Saturday, 24 October 2015

No 11533, Saturday 24 Oct 2015, The Phantom

ACROSS

1   Fellow's out with master swimming with the tide (10) DOWNSTREAM {DO{W}N}{MASTER}*
6   Losing time gave up, got zero in test (4) QUIZ {QUI{-t+Z}}
10 Son went out and survived (7) EXISTED {EXI{S}TED}
11 German river overflowing border that's more dirty (7) GRIMIER {G}{RIM}{IE}{R}
12 Bass starting in the manner of (sounds like) a musical instrument (9) BALALAIKA{B}{AL A}{~LIKE A}
13 Order for example's not very fair (3-2) SAY-SO {Addendum - {SAY}-{SO-so} - See comments)
14 Worries result with head of country taking back seat (5) PAINS {(-s)PAIN(+S}
15 One stood in house election essentially for laity - the masses (3,6)  HOI POLLOI Anno Pending
{HO}{I} {POLL}{fOr}{laIty} See Comments
17 Partner fled with bowel movement (9) BEDFELLOW {FLED+BOWEL}*
21 Have no medicine to stem poison? (5) VENOM (T)
22 Pity rough edge's obscured lines from scale (5) RULER {RU{L}E}{Rough}
24 America's prominent houses right for group of stars? (4,5) URSA MAJOR {U{R}SA} {MAJOR}
26 Displaying power an abstainer stopped fight (7) WATTAGE {W{A}{TT}AGE}
27 Cover for man caught in raging storm (7) SMOTHER {HE} in {STORM}*
28 Help, nothing's fair! (2,2) SO SO {SO S}{O}
29 Inventor's mobile phone's sent (10) STEPHENSON {PHONE'S SENT}*

DOWN

1   Society girl going round with English nerd (5) DWEEB {D{W}{E}EB}
2   Impetuous kind of romance (9) WHIRLWIND (CD)
3   Pays the French after scheduled time (7) SETTLES {SET}{T}{LES}
4   Woman about to hug priest is somewhat embarrassed (7)  REDDISH {RE{DD}{IS}H<=}
5   One tracking fellow in Ghana exchanging foreign currency (7) AFGHANI {A{F}GHAN*}{I}
7   Union losing leader, mutiny fizzles out (5) UNITY {mUTINY}*
8   Alloy of Zinc or Barium needing ingot of this metal (9) ZIRCONIUM {ZINC OR barIUM}*
9   Administrators step in following officer's failure (6) FIASCO {F}{IAS}{CO}
14 Passengers first wriggle into bus visiting various bars (3-6) PUB CRAWLS {Pas..rs}{UB {CRAWL}S*} Anag Ind?
16 Old pirate's spent money for woollen underwear? (4,5) LONG JOHNS {LONG JOHN silver'S}
18 Sense of hearing to magnify with secretion from auditory canal! (6) EARWAX {EAR}{WAX}
19 Most gaudy dress often possessed by bumpkin (7) LOUDEST {LOU{DrEsS}T}
20 Wishes husband's out at university to become sophisticated (5,2) WISES UP {WIShES} {UP} P from? See Comments
21 See an animal and beat it! (7) VAMOOSE {VA}{MOOSE} (Correction - {V}{A}{MOOSE} - See comments)
23 Many holding popular flower (5) LOTUS {LOT{U}S}
25 Repeat broadcast on race (5) RERUN {RE}{RUN}

Reference list

Fellow=Don, With=W, Time=T, Zero=Z, Son=S,German=G, River=R,That's=Ie, One=I, House=Ho, Lines=L, America=USA, Right=R, Abstainer=TT, Man=He, Help=SOS, Nothing=O

Society girl=Deb, With=W, English=E, The French=Les, Time=T, Priest=DD, One-I, Administrators=IAS,Following=F, Officer=CO, Husband=H, University=Up, See=Va, Popular=U, On= Re

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29 comments:

  1. Deepak Gopinath24 October 2015 at 08:30

    15A - {HO}{1} {POLL}{(-f)O(-r)}{(-la)I(-ty)}

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    1. Chaturvasi24 October 2015 at 08:40

      I got most of it but did not see that 'essentially' applied to two words. Thanks for the anno, col.

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  2. Deepak Gopinath24 October 2015 at 08:31

    UP for university is used in CWs

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  3. Chaturvasi24 October 2015 at 08:36

    20 Won't 'to become sophisticated' give WISE UP rather than 'WISES UP"?
    When a lad or girl is 'up' he or she is said to be 'at university'. See 'up' in dict.

