Friday 5 March 2010

No 9782, Friday 05 Mar 10, Gridman

Gridman in Delhi chalo mood today, is it because of the recent Budget!! Anyway Gridman is crisp as usual. Only crib I have is with 23D.
ACROSS
1 - Vocalise about spring in puff (8) - S{WELL}ING
5 - Say, hit the woman in sport (6) - SOCCER(~sock her)
9 - Aiming to replace model with daughter for distraining (8) - POIN(-t+d)ING New word for me
10 - Countless to be indescribable (6) - UNTOLD [DD]
12 - Neglect mantra by one temptress, to begin with (4) - {OM}{I}{T}
13 - Come in to lever business organisation (10) - {ENTER}{PRISE}
15 - Fellows in the capital have no greeting for the old scientist (6) - {MEN}{DEL(-hi)}
17 - Gave out: with union leader's entry, it's indistinct (5) - VAG{U}E*
20 - Father doesn't finish tea in country house (5) - {DA(-d)}{CHA}

21 - Signs up loser coming round with new input (6) - E{N}ROLS*
24 - A dishonest broke is thunder-struck (10) - ASTONISHED*
27 - Husband not present in city food-shop (4) - DEL(-h)I
29 - Run mistake about American principals of New Delhi (6) - {ERR}{A}{N}{D}
30 - The sort of post used in ancient times with a striking effect (8) - WHIPPING [CD]

31 - Deals with doctors (6) - TREATS [DD]
32 - He can give money for Director's Special (8) - CREDITOR*
DOWN
1 - Channel iPhones, end to end, without end (6) - (+s)SIPHON(-e)(-s)*
2 - Lie about team getting royal cordial (6) - {ELI*}{XI}{R}
3 - Old King ordered to start game (4) - {LUD}{O}
4 - Spanish boy on new material (5) - {NINO}{N}
6 - Confess, with a cry of pain, the wordplay rebounded (3,2) - {OW}{N UP<-} )
7 - Conclusions on Congress leader squandering seconds (8) - {C}{LOSING}{S}
8 - Rescued by mere deed transfer (8) - REDEEMED*
11 - Stock of wine trader announced (6) - CELLAR(~seller)
14 - Aid, first to last, star (4) - (-a)BET(+a)A
16 - Smart showing in Bindre's symposium (6) - DRESSY [T]
17 - Bad, first to last, bad (4) - (-e)VIL(+e)E
18 - Close by a disc jockey with a coin (8) - {A}{DJ}{A}{CENT}
19 - Secret of somehow escaping without penalty (4-4) - SCOT-FREE* Interesting origin, see the link.
22 - Stop in local thoroughfare (6) - {DESI}{ST}
23 - Scorch extremely ulterior informer (6) - {SINGE}{R} Not fair. Agreed that to Sing means to inform, but Singer as informer?
25 - Some music apparently puts the trapeze artist in danger (5) - {NO}{NET}
26 - Anaesthetic used in the operating theatre the routine one (5) - ETHER [T]
28 - Having looked, I left and ran (4) - SP(-i)ED


34 comments:

  1. Colonel, anno for 25D please.

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  2. @Sembhayya,
    See the link provided with NONET for its meaning, secondly a trapeze artist in a circus is in danger if he performs without a net (no net)

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  3. Thanks Colonel. Its a wonderful clue!

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  4. Good Morning, Col. & all
    Regarding 23D: If Flower can mean river, Bloomer be flower, jabber for one throwing punches and so on, one can be forgiven for "Singer" to be an "Informer", IMHO.

    20D: I am not very well versed in Hindi (to put it mildy) but is "tea" known as "chai" or "cha" or both? I was wondering how Gridman used "doesn't finish" as the indicator for both "DAD" and "CHAI" and was thinking that was unfair. But, it looks like almost everyone else knows tea as cha.

    It was nice to do a clear puzzle today. Loved 25D and 17D, small words but very nice clues, I thought.

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  5. Good morning Colonel,

    Agreed that to Sing means to inform, but Singer as informer?

    I think it's all right in cryptic parlance, just as butter = ram and flower = river. Perhaps a ? would have made it fairer?

    It's fine by me even as it is.

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  6. Hi Col sir,

    Absolutely loved today's offering. My favs

    5A ( LOL stuff)

    32 A - Director's special made me think of the whisky and made me smile. Am sure Gridman also had that in mind.

    19D - great anagram.

