Tuesday, 4 March 2014

No 11023, Tuesday 04 Mar 2014, Spinner


ACROSS
1   Broken acrostic sequence? Properly sort out with silent acceptance! (12) ACQUIESCENCE {ACrostIC+SEQUENCE}*
10 Composed poetry covered in ice (5) RIMED (~rhymed) [DD] - See comments
11 Live by packing and presenting (9) BESTOWING {BE}{STOWING}
12 Approximately learn about chromosome (6) NEARLY {LEARN*}{Y}
13 Ring borrowed with interest principally from Asia (8) ORIENTAL {O}{R{I}ENTAL}
15 Model law includes employment tax, for starters (9) STATUETTE {STATU{E}{T}TE}
16 Exclude book about Military Intelligence (4) OMIT {O{MI}T}
20 Gives money at discussed rate (4) PAYS (~pace)
21 Six involved in cheating, scheming (9) CONNIVING {CONNI{VI}NG}
24 Incredible story, maybe of Gulliver in Lilliput? (4,4) TALL TALE [CD]
26 Passages with soft flowers (6) PROSES {P}{ROSES}
28 Mouths charms (9) ENTRANCES [CD] [DD] - See comments
29 Band without lead singer is rubbish (5) TRIPE sTRIPE
30 Avoiding pepsin? Digest irregularly! (12) SIDESTEPPING*

DOWN
2   Briefly consent to adopt law (9) COMPACTLY {COMP{ACT}LY}
3   Wobble due to excessive rooms: Flat losing foundation (8) UNDULATE {UNDU{fLAT}E}
4   Empty exurb with empty buses deteriorates (4) EBBS {ExurB}{BuseS}
5   Maybe ensuring there are no-balls to throw away score?.... (10) CASTRATING {CAST}{RATING}
6   ….Bowl one around, overstepping initially! Small trapping devices…. (6) NOOSES {NO{OS}E*}{S} OS from overstepping?
7   ….ensure dealers identify concealed towel, at first, by order! (5) EDICT {E}{D}{I}{C}{T}
8   Spinner sat in container with extremely unmentionable, smelly liquid (5) URINE {UR{I}N}{E}
9   Leaving France, weakness turns into deftness (7) AGILITY frAGILITY
14 Remembers about beds covering retiring room (10) RECOLLECTS {RE}{CO{LLEC<=}TS}
17 In sum, foolishly employ operator for subtraction (5,4) MINUS SIGN {IN+SUM}* {SIGN}
18 Tricky tipster is an expectorator (7) SPITTER*
19 Exceed beyond measure (8) OVERSTEP {OVER}{STEP}
22 Maroon fibre (6) STRAND [DD]
23 Whitewash essentially eclipsing a cricket contest? (5) ASHES [T]
25 Instruments without original fret-board are still instruments (5) LUTES fLUTES
27 Man, for example, lies badly (4) ISLE*

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44 comments:

  1. Kishore4 March 2014 at 08:31

    True to Spinner's passion, lots of cricket references.

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  2. Col_Gopinath4 March 2014 at 08:40

    Struggling with Windows 7 and Office 2007

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    1. Raghunath4 March 2014 at 09:35

      Throw both out of the Office Window-:)

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    2. Col_Gopinath4 March 2014 at 10:26

      I will have to go through the process of re-installation again!

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  3. Raghunath4 March 2014 at 08:55

    Nice one with a few doosras and wrong uns.

    10 Composed poetry covered in ice (5) RIMED (~rhymed)

    Didn't it need a homophone indicator?

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam4 March 2014 at 09:31

      Same doubt here. Was wondering what was the homophone indicator !

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    2. Kishore4 March 2014 at 10:30

      Rime=rhyme, as in Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" from which we get:
      Water, water, every where,
      Nor any drop to drink.
      (oft misquoted as 'not a drop to drink")

      However, I have not seen the word rimed used for rhymed

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    3. Srivathsan4 March 2014 at 10:47

      10A was intended to be a Double Definition. Annotation needs to be changed :)

      rime (2)
      noun & verb
      past tense: rimed; past participle: rimed
      1.
      archaic spelling of rhyme.

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    4. Richard4 March 2014 at 12:43

      There is rhyme and reason there...

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  4. Raghunath4 March 2014 at 08:58

    3 Wobble due to excessive rooms: Flat losing foundation (8) UNDULATE {UNDU{fLAT}E}

    Is foundation F or E? Base of flat is E. Or is F abbrv for foundation?

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  5. Padmanabhan4 March 2014 at 09:05

    My early comment this morning in y esterday's blog-
    RE. Sankalak's CW's his son can give the permission to publish the CW's already submitted by him. Maybe, TH can add a caption honouring him. Everyone including his family and our family, should be happy. Maybe CV can take it up and get it done.

    My request to enable us enjoy any CW's made by him.

