Wednesday, 15 July 2015

No 11447, Wednesday 15 Jul 2015, xChequer


Ditto opening comments of yesterday.

ACROSS
7   3 trips to cover city inspection (6) SEARCH {SHARE}* around C 'C' for City?
8   High rates allowing fabrication of designer studios (8) ATELIERS {RATES}* around {LIE}
9   Leave friend cold on return? Nonsense (8) CLAPTRAP {C}{LAP}{TRAP}<=
10 Act by old, old man, Dingus (6) DOODAD {DO}{O}{DAD}
11 When position is a virtue (5) ASSET {AS}{SET}
12 New town in Iraq built with this money? (6) QINTAR {QI{N}{T}AR*} Bhargav must be having one of these?
14 Risk is ignored on straining cardiac limit, a grave sign perhaps (11,4) DIACRITICAL MARK {CARDIAC+LIMIT+A}* on {RisK}
17 Grant to stop endless killing (6) LETHAL {LET}{HALt}
18 Badly hurts mass objectives (5) MAIMS {M}{AIMS}
22 What in general comprises loathing (6) HATING [T]
23 Still one minute to get moving (8) IMMOBILE {1}{M}{MOBILE}
24 Beef from cow slaughter with millions left in agony (8) COMPLAIN {COw}{M}{P{L}AIN}
25 __________ is believing in a gnome? (6) SEEING [FITB/DD]

DOWN
1   Controversial article is down-to-earth (9) REALISTIC*
2   It's an old fashioned disease to complain about pressure (6) GRIPPE {GRI{P}PE}
3   Part of second race (5) SHARE {S}{HARE}
4   Bitter dispute to sell foreign tea bags back in court (8) VENDETTA {VEND}{ET{courT}A*}
5   Constant distribution of oil and pulses, a basic norm for mass representation (8) KILOGRAM {K}{OIL*}{GRAM}
6   Bit closed about crush (5) TREAD ? {T{RE}AD}
8   Ten runs in final impact represented a sound boost (13) AMPLIFICATION {10} in {FINAL+IMPACT}*
13 Folding seat hampers clutch (9) CRUMPLING {C{RUMP}LING}
15 One lifting hands in hope following appeal for organ (8) CALLIOPE {CALL}{1}{hOPE}
16 Complete bid, vast in retrospect (8) INTEGRAL {1 NT}{EGRAL<=}
19 Walked slowly, heading away from bet (6) AMBLED gAMBLED
20 Basic rule soon after century (5) CANON {C}{ANON}
21 Wrong a girl (5) AMISS {A}{MISS}

GRID

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30 comments:

  1. SandhyaP15 July 2015 at 08:36

    7 3 trips to cover city inspection (6) SEARCH {SHARE}* around C 'C' for City?

    Abbreviations for CITY = C, CT, CY

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  2. Shuchi15 July 2015 at 08:44

    25a __________ is believing in a gnome? (6)

    I believe xChequer is also hinting at the other meaning of 'gnome' (maxim), of which 'Seeing is believing' is an example.

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    1. Bhavan15 July 2015 at 08:59

      I thought a gnome was a 'saying' ?

      If the first part is an FITB clue, I'm wondering how does the second part contribute to 'seeing'. Or may be should just read the whole thing as a single cryptic.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath15 July 2015 at 09:05

      'Seeing is believing' is a saying

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  3. Padmanabhan15 July 2015 at 08:48

    Yes. Absolutely.

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  4. Nadathur Rajan15 July 2015 at 08:50

    14Ac 'on' to be removed in anno. A on B = BA

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  5. Padmanabhan15 July 2015 at 08:51

    Did much better than yesterday and enjoyed doing it today.
    A small doubt about 15D-
    'One lifting hands' is for removal of H. H for hand may be fine, but 'Hands'? Agreed this makes the surface reading good and plausible.

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    1. Bhavan15 July 2015 at 09:00

      I think H for hands comes from the measure of horses. Not the H in LHS or RHS

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    2. Padmanabhan15 July 2015 at 09:09

      Thank you Bhavan.

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  6. Mukundala Balasubramanyam15 July 2015 at 09:05

    16 Complete bid, vast in retrospect (8) INTEGRAL {1 NT}{EGRAL<=}

    {1 NT} for please?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath15 July 2015 at 09:06

      'One No Trumps' represented as 1 NT in Bridge

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam15 July 2015 at 09:08

      Thank you Sir. :)

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    3. SandhyaP15 July 2015 at 09:08

      It's a bid in the game of bridge.

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam15 July 2015 at 09:13

      Thanks ma'am. I know only one 'bridge' i.e. Basin Bridge in Chennai ;-)

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    5. Padmanabhan15 July 2015 at 09:16

      Very interesting and probably the best game for deep thinking almost close to chess. Second in my list of hobbies is to read about Bridge- First? Of course CW.

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    6. SandhyaP15 July 2015 at 13:19

      Haha MB!

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  7. Padmanabhan15 July 2015 at 09:14

    Bhavan,
    Just googled it to find that it is nothing but what we call 'Jaan' in Tamil.According to an old tamil saying each man's height is eight times 'Jaan' by his own hand.

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  8. Chaturvasi15 July 2015 at 09:30

    In today's Guardian crossword 26624 Clue 27a was numerically cryptic and I am glad I solved it.
    It is what is called a signature clue.
    That is, if it is seen in a crossword by another setter/amateur it will become suspect and raise doubts of plagiarism.
    Dear solvers, have you at any time identified such a signature clue in the work of any THC setter?
    Or, THC setters, are you proud of any such clue that you have written?

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  9. Raghunath15 July 2015 at 10:18

    +1 for the preamble. Excellent clues for VENDETTA & COMPLAIN (esp 'slaughter' was misleading).

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    1. Raghunath15 July 2015 at 10:19

      ... and CALLIOPE

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    2. ranger15 July 2015 at 10:35

      + 2

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    3. SandhyaP15 July 2015 at 13:20

      +3 :)

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    4. Shuchi15 July 2015 at 22:48

      'slaughter' makes for a great surface, unfortunately the cryptic grammar gets problematic with it.

      Since the wordplay follows 'from', the structure has to be something like 'cow, with slaughtered, ...'.

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  10. mohsin15 July 2015 at 13:02

    Lovely crossword. Brilliant and sneaky use of container/content and deletion indicators throughout.
    My only nit is with cluing IMMOBILE(still) as I+M+MOBILE(moving).

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    1. Shrikanth15 July 2015 at 14:27

      I too thought so initially. But given that Still is used in a different context in the surface/clue I thought it is fine.

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    2. Chaturvasi15 July 2015 at 16:23

      I agree with Shrikanth. That was my thought too.
      The surface reading of the clue is so good that we can overlook the fact that a root word is used in wordplay.

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  11. C.G. BHARGAV15 July 2015 at 15:06

    I don't have a Qintar! I am more into Republic of India coins....

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    1. Richard15 July 2015 at 15:51

      CGB, I couldn't quite get what made the boss relate you to Albania or its currency. Are you a numismatist? Just curious to know.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath15 July 2015 at 20:24

      Yes he is and as stated he specialises in Indian coins

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  12. Vasant15 July 2015 at 21:57

    Missed out on all the action today.. & one of those hectic days where I couldnt solve due to work pressure...despite col putting the clues at 5:45 AM in the hub

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