Friday, 22 November 2013

No.10937, Friday 22 Nov 2013, Gridman

Gridman has given me quite a few words to link today !

ACROSS
1 Perform in the same rhythm – preserve U.S. magazine (4,4) KEEP TIME
5 Let go saint moving inner and made an analysis (6) PARSED (SPARED with S moved inside)
          Exactly what you did with this clue
9 Old account in a terrible soup? Hard to understand (7) OPACOUS (O+ AC in SOUP*)
10 Ape south Indian fellow in backward state (7) SIAMANG (SI + MAN in GeorgiA<)
11 Colour as doctor’s slow to begin with and inexperienced (4,5) MOSS GREEN (MO'S S GREEN)
12 Beautiful woman comes on hearing ring (5) BELLE (~BELL)
          I have had the pleasure of hob-nobbing with one in the last few days and even drawing her! 
          No sign of 25 too, I even managed to cadge a photograph ... Kaheen ek maasoom naazuk si laDki, bahut khoobsoorat ... 
          Can't sully a lady's name, of course. Not preux chevalier. See cartoon for further details
13 Unthinking, EC leaves search out (4) RASH (SEARCH - EC)*
          Gridman may get a notice from EC. Anyhow, an explanation/denial seems to square up things.
14 Newspapers not doing well. Apply force (5,4) PRESS DOWN
17 Chauffeur Peter’s tip to reach the destination (5,4) DRIVE SAFE (Peter=safe)
19 Imitate character in old gambling game (4) ECHO (CH in E.O.)
23 Homo sapiens’s admission is capital (5) AMMAN (AM MAN)
24 Arctic end of the earth (5,4) NORTH POLE CD
25 Lax since going into one’s reserve (7) ICINESS (SINCE* going into 1'S)
26 Scales of one country in another (7) INDUSIA (US in INDIA)
27 Suspend dead tribal (6) DANGLE (D ANGLE)
           Long back when we moved to Goa a few decades back, we came across this surname Angle and pronounced 
          it in the distinctive geometric way! It turned out that it was supposed to be pronounced Anglay
28 What a knife must have to its clear advantage (4-4) KEEN EDGE CD

DOWN
1 King at present touring Rome to get to learn better (4,4) KNOW MORE (K NOW ROME*)
2 Passes English with shortcomings (7) ELAPSES (E LAPSES)
3 Hard getting around royal depression (6) TROUGH (TOUGH around R)
          There, Richard, Helen has arrived, at least here! Over to Suresh for 'ankhon dekha haal' ...
4 Wrongly tells about premier’s nests (13) MISREPRESENTS (PREMIERS NESTS)*
          Richard, beware: you had got that call after Thomas!

6 A barrier on the resting place to peruse final book (4,4) ADAM BEDE (A DAM BED E)
7 Bear hardship with bird (7) SWALLOW 2
          One swallow doesn't make a summer, but several swallows make your stomach full         
8 Sword with irregular edges exchanged (6) DAGGER (RAGGED with edges, ie.R and D swapped)
10 Fires AP’s goons having botched up anthems (5,2,6) SONGS OF PRAISE (FIRES AP'S GOONS)
          Will all the goons present in the present AP be shared between the divided states?
15 On which life is full of composure (4,4) EVEN KEEL CD
16 Play in which there’s romance – or nothing! (4,4) LOVE GAME CD/DD
18 Artist and politician bring leader back to plant (7) RAMPION (RA MP NO.!<)
20 How fingers are kept, hopefully (7) CROSSED CD
21 A drive that goes haywire is altered (6) VARIED (A DRIVE)*
22 Film article held by university fellow (3,3) THE DON
          Hindi movie!  Now, did Gridman have something else in mind?
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65 comments:

  1. Deepak Gopinath22 November 2013 at 08:31

    If this CW were to come in the IXL final I would have flunked at 9A, 10A, 26A and 18D due to lack of Dictionary support for confirmation

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    1. Kishore22 November 2013 at 08:32

      Ditto. I had confirm all of them after figuring out the wordplay !