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  6. Raghunath4 March 2014 at 09:34

    8 D Reminded of "Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner..."

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    1. Padmanabhan4 March 2014 at 09:50

      Potty? Small room?

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    2. Raghunath4 March 2014 at 09:57

      Pot containing one extremely unmentionable, smelly liquid

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    3. Col_Gopinath4 March 2014 at 10:37

      Good one Raghu

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    4. Raghunath4 March 2014 at 13:04

      Thanks, Col. Kishore @ 12.27 plays spoilsport!

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    5. Anonymous4 March 2014 at 13:23

      Raghu, may your cup overflow!

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    6. Raghunath4 March 2014 at 13:55

      Not incontinence, I hope -:)

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    7. Kishore4 March 2014 at 15:51

      I am content. But if there are no words off-limits, it wont be long before someone clues in congress, and I am not ref. to the collective noun or the party ...

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    8. Raghunath4 March 2014 at 17:07

      Union's been bandied around as well.

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    9. Anonymous4 March 2014 at 17:36

      I am not referring to the word per se, but its synonymns. I am not a prude and have no problem with such words, as long as the paper is ok with it. They figure quite frequently in UK cwds. For eg, in last month's Guardian Genius, we had (I am typing from memory, so please excuse errors)

      Put crudely, having sex is what drives us (6)

      This in a puzzle where clues had addition/deletion of a word or its synonyms (amongst other things) during the wordplay. In this puzzle, the said word (to be worked out by the solver, but given here since the whole puzzle is not presented) is

      ROUND, RING, CIRCLE, CIRCUIT, O, or a synonym


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  7. Mukundala Balasubramanyam4 March 2014 at 09:35

    12 Approximately learn about chromosome (6) NEARLY {LEARN*}{Y}

    "Y" for please ?

    An enjoyable CW from Spinner. Found North-West corner tough (for my standard) !!

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  8. Padmanabhan4 March 2014 at 09:45

    X & Y are chromosomes, combinations of which decide the male & female.
    Same here in in NW!

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  9. Srivathsan4 March 2014 at 10:49

    1A and 8D were supposed to be my takes on last round's edited clues :P

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  10. Richard4 March 2014 at 11:54

    Logging in late. No comments over at least two clues being literally 'below the belt'? ;-)

    Just pointing these out for fun:
    4D - Remembered an old humour poem on a couple Ebenezer and Florenc, which I had come across ages ago. Their married life was made of Ebb and Flo, Ebb and Flo....
    8D sounded like an excruciating act of self-affliction by the setter. :-)

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    1. Richard4 March 2014 at 11:54

      corr. Florence

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    2. Srivathsan4 March 2014 at 12:48

      Ah. Self affliction, sarcasm. Both can be excruciating, depending on who is at the receiving end :)

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  11. Padmanabhan4 March 2014 at 12:16

    Richard@11.54-
    Mentioning the unmentionable?

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    1. Richard4 March 2014 at 12:19

      Perhaps, maybe..

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    2. Kishore4 March 2014 at 12:27

      I remember TH used to have some specs prohibiting use of body secretions. Of course, sweat, blood and tears may be permitted.

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  12. Srivathsan4 March 2014 at 13:20

    28A is not a CD as mentioned, but a Double Definition. Mouth = Entrance, as in mouth of the container (noun) , Charm = Entrance (verb)

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  13. Unknown4 March 2014 at 14:49

    There is a new entrant Mr. Parameshwaran in ORKUT, is not coming-out with annotations. Both Col. & Ms. Sandhya have sounded him. Possibly he is not seeing them. I request, the moderator, CHATURVASI to inform him. Other suggestion is to include the same as part of the rule, like no. of entries.

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  14. Venkatesh5 March 2014 at 08:04

    Surprising that there is no comment on the cartoon.
    K has referred to the poem by Thomas Hood ('Hood-Unit')

    I remember, I remember
    The house where I was born,
    The little window where the sun
    Came peeping in at morn;
    He never came a wink too soon
    Nor brought too long a day;
    But now, I often wish the night
    Had borne my breath away.

    I remember, I remember
    The roses red and white,
    The violets and the lily cups--
    Those flowers made of light!
    The lilacs where the robin built,
    And where my brother set
    The laburnum on his birthday,--
    The tree is living yet!

    I remember, I remember
    Where I was used to swing,
    And thought the air must rush as fresh
    To swallows on the wing;
    My spirit flew in feathers then
    That is so heavy now,
    The summer pools could hardly cool
    The fever on my brow.

    I remember, I remember
    The fir-trees dark and high;
    I used to think their slender tops
    Were close against the sky:
    It was a childish ignorance,
    But now 'tis little joy
    To know I'm farther off from Heaven
    Than when I was a boy.

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  15. raju umamaheswar5 March 2014 at 18:25

    RIME also means frost or crust or incrustation. Very clever use of the word to correspond with Rhyme.

    Have not been able to do this crossie due to the Black Hole Tragedy of ORKUT !!

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