Thursday, 13 February 2014

No 11007, Thursday 13 Feb 2014, Arden


Congrats to Arden's on his 100th CW for The HINDU.

ACROSS
1   Railing will help retired people (8) DIATRIBE {DIA<=}{TRIBE}
5   Advance without, say a famous person (6) LEGEND {L{EG}END}
10 Shrink one by one on the table, one is told (7) ANALYST {A n A}{LYST}(~list) (Addendum - {AN}{A}{LYST}(~list) - See comments)
11 Soldiers tense after rum which is left over (7) ODDMENT {ODD}{MEN}{T}
12 The slut will genuinely long for ponytail (5) TRULL TRUL(-y+l)L Had to cheat on this one
13 Whistler played a note previously (9) ERSTWHILE {WHISTLER*}{E}
14 Place of rehabilitation right in the centre of Rajya Sabha, say (7,5) HALFWAY HOUSE {HALFWAY} {HOUSE}
18 Sowing done in half the land (12) INSEMINATION {IN}{SEMI}{NATION}
21 Animal swallows hogshead, takes a long time for the creature (9) CHAMELEON {C{H}AMEL}{EON}
23 Write about soldiers who show off (5) PREEN {P{RE}EN}
24 It’s a sin to order caviar and end with champagne (7) AVARICE {CAVIAR*}{E}
25 It costs more to put a man in the dock (7) PRICIER {P{RIC}IER}
26 Fancy the Yankee going after Don (6) DRESSY {DRESS}{Y}
27 Go down after preliminary round in part of the circuit (4,4) HEAT SINK {HEAT} {SINK}

DOWN
1   Lack of writing in the end (6) DEARTH {DEA{R}TH}
2   Operate a sub-account with a calculator (6) ABACUS {A+SUB+AC}*
3   Two boys and a friend on top of money tree (5,4) ROYAL PALM {ROY}{AL} {PAL}{M}
4   Ram is touched, gets sloppy on the field (6-8) BUTTER-FINGERED {BUTTER}-{FINGERED}
6   Give and stop the fight right away (5) ENDOW {END}{rOW}
7   Retired don sure about time management (8) EMERITUS {SURE+TIME}*
8   Did go around that place, but held back (8) DITHERED {DI{THERE}D}
9   Old ci y was steady on pile construction (14) CONSTANTINOPLE {CONSTANT}{INOPLE*} Wonder who ate up the 'T' of the city !!
15 Suggest without proof — anyway that’s what a hunter looks for (9) HOOFPRINT {H{PROOF*}INT}
16 College under some litigation, tough for one in school (8) PILCHARD {PIL}{C}{HARD}
17 Made space for maiden to leave…..foolish frolic (8) ESCAPADE {mADE+SPACE}*
19 Merchant prince not getting remedy (6) ?E?I?I (Addendum - MEDICI MEDICIne - See comments)
20 Aaron works over weekend, a real bore (6) ANORAK {AARON*}{weeK}
22 Climbs second time and gives out (5) EMITS {EMIT}{S}<=

51 comments:

  1. 10 Shrink one by one on the table, one is told (7) ANALYST {A n A}{LYST}(~list)

    I took this as AN A LYST (~list)

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  2. Deepak, I think your Pilchard is tainted. My antivirus says it has malicious software.

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    1. The link is to wikipedia. Nothing wrong there I checked it out

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    2. My antivirus {McAfee - licensed version) has no problems

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    3. I have just sent you a screenshot from my Kaspersky - licenced version

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  3. 19 Merchant prince not getting remedy (6)

    I took as Medici. Probably from medicine, but did not get entire anno

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    1. Knowing her, ... in a free fall !

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    2. My computer shut down for some automatic update. I'm equally stumped :(

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    3. Was reminded of the Latin version of 'Physician, heal thyself' - Medici, cura te ipsum. Tried to get some connection. No success.

      Another word that fits there is GEMINI. Does not agree with definition.