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  7. @Veer,
    CHA and CHAI are both correct one can always say 'Ek cup cha or Ek cup chai' both will fetch you a cup of tea.
    Interestingly CHA means Tea in Chinese see the link CHA FOR TEA

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  8. Dear, SCORCH has an thesarous meaning "'SINGE" WITH eXTREMELY uLTERIOR ie; r it is singer

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  9. Good morning, can somebody explain me anno for 17D please

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  10. @Krishnan:
    Here is the Anno (reflects the Col.'s thinking in the solution as well)

    Bad = EVIL
    First to last: Indicator to move first letter of "EVIL" to the end (so move the "E" in "EVIL" to after the "L"), thus creating "VILE"
    bad = definition = VILE

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  11. 9A:

    Model = "T"?

    Could somebody explain?

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  12. @Dan:
    Model = "T"?

    [b]automobile - Ford Model T

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  13. @Colonel: How do I delete a post?

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  14. A small dustbin will be visible after the date and time at the bottom of your post click on that and the post will get deleted

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  15. Anno for 14d beta please, how is beta star?

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  16. Hi Richard,
    If you are around, your linguistic skills are required for the post preceeding this. Last time you translated some Chinese or was it Japanese?

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  17. @Sumitra,
    Check out this link to read about stellar designation Bayer Designation

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  18. Somehow the word Producer sat on my mind the moment I saw 32A. Because he gives money to the director! Was wondering about the significance of 'special' in the clue. And also 2 crossings worked in favor. Hmmmm..

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  19. Special is the anagram indicator

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  20. Hi Deepak

    Sorry I was away on a short travel schedule and happened to log in for the day just now.

    The post you mention has apparently been removed by now. Only the following appears at the moment.

    監控 said...

    無一事而不學,無一時而不學,無一處而不學。........................................

    March 5, 2010 11:46 AM

    I cannot make anything out of it.


    Richard

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  21. Hey, I usually solve anagram type clues without difficulty but didn't know there was something like an anagram indicator. Could you please explain?

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  22. really refreshing and rejuvenating! after the suffering at the hands of NJ, it is a real breath of fresh air!

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  23. the standard of gridman is good; clues are crisp and succinct.

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  24. @Dan

    Anagram indicators could be many,for example in today's CW following are the anagram indicators

    17A - out
    21A - coming round
    24A - broke
    32A - special
    2D - about
    8D - transfer
    19D - somehow

    I suggest you visit Shuchi's blog 'Crossword Unclued' the link to which is available on the left hand side panel of this blog. You will get a lot of info there on Cryptic CW's.

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  25. colonelji, how many setters are there and at what frequency they change duties?

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  26. Hi Deepak

    The Japanese post appears clearly on my laptop. It is gibberish. Its English translation goes like this:

    QUOTE:

    Watch said… No one thing, nothing temporarily, non one place

    ........................................ March 5, 2010 11: 46 AM

    UNQUOTE

    There is a reference to Malabu. I don't know what it means. Will do a Google search. Looks like someone has taken a fascination for your blog.:-)

    Richard

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  27. @ vck - possibly you started visiting this site recently. The Colonel has received this query several times over and each time he has given the answer very patiently.

    From what he has told us, I remember the sequence as follows, with the number of days in parentheses: Gridman (6), M. Manna (7), Neyartha (2), Sankalak (6) and Nita Jaggi (10).

    The following link to Shuchi's blog might be of interest you:

    http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2009/05/hindu-crossword-compilers-difficulty.html


    Richard

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  28. Hello Colonel and the team,

    Vinod here.

    Ever since I read the feature on THC in the Hindu, I've got really HOOKED!

    It's interesting to study each clue with the threadbare analysis that you provide.

    It has rekindled my interest in Crossword solving.

    Cheers!

    Vinod

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  29. @Colonel: Thank you for the info.

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  30. The text is in Chinese.
    Google translate at
    http://translate.google.co.in/
    gives this translation:

    Monitor said
    No matter without science, without a moment instead of school, no one without studying.

    This appears to be a quote by Song Dynasty's Zhu Xi(1130-1200): 'No matter without science, without a moment rather than science, the road to success is also'. His teachings gave a boost to neo-Confucianism. He took up the project or renovate Li Bo's White Deer Academy in Lushan's eastern hills,which later became a Confucian Mecca to rival Buddhist temples and Daoist belvederes.

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