Tuesday, 22 July 2014

No 11143, Tuesday 22 Jul 2014, Sunnet


Blistering Barnacles! Sunnet's pangram gave me a run for my money in the NW corner.

 ACROSS
1   Cheroots obtained from vehicles carrying police officer (6)  CIGARS {C{IG}ARS}
4   Hay fever sent back model in one hour (8)  RHINITIS {RH}{1}{NI}{TIS}<=
10 Arm yearns to express (9) LONGSWORD {LONGS}{WORD}
                 Cartoon by Bhargav
11 Sew cut in garment (5) TUNIC*
12 One Spanish railway having a single component (5) UNARY {UN}{A}{RY}
13 Discard headless salt water fish? (4,1,4) DROP A LINE {DROP} {sA LINE}
14 Legendary being reformed Roman Catholic union (7) UNICORN {RC+UNION}*
16 Tighten equipment holding nitrogen (4) KNIT {K{N}IT}
19 Nothing found by contraction of the ear (4) OTIC {O}{TIC}
21 Islander's brewing ingredient has a point (7) MALTESE {MALT}{ESE}
24 Divided, captured prey without resistance, like eagles perhaps (5-4) SHARP-EYED {SHAR{Pr-EY}ED}
25 US fan's untidy mess (5) SNAFU*
26 A shortage of woe! (5) ALACK {A}{LACK}
27 Customs and I.T. raid on Technology leader ordered (9) TRADITION {IT+RAID+ON+Technology}*
28 O! Tipsy lady is going around recklessly (8) DARINGLY {DA{RING}LY*}
29 Knave's direction produced discordant sound (6) JANGLE {J}{ANGLE}

DOWN
1   Stone's ring contains copper found near America (8) CALCULUS {CAL{CU}L}{US}
2   Poem of firearm and drink around modern times (5,3) GUNGA DIN {GUN}{G{A D}IN}
3   Copper is not as good as it used to be (5) RUSTY [DD]
5   Ate cut fish (7) HADDOCK {HAD}{DOCK}
6   He built Thana-Jog line (9) NATHANIEL {THANA*}{LINE*}
7   Can money reveal adventurous reporter? (6) TINTIN {TIN}{TIN}
8   Nearly leak confidential information (6) SECRET SECRETe
9   Information about historic fair (6) GOLDEN {G{OLD}EN}
15 Frank exposes sack to a trace of nitroglycerine (9) OUTSPOKEN {OUTS}{POKE}{N}
17 Engineers with money, cutting and taking it easy (8) RELAXING {RE}{L}{AXING}
18 Order to demolish Queen's church (8) SEQUENCE {QUEENS}*{CE}
20 Clear appeal stumped American gangster (7) CRYSTAL {CRY}{ST}{AL}
21 In the middle of maiden voyage (6) MEDIAN*
22 Perhaps Australia's area (6) ISLAND [CD]
23 Asian market to block accepting American state's associate (6) BAZAAR {B{AZ}{A}AR}
25 He is considered the destroyer of rash Ivanovic (5) SHIVA [T]


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63 comments:

  1. C.G. BHARGAV22 July 2014 at 08:40

    When,

    TIPSY LADY IS GOING AIMLESSLY,
    Justice being upheld carelessly,
    FRANK EXPOSES
    Bed of roses
    Let's halt the nation going aimlessly.

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    1. Anonymous22 July 2014 at 09:21

      CGB, is MK
      =Markandeya Katju
      or
      Muthuvel Karunanidhi
      or
      Mangalore Kishore?

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    2. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 09:55

      Not fair to bring in the last named into this list.

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    3. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 10:16

      Justice delayed.....

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    4. RameshJ22 July 2014 at 12:17

      Super toon by Bhargavji today. Rapier thrust.

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    5. Kishore22 July 2014 at 12:47

      Why Paddy, I too remember 10 year old stuff ...

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    6. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 13:07

      Probably more. But you do not tend to keep it a secret and let it out of the bag at the appropriate (or inappropriate) time. You can't.
      BTW, the main reason given by Supreme court for commuting death sentences is the inordinate delay in disposing off of mercy petitions.

