Thursday 20 December 2018

No 12502, Thursday 20 Dec 2018, Neyartha


Get into Tempo with Neyartha.

ACROSS
1   Tempt the king and the student to trade places after the individual gets autonomy (4-4) SELF-RULE {SELF} {(-l+r)RU(-r+l)LE}
5   Article attached to a notice about the American soldier Oscar's tempo (6) ADAGIO {A{AD<=}{GI}{O}
9   Conspicuous feature at the turning point (8) LANDMARK [DD]
10 Trade secrets (6) GOSSIP [CD]
11 Ring following number to convey a feature of some cars (4-5,5) FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE {FOUR}{WHEEL}{DRIVE}
14 Subdued the five coming in to get rid of the phosphorus from a fruit (5) GRAVE GRA(-p+v)VE
16 Cuts back after getting the alien to provide some daggers (9) STILETTOS {STIL{ET}{TO}S<=}
17 Italian conductor's wainscoting damaged after the trimming of the edges (9) TOSCANINI wAINSCOTINg
19 Tempo featuring in the stellar gospel music (5) LARGO [T]
20 Secret exits in front of the German behind a Greek letter on a burrow-dwelling arachnid (4-4,6) TRAP-DOOR-SPIDER {TRAPDOORS}{PI}{DER}
23 Adjust to the first openly religious Indian employer near Toledo (6) ORIENT Acrostic
24 Key found in a homogeneous mixture (8) SOLUTION [DD]
25 Vocal young bird in an official stamp (6) SIGNET (~cygnet)
26 Fierce CIA ignored achievement at sea (8) VEHEMENT  acHiEVEMENT*

DOWN
1   Voyage reported to be a reduced-rate event (4) SALE (~sail)
2   Alternation oddly lacking in tempo (5) LENTO aLtErNaTiOn
3   Second half of the programme about raising capital results in grief (7) REMORSE {couR{ROME<=}SE}
4   Tempo of conversion of Ohm's sail rig (11) LARGHISSIMO*
6   A choice, but, is it really one? (2-2-3) DO-OR-DIE [CD]
7   British workman preparing fig treats (3,6) GAS FITTER*
8   Work attached to advertising the meeting after commencement shows injustice (10) OPPRESSION {OP}{PR}{sESSION}
12 Mentioned turning up to split the new piece about the work to get a projector (11) EPIDIASCOPE {EPI{SAID<=}C{OP}E*}
13 Protests in Santiago? It is chaotic! (10) AGITATIONS*
15 Softening of the sausage cut before cooking to absorb a strong liquor (9) ASSUAGING {SAUSAGe}* over {GIN}
18 Tempo of lifting of the active volcano behind the gate (7) ANDANTE {AND}{ETNA<=}
19 The French embrace a revolutionary plan to go around an island for a break (7) LEISURE {L{RUS{I}E<=}E}
21 Time for daughter to skip the cream (5) ELITE ELI(-d+t)TE
22 Stagnating waters helping to make a buzzing insect (4) GNAT [T]

GRID

13 comments:

  1. Before PowerPoint and LCD projectors, I have taken classes with an epidiascope.

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    1. Nice to know, doc. I had not heard of this, though I belong to that certain time.

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    2. I still prefer to take my classes with chalk and blackboard.

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    3. I agree there is nothing like it.
      I recently read about an English teacher who was also very good at drawing. He was teaching Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. On the first day he drew a picture of a garden on the blackboard and requested all not to rub it off after class. He kept on adding figures in the drawing as the story unfolded and the students literally got a graphic representation of what was happening. The students were so moved at the end of it all and I am sure it would have been etched in their memory forever!

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    4. Paddy the other day I mentioned hearing the story of The Hunchback of Notre dame from my drawing teacher who drew the cathedral, Esmeralda & Quasimodo; the story as well as his illustrations are etched in my mind.

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  2. Stuck in the SW corner with the sausage and trap door.
    18d- And from gate?

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    1. Here is a copy paste!

      The NAND gate and the NOR gate can be said to be universal gates since combinations of them can be used to accomplish any of the basic operations and can thus produce an inverter, an OR gate or an AND gate. The non-inverting gates do not have this versatility since they can't produce an invert.

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    2. I should have called it logic gate, Paddy!

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  3. Kanpur! A bustling, chaotic city!Did the puzzle now after a busy hectic day; Typical Neyartha fare.

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  4. Eat a neiyyappam in honor of Neyartha !

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