Saturday, 19 October 2013

No 10908, Saturday 19 Oct 2013, Gridman

End of another fine round from Gridman. Yesterday someone was talking of the shortest clue, somewhere, and we have one at 29A today.

ACROSS
1   The rising times (8) MORNINGS [CD]
5   Slope disconcerted pacers (6) ESCARP* There are 7 more six letter words which can be formed with these 6 letters!
10 Cut with a singular cutting implement? (7) SCISSOR SCISSORs
11 Excitedly learns about love in Italian city (7) SALERNO {LEARNS*}{O}
12 Fixed leader of Naxalites and suffered (6) NAILED {N}{AILED}
13 It is fit for a queen in the retiring room (8) BEDCOVER [CD] Queen by itself cannot mean 'queen sized cot'.
15 Nervous characters among ousted gypsies (4) EDGY [T]
16 Gems in vehicle brought by black relatives (10) CARBUNCLES {CAR}{B}{UNCLES}
18 One is late for this examination (10) POSTMORTEM [CD] The enu should be (4-6)
20 Returning, I bag Romanian coins (4) BANI {BAN}{I}<=
23 Sending a virtual letter (8) EMAILING [E]
24 Former student’s revised manual (6) ALUMNA*
26 Vague idea to write about fish (7) INKLING {INK}{LING}
27 Head catching breath before one in Kenya’s capital (7) NAIROBI {N{AIR}OB}{1}
28 Gathers roaming angels (6) GLEANS*
29 0 (8) GOOSEEGG Shouldn't the enu be (5-3)?

DOWN
1   Explaining wrongly old university course in extraordinary springtime (15) MISINTERPRETING {MIS{INTER}PRETING*}
2   Coming down reportedly for checking (7) REINING (~raining)
3   Children on State’s top disputes (6) ISSUES {ISSUE}{S}
4   You finally left rogue wallowing in blood (4) GORE ROGuE*
6   Uniting made possible by special bonus (8) SPLICING {SPL}{ICING}
7   Landing by a royal competitor (7) ARRIVAL {A}{R}{RIVAL}
8   Strong patrician given to putting off (15) PROCRASTINATING*
9   Wrong blame’s overwhelming second radio model maker (9) ASSEMBLER {AS{S}EMBL*}{ER} Anno for ER not clear
14 Congratulate the man over time for sponsorship (9) PATRONAGE {PAT}{RON}{AGE}
17 U.S. oilmen produce a liquid mixture (8) EMULSION*
19 Leading sports journalist gets the French hamper (7) SHACKLE {S}{HACK}{LE}
21 Top opening into which a woman would let a hand go (7) ARMHOLE [CD] ? Why woman only? See comments.
22 Confederates run away from gatherings (6) ALLIES rALLIES
25 Serious about international circle (4) INTO {INT}{O}

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66 comments:

  1. Jayaseelan19 October 2013 at 08:31

    My misinterpretations procrastinated the solving. Enjoyed today’s CW.

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  2. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 08:35

    9 Wrong blame’s overwhelming second radio model maker (9) ASSEMBLER {AS{S}EMBL*}{ER} Anno for ER not clear

    I think the def was intended to be 'model maker' and radio gives the R. I have no idea about the surplus e.

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  3. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 08:36

    After Swahili yesterday, we have Nairobi today. Nakupenda wewe, mzee!

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    1. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 08:39

      Another word in this puzzle which reminded me of Kenya was 5a. As you proceed from Nairobi to Lake Nakuru you pass the escarpment of the Great African Rift valley

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  4. Deepak Gopinath19 October 2013 at 08:44

    Reminding everyone that tomorrow at 10:30 we will have the first Prize CW on Sunday Special. Instructions will be given along with the CW tomorrow.

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    1. Shrikanth19 October 2013 at 09:16

      Oh! what is this about Colonel? Seems interesting .

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    2. Shrikanth19 October 2013 at 09:18

      OK I get it , Now I recall

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  5. Chaturvasi19 October 2013 at 09:02

    After reading the Comment against 5a I am trying to anagram PACERS (without using any sw).

    ESCARP is already given.

    1. CAPERS
    2. SCRAPE

    I am leaving it to others to reach four other anagramsas mentioned above.

