Saturday 3 March 2012

No 10401, Saturday 03 Mar 12, Scintillator

ACROSS
1   - Dance wear fitted global players… (8) - BALL GOWN {BALL GO*}{W}{N}
5   - … peers or rivals (6) - EQUALS [DD]
10 - Sailors' call for firing (5-2) - HEAVE-HO [DD]
11 - You throw no dice to unravel a standard (7) - UNICODE {U+NO+DICE}*
12 - Hungarian composer's record played aloud (5) - LISZT(~list)
13 - Sociable extorter, very drunk (9) - EXTROVERT {EXTRO{V}ERT*}
14 - Sweet and simple thing to do (1,5,2,4) - A PIECE OF CAKE [DD]
18 - Prize pursuit involved in a game (8,4) - TREASURE HUNT {TREASURE}{HUNT}
21 - Crush, however affected, clung to soulmate's heart (9) - OVERWHELM {HOWEVER*}{souLMate}
23 - Show of gratitude or show of contempt that's unacceptable (5) - TABOO {TA}{BOO}
24 - Fasten drill-bit to support coiler (7) - TENDRIL [T]
25 - Jerk, look back at Americans (7) - YANKEES {YANK}{EES<-}
26 - Coalition of Frenchman and German welcoming British head (6) - MERGER {MER}{G}{ER} (Correction - {M}{ER}{GER} - See comments)
27 - Uncut, somewhat nude clothes back trend (8) - UNEDITED {UN{EDIT<-}ED*}
DOWN
1   - Look at live bear (6) - BEHOLD {BE}{HOLD}
2   - Elisa and I contrived to work together (6) - LIAISE*
3   - Famous mimics (5,4) - GREAT APES [CD]
4   - Enthusiastically in the presence of a total rhythmist? (14) - WHOLEHEARTEDLY [CD]
6   - Depart from old capital (5) - QUITO {QUIT}{O}
7   - At a premium greater than normal (5,3) - ABOVE PAR {ABOVE} {PAR}
8   - Garden plant's aromatic seed (5,3) - SWEET PEA {SWEET} {PEA}
9   - Who met Humpty — an artifice to bring bad luck (3,3,6,2) - PUT THE WHAMMY ON*
15 - Calibrated, to the exact MHz? (4-5) - FINE-TUNED [CD]
16 - Basically in the deep? (2,6) - AT BOTTOM [CD]
17 - Lunch prepared badly? Endure the extremes of justice (8) - DEJEUNER {DE{JusticE}UNER*}
19 - A thing not old or worthless (6) - ABJECT {A}{oBJECT}
20 - All set for soapy episode that has not started (6) - POISED ePISODE*
22 - Swore badly? That's poorer (5) - WORSE*

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28 comments:

  1. Chaturvasi3 March 2012 at 08:32

    Would Raju like to live in such an apartment building?

    Visit

    http://www.impactlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/architectural-14.jpg

    If need be, scroll down to see a building with crossword grid pattern.

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    1. Anonymous3 March 2012 at 08:36

      We do not seem to have a clue !

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    2. Anonymous3 March 2012 at 08:40

      With apologies to Archimedes,

      Give me a place to stand and a good clue and I will try to solve it

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    3. Anonymous3 March 2012 at 08:41

      Goes well with Shuchi's purse...

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    4. Chaturvasi3 March 2012 at 08:46

      For clues (I understand) you have to tour the city in which the building is located and they will hand over clues at places of tourist interest. Don't ask me how the answers are entered!

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    5. Shuchi3 March 2012 at 18:09

      Very interesting! Must share this on Crossword Unclued Facebook page. It does go well with my purse, Kishore :)

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  2. Nadathur Rajan3 March 2012 at 10:01

    9 - Who met Humpty — an artifice to bring bad luck (3,3,6,2) - PUT THE WHAMMY ON*

    Even to a lay reader, the use of 'bring' is dubious. It gives an impression of to fetch for /take upon oneself.
    A hex is always put on someone else (to give badluck to the other person).
    Use of 'cause', in this context, might have been a better choice.
    Wonder what other solvers think on this?

