Tuesday, 22 April 2014

No 11065, Tuesday 22 Apr 2014, Neyartha


One for the geeks today.

ACROSS
1 Poland sends back Greek character after upset relatives eat out of a costly utensil (6,5) SILVER PLATE {ReLatIVES}* {PL}{ATE<=}
9 Cheer as music helps terrace the Dutch theologian (7) ERASMUS [T]
10 Student in America is after a pen that may be used on some tablets (6) STYLUS {STY}{L}{US} PEN on double duty
11 Lazy model moves in to put to rest (5) INTER IN(+t)TER(-t)
12 Russia ignored fearfully odd blank page (7) FLYLEAF FEArFuLLY*
15 Dish with an edible root from Cuba overwhelms the king (4) TACO TA(-r+c)CO
16 Active CPA in trouble for hoarding one type of (24,26) Ac. (10) CAPACITIVE {CAPACAT{1}VE*}
18 Lion’s visit affected some musicians (10) VIOLINISTS*
20 Audibly raises the wood cutting tool (4) ADZE (~adds)
23 Creeks’ issues (7) STREAMS [DD]
24,26 It may make a tablet attractive (5,6) TOUCH SCREEN [GK]
26 See 24
27 Horse carries date to Georgia’s ball in anger (7) DUDGEON {DU{D}{GE}{O}N}
28 Noisy quarrel with Charlie involved in the revision (11) ALTERCATION {ALTER{C}ATION}

DOWN
2 Jail juvenile after Austria’s loss (6) IMMURE IMMatURE
3 Concealed devastation was considerable (4) VAST [T]
4 Addict sent up by officer meets workers to get the outcomes (10) RESULTANTS {RESU<=}{LT}{ANTS}
5 Assert one’s right to risk an allegation (3,5) LAY CLAIM [CD]
6 A seismic shock might set this off (7) TSUNAMI [GK]
7 Missed notice on adversities resolved by a type of (24,26 ac.) (9) RESISTIVE adVERSITIES*
8 Type of feedback that a tablet might provide? The strange chap picks it up (6) HAPTIC {HAP{TI<=}C*}
13 Simian playfully drives into a soft mineral possessing protective power (10) TALISMANIC {TAL{SIMIAN*}C}
14 Bell’s invention mostly mobile nowadays (9) TELEPHONE [CD]
17 Small church seat bracket given by the hoarder before going north (8) MISERERE {MISER}{ERE<=} Never heard of this, had to Google this one.
19 Visual showing the auditor’s mark inside an opaque gem (7) OPTICAL {OP{TIC(~tick)}AL}
21 Mild expletive’s socially acceptable for one freed from frost, say (6) DEUCED {DE(-i+u)UCED
22 Type of apartment where shootings take place? (6) STUDIO [DD]
25 Rewrite law to evict the Christian leader (4) EDIT EDIcT


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32 comments:

  1. Chaturvasi22 April 2014 at 08:57

    Kishore: Re: your preamble.
    Are geeks only from the IT world?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath22 April 2014 at 08:59

      CV my turn to blog today.
      Geeks are not necessarily from the IT world.

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    2. Chaturvasi22 April 2014 at 09:01

      Thanks for removing my misapprehension.

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    3. Deepak Gopinath22 April 2014 at 09:02

      BRB says "someone who is obsessively enthusiastic, esp about computers". By the way the other meanings are Freak, Eccentric, Creep or Misfit !!!

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    4. Chaturvasi22 April 2014 at 09:05

      See... "esp. about computers".

      So my worry that all the credit went to those people from the IT world was correct! In any case I am sure there are some of them among visitors here.

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    5. Anonymous22 April 2014 at 12:38

      Hum aur tum aur yeh samaa....n

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw8zlol_1yw

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    6. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 April 2014 at 17:56

      Nice song. Sounds like a lullaby! :)

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  2. Kishore22 April 2014 at 08:57

    DG, not me, is the BoD.

