Blogitto, Ergo Sum: status: Encrypted

There was this short span of 4 days when the crossie fever got so high that it spilled onto my GTalk status message and took its place. People who I hardly get to talk to pinged with the answer/hint. Here are the four clues. One of each of the commonly encountered type of cryptic clues. One for each day.

Clues:
1. Posh photo altered for design. (9)
2. Vortex amazingly has a test within. (4)
3. A vehicle in sequence. (5)
4. A part of convergence is in the fiftieth cave. (8)

Answers:
1. Photoshop.
Hint: Anagram.
Thanks to Aniket for being directly responsible for making Photoshop the status message of the day.
2. Exam.
Hint: Hidden clue.
Thanks to the fortnightly quiz on Analog Circuits. You will never feel the beginning or the end of the quiz week. A toast to perennial quizzing.
3. Cycle.
Hint: Two definitions.
Thanks to the multilingual cycle repair shop guy for giving my cycle a makeover. It was enduring the sun and the rain, the dew and the dust and the good times and the bad at the insti In gate for 6 months because somebody was just plain lazy to get it.
4. Conclave.
Hint: Encrypted in convergence, fiftieth and cave.
Thanks to the organizers of the Shaastra Conclave 2008.

..and Harish comes up with this:
5. Krishna and Radha play with Bruce Lee first and then with Laplace. (5)

That made my day!

PS:
Just in case, you didn't get it:
5. Leela.
Hint: Encrypted in Lee and Laplace meaning something that Krishna and Radha play.

13 comments:

Neethu19 October 2008 at 17:39
hehe
Abhishek Behera19 October 2008 at 18:12
1. Aerosmith song: "I kept the right ones out, And let the wrong ones in ..."(7)

2. prefix, antonym of pre- (4)

Answers:
1. Amazing 2. Post
Leela19 October 2008 at 18:30
@Neethu
ah hunh

@Abhishek sim
1. First person to escape from a simile. (5)

:)
Abhishek Behera19 October 2008 at 19:28
@leela : lolz - I almost missed the answer. thanks to the colon and closing bracket.
Anonymous19 October 2008 at 22:48
It bodes well for me to have thyself as my teammate in crossie, me thinks...
Harish Suryanarayana20 October 2008 at 03:09
:) Me happy :)
Shravan20 October 2008 at 08:10
The four days were awesome and yea, the crossie fever was above the limit!! Me did a few crosswords as well!!

I see you're from IIT! did you attend the barcamp??
Shravan Vijayaprasad20 October 2008 at 08:16
The four days were awesome and yea, the crossie fever was above the limit!! Me did a few crosswords as well!!

I see you're from IIT! did you attend the barcamp??

P.S: I posted this again cos this is my new ID and that was my old one! To go to my profile,click on this one.. okay!!
Abhishek20 October 2008 at 16:47
Krishna and Radha play with Bruce Lee first and send Laplace where he should have gone early in the morning. (8)

any guesses? ;)
Leela20 October 2008 at 17:15
@Ityadis
Yo, man! You thinks the well.

@Harish
I was waiting for this comment. :)

@Shravan
Thanks. And yes, I am an IITian. No, unfortunately we have these things that go by the name of quizzes that are supposed to make sure you do nothing but mug for a week or so. And somebody decided to have the Barcamp just in the middle of it. :(

@Abhishek
You are gross. :P
Anonymous23 October 2008 at 23:30
I didn't know that i was directly responsible! Neither did I see the status :P

Nice clues, by the way!
Marlin Jar26 October 2008 at 09:04
Er, what was the occasion for the crossie fever to get so high?

Nice clues! Here's one for you:
Sets off the entryways to our college (10)
Leela3 November 2008 at 21:54
@Aniket
Yes, you were and thank you for that.
Thank you! Pity you didn't see though.

@n
Uninteresting classes vs interesting Hindi crosswords. Is there even a competition?
PS:I like your screen name. Less typing required.
Ah, lovely clue.