Saturday, 16 May 2015

No 11396, Saturday 16 May 2015, Mac


Lovely one from Mac. 
Updated the anagram indicators 

Across

9 Income I’d spent recklessly (7) STIPEND {I'D SPENT}*
10 Grave words of commendation (7) EPITAPH (CD)

 11 Generous, firm and devout (7) COPIOUS {CO}{PIOUS}
12 Animal reviler heartlessly captured injured doe (7) ROEDEER {R{OED}vilEER} Roe Deer? See comments

 13 It may change your perspective // of a palpebral muscle (9) EYEOPENER (DD)
15 Flowering plant of Central American/African origin (5) ERICA {ERIC}{A}

 16 Title used to address a man in Italian, Greek and Latin regions (7) SIGNORE {REGIONS}* 
19 Disadvantage of faulty net play (7) PENALTY {NET PLAY}*
20 ‘Loud’ is not a synonym for ‘soft’ (5)  FAINT {F}{AIN'T}
21 Hospital in the midst of paradigm shift created birth control device (9) DIAPHRAGM {DIAP{H}RAGM}*
25 Santa’s helpers (even Vixen!) had to go out to get presents (7) RENDERS {REiNDEeRS}
26 Posthumous ceremony that’s real fun? Not quite! (7) FUNERAL {REAL FUN}*
28 Girl, upset at first, tries badly to become breezier (7) GUSTIER {G}{U}{STIER}*
29 Reprimanding convicted leader by whipping (7) CHIDING {C}{HIDING}

Down

1 Korean sensation’s revolutionary mind (6) PSYCHE {PSY}{CHE}
2 Unwise minister admitted to crooked lies (6) SIMPLE {SI{MP}LE}*
3 Lead actor in “The Rock” (4) HERO (T)
4 Scientist synthesised isoniazid extract (6) EDISON (T)

 5 Model has ornament with a pendant in a shape that’s pointed at the top and rounded at the bottom (8) TEARDROP {T}{EARDROP}
6 This hole is likely a clubhouse (10)  NINETEENTH {CD}
7 Worldly friend collects money (8) MATERIAL {MATE}{RIAL}
8 Drug store’s quick to contain injury (8) PHARMACY {P{HARM}ACY}
14 Artificial substitute for a body part derived from research paper by leading experts (10) PROSTHESIS {PROS}{THESIS}

 16 Fill with anger, having been denied essentially vital right to vote (8) SUFFRAGE {StUFF}{RAGE}
17 Fluency marked by insincerity is blessing in disguise (8) GLIBNESS {BLESSING}*
18 They take care to set aside time and protect us consumers (3,5) END USERS {tEND {US}ERS}
22 Bizarre fact about iron’s influence (6) AFFECT {AF{FE}CT}*
23 Scared and frustrated, runaway starts to get help (6) AFRAID {A}{F}{R}{AID}
24 Top businessman quits, blaming organisation for slander (6) MALIGN {bLAMING}*
27 Anil engineered digital growth (4) NAIL {ANIL}*

Reference list

Firm=Co,Loud=F,Hospital=H,Girl=G
Revolutionary=Che,Minister=MP,Model=T,Iron=Fe
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33 comments:

  1. Raghunath16 May 2015 at 08:43

    Nice and 2d from Mac. As is his wont plenty of anagrams.
    I spent some time to work out the anno for TEARDROP trying P(ointed) and (rounde)D and then concluded that it wasn't so complicated

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  2. Raghunath16 May 2015 at 08:43

    Roedeer: Roebuck. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/roedeer

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  3. SandhyaP16 May 2015 at 09:01

    Neat clues. Loved the anagram indicators. :)

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  4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 May 2015 at 09:13

    Nice one from Mac. I filled in QUIET for 20ac and got stuck in SW Corner. Missed 20, 25ac & 16dn. Nonetheless an enjoyable solve. Thanks Mac.

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  5. Rengaswamy16 May 2015 at 09:19

    For 6d I put EIGHTEENTH and got into a hole.

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  6. SandhyaP16 May 2015 at 09:20

    Check Exa's post(10:41pm) for clarification regarding yesterday's clues.

