Wednesday 13 July 2011

No 10205, Wednesday 13 Jul 11, Sankalak

ACROSS
1   - Diamond centre, in part new, refurbished (7) - ANTWERP*
5   - Guaranteed when case was filed about right (7) - ASSURED {AS}{SU{R}ED}
9   - Radiation stands to be regulated in bringing about uniformity in production (15) - STANDARDISATION*
10 - Additions, they too have parts to play (6) - EXTRAS [DD]
11 - Parts of a book about a fellow with disturbed rest (8) - CHAPTERS {CHAP}{TERS*}
13 - He gives a testing time to a student (8) - EXAMINER [CD]
15 - Where busy ones may be seen forming an odd pair in extremes of apathy (6) - APIARY {Apa{PIAR*}thY}

SEE THIS CARTOON

18 - Lowly creature with absorbing quality! (6) - SPONGE [CD]
19 - Bone soaked in ale first leads to a deficiency disorder (8) - BERIBERI {BE{RIB}ER}{I}
22 - Devote oneself to detectives (English) back in engagement (8) - DEDICATE {D{E}{DIC<-}ATE}
24 - Abandoning cigar after onset of toxaemia is very distressing (6) - TRAGIC {T}{RAGIC*}
27 - Quisling quality? (15) - TREACHEROUSNESS [CD]
28 - Money for a royal protected by pretty women (7) - DOLLARS {DOLL{A}{R}S}
29 - He gets pressing engagements in the line of duty (7) - MASSEUR [CD]
DOWN
1   - Rau's tee-off is severely simple (7) - AUSTERE*
2   - Characteristic feature of telecom body beginning to transform (5) - TRAIT {T.R.A.I}{T}
3   - Lovable listener at the heart of a finish (9) - ENDEARING {END{EAR}ING}
4   - Benefit additional to pay got through royalty (4) - PERK {PER}{K}
5   - Disembark if air journey is changed in the beginning (6) - ALIGHT f(+a)ALIGHT
6   - Note produced by a small stringed instrument (5) - SHARP {S}{HARP}
7   - Say it again and again — that is, retreat is complicated (9) - REITERATE* (ie+retreat)
8   - Powerful family as seen in American mega serial (7) - DYNASTY [E]
12 - Precipitation on a cool night (3) - DEW [E]
14 - Very often, it is a profitable business transaction (1,4,4) - A GOOD DEAL [DD]
16 - Flowers that impress, or otherwise (9) - PRIMROSES*
17 - A layer taken from Athens (3) - HEN [T] I put in MAT first and fumbled around for 19A
18 - Superintending engineer, passe, is quietened by drug (7) - SEDATED {SE}{DATED}
20 - Cutter by the side of a canine (7) - INCISOR [CD]
21 - Beginning to shrivel, hair causes tension (6) - STRESS {S}{TRESS}
23 - Business doubled by a drink (5) - COCOA {CO}{CO}{A} Strikes again!
25 - Bird found by lad leaving Belgrade in confusion (5) - GREBE GREBElad*
26 - Look, a mantra that makes cloth! (4) - LOOM {LO}{OM}

GRID


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  1. Anonymous13 July 2011 at 08:33

    BERI^2 my cod.

    8 - Powerful family as seen in American mega serial (7) - DYNASTY [E]

    I think it should be DD&CD

    21d is what Shuchi has referred to in the latest topic on her blog.

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  2. Venkatesh13 July 2011 at 09:04

    16D PRIMROSES*

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  3. Deepak Gopinath13 July 2011 at 09:17

    Thanks Venkatesh,
    Since corrected

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  4. Padmanabhan13 July 2011 at 09:32

    17d-
    Yes,the red carpet looked too inviting for me also.

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  5. Bhavan13 July 2011 at 10:31

    Couple of enjoyable clues in STRESS and SHARP

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  6. Suresh13 July 2011 at 11:18

    Sankalak ensures I get more exercise, since the crossword gets done halfway through my cycling.

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  7. Col_Gopinath13 July 2011 at 11:31

    Suresh,
    Does that mean on Neyartha days you get no exercise?

