Tuesday 11 February 2014

No 11005, Tuesday 11 Feb 2014, Buzzer


ACROSS
9   Destroy piece of code protecting switches (7) TORPEDO [T<=]
10 Fancy Independent publication out of Arizona (7) IMAGINE {I}{MAGazINE}
11 Pregnancy clearly includes a recurring series of changes (5) CYCLE [T]
12 Piercing without a tool (9) IMPLEMENT IMPaLEMENT
13 Atlas is an incredible adversary (9) ASSAILANT*
14 Musical composition is sweet to hear (5) SUITE (~sweet)
15 Cut right through English avenue … (7) ENGRAVE {ENG}{R}{AVE}
17 … gatecrash a pub and enter sans tension (5,2) BARGE IN {BAR}{GEt IN}
19 Dog catching ball nonchalantly (5) COLLY COoLLY Variant spelling of COLLIE as per Chambers
20 Flight scare as it nosedived (9) STAIRCASE*
22 During August, company got stronger (9) RECOVERED {RE{CO}VERED}
24 Technique to go down slope lines (5) SKILL {SKI}{LL}
25 Drive beat up used-car (7) CRUSADE*
26 Sauna set up outside New Jersey is capital (3,4) SAN JUAN {SA{N J}UAN}

DOWN
1   Barrier inside railway building is rock-steady (8) STOCKADE {r{OCK-STEAD*}y}
2   Scrap of French bill for example (6) FRACAS {FR}{AC}{AS}
3   Present a dirty bum inherited (10) HEREDITARY {HERE}{DITARY*}
4   Propose date for new rule (8) DOMINATE (-n+d)DOMINATE
5   VIP section around General Post Office (3,3) BIG POT {BI{G PO}T} Never heard of a VIP being called a BIG POT. Wiki says A BIG POT translates to VIP in Chinese "大人物"
6   Outspoken empty-headed fan (4) VANE (~vain)
7   Left one cat to get support (8) LIFELINE {L}{I}{FELINE}
8   Focus on getting century initially (6) CENTRE  {CENT}{RE}
14 Take over leaderless revolution that is remarkable (10) SURPRISING {uSURP}{RISING}
16 One for putting gulf bloc in order (4-4) GOLF-CLUB*
17 Top housing estate is most tasteless (8) BLANDEST {B{LAND}EST}
18 Stinging northern plant trimmed at the top (8) NEEDLING {N}{sEEDLING}
19 Conservative uniform (blue) in a minister’s office (6) CURACY {C}{U}{RACY}
20 Show/hide a partition (6) SCREEN [DD] (Correction - [MD] - See comments)
21 Hostility of raging tsunami uprooting trees initially (6) ANIMUS tSUNAMI*
23 Drug bottle is periodically available (4) VIAL aVaIlAbLe

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39 comments:

  1. SandhyaP11 February 2014 at 08:33

    20 Show/hide a partition (6) SCREEN [DD]
    I took this to be a triple defn.

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  2. Richard11 February 2014 at 08:34

    Buzzer's label is missing at the top.

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  3. Richard11 February 2014 at 08:36

    Liked the trick capitalization in 22A.

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  4. Richard11 February 2014 at 08:38

    A day of anagrams...

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  5. Deepak Gopinath11 February 2014 at 11:29

    Seems to be a busy Tuesday

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    1. Richard11 February 2014 at 11:34

      Any link to the banks' strike? I heard a lot of people are going around from one ATM to the other, many of which have run out of cash. Sad.

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  6. pavalamani pragasam11 February 2014 at 11:34

    Here I am again with my digression(hope I don't get banned for my irritating intrusions!):
    Hi friends, my photo contest entry is waiting for your precious vote here:http://www.natureforever.org/biodivercityphotocontest.php

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    1. Richard11 February 2014 at 11:44

      I visited the site. Where the entries are displayed and the mode to vote is not clear. Some guidance please.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath11 February 2014 at 11:52

      You'll have to login using facebook

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    3. Suresh11 February 2014 at 11:54

      Nice. Mine is the first vote.

