Wednesday, 1 January 2014

No 10971, Wednesday 01 Jan 2014, Neyartha


HAPPY NEW YEAR
Almost a Pangram (but for J, X, Y). I always have problems with the 4 letter words from Neyartha. Stuck on 20A.

ACROSS
1   Set aflame canes for the public official’s wrongdoing (11) MALFEASANCE*
9   Marine’s strange acquittal after the lieutenant disappears (7) AQUATIC ACQUITtAl*
10 Search on the Internet for the German leader forced out by Oscar’s stare (6) GOOGLE {GO(-g+o)OGLE}
11 Cadet needing psychological attention? (5) SPACE [CD]
12 A detailed account of the concert (7) RECITAL [DD]
15 Benefit from student rising after beating is cut short (4) PLUS P(+l)U(-l)Se
16 Announcer Edward enters Wanderers by mistake (10) NEWSREADER {NEWSR{E}ADER*}
18 Not filled by an election, position I have needs revolutionary father initially (10) APPOINTIVE {AP<=}{POINT}{I'VE}
20 Creeper in bad temper throws out the fish (4 ) ?I?E (Addendum - VINE VINEgar - See comments)
23 Prattle on the micro-blogging website (7) TWITTER [DD]
24 Mexican pyramid builder is from an Arizona engineering school reportedly (5) AZTEC {AZ}{TEC}(~tech)
26 Related to a type of bulb holding writing fluid (6) LINKED {L{INK}ED}
27 Very large cloak for lawyer (a Greek character) sent back to the religious people (7) OBLATES {O{BL}{ATE<=}S}
28 Graphic artists tamper rinks accidentally (11) PRINTMAKERS*

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2   Song of praise by the Oriental discharged after transforming methane (6) ANTHEM METHANe*
3   Save this to keep reputation intact (4) FACE [CD]
4   Offensive gags? Revise when busted (10) AGGRESSIVE*
5   Guerrilla Tom is edgy about hiding and getting zapped (8) ATOMISED [T]
6   Caught, we hear, with a kind of kale (7) COLLARD (~collared)
7   Ram in retreat with us upset by friend protecting the single koala, say (9) MARSUPIAL {MAR<=}{SU<=}{P{1}AL}
8   Virginia gets immersed in the language of the Pacific islands (6) TUVALU {TU{VA}LU}
13 Purpose of a sacred chant at the moor’s end by the nations of the infidels (10) HEATHENDOM {HEATH}{END}{OM} What is the role of 'purpose' in the clue?
14 Bag of twisted fibre placed in front of the proceedings (9) BRIEFCASE {FIBRE*}{CASE}
17 Inappropriate presence on the sides of the road to Alaska (8) MISTAKEN {MI{ST}{AK}EN}
19 Northbound salesman hoarding a weed killer is initially more artful (7) PAWKIER {P{A}{W}{K}{I}ER<=}
21 Pinto tolerates contents as a whole (2,4) IN TOTO [T]
22 Guest of the person initiating a phone call (6) CALLER [DD]
25 Literary work on a chess piece (queen) getting sacrificed for a bishop (4) BOOK (-r+b)BOOK

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61 comments:

  1. Prashanth1 January 2014 at 09:01

    Chess notation queen=r?

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    1. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 09:19

      As the Colonel has annotated:
      Chess piece=rook,
      queen getting sacrificed for a bishop= R(egina) going out for a B(ishop)

      Hence, (-r+B)OOK

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  2. Richard1 January 2014 at 09:01

    Once again wishing everyone a happy New Year.

    13D - What is the role of 'purpose' in the clue?

    Serving no purpose!

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  3. Richard1 January 2014 at 09:05

    20A - Answer could be VINE. Now someone think of the fish to be thrown out.

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  4. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 09:33

    Richard, wrt to 8d, enkle Tulu barpujji

    if I have got it right !

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  5. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 09:41

    A new year puzzle (pinched from my friend Anand)

    Use two 4s to get eight, without using +,-,/ or *

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    1. Chaturvasi1 January 2014 at 10:27

      If you take one 4 and juxtapose a mirror reflection (tip of stem to tip of stem) you get an 8 that is slanted.

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    2. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 10:42

      That's a perfectly correct graphic solution. Kudos, CV.

      Now for the arithmetical solution ...

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    3. Suresh1 January 2014 at 10:56

      Why not "4 plus 4"

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    4. Suresh1 January 2014 at 10:57

      Or 4 and 4

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    5. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 11:17

      I am sure you know why not

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    6. Col_Gopinath1 January 2014 at 11:22

      That took me back to my childhood days when I used to walk up and down my fathers back as a massage for his back while reciting my tables

      Two ones are two
      Two twos are four
      Two threes are six
      Two fours are eight Is that your solution?

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    7. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 12:04

      Good try, but that is multiplication. Try operators not listed ...

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    8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam1 January 2014 at 12:05

      I am crawling around on all (my) fours to get that magic figure EIGHT ! Scratching my head vigorously is also not helping me !! Is Col Sir's reply OK ?

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    9. Mukundala Balasubramanyam1 January 2014 at 12:11

      ...seems Col Sir's reply too is not okayed by Kishore ! :)

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    10. Mukundala Balasubramanyam1 January 2014 at 12:17

      Tough New Year puzzles : One by Neyartha and the other by Kishore ! :)

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    11. Nadathur Rajan1 January 2014 at 12:34

      4√4 = 8

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    12. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 13:04

      Much better, using an unbarred operator, but there is an implied * after the first 4

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  6. Nadathur Rajan1 January 2014 at 10:12

    25D BOOK. Remember the definition given for this by Aamir Khan in 3 Idiots.