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    1. Raghunath24 October 2015 at 08:54

      That should have been "becomes" without 'to' preceding..

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  4. Chaturvasi24 October 2015 at 08:38

    14 Does "visiting various bars ", verbal phrase, lead to PUBCRAWLS, a noun.
    Is there an ind in the clue that the reqd ans is in plural?

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    1. Raghunath24 October 2015 at 08:52

      I changed the clue from "travelling (anagrind) from bar to bar" to the one in the puzzle today and missed the anagrind.

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    2. Abhay24 October 2015 at 08:59

      Pub-crawl is used as a verb too ("We went pub-crawling"), so the answer fits the definition.

      http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/pub-crawl

      I had a question about answer-definition mismatch on a different clue: to get WISES UP in 20d, the definition would have to be "becomes sophisticated" rather than "to become sophisticated".

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    3. Abhay24 October 2015 at 09:00

      I just realised after posting that while the answer is a verb, it doesn't match the definition exactly - "visiting various bars" would need to be PUBCRAWLING to be an exact fit.

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    4. Raghunath24 October 2015 at 09:04

      From Chambers: pub crawl noun, colloq an occasion of visiting, and drinking in, a number of pubs in succession

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    5. Abhay24 October 2015 at 09:14

      If used as noun, the difficulty is with the conversion to plural form; if used as verb, the difficulty is with inconsistency of conjugation.

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    6. Raghunath24 October 2015 at 09:18

      That's the difficulty I faced to convert to plural. Even if you visit any number of times it would still be Pub Crawl

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    7. Raghunath24 October 2015 at 09:21

      Maybe: Passengers first wriggle into packed bus, visits various bars (3-6) PUB CRAWLS

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    8. Abhay24 October 2015 at 10:15

      "Passengers...visits..." doesn't work. Perhaps attaching the "visits" to the bus might work (e.g., "...bus as it visits various bars")?

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  5. Padmanabhan24 October 2015 at 08:38

    Waht a relief to have a CW in the morning! And a nice enjoyable one from Phantom at that.
    Liked the strange bedfellow (laughed at the wordplay) and the 'mobile' phone.
    Missed out on 'Vamoos' (in spite of Nadal and his supporters) and 'crawl' of pubcrawlers.
    What is the logic behind 'up' for university?

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  6. Padmanabhan24 October 2015 at 08:39

    Note that CV has already has answered my question.

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  7. Col_Gopinath24 October 2015 at 08:49

    In 13A I think SO is from SO-SO(28A) ie 'not very fair'

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  8. Abhay24 October 2015 at 09:07

    Thank you for the puzzle, Phantom - I enjoyed solving it. My CsOD were 25D (great clue!) and 16d.

    A couple of questions:
    - 22a: I have normally seen line abbreviated as "l" and lines abbreviated as "ll". Is there a reference for lines becoming just "l"?
    - 26a: One wages a fight, but is wage by itself a synonym for fight?

    Thank you for the blog, Ramesh.

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    1. Raghunath24 October 2015 at 09:19

      You're right re Lines.

      From Chambers: wage verb (waged, waging) to engage in or fight (a war or battle)

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    2. Abhay24 October 2015 at 10:21

      Thank you for the Chambers reference. My question is that "wage" assumes that meaning when it is suffixed with "a war/battle/fight"; I am not sure that wage by itself serves the purpose.

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  9. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 October 2015 at 12:17

    Phew...! Finally could complete the puzzle! Had to rely quite a lot on 'net' to get a few answers like HOI POLLOI, BALALAIKA & ZIRCONIUM. Overall an enjoyable solve. Thank you, Phantom. :-)))

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  10. Vasant24 October 2015 at 12:20

    Lovely puzzle...took ages to complete but loved the clues..

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  11. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 October 2015 at 12:40

    Am still not able to get how Va = See. My search for that yielded no result. Could someone help me please?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath24 October 2015 at 12:59

      The anno should be {V}{A}{MOOSE} See = Vide = V, An = A, Animal = MOOSE

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    2. Vasant24 October 2015 at 13:04

      The Holy See:seat of the pope; Vatican State; VA

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    3. Raghunath24 October 2015 at 14:07

      Col's right. From Chambers: V = 5 vide (Latin), see

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  12. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 October 2015 at 13:50

    Thanks Colonel Sir.

    Thanks Vasant.

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