Friday, 24 April 2015

No 11377, Friday 24 Apr 2015, Buzzer


The shape of the grid tells me that maybe there's something afoot, but I can't find it.

ACROSS
1   Lob's due in a tennis match? (5,7) MIXED DOUBLES {LOB'S+DUE}*
8   Party is a big hit (4) BASH [DD]
9   Hear hear, site to see (5,5) CATCH SIGHT {CATCH} {SIGHT}(~site)
11 Said to follow church hymn (6) CHORAL {CH}{ORAL}
12 Timidness or lacking heart could cost team in the front (4,4) COLD FEET [CD] (Addendum {COuLD} {FEE}{Team} - See comments)
14 On the way back encounter rain (4) TEEM <=
16 Indestructible cross left outside (7) ETERNAL ExTERNAL
18 Nice day turned toxic (7) CYANIDE*
19 A songbird with new rendition (4) WREN [T]
22 Always boxed in case, English drink (8) BEVERAGE {B{EVER}AG}{E}
23 An objection can disrupt (4,2) BUTT IN {BUT}{T IN}
24 Crimes of men involved in feuds (10) ENORMITIES {EN{OR}MITIES}
26 Difference in chap from chapel for Christmas season? (4) NOEL {NO EL}
27 Soft and squishy a mango tree's fruits (12) POMEGRANATES {P}{A+MANGO+TREES}*

DOWN
2   Descent from air nice then, for a change (11) INHERITANCE*
3   Old prison mostly is beat (5) EXCEL {EX}{CELl}
4   Find fault with tenor standing in for fellow (6) DETECT DE(-f+t)TECT
5   Provide cover in court with one carrying a gun (9) UPHOLSTER {UP}{HOLSTER}
6   Kaleidoscope displaying floral arrangement (3) LEI [T]
7   Black article after article in wash (5) BATHE {B}{A}{THE}
10 Man what a week. It's a laugh (3-3) HEE-HAW {HE}{E-H!}{A}{Week}
13 Supporting popular standpoint say (3,8) FOR INSTANCE {FOR} {IN}{STANCE}
15 Sweet preparation of grenadine (9) ENDEARING*
17 Wantonly vile, rotten, gut-wrenching monster (6) WYVERN {Wa...lY}{VilE}{Ro..eN}
20 Rising temper consumed one monarch (6) REGINA {REG{1}NA<=}
21 Boundary like four, but going over (5) SIXER [CD] (Addendum - {IV<=}{ER} - See comments)
23 Place for Arabs possibly (5) BASRA*
25 Butter and jam (3) RAM [DD]

GRID

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44 comments:

  1. Raghunath24 April 2015 at 08:40

    2 Timidness or lacking heart could cost team in the front (4,4) COLD FEET [CD]

    CO(u)LD, FEE (cost) + T(eam) ... Nice one.

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  2. Chaturvasi24 April 2015 at 08:41

    All of us have read/heard of the English grammar book by Wren and Martin.
    It just struck me now (ref. 19a) that both the authors bore the names of birds as 'martin' too is a kind of bird - it's a perching bird like the swallow.
    'Perching' birds are said to belong to the Passerine family.
    A notable feature of passerines is the arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back) which facilitates perching.

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    1. Kishore24 April 2015 at 09:14

      21st July 2010:

      Deja vu
      KISHORE12:12 pm GMT+5:30
      Grammar book authors Wren & Martin have been thrown out of the window. Luckily for them, both of them are birds and can fly.

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    2. Chaturvasi24 April 2015 at 09:18

      Kishore

      I have been so many years behind you. But I am glad I have a mind such as yours (barring maths and accounts!)
      It's great that you remembered your Comment and traced it with the site search facility.

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    3. Kishore24 April 2015 at 09:29

      Oh no, sir. You are miles ahead ...

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  3. Raghunath24 April 2015 at 08:44

    Lovely clues esp. MIXED DOUBLES, BUTT IN, CATCH SIGHT, POMEGRANATES

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  4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 April 2015 at 08:53

    26 Difference in chap from chapel for Christmas season? (4) NOEL {NO EL}

    NO for pl?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath24 April 2015 at 08:53

      Difference between CHAP and CHAPEL is that there is No EL

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    2. Raghunath24 April 2015 at 08:55

      Chapel, Chap No el in Chap

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 April 2015 at 08:59

      Thanks Col.Sir & Raghu. :)

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 April 2015 at 09:03

      Calls for out-of-the-box thinking! As far as I am concerned!!