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    2. Kishore22 November 2013 at 08:34

      In addition to what you have listed, I had to confirm EO and Angle too

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    3. Deepak Gopinath22 November 2013 at 08:36

      Though I didn't know those two also, I put them in without confirmation.

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    4. Kishore22 November 2013 at 08:46

      6d too

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  2. Kishore22 November 2013 at 08:32

    Sujatha, read your comment of the day before yesterday and happy to note that you like ‘Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening’. I had used a part of that very stanza in the cartoon on Donald Pleasance, recalling his role in Telefon, around three weeks back. Here’s the link:
    http://thehinducrosswordcorner.blogspot.in/2013/10/no10915-mon-28-oct-2013-arden.html

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  3. Kishore22 November 2013 at 08:33

    Hi Folks, I am off the radar for the next three weeks from Sunday and will recommence blogging from the 16th of December. Till then, I might drop in occasionally and intermittently. Please excuse.

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  4. Venkatesh22 November 2013 at 08:36

    11 Colour as doctor’s slow to begin with and inexperienced (4,5) MOSS GREEN (MO'S SO GREEN)
    {MO'S}{S} {GREEN}

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  5. Richard22 November 2013 at 09:14

    Re comment below cartoon for 4D:

    It gives a nice feeling that I am being mentioned in higher circles. Yes, Kishore, I logged in late. I did get that call much after daybreak. Ahead of a heavy rain forecast, the sunshine is quite harsh.

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    1. Anonymous22 November 2013 at 09:31

      ;-)

      You were not mentioned in the elongated circle, Harry was. Yor name was an 'out of the box' reference

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    2. Nadathur Rajan22 November 2013 at 11:07

      Tom (Thomas), Dick (Richard) and Harry (Harold)!

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  6. Padmanabhan22 November 2013 at 09:47

    Col.
    "Enjoy madi"! In Tamil 'madi' means upstairs.
    Have a nice time Kishore though we would sorely miss you and your cartoons.
    Is it by chance or choice that George Elliot's first book became final book in the clue? (though the context is different)
    Had trouble with NE corner. Happy to note that I am not alone.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath22 November 2013 at 10:08

      The 'maadi' used here is the Kannada version

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    2. Richard22 November 2013 at 11:06

      It's actually 'Enjoy maaDi' which just means 'Do enjoy'.

      After hearing about the Tamil word 'madi', it struck me that in Kannada they say 'mahaDi' for storeys. I am sure they have a common root.

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    3. Anonymous22 November 2013 at 11:37

      Not to further muddy the waters, but there is one more maDi in Kannada with a short a. This usually refers to the ablutions before rituals or even cooking in some orthodox houses

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    4. Richard22 November 2013 at 11:58

      CV has commented on it @11:40.

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    5. Richard22 November 2013 at 12:02

      There is a place MaDiwala off Koramangala in Bangalore. Any connecion with Dhobi Ghat?

      There is yet another expression connected to this. Give your clothes for 'maDi' is give it to the launderer for wash and press.

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  7. Nadathur Rajan22 November 2013 at 10:29

    Here is another first for Mandya:
    Dr Vivek Hallegere Murthy MD MBA, nominated by Obama for Surgeon General last week, has links with Hallegere village of Mandya district. A doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, Dr Murthy is only 36 years old. When confirmed, he may be the youngest Surgeon General.

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  8. Nadathur Rajan22 November 2013 at 10:36

    Wikipedia has a page on Bangalore Kanada, a vernacular dialect spoken by people specially in South-East Karnataka - Bangalore, Mysore, Mandya. It mentions Kannada words (slang or catchy words) which may also be combined with English as Kanglish (Kannada+English). A whole list of Kanglish words and phrases exist which include "Just Maja Maadi" ("chill out"), "Enjoy Maadi" and "Swalpa Adjust Maadi". 'Maadi' literally means do or make.

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    1. Richard22 November 2013 at 11:11

      NR, you seem to know a lot about Karnataka and take a lot of interest too. Just a casual query, what's the connection like? By chance, did you any time live in this state?

