Saturday, 22 April 2017

No 11988, Saturday 22 Apr 2017, Gridman

ACROSS

7 Complaint resulting from picking up fruit repeatedly (8) BERIBERI {~BERRY BERRY}
8 Saw mister carelessly leaving drug for you (6) TRUISM {MIST(-e+U)R}*
10 Company popular in retaining right associate (6) COHORT {CO}{HO{R}T}
11 The French offender leaves one man teary (8) LACRIMAL {LA}{CRIMinAL} man=Chessman=Knight=N? See Comments
12 At event, daughter enters bitterly into feud (8) VENDETTA {AT+EVENT+D}*
13 It's put back in bathroom - new cosmetic liquid (6) LOTION {LO{IT<=}O}{N}
14 Small notable person - not old, a brown (7) SWARTHY {S}{W(-o+A}RTHY}
16 We, with good girl, twist and turn (7) WRIGGLE {WE+G+GIRL}*
19 Speed along to get a fastener (6) ZIPPER {ZIP}{PER}
21 Tree-dwelling boar wanders off... True! (8) ARBOREAL {BOAR*}{REAL}
23 Resignation from small newspaper's Misc. section (8) STOICISM {S}{TOI}{MISC*}
24 A limit? On the contrary, be plentiful (6) ABOUND {A}{BOUND}
25 Observe learner taking question in Part II (6) SEQUEL {SE{QU}E}{L}
26 Say we could have this in certain garments (8) NECKLINE (CD?) (DD) See comments

DOWN

1 Drink persons not confident enough on card play have with the French (3,4,7) WET ONE'S WHISTLE {WET ONES}{WHIST}{LE}
2 Princess' command causes confusion (8) DISORDER {DI'S}{ORDER}
3 "What do you do with the drum? Out!" (4,2) BEAT IT (DD)
4 Damsel I steered away from fool (7) MISLEAD {DAMSEL+I}*
5 Learner's caught up in label - 'Perfectionist' (8) STICKLER {STICK{L}ER}
6 Question is not fanciful (6) QUAINT {QU}{AIN'T}
9 Does a college-goer settle himself on it? (4,2,8) SEAT OF LEARNING (CD)
15 Rottweiler's bone falls into pit - awful! (8) HORRIBLE {HO{R}{RIB}LE}
17 Ugly sight presented by the thrashing of gay ogler (8) GARGOYLE {GAY+OGLER}*
18 Plant short Indian community put adjacent to small pit (7) JASMINE {JAt}{S}{MINE}
20 Settled lowly man, with help, at the top (4,2) PAID UP {P{AID} UP} {P}{AID}{UP} See comments
22 Arm brother on cattle station (6) BRANCH {B}{RANCH}

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32 comments:

  1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao22 April 2017 at 09:08

    Thanks GM and Col,
    It was a happy ride.

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  2. Raghunath22 April 2017 at 09:31

    20 Settled lowly man, with help, at the top (4,2) PAID UP {P{AID} UP}

    I think this is: (lowly man = Pawn)P + AID, (at the top) UP

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    1. Chaturvasi22 April 2017 at 09:40

      Yes, P (lowly man) AID (help) UP (at the top)

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  3. Chaturvasi22 April 2017 at 09:47

    In 26a there is something more to be teased out.

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    1. Padmanabhan22 April 2017 at 10:30

      One of the meanings I could get for 'say' is to show,indicate. I think a showing neckline is indicated here.

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    2. Chaturvasi22 April 2017 at 10:39

      It requires some plunging, I am afraid.

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    3. VMA Nair22 April 2017 at 11:14

      Say we could have this in certain arm in gents? 😯

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    4. Chaturvasi22 April 2017 at 11:24

      OK, this was my thought:
      say we - V
      https://www.google.co.in/search?q=v+neckline&espv=2&tbm=isch&imgil=fCit_IufuF7jFM%253A%253BSIVlNdpRe3SNlM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.youtube.com%25252Fwatch%25253Fv%2525253D4R54KCmQMps&source=iu&pf=m&fir=fCit_IufuF7jFM%253A%252CSIVlNdpRe3SNlM%252C_&usg=__n9Bb0as3DmGnS90pRg13_DrLnfQ%3D&biw=1536&bih=759&ved=0ahUKEwjS94-CsLfTAhXIL48KHZIBAlEQyjcIRA&ei=-u_6WNKSDsjfvASSg4iIBQ#imgrc=fCit_IufuF7jFM:

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    5. Satyen Nabar22 April 2017 at 11:32

      Nice one Sir! :)

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    6. RameshJ22 April 2017 at 20:39

      Thanks CV ji. I didn't spend enough time staring at the neckline.

