Tuesday, 19 November 2013

No 10934, Tuesday 19 Nov 2013, Gridman

To the zoo with Gridman today.
ACROSS
1   One who gives all the particulars retailed differently (8) DETAILER*
5   More work in ideal location (6) UTOPIA [DD]
9   Anteater long writhing in agony (8) PANGOLIN {PA{LONG*}IN
10 Ruddy title (6) RUBRIC [DD]
12 Money, yen, is little (4) TINY {TIN}{Y}
13 Bird woman precooked smartly (10) WOODPECKER {W}{PRECOOKED*}
15 Boxer in turmoil? (6) WELTER [DD]
17 South Indian wife’s strain (5) SIEVE {SI}{EVE}
20 Appear here and there about mutt (5) RECUR {RE}{CUR}
21 Hastener’s cry for Ekadasi observer (6) FASTER [DD]
24 Extra bit of math to a learner (10) ADDITIONAL {ADDITION}{A}{L}
27 Platform that is accepted by public relations (4) PIER {P{IE}R}
29 Surround Indian madame going round old city (6) IMMURE {I}{MM{UR}E}
30 Rally leaves street to move on to ward (8) PROTEGEE {PROTEst}{GEE}
31 Transport on which one isn’t alive (6) HEARSE [CD]
32 Warn a pretty woman embracing second name (8) ADMONISH {A}{D{MO}{N}ISH}

DOWN
1   Subordinate’s obligation to include record (6) DEPUTY {D{EP}UTY}
2   One in temporary accommodation is a temporary resident (6) TENANT {TEN{AN}T}
3   Matinee hero to take it easy, we’re told (4) IDOL (~idle)
4   A wireless company drops limits for hedgehog (5) ERIZO vERIZOn
6   Right to have central leader in peace offering (5) TRUCE {TRU{C}E}
7   Favourite admits a dissolute — what a bird! (8) PARAKEET {P{A}{RAKE}ET}
8   Damned, Bill’s hopeless (8) ACCURSED {AC}{CURSED}
11 Loves so dear a transformation (6) ADORES*
14 Close to being stingy (4) NEAR [DD]
16 Felt differently about a kind of coat (6) TEFLON {FELT*}{ON}
17 Slip off into the storage building? (4) SHED [DD]
18 Widespread fear over Sikh movement is unusual (8) FREAKISH {FEAR*}{SIKH*}
19 Universities directed a chartered accountant to move up (8) ACADEMIA {AC}{A}{DEMIA}<=
22 Antelope ailing badly (6) NILGAI*
23 Disharmony, we hear, in a kind of birth (6) BREECH (~breach)
25 Prostitutes start pushing partner down (5) TARTS (-s)TART(+s)S
26 Bitter publicity about the French shout (5) ACRID {A{CRI}D}
28 The essence of the reversible German? (4) OTTO [DD]

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  1. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 08:32

    Congos to Shuchi once again:

    http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-18/patna/44200903_1_vivek-k-singh-cadre-crossword-contest


    Btw, this newspiece says that the finals is at Bangalore

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    1. Richard19 November 2013 at 08:49

      +1

      How are you feeling, Kishore, after your rendezvous with the six-footer?

      By the way, you have two well-groomed, handsome six-footers at home! No sting intended... :-)

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    2. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 09:15

      The psychedelic colouring on my palm is fading fast, as is the swelling. Today is the day I stop being a curmudgeon ...

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    3. Shuchi19 November 2013 at 10:18

      Thank you! And get well soon Kishore.

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    4. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 10:27

      I know you mean well, well, but I already have a well at home. You are free to inspect it the next time you come home

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    5. Richard19 November 2013 at 13:19

      Well, well...

      Do you know that 'guwell' is Tulu for 'well'?

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  2. SandhyaP19 November 2013 at 08:36

    Way to go Bangloreans! May the best man/woman win :)

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    1. Richard19 November 2013 at 08:50

      Sandy, I was reminded of a saying:

      The bride never marries the best man....

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    2. Richard19 November 2013 at 08:52

      ..but only the one next to him.

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    3. SandhyaP19 November 2013 at 08:54

      :D

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    4. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 09:14

      The bride expects the groom to be a little wicked, and that's where the best man falls short ...

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  3. Padmanabhan19 November 2013 at 09:23

    A wicked comment?!

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  4. Padmanabhan19 November 2013 at 10:21

    I have a few doubts-
    30A- Gee?
    32A- Mo?
    14D- Connection between near & stingy?

    Breech birth & otto (for attar) were also new to me.

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    1. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 10:32

      30 gee as in the command to a hoss to move on
      32 second=moment=mo
      14 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/near

      One meaning is stingy

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  5. Rengaswamy19 November 2013 at 10:36

    16 Felt differently about a kind of coat (6) TEFLON {FELT*}{ON}

    How ÖN"comes? about is RE, a kind of coat is TEFLON.
    Is ON used for about also?

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  6. Padmanabhan19 November 2013 at 10:54

    Thank you Kishore.

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  7. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 10:58

    Re my recent encounter with the buzzer, I was pottering around the garden, but I was not harrying any creatures

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    1. Padmanabhan19 November 2013 at 11:50

      On the other HAND, the creature (depracatingly?) harried you. Thank God you did not show the other hand!

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    2. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 12:14

      I've got to hand it to you!

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    3. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 13:20

      Lot of publicity for one party? EC will intervene!

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    4. Padmanabhan19 November 2013 at 13:37

      I see some material for the next cartoon!

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  8. Nadathur Rajan19 November 2013 at 11:12

    Where the reference is to More's work, is 'More work' acceptable? Do we say Verne work or Doyle work?