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  2. Richard22 July 2014 at 08:41

    SNAFU had evoked a lively discussion here once. There it appears again.

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  3. Deepak Gopinath22 July 2014 at 08:44

    I'm not a fan of TINTIN. Can you'll identify the other words of the theme. From what I know I found only 4

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    1. Anonymous22 July 2014 at 09:19

      Cigars (of the Pharaohs)
      Secret (of the) Unicorn
      (Crab with the) Golden (claws)
      The (Black) Island
      (The seven) crystal (balls)

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    2. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 10:13

      (Prof.)Calculus

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    3. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 10:14

      Sorry. Col. had taken care of it.

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    4. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 10:22

      I think 'Malta' (from Maltese) is also connected.

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    5. Anonymous22 July 2014 at 10:24

      I felt so too, but was unable to Jog my memory ...

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    6. Richard22 July 2014 at 10:30

      Memory falls like Jog...

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    7. RameshJ22 July 2014 at 12:21

      We always remember watered down version of the events

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    8. RameshJ22 July 2014 at 12:27

      Only connection to Malta that I could find is that in Blue lotus Malta is on route

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    9. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 13:09

      You are spot on.

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    10. Anonymous22 July 2014 at 13:39

      Paddu. in case you did not know it, Ra-Mesh is Sun-Net

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    11. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 14:33

      I knew. But the way he had answered it was sort of doubtful (anyway it looks like he did not mean it as a part of theme)

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    12. RameshJ22 July 2014 at 14:55

      It wasn't in my theme word list

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  4. Richard22 July 2014 at 08:46

    6D - Shouldn't the spelling be NATHANIEL?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath22 July 2014 at 08:55

      Yes, typo corrected

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    2. Raghunath22 July 2014 at 09:11

      Who is this guy?

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    3. Deepak Gopinath22 July 2014 at 09:17

      The first Nathaniel that popped into my mind was 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', don't know why as I have never read any of his books. I'm sure that there must be many more famous guys with this first name

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    4. Anonymous22 July 2014 at 09:20

      I also thought of Hawthorne. But to answer Raghu's question, that is the 'American' name of a call centre employee called Nathan ...

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    5. Raghunath22 July 2014 at 09:24

      I thought he was an architect or builder of railways, which would have been apt.

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    6. Deepak Gopinath22 July 2014 at 09:27

      From Wiki

      Nathaniel (alternate spelling: Nathanael) is a male name and surname. It comes from the Hebrew name נְתַנְאֵל/Netan'el meaning "Given of God" (from the Hebrew words nathan "Gave" + el "of God"). Nathaniel is commonly shortened to Nat, Nate, Natte, Natty, Nati, Natan, or Nathan.

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    7. C.G. BHARGAV22 July 2014 at 09:30

      Years back I and CV used to listen to the Listener's choice in English on Saturdau nights. One of the songs we have heard so many times is the Academy Award winning song MONA LISA sung by Nat King Cole. NAT= NATHANIEL
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG-A_qTAKEI

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    8. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 10:19

      Is 'Jog' the anind for both 'thana' 7 'Line'? That had me confused.

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    9. RameshJ22 July 2014 at 12:28

      Built is for Thana and Jog for Line. So 2 anind and 2 fodder

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    10. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 13:12

      Great! I could not decipher that. Quite a singular instance of 2 aninds, 2 foddrs and a def. Nice one.

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    11. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 July 2014 at 17:48

      Hyderabadi Double Ka Meetha |

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  5. Raghunath22 July 2014 at 09:12

    Nice tricky anagrams.

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  6. Richard22 July 2014 at 09:25

    Toon for 10A by CGB. I can faintly identify two alphabets on the material or book that the woman holds in her hand. What do they signify?

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  7. Ramani22 July 2014 at 09:50

    {SHAR{Pre- Y}ED} may be corrected with 'e' capitalized - before Paddy or MB comes in

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  8. Unknown22 July 2014 at 11:00

    CGB - I remember listening to Listeners' Choice on Saturday nights, also Date With You on Friday nights. Sometimes the reception was not so clear, Specially compared to the FM reception today, but listening to the radio in the old days had a charm of it's own!
    Never thought of Nat King Cole as Nathaniel, thanks for pointing that out!