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    4. Is a language Ind missing? Which language?

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    5. I too saw it as not equal to in thefredic.

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    6. As usual Sandhya is right. From Chambers:

      ne /nē or ni/ (obsolete)
      adverb
      Not

      conjunction
      Nor

      ORIGIN: OE ne

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    7. Sounds reasonable.

      I had settled for changing the clue as Crossword solvers not getting anno and taken rest. ;-)

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    8. Where is the deletion ind? Or should we add ne to definition to get remedy?

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    9. There was s similar Buzzer clue for COLLY recently

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    10. I had Medici but could not find ne for not in my OED.

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    11. Refer Ajeesh 9:58 and Raghunath 10:07.

      I too had raised a doubt relating to such clues but there is no clarification from anybody, so far !

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  4. "right in the centre of Rajya Sabha" is the well, made so popular by persons wishing to disrupt proceedings...

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    1. Why can't they use one somewhere outside the house to get into...

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  5. Congrats, Arden, on your THC ton

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  6. On a math note:

    a. Any abacus users here?
    b. Any person interested in Rhombus' Crossnumber puzzles from the Listener may contact me at kishoremrao@hotmail.com. These puzzles have recently found their way into my mailbox

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    1. Count me in .please, Kishore.

      LS and RS wells are wishing wells for well-wishers ? What constitutes Seemandhra? a third front? besides Telengana and Andhra ?

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  7. Yesterdays cw was very good. Today I felt Pilchard and Heat Sink needed accurate defs. Was tougher today.

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  8. Any one else getting a virus advisory (see Kishore's 8:33) when clicking on the picture of Pilchard?

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  9. Some more on math note:

    Since there are many engineers and mathematics experts in this forum, this might be of interest to them.

    Yesterday, at a media meet in Mangalore, Romith Rao, a civil engineer, claimed to have devised a new, easy formula to solve difficult multiplications. He says that the formula has been submtted to the Ramanujan Mathematical Society. Visit www.romithrao.com to read more about it.


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    1. Just went through it. I use a similar system called The Trachtenburg system of speed mathematics for long multiplications. When younger, I could manage 6 digit number x 6 digit numbers (many can even do it with 9 digit ones), but presently I can do only 4 digit numbers as my concentration is not what it was. That method eliminates all the intermediate steps written in long multiplication and gives the last line straight away.

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  10. Again, a Black Hole Tragedy in Orkut !! Who can fix this frequent Black Outs? Kejriwal the stone-waller?

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  11. Anyone worked on that abacus yet?

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    1. A typical Kishore enigma. First I kept scratching my head why the abacus cartoon contained the words from another clue.

      There is a hint of no. 100 in the cartoon, obviously to commemorate Arden's 100th presentation. And the reference to caviar and champagne is to celebrate.

      Talking of champagne, here is one for the fans of the old-time, indomitable villain of Bollywood.

      A gaddaar was caught and brought before Ajit by his henchmen for leaking the secrets.

      When asked, Is ke saath kya sulook kiya jaaye, baas?', Ajit answers in his usual style and tenor:

      'Usko champagne ke talab mein duba doh. Agar 'shame' nahin toh 'pain' mein toh hi mar jaayega'.

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    2. Congrats to our dear Arden. May we have many more hundreds...

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    3. Talking of Ajit, even when the poor chap played a good main in Mughal-e-Azam, the role he got was Durjan

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    4. Call it being branded or stereotyped. Villainy was the poor guy's second skin.

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    5. He even had a Ham id.

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    6. Smart boy. Loin-hearted. ;-)

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  12. Congrats to Arden indeed. My favourite setter. Yesterday's was perfection. Today's not so good, but still very enjoyable.

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  13. Noted cinematographer-director Balu Mahendra (Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran) passed away in Chennai this morning. RIP.

    Remember his Hindi movie, Sadma, a remake from Tamil, which starred Kamal Haasan and Sridevi.

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