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Solution to Krypton 473

  Yesterday's clue:  Egg intake makes son skilled in cutting and stitching (7) Solution:    SURGEON  = URGE + SON Egg = Urge  Surgeons are skilled persons in cutting and stitching (not clothes)   Visit this page to see all the solutions received.
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Solution to Krypton 469

  Yesterday's clue: Crumpled rags for a buyer is  a jumper (11) Solution:    GRASSHOPPER =  GRAS + SHOPPER GRAS = anagram of rags  Shopper = buyer jumper = a jumping insect   Visit this page to see all the solutions received.
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Solution to Krypton 468

 Yesterday's clue: Hiding a sniper, man enters  into an irreversible state (9) Its solution: PERMANENT , hidden in the clue sniPER MAN ENTers permanent  is  irreversible Visit this page to see all the solutions received.
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Solution to Krypton 467

  Yesterday's clue: First, second number divisible by 2 is an odd number (5) Solution:    SEVEN = S + EVEN S = First  of  "S"econd even = number divisible by 2 Seven is an odd number  Chokkalingam's explanation (see the spreadsheet of submitted answers)  for why "PRIME" should be the answer for this puzzle is interesting points out an inside joke among number theorists.   I initially wrote the clue as First, second number divisible by 2 is a prime number (5) but decided against it not to make it sound too mathematical.   Visit this page to see all the solutions received.
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SOlution to Krypton 466

   Yesterday's clue: Peripheral but essential to get into a train  (8) Its solution: KEYBOARD = KEY + BOARD It is a peripheral device to a computer KEY = essential BOARD = enter a train Visit this page to see all the solutions received.
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திரிவெடி 46 விடைகள்

திரிவெடி 46 விடைகள் நேற்று திரிவெடியில் இடம் பெற்ற ஐந்து சொற்கள்: மணி, குழி, பலம்,  மேடு, காதம்    சேராத சொல் "மேடு". மற்றவற்றை இணைக்கும் திரி: அவையெல்லாம் அளக்கும் அலகைக் குறிக்கும் சொற்கள்.  மணி (60 நிமிடங்கள் கொண்ட) கால அளவையும், குழி 144 சதுர அடி கொண்ட நிலத்தின் பரப்பளவையும், காதம் சுமார் 17 கிலோமீட்டர் தூர அளவையும், பலம் ஏலக்காய் வாங்குமளவிற்கு சிறிய எடையளவையும் குறிக்கும். அது ஏன் ஏலக்காய்? மீனாக்ஷி அம்மாளின் சமைத்துப்பார் புத்தகத்தில் அக்காலத்திய எடையளவுகள் கொடுக்கப்படும். படித்துப்பாருங்கள்.   எனக்கு யூடியூப் பாடம் தான் சமையல் தெரிந்து கொள்ள என்பவர்கள் ரோசாப்பூ ரவிக்கைக்காரி (1979) என்ற  படத்தில் வரும் "வெத்தலை வெத்தலை வெத்தலையோ" பாடலைத் தேடிக் கேட்கவும். அதில் ஒரு பாட்டி, பாட்டின் நடுவே எஸ்பிபியிடம் ஆப்பத்துக்கு மூணு பலம் ஏலக்காய் வாங்கிவரச் சொல்வார்.   இப்புதிருக்கு விடையளித்தவர்கள் பட்டியலை இங்கே காணலாம்.   
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Solution to Krypton 462

   Yesterday's clue: Bill in public view after entering heart (6)    Its solution POSTER = POST + ER POST = (as a prefix) after ER = heart  of  ent ER ing Poster,  in American parlance is  Bill when posted/pasted in a public place. Visit this page to see all the solutions received. 
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Solution to Krypton 460

   Solution to Krypton 460  Yesterday's clue:   Politician got involved  later  with a member of a religious military order (7)   Its solution TEMPLAR = MP + LATER MP = politician Visit this page to see all the solutions received.  I remember when I first heard of the word templar, back in 1993. For having an unusual title I decided to buy  the novel The Name of the Rose (originally written in Italian) by Umberto Eco.  Having enjoyed that book -- superficially a murder mystery set in 14th century Italian monastery -- I bought his other book,  Foucault's Pendulum , This is where I read a lot of stuff about  Knights Templars who had fallen out of favour of the Kings and the Pope  after having been regarded high for two centuries. Both were unusual books -- fictional works from a philosopher and a scholar!
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Solution to Krypton 458

  Yesterday was Ramanujan's birthday and I perhaps forcibly  made a clue related to it, and it ended up with no one solving it.  For mathematicians limitless indentation around the outer margin (9)      Its solution: DIVERGENT = DINT + VERGE   DINT = indentation (made by a force), also dent VERGE = border DIVERGENT is used in contrast to CONVERGENT, and refers to an infinite  sequence (or series) of numbers that has no limit, that is,  it has shows no tendency to go towards any focus (as used in optics, convergent/divergent rays of light) So the sequence of fractions 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, ... is convergent and is tending towards the number 1 as its limit. But the infinite sequence 5,15,25,35,45, .... is divergent.  Easily one can see 1+2+3+4+... is  also divergent. But Ramanujan, as  the man who knew infinity , showed a weird way to see the sum is the negative number -1/12.    To read a fascinating biography ...
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Solution to Krypton 457

Yesterday's clue:  Cavalryman  of mightier  heart follows King  after heart exchange  (6)  Solution:  KNIGHT = KING + HT KNIG   = KING, with its heart N, I interchanged HT = mig HT ier Visit this page to see all the solutions received.
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