Wednesday 23 October 2013

No 10911, Wednesday 23 Oct 2013, Buzzer

Wow! anagram cum &lits.

ACROSS
1   Master one shorthand language (6) DANISH {DAN}{1}{S}{H}
5   Doubly evil sailor of folklore (6) SINBAD {SIN}{BAD}
10 Natural at weaving (9) TARANTULA* &lit
11 Club made of wood is common (5) DISCO [T]
12 Layer protecting yard area animal (5) HYENA {H{Y}EN}{A}
13 Segregate out hidden code in software (6,3) EASTER EGG*
14 Back trail surrounding Nova Scotia (7) SPONSOR {SPO{NS}OR}
16 Remains on edge concealing uneasiness at first (7) RESIDUE {RE}{SID{U}E}
18 Horse has to skip over the edges of range (7) MUSTANG {MUST}{rANGe}
20 Confusion about top heroine of Austen (7) DILEMMA {DIL<=}{EMMA}
21 Novel yet not new! (6-3) TWENTY ONE*
23 Bag a suitable person to marry her (5) CATCH [DD]
25 Tearful film about love (5) MOIST {M{O}IST}
26 Grade 2 writer (4,5) MARK TWAIN {MARK} {TWAIN}
27 Struggling endlessly yielded in a cover for spectator (6) EYELID YIELDEd*
28 One on the mend with a habit (6) DARNER [CD]

DOWN
2   Concede match (5) AGREE [DD]
3   In Asia, one flowing water body (6,3) IONIAN SEA* &lit If you concede that it is bounded by Asia to one side
4   Arrogance show by hot filmmaker (7) HAUTEUR {H}{AUTEUR}
5   More scattered boxes he left here (7) SPARSER {SPARS}{hERe}
6   Push new umpire to give opener out (5) NUDGE {N}{jUDGE}
7   Capital morning’s spell-binding indeed in Moscow (9) AMSTERDAM {AM'S}{TER{DA}M}
8   Still in unison (2,3,4,4) AT THE SAME TIME [DD]
9   Raving e.g. in onslaught (6-7) TONGUE LASHING* &lit
15 Bad language used by notices (9) OBSCENITY*
17 Very legitimate alternative for a lawyer (9) SOLICITOR {SO}{LICIT}{OR}
19 Flea-bitten dog, more neat in appearance! (7) GROOMED*
20 Ruby is set firmly, not too raised (4,3) DEEP RED {DEEP} {bRED} (Addendum - {DEEP} {Root<=ED} - See comments)
22 Nearly bag a large sum (5) TOTAL {TOTe}{A}{L}
24 Copy of drawing put up by civil engineer (5) TRACE {TRA<=}{CE} Reminded me of how we used to copy drawing assignments in engineering college by placing them on glass with a light underneath.

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49 comments:

  1. SandhyaP23 October 2013 at 08:43

    @Kishore: Your cartoon is a fitting tribute to Buzzer :)

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    1. Anonymous23 October 2013 at 10:27

      Thanks, the cartoon seems to have got a bit warped. The vertical part of the warp threads seem to have got distorted and created vertical bars. In my copy of the toon, they resemble what you see between the woven cloth on the loom and the warp beam, i.e several thin threads and not bars.

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  2. Richard23 October 2013 at 09:08

    19D - Flea-bitten dog, more neat in appearance! (7) GROOMED*

    'Flea-bitten' ! It's amazing to see the way the setters 'concoct' anagram indicators. They really tick... :-)

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  3. Anonymous23 October 2013 at 09:20

    3 In Asia, one flowing water body (6,3) IONIAN SEA* &lit If you concede that it is bounded by Asia to one side

    For the Medit, yes, for Ionian, no way !

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    1. mohsin23 October 2013 at 14:10

      Even if you do (concede), it would be a semi &lit, right? In the cryptic reading, "water body" is extraneous (not part of the wordplay) ? [maybe if it was framed as "flowing one in Asia"]

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  4. maradnusro23 October 2013 at 09:52

    Dear Buzzer
    You are great today.

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  5. Raghunath23 October 2013 at 10:09

    +1
    Classy puzzle, esp. Anagrams +&lit. (Buzzer's exceptional RE BUZZ's* reportedly)

    Does 10 A 'naturally' convey the def or is something lacking? Maybe a semi&lit like:

    One's natural at weaving (9) TARANTULA*

    1 A: Abreviations for S & H? Are they in Chambers Xword abbr list?

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    1. Raghunath23 October 2013 at 10:11

      One's natural at weaving (9) TARANTULA* Not sure whether this is a semi&lit.

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    2. Suresh23 October 2013 at 10:15

      It is an & lit because the entire clue forms the definition

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    3. Raghunath23 October 2013 at 10:22

      I am referring to the actual clue and not the at 10.11

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  6. Suresh23 October 2013 at 10:14

    Brilliant crossword and brilliant cartoon

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    1. Raghunath23 October 2013 at 10:27

      +1.

      The Amul one today on the last page of TH is lovely too.

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    2. Richard23 October 2013 at 10:37

      On Ishant Sharma?