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  9. Venkatesh19 November 2013 at 11:30

    The IXL Leaderboard, as of date, shows that, of the top 10 solvers, six hail from Bangalore, two from Mumbai and one each from Kolkata and Delhi. No wonder the finals on Dec 21 are being held in Bangalore.

    The National Public School at Koramangla, Bangalore is hosting the next round of the Sudha All India Inter School Crossword Contest co-sponsored by CBSE next Saturday (Nov 23).

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  10. Padmanabhan19 November 2013 at 12:33

    Col.
    SPAM

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  11. raju umamaheswar19 November 2013 at 12:35

    Gridman grilled me for PANGOLIN ( an unknown species in crossworld !) as one always thinks of the AARDVARK-- being the first to pop out of the mind. So is a new specie called ERIZO-- got hedged for this and had to hog the Google ! NILGAI and PARAKEET completed the Zoo visit. Thanks for these new words , Grdman.

    FASTER reminded me of a friend in Nairobi who used to tell that he FASTED his car !
    He needed fasting , though, due to his prominent patriotic front ! Having jogged my mnemonic sense, this takes its place as the clue of my day .

    Kishore: glad to note that the colours of the chameleon are changing in your palm-- Beware of the arachnids and reptiles whilst pottering in the garden !! A friend of mine here, at the behest of his wife, chased a lizard in the kitchen and broke his ankle and has now a permanent limp !! Poor guy ! The bitter effects of the things that we do for our better halves !!i

    Congts Shuchi !! So , we know where the genes are coming from for the genius !



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    1. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 13:27

      Oh, I usually have a very wonderful relationship with animals. They are always kind to me. Even when meeting for the first time. In fact, a curious fact some of you might find bizarre:

      More than a dozen times, I have felt something on my head and when I put my and and brush it down, it turns out to be a gecko. Not the same one, of course, because this has happened in places more than a few hundred kilometers apart. A couple of times, I have been told by people, there's a lizard on your head, which of course, is no news to me.

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    2. Padmanabhan19 November 2013 at 13:35

      Thank God you are not the type to run to am Almanac. In Tamil Almanac, there is a whole page giving predictions for the contact with gecko,as you call it, for different parts of the body. I am not sure whom tp pity- the poor lizard or the one giving predictions. Here of course you did not need any predictions- it was quite visible colourfully. Jokes apart, I am glad you are better and I hope you did not have to take any further medication.

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    3. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 14:26

      All cylinders firing normally today

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  12. VMA Nair19 November 2013 at 12:54

    28 The essence of the reversible German? (4) OTTO[DD]
    <--OTTO --> also?

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    1. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 13:28

      Yes, the poor chap has been handed a piece of paper with PTO written on both sides and is doomed to carry on like that for ever, like the chappies in an Escher staircase.

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    2. Nadathur Rajan19 November 2013 at 13:35

      The example called to mind Lissajou's figures. The title sequence of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is based on these figures.

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    3. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 14:43

      Long back we used to get those gear wheel like contraptions which drew quite a large number of such figures. The woolmark is one of the simpler versions of it.

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  13. Navneeth19 November 2013 at 14:08

    Is 'Erizo' adapted into the English language (referred in the Chambers, perhaps?) or is it a purely Spanish term to refer to hedgehog? If it's the latter, I would deem the clue unfair.

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  14. Padmanabhan19 November 2013 at 15:32

    I don't know about Chambers. But when I put in erizo in Free dictionary, the entire page comes out in Spanish.

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  15. Col_Gopinath19 November 2013 at 15:32

    Was doing some spring cleaning at home and found two editions of The Hindu of Jun/Jul 2003 which was used as lining in some old steel trunks of mine. Shall post the crosswords from them as specials in the coming weeks

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  16. Rangarajan19 November 2013 at 15:42

    MO for second looks too indirect. Also I didn't know these:
    MME for madame
    DISH for pretty woman
    never came across these

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  17. Unknown19 November 2013 at 17:37

    Erizo does not appear in my copy of OED, either.
    Geetha, how did you do today?

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  18. Nadathur Rajan19 November 2013 at 18:21

    There is no need for physical copy of back issues of The Hindu.
    At http://www.hindu.com/ we can enter date, click on Miscellaneous, and then on Crossword to access/copy any crossword.

    The crosswords were set initially by Admiral and then along with Gridman. However, the setter's name appear for the first time in last decade in THC 9339 of 29 Sept., 2008 and for this change the credit goes to Nitaa Jaggi.

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  19. Nadathur Rajan19 November 2013 at 18:26

    Here is the link:
    http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/27/stories/2008092799951000.htm
    For any crossword:
    http://www.hindu.com/2003/01/01/10hdline.htm
    You can change the year (2003,2004..), month (01,02...), date (01,02..) to get the Misc page and then click on Crossword.

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  20. Sujatha20 November 2013 at 00:45

    Hi. I am completely new to doing cryptic crosswords, having started just 3 weeks back. Am just learning. There are days I am able to do 5-6 and then, there are totally dry days. Am just getting the hang of how some of these clues operate but some times, even the clue guide from this blog is difficult for me to understand. I hope it would be alright if I type in my queries here and hopefully, somebody will help me? I know this is for seasoned guys but I would appreciate any help. Thank you.

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    1. Richard20 November 2013 at 06:28

      Hello, Sujatha. There are many experts in this forum. They would be more than willing to respond to any of your queries.

      Welcome aboard.

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    2. Anonymous20 November 2013 at 08:01

      When we first came here, we too were ungarnished. Seasoning came later. Welcome, Sujatha!

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    3. Deepak Gopinath20 November 2013 at 08:04

      Welcome Sujatha and you are more than welcome to put in your queries here

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  21. Sujatha21 November 2013 at 00:34

    Thank you so much for your kindness. Appreciate the offer to help.

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