Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Special, Wednesday 15 Jan 2014, Buzzer


Three answers per commenter (with annotations) upto 6 PM

Garden Variety

This puzzle originally appeared in the January 2014 edition of CrOZworld magazine published by the Australian Crossword Club.
 


Starred clues are consistent with a theme and are not otherwise defined.

ACROSS
1   Understanding a Picasso/Monet is difficult (13)
8 *For the most part, barefaced French man (4)
9 *Reverse sweeps followed by pull to the leg side (10)
10 Buzz one gets from social drinking (6)
11 Highly theatrical visual capturing historic period (8)
12 Supply buckets of cold ingredient for soup (5,4)
14 *Fellow left anonymous tip for gumshoe (4)
15 *Soft, expensive fur coat's beginning to fade (4)
16 See smart funny new pilot (9)
20 *Spent lavishly on a charming girl we hear (8)
21 *Arrive carrying small attaché essentially (6)
23 *Australian Medical Association's managed like this (10)
24 *Letters appearing periodically in mailboxes (4)
25 *Mrs. Socrates is mostly cranky about husband (9,4)

DOWN
1   Man allowed to use a string of beads (7)
2   Expressive actor of note at sea in French (5)
3   As a wicked siren, Circe's first (7)
4 *Other half: best, me: nuts (4,2,9)
5   A great number can be without pets? On the contrary (6)
6 *Centres to manage smaller crises (9)
7   Recalling old ruler after termination of George V (7)
13 One giving order to rule enforcer (9)
15 Unruly compiler endlessly given to disputing (7)
17 Cuts out indirect taxes (7)
18 *Top-notch houses chaps put up (7)
19 In the end cricket has been India's regular sport (6)
22 Partly refurbish a Korean military hat (5)



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48 comments:

  1. Richard15 January 2014 at 08:45

    My first: 1A COMPASSIONATE = understading adj. (a Picasso Monet)*

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    1. Richard15 January 2014 at 08:46

      typo: understanding

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    2. Richard15 January 2014 at 08:51

      My second one:

      16A - STEERSMAN =pilot (see smart)*+n
      'funny' anagrind, n for new

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  2. CA Prasad15 January 2014 at 08:52

    1.D. CHAPLET. {CHAP}{LET}

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  3. Richard15 January 2014 at 09:00

    My third and last contribution:

    15D - POLEMIC = given to disputing (def.)

    Unruly 'compiler' endlessly (-r) (compile)*

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  4. raju umamaheswar15 January 2014 at 09:03

    15d: POLEMIC-- anagram of compiler- minus R-endlessly , Unruly compiler endlessly given to disputing

    17d- EXCISES -Cuts out indirect taxes (7) DD- - cuts -excises--indirect taxes- excises

    23a: AMARANTHUS- american- AM- managed- RAN - like this- THUS

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    1. Richard15 January 2014 at 09:39

      Raju sa'ab: You can send one more.
      POLEMIC was already cracked at 9:00.

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    2. Richard15 January 2014 at 10:00

      RU: Isn't it {AMA}{RAN}{THUS}? AMA for Australian Medical Association, and not American.

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    3. raju umamaheswar15 January 2014 at 11:02

      THANKS. i SHOULD HAVE FIGURED SINCE THE CROSSIE IS FROM AUSTRALIA

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    4. Richard15 January 2014 at 12:48

      The buzz - finding a mention 10 A - of the crossword is from Down Under... ;-)

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  5. Ramani15 January 2014 at 09:07

    22d shako (T)

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  6. Deepak Gopinath15 January 2014 at 09:10

    3D - {A}{RSENI*}{C}
    4D - STAR OF BETHLEHEM*
    7D - {E}{V}{O}{KING}

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  7. Raghunath15 January 2014 at 09:41

    10 A Buzz one gets from social drinking (6) ALDRIN (Buzz Aldrin, Am astronaut)
    14 A *Fellow left anonymous tip for gumshoe (4)F L A G(umshoe)
    21 A *Arrive carrying small attAché essentially (6) CO(S)ME + A

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  8. Richard15 January 2014 at 09:57

    Nice theme today.

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  9. Richard15 January 2014 at 10:08

    My COD: 4D, the best among all, good enough to drive one nuts.

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  10. SandhyaP15 January 2014 at 10:35

    9A *Reverse sweeps followed by pull to the leg side (10) {SNAP<-}{DRAG}{ON}
    20A *Spent lavishly on a charming girl we hear (8) {BLUE}{BELL(~belle)}
    18D *Top-notch houses chaps put up (7) A {NEM<-}ONE

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    1. Richard15 January 2014 at 12:44

      20A - If the homophone ~blew is mentioned, it could be clearer.

