Tuesday, 23 January 2018

No 12221, Tuesday 23 Jan 2018, Gridman


I am stumped by 9A and 10A. Any rookie commenter wants to have a go at it, before the regular aces comment at 10 AM?

ACROSS
1   Head of visitors gets Indian potato dish that is very spicy (8) VINDALOO {Vi...r}{IND}{ALOO}
5   Mark rebel leader in small wood (6) STREAK {S}{T{Re..l}EAK}
9   Cowardly disavowal involving soldiers (8) R?C?E?N? (Addendum - RECREANT - {REC{RE}ANT} - See comments)
10 Lout put out last of grass for foremost of marine shells (6) ?A?P?M (Addendum - WAMPUM - {WAMPU(-s+m)M} - See comments)
12 Animal doesn't complete dash (4) ELAN ELANd
13 Brother's old mantra to fix witchcraft (10) BROOMSTICK {BR}{O}{OM}{STICK}
15 Oddball German withholding one small key (6) MISFIT {M{1}{S}{F}IT}
17 Bombard old newspaper from Mumbai (5) BLITZ [DD]
20 Freight vehicle to leave (5) CARGO {CAR}{GO}
21 Pawn's planted in central body (6) CORPSE {COR{P'S}E}
24 I'm one with ad-man in cooking up a Net identification string (6,4) DOMAIN NAME {IM+ONE+ADMAN}*
27 If one's in __, one is queued up (4) LINE [FITB]
29 Selfish trait of learner leaving troubled Limoges (6) EGOISM lIMOGES*
30 With this, we can do what we like (4,4) FREE WILL [CD]
31 Small tract in case (6) SHEATH {S}{HEATH}
32 Son's making quick trips, buying things (8) SHOPPING {S}{HOPPING}

DOWN
1   Grieve madly one's discarded rule of church official (6) VERGER {GRiEVE}*{R}
2   Cretan's distillation of juice (6) NECTAR*
3   Old French painter rises briefly (4) AGED DEGAs With help from Google
4   He has depressant drug — without an iota of doubt (5) OWNER dOWNER
6   Catches section put up by section (5) TRAPS {PART<=}{S}
7   Clearly stated: withdrawal involves one employed in corporation (8) EXPLICIT  {EX{PL{1}C}IT}
8   Karnataka chap holds essentially brazen and reckless person (8) KAMIKAZE {KA}{MIK{brAZen}E}
11 Sailor snatches fifty away from fat person (6) BOATER BlOATER
14 Swimming pool keeps order under cover (4) LIDO {LID}{O}
16 Try to manage holding copper — it will be fruitful! (6) FECUND {FE{CU}ND}
17 Painter ignores basically crass foolish talk (4) BOSH BOScH With more help from Google
18 Fast runners get Secret Service to detain Chennai's top milk producer (8) SCUDDERS {S{Ch...i}{UDDER}S}
19 Bloomer from priggish girl (8) PRIMROSE {PRIM}{ROSE}
22 Almost huge relative gets one swimming dress (6) BIKINI {BIg}{KIN}{1}
23 Travel sickness brings black girl back (3,3) JET LAG {JET} {GAL<=}
25 Small picture mother picked out from principal group (5) INSET {maIN}{SET}
26 Pack up hard for parade (5) MARCH {CRAM<=}{H}
28 Ooze style at first, then go up (4) SEEP {St..e}{PEE<=}

GRID

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22 comments:

  1. sree_sree23 January 2018 at 08:55

    10a needed leap of faith in gridman magic.

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  2. Jacob Brahmakulam23 January 2018 at 09:10

    9A RECREANT = cowardly {REC{RE}ANT}

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    1. Deepak Gopinath23 January 2018 at 09:19

      Thank you Jacob.

      Henceforth you will be a regular commenter and no longer qualify as a Rookie or first timer :-)

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    2. raju umamaheswar23 January 2018 at 12:01

      Aaalka Pro kal ka Rookie ?

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    3. raju umamaheswar23 January 2018 at 12:02

      Aajka not aalka !

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    4. Jacob Brahmakulam23 January 2018 at 13:50

      Far from a pro, I am still a fledgling and fidgeting crossworder, game to setters distractions. This blog had been a great guru. Accept the promotion with pleasure.

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  3. Jacob Brahmakulam23 January 2018 at 09:20

    10A WAMPUM = shells {WAMPUs{M}} wampus (lout)-last of grasS + foremost of Marine

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  4. Kishore23 January 2018 at 09:43

    Wampum reminded me of Ompa-pa and pemmican. Ompa-pa was the first creation of Goscinny and Zuderzo, who later went on ato create Asterix.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oumpah-pah

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  5. Kishore23 January 2018 at 09:45

    A nice palindromic serial number today 12221, which when divided by 11 gives 1111

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  6. Kishore23 January 2018 at 09:45

    After a long hiatus, a new post on Crossword Unclued today

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  7. Murali23 January 2018 at 09:50

    10A TARPUM ( put + Mar )* foremost of Marines ?

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  8. Kishore23 January 2018 at 09:50

    Incidentally, vindaloo is a corruption of vinha d'alhos or garlic wine, the actual name of the dish being carne de vinha d'alhos

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  9. Vasant23 January 2018 at 10:57

    Tough one today. Started late and had to struggle for Vindaloo, Wampum, Bosh,Domain Name

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  10. C.G. BHARGAV23 January 2018 at 11:47

    In the month of MARCH, he near the LIDO,
    Finished his VINDALOO without much ado.
    Thereafter he to the newsmart went SHOPPING,
    But found himself from shop to shop hopping.
    Dont have BLITZ? You are a MISFIT!
    You AGED OWNER! Better from business you QUIT!!
    He wished to eye the lass in the PRIMROSE BIKINI,
    And get some kick without martini!
    Alas! The black-and-white pic wasnt EXPLICIT,
    An increase in BP it didn't elicit!!

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  11. raju umamaheswar23 January 2018 at 12:11

    1 across: V-IND_ALOO : Good way of using Hing-lish !! My Goan friends used to cook delicious pork vindaloo. Never knew the etymology given by Kishore. All old friends are coming out of hibernation ? Kishore and Suchi ? How was the Arctic life ?

    13 across:: Brook=mstick playing double role? Craft of witches ? Vroom boom and OM !

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  12. raju umamaheswar23 January 2018 at 12:13

    broom stick-not brook mstick ! slippery fingers on sticky keys !

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  13. raju umamaheswar23 January 2018 at 12:16

    BLITZ is a harkback to ol' times ! The red rag of Bombay's Karanja ! Fridays were always exciting days for its last page oomph pics ! There were no Karni senas or shiv senas those days ?

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  14. raju umamaheswar23 January 2018 at 12:18

    Gridman in his creative best ! What with sheaths and bikinis ! Kishore - pun intended for both !

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  15. P. Venkatesan23 January 2018 at 13:05

    21a: anno should be COR(PS)E

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