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  6. Ajay19 October 2013 at 09:04

    Yeah, I agree with Deepak about the 2 clues: 13a queen itself does not indicate bed, I was thinking ER ad only got the word due to the other cross letters and 21d why should this be gendered again?

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    1. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 09:19

      I felt the 'queen in the retiring room' did convey it in a cryptic way

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  7. Ajay19 October 2013 at 09:06

    RECAPS, SPACER

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  8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 October 2013 at 09:23

    Chaturvasi @ 9:02
    CRAPES

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    1. Richard19 October 2013 at 09:37

      CASPER - the friendly ghost
      PACERS - in cricket
      and
      PARSEC - in astronomy.

      No wonder Suresh calls me an anagram-lover.

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    2. Richard19 October 2013 at 09:38

      Just noticed K has beaten me narrow on the latter two.

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    3. Richard19 October 2013 at 09:39

      * narrowly

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    4. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 11:36

      I heartily disagree with the use of the word narrow anywhere in my rather largeeconomy sized vicinity ;-)

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  9. Chaturvasi19 October 2013 at 09:31

    Chambers defines top as
    a garment for the upper part of a person's (esp a woman's or child's) body;
    Have you heard of a man going to the shop to buy a 'top' for him?
    Have you seen any male models sporting 'tops'?

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    1. Richard19 October 2013 at 09:40

      As a small boy, I bought tops from shops to play with... :-)

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    2. Ajay19 October 2013 at 09:43

      hmmm, I read top opening as the top part of any garment, now that you refer to top as a particular kind of garment the it makes sense.

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 October 2013 at 10:11

      Richard @ 9:40
      ...string(s) attached or not ?!

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    4. Richard19 October 2013 at 10:53

      MB 10:11 Of course! But tops in the other sense (as attire) too may have strings attached as part of fashion!

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    5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 October 2013 at 14:05

      Well, I've a guitar for sale. In good condition. No strings attached !

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  10. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 09:33

    Parsec, pacers

    And one that s/w may not generate:

    e-scrap !

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  11. Chaturvasi19 October 2013 at 09:35

    The human brain (esp. that of certain individuals) is better than any computer!

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  12. Richard19 October 2013 at 09:51

    Gridman's crossies don't give much scope for discussion. Some indulgence for shop-talk please.

    Who's got the longest name as registered in this blog?

    Bhalchandra Pasupathy
    Raghunath Parthasarathy
    Lakshmi Vaidyanathan
    Venkatesh Prabhakar
    Mukundala Balasubramanyam
    Raju Umamaheswar

    MB takes the cake perhaps.

    I tried to create anagrams out of these names. Has anyone else tried?

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    1. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 10:08

      You missed Shuchismita Upadhyay

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 October 2013 at 10:15

      ...still I've the cake !

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    3. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 10:23

      Ladies first, MB ! Size of slice of cake will be in indirect proportion to length of name. So Ajay probably gets the largest slice!

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 October 2013 at 10:28

      Agreed :)

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    5. Ajay19 October 2013 at 10:31

      But kishore ajay is only my first time......nevertheless, cake is always welcome....make it a rich chocolate truffle cake....tres bon...

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    6. Richard19 October 2013 at 10:51

      Did I miss Pavalamani Pragasam and Raghunath Parthasarathy as well? Gayathri Sreekanth comes close but from a distance :-). Rangaswami Devanathan is also a contender, but he is known by a different name here.

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    7. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan19 October 2013 at 10:56

      @CV sir
      I have not tried to create anagram out of my name .Now after seeing your comment I got tempted ,used a sw and got this, though meaningless but funny
      "A Vandalism Ayah Think" .

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    8. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan19 October 2013 at 10:59

      If add my family name , I will take away the cake from MB Sir :)

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    9. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 11:09

      Richard, you did count Rags in the first list too. A second image in a photograph is usually called a phantom image, I think. Nice to have just had a long conversation with you. You are a master debater !

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    10. Richard19 October 2013 at 11:12

      LV: - I AM SHAKY VALIANT HAND.

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    11. Richard19 October 2013 at 11:13

      Kishore, reading your comment, I bit my tongue!