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  11. CA Prasad15 January 2014 at 11:11

    25.A. CHRISTMAS ROSE. {MRS SOCRATES I H}*

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  12. Deepak Gopinath15 January 2014 at 11:21

    With the changes at The HINDU it appears that they have decided not to have the online paper whenever there is no print edition. The announcement in the print edition yesterday, however, mentioned that there would be an online edition, which has not happened

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  13. VMA Nair15 January 2014 at 11:22

    11 A --OP(ERA)TIC
    2D -- MI MER
    19D -- In the end cricke(T) has b(e)e(n) I(n)d(i)a'(s) regular sport (6)
    TENNIS

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  14. CA Prasad15 January 2014 at 11:28

    24.A. ALOE. mAiLbOxEs

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  15. thiru15 January 2014 at 12:06

    12 AC
    ingredient for soup - def - stock cube
    supply - stock
    buckets of cold - cube(ice)

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    1. Bhalchandra Pasupathy15 January 2014 at 14:20

      I reckon the anno is (buckets+o+c)*

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    2. Raghunath15 January 2014 at 15:48

      Where's 'o' from? Thiru I think is right.

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    3. Bhalchandra Pasupathy15 January 2014 at 15:54

      Could be. However o = of

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    4. Deepak Gopinath15 January 2014 at 16:00

      Bhala is right.

      O from Of see Chambers

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    5. VJ15 January 2014 at 16:03

      OF = O doesn't seem right

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    6. Bhalchandra Pasupathy15 January 2014 at 16:21

      As Col mentioned you will see it in Chambers. Actually it should be o' = of. Eg 5 o'clock, cat o' nine tails, will o' the wisp.

      Supply = make up, used as anagrind.

      This is just my take of course

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    7. Bhalchandra Pasupathy15 January 2014 at 16:27

      Can even go one step further and say it is a kind of semi & lit. All the letters mentioned become the ingredient for soup (a mixture). And of course stock cube is also ingredient for soup

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    8. Col_Gopinath15 January 2014 at 17:15

      Both o' and o are shown in Chambers as an abvn for 'of' and 'on'

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  16. raju umamaheswar15 January 2014 at 12:33

    As per Richard: since POLEMIC was entered already 3 minutes earlier than me, I'm replacing it by ENFORCER- 13down: One giving order to rule enforcer (9) ANAGRAM OF ENFORCER AND OR

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  17. raju umamaheswar15 January 2014 at 12:35

    Sorry, corrected to CONFERRER as my word in place of POLEMIC

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  18. Aakash Sridhar15 January 2014 at 14:11

    8- BAL(-d) +M
    15- P (-m)INK

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  19. Mukundala Balasubramanyam15 January 2014 at 14:32

    15 *Soft, expensive fur coat's beginning to fade (4) P(-m)INK
    Akash Sridhar @ 2:11. What could be the definition here please ?

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam15 January 2014 at 14:35

      Sorry, my mistake ! I notice that starred clues are not defined.

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam15 January 2014 at 14:51

      ...effect of logging in late :(

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    3. Richard15 January 2014 at 14:52

      5D and 6D could be exclusively waiting for you, Balu.

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam15 January 2014 at 15:56

      No luck today ! Only 6D is left and that seems to be the toughest one of the day :(

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  20. Vinayak15 January 2014 at 14:52

    5D: (-p) OODLES

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  21. Bhalchandra Pasupathy15 January 2014 at 16:00

    6D: ANAGALLIS: central letters from fodder

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  22. Deepak Gopinath15 January 2014 at 16:17

    Thanks Bhavan for the unexpected special

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  23. Chaturvasi15 January 2014 at 18:01

    Col -
    What TH means in their holiday announcement is that while there is no print edition, the web edition will be there and the day's news will be continuously updated.. This might done by a skeleton staff - whether some of them work from home, I do not know. In any case that might be with the help of agency reports while most other sections on the web remain unchanged.
    If the main office in Chennai is totally closed, there might not be any edition printed anywhere the next morning.
    If it's a partial holiday because printing is not possible in certain cities as the printing facility is closed, the staff working in the head office would be producing the print edition for centres where printing is possible.
    On those days the crossword that is carried in any print edition will also appear on the Web. The centres that do not have the print edition will miss it.
    I suspect that yesterday it was a full holiday - by which I mean there has been no print edition anywhere today. Hence there is no crossword on the Web for today.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath15 January 2014 at 18:33

      CV,

      There was no web edition of the paper today neither the normal free one nor the e-paper (with subscription), both of them were showing Tuesday's edition (they still are as of now), that is why Bhavan sent me this special in the morning.

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  24. Bhavan16 January 2014 at 02:15

    Looks like everything is taken care o? Bhala has the parsings I had in mind for 'stock cube'.

    For 5d, it is (can-)oodles with canoodles = pets (v)

    Thanks Colonel

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