Thursday 19 July 2018

No 12373, Thursday 19 Jul 2018, Arden


ACROSS
1   Go with nurse, he will operate (7,7) PLASTIC SURGEON {GO+NURSE}* [RA]
10 Here in Paris, even beer is much colder (5) ICIER {ICI}{bEeR}
11 Engineer wires this to a dish (5,4) IRISH STEW*
12 Main round, it has no shell (3,4) SEA SLUG {SEA} {SLUG}
13 Originate from sea cow's tail, going to its head (7) EMANATE (+e)EMANATE(-e)
14 Breast, caught by hand (5) CLIMB {C}{LIMB}
16 Sign of nervousness between armies, refusing a truce (9) ARMISTICE {ARMIS{TIC}E*}
19 He is out of jail, so checks into a lodge (9) FREEMASON {FREE MA{SO}N}
20 Reject, reject as someone who is untouchable (5) LEPER <=
22 A minister got right on top and bowed (7) ARCUATE {A}{(+r)RCU(-r)ATE}
25 Soldier's code — a pity (7) REMORSE {RE}{MORSE}
27 Earth shattering win for Madhya Pradesh perhaps (9) HEARTLAND {EARTH*}{LAND}
28 He gets one quarter of the state (5) MAINE {MA{I}N}{E}
29 Set free — hundred on conservative list on board (9,5) REFECTORY TABLE {FREE*}{C}{TORY} {TABLE}

DOWN
2   Ladies in distress got help, saved (4,5) LAID ASIDE {L{AID}ASIDE*}
3   God resurrected, left a buck (5) SOREL {EROS<=}{L}
4   I croon over girl making jelly (9) ISINGLASS {I}{SING}{LASS}
5   Mocking a player in the team (5) SNIDE {S{N}IDE}
6   Actual dresses — picks up on dry run (9) REHEARSAL {RE{HEARS}AL}
7   Additional summary, court rejected (5) EXTRA EXTRAct
8   Present in this place? Not so (7) NOWHERE {NOW}{HERE}
9   Bearing a cross, initially as a breather (3,3) AIR SAC {AIRS}{A}{Cr..s}
15 Huge flop, wine's cold (9) BOMBASTIC {BOMB}{ASTI}{C}
17 Find Mary with a reformed fellow like Jeeves (3,6) MAN FRIDAY {FIND+MARY+A}*
18 Just average — breaking a limit, perhaps (9) IMPARTIAL {PAR} in {A+LIMIT}*
19 Achievement by girl — it goes on her cap (7) FEATHER {FEAT}{HER}
21 Soldiers free to remove jacket (6) REEFER {RE}{FREE*}
23 Roast corn husk (5) CHAFF [DD]
24 A muse and writer, at once allowed in (5) ERATO [T]
26 Uncle in Chennai caught black snake (5) MAMBA {MAM{B}A}

GRID

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25 comments:

  1. D.Chandrasekhar19 July 2018 at 08:37

    17D it should be {FIND + MARY+A}*

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    1. Deepak Gopinath19 July 2018 at 08:38

      Thanks corrected

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    2. Vasant19 July 2018 at 09:32

      Mama is uncle not only in Chennai but all over India. Madhya Pradesh Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan is popularly called Mama. So two references to a State where I live :-)

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  2. Vasant19 July 2018 at 09:37

    Thanks Col for the link to sorel. Didnt find the word in free dict.

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    1. sree_sree19 July 2018 at 10:51

      its a britt specific. just google gave me. reconfirmed by arden's earlier usage. it was antelope then.

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  3. Vasant19 July 2018 at 09:38

    Quite a few new words encountered today: sorel, isinglass, sea slug, arcuate, refectory table

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    1. Vasant19 July 2018 at 09:41

      And Manatee the fodder for 13A

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    2. Deepak Gopinath19 July 2018 at 10:21

      Manatee has appeared earlier

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    3. Deepak Gopinath19 July 2018 at 10:25

      Appeared as late as on 30 Mar 18 in an Arden Crossword

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    4. Vasant19 July 2018 at 10:57

      Only 4 months earlier!One tends to forget words if one doesnt come across them frequently. Now I am sure I will remember this word. Though not sure about the other words.

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  4. Kolluru Koteswara Rao19 July 2018 at 10:36

    Nice crossie from Arden
    Doubt about 4DN:
    Isinglass is a kind of gelatin obtained from fish for making jellies. It is not jelly by itself.
    So, the def may become "MAKING JELLY"

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    1. sree_sree19 July 2018 at 10:50

      jell:any soft, slightly wet substance that shakes slightly when it is moved.

      "isinglass is almost all of gelatine." google the chemist volume 1. nice titbit on how isinglass is prepared.

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  5. raju umamaheswar19 July 2018 at 14:50

    1 across: PLASTIC is the anagram indicator for GO WITH NURSE? If so, where is the parsing for PARSING itself? Is it doubling up ?

    23 down: CHAFF-= Roast? Corn= C +haff ? or again , like the previous clue does roast serve as a double indicator?
    CHAFE also can mean to abrade or to rub or to ROAST? BOWED

    ARCUATE not arcuated ?= curved= BOWED

    ARDEN takes cryptic clues to a higher level !

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    1. sree_sree19 July 2018 at 15:30

      roasted TV Program!!!

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    2. Vasant19 July 2018 at 18:11

      Raju:1A: As given by Col. it is a reverse anagram. The solution should have an anagram indicator, plastic in this case. Plastic Surgeon= (Go+Nurse)*

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  6. A-VM19 July 2018 at 16:14

    Beautiful crossword

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    1. Deepak Gopinath19 July 2018 at 17:16

      May we know your real identity?

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    2. A-VM19 July 2018 at 19:24

      Ajeesh here. This account is created for a fb group!

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    3. Vasant19 July 2018 at 21:24

      Kidu: we all thought what not..khoda pahad nikli chuyiya ( we made a mountain out of a mole hill)

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  7. Padmanabhan19 July 2018 at 16:17

    Arden is not that hard these days, though we see a quite a few new words- Isinglass to name one. Had seen manatee in Florida during one of my earlier visits (of course, I had not heard about the word earlier)
    Where is CGB?

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    1. C.G. BHARGAV19 July 2018 at 16:42

      Proceeding to SV Temple Pittsburgh and Niagara. Will be back on Monday.

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    2. Padmanabhan19 July 2018 at 17:31

      We will be in Pittsburg on Saturday & Sunday!

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    3. Vasant19 July 2018 at 18:08

      Fancy you two meeting in Pittsburg!

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    4. Kolluru Koteswara Rao19 July 2018 at 18:24

      CGB Sir on a secret mission to meet Paddy !!!

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  8. Padmanabhan19 July 2018 at 18:21

    :-)

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