Tuesday 24 October 2017

No 12144, Tuesday 24 Oct 2017, Gridman


ACROSS
1   I met novel way of thinking in an FB feature (8) TIMELINE {I+MET}*{LINE}
5   Bill has a levy for admission (6) ACCESS {AC}{CESS}
10 True, one detours along the way in France (2,5) EN ROUTE*
11 Repetition about radio gets prize (7) ROSETTE {RO{SET}TE}
12 Police at last raved wildly about person who gets away (6) EVADER {p...cE}{RAVED*}
13 Repeatedly exclude in-charge found unfriendly (8) BARBARIC {BAR}{BAR}{IC}
15 Protuberance in nook does make odd appearance (4) NODE {NoOk+DoEs}
16 With not all rats at small room, I make pasta (10) VERMICELLI {VERMIn}{CELL}{I}
18 Time old British PM accepts old Russian chess master's gossip (10) TATTLETALE {T}{ATTLE{TAL}E}
20 A son, allowing religious man in, says further (4) ADDS {A}{DD}{S}
23 It won't float, much less rock, the boat (3,5) LOW WATER [CD]
24 Obstinate enough to have some fun in testament (6) WILFUL {WIL{FUn}L}
26 Tie up! Tear out! Repeat! (7) ITERATE {TIE*}{TEAR*}
27 Love story (7) ROMANCE [CD]
28 Roam about to obtain device (6) GADGET {GAD}{GET}
29 Idea beginning to keep lot of marine organisms (8) PLANKTON {PLAN}{Keep}{TON}

DOWN
1   Who knows? It's a secret! (6,2,7) THERES NO TELLING [DD]
2   I'm armed to fight mythical swimmer (7) MERMAID*
3   Honour for Hardy's companion (6) LAUREL [DD]
4   Call for hit with a low blow, by an account (4) NEED (~ kneed)
 Financial promo provided by a HSBC a/c — 1000 (4-4) CASH-BACK {A+HSBC+AC}*{K}
7   Charm partner in worked-up lather (7) ENTHRAL {N} in {LATHER}*
8   Cheerless Vipin's trotted out a proverb for not keeping quiet (6,2,7) SPEECH IS SILVERN*
9   Dreary routine could be mild later (9) TREADMILL*
14 A weak classification of women in the past — no rough-and-tumble in bed (6,3) GENTLE SEX {GENTLE S}{EX} (Correction - [DD] - See comments)
17 A bust-up might show this hollow (8) CLEAVAGE [CD]
19 Transport officer, white, possessed, grabs English blonde with tousled hair (7) TOWHEAD {TO}{W}{H{E}AD}
21 Dead clever about group leaving sides (7)  DEFUNCT {DEF{bUNCh}T}
22 Flighty person in the forces (6) AIRMAN [CD]
25 River rising in spectacular upper reaches (4) URAL [T<=]

GRID

24 comments:

  1. 14D is a DD. Gentle sex was a term used to refer to women in the past, in a humorous way.

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    1. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/the-gentle-sex

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  2. The term "fair sex" was more common, I think.

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  3. I had been a little careless with a definition in a clue but corrected it at the last minute, thanks to the sub's alert over the phone.

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  4. Vasant. Refer your remarks regarding the IXL leaderboard on Sunday's CW. Yes I maintain it in an Excel sheet

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    1. Thanks Sir. With more than 100 participants and 10 rounds, Excel would be the best tool to collate the data. One can also analyse the data by the simple tool of pivot table.
      Insert>pivottable>select data>in new worksheet.
      With participants name in row & sum of points in data you can have the collective points in a jiffy. Very useful tool to anslyse large set of data.

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    2. Recently in a training program I learnt descriptive and inferential statistics which can be done in a jiffy in excel. Never knew these powerful tools existed in Excel.

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  5. Excel has vast possibilities if only one puts in the time and effort to learn them all. I learned a few of them a few years back while interacting with a BPO. Since I was in the initial stages of computer use, Could not learn more. I am happy i still remember them.

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    1. Great Paddy!I learnt many tools of Excel during my stint in Jammu in a mobile cell phone infra company

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    2. my bread and butter is data analysis using EXCEL. but i quickly write my own access based programming.(high memory usage) on campus we used to run a solver, leave the comp overnight running and take the solution printout at 6am, write a report and submit by 8am. no scope for error in logic/excel commands.

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    3. Thats great to hear Prasad. Would certainly like to learn access and a bit of macro programming too.

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  6. My dB of clues-solutios are in Excel sheet.
    I use Pivot table for some simple analysis. Self-taught.
    I would appreciate a sw developer/code writer to create a program for more analysis like sort by no. of words in a clue, sort by no. of letters in a sol word, etc. etc.
    I have some other macros written by friends here.
    I am prepared to pay any fees if someone comes forward to create tool as I suggest.

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    1. Sir, I think sort by number of words and sort by number of letters can be done in Excel itself.
      If possible I shall send with my own examples.
      For other analysis if you can specify..I can try to provide solution.

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    2. I can do it in access db and Macro an bit of Vb programming. but will need domain expertise on framing logic of from setter/solver perspective

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  7. Like Dolittle would said "The gentle sex is made for man to marry, to share his nest and see his food is cooked; but with a li'l bit of luck you can have it all and not get hooked"

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  8. Bust -up means a quarrel. Bust up would have been better without a hyphen. I have no quarrel with bust up - a BRA(less)zenly clued up cleavage which is cleverly clued down as only Gridman could have conceived !

    SPEECH IS SILVERN is a corollary to SILENCE IS GOLDEN?

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    1. the oldest written doc is a swiss inscription "Sprecfien ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden". those days it was consiered silver was mae by man and gold in heaven. so silver was now and gold was eternal. mostly applicable be to religious disciples.

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