Wednesday 24 November 2010

No 10007, Wednesday 24 Nov 10, M.Manna

My internet connection is playing truant, so if you'll see an incomplete CW getting published at 8:30 AM please go ahead by posting the solutions in the comments section. Few pictures and links being added due to this.
ACROSS
1   - A tin radio-mast can be used for this novel reconstruction (13) - DRAMATISATION*
8   - Well qualified man and boy in charge of stone work (7) - {MA}{SON}{IC}
9   - Show zeal then thus, especially within (7) - ENTHUSE [T]
11 - Tottered as a result of wound (6) - REELED [CD](Addendum - (DD) - See comments)
13 - New pieces almost all outstanding (8) - {ESPECI}{ALl}
15 - Imbricated pieces of baked clay (5) - TILED [CD]
16 - Recalling an aroma coming into being (7) - {NA<-}{SCENT}
18 - One afflicted with serious degree of intellectual subnormality (7) - AIRHEAD [CD]
19 - Rove freely in all directions (5) - RANGE [E]
21 - Away from the standards (7) - OFFBEAT [CD]
23 - Deliver soldier's signal (6) - {RE'S}{CUE}
25 - Charge for keeping silver in reserve (7) - {STOR{AG}E} Are Storage and Charge synonymous?
26 - One church amidst others is most affluent (7) - {R{I}{CH}EST}
28 - Turning points in town? (6,7) - STREET CORNERS [CD]
DOWN
2   - Ribbed cotton and woollen material left out for boy (7) - RUSSELL ?
3   - An uncommissioned soldier (3) - MAN [E]
4   - Time to perform with fine perception (4) - {T}{ACT}
5   - Avoids walking under a ladder? (5,5) - STEPS ASIDE [CD]
6   - Small part but it helps to take it in (5) - TITHE [T]
7   - He sees eye to eye with anyone who is patient (7) - OCULIST [CD]
8   - Deserving an order, otherwise promises to pay (11) - {MERIT}{OR}{IOUS}
10 - It lets one see the bigger picture (11) - ENLARGEMENT [CD]
12 - Shrub related to honey suckle (5) - ELDER [CD]
14 - Having assumed a clerical habit recommended by the stock broker (10) - INVESTMENT [DD]
17 - Starting point on a Great Lake is weird (5) - {E}{ERIE}
18 - A fellow at scene of hostilities may receive open insult (7) - {A}{F}{FRONT}
20 - Greek letter clear to indicate central mass (7) - {NU}{CLEAR}
22 - Rub out important date on quarter (5) - {ERA}{SE}
24 - Italian spirit (4) - BRIO [E]
27 - Able to have sufficient power (3) - CAN ?

39 comments:

  1. I dont know if I can can the can in 27a. Missed on Brio.

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  2. Journalism blues:

    A farmer in the US tells the city reporter: 'What we can eat, we eat. What we cannot, we can.'

    Next day, a report appears: 'The farmer said what they could eat, they ate and what they couldn't they could.'

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  3. A lot better today.

    Richard, LOL

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  4. 25 - Charge for keeping silver in reserve (7) - {STOR{AG}E} Are Storage and Charge synonymous?

    This is not in defence, but a vague guess.

    Vented dams and catchment areas get the 'charge' or 'get chargesd' with river water.

    I am not sure if it makes sense.

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  5. Read 'charged' in place of 'chargesd'.

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  6. I think it's in reference to storing electricity - like charging a battery or something.

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  7. 25 - Charge for keeping silver in reserve (7) - {STOR{AG}E} Are Storage and Charge synonymous?

    Sortof.. Charging/Discharging device = "Capacitor" ..

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  8. Not too sure about Reeled and Russell..

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  9. Chmabers defines charge as an accumulation of electricity, which can be taken to be a form of storage.

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  10. Prasanna@09:08. I have no problem with reeled. It is a DD meaning Tottered and wound

    Russell --- Maybe. Trying to find a word for ribbed cotton and woollen material

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  11. Russell from Russel cord. Look it up on Wikipedia

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  12. Suresh, nice fine, but why "left out"?