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  7. Suresh1 January 2014 at 10:41

    Computer theme today. GOOGLE, SPACE, PLUS, TWITTER, LINKED, PRINTMAKERS, FACE BOOK, BRIEFCASE

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    1. Nadathur Rajan1 January 2014 at 12:13

      Also VINE, a mobile app owned by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short video clips; RECITAL, a powerful data-centric scripting language with an embedded database used for developing character-mode desktop and batch database applications on Linux and Unix; NEWSREADER, software program for reading and posting to Usenet newsgroup forums; and PAWKIER, the Babylon 9 translation software which offers instant full text, full Website and document translation in 75 languages.
      Ross COLLARD won the 2011 Software Test Luminary award, and has been called a “Jedi master” by the founding President of the Association for Software Testing.

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  8. Laxman1 January 2014 at 10:46

    Wishing everyone here a Happy New Year

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  9. Suresh1 January 2014 at 10:49

    A very Happy and Cryptic New Year to everybody

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  10. Padmanabhan1 January 2014 at 12:04

    A very Happy New Year to all and a big Thank You to all wishers.

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  11. Padmanabhan1 January 2014 at 13:07

    After reading ND's 12.15 post, I am happy I managed to fill in so many words even though I knew none of the info listed by him. Now it looks to be a jargonist CW,if I may say so- at least to appreciate it fully. True, we learn so many things every day thro' CW's if (and a big if) we only take the trouble.

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  12. Prashanth1 January 2014 at 14:57

    Pay Any Where to everybody!

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    1. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 16:39

      Prashanth, your id seems to be compromised!

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  13. Richard1 January 2014 at 16:25

    OH GOD! ANOTHER SPAN!*

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    1. Richard1 January 2014 at 16:39

      Clue: 4, 3, 9

      Looks like this blog is producing more and more NAZI MAD-RAG WARS*
      (7,7)

      (Please pardon me. Because of an error, I have deleted three earlier posts and put them together.

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    2. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 16:41

      Span or spam?

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    3. Richard1 January 2014 at 16:48

      My 4:25 is in response to Prashanth. I am confident it was a genuince post from him. It was a teaser and I have responded to it in equal spirit. :-)

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    4. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 17:45

      I thought so too, at first, but found he was short a P

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  14. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 16:42

    Continuing thread on the math puzzle:

    sqrt(sqrt(sqrt(sqrt(4^4!))))

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    1. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 16:55

      Sorry that it takes a lot of sqrting. Senior citizen aspirants, note please !

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    2. Richard1 January 2014 at 16:59

      It's quite tough to remain foursquare against your cerebral torpedoes!

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    3. Suresh1 January 2014 at 17:00

      I am not sure that is right. 4 to the power of 4 is 256, Sqrt of this is 16. Sqrt it a second time you get 4.

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    4. Suresh1 January 2014 at 17:03

      You do that two more times you will get sqrt2

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    5. Suresh1 January 2014 at 17:13

      Oops! I missed the factorial bit. Good one

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    6. Mukundala Balasubramanyam1 January 2014 at 17:13

      I have no head for figures ! ;-)

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    7. Richard1 January 2014 at 17:22

      But you are still prominent here, not a mere figurehead. ;-)

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    8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam1 January 2014 at 17:52

      To reach that level, I'll have to pull up my socks ! :)

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  15. Richard1 January 2014 at 17:36

    Further to my posts of 4:25 and 4:39 -

    OH GOD! ANOTHER SPAN !* (G..D O.E P......T!)

    Looks like this blog is producing more and more NAZI MAD-RAG WARS*
    (A...... W...... 7,7)

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    1. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 17:49

      Good one Prashanth
      Anagram wizards

      But his first one was iffy!

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam1 January 2014 at 18:08

      Frankly speaking, I just don't get what he meant in his post @ 2:57 !

      Nice anagrams from Richard ! I couldn't get them !!

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    3. Richard1 January 2014 at 18:15

      Thanks Balu. Kishore is right since I missed out the letter 'h' at the end of Prashanth's name.

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    4. Richard1 January 2014 at 18:22

      Prashanth @ 2:59 meant to say 'HAPPY NEW YEAR* to everybody' but seems to have missed a 'p'.

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    5. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 18:26

      Exactly what I said at 545pm

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    6. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 18:27

      Your anagram did have two Hs, but your fib did not ;-)

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    7. Richard1 January 2014 at 18:34

      Agreed, boss. I typed T instead of H at the end. I rest my case.

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    8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam1 January 2014 at 18:40

      OMG ! What a smooth wordplay for an anagram clue by Prashanth, but for that missing 'p' ! He certainly seems to be one upcoming "Anagram Wizard" !

      Of all the bloggers here, only Kishore and Richard could crack that "Happy New Year" clue of Prashanth ! (I believe)

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  16. Navneeth1 January 2014 at 18:27

    Kishore, I rejected all possibilities involving raising to a power since it implicitly involves multiplication. :(

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    1. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 18:49

      As does factorial... And what else is multiplication but repeated addition, just like the exponential is repeated multiplication. However, I think both expo and facto are considered distinct operators just like addi and multi are.

      Strange, that here too, like the real world where we can think of three dimensions, we cannot visualise a fourth operator in this series: addition, multiplication, expo

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    2. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 18:53

      Spl thanks to Navneeth for bringing that up, so that I could elaborate!

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    3. Navneeth1 January 2014 at 19:56

      That is true, but in fact the entire number system can be built up using the basic elements of 0, 1, two operations + and *, and a few definitions as to what one is allowed to do with them. And that's why I was thinking your question may be a word puzzle of some sort. :)

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  17. Anonymous1 January 2014 at 18:56

    Drawing the Col.'s attention to the 723pm post from Navneeth yesterday. We can start using the word "themed" in the tagging

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