1 - Kind person (4) - TYPE [DD]
3 - Playing Chopin, us in a small pad (10) - PINCUSHION*
10 - An opening for a listener in the east with a part to play around hospital (7) - {E}{A}{R{H}OLE}
11 - Article, a piece of tosh about playhouse (7) - {THE}{A}{T}{RE}
12 - Old man receiving an order that includes a cigar (9) - P{AN}{A}{TELL}A
13 - Finish off snapping tail of lobster, seafood (5) - K{R}ILL
14 - A confusing series of letters from boy reportedly assists Oxford publisher (8,4) - (~alf){ALPH}{ABET S}{OUP}
18 - Fern in ground seated poorly (6,6) - ADDERS TONGUE*
21 - Girl that might front band? (5) - ALICE [DD]
22 - Wine in inn poor - it must be changed (5,4) - PINOT NOIR*
24 - Business interest (7) - CONCERN [DD]
25 - Local girl, not quite insane, needs help (7) - {BARM(-y)}{AID}
26 - Don't mince words in republic following speech (4,6) - {TALK} {TURKEY}
27 - Filthy place close to lane, an eyesore (4) - {STY}{E}
DOWN
1 - Theatrical type, he's covered in applied paint (8) - T{HES}PIAN*
2 - Vegetables of equal value, bargains (8) - {PAR}{SNIPS}
4 - Model of one Kent resort (5) - {I}{DEAL}
5 - Lucas sets out swords (9) - CUTLASSES*
6 - Say something you shouldn't have said? Many times during reversal of policy after summit in Somalia (5,3,2,4) - {S}{PEAK} {OUT OF TURN} Anno for 'out of turn' not clear
7 - Slim and fit with trendy haircut (2,4) - {IN} {TRIM}
8 - Provoke pointer (6) - NEEDLE [DD]
9 - Material for building modern plant etc (8,6) - PORTLAND CEMENT*
15 - Watch batsman, perhaps, in wonder (3-6) - {EYE}-{OPENER}
16 - Lacking knowledge, ranting stupidly about love (8) - IGN{O}RANT*
17 - Envy bum on Dickens character (8) - {BEG}{RUDGE}
19 - Maiden on racecourse - good luck charm required (6) - {M}{ASCOT}
20 - Conspicuous beacon (6) - SIGNAL [DD]
23 - Aristocratic head, the Parisian (5) – {NOB}{LE}
GRID
Many times - OFT
ReplyDeleteduring - inserticator
reversal of policy - U-TURN
after - position ind
summit - PEAK
in - connector
Somalia - SO
S(PEAK)O U-T(OF T)URN
Thanks Chaturvasi,
ReplyDeleteI did get U-TURN but didn't have OFT as such I was foxed
You should have read poetry, Deepak.
ReplyDeleteFor oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or pensive mood,
They flash upon my inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude.
Quoted from memory. "My" could be "that". Need to check.
6D - an awesome clue...
ReplyDeleteKudos to the setter for such a neat construction for a long phrase, good surface reading and nice wordplay...
...and kudos to C-vasi sir for decoding it.
Good morning everyone
ReplyDeleteThanks, Chaturvasi, for bringing back the memories of my student days. Wordsworth has always been my favourite poet. 'Daffodils' is a fantastic poem.
Wordsworth has left behind some classic set of words to be remembered till eternity. 'Bliss of solitude', 'Child is the father of man', 'To be young was very heaven' and scores others. WORDS that are really WORTH.
'They flash upon that inward eye' is the correct form.
Richard
Amendments:
ReplyDeleteRead as 'sets of words' and 'scores of others' in para 2.
Richard
CVasi is right. The second 'my' should be 'that'
ReplyDeleteThese lines are from The Daffodils by Wordsworth:
"For oft when on my coach I lie
In vacant or pensive mood
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude"
The story behind the germination of the composition of the poem is interesting. During his visit to Gowbarrow Park, he saw a few daffodils close to the water-side beyond the Park. Enamoured, he went along and saw more and more daffodils. The sight of the daffodils was a real feast to his eyes. Wordsworth used to be "meditative and susceptible to scenic beauties" and this was beyond him to forget. This incident is chronicled by Dorothy Wordsworth in her Grasmere Journal for April 15, 1802.
Poetry was something I dreaded in school,try as I might I just could not remember the lines. Hats (I wear only one though) off to those who can quote verse from memory.
ReplyDeleteNow that you'll have quoted Daffodils I remember reading it in school!
