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:

  1. 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

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  2. @Neethu
    ah hunh

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

    :)

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  3. @leela : lolz - I almost missed the answer. thanks to the colon and closing bracket.

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  4. It bodes well for me to have thyself as my teammate in crossie, me thinks...

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  5. 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??

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  6. 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!!

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  7. Krishna and Radha play with Bruce Lee first and send Laplace where he should have gone early in the morning. (8)

    any guesses? ;)

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  8. @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

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  9. I didn't know that i was directly responsible! Neither did I see the status :P

    Nice clues, by the way!

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  10. 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)

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  11. @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.

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