Monday 21 June 2010

No 9874, Monday 21 Jun 10, Nita Jaggi

NJ-NJ please go away and don't come back another day.

ACROSS
1   - Investigate a senior held in a disaster (7) - {TR{AGED}Y}
5   - Rider's novel read in front of father, an expert guide (6) - {SHE}{R}{PA}
10 - Scraps of scattered ornaments left initially outside (8) - REMNANTSo*
11 - Good boy reviews one's spiritual knowledge (6) - {G}{NOS<-}{I'S}
13 - Plays with trinkets (4) - TOYS [DD]
14 - Now I see her distracting the President (10) - EISENHOWER*
16 - Musician's jacket, overheard (6) - RAPPER(~wrapper)
18 - Journalist goes back to an inmate, struggling with deteriorating mental state (8) - {DE}{MENTIA*}
21 - Keen to fix the hedge (8) - {QUICK}{SET}
22 - Controls the wardens (6) - GUARDS [DD]
25 - New in style (10) - INNOVATIVE [E]
27 - Correct the bad language out in students finally (4) - CURsE
30 - New banknotes (6) - TENDER [DD]
31 - Maya is in trouble running topless (8) - {ILL}USION Anno pending, who is running topless here?
32 - Turning course, fish rises in a sideways drift (6) - {LEE<-}{WAY<-}
33 - Fate of the French opener (7) - {DES}{TINY}
DOWN
2   - Drink is in front of my game (5) - {RUM}{MY}
3   - Leave in the kid (4) - {GO}{AT}
4   - Fact of the French sleuth (6) - {DE}{TAIL}
6   - Camelback slope (5) - HUNCH [E]
7   - Red spray is used in perfume (4,5) - {ROSE} {WATER}
8   - Albert exiled from Oz to another country (7) - AUSTRalIA
9   - Hollow box on the side (6) - {CRATE}{R}
12 - Member has the Spanish masterpiece (5) - {LEG}{EL} or is it {L{EL}EG}? Is this NJ's masterpiece to end this round?
15 - Cover the ground (4) - DECK [DD]
17 - Flying pigeon can cause distress (9) - POIGNANCE*
19 - Large birds shown in The Three Musketeers (4) - EMUS [T]
20 - Heartlessly try to follow the pitch-black part of the harbour (5) - {JET}{TrY}
21 - Woman drops an equivalent kind of mass unit (7) - QUINTALeve*
23 - Insane to have spread the colour (6) - SIENNA*
24 - Develop part of some revolvers (6) - EVOLVE [T]
26 - South Indian form of lute instrument (5) - VEENA [CD]
28 - Head singer is out of the concert in the club (5) - UNIsON
29 - Requirement for powder (4) - DUST [DD] ? What's the requirement here?

47 comments:

  1. Hi Col:

    Answer to 1a says it all ! Surprisingly Eisenhower turned up after CVs ref to him yesterday.

    33a What's the anno for Tiny?

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  2. And thanks for posting the link yesterday. I am still not able to get the syntax right. I referred your post 2 days back, but something is eluding me.

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  3. I presume by TINY NJ means opener, like tiny hole etc

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  4. Hi folks

    As usual, after a lot of cerebration, except a few like QUICKSET, LEGEL and QUINTAL, cruised through.

    31A - Hmm... Is it ILL+(F)USION? I can't make out any connection between fusion and running, though. Anything is possible during these ten days. Is it the last day today?

    33A - Our cricket openers like Gavaskar, Tendulkar, Kirmani, Sehwag - all lack in height. ;-)

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  5. 12 - Member has the Spanish masterpiece (5) - {LEG}{EL} or is it {L{EL}EG}? Is this NJ's masterpiece to end this round?

    I put this down as {JEW}{EL}

    But then, each of us are entitled to come up with our own idiosyncrasy, thanks to the clue.

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  6. 'The presumptionfullness of tiny being an opener is terrific (or terrifying)' said Hurree Jamset Ram Singh, the Nabob of Bhanipur.

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  7. Bhavan,

    JEWEL looks convincing from NJ's way of thinking.

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  8. Kishore,

    You got everything right except that (a href) and the last (a) are in lower case and there should be no period(.) before the a's.

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  9. 29A as MUST will satisfy the requirement but not the powder

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  10. MUST

    must 3    
    –noun
    mold; moldiness; mustiness: Example given: 'a castle harbouring the must of centuries.'

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  11. There's an old fragrance powder for women called MUST (de CARTIER DUSTING POWDER)

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  12. Gita, your explanation was mast. Trust you are familiar with Hindi/Urdu.

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  13. Richard,

    You are talking of MUSTH as related to elephants!!

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  14. @Richard - no Hindi, no Urdu. Not even much Tamoul ;-(.

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  15. "who is running topless here?"

    Oh, look at Colonel's curiosity.

    I think the answer is nobody, and nobody's in trouble either. It's all a big illusion. That's what maya is all about.

    NJ's masterpiece. A clue with a hidden cryptic meaning.

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  16. Anyone familiar with the peculiar English used in my 849 post?

    @ CV: Any thoughts on my yesterday's 1747 posted in response to your 1737? I know that it is tought to make a solver's clue of this type, maybe you can make one. Mine might be treated as a setter's clue, but I am sure you can solve it. If not you, Who?

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  17. Kishore
    Just returned home.
    The answer is WHO
    global - World
    well-being - Health
    establishment - Office

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  18. @ CV: Bravo! I had just put the answer as the last word in my immediate previous mail as a teaser !
    And also in my yesterday’s 1840 :How (!!!*) as an anagram\ :-).

    However, I think that constructing long clues of this pattern would be tough, especially if one has to ensure that it is a solver’s clue.

