Friday 2 December 2022

No 13726, Friday 02 Dec 2022, Gussalufz

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ACROSS
1   Father-and-son time, with a load of carbs (5) PASTA {PA}{S}{T}{A}
4   Composer snorts coke frequently on Scottish mountain where one's hard to notice (9) BACKBENCH {BA{CoKe}{BEN}CH}
9   Pulls a fast one on women going for feminine dresses (7) OUTFITS OUT(-w+f)FITS
10 Record one's energy intake measurement? Makes sense! (7)  LOGICAL {LOG}{1}{CAL}
11 In the morning, drink a spot of espresso over puzzle (6) ENIGMA {AM}{GIN}{Es...o}<+
12 Top players abandoned tour to join short excursion (8) VIRTUOSI {VI{TOUR*}SIt}
14 Perhaps pine after revenge regularly (4) TREE {afTer+RevEngE}
15 After a reorganization, ranger quit division (10) QUARTERING*
18 Tech worker supporting language restrictions on the radio (10) PROGRAMMER {PRO}{(~grammar)GRAMMER}
19 Characters shared by African, Mexican, and American? (4) INCA {afrICAN/mexICAN}*
22 Away from the centre of battle, overcome by frightful doubts, having lost a bit of blood (8) OUTWARDS {WAR} in {DOUbTS}*
24 Extremely childish clash about earliest place of worship (6) CHURCH {Ch...sH}{UR}{ClasH}
26 Grill Gussalufz about being controlled by coffee (7) LATTICE {LATT{I}{C}E}
27 Sweep off exes full of censure (7) EXPANSE {EX{PAN}SE*}
28 Loony to go after wealth-shielded king for a small food item (6,3) MONKEY NUT {NUT}<=>{MON{K}EY}
29 Subject of revolting mega new film: taking clothes off (5) LIEGE {mEGa+nEw+fILm}<=

DOWN
1   Crept up, bearing beverage and plan (7) PROJECT{PR{OJ}ECT*}
2   Burn half of late forties carelessly (3,4,2) SET FIRE TO {laTE+FORTIES}*
3   Principles omathematics primarily described by X/Y, say (6) AXIOMS {AXI{Of}{Ma...s}S}
4   Captain of second-rate old ship (4) BOSS {B}{O}{SS}
5   Mining complexes with sillier eco code (10) COLLIERIES*
6   Produced appeal; ball tracking initially upheld catch (8) BEGOTTEN {BEG}{O}{Tr...g}{NET<=}
7   The Reverend's tea, no crunchy snack (5) NACHO (cha no to nacho)
8   Hesitant gangster goes through troubled night (7) HALTING {H{AL}TING*}
13 Malcontent corrupt guru conned themthen somehow disappeared (10) CURMUDGEON {GURU+CONnED+theM}*
16 Toss coinanger or bliss? (9) IGNORANCE*
17 Make life less country-oriented (Benazir Bhutto's third reform) (8) URBANIZE {BENAZIR+bhUtto}*
18 Investigation implicates liberal magazine's first issue (7) PROBLEM {PROB{L}E}{Ma...e}
20 Marathoner, maybe allowed to wear two articles? (7) ATHLETE {A}{TH{LET}E}
21 24 hours in horrible place (6) CHAPEL {C{H}APEL*}
23 Tonight, finally, it's a new moon (5) TITAN {t...hT}{IT}{A}{N}
25 Trial ends in court, evidence was insufficient (4) TEST Tail Acrostic

Reference List
Father = PA, Son = S, Time = T, Scottish mountain = BEN, Women = W, Feminine = F, About = C, King = K, Beverage = OJ(Orange Juice), Second rate = B, Old = O, Ship = SS, Gangster = AL(Capone), Liberal = L, Hour = H, New = N


79 comments:

  1. 1a father and son is pas with a load of carbs is pasta

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  2. 5d a agram of sillier code is colliers to mean mines

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  3. 24a extremely is ch clash about pkace of worship is church

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    1. Ur is earliest place ch and ch are extremes of clash and childish

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  4. 2d half of late is te .and forties together you get set fire to meaning burn

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  5. 2d set fire to from forties and te from late anagram

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  6. 10a logical from record- log ,one- i and cal is energy intake

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  7. Welcome Gussalufz. Alawys a pleasure to unscramble your CW's. Had a wonderful time. No time yet to go into ninas etc.

