Today is 11/11/11, wonder how many additional babies will be born today!!
21 - Work long on musical composition? (5) - OPERA {OP}{ERA}
14 - Lasting company dodger takes Indian train with lots (4-4) - LONG TERM {LON{G T}ER}{M}
ACROSS
1 - Going under, learner's dotting new map (7,4) - LETTING DOWN {L}{ETTING DOWN*}
9 - Watchman and journalist careful not to say too much (7) - GUARDED {GUARD}{ED}
10 - A number drawn in (no novice among them) to be employed for good (7) - TENURED {TEN}{lURED}
11 - Transport Officer to all but select a subject (5) - TOPIC {TO}{PICk}
12 - Celeb late in emerging but fit to be chosen (9) - ELECTABLE*
13 - Election Commission almost tardy in acclamation (5) - ECLAT {EC}{LATe}
15 - Quick wash — bat, perhaps, following one (5,4) - SHORT BATH ? Anno pending
18 - Niggle Ron put out about what rulers like to have (4,5) - LONG REIGN*
21 - Work long on musical composition? (5) - OPERA {OP}{ERA}
22 - Good feeling that lingers — but it can't follow a fire, can it? (9) - AFTERGLOW [CD]
24 - What a person who is not careful might have to feel (5) - SORRY [CD]
26 - Transport taking a CID twitching in complication of the heart (7) - CARDIAC {CAR}{DI(A)C*}
27 - Choose to run round with Spider-Man foe (7) - ELECTRO {ELECT}{R}{O}
28 - Experience, as you might with a book (2,7,2) - GO THROUGH IT [CD]
DOWN
1 - Not one for heavy consumption (5,4) - LIGHT MEAL [CD]
2 - One who moves from place to place in a ship (5) - TRAMP [DD]
3 - Pointer to our country arresting Central leader, an eminence (9) - INDICATOR {INDI{C}A}{TOR}
4 - Female charmer travels sSouth to entertain doctor (7) - GODDESS {GO{DD}ES}{S}
5 - One Goth possibly making no halt (2,3,2) - ON THE GO*
6 - Nine players — not one of them keeping time (5) - NONET {NONE}{T}
7 - Credit to one old actress taking time in card game (8) - CRIBBAGE {CR}{I}{BB}{AGE}
8 - Puts together, as pronounced, a tool (4) - ADZE(~adds)
16 - Sure, to us a makeover will bring clothes (9) - TROUSSEAU*
17 - What you may have to bear to buy an elephant, say (5,4) - HEAVY COST [CD]
19 - I landed among insurers — not allowed, it seems (7) - ILLICIT {I}{L{LIC}IT}
20 - As one that dawned last on 1-1-11 (3,4) - NEW YEAR [CD]
22 - Chief appearance in a spectacular charade (4) - ARCH [T]
23 - Regretting that in the Mamallapuram site son went for girl (5) - RUING RUIN(-s+g)G
25 - Villain heard gag (5) - RETCH(~wretch)
Gridman, presents a pre-echo (or should I say foreshadow ?) of today’s date 11.11.11 in 20d as 1.1.11.
ReplyDeleteLog in at 11.11 today for a Chinese treat !
Today is 11/11/11, wonder how many additional babies will be born today!!
ReplyDeleteB=Σ(Ci*Pi*S)
B=No. of births
Ci=No. of successful conceptions* on date i
Pi=Probability of delivery (natural or surgical (essential or planned)) for the date 1
S=Survival rate
*including multiple, for which a separate function will have to be written
15 - Quick wash — bat, perhaps, following one (5,4) - SHORT BATH ? Anno pending
ReplyDeleteCryptically 'Short Bath' would yield Bat(-h)
Superb cartoon, Deepak. When, as usual, the text appeared, but not the cartoon, I thought Billoo Badshah would turn up in the cartoon. Socked!
ReplyDeleteLong / short
ReplyDeleteLight / heavy
I spy a certain continuity!
Nice crossword, glad to be finishing my stint (tomorrow last one) with Gridman.
Dave
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that you noticed the use of antonyms in phrases at symmetrical slots.
When I was checking the grid yesterday of a puz that was set some six months ago, I didn't remember the device!
Typos as the one in 4d are beyond the control of setters. I can tell you that this has occurred despite my best efforts.
If to err is human, it is also human to detect errors, understand their appearance and quietly forget them.
Yesterday's FT crossword had goof-ups in the very grid but serious-minded bloggers overcome any hurdles.
Happy holidays!
14 - Lasting company dodger takes Indian train with lots (4-4) - LONG TERM {LON{G T}ER}{M}
ReplyDeleteThe GT express ref unleashed a train of thought: Grand Trunk Road, Chittagong to Kabul (and the other way too!), which starred in Kipling's Kim.
Gooty a station phonetically similar to GT is not on the route of the GT express, but the last word of this post is the name of a station on that route (named after an Act, a la Misa Bharati?)
TADA.
Ref the Col's preamble. Ash lucky? Would betters make it big?
ReplyDeleteCV @ 9:36,
ReplyDeleteNo idea? Get idea!!
CV, everything lies in the hands of the surgeons and not durgeons.
ReplyDeleteHi friends,
ReplyDeleteI had recently been to Hong Kong for a couple of days. Unfortunately, my host Anand skeedaddled to India due to my impending visit (example of Newton’s 3rd law) and I could not meet him. But, as many of you know, I have this thing for languages, and I pick up quite a lot of a lingo in a very little time. I found Mandarin quite interesting and easy to learn. So I thought I will give my friends a crash course (I am not a pilot !) in Chinese. I give you some Chinese phrases I picked up in Hong Kong. Can you match them for me with their hints/definitions/meanings?
1.Lin Ching
2.Chin Tu Fat
3.Shai Gai
4.Moon Lan Ding
5.Hu Yu Hai Ding
6.Wa Shing Kah
7.Kum Hia
8.Wai U Shao Ting
9.Lao Ze
10.Ne Ahn
11.Wai So Dim
12.Tai Ne Po Ne
a. not an outgoing person
b. think I am deaf?
c. need to convert double them to single
d. fluttery eyelashes look?
e. Shetland horse
f. popular in the wild West too
g. spuds on your wheels?
h. even the Gestapo knew this much Mandarin
i. the far out news in 69?
j. Simon & Garfunkel quoth ‘a flash of this light, split the night….’
k. it sucks !
l. unsuccessful solver or the lighting?
Chinese ain’t been so easy ….
Hint: Pronunciation is the key to Mandarin.
Expect googlies.
Have fun and send answers to kishoremrao@hotmail.com
Kishore
The above chestnut is about 3 years old, but I am sure that I have not roasted in this wok. Sorry Gopi, no Gobi as might have been expected…
First answers from the man from Vizag.
ReplyDeleteSI NJUI !! Guess what's my answer? Kishore, you should know?
ReplyDeleteHappana !
ReplyDeleteHappana? Ala? Wewe na Njua?
ReplyDeleteMimi tu. your Mandarin can only be dared by a man ( don't ask me, why not Womandarin?) who has got a cleft tongue. They only use thier gullets and hardly lip-sync. So I've given a go by. Come again another time with some thing more Greek than Latin. Grrr!!
Just to confound the confusion -
ReplyDeleteHakuna Matata. Kwaheri.