Friday 6 April 2012

No 10430, Friday 06 Apr 12, Arden

ACROSS
9   - Old man gets additional choice from the Greek first lady (7) - PANDORA {P{AND}{OR}A}
10 - Wrongly said to have rest (3,4) - LIE DOWN {LIE D}{OWN}
11 - A platform otherwise set up to play guitar (7) - ROSTRUM {RO<-}{STRUM}
12 - Stop playing with fuel, it could be deadly (7) - BANEFUL {BAN}{FUEL*}
13 - With perseverance aim to replace country's figurehead with union leader (9) - ENDURANCE {END}{(-f+u)URANCE}
15 - It is a measure of vision (5) - OPTIC [E]
16 - It carries the fragrance of the city (7) - COLOGNE [DD]
19 - Journalist escapes honeytrap which was drawing him inside (7) - SUCTION SedUCTION
20 - Stand-in as the endless column moves (5) - LOCUM COLUMn*
21 - One could be reckless when challenged to stay back (9) - DAREDEVIL {DARED}{EVIL<-}
25 - It is publicity to give present (7) - PROFFER {PR}{OFFER}
26 - The woman will ring back for some protection (7) - SHELLAC {SHE}{LLAC<-}
28 - It may be reliant while climbing on board (7) - RATLINE*
29 - There is stalemate as every second film is outdated (7) - IMPASSE {fIlM}{PASSE}
DOWN
1   - Too thin for fights, one is told (6) - SPARSE (~spars)
2   - The world body is accustomed to something new (6) - UNUSED {UN}{USED}
3   - There is nothing inside to stop the animal (4) - BOAR {B{O}AR}
4   - Crawling beast, crazy maniac (6) - CAIMAN*
5   - Such superficial behaviour could be blessing (8) - GLIBNESS*
6   - Supported control which is thrust upon later (10) - REINFORCED {REIN}{FORCED}
7   - Pieces of paper to study, may be fit to include the alien (8) - CONFETTI {CON}{F{ET}TI*}
8   - One, oddly Gallic can be part of the English church (8) - ANGLICAN {AN}{GaLlIc}{CAN}
14 - Some Indian music and afternoon fare for the street urchin (10) - RAGAMUFFIN {RAGA}{MUFFIN}
16 - Prepared replicas of the instrument (8) - CALIPERS*
17 - It means closed factories when sentries miss nothing and catch cold (8) - LOCKOUTS LO(-o+c)CKOUTS
18 - Recommended at finish, rose unsteadily and died (8) - ENDORSED {END}{ROSE*}{D}
22 - Waste away evenly since it is unsophisticated (6) - RUSTIC {RUST}{sInCe}
23 - A rupee less for a fanciful silver bag (6) - VALISE {A+SILVEr}*
24 - A servant sans sight mostly (6) - LACKEY {LACK}{EYe}
27 - To discover initially you should follow your sixth sense (4) - ESPY {ESP}{Y}



17 comments:

  1. 20 - Stand-in as the endless column moves (5) - LOCUM

    I first came across this word in Richard Gordon's medical humour books and later, I think, in James Herriot stories.

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  2. Arden has given us a nice run this time.

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    1. Agree. The one word anagrams today were quite nice.

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  3. 23 - A rupee less for a fanciful silver bag (6)
    Fanciful as AnagrInd would apply to silve[-r].
    How do we get 'a' into the fodder with the present clueing?

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    1. R for rupee is deleted and an 'a' is inserted in its place

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  4. Excellent crossword. Good surfaces make even the nine anagrams very enjoyable.

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  5. Excellent cartoon on the Edit page today.

    http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/article3285826.ece

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  6. Thoroughly enjoying this run from Arden.

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  7. Enjoyed today's CW immensely- more so since I achieved an unexpected 100%. Thank you Suresh & Bhavan for the encouragement to keep at it. We have a power shutdown from 8 to 10 AM here and it helped since my weak resolve ( not to look at Col.'s solution) was not exploited!

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    1. Congratulations.Padmanabhan.

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    2. Me too, Padmanabhan.

      From yesterday, yes sir, I should have spelt it 'sir' to mean head in Hindi. When I meant 'Cora' sir, it meant the interior and not the exterior of the head. :)

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    3. I thought you meant me

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    4. Hi Suresh, never had you in mind. Now, come to think of it, if the cap fits you, wear it. :)

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  8. I was just want to re-iterate Suresh's '08:37 PM'.

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  9. 12A 3D stop. ban. bar :-)
    Nice crossword . but I got only half :-(

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