Wednesday, 26 July 2017

No 12069, Wednesday 26 Jul 2017, Gridman


ACROSS
1   Catch sight of short lass exiting troubled Plassey (4) ESPY PlasSEY*
3   Group of actors at the French building (6) CASTLE {CAST}{LE}
10 Difficulty of math exercise (7) PROBLEM [DD]
11 My principal officer gets traitor's endless collections of text (7) CORPORA {COR}{P}{O}{RAt}
12 Rapidity of ocean areas reviewed (5) SPEED<=
13 A teetotaller worker about to wind up as domestic aid (9) ATTENDANT {A}{TT}{END}{ANT}
14 A hospital section's trophy (5) AWARD {A}{WARD}
16 Salad green I had for a girl (8) CRESSIDA {CRESS}{I'D}{A}
19 Casual wear — it's there crumpled (8) TEESHIRT*
21 Attachment to a snack of our country (5) BONDA {BOND}{A}
23 One who brokers is reportedly chap with a decoration (9) MIDDLEMAN (~ medal man)
24 Indications that there's good among wrongdoings (5) SIGNS {SI{G}NS}
26 Touching brown sahib? (7) TANGENT {TAN}{GENT}
27 American comedian's bunch not complete with south Indian actor-politician (7) GROUCHO {GROUp}{CHO}
28 Calm session beginning with oriental girlfriend (6) SEDATE {Se...n}{E}{DATE}
29 Bird takes cap off swindler (4) ROOK cROOK

DOWN
1   By the way, partners overtake worker (2,7) EN PASSANT {E}{N} {PASS}{ANT}
2   Delve into prince's dress (5) PROBE {P}{ROBE}
4   Albert oversees team, in a rush, engaged in eating food (2,4) AT MEAL {A{TEAM*}L}
5   Silent Tom back with one act (8) TACITURN {CAT<=}{1}{TURN}
6   Darren's botched-up jobs (7) ERRANDS*
7   Girl, having covers, dropped daughter and moved smoothly (6) GLIDED {G}{LIDdED}
8   No working about Iranian language's symbolic system (8) NOTATION {NO}{TATI}{ON}
9   Fraction of pawn's skill (4) PART {P}{ART}
15 A man's finishing editorial work (8) AMENDING {A}{M}{ENDING}
17 It's not that one should do this job for all of 24 hours (1,4,4) A DAYS WORK [CD]
18 Expert's French word journalist put up (8) PROMOTED {PRO}{MOT}{ED}
20 Assistants to round up sheep, left and right (7) HELPERS {SHEEP+L+R}*
21 Cleric, not all of a piece, hops madly (6) BISHOP {BIt}{HOPS*}
22 Time to retire reported by Sir (6) KNIGHT (~ night)
23 Master consumed one of a pair (4) MATE {M}{ATE}
25 Lizard with energy, grabbing small, no-special piece (5) GECKO  {spECK} in {GO} They give me the creeps!

GRID

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29 comments:

  1. Ramki Krishnan26 July 2017 at 08:34

    Easy one today from Gridman. 24A and 20D were favourites.
    Tati was a new word learnt today!

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  2. maradnusro26 July 2017 at 08:39

    Where does 'Tati" figure in this puzzle please
    By the way enjoyable relatively easy one
    TA Gridman

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    1. Deepak Gopinath26 July 2017 at 08:41

      See the link over Iranian Language

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    2. Padmanabhan26 July 2017 at 08:47

      Tati is in 8D- NO(TATI)ON
      I also filled without knowing the language!

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  3. Padmanabhan26 July 2017 at 08:41

    I was trying to fit in parsi,arabic etc.
    Glad I was able to get 'EnPassant'- a rare chess move.
    Corpora kept me at bay for a long time, so much that I almost missed the simple errand.
    Attachment to the bonda was nicely worded- I was looking for chutney,sambar....

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  4. RameshJ26 July 2017 at 08:51

    Chess theme today?

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    1. Chaturvasi26 July 2017 at 08:55

      Ah yes, Ramesh, though, to be honest, I didn't see it myself when I sent this to TH and was checking copy prior to publication.

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  5. Chaturvasi26 July 2017 at 08:55

    When you look for the needles, you miss the whole haystack!

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  6. Padmanabhan26 July 2017 at 09:36

    No excuse for me not to have noticed after getting En passant.
    Quite a few words- rook/ castle/ bishop/ knight/ mate/ notation/ en passant/ promoted. Any more?

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  7. Chaturvasi26 July 2017 at 09:45

    Yes, at least two more can be spotted.

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    1. Padmanabhan26 July 2017 at 11:20

      Signs, problem?

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    2. Chaturvasi26 July 2017 at 11:49

      Problem, as in 'chess problem'.
      The other is SPEED. There is what is called speed chess.

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    3. Padmanabhan26 July 2017 at 12:56

      Rapid chess?

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    4. Padmanabhan26 July 2017 at 13:01

      You are right about speed chess.
      Fast chess can be further subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess

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  8. Col_Gopinath26 July 2017 at 10:07

    Will update the post and theme later. At present I am at Delhi Public School, Coimbatore, attending the Coimbatore round of the CBSE Cryptic Crossword Contest -2017

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  9. raju umamaheswar26 July 2017 at 10:59

    Bonda : an English dictionary word?

    How does a T-shirt become a teeshirt ? never seen spelt like this . or is it a golfer's term?

    when one loses to chance to tee off without a shirt?

    Cor ! corpora is a derivative from corpus? corpus delicti !

    Simplicity is the style of Gridman and in the process any word- Hindi, Tamil or even Irani is grist for his gridmill !!

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    1. Chaturvasi26 July 2017 at 12:56

      My dear Raju,
      When you take The Hindu or ToI or any other favourite English language newspaper of yours, turn to the supplement page and see, for example,
      (http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/vegetable-colour-bonda/article3635306.ece),
      do you ask "Is 'bonda' an Eng dict word?"

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    2. Padmanabhan26 July 2017 at 12:58

      I agree. Language is, after all, for communication. There can be no doubt between the setter and solver about bonda, irrespective of language ( it is another matter that I was misled by the attachment)

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  10. Padmanabhan26 July 2017 at 11:12

    Pl. correct me if i am wrong. Dictionaries give it as Tee shirt (with or without a hyphen) So, I think the enu should have been (3,5)

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  11. Chaturvasi26 July 2017 at 11:47

    You are right about 3,5.

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  12. raju umamaheswar26 July 2017 at 14:15

    . Thanks .I am aware that we're solving Indglish cryptic crosswords.I merely made a comment. don't bonder to explain. its just that hints are needed when you use Indglish !

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  13. Mukundala Balasubramanyam26 July 2017 at 14:52

    I learnt today two new words! Bonder and Indglish!! ;-)

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    1. Padmanabhan26 July 2017 at 18:01

      From Raju dictionary?!

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam26 July 2017 at 18:04

      ;-)

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    3. raju umamaheswar26 July 2017 at 20:44

      More the merrier . who knows, English being such a democratic and eclectic language, these may also get into the OED !

      CV:I agree that ''our country''is the hint.

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  14. Vasant26 July 2017 at 23:46

    Raju dictionary, vocabulary & lingo all fall into 1 category:Rajuism

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