      I was expecting to see a monkey, but tht was someone else's entry.

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam11 February 2014 at 12:03

      I am faceless ! Shall have to wait for my daughter's arrival from office !! She'll vote for PP on my behalf !!!

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    5. Richard11 February 2014 at 12:49

      So am I. :-(

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    6. Padmanabhan11 February 2014 at 13:58

      I don't even see my daughter's face in India!!

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    7. pavalamani pragasam11 February 2014 at 14:02

      Thanks friends, faceless or not! :) As I said elsewhere the word 'contest' is like a carrot dangled in front of the horse!

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    8. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan11 February 2014 at 15:57

      @ PP ma'am done :)

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    9. Mukundala Balasubramanyam11 February 2014 at 19:01

      PP Ma'am done ! Two votes from my side (Son and Daughter) !! :) Nice photo.

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    10. SandhyaP11 February 2014 at 21:19

      Voted!

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    11. pavalamani pragasam11 February 2014 at 21:34

      How nice! Thanks to all!

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  7. Mukundala Balasubramanyam11 February 2014 at 12:35

    19 Dog catching ball nonchalantly (5) COLLY COoLLY

    What is the indicator for deletion of "o" pl ?

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    1. Richard11 February 2014 at 12:49

      Round-shaped letter 'O' for ball?

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    2. Raghunath11 February 2014 at 13:37

      19 Dog catching ball nonchalantly (5) COLLY COoLLY

      Definition is a little confusing. DOG + O = COOLLY. He has used this type of clue earlier too.

      Was on the difficult side, but good clues.
      20 D was somewhar misleading (esp the slash. Was it necessary to have an MD?).

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    3. Padmanabhan11 February 2014 at 14:00

      More the merrier!

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  8. Richard11 February 2014 at 13:50

    21D - ANIMUS

    As I have said many times here earlier, this English is a strange language.

    The root of ANIMUS or ANIMOSITY, which have negative connotations, is the Latin animus / anima for soul, breath or spirit.

    Some other words that have the same root like animation, animated and others do not have negative meaning.

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  9. Padmanabhan11 February 2014 at 14:04

    1A- Does 'switches' indicate reversal?

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  10. Padmanabhan11 February 2014 at 14:07

    Kishore,
    Liked the cartoon. Barging into the barge with a barge pole- MD! does the name 'barge ploe' come out of the pole used to propel boats?

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  11. Padmanabhan11 February 2014 at 14:08

    Yes, It is.
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/barge+pole

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    1. Anonymous11 February 2014 at 19:34

      You got it. The pointer does look like a pole ...

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  12. Padmanabhan11 February 2014 at 14:13

    10A- I always get confused with these 'out of's. From the surface reading, it looks as though 'publication' is out and not Arizona. Am I going wrong somewhere? {magazine- Az (Arizona)}

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam11 February 2014 at 14:38

      As for confusing surface reading, 19 Across answer should be COOLLY, I feel. Hope Buzzer would clarify it.

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  13. Padmanabhan11 February 2014 at 14:49

    Col.'s link takes us to Collie ( a popular spelling) and he has indicated Colly as a variant as per Chambers.

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam11 February 2014 at 15:39

      19A : I meant the surface reading (inadvertently) leads us to COOLLY for 'nonchalantly' as definition. But enumeration is for 6 letters. As such O for Ball is removed to get COLLY and the definition being Dog. My doubt was, what was the deletion/omission indicator for 'o' here ?

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  14. Padmanabhan11 February 2014 at 16:36

    MB,
    Refer Raghunath@1.32.
    Dog (Colly) catching 'O' becomes coolly or nonchalantly- but 'dog' is the def.So,it is ADDITION of O and not deletion.

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  15. Anonymous11 February 2014 at 19:26

    1d in DH today

    The old king is about 51, pet (6)

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