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  5. Raghunath24 April 2015 at 08:57

    Suppose 23d BASRA is & lit

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  6. Anonymous24 April 2015 at 09:11

    One of the breeziest puzzles of Buzzer. The paper guy messed up. Was up from 5.30. No delivery at all. I had to go out to buy one and started at 8.10 .. Was done before 9 am which is a record for me as far as Buzzer is concerned. Too many brilliant clues to specify in particular. 12A takes the cake though

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  7. Kishore24 April 2015 at 09:15

    MB, the initial letters of the first two across answers spell out ...

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    1. Chaturvasi24 April 2015 at 09:22

      But another Commenter sits plumb in a slot.

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 April 2015 at 09:30

      Kishore @ 9:15 am

      I am a Mixed Bag!

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    3. Kishore24 April 2015 at 09:33

      Remembered the old May & Baker (later Rhone-Poulenc) product which had the abbreviation MB on the bottle caps (which were manufactured by MetalBox), I used to wonder whether MB meant May and Baker or MetalBox ... probably the former ...

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    4. Padmanabhan24 April 2015 at 09:37

      A mixed bag may contain many valubles!
      Thank you MB for your clarification of my doubt yesterday (Yellow?) Saw it late.
      Lovely enjoyable (usual Buzzer)) CW today, though I missed a few.

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    5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 April 2015 at 09:46

      Neither a Mixed Bag nor a Metal Box, just an MB that you all know!

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  8. Padmanabhan24 April 2015 at 09:34

    Jammy? (incidentally that is the nickname of Dravid!)

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  9. Padmanabhan24 April 2015 at 09:34

    My 9.34 is in response toCV's 9.22.

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  10. Chaturvasi24 April 2015 at 09:53

    Meant to write the following yesterday but couldn't...
    ;'Or' for gold comes from heraldry.
    "The names used in English blazon for the colours and metals come mainly from French and include Or (gold), argent (silver), azure (blue), gules (red), sable (black), vert (green), and purpure (purple). A number of other colours (such as bleu-celeste and the stains sanguine, tenné and murrey) are occasionally found, typically for special purposes" (Wikipedia)
    I remember the word 'gules' from a stanza in Keats's Eve of St. Agnes:

    Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,
    And threw warm gules on Madeline’s fair breast,
    As down she knelt for heaven’s grace and boon;
    Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, 220
    And on her silver cross soft amethyst,
    And on her hair a glory, like a saint:
    She seem’d a splendid angel, newly drest,
    Save wings, for heaven:—Porphyro grew faint:
    She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.

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  11. Ramani24 April 2015 at 09:57

    I think I am honored by CV Sir

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  12. Ramani24 April 2015 at 09:59

    My 9.57 is in response to Paddy's 9.34 (2)

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  13. Suresh24 April 2015 at 10:33

    17D reminded of the old Vauxhall WYVERN and Velox taxis in Coonoor. Sturdy vehicles they were.

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  14. Srividya24 April 2015 at 11:08

    Simply super xword from Buzzer...1a, 16a, 4d, 17d, 20d ... among many gems.. !!

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  15. Padmanabhan24 April 2015 at 13:05

    Suresh@10.33-

    One of my relatives was a proud owner of a Wyvern for a very long time and he enjoyed driving it around. Beautiful car and absolutely dependable.But I did not connect until I saw your comment.

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  16. Bhavan24 April 2015 at 16:05

    I meant for 21d's wordplay to be: IV(four) <-

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    1. Raghunath24 April 2015 at 17:42

      I felt it wasn't a CD, given the wordplay. Got as far as IV but not beyond that.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath24 April 2015 at 19:27

      How do we account for the ER?

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    3. Raghunath24 April 2015 at 19:35

      We'll have to use cricket terminology where a "six" = "sixer", because Buzzer refers to boundary, four etc.

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  17. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 April 2015 at 16:08

    Ah! What a twist!!

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  18. Nut24 April 2015 at 21:37

    Can someone please explain how butter and jam is RAM 25d? I'm a newbie and would love to learn

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  19. Raghunath24 April 2015 at 21:41

    http://www.chambers.co.uk/search.php?query=jam&title=thes

    From this you get JAM = RAM synonym.Ram is also a male sheep which (head) butts hence 'butter'.

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  20. Arvind Ramaswamy24 April 2015 at 22:13

    Can someone please explain 24a how to parse? Enmities is feuds but how dies OR come from men or "of men"?

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    1. Aakash Sridhar24 April 2015 at 22:56

      OR comes from other ranks ... A military term

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    2. Arvind Ramaswamy24 April 2015 at 23:03

      Thats toooo... Well.. anyways Thanks Aakash!

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