Friday, 9 October 2015

No 11521, Friday 09 Oct 2015, Arden


ACROSS
1   Sea reached half the height in olden times (6) BALTIC {B{ALTItude}C}
4   A lawmaker takes time in court showing disrespect (8) CONTEMPT {C{ON{T}E}{MP}T}
9   Amateur initially learnt from Al Qaeda chief (6) LAYMAN {L}{AYMAN}
10 Money stolen leads to game's downfall (8) BUCKSHOT {BUCKS}{HOT}
12 Restricted force as looking serious (8) GRAVITAS {GRAVITy}{AS}
13 Very small and silent while getting in (6) MINUTE {M{IN}UTE}
15 Sex was the main issue in Wodehouse's work (6,6) MATING SEASON {MATING} {SEA}{SON}
18 Two options for Halloween... (5,2,5) TRICK OR TREAT [GK]
21 ...otherwise please pass (6) ELAPSE*
22 Drink before you leave with confidence (8) SUPEREGO {SUP}{ERE}{GO}
24 Attack tripo? (4,4) TEAR INTO {T{RIP}O} But what does TRIPO mean?
25 Some devotees have nothing — nothing on top (6) SHAVEN [T]
26 Began calling — calling and covering, reportedly (8) CRINGING {Ca...g}{RINGING}
27 Go with green revolution, years later (6)  ENERGY {GREEN}*{Y}

DOWN
1   After first base everyone's willing to watch it (4,4) BALL GAME {Base}{ALL GAME} Semi&lit
2   Always drunk, leading those disheartened to ruin (3,5) LAY WASTE {LAY WAS}*{ThosE}
3   Fancy East Indian girls on top, for starters (7,8) ITALIAN DRESSING*
5   Here lies collective responsibility (4) ONUS &lit
6   Make hot tea in kitchen — endure punishment (4,2,2,3,4) TAKE IT ON THE CHIN*
7   Handler's cry to replace mother with son (6) MAHOUT (-s+ma}MAHOUT Shouldn't that be 'replace son with mother'?
8   Having name like Doctor Doolittle and ignoring John (6) TITLED DoolITTLE*
11 Habit of putting animal in haystack (7) CASSOCK {C{ASS}OCK}
14 Able to work with a star (7) CANOPUS {CAN}{OPUS}
16 Cheat received representation (8) DECEIVER*
17 “One yet to hike rent”, admitted lawyer (8) ATTORNEY {A}{T{TORN}EY<=}
19 Initially placed in a group — those essentially sick and infected (6) SEPTIC {SE{Pl...d}T}{sICk}
20 Master of jurisprudence leads island nation (6) MALAWI {MA}{LAW}{I}
23 Shock with crazy build up (4) STUN <=

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13 comments:

  1. RameshJ9 October 2015 at 08:39

    24a ' Attack Tripo' would have worked better. Trip o is the first name of a painter.
    15a Sex's the main etc. works better than Sex was the etc.

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  2. RameshJ9 October 2015 at 08:54

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripo_Kokolja

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  3. SandhyaP9 October 2015 at 09:04

    26 Began calling — calling and covering, reportedly (8) CRINGING {Ca...g}{RINGING}

    covering ~ cowering: cringing

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    1. Deepak Gopinath9 October 2015 at 14:13

      How does that work?

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    2. RameshJ9 October 2015 at 14:41

      Began Calling=C
      Calling = Ringing
      and = Link word
      Covering Reportedly= Cowering = Defn

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    3. Col_Gopinath9 October 2015 at 18:41

      That's what I had shown in the anno. I thought Sandhya had something different in mind

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    4. RameshJ9 October 2015 at 18:59

      I think she was to pointing to the missing ~cowering in the anno.

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  4. Padmanabhan9 October 2015 at 09:28

    Tough one today. Getting first names was difficult.
    Put in 'baseball' for !d before changing to 'Ball game' (after noting base was in the clue itself)
    Quite a few half done words today.

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  5. Vasant9 October 2015 at 10:11

    Delightful....everything fell in place after 15 minutes of struggle...

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  6. Srividya9 October 2015 at 11:26

    Long struggle day... but one of those days where when you get the clue you wonder why you didnt get it earlier as it was staring in your face ;) thanks for the Tripo trivia. Thanks Arden

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  7. raju umamaheswar9 October 2015 at 13:36

    Where's everyone? Only six hits today?

    ARDEN has ardently compiled a tough work today !!

    The long anagrams are exquisitely jumbled --especially ITALIAN DRESSING !and TAKE IT ON THE CHIN ! Does Arden conjure up these wordplays in his mind or has his job been done easier by anagram solver ?

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  8. Ramki Krishnan9 October 2015 at 19:02

    Nice crossword - thanks Arden! As Vasant said, totally lost for the first few minutes, and then the long anagrams helped in solving the rest :)
    Still wondering about 26A - the actual def is not given in the clue, but instead we have 2 different wordplays - found it a bit unusual!

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  9. RameshJ9 October 2015 at 21:42

    22A : Is confidence = Superego? Couldn't find any reference to justify it.

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