Tuesday 5 February 2013

No.10688, Tuesday 5 Feb 13, Sunnet

Entertaining puzzle that has everything under the sunnet alphabet

ACROSS
1 Accept counter boy’s carriage (6) SUBMIT (TIM + BUS)<=
4 Very quiet priest boarding Buddhist sect’s transport (8) ZEPPELIN (PP + ELI inside ZEN)
10 Recover most of a serving dish after a bowler returned (9) RECAPTURE (TUREen after PACER<=) Personally I would have preferred "more than half" instead of "most"
11 Moved back and forth and twice relinquished some independence (5) WAVED (WAiVED) Not sure what is the role of "twice" See comments below
12 Prior to baby nearly convulsing (5) ABBOT (TO BABy)*
13 Blooms on the edge right inside air station’s summit (9) PRIMROSES (RIM + R inside POSE + S)
14 Observe a clerestory (7) MONITOR (DD) Clerestory is more of a window?
16 Gather overlooking a valley (4) GLEN (GLEaN)
19 A cross beam picture (1-3) X-RAY (X + RAY)
21 Dress to arrive outside the centre of a masquerade (7) COSTUME (COME outside poSTUre?)
24 Vocal slander needed to check malignancy perhaps (4,5) ORAL, SMEAR (ORAL + SMEAR)
25 Spirit of a four-leaf ritual (5)  AFRIT (T)
26 Ethnic Chinese group circle India’s capital (5) HANOI (HAN + O + I)
27 An engineer, not completely taken in by an attack from the East, can become invisible (9) DISAPPEAR (SAPPEr inside RAID<=)
28 Ducks for Communist leaders (8) REDHEADS (RED + HEADS)
29 One in France accustomed to be fresh (6) UNUSED (UN + USED)

DOWN
1 Cutting words playing havoc with Sam’s scar (8) SARCASMS (SAMS SCAR)*
2 Last ivory support (8) BACKBONE (BACK + BONE)
3 Feed at home before a throw (5) INPUT (IN + PUT)
5 Equalising // time (7) EVENING (DD)
6 Feeble // without electricity? (9) POWERLESS (DD)
7 Generous menial beginning to go out (6) LAVISH (sLAVISH)
8 Does he prefer to be in a natural state everywhere? (6) NUDIST (CD)
9 A horse sometimes used to complete a circuit (6) JUMPER (DD)
15 A wicket’s spin characteristic, say (9) TURNSTILE (TURN + ~STYLE)
17 Divides // houses (8) QUARTERS (DD)
18 Risked against teeth rotation (8) VENTURED (V + DENTURE with D moving to end) Teeth = Dentures and tooth = Denture?
20 Gave in and stopped the ball with your head instead of foot (7) YIELDED (FIELDED with Y for F)
21 Brief, half casual bow (6) CURTSY (CURT + eaSY)
22 Undefiled woman sheltered by Homer (6) KOSHER (SHE inside KOR)
23 Spread out semi-circularly for some junior scouts, going North, following an admirer (6) FANNED (FAN + DEN<=)
25 Tree like enclosure (5) ASPEN (AS + PEN)
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32 comments:

  1. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2013 at 08:36

    Agree with Bhavans observations on 10, 11 & 14A.
    Otherwise a challenging CW from Sunnet

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  2. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2013 at 08:38

    In 18D I took rotation as an AInd.

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    1. Bhavan5 February 2013 at 09:00

      I thought so too, but wanted to give Sunnet the benefit of doubt for an indirect anagram

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  3. Chaturvasi5 February 2013 at 08:39

    18a 'denture' can refer to a set of teeth, so 'teeth' is OK for 'denture'. (Does 'denture' ever indicate a single tooth?)

    Of course, 'dentures' (in pl.) also means 'a set of teeth' but most users may refer to their set as 'denture' rather than 'dentures'.

    Qn: Is 'rotation' an adequate ind for the shifting of the single letter? What do you think?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2013 at 09:00

      Since "a denture is a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth", if a single tooth is replaced it will still be called a denture

      In my opinion 'rotation' is not an adequate ind for shifting of the single letter, rotation would be more of an AInd

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    2. Bhavan5 February 2013 at 09:02

      I took rotation as a cyclic movement and hence was OK with moving one letter to the end.

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    3. Anonymous5 February 2013 at 09:26

      A single tooth may be a dental bridge we can cross when we get to it.

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    4. VJ5 February 2013 at 09:27

      Hmmm, but if it's a cyclic movement the whole thing reverses and not just the edges...