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  9. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 November 2013 at 10:46

    At last, finally, in the end, my PC has been repaired ! It was really frustration, frustration, frustration all these days !!


    Had an easy time solving Sankalak's and Gridmans puzzles till yesterday. Today it was tough going and had problems in all the four corners, nevertheless I could solve 22 clues out of 30.

    Feel sorry to note Kishore will be off the Radar for the next 3 weeks.

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    1. Kishore22 November 2013 at 11:04

      Swalpa Adjust Maadi, Sir

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 November 2013 at 11:18

      OK :)

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    3. Richard22 November 2013 at 11:20

      Another common expression is Sakat hot magaa! - I don't know how to translate it to perfection - which has been adopted as their tagline by Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM in Karnataka. Sakat is a derivation from Urdu, quite obviously.

      'Very hot, my friend' is the implication, going along with the mirchi element. Although 'maga' means son in Kannada, it is a colloquialism used in addressing a friend or a too familar acquantance in Bangalore and other places.

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    4. Anonymous22 November 2013 at 11:41

      Maga (not Krav Maga) is used in Kannada almost in a way similar to saala in Hindi or machchan in Tamil.

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    5. Chaturvasi22 November 2013 at 11:50

      In Tamil the tagline is 'sema hot, machchi'.

      This is a lingo. 'Sema' means 'very'. 'Sema hot' means 'very hot'. Of course, here 'hot' is in the sense of 'spicy' rather than indicating degree of temperature.

      Another word for 'very' used by Tamilians informally is 'bayangara' (terrible).

      'Machchi' is a term of familiarity used among young equals. I think it is derived from 'nachchaan' - which is a kinship term meaning wife's brother or sister's husband - or is a short form of machchinan, which means wife's brother.

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  10. Chaturvasi22 November 2013 at 11:40

    'Madi', where the a is short, in both Kannada and Tamil, is a state of ceremonial purification.

    People in Karnataka may use the word 'snaana' for everyday bath but Madhwas like me long settled in what is Tamil Nadu and speaking no-pure Kannada may use the word 'madi' even for the ordinary wash.

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    1. Richard22 November 2013 at 11:47

      Yes, CV, I am familiar with the expression 'maDi', a practice which is religiously followed.

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  11. Richard22 November 2013 at 11:50

    What's new on Helen, by the way?

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    1. Kishore22 November 2013 at 12:05

      Suresh, our correspondent is close to Ground Zero and may report.

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    2. Anonymous22 November 2013 at 16:02

      Landfall at 1 pm

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    3. Suresh22 November 2013 at 17:49

      Raining like Phailin. They say that Helen is weakening, but the rain is not.

      By the way ground zero is about 400 Km south of here.

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    4. Suresh22 November 2013 at 17:54

      And missing Mehbooba Mehbooba

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    5. Anonymous22 November 2013 at 18:03

      Oooooooooo oooooooooooooo !

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  12. Padmanabhan22 November 2013 at 13:02

    Thank God he is close only to ground zero & not to helen!

    madi (again with a short 'a') also means lap in Tamil (a la laptop)

    Kishore,
    Solpa illa, romba adjust madi.

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    1. Chaturvasi22 November 2013 at 14:01

      For Padmanabhan and other Tamil knowing readers

      A line from an old Tamil film song floated in my mind (who remembers lines from today's songs when they are mostly meaningless).

      Madi meedhu thalai vaiththu
      Vidiyumvarai thoonguvom

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    2. Chaturvasi22 November 2013 at 14:02

      Padmanabhan

      The word you need is 'thumba' - which in Kannada means a lot.

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    3. Padmanabhan22 November 2013 at 14:09

      I was not sure of the Kannada word. Just made good with the Tamil version!