ReplyDeleteDaffodils poem was a regular feature in school English syllabus. If it is daffodils for Wordsworth it is bougainvilla for me- a feast to the eyes giving all the beneficial effects of a yoga or meditation session!!! The double-coloured(pink and white) creeper that trails to the open terrace on the 2nd floor spreading, twining its floral arms all the way up, on the parapet of the balcony of the 1st floor is an eye-catcher for a long radius of the environs tempting even professional photographers to capture the splendour in their CD's. It must be added that it has its detractors too like the lonely next door lady who is waging a war with me pressurising me to cut away my darling plant( known as the the king of the garden)since it is littering her doorsteps and porch and a nuisance it is to clean the area of the gentle, delicate flowers that float ever so elegantly like wingless butterflies!
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Could'n't get 14Ac ALPHABETS SOUP. Rest was easy
ReplyDelete3 - Playing Chopin, us in a small pad (10) - PINCUSHION*
ReplyDeleteJust had a question, mostly for my own knowledge, as obviously the anno. is perfect. I just wanted to know the train of thought that led to choosing "small pad" as the def. - I understand the anno. as given.
I ask, because this was a clue that I had all the possible crossings for, but left it unsolved because I was going after the def, "Playing Chopin" with "us" in a synonym of "small pad". Not knowing much of Chopin, I could not come up with the solution. Obviously, I was fooled by the reading, but I was wondering how the ones that successfully saw through the camouflage thought through the clue. Or, the moment one saw the clue, the correct cryptic reading suggested itself, in which case, too bad for me. Thank you.
@veer,
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have got misled by the comma.
Mrs PP a regular visitor here has started a blog of her musings, visit at http://www.ppavalamani.blogspot.com/
ReplyDelete3 - Playing Chopin, us in a small pad (10)
ReplyDeleteI don't think I'd have gotten it without the crossings.
veer, who is today's setter?
ReplyDelete@vck,
ReplyDeleteThis is not by an indian setter, the Sunday CW is syndicated from the Everyman CW of The Guardian in UK
thanks colonelji, i thought so. the style is strikingly different with seamless surface reading. thanks!
ReplyDeletewhy aren't the blogs updating realtime? why do i have to press the refresh button each time? any solutions?
ReplyDelete21 - Girl that might front band? (5)
ReplyDeleteI got this one but never knew there was something like Alice bands. The link helped. I thought the band the author was referring to was Alice in Chains.
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ReplyDeleteProbably you have added the URL for a particular day's post to your Favourites.
ReplyDeleteTry this:
http://thehinducrosswordcorner.blogspot.com
And add this to your Favourites.
Then each day you will get the latest post.
Written in good faith as we often don't know what is really happening where.
chaturji, is that for my query?
ReplyDeleteYes.
ReplyDeleteWhat I was trying to say was if put something like
http://thehinducrosswordcorner.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-2575-sunday-07-mar-10.html#comments
in the address field (say, from your Favourites) you will each day be led to the same psot and you will have to click on the header and refresh to get the latest post.
On the other hand if you have this in your Favourites
http://thehinducrosswordcorner.blogspot.com
and use it you will get the lastest post.
I hope I understood your question and am answering it.
But as I said you never know! Living and learning!
chaturji, i guess i was not clear in my phrasing. what i meant was the blogs do not get updated as they appear, on a realtime basis like in chatting. supposing i type a query, the response does not appear as soon as the blogger, whoever, types the response. i have to press the refresh button for that.
ReplyDeletei guess probably that is the basic difference between blogging and chatting. i am not a computer person, my field is diametrically opposite to it. probably some of the computer guys may be able to answer that.
ReplyDeleteNow your question is clear.
ReplyDeleteThis is not like Google chat or something where one or more may be online and as each of them type something it instantly apepars on the screen.
Here someone logs in and posts a comment. It gets posted.
Another does likewise.
Anyone has to visit the page to see the comments that have aggregated.
Yes, even if you are on this page the Comment won't appear automatically.
Refresh is needed to see any new Comment.
Excuse me if all of this is now redundant as I might be telling you what you know alreasy.
thanks chaturji. i suspected that may be the case. anyway please forgive me if my query was too naive and infantile at this level. as i told i am not a computer person.
ReplyDelete@vck, I wonder if there is a way to make your browser do what you want. Maybe a computer whiz-kid will know
ReplyDelete@suresh, i guess the simpler solution would be make it a chat session. feasible?!
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