Wednesday, 10 January 2024

No 14068, Wednesday 10 Jan 2024, KrisKross

Solution to 8D has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

Open for anyone to answer, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS
1   Perhaps Gandhiji's condition is breaking agreement (8) PACIFIST {PAC{IF}{IS}T}
5   Birds starting to eat fishes? No, no! (6) EAGLES {Eat}{AnGLES}
9   Additional information about arcane Byzantine organ (8) PANCREAS {PS} over {ARCANE}*
10 Fight could result in this part of leg getting twisted again (6) SHINER {SHIN}{RE<=}
12 Study to improve living conditions and develop the US? Nice! (9) EUTHENICS*
13 Boy measures devices (5) BELLS {B}{ELLS}
14 Auditor's function is to endorse (4) SIGN (~sine)
16 Argument is stupid - unfortunately ending in heartache (7) DISPUTE {STUPID}*{h...hE}
19 Long-distance traveller with possibly silly, often boring applications (7) ULYSSES {SiLlY}* in {USES}
21 Airmen circling around Spain creating scare (4) FEAR {RA{E}F<=}
24 Underworld boss scuttled NASA rocket finally (5) SATAN {NASA+r...eT}*
25 Action to close a deal and help banks to cover outrageous scandal (9) HANDCLASP {HelP} over {SCANDAL}*
27 Moved cautiously and made an arrest, without using power (6) INCHED pINCHED
28 Demon king about to approach a fictional island (8) NAVARONE {RAVAN<=}{ONE}
29 Excellent attempt by student to study (6) GOLDEN {GO}{L}{DEN}
30 Working girl - essentially free, footloose, not bound (8) FRONTIER {gIRl+FREe+NOT}*

DOWN
1   Stroke young animal in front - one controlled by a string (6) PUPPET {PET}<=>{PUP}
By Bhargav
2   Pretty home for an old English king (6) CANUTE {C{AN}UTE}
3   Power of opponent winning every other race (5) FORCE {FO{RaCe}E}
4   Locate trains and trams, originally in a suburb of Mumbai (7) STATION {S{Tr..n}{And}{Tr..s}ION}
6   Bachata dancing outside a small Canadian lake (9) ATHABASCA {BACHATA}* over {A}{S}
7   Nothing to counter liquid that corrodes floor covering (8) LINOLEUM {NIL<=}{OLEUM}
8   Leaves without speaking at first, upset and tense (8) S?R?S?E?  (Addendum - {DES{Sp...g}ERTS}<= - See comments
11 Second-hand house discounted partly (4) USED [T]
15 Dishonest...elected because rivals exited, basically (9) INSINCERE {IN}{SINCE}{Ri...s}{Ex...d}
17 Traitor with one weapon stalks queen (8) QUISLING {1}{SLING}<=>{QU}
18 Enigmatic maiden to amuse while talking (8) MYSTICAL (~ miss tickle)
20 Very short journey to reach London district (4) SOHO {SO}{HOp}
21 France, not just a place for entertainment! (7) FUNFAIR {F}{UNFAIR}
22 Primarily, spiritual awakening to one's real "I"? (6) SATORI Acrostic &lit
23 Show a soft fruit (6) APPEAR {A}{P}{PEAR}
26 Kanchi king lost intricate ornament (5) CHAIN kANCHI*

Reference List
No = N, Again = RE, Boy = B, Airmen = RAF, Spain = E, Power = P, Student = L, Small = S, Queen = QU, France = F, Soft = P, King = K

47 comments:

  1. Any novice to identify the theme and themed words

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  2. Why is an extinct flooring material- Linoleum- still preferred in CW's?!
    Slightly tougher round this time. Did not get Frontier, Ulysses (Thank you for the link Col.),Canute and Athabasca (thank you Google)
    Liked Pacifist.

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    1. Apparwntly in UK, the vinyl sheets are called Lino still

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  3. Satori- Wish there was a hint about Japan.

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    1. Satori is a state of bliss experienced during meditation when you find the awareness in the gap between two thoughts…. Osho (in his book of awareness).
      Sathia

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  4. The anniversary grid can accommodate10 more participants

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  5. There is a mistake in the online answer for 8D - have requested them to correct it.

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    1. This comment has been removed by the author.

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    2. Sorry, had to remove my above comment as it is reserved

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  6. Identification of theme open for anyone to answer

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  7. Not sure.but could be
    Guns of navarone
    Where eagles dare
    Two movies.

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    1. Yes. I have read FEAR IS THE KEY, FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE.....

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    2. Looks like it.
      HMS Ulysses
      Also I see more words from his titles.
      Force, station , frontier, golden etc. (just looked up his list of novels. Read some of them.)