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    12. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 11:19

      Should both the above comments be read together ? ;-)

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    13. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan19 October 2013 at 11:19

      Hahaha! Nice one.
      Maybe it will be after I cross 60 .Not now :)

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    14. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 11:23

      Agree with Mr Jaisinghani from Noida

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  13. Suresh19 October 2013 at 10:10

    29A. Same doubt as Deepak. I do not think Goose egg can be written as a single word

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  14. Chaturvasi19 October 2013 at 10:53

    There is clue number problem in today's IXL cwd.

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    1. Chaturvasi19 October 2013 at 11:03

      Since corrected and uploaded again.

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    2. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 11:06

      14 is always unlucky. It had become 13. But luckily, I could spot that shift in time. Last week (or the week before that) too there was a clue initially missing or wrongly numbered which I kept pending and when I finished the remaining and looked for it, it had appeared.

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  15. Ajay19 October 2013 at 11:48

    The clues were boring.... I broke my head to do one which i didnt get ittill the very end.....and submitted it in disgust

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  16. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 12:29

    I always wondered why they called it a dashcam. Now I understand. All these drivers seem to be dashing characters !

    http://www.youtube.com/embed/5RAaW_1FzYg?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0

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  17. Unknown19 October 2013 at 13:54

    13 A - BED COVER - Is two letter word or one.

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 October 2013 at 15:01

      Checked Wordweb and Free Dictionary, both give it as a single word - BEDCOVER

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  18. Deepak Gopinath19 October 2013 at 13:59

    Of the 35 names in the IXL leader board 15 are from Bangalore!

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    1. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 15:50

      Logistics wise, easier to hold the final in Bangalore

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    2. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 15:53

      Congrats to Deepak for maintaining his position

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    3. Chaturvasi19 October 2013 at 16:49

      Do the earlier standings also exist somewhere along with the latest so that we can study the ups and downs?

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    4. mohsin19 October 2013 at 17:00

      The link to the individual weekly standings as well as the overall combined standings can be found on the right side of the Leader Board page.

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    5. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 17:30

      Maybe you can have a Mini S&B wherever the finals are held, keeping in view that several persons in the list 'belong' to THCC

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    6. Rendezvous19 October 2013 at 18:18

      R1 standing: http://www.crypticsingh.com/indian-crossword-league-2013/leaderboard-r1/
      R2 standing: http://www.crypticsingh.com/indian-crossword-league-2013/leaderboard-r2/
      Overall standing: http://www.crypticsingh.com/indian-crossword-league-2013/leaderboard/

      Links are on the right side on LEADERBOARD page

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    7. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 18:33

      Congrats, Mohsin, on topping Round 2 and winning the prize

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    8. Anonymous19 October 2013 at 18:34

      Ama, baDe chhupe rustum nikle, yaar !

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  19. Padmanabhan19 October 2013 at 14:02

    And to think I had one of the longer names! Of course, if I expand my initials the space here may not be sufficient and in any case I do not want to end up with a small piece of cake! While filling up forms (where they specifically ask with expanded initials) I overshoot.

    LV- Shaky valiant... one before 60 & the other after 60!

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  20. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 October 2013 at 14:51

    A laggard that I am ! What is this "SW" ? CV Sir mentioned it @ 9:02 and LV @ 10:56 Is it something one can buy it ?

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  21. C.G. BHARGAV19 October 2013 at 16:21

    Tops are worn by people who do not wish to remain topless.

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  22. Rangarajan19 October 2013 at 17:00

    27A Isn 't "Kenya 's capital " a simple give away? Perhaps just capital would have suffixes.
    And yes, I was ruling out goose egg initially thinking the enu would then be (5, 3).

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    1. Chaturvasi19 October 2013 at 17:47

      Agreed! 'Capital' might have sufficed. However, Kenya's capital is helpful to young solvers in remembering and brushing up eography! And who knows, it might trigger nostalgia in some of the solvers! Mere 'capital' may have sent them scurrying to make more of it.
      I do agree that the clue is rendered easy. In many CWCs that I take part my clues are rarely found faulty but the criticism is that they are not hard!
      I agree that the enu 29a must have been 5,3 or 5-3. An error that occurred in peculiar circumstances, it is regretted.

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