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  7. Gita SB16 May 2015 at 09:22

    What a treat! Particularly liked 10a 11A13A 25A

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  8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 May 2015 at 09:23

    16ac : Title used to address a man in Italian, Greek and Latin regions (7) SIGNORE {REGIONS}*

    What's the anind pl? Greek or Latin?

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    1. RameshJ16 May 2015 at 09:24

      Yes

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 May 2015 at 09:27

      U mean both Greek and Latin are aninds?

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    3. RameshJ16 May 2015 at 09:32

      Indicated all the anagram indicators for all the clues

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 May 2015 at 09:33

      Thanks Ramesh. Saw your upgradation of anagram indicators.

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    5. Suresh16 May 2015 at 10:28

      MB, Greek and Latin is an anind (in singular). Or is this all Greek and Latin to you

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    6. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 May 2015 at 10:51

      Thanks Suresh garu! It was all Greek to me intially but now everything is clear!! :)

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  9. Padmanabhan16 May 2015 at 09:26

    Sniffed samosas but 'hiding' did not come out for me.
    Superb enjoyable CW. Liked many(why, almost all) clues. Got the nineteenth hole and had a smile.Enjoyable surfaces.Thank you Mac. Would like to have more of you.

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  10. D.Srinivasan16 May 2015 at 09:42

    5D reminded me of Sri Lanka which is also known as "Teardrop Island"

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  11. Prabhanjan16 May 2015 at 09:44

    Santa's helpers ate my samosas

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  12. VMA Nair16 May 2015 at 10:01

    Lovely. Signore, faint, hero, malign are my favourites. Teardrop took my time ..
    Thanks Mac

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  13. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan16 May 2015 at 10:45

    Wow Mac , very nice & enjoyable CW !

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  14. Ramani16 May 2015 at 12:03

    MAC has given me samosas! Thank you MAC. Feeling very happy.This is possible because of this blog and the fellow commentators. Thank you all for the training and teachings!

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  15. Abhay16 May 2015 at 12:28

    Enjoyable, elegant, accessible - great work, Mac! Thank you for a great time - and to Ramesh for the blog.

    Too many favourites to list, but I think my COD is FAINT - brilliant surface, and shows that great clues don't have to be complex!

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  16. Padmanabhan16 May 2015 at 12:56

    Agree with Ram & Abhay.

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  17. Vasant16 May 2015 at 14:32

    Loved the xword.

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  18. Shyam16 May 2015 at 15:56

    Easy puzzle today. Liked FAINT and STIPEND. Had a few problems with some clues:

    1) REINDEERS was jarring, (but surprisingly Oxford Dictionary seems to agree with the plural!), so were a couple of surfaces - animal 'reviler' and 'grave words of commendation'.
    2) In the latter, why should EPITAPH be associated with commendation? Is it a mix-up between commendation/commemoration or epitaph/eulogy?
    3) 'Top businessman' to mean 'top of businessman': 'Business head' fits better. 'Top businessman' seems more appropriate as an instruction to remove the first letter (top=behead).
    4) Why is 'Not quite' an anagram indicator? Not convinced about 'organization' too, but I guess that would be justifiable.
    5) Somewhat verbose definitions for TENDERS, TEARDROP and SIGNORE.

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    1. Shyam16 May 2015 at 16:13

      Also I reckon a research paper is different from a thesis, though a few research papers written cohesively can contribute towards a thesis or a dissertation.

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    2. mohsin16 May 2015 at 18:08

      2. An epitaph is usually writing in praise of a deceased person.
      3. Agreed. "top businessman" isn't well-framed.
      4. "Not quite" seems to work, for me. It suggests the letters aren't quite in the correct order. 'Organization' seems perfectly fine to me. But then again, I'm for nounal anagrinds.
      5. True. But I don't see much wrong there.

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    3. Shyam16 May 2015 at 18:56

      Agreed with EPITAPH; it has more contexts than what I thought originally.

      'Not quite' convinced about 'Not quite'. The dictionary entry says 'Not completely', in line with its crossword usage as a tail deletor. To equate 'Not quite' to 'Not quite in order' is a stretch to me.

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