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  9. 8d STRESSED = Tense
    DESERTS = Leaves
    S = Speaking at first
    Without = containment ind. for S inside Deserts
    Upset denotes reversal of letters to STRESSED


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  10. ICE STATION ZEBRA too was made into a movie as I remember.

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  11. Still remember ATHABASCA as it's the word with which I won IXL 2013

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    1. glad to know about this col.sir.....happy to know your winning moment

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    2. Maybe I was there too. Don't remember clearly. Ajeesh may confim.

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  12. special Thanks to Col.sir for the selection of unsolved clue 8D. really a bit challenging one. not an easy.

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  13. 13 of the answers (as highlighted by Col) have been taken from the titles of Alistair Maclean books.
    The actual book titles are
    1) Guns of NAVARONE
    2) FORCE 10 from Navarone
    3) Ice STATION Zebra
    4) FEAR is the key
    5) PUPPET on a CHAIN
    6) When eight BELLS toll
    7) The GOLDEN rendez-vous
    8) The final FRONTIER
    9) The SATAN bug
    10) ATHABASCA
    11) Where EAGLES dare
    and IMO his best work
    12) HMS ULYSSES

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  14. Superb endeavour of (or by) an ardent reader of thrillers, one must admit. Hats off to you!!!

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  15. Though it was enjoyable to solve, this puzzle was a DNF for me. I was searching for a theme as Ramki had mentioned in a message that there was one, but I'm afraid Alastair Maclean was before my time. "Home" as containment indicator in 2D threw me off and I was unable to solve it even with the crossings. I knew that 14A was a HP clue but was unable to think of a good match. There were some interesting words to look up, like satori and euthenics.

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    1. I keep objecting to home. At home is the container.

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    2. The container ind in 2d is "home to" , not home.
      A home to B indicates A is around B or B is inside A

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    3. In print edition there is no 'home to'.
      Only - Pretty home for an old English King.
      But I deduced it as containment.

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    4. Sorry I meant "home for". But the logic I had in mind was the same - A "home for" B implies that B is inside A. Doesn't work?

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    5. To me it worked. Perfectly.

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  16. I had always thought Alistair McLean was beyond time and we'll known to most of us here, irrespective of age. Sad that with the advent of net and on line reading, such good treasures become unknown- leave alone the content, even the titles.

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  17. I am happy our CW solving over a period of time has widened (if not deepened) our General knowledge to a great extent on various topics. But I still feel myself wanting when it comes to Shakespearean character's etc. due to my poor literary reading. But I am trying to make up as much as possible.

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  18. 28a took me down the memory lane.

    Guns of Navarone was the first film I went with friends without realising we were bunking the school

    There were 3 of us guys named Darwin/Vasu and me.
    The first 3 ranks of the school (multiple sections) used to rotate between the three of us.
    We were never known to miss class till then.
    So one morning Darwin comes upto me and says let us go to movie in the afternoon. For some reason i dont remember there was talk of school holiday that day.
    And those were not the days we had pocket money to go to a english movie.
    So I went home asked permission from Mom and took money for the movie and spent the afternoon enjoying the movie. (Darwin was a Dubai returnee for an 8th class student and had lot of explanantion on the movie).
    Next day at school every student of our class was loking at us with a disbelief in their eyes.
    Our maths teacher, who took a liking to me because I used to solve the whole paper (including options) and always get more than hundred percentage on mark sheet,calls us into office for an explanation.
    Turns Darwins sister Curie who was in +1 (it is jr.college with the same name and in same campus) in the same school had a holiday. And Darwin automatically assumed it was a holiday for school.

    Anyways because of all my extra marks in all those tests we were given attendance for the school since the maths teacher was also our class teacher. He even gave a stern warning to the rest of class not to leak the cover-up.

    So officially our record was untarnished!

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    1. All the first 3 rankers bunking school would have been huge scandal! I guess.

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    2. Nice story that! Prasad! šŸ‘

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    3. 3 idiots' scandals would have been ignored. šŸ˜…

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  19. In 9ac - is Byzantine the anagram indicator? Didn't know about this.
    Liked - PACIFIST, HAND CLASP, QUISLING.

    Me - a great Alistair McLean fan. Have read all his books & own quite a few.
    Loved all the movies too.
    Still remember Keith Mallory was my all time hero for a lo....ng time.
    Thanx Ramki!

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    1. Thanks Gowri!
      Yes "byzantine" is the anagram indicator in the sense of complex, convoluted etc. ("byzantine tax laws...")

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  20. @Economizer - u r never too old & never too young to read McLean. My son - just 26 - has read all his books.
    If u can lay your hands on any, do read them. You will definitely enjoy them. They have withstood time & aged well.

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  21. My father had most of Maclean and E.S. Gardner titles as part of collection. My early English readings either side of 1990.

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