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  4. Col_Gopinath22 April 2017 at 10:01

    Excuse me for my absence I'm having a ball (despite the literally scorching heat of Delhi) at the Golden Jubilee celebrations of my first army unit. It's fun meeting up with old friends some senior some junior some whom I am meeting after almost 40 years.

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    1. Chaturvasi22 April 2017 at 10:13

      Have a full-blown, well-rounded, colourful, striped ball.

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    2. Padmanabhan22 April 2017 at 10:30

      Any more adjectives?

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    3. Satyen Nabar22 April 2017 at 10:42

      Have a great time Col! :)

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    4. Raghunath22 April 2017 at 10:54

      Hic Hic hooray!

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    5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 April 2017 at 12:40

      "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy." - Frank Sinatra
      Carry on Colonel, Sir!

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    6. Vasant22 April 2017 at 13:24

      Have a great time Col!
      Selfie in FB was great

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    7. RameshJ22 April 2017 at 20:39

      Enjoy yourself Col.

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  5. Satyen Nabar22 April 2017 at 10:41

    Hi! Regarding the query on 11A, Man can represent any of the chessmen on board, hence apart from m, we have b, k, n, p, q, r as abbreviations for man (Chambers Crossword Dictionary)

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    1. Padmanabhan22 April 2017 at 11:38

      Very wide choice, indeed. Very difficult for the solver to choose from.
      Both k & n for knight, I suppose. Oh! k for king.

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 April 2017 at 12:11

      Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is....Hence I think....b, k, n, p, q, r etc etc!!

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 April 2017 at 12:33

      The quote above is by Albert Camus.

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    4. Vasant22 April 2017 at 13:26

      I have seen knight being clued as Bishop's neighbour

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  6. raju umamaheswar22 April 2017 at 11:36

    Heard of ZIP along, but ZIPPER?

    Heard of Lachrymose and Lacrimal is a new variation to cry about !

    beri beri and Berry berry sounds good but where is the phonetic indicator in the clue?

    Gargoyle reminds me of PGWodehouse who had this typical word for describing unsavoury characters in his books.

    Seat of learning is a classic clue.

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  7. Padmanabhan22 April 2017 at 11:42

    Zip becomes zipper when attached to a clothing.
    Lacrimal is given as a spelling variant (I had the same doubt and checked up.)
    Complaint is beri beri only. Berry (single) is a fruit.
    Yes, all PGW fans here will agree on gargoyles.

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  8. Esha_iitm22 April 2017 at 15:18

    12A - 'bitterly' should be next to 'At event'?
    15D - R for Rottweiler?

    In chess, pawns are indicated by the files (a to h) and not as P. Not sure where P is used for pawn.

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    1. Chaturvasi22 April 2017 at 17:51

      In a certain notation for indicating position in a chess problem, p is used for pawn.
      [8/8/8/8/8/8/ppQKPPP1/k7] (5+3) #12
      This means the first 6 rows are blank.
      In the seventh it is black pawn, black pawn, wQ. wK, white pawn, white pawn, white pawn, blank
      In the eighth it is black King and 7 blanks

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    2. Chaturvasi22 April 2017 at 18:07

      5+3 means there are 5 white pieces, 3 black pieces
      Chess problems (two-movers. etc) in the paper used to have diagrams as well as this notation so that we can be sure there is no inadvertent error in the diag. by cross-checking with this notation.
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    3. Padmanabhan22 April 2017 at 18:49

      Editing experience on display!

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    4. Chaturvasi22 April 2017 at 19:32

      Rows are numbered 1.2... from top downwards, not bottom upwards.

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    5. Vasant23 April 2017 at 00:02

      In chess there are two notations...what CV sir has given is the american notation...what is universally followed is the pawns are not represented by any letter..queen by Q..king by K..Bishop by B..Knight by N & Rook by R..so the first moves of a common opening(Ruy Lopez) might be represented as 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bb5 a6...

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