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  19. Deepak 10:07 - A jumbo salute to your elephantine general knowledge. Now I am worried that your tongue-in-cheek quip could complicate the issue. When saying mast, I meant it only as an innocuous compliment.

    WHO stands for World Health Organization, doesn't it?

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  20. Thanks to Col. for posting the link and to Richard for explaining how to do it.

    The song in the NIKE Ad is ok, but the original by Lorna Cordeiro is terrific and has music by Chris Perry, including a great saxophone interlude. For those who are interested, the link is given below. In case any of you head a mobile ringing with this tone, accost the chap and introduce yourself: it will most probably be me.

    BEBDO

    To get a real feel of Lorna’s range, one should hear her “Lisboa” (the Lusitanian way of spelling Lisbon:

    LISBOA

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  21. CV, Richard's WHO expansion is more accurate. However, this does not take away credit for solving the clue !

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  22. Kishore
    The Jesting Pilate asked a question but did not stay for an answer.
    You ask a question and not only stay back but - nudge, nudge - drop hints!

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  23. Now, I must join issue.
    The clue was:
    Initially, Global well-being establishment, which person did you say? (3)
    The def would be 'which person did you say?'
    The clue device is to string together the first letters of words that are synonyms of 'global', 'well-being' and establishment'. I took these to be world, health, office.
    It is exactly this possibility that there could be so many synonyms of a given word that indirect anagrams are frowned upon.
    If I were asked to expand WHO, I would not have written 'office'.

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  24. CV: And if I persist I fancy you will send me some Blushing Crows.

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  25. To set records straight, the answer is perfectly correct: I was just saying Richard's WHO expansion is more accurate, but this was not required for the answer. You are not wrong, CV, but Richard is more correct (at expansion, not solving)

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  26. Are you still Spell-bent on hoonerisms?

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  27. Ever since I came by the Town Drain

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  28. Kishore,

    I had an elephantine task of deleting all your deleted posts today!!! I hope you've got the method for including links written down somewhere!!

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  29. Yes Sir. Musth thanks to you. Richard will confirm that Musth in Konkani means 'Lots'

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  30. I think dust means money (gold dust) (from Chambers).

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  31. 30 - New banknotes (6) - TENDER [DD]

    It is TENNER

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tenner

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  32. @svemuri.
    Tenner does not mean new. Tender on the other hand can have that meaning. Tender means 'Legal tender' or money

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  33. Trivia Time: Headline Howlers

    The following are a few headlines that actually appeared in British newspapers. Being in the media, I really enjoyed reading them. (Courtesy: a journalist-friend from London.)


    Passengers Hit by Cancelled Trains

    Man Found Dead in Graveyard

    Two Men Let down by Undertaker File Suit

    Miscreants Drill Hole in Nudist Colony Wall
    Police ordered to Look into it

    City Council 'Digging Own Grave'
    Smaller Body Sought

    Woman Murdered in Railway Station
    by our special correspondent

    Welsh Public Bodies Get Circular

    Father of Ten Shot Dead
    Mistaken for Rabbit

    Bachelors Prefer Beauty to Brains in their Wives: Study

    Parisian Beheaded for Killing Wife before Mistress

    New Pollution Threat as Minister Heads for Beaches



    Deepak, forgive me for the impertinence. Just to keep the fun going and beat the boredom.

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  34. LOL.... Hilarious stuff Richard... I loved this one.

    "Woman Murdered in Railway Station by our special correspondent."

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  35. I think this could pass off as a quick clue... Couldn't it?

    Global well-being establishment (1,1,1)

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    @Richard: Very amusing headlines. "Mistaken for rabbit" is the pick of the lot.

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  37. The Colonel has not forgotten his nursery rhymes! A nice remake!!!

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  38. Shuchi
    As far as I am concerned, you're preaching to the onverted!
    As one who has read every single post within minutes of its appearance and also commented on several of them, I am already feeling lucky!

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  40. The child in Deepak Sir has once again come out

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  41. Nossa Senhora smiles again today on the Luzos. Felicidad !

    FIFA clue:A direction less mixed up player gets you a fish (3)

    BTW He didn't play today tho' his team did.

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  42. Thanks PP and Subramaniam,

    Creative juices are flowing now that we are done with NJ, we can forget about her for the next 24 days. What a relief.

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  43. Richard,

    Here are some more headlines I found on the net.

    Grandmother of eight makes hole in one.

    Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing.

    Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers.

    House passes gas tax onto senate.

    Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted.

    Quarter of a million Chinese live on water.

    Farmer bill dies in house.

    Iraqi head seeks arms.

    Eye drops off shelf.

    Squad helps dog bite victim.

    Dealers will hear car talk at noon.

    Enraged cow injures farmer with ax.

    Lawmen from Mexico barbecue guests.

    Miners refuse to work after death.

    Two Soviet ships collide--one dies.

    Two sisters reunite after eighteen years at checkout counter.

    Nicaragua sets goal to wipe out literacy.

    Drunk drivers paid $1,000 in 1984.

    Autos killing 110 a day, let's resolve to do better.

    If strike isn't settled quickly it may last a while.

    War dims hope for peace.

    Smokers are productive, but death cuts efficiency.

    Cold wave linked to temperatures.

    Child's death ruins couple's holiday.

    Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn't seen in years.

    Man is fatally slain.

    Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say.
    Death causes loneliness, feeling of isolation.

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  44. If you can't hear this, speak up

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  45. The previous one from a class teacher. The following from a caterer:

    Catering is undertaking

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  46. LOL some were unbelievably funny.... My favorites...

    Two sisters reunite after eighteen years at checkout counter.

    Miners refuse to work after death.

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