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  8. Chaturvasi13 July 2011 at 11:35

    Would you like to do the crossword that finds a mention in today's Hindu on the parting shots by crossword compilers in the last edition of the News of the World?
    Here you go:

    (courtesy: Derek Harrison)

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29723619/News%20of%20the%20World%20final%20crossword.pdf

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  9. Suresh13 July 2011 at 11:38

    Nice logical inference Deepak. Not quite right though, the opposite of more being less. Cycle more slowly when mind is busy.

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  10. Anonymous13 July 2011 at 11:48

    Colonel,
    With regard to to 17D and 19A, I did the same. Once I convinced myself that 19 did not lead to some rarely-used, alternative spelling (BARIBERI!), it was either HEN or a typo. In what context do Layer and Hen mean the same?

    It's interesting to note that, for a three-letter answer, 17D is one of those clues which cannot be solved independently, if indeed HEN is the answer.

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  11. Suresh13 July 2011 at 11:54

    Hen is a layer of eggs and is there in some standard Dictionaries. I got this word quite independently. What I could not get independently was MASSEUR.

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  12. Padmanabhan13 July 2011 at 11:58

    Could layer be compared to "flower" being a river?

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  13. Anonymous13 July 2011 at 12:15

    Ah, thanks, Suresh.

    Indeed, Padmanabhan, that's what I thought when I read Suresh's reply. Flower, flier...

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  14. Suresh13 July 2011 at 12:36

    Padmanabhan@ 11:58. Not exactly. Flower is a coinage common in crosswords and will not find a place in a Dictionary with the meaning of 'river'

    But Layer is a hen bred to lay eggs as defined in the Collins and perhaps elsewhere. You can look up layer in freedictionary.com and fine the meaning "hen".

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  15. Suresh13 July 2011 at 12:45

    Incidentally you can find layer meaning hen in Chambers too

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  16. Col_Gopinath13 July 2011 at 12:51

    Layer - Hen has appeared in CW's earlier also

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  17. Padmanabhan13 July 2011 at 12:55

    Thank you,Suresh. Yes,I found it in the on line dictionary.

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  18. Suresh13 July 2011 at 13:41

    Thanks for the link CV

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  19. Padmanabhan13 July 2011 at 15:23

    Col.

    Sorry for my belated congratulations.Away for 2 days at Yelagiri hills.Missed THC,our blog and Col.'s elevation.Congratulations to all in the family including the latest arrival.

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  20. Deepak Gopinath13 July 2011 at 15:45

    Thanks Padmanabhan

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  21. Alok13 July 2011 at 18:29

    Jumped in at 8D and put in SOPRANO. Guess that's what happens when you're 26 and forget the glory days when Star Plus used to mean English entertainment. :)

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  22. Padmanabhan13 July 2011 at 19:09

    Reg.the cartoon-
    I dont get the mail cartoon picture,but only the caption.But all the other pictures are there.I wonder if this has happened to anybody else.Also,this is not the first time.

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  23. Padmanabhan13 July 2011 at 19:11

    this happens only with firefox browser.It opens normally with IE.

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  24. Anonymous13 July 2011 at 19:52

    Alok,
    25-26 year-olds think alike. ;-) But I had the Y from APIARY which took me down memory lane to the days when "cable TV" first came to India. However, I confess that I haven't seen either soap opera.

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  25. Anonymous13 July 2011 at 20:00

    In any case, the show was actually titled The Sopranos... plural. :-)

    And someone like this would have hardly been appropriate to play the lead in a show called The Soprano. :D

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  26. Rengaswamy13 July 2011 at 20:49

    Today NIE CW had a nice anagram BOREDOM from BEDROOM. Will anyone get boredom from a bedroom? Yes. The retired people and rightly so the clue reads "one retires out of boredom". Enjoyed the simplicity of the clue.

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  27. Anonymous14 July 2011 at 00:44

    I realise that Sankalak framed 19A as [wordplay] leading to [answer], but looking at it again, I wonder if the clue requires the word "first" in it at all? Won't {BE{RIB}ER} leading to 'a' (one = I) give you the same answer? Of course, this means the structure becomes [wordplay][answer] while still maintaining an acceptable surface.

    In the first case, one component of the clue leads to another component, while in the second the "leading to" is done between components of the wordplay alone.

    Just thinking out loud, but I invite opinions on the issue.

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