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    4. Rengaswamy22 November 2013 at 16:30

      I think of the song "Atthai madi Methhaiadi, Aadi vilayadamma"

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    5. Rengaswamy22 November 2013 at 16:33

      We have "Madi Kodi" in our home

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    6. Richard22 November 2013 at 19:41

      It's done, Renga! ;-)

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  13. Padmanabhan22 November 2013 at 13:06

    CV,
    Today happens to be the Birthday of George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans)- thanks to Google. Looks to be more than a coincidence.Refer 6D.

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    1. Richard22 November 2013 at 14:00

      Oh, Paddy, that makes me feel nostalgic. We had to study her The Mill on the Floss for English Major in College.

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    2. Chaturvasi22 November 2013 at 14:03

      But it is the shorter novel 'Silas Marner' which touched me more than any other of the Eliot novels.

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    3. Unknown22 November 2013 at 22:02

      +1 :)

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  14. Padmanabhan22 November 2013 at 14:12

    For 'maadi' I remembered the Tamil song- 'madi mele madi katti kodi kodi serthu vaitha seemane...'

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  15. Chaturvasi22 November 2013 at 14:23

    Come on, come out, komaanae!

    'komaan', I think, is a colloquialism for 'komagan' - which means the son of a king, prince, and thus an eminent person.

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    1. Padmanabhan22 November 2013 at 16:03

      You are right and it rhymes with seeman, another term for an eminent person.

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    2. Anonymous22 November 2013 at 16:47

      Seeman is again possibly colloq. For sreemantha, a well to do person, as earlier part of the lyrics seems to suggest

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  16. raju umamaheswar22 November 2013 at 14:45

    OPACOUS, SIAMANG and INDUSIA are three new words from the glossarmoury of Gridman and these thus are the clues of my day.

    28 acorss is the creation of a sharp mind.

    Does keep fast ( Vrat rakhna) relate in any way to KEEP TIME? No wonder, Mulayam Singh Yadhav is an anglophobe !

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  17. Unknown22 November 2013 at 17:15

    Good for us Delhi-ites to get exposure and explanations to Kannada and Tamil colloquial terms! The only one I was familiar with was 'enjoy maadi'!
    Gridman very enjoyable, but opacous, siamang and indusia were very unusual.

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  18. Anonymous22 November 2013 at 18:18

    TH 10919/ 1st Nov 2013 had
    10 Biggles’s boss Raymond, say, hides gold in the potty after a song (3,9)

    As reported in yesterday's papers they did find gold in an airplane potty!

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    1. Padmanabhan22 November 2013 at 20:05

      Kishore,

      this is old news. It happened in Chennai almost a month ago. The scheme looked to be ingenious with 2 teams working in tandem, one in the international flight from Dubai and the other from Chennai to Delhi. The had noted that the same aircraft is being used for the flights and hence the scheme!

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  19. Richard22 November 2013 at 19:46

    Kishore, Suresh et al:

    What a coincidence! I just came to know that our good old Helen Jairag Richardson-Khan turned 75 yesterday.

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    1. Padmanabhan22 November 2013 at 20:02

      It came in DC supplement yesterday and I thought that is why you had raised the subject in the first place!

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    2. Richard22 November 2013 at 20:17

      What a pity, I am not a regular DC reader. I raised the subject out of concern for our friends in the AP coast.

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  20. Padmanabhan22 November 2013 at 20:06

    Sad news is that Anand has just lost teh world grown, the game ending in draw with just the 2 kings on board.

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  21. Suresh22 November 2013 at 21:39

    And talking of Madi. Aftr Helen we are expecting Lehar next week and after that it is Madi

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    1. Anonymous23 November 2013 at 07:33

      Congratulations ! Nice to hear you are expecting ;-)

      Btw, people in other places plan weekend getaways. People in coastal Andhra and Odisha await the next spinner

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  22. Unknown22 November 2013 at 21:44

    Kishore, have just read your response to my post in the blog yesterday! I am quite ashamed to admit that I am more proficient in English than in Hindi, and I don't think I would be any good at Hindi cryptic CWs :-(
    We will miss your lively presence in the next few weeks.

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    1. Anonymous23 November 2013 at 07:34

      Give it a try anyway. It's quite easy. Even solving a few can give you some fun.

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