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    5. Bhalchandra Pasupathy5 February 2013 at 11:02

      This discussion reminds me of school lessons where the difference between rotation and revolution of the earth was drilled in.

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  4. VJ5 February 2013 at 08:50

    Can "some independence" be taken to mean I?

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  5. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2013 at 08:55

    11 Moved back and forth and twice relinquished some independence (5) WAVED (WAiVED) Not sure what is the role of "twice"

    In my opinion the first relinquished is to indicate the word 'WAIVED' and the second relinquished is to indicate the deletion of 'I'

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    1. Bhavan5 February 2013 at 09:01

      I see, that makes sense.

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    2. Padmanabhan5 February 2013 at 09:19

      From my entry late yesterday-"A very belated kudos to Col. for a nice CW and for becoming a 4 year old!" Sorry to have missed most of the fun yesterday.

      A good CW today with several clues making you think differently. Though I was found wanting in some, enjoyed them after reading the blog. Thank you Bhavan.

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    3. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2013 at 09:29

      Thanks Padmanabhan

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  6. Raghunath5 February 2013 at 09:19

    21 Dress to arrive outside the centre of a masquerade (7) COSTUME (COME outside poSTUre?)

    I think CO STU ME is doing a double duty. Also DRESS = COSTUME, COSTUME = MASQUERADE

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    1. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2013 at 09:29

      Sounds better as 'Imposture' would be more appropriate for 'Masquerade' rather than 'posture'

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  7. Nadathur Rajan5 February 2013 at 09:47

    Roget's Thesaurus gives POSTURE as synonym for MASQUERADE. I think Bhavan's take is right.

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  8. Raghunath5 February 2013 at 09:48

    20 Gave in and stopped the ball with your head instead of foot (7) YIELDED (FIELDED with Y for F)

    Hope the ref is to soccer. If it is to cricket, in which the term fielded is usually applied, fielders too would have to wear helmets .

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  9. Richard5 February 2013 at 11:02

    Hi friends:

    Deepak, congrats on your bloggiversary.

    Could not visit the blog over the past three days. Around the weekend, I lost a very close friend and a former colleague from the Middle East days and was busy attending the funeral and the post-obsequies ceremonies.

    Wouldn't believe in superstitions. But I kept yawning around noon yesterday for no reason at all. Today I came to know that I was remembered here by Suresh-garu, Maharajkumar of Vizianagaram, The post he referred to could not be mine. Although I began following the blog in July 2009 or so, my actual posts were post-August 2009.

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  10. Bhalchandra Pasupathy5 February 2013 at 11:07

    Without Bhavan's note in the preamble wouldn't have noticed that this is a pangram. Well spotted, second nature to look out for these I guess.

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    1. Raghunath5 February 2013 at 16:25

      Once you spot a Q and Z then you look for the rest.

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  11. raju umamaheswar5 February 2013 at 12:40

    Col: Congrats on the fifth anniversary of OUR blog. Many more happy blogging days to come.

    Incidentally, when I was trying to print out, I found the solution grid too. How come? I promptly closed it lest I got tempted to take a peek at it. I'm yet to solve the special.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2013 at 13:02

      Thanks Raju.

      The solution grid was added after all the answers came in yesterday. Shall hide it now and give the link only.

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  12. VP5 February 2013 at 13:28

    Nice one from sunnet, but found it on the slightly tougher side. Had a couple of blanks in the end and was found wanting with a couple of annos.
    I thought rotation could be used as AInd (as Col mentioned) or as reversal indicator and not as shifting indicator.

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  13. raju umamaheswar5 February 2013 at 13:44

    In fact, I saw it as soon as I opened my PC in the morning yesterday.

    Of course, any diehard solver would always avoid cheating !! So no sweat.

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  14. RameshJ5 February 2013 at 20:23

    Apologies for the delayed response. Thanks for the all the comments.
    10A : Yes. More than half would have been better than most.
    14A : Monitor : A raised section of roof running down the center of a railroad car, building, etc., providing light or ventilation; a clerestory
    21A: Yes. Posture was the intended word.
    18D : Was intended to be cyclic movement.

    THE CW not only had every letter of the alphabet in the solution, it also had every letter of the alphabet as a first letter in the solution.

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  15. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2013 at 20:52

    Great going Ramesh. The second element was not spotted by anyone.

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  16. raju umamaheswar5 February 2013 at 23:49

    Deepak: How come no one pointed out that in your monday special: 10a: FORMAL the bracket shows 5 when it is a 6 letter word?

    Just solved it. I enjoyed it.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath6 February 2013 at 08:31

      Justa slip up, the other two were pointed out and corrected

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