Tuesday 5 November 2013

No 10922, Tuesday 05 Nov 2013, Lightning

Lightning will delight a lot of bloggers today.

ACROSS
1   Working in rally by Yemen’s first kingship (8) MONARCHY {M{ON}ARCH}{Y}
5   Caution! Tiger, perhaps circling avenue (6) CAVEAT {C{AVE}AT}
9   Policeman, army officer, carrying weapons end-to-end (8) GENDARME {GEN}{(+d)DARME(-d)}
10 Writer reversing trend operations research (6) EDITOR {EDIT<=}{OR}
12 Sussex altruist withheld praise (5) EXALT [T]
13 Unwilling to cut rental arrangement (9) RELUCTANT*
14 Cause for beheading? Betrayal (6) REASON tREASON
16 Keep peculiar dialect (7) CITADEL*
19 Gangster has King of Sweden listening eagerly (3,4) ALL EARS {AL}{L EAR}{S}

NO HEARING AID REQUIRED

21 Poor handwriting? Lawyer to go get a secretary (6) SCRIBE SCRIBblE
23 European port engineer, smart dame (9) AMSTERDAM*
25 Partially clean medium refractor (5) PRISM {PRIStine}{M}
26 Father enters a revolutionary tribe (6) APACHE {A{PA}CHE}
27 Terrible fraud led organisation (8) DREADFUL*
28 Release former intern, initially trained from first to last (6) EXEMPT {EX}{(-t)EMP(+t)T}
29 Craftily shuffled deck, slick on the outside (8) WICKEDLY {WI{DECK*}LY}

DOWN
1   It attracts German knight entering northbound squad (6) MAGNET {MA{G}{N}ET<=}
2   One and only pearl in ocean? Extremely excited (9) NONPAREIL {PEARL+IN+OceaN}*
3   Perform once again to respond (5) REACT {RE}{ACT}
4   Score by circling bases that can be made in away games too (4,3) HOME RUN [CD]
6   A second grade tyrant, losing control essentially, becomes a quitter (9) ABDICATOR {A}{B}{DICtATOR}
7   Couple of expos on revolutionary art is unnecessary (5) EXTRA {EXpos}{TRA<=}
8   Suppress accelerator (8) THROTTLE [DD]
11 Group harboured by a Arab locality (4) BLOC [T]
15 Separates trendy vehicle designed to orbit earth (9) SPACESHIP {SPACES}{HIP}
17 Cross-examined action without legal document (9) DEBRIEFED {DE{BRIEF}ED} Is it a bird? Is ita plane? No, it's a debriefed Superman!!
18 Cheap record of information? (8) DATABASE {DATA}{BASE}
20 CSK perhaps, out of consideration, after losing opener (4) SIDE aSIDE
21 Essential fault in tennis legend omitting postscript on one Japanese warrior (7) SAMURAI {SAM{U}pRAs}{1}
22 Hire retiring setter with ruse (6) EMPLOY {EM<=}{PLOY}
24 Additional score of ten, from two attempts (5) SPARE Anno pending
25 Intend to get king on board (5) PLANK {PLAN}{K}

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37 comments:

  1. SandhyaP5 November 2013 at 08:46

    24 Additional score of ten, from two attempts (5) SPARE

    DD
    2nd meaning: bowling terminology

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    1. SandhyaP5 November 2013 at 08:48

      spare: a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls (freedict)

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    2. Deepak Gopinath5 November 2013 at 09:28

      Good one Sandhya. Had fun at Goa?

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    3. SandhyaP5 November 2013 at 09:59

      Had a great time, thank you :)

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  2. Anonymous5 November 2013 at 09:00

    19 Gangster has King of Sweden listening eagerly (3,4) ALL EARS {AL}{L EAR}{S}

    NO HEARING AID REQUIRED

    Great cartoon. Several caricatures featuring BO's ears are presently doing the rounds.

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  3. Padmanabhan5 November 2013 at 09:52

    Nice to hear about a good cartoon from our own ACE!

    9A- Gendarme is a French policeman. Is it accepted without any indication as such?

    Liked the database!

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  4. Padmanabhan5 November 2013 at 09:57

    'a' could be tricky.
    26A- it forms a vital part of the answer. (Def. 'tribe' to be made bold)
    21A- Why 'a'- just secretary would do?

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  5. Unknown5 November 2013 at 10:06

    Greased Lightning, today!!
    Enjoyed the CW. Thank you, and a very good morning to all.

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    1. Chaturvasi5 November 2013 at 10:11

      Thanks for the avatar!

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    2. Richard5 November 2013 at 14:31

      Welcome to a new face... the person was already known...