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    1. Richard22 July 2014 at 14:18

      CGB and RM: Are you referring to Radio Ceylon / Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation programmes?

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    2. C.G. BHARGAV22 July 2014 at 14:36

      No. AIR Madras.

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    3. C.G. BHARGAV22 July 2014 at 14:38

      If I am not wrong, I used to listen to instrumental music for half-an-hour every day in the morning from Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation. It used to be known as "Music to put you in the mood." Do we still have that??

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    4. Richard22 July 2014 at 14:49

      I used to listen to the Hindi station of Radio Ceylon, filmi instrumentals from 0700 to 0715, songs from a new, yet-to-be-released movie from 0715 to 0730 and old film songs from 0730 to 0800. Can someone remember the names of some regular announcers of those days?

      From 0800 to 0830, listeners' choice in Hindi - each song with a long list of names requesting to listen to it, many of them invariably from Jhoomritaliya. (This was mentioned here once or twice.) A friend of mine used to say that this town deserved an award for being the best music-loving town / city in India.

      By turns, I used to tune to Radio Ceylon's English service also. Vijay Correia was my favourite announcer. They used to relay BBC English news at fixed timings.

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    5. C.G. BHARGAV22 July 2014 at 15:01

      And of-course Marwar Mundwa too. Between 0730 to 0800 you could listen to Babul mora naihar sung by K.L. Saigal.

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    6. C.G. BHARGAV22 July 2014 at 15:03

      Sorry, it should read between 0730 and 0800

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    7. Richard22 July 2014 at 15:54

      Yes, I distinctly remember Kundan Lal Saigal's Babul Mora.

      On the first of every month, the last song in that programme, just before 0800, used to be Din hai suhaana aaj pehli tarikh hai from the movie Pehli Tarikh.

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    8. Ganesh N.22 July 2014 at 18:49

      I think the "pehli tarikh' song on the first of every month was in the earlier part of the segment. The last song, just before 8 AM, was always reserved for KL Saigal.

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    9. Richard22 July 2014 at 19:32

      You could be right, Ganesh. Perhaps Pehli Tarikh was the first number that was played. Thanks for pointing out.

      K L Saigal's always used to be the last one.

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  9. Unknown22 July 2014 at 11:03

    Cannot find a Maltese connection to Tintin!

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    1. Padmanabhan22 July 2014 at 12:22

      I thought it could be this-
      Malta: The Blue Lotus (The SS Ranchi is sailing via Malta)

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    2. RameshJ22 July 2014 at 12:29

      Didn't see your reply Paddy. Hence my 12:27

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  10. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 July 2014 at 12:13

    5 Dn : Ate cut fish (7)

    Briefest clue of the day!

    Sounds like : “veni, vidi, vici.”

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  11. RameshJ22 July 2014 at 12:31

    Thanks for all the feedback folks.

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  12. Abhay22 July 2014 at 12:52

    This was one rough ride! Unlike DG, I was foxed by the SouthWest corner - it had me fishing around for a good half-hour or more! Thanks for a good time, Sunnet, and to DG of course for the blog.

    Good work by the cartoonists too, especially by CGB. IMO, the best cartoons are topical and witty without being in-your-face, and your cartoon is right up there!

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  13. Kishore22 July 2014 at 12:53

    Haddock reminds me that today's Quickie has lots of fish

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  14. raju umamaheswar22 July 2014 at 12:54

    COL: Posting a pic of the grid with the solution to indicate the formation of the Pangram would help for those who wish to get familiarized with the jargon of cryptic crossies ?

    Interesting to read about the etym of NATHANIEL : A progeny of VaidhyaNATHAN and NIELa ?

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  15. VP22 July 2014 at 14:28

    Nice one from Sunnet. Enjoyed solving the crossword & the theme.

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  16. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 July 2014 at 16:57

    Learnt today, quite a few Anagram Indicators like JOG, SEW and VOYAGE. Thanks, Ramesh. :)

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