      Many years ago - guess it was in 1987 - when Javed Miandad had won the Sharjah match for Pakistan against India by hitting a six off the very last ball off Chetan Sharma, Amul came out with this:

      Miyan ki Daad se Sharma Gaye

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    3. Raghunath23 October 2013 at 10:48

      You must be having a computer in your brain. How do you manage to recollect? Now I've forgotten what's in today's toon on Ishant Sharma. Can be 'spoonfed' comment was the icing on it.

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 10:54

      Now Sharma should take sanyas and go to an ashram !

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    5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 10:58

      Renenber what happened to Manoj Prabhakar when he was thrashed all over Firoze Shaw Kotla ground by Sanath Jaya Surya ? !

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    6. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 11:02

      TYPO : Pleasr read Remember

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    7. Richard23 October 2013 at 11:30

      Raghu 10:48 am - I have been a keen follower of Amul topicals for decades. I will email you a few collections from recent months. I will also add you to my monthly emailing list.

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  7. Shrikanth23 October 2013 at 10:42

    Top class puzzle. Such a delight to solve Buzzer's CW.

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  8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 10:44

    A tricky and well knit entertaining puzzle from Buzzer, aptly supported by Kishore's toon ! Really I enjoyed solving it, in spite of 70% success.
    I liked the novel clue @ 21 Across. It took a while for me to get it ! Thanks, Buzzer. Looking forward to many more puzzles of this kind.

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  9. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 11:25

    Need some help !
    16A : Anno : RE for ?
    20A : Anno : DIL What is the reversal indicator ?
    7D : Anno : DA for ?

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    1. Anonymous23 October 2013 at 11:34

      On=re, on the subject= re(garding) the subject
      About as in about turn, remember the IAF?
      indeed=yes, in Russian =da

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 14:55

      Yes, I do ! Only thing is "About Turn" has become "Peeche Mud" nowadays ! (Aage bud, Tej chal etc). No more English commands.

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    3. Anonymous23 October 2013 at 15:45

      Especially after the rains, the mud works well on the parade ground. Your Hindi commands reminded me of a spoof of the song given in the link below, which went, "Hamey to loot liya, hari vardi waalon ne, daaye mud waalon ne, baaye mud waalon ne ...."'

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWN5GVOS1JY

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 16:20

      Well, your re-mix of that classic quwali is as good as as the original one :)

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  10. Nadathur Rajan23 October 2013 at 11:32

    16A on = RE
    20A about <=; top LID
    7D indeed in Moscow = Yes (in Russian) = DA

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    1. Deepak Gopinath23 October 2013 at 11:40

      Hi Rajan,

      You are the only person who comments on my blog whose location I am not aware of. Where are you located? Do let us know so that if there is anyone at your location they or anyone else passing through could could meet you if they so wished.

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    2. Raghunath23 October 2013 at 12:12

      His post yesterday:
      Raghu,
      Thanks for remembering me. That is my permanent address: my place is in Gandhi Nagar (near RTC X-road). I am out of HYD at present and look forward to meeting our fellow bloggers on return.

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    3. Deepak Gopinath23 October 2013 at 14:42

      Raghu,
      That is why I asked him where he is working and located at present

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    4. Raghunath23 October 2013 at 15:30

      I assumed he's gone out of Hyd for a short while

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  11. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 11:39

    Thanks Kishore and NR Sir !

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  12. Suresh23 October 2013 at 13:58

    Wow! Deepak, you have somebnody from Greenland looking at this blog

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  13. Raghunath23 October 2013 at 14:19

    20 Ruby is set firmly, not too raised (4,3) DEEP RED {DEEP} {bRED}

    This anno is not clear?

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  14. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 14:45

    + 1 Didn't want to raise too many doubts :) So left it at that !

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  15. VMA Nair23 October 2013 at 15:07

    Nice puzzle. I didnt get 7 D anno

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  16. Unknown23 October 2013 at 15:12

    Few days ago CHATURVASI has commented, that, they tend make, certain clues easier for non-regulars. This is what i tried to highlight, about SANKALAK & GRIDMAN, about their Crossies' being quite helpful.

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  17. VMA Nair23 October 2013 at 15:20

    Thanks MB

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  18. Rangarajan23 October 2013 at 15:58

    @Raghu and MB

    20D
    Set firmly = DEEP
    Raised = BRED
    Not too BRED is bRED

    Now my turn for raising a doubt
    In the anno given for 7D in the answer post, it is indicated as M is from Moscow. Subsequent explanation says "indeed in Moscow " is DA. Latter seems fine.

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    1. Rangarajan23 October 2013 at 16:05

      For 20D I think Suresh 's @3:32 explanation is more convincing

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 October 2013 at 16:33

      Yes

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    3. Anonymous23 October 2013 at 17:19

      I too took it as explained by Suresh

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    4. raju umamaheswar23 October 2013 at 17:53

      CV: A good one from Buzzer. There must have been a bee in my bonnet, as I somehow found it a bit more difficult, probably because I attempt these on Orkut. I still prefer pen on paper as the Orkut grid is not that user-friendly where on has to keep flitting from clue to clue which may be distracting to the mind. Do you agree? Across lite is more user-friendly. What do you and others feel? Or am I getting too cryptic-fatigued ?

      Thanks for the link for Crypticsingh. I managed to log in, complete and submit to compete..

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  19. VMA Nair23 October 2013 at 16:22

    +1 for Suresh's anno

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  20. VP24 October 2013 at 00:28

    Excellent puzzle, not one letter out of place.

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