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    1. Nice grid. 50% solved. good start with PASTA

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    2. Paddy sir couldn't find the word CARBS in Chambers 21st Century Dictionary.

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    3. You will find CARB which is an abvn for Carbohydrate

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    4. yes sir, abs. right . I got it from word web. I am surprised as it is not reflected in chambers Dic.

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  8. Gangster may be Al Capone. Pacino would not be quite pleased!

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  9. Good word Gemini. Time to start giving them in a bunch.

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    1. Perhaps pine - Def
      Tree - Answer
      Wordplay
      Regularly - indicator
      afTer RevEngE

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    2. Could it just not have been 'pine'? What purpose does 'perhaps' serve?

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    3. When the defining phrase/word is an *example* of the term that is the solution, you have to indicate that.

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  11. 16 down, ignorance, anagram of coin and anger

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  12. 9A: Pulls a fast one = outwits. F (feminine) replacing W (women) = OUTFITS = dresses
    18A: Tech worker = PROGRAMMER. Supporting = PRO with GRAMMER (homophone for "grammar" = language restrictions)
    22A: Away from the centre = OUTWARDS. Battle = WAR inside (overcome) by the anagram (frightful) of "doubts" without "b" (having lost a bit of blood)
    28A: Loony = NUT after wealth (MONEY) shielding K (king) = MONKEY NUT = a small food item
    3D: Principles = AXIOMS. X/Y = AXIS around OM for "of mathematics"

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  13. ..17 down urbanize, anagram of Benazir with bhutto s third ie u....

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  14. 25 down test, ends of court, evidence, was and insufficient

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  15. 7d NACHO - crunchy snack
    tea - cha
    no - no
    Spoonerism
    {cha no} to {nacho}

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  16. 13d - Def of malcontent
    anagaram of {guru conned them} - then, ie {guru coned m}*
    CURMUDGEON

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  17. 6d BEGOTTEN: produced
    Appeal: BEG
    Ball:O
    Tracking initially: T
    Catch: NET, when upheld, TEN
    (BEG) (O)(T) (TEN)

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  18. 7d – (N(ACH) <----O)
    Tea – cha
    NACHO – A tortilla chip

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    1. Ramesh sir, In fact, I was trying to find the reverse indicator for CHA.

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  19. 12Ac VIRTUOSI - {VI{TOUR*}{SI(-t)}. For 26Ac replacement

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  20. 20D - def of MARATHONER
    allowed - LET
    two articles - A THE
    anagram of {LET}{A}{THE}
    ATHLETE ??

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    1. Not an Anagram. It is Container / Sandwich type with wear as Indicator.
      Pl see Sathia @10.16

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  21. 27A-Sweep-Expanse; (Exes)* and censure-Pan; full of ex(pan)se

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  22. 21d CHAPEL: 24( 24ac church)
    H : hours
    horrible place is place*: CAPEL
    H in CAPEL is C(H)APEL

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  23. 18D PROB(L)E(M) = issue
    investigation = PROBE
    Liberal Magazine's first = LM
    Implicates = contains

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    1. Slight tweak: Liberal = L (standard abbreviation) is the only thing "implicated." M = "magazine's first" comes after the containment unit.

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  24. 29a : LIEGE = Subject
    Anno: mEGa nEw fILm i.e. EGEIL when unclothed and reversed becomes LIEGE

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    1. really a good one sir..... clues were too good and interesting.