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  13. It is a DD meaning Tottered and wound

    Will have to reluctantly agree...I had ROLLED (DD) ... but couldn't find 2D...

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  14. @Suresh 09:37 .. great find. Thanks! .. Now I 'Reel'ise..

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  15. Good Morning all

    Nice one. Probably Manna visited the blog yesterday and made amends..Except for Russel and Brio I m through... Liked Nascent, Especial and steps aside..

    Mathu.

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  16. I guess it is:

    Ribbed cotton and woollen material - RUSSEL
    Left - L

    (RUSSELL)*, though no actual jumbling of letters is involved.

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  17. Reeled could be an attempt at a poor double definition, with 'wound' intending to mean the wrapping over of a reel around a drum in the cryptic definition.

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  18. I couldn't find any material named russel

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  19. Shyam,
    Reeled is a DD no doubt on that

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  20. Col

    I obtained the aforesaid definition of Russel from the Chambers. No confusion regarding the anno.

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  21. This link has it as well...

    http://www.absp.org.uk/words/textiles.html

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  22. Suresh, LOL yea look like only Manna can answer.

    And in my previous comment, fine = find

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  23. Shyam, fine, but "out" seems out of place.

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  24. VJ

    I took out as the anagram indicator, keeping in line with Manna's anagram clues that have no jumbling as such. But out *may* also be construed in the sense of 'out to prove' or in this case, 'out to reveal' a boy's name.

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  25. Shyam, I see what you mean. I think only Manna can clarify his intentions.

    But "out to reveal a boy's....."? Well more than it giving out a boy's name it's more likely to reveal something else.

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  26. VJ
    :D... You have got a bit cheekier there, I guess!

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  27. Incidentally CAN is also a DD and the two definitions in the clue are reproduced verbatim in the Chambers.

    Can:

    To be able
    To have sufficient power
    To have skill in
    To be a possibility

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  28. Col:
    Did you watch KBC last night? One Q was on Gol Gappa and I recalled the refreshing comments here on the 4th March 2010(when I had just started looking into this blog).One of the 4 options for the Q was Pani Puri but that was Not the correct answer. Any reason?

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  29. Suresh@9.37

    Wikipedia gives definition for RUSSELL CORD and not Russel. Then how do we get the anno?
    (Don't tell Ask Manna!)

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  30. yesterday masonic was a clue today it was an answer...any brethren here???

    mathu.

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  31. If RUSSEL is a word as Shyam has suggested then what Manna intends is that if 'left' is out of boy (RUSSELL) you will get RUSSEL which is 'Ribbed cotton & woolen material'.
    The online Chambers does not have RUSSEL nor could I find it anywhere on the net. The link given by Shyam is from a British Scrabble group. I have never understood some of the scrabble words, some of which make no sense at all.

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  32. Hi Col
    i did a google search of "Ribbed cotton and woollen material" (with the quotes) and got a Concise English Dictionary link which confirms what I have stated. But it does not stop there!

    http://thehinducrosswordcorner.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-9792-wednesday-17-mar-10-m-manna.html

    Manna has clued the word already once, Google says!

    But my only gripe in your argument is regd. the proposition. Manna has used a 'for' and not an 'of' as you suggest. So I have to stand by my anno posted at 10:03 :)

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  33. Can some one explain how we get 'ious' in the meritorious clue 8D?

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  34. Benkiman: promises to pay is IOUs. Check this out: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/IOU

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  35. Is this anno acceptable for RUSSELL CORD(as in Wikipedia)
    Ribbed cotton and woollen material-definition
    material=cord(short for corduroy) left out to get the boy's name'
    RUSSELL CORD - CORD = RUSSELL!!!

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  36. Sumitra,

    RUSSELL CORD = Cotton + woolen fabric that's ribbed.

    CORD =/= material 'cause CORD is synonymous with rib. Like RUSSEL CORD, corduroy is again a ribbed fabric, like the name suggests.

    I think we just gotta accept the fact that something just doesn't fit.

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  37. Sumitra, I think you got the intended anno. Def would be boy And 'cord left out of Russell Cord

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  38. I just got a spam msg from someone called Charles Russell. Co-incidence?:))

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