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  3. Chaturvasi22 April 2014 at 09:03

    I take it in the Br mil slang sense of 'person'.

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    1. Anonymous22 April 2014 at 12:50

      That is the surface. What I meant was "Blogger of the day" similar to CoD

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    2. Chaturvasi22 April 2014 at 13:53

      Of course. I understood what you meant esp as you have written it as BoD - just added another sense of the word, though we would spell it as 'bod'.

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  4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 April 2014 at 09:06

    A nice puzzle from Neyartha. Missed out on 21Dn. Had to take net help for a couple of clues. Had problems too in annotating some of the clues but satisfied after seeing the blog. Thank you Neyartha.

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  5. Ramani22 April 2014 at 09:09

    Except 'ADZE' got all. Thanks Neyartha

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  6. Padmanabhan22 April 2014 at 09:46

    Did well, I should say, keeping in mind it is a Neyartha CW!
    Thank you Col. for the IPL 7 scoreboard. While solving CW's we can also get the latest.

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  7. Col_Gopinath22 April 2014 at 09:54

    Looks like many didn't see the photos of an all 'S' meet in Chennai posted in the THCC Families blog. Here's the link again The 'S' Meet

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  8. Shrikanth22 April 2014 at 09:59

    Clueless I was.. Neyartha always does that to me. Maybe it is a mind block. :(

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  9. Padmanabhan22 April 2014 at 10:09

    I also feel it is a mental block. that is why I felt I did comparatively well today except I got stuck in the NW corner.

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  10. Unknown22 April 2014 at 13:22

    A suggestion - instead of using 'E' for straight clues, using 'Q' - quickie , seems O.K.

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  11. PKPSwami22 April 2014 at 16:01

    Very happy. Today I could crack all except 15a & 17 d. To be honest it was a big blank. Ideas/words started trickling. Though Im not that much computer savvy I could solve all related to comp.peripherals thanks to pointed clues.The ones for 24,26a & 7,8d quite appealong.On the whole, a wholesome entertainer.

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  12. PKPSwami22 April 2014 at 16:03

    Typo. appealing.

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  13. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 April 2014 at 18:41

    15 Dish with an edible root from Cuba overwhelms the king (4) TACO TA(-r+c)CO

    I think, as per the Country Codes suppliesd by ISO{International Organisation for Standardization}, CU stands for CUBA. Is 'C' for Cuba OK?

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 April 2014 at 18:43

      Typo : Supplied

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 April 2014 at 18:57

      Similarly in 27Ac 'GE' is taken for Georgia and not GA(By ISO). Looks like in CWs, we can take first letter or first two letters of cities, states or countries.

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    3. Anonymous22 April 2014 at 19:10

      Apart from the country code mentioned by you, others ref.s like internet domain (TLD) is also used to represent the country. In Cuba, both are CU, so I cannot explain C for Cuba.

      However, in the case of Georgia, you have fallen for a trap. GA is for Georgia, the US state, while GE represents Georgia, the country between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 April 2014 at 06:55

      Thanks Kishore. :)

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  14. Anonymous22 April 2014 at 19:04

    The Crossword bug has bitten the quiz column in the Young World supplement today. Q12 is missing!

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  15. Anonymous22 April 2014 at 19:10

    Any takes on the name Muscad in the cartoon?

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  16. Prabhanjan22 April 2014 at 19:15

    Musca domestics, the common housefly, from Muscat, mostly ☺

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  17. Prabhanjan22 April 2014 at 19:18

    Got all today except MISERERE which put me in misery. Needed Google for a couple of what should have been easy, in hindsight.

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  18. Anonymous22 April 2014 at 19:27

    Bang on!

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    1. Anonymous22 April 2014 at 20:20

      Above is addressede to Prabhanjan for his 715pm

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  19. Navneeth22 April 2014 at 20:17

    15A I assumed that 'root' was doing double duty.

    24, 26A I would classify it as CD, rather than GK/E.

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