref. comments under 9down

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    2. Raghunath12 July 2013 at 13:14

      I wouldn't want to be in such groping company. No such a good clue IMO, as are 20 A & 21 D. How can one measure time with cloth?

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 July 2013 at 14:43

      With reference to Kishore's comments under 9down:
      Am I to understand that you met Gridman during day time !?

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    4. Deepak Gopinath12 July 2013 at 15:00

      Yes and in Bangalore that too.

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    5. Kishore12 July 2013 at 15:38

      I met him between 5pm and 7pm. Call it evening or day time, whichever you like. Your !? made me think that Gridman is a bird of the night and it was surprising that I sighted him in the day ;-)

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    6. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 July 2013 at 16:23

      .....hmm hope you enjoyed the Bangalore trip !

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  8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 July 2013 at 13:49

    In yesterday's puzzle (26A) there is a Boy named Ken. Today, (13A) a Man named Bill. Tomorrow, may be I'll have to wretle with
    a Woman's name ! I just wonder how can one remember so many names of BOYS,GIRLS,MEN,WOMEN,CITIES,RIVERS,MOUNTAINS etc etc !?

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  9. Navneeth12 July 2013 at 14:43

    16A: Making money (vp) = CASH COW (n) ?

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  10. VJ12 July 2013 at 15:06

    20a, I think the defintin is "some cloth." YARD = measure and AGE = time.

    Not sure if it's used in daily conversation, but in our trade, yardage refers to some length of fabric

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    1. Kishore12 July 2013 at 15:28

      You are correct. I marked the wrong words as def.

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  11. pavalamani pragasam12 July 2013 at 15:11

    Richard, we are not the sort that is easily put off! Whatever reservations we have we do not allow them to visit this blog regularly! Just too lazy to comment! Satisfied with relishing all the wordplay, jests and camaraderie. AND we are old and wise enough to know that boys will be boys however old they are!

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    1. Kishore12 July 2013 at 15:30

      old enough = above 18, but below 30

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    2. Richard12 July 2013 at 16:07

      Boys are ageless...

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    3. Anonymous12 July 2013 at 16:21

      Something like sugarless coffee. Till the grim reaper starts harvesting the hair on the scalp

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 July 2013 at 16:35

      Did'nt he say "I know what you did in Bangalore" ?

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    5. Anonymous12 July 2013 at 17:25

      The bad that will live after me and the good, if any, that will be interred with my bones, were both done in Bangalore, so if the GR says that, I will be nonplussed

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    6. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 July 2013 at 17:33

      That was a "Googly" to me ! CLEAN BOWLED !!

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  12. pavalamani pragasam12 July 2013 at 15:14

    correction:'we dot allow them to prevent us from visiting this blog regularly!'

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  13. Unknown12 July 2013 at 15:22

    14 A - i join You. 6 D - Is it not NO BOB ?

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  14. Padmanabhan12 July 2013 at 19:13

    @Kishore's cartoon-

    Did you mean the state when you said 'MP'? Because in India, no MP gets into prison (let alone be hanged)- not even after the supreme court judgment!

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  15. pavalamani pragasam12 July 2013 at 19:43

    Kishore's equation of 'old enough' is flattering!lol!
    Sorry, Richard, for confounding with confusion!
    The blog just establishes the fact that the 'pranks'(!?)of the ageless boys here are unstoppable!

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  16. raju umamaheswar12 July 2013 at 20:40

    WORSTED & BESTED :

    Kishore & Richard: You always worst the best of Richard and Richard bests your worst !!

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  17. raju umamaheswar12 July 2013 at 20:43

    Boys will be boys :

    The only part of the boys that stops growing is his hair ! A bald statement of falling standards of a hair-brained boy?

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  18. Unknown12 July 2013 at 20:59

    Hi
    Can someone pl explain how DAM= mother
    Am one of your silent regulars and thanks to you and cleverdic have 'worsted' myself today:)

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  19. Unknown12 July 2013 at 21:01

    Hi
    Can you pl explain how DAM= mother(15 dwn)
    Am one of the silent regulars,and thanks to you have just' worsted' myself today:)

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    1. Suresh12 July 2013 at 21:16

      Look it up in your Dictionary Usha. You will find this meaning

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  20. Suresh12 July 2013 at 21:17

    For your convenience copied from OED

    dam 3
    noun
    the female parent of an animal, esp. a domestic mammal.
    ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting a human mother): alteration of dame .

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