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  25. 15ac. QUARTERING.. combined anag of ( ranger + quit )

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  26. 1d and 19ac are yet to be solved.

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  27. 1D Plan = PROJECT
    Crept 'up' = prect
    Bearing = o
    Beverage = Juice =J
    [(PR (o) (j)ECT)]

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    1. Crept up will become tperc. Beverage is orange juice which is OJ. Bearing is to say that the word bears OJ inside it.

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  28. 1D Beverage = oj, for orange juice.
    oj+crept, up as anagram indicator = project = plan.
    19A, common letters shared by AfrICAN, MexICAN and AfrICAN = ican. Anagram = Inca. Am not sure of anagram indicator though.

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  29. 19a solution = Inca
    Characters shared = ICAN*

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  30. 19a. Yes, ICAN*, for INCA, and the def is "American." "X characters" or "characters in/from X" is often used to indicate taking an anagram of letters in X (as the cryptic reading says just take the characters, and you can take them in any order). I took the liberty of supplying the X differently, as "characters shared by Y, Z" (take the characters common to Y & Z in some order).

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  31. There is a nina and a few thematic entries to be identified.

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    1. Indeed, ???? from me too, about "ML" :-)

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    2. If "ML" stands for "machine learning" then, well, there *is* a computer science related theme, but a bit older than what we call ML these days.

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  32. Food & Beverages theme?
    Pasta, Monkey nut, nacho in addition to those found in clues- Coffee. tea, OJ to name a few.
    Of course,it is a pangram.

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    1. Not (at least not intentionally) a food/beverage theme.

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  33. Hint for nina/theme: a 2014 movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch

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  34. The movie is based on the book Enigma (thanks to google)

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    1. Indeed, Turing is the nina and the theme! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

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  35. If someone wants to identify the thematic entries, go for it now. I'll post my notes that include all the details in about 10 minutes

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  36. Thanks to all the solvers who gave it a go, especially to those who chimed in with solutions and/or feedback, and thanks to Col. Gopinath for the blog.

    Here are my notes for this crossword.

    Notes

    This crossword is themed after the English computer scientist, Alan Turing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing). TURING can be seen as a nina running across the middle row.

    The following entries are connected to Alan Turing:

    10a. LOGICAL. Turing's got his PhD dissertation from the Department of Mathematics at Princeton; his dissertation was titled Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals.
    11a. ENIGMA. During World War II, Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted messages that had been encrypted using the German Enigma machine.
    18a. PROGRAMMER.
    24a. CHURCH. Alonzo Church was Turing's thesis advisor. The idea that Turing machines and the lambda calculus are capable of computing anything that can be computed is known as the Church-Turing thesis.
    8d & 18d. HALTING PROBLEM. Turing proved that some problems cannot be solved computationally by constructing a simple example of such a problem, known as the Halting Problem: given the specifications for a computer program and an input for it, will that computer program run forever on that input or will it halt at some point?
    24d. ATHLETE. Turing was an excellent athlete who occasionally ran the 40 miles from Bletchley to London when he was needed for meetings, and he was capable of world-class marathon standards. The definition used in the clue is the phrase "marathoner, maybe," which certainly fits Turing.
    25d. TEST. Turing proposed a test, now known as the Turing Test, in which a human inquisitor would judge whether the entity they are in conversation with is a human or is an artificial intelligence.

    This puzzle is a pangram.

    Personal notes

    As I finish setting this crossword, just a few days are left for the critical midterm elections in the U.S. Lula has been elected president of Brazil (thankfully!). Twitter has taken over by a billionaire who seems to want to 2d it! The league stage of the T20 World Cup has wrapped up. Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, and Arshdeep Singh have been the standout performers for India so far.

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    1. Your notes is more interesting to me than the puzzle. Hats off sir!

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    2. Always. I look forward to it,

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  37. Gussalufz is a tough nut to crack. Top half I could fill all blanks but my bottom was nearly wide open.

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