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    1. Scintillator3 March 2012 at 10:20

      Rajan, I only need a sentence where the phrase and the definition could substitute one another. See if this passes muster:

      The monkey's paw has put a whammy on our family.
      The monkey's paw has brought bad luck to our family.

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    2. Shuchi3 March 2012 at 17:08

      Hi Scintillator,

      For exact match the definition needs "to" in the end:

      PUT THE WHAMMY ON = bring bad luck to

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    3. Scintillator3 March 2012 at 17:20

      Hi Shuchi

      How about this then? Avoiding an object should do, I think.

      I avoided the old lady lest she may put the whammy on.
      I avoided the old lady lest she may bring bad luck.

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    4. Shuchi4 March 2012 at 20:15

      Is that valid use? Didn't know that...I thought "put the whammy on" must have an object.

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  3. Padmanabhan3 March 2012 at 10:17

    26A-Merger
    Where does 'British head' fit in?

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  4. Nadathur Rajan3 March 2012 at 10:22

    I had taken it as:
    M ER GER

    frenchman M (for Monsieur)
    german GER
    English head ER (Elizabeth Regina, the Queen)

    'welcoming' is an Insertion Indicator

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  5. Scintillator3 March 2012 at 10:22

    There is a (somewhat) usual crossword feature in this grid, and my first attempt at that :)

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  6. Nadathur Rajan3 March 2012 at 10:30

    Thanks, Scintillator.

    The usage appears OK. It is also possible to bring bad luck upon oneself by saying or doing something.

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  7. Nadathur Rajan3 March 2012 at 10:33

    It was apparent when we came across X, Y and Z.
    This is a PANGRAM.

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  8. Nadathur Rajan3 March 2012 at 10:47

    Padmanabhan,

    Sorry, two corrections:

    The correct term is Container Indicator (outer word around inner word), e.g, circling, welcoming, containing, harbouring

    'British' instead of 'English'

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  9. VP3 March 2012 at 12:24

    What is the containment indicator in 17D. I took "the extremes of" to get the J and E from Justice and prepared badly as the AIND. Not sure if Endure is used as both anag. fodder and containment indicator.

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  10. Venkatesh3 March 2012 at 12:55

    17 - Lunch prepared badly? Endure the extremes of justice (8) - DEJEUNER {DE{JusticE}UNER*}

    prepared badly - Anagram Indicator
    ENDURE + J[-ustic]E is the fodder.

    Anno should be {(ENDURE)(JE)}* = DEJENEUR

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  11. Venkatesh3 March 2012 at 12:56

    17 - Lunch prepared badly? Endure the extremes of justice (8) - DEJEUNER {DE{JusticE}UNER*}

    prepared badly - Anagram Indicator
    ENDURE + J[-ustic]E is the fodder.

    Anno should be {(ENDURE)(JE)}* = DEJENUER

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  12. Venkatesh3 March 2012 at 13:01

    Typo. It is DEJEUNER

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  13. David Dobson3 March 2012 at 15:55

    Couldn't download the puzzle until late today, but it was worth the wait.
    Enjoyed today's grid and nice to catch up with scintillator again

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  14. Navneeth3 March 2012 at 16:44

    3D should be an &lit, no?

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  15. Chaturvasi3 March 2012 at 17:26

    Dave

    Nice to have you back amongst us!

    Some new setters have joined the panel; we have not had Manna when his turn came last month.

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  16. David Jayaprakash John3 March 2012 at 17:29

    24a - Fasten drill-bit to support coiler (7) - TENDRIL [T]

    I would prefer "curler" to "coiler".
    Coiler was misleading (which of course would have been the intention!)

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  17. David Jayaprakash John3 March 2012 at 17:49

    26a

    If FRENCHMAN = M.(for Monsieur)
    then GERMAN should be HERR

    What's GER?

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    1. Navneeth3 March 2012 at 18:43

      Short for German, of course. Who says the cryptic reading should consistently refer to the same type of object or person? :)

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    2. David Jayaprakash John3 March 2012 at 22:57

      Yeah. Fair enough!

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