Thursday 2 April 2015

No 11358, Thursday 02 Apr 2015, Vulcan


ACROSS
1   50s movie with great fights, suspenseful (5,6) STAGE FRIGHT*
9   Tell the story of a nobleman about to take the lead (7) RECOUNT {RE}{COUNT}
10 Drink tea at posh country home (7) CHATEAU {CHA}{TEA}{U}
11 Glimpse of life filled with energy (4) PEEP {P{E}EP}
12 Government's agent, mean, corrupt, swiping millions (10) MANAGEMENT {MEAN+AGENT}*over M
13 A meeting where people turning up late is the norm (6) SEANCE [CD]
15 Still cold wearing woollen scarf (6) PLACID {PLA{C}ID}
19 A war broke out with Ex. I was deafened because of it (6) EARWAX {A+WAR+EX}*
20 Fat queen's supply of food (6) LARDER {LARD}{ER}
23 Shakespeare’s Cleopatra? (5,5) DRAMA QUEEN [CD]
25 Trademark of slog overs (4) LOGO [T]
27 Mostly eccentric dance moves — little different (7) NUANCED {NUt}{DANCE*}
28 Golden boot given to midfielder, one worthy of honour (7) AUREATE lAUREATE
29 Son earlier worked in East African republic (6,5) SIERRA LEONE (SON+EARLIER+E}*

DOWN
1   Luck needed in racing course, most of it, to become the one ending up with all the money (9) SUCCESSOR {SUC{CESS}ORe*} Luck and Cess? Anno not clear See comments
2   An unusual plant (4) ARUM {A}{RUM}
3   Approach with charm (8) ENTRANCE [DD]
4   Ethnic disturbance in Carolina, not for a long time (6) RACIAL CARoLInA* Deletion anno not clear See comments
5   Perplexed after the head of groundstaff filled the surface with pebbles (9) GRAVELLED {Gr...f}{RAVELLED}
6   Idea of mixing meth with ecstasy (5) THEME {METH*}{E}
7   Time's right to get some food (5) TRIPE {T}{RIPE}
8   Keeping conservative ones away from American daily (7) CUSTODY {C}{USa TODaY}
14 Large number in naval battles go through misery (9) AVALANCHE {A{NAVAL*}CHE}
16 Big firm's awfully poor showing in a case (9) CORPORATE {C{POOR*}RATE}
17 Delivering from Southern end at home ground to start with (7) SENDING {S}{END}{IN}{Gr...d}
18 Infamous party game (8) BASEBALL {BASE}{BALL}
21 Slaughter a bunch of birds (6) MURDER [DD]
22 Pay for insurance (5) COVER [DD]
24 A piece to collect (5) AMASS {A}{MASS}
26 So the killer got arrested (4) ERGO [T]

GRID

25 comments:

  1. 4 Ethnic disturbance in Carolina, not for a long time (6) RACIAL CARoLInA*

    ON = Continuously, for a long time, ceaselessly

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  2. Nice surfaces, smooth (not gravelled).

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  3. The solution to 29a puts me in mind of Sunny Leone.
    Be it as it may and be she as she may [securely in my mind], can anyone explain the Leone part in both?

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    1. As per wiki

      European contacts within Sierra Leone were among the first in West Africa. In 1462, Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra mapped the hills surrounding what is now Freetown Harbour, naming the shaped formation Serra da Leoa or "Serra Leoa" (Portuguese for Lioness Mountains).[20] The Spanish rendering of this geographic formation is Sierra Leona, which later was adapted and, misspelled, became the country's current name.

      No clues about the Sunny one :-)

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  4. 29A The last A in the anno needs to be deleted pl.

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  5. 8 Keeping conservative ones away from American daily (7) CUSTODY {C}{US TODaY}
    'Ones' or 'one' for deletion of 'a' in the anno pl?

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  6. Surface reading of 12A so nicely done. Enjoyed it nad had a good laugh after filling.
    Nice morning exercise of the brainy kind. Thank you Vulcan.

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  7. Liked the well disguised aninds in 19A - A war 'broke out', 14D - naval 'battles' etc. Liked also the deletion ind 'boot' in 28A, so smoothly worded to go with 'golden boot', to misguide someone like me! Overall super smooth surface reading(s). Enjoyed the fare. Thanks, Vulcan.

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  8. Will it become alright if 1D is worded as- "Irish luck...."?

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    1. ...then it would be a give away, I think!

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    2. BTW Google search for Irish LUCK is of no use! It gives something else and not CESS.

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    3. So we should go with the given link LUCK and Ramesh J @ 8:36 am.

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    4. It is a translation. So, there will not be a word as 'IrishLuck'.An indication to this effect will not make it easy anyway.

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  9. In the redesigned website of the paper, the crossword continues to have a boxed pointer/link on the rightside bar.

    Today's has not been updated as yet but what is of interest to us is the day's setter's name appears in the box. If you like X, click! If you don't like Y, ignore!

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  10. If one clicks on the pointer one gets all the CW's with solutions from 11179 (including intervening Sunday CW's)
    Has the redesigned website been launched only today? Looks much better than the earlier version. Col. had said that the day's grid used to appear between 10 & 11AM earlier.

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    1. Between 8 & 9. Today it came around 8:30

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    2. Today it's under the miscellaneous section

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