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  6. Chaturvasi5 November 2013 at 10:09

    I am scribacious.
    The last word in 21a could have been 'amanuensis'.
    In the past a secretary may have taken notes to transcribe them and submit to her boss in form and style but now they do only key jobs. I am referring to the keyboard of the PC). Some may go after the key of the boss' home.

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    1. Anonymous5 November 2013 at 11:20

      awomanuensis work better than amanuensis !

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  7. VMA Nair5 November 2013 at 10:39

    Monday, 30 September 2013
    No.10891, 30 Sep 2013, Klue Klux Klan
    4 Cause of beheading: betrayal (6) REASON (tREASON)
    Remind me of a recent discussion:)

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    1. VP5 November 2013 at 11:37

      :) Just to avoid a repeat of that discussion, once I saw KKK's puzzle, I had sent in a correction: Defence engineer working around a smithy initially (6).

      As luck would have it, TH did not take the correction for some reason.

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    2. Navneeth5 November 2013 at 12:24

      TH did not take the correction for some reason.

      So they betrayed you?

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    3. Suresh5 November 2013 at 14:40

      And should become Indu

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    4. VJ5 November 2013 at 17:00

      OMG, does this mean you'd submitted this puzzle a year ago?

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    5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam5 November 2013 at 17:16

      Perhaps, he might have submitted it in mid September 2013.

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  8. Padmanabhan5 November 2013 at 10:52

    had to refer to dictionary to find out about CV's 'aman...' ! My vocabulary is so poor! Yes, taking notes,shorthand, typewriter all seem to be things of the past!

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    1. Suresh5 November 2013 at 14:41

      I thought that it must be some disease.

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam5 November 2013 at 16:56

      ...and Kishore made it a complicated one ! (At 11:20)

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  9. Mukundala Balasubramanyam5 November 2013 at 11:24

    Quite an enjoyable puzzle from Lightning.

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  10. Navneeth5 November 2013 at 12:29

    10A: Writer reversing trend on operations research, or something along those lines, would have been better, I feel.

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    1. VP5 November 2013 at 12:35

      That's how I had submitted it "10 Writer reversing trend on operations research (6)". TH omitted the "on" link word.

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    2. Navneeth5 November 2013 at 12:59

      Something told me that that was probably what had happened.

      When, oh when, is this paper going to get a capable CW editor!

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    3. raju umamaheswar5 November 2013 at 14:50

      Good streaks of lights from Lightning.
      Caution! Tiger, perhaps circling avenue (6) CAVEAT {C{AVE}AT}-- can any one analyse and explain where the AVE features in the clue?

      My parsing: Caution-- warning, alert, CAVE-- A from avenue and T from Tiger. Am I wrong? CAVEAT EMPTOR !!

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    4. Anonymous5 November 2013 at 17:32

      Ave=Avenue

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  11. VMA Nair5 November 2013 at 14:55

    18 Cheap record of information? (8) DATABASE {DATA}{BASE}

    as per clue it is base data?

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    1. VP5 November 2013 at 21:56

      My intention was that it should be taken as a CD.

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  12. VMA Nair5 November 2013 at 14:58

    Hi Raju

    Ave2, ave
    abbreviation for
    (Social Science / Human Geography) avenue

    Caution! Tiger, perhaps circling avenue (6) CAVEAT {C{AVE}AT}
    Tiger, perhaps = CAT
    Circling -encapsulation indicator
    Avenue = AVE

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  13. raju umamaheswar5 November 2013 at 16:22

    Agree, Ajeesh. Thanks but is my annotation not valid?

    Again, why Social Science and Human Geography ? It could be a simple abbreviation of Avenue as Ave ?

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    1. VP5 November 2013 at 21:54

      Raju,

      The intended anno is the one given by Col.

      Caution (in the noun form) = Warning = Caveat
      Tiger, perhaps = Cat
      Avenue = Ave (from chambers)

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  14. Navneeth5 November 2013 at 16:33

    Ajeesh@2:55,
    I think the clue should be classified as a CD.

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  15. VMA Nair5 November 2013 at 16:40

    Hi Raju,
    Sorry to mention that the above definition is from thefreedic

    Caution! Tiger, perhaps circling avenue (6)

    My parsing: Caution-- warning, alert, CAVE-- A from avenue and T from Tiger. Am I wrong? CAVEAT EMPTOR !!

    Where is the definition part in the above anno ? T for tiger? Duty of perhaps?

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  16. Unknown5 November 2013 at 16:47

    Thanks Richard and Chaturvasi Sir!

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  17. VMA Nair5 November 2013 at 17:25

    Hi VP,
    Can you please give your email address? send me vmajeesh@gmail.com
    Regarding a conversation we had after CV Sir's birthday celebration :)

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    1. VP5 November 2013 at 22:24

      Email is: pvenkattesh@gmail.com - sent email to you.

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