Saturday 3 October 2009

No 9652, Saturday, 03 Oct 09, Nita Jaggi

Still at Jodhpur
ACROSS
1 - This is what one expects God to do to you! (5) - BLESS [E]
4 - Individuality is not good for the double game (7) - ?A?A?D? Can anyone HAZARD a guess? (Addendum - {KA}{BAD}{DI} Thanks to Suresh, see his explanation in the comments section below)
10 - Pull back measure on an officer in charge (6) - {WARD<-}{EN}
11 - Notice suitable alternatives for electrical devices (8) - {AD}{APT}{ORS}
13 - What one does to create new land from sea? (8) - RECLAIMS [E]
14 - Fur examiner somehow leaves out an unknown unit (6) - ERMINE(-ax)*
16 - Comfort for each of the bridge opponents (4) - {EA}{SE}
17 - An artist’s portrayal of objects in nature (5,5) - STILL LIFES [E]
20 - Troubled princess is submissive at first to be educated around the Russian capital (10) - {DI}{S}{T{R}AUGHT}
21 - Leaders of languages often recount experiences of wisdom acquired verbally (4) - {L}{O}{R}{E}
24 - Fashionable in Turkey to deny dancing (6) - {TR}ENDY*
26 - Not correct for a naughty child to trouble the poor lacking love forever (8) - {IMP}{RO(-o)P}{ER}
28 - Water supply on top of an island is right covering the city point (8) - {I}{R{RIGA}T}{E}
29 - Brown firework (6) - MAROON [DD]
30 - Handling a transaction (7) - DEALING [DD]
31 - Turn over the pages of French articles on the extremities of fanatics (5) - {LE}{A}{FS}
DOWN
2 - Cyril sits to train the songwriters (9) - LYRICISTS*
3 - Was up following to look at the toy on the playground (6) - {SEE}{SAW<-} )
5 - Said to spread the disease (4) - AIDS*
6 - Clothings for a couple of Presidents are left in the Lok Sabha (8) - {A}{PP}{ARE}{LS}
7 - Delhi leader is keen on one loin cloth (5) - {D}{HOT}{I}
8 - Turn sharply to the south-west to veer out of gear (6) - {SW}{ERVE*}
9 - Judge the leaderless common people for a second (6) - (-m)ASSES{S}
12 - Ham radio for an officer in an ancient city (7) - {A}{MATE}{UR} My father was a keen HAM with a call sign of VU2BG, even though I was very keen on becoming one somehow I never got around to taking it up as one had to learn Morse Code (now defunct)
15 - Almost all in church are first to enlighten many youngsters about an ancient craft (7) - {AL(-l)}{CH}{E}{M}{Y}
18 - Kind of security coverage given to VIPs? (9) - FOOLPROOF [E]
19 - Terribly glad following an expert, though it’s wasteful (8) - {PRO}{D{I}GAL*} Where did I come from
20 - In particular, a group of workers selected (6) - DETAIL [DD]
22 - Making a mistake from the silver ringside (6) - ERRING [T]
23 - Lubricate the gears working in a boat (6) - GREAS*{E}
25 - Weird to always get an idea every second (5) - {EER}{I}{E}
27 - Surprise a tailless creature (4) - STUN(-t)

GRID

22 comments:

  1. 4A is Kabaddi Ka for 'the spiritual part of the indiidual human being which survived after death and could reside in the person's statue' bad is not good and di is double

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  2. Could 4 A be Kabaddi?

    Also 12D I thought it was Amathus, which is an ancient city of Cyprus - although anno is unclear...

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  3. Suresh,
    Congrats on the solution for 4A
    Jotter,
    AMATEUR is correct no doubt on that one, see the link provided if you want to clear your doubt. UR is the ancient city reffered to in the clue

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  4. Yesterday's mystery answer was Tofus. Can't figure out how. Maybe NJ should join the blog and clarify

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  5. I was stuck at just a very few clues today.

    29 Across - Brown firework (6) - MAROON

    Now it looks easy. Did not get until I logged in here.

    5 Down was so easy. AIDS being an acronym did not flash my mind.

    Similarly, could not guess 18 Down could be a compound word FOOLPROOF.

    Looks like further honing of skills is required. Getting a lot of guidance here.

    Thanks

    Richard

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  6. Suresh

    'Ur' is very often used for ancient city by different setters. When you could hit upon 'Kabaddi' so brilliantly, wonder how you could not get 'Ur'.

    No offence please.

    Richard

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  7. Richard. I completed the crossword by 8 o'clock I got amateur. Only I did not react to your question

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  8. Richard. Sorry that was not your question.It was Jotter's

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  9. Thanks, Col_Gopinath; I checked out the link and was duly enlightened.

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  10. Turn over the pages of French articles on the extremities of fanatics (5) - {LE}{A}{FS}

    I am unable to make much of this clue and would be grateful for any comments.
    First of all, what is the def? If it's 'turn over the pages' as in 'leaf through the pages' then the answer can only be LEAF, not LEAFS.
    How do we get LE A? French articles? French by itself cannot give LE. From French articles we can derive LE, LA but not LE A (the latter being English).

    FS is of course from "extremities of fanatics" but I am not looking too deep at the extremities, whatever they may be.

    Can you visualise the image from the clue? At first I thought someone was turning over the pages on the extremities of fanatics; later I realised that they were turning only the pages and indeed the articles were on the extremities of fanatics.

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  11. That is a nice and subtle observation Mr.Chaturvasi.

    The technical points on the wording of the clue are as usual correct. You would not find these inaccuracies in an Economic Times crossword.

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  12. There is a dedicated Orkut community that solves the ET crossword, besides the New Indian Express crossword. See links at left panel of this blog.

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  13. Our Hub friends are less 'sportive', I suspect! They want 'kabbadi' to be replaced with 'canards'! And convincingly too!

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  14. Convince me on canards. I cannot see the the annotation

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  15. Here is what the hubber says:

    4a : (Clue) "Individuality is not good for the double game".

    CANARDS SYNONYMS: DUPLICITY (INDIVIDUALITY IS NO GOOD)
    DOUBLE-DEALING (DOUBLE GAME)

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  16. Sounds good. Wonder what NJ has inmind

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  17. I don't believe in canards. I am game only for KABADDI, for which Suresh has given perfect justification.

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  18. which is this hub/ can i have a link

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  19. Here you go:

    http://www.mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?t=13471&highlight=

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  20. I was just wondering whether the hubbers had an answer to yesterdays 'tofus' answer.

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  21. The nearest guess made there was TEFFS!

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  22. But could anyone annotate tofus

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