1 - In company, male, very emotional, is inclined to pity (13) - {CO}{M}{PASSIONATE}
10 - Sweet smell of a grain in the land of perfumes (9) - {FR{A}{GR}ANCE}
11 - Seductive women against accepting current measure (5) - {V}{AMPS}
12 - Flier lacking top growth in America? (5) - EAGLE [CD] And you thought they were bald? Bald means white!
14 - Become fashionable, go to bed (4,2) - {TURN} {IN}
16 - Semiprecious stone is a barrier (5) - {A}{GATE}
20 - Very large number starting descent into port (6) - {OS}{TEN}{D}
25 - Fliers use it to make a change about duration (9) - {AL{TIME}TER}
27 - Cause of trouble — a soprano in treatment (5) - {CUR{S}E}
28 - He introduces new ideas when, in the hostelry, eggs rot somehow (9) - {INN}{OVA}{TOR}
2 - In the outskirts of Ooty, forest official finds a greenhouse (8) - {O
3 - It holds rupees perhaps, with a bit taken off (5) - PURSE
4 - Browning on exposure to big star (6) - SUNTAN [CD] With due respects to all the ladies here
6 - The worth of stock that one computer magnate manages to sail with (9) - {NAV}{I}{GATES}
7 - Entices casual worker with hollow truths (6) - {TEMP}{T
8 - There has to be a cause for it (6) - EFFECT [CD]
9 - Take over by force when you surprise one inside (5) - USURP [T]
15 - Trendy as well as corrupt, he holds the post (9) - {IN}{CUM}{BENT}
17 - Wielding the willow, getting in fifty and fighting (8) - {BATT{L}ING}
18 - Notes about ten different reminders of the past (8) - {MEM{ENT*}OS}
21 - “If your morals make you __, depend on it, they are wrong” (R.L.Stevenson (6) - DREARY [E]
22 - Music of the month (5) - MARCH [DD]
23 - In which one hears more than one speaker (6) - STEREO [CD]
24 - Aiming at peace can inspire niceness to an extent (6) - IRENIC [T] New word for me
26 - Light entertainment is always backed around university (5) - {REV{U}E<-}
Good morning folks
ReplyDeleteSankalak does it again. Yet another nice offering.
COMPASSIONATE, FRAGRANCE, VAMPS, EAGLE, ALLIGATOR, TURN IN, AGATE, SCRAG, OSTEND, ALTIMETER, REEVE, CURSE, INNOVATOR, COTTAGE CHEESE, ORANGERY, PURSE (cute one), SUNTAN, IDEOLOGY, NAVIGATES (Bill should be pleased!), TEMPTS, EFFECT, USURP, INCUMBENT, BATTLING, MEMENTOS, DREARY, MARCH, STEREO, IRENIC (just the other day we had IRENA), REVUE - of course, some of them were sheer giveaways.
Alas, the pleasure is short-lived, in view of the impending... (Fill up the blanks, based on your own views.)
INNOVATOR and ALLIGATOR. NAVIGATES with an ALTIMETER and COMPASS-IONATE.
ReplyDeleteSCRA<-G was nice. It is ironic we know ironic better than IRENIC.
See you later, Alligator,
After a while, Crocodile.
Richard, your last line is inspiring: KONA NJE?
ReplyDeleteCartoon for 4D...hmmm...
ReplyDeleteGreat cartoons as usual. Particularly the one for Innovator.
ReplyDeleteI struggled with the anno for Altimeter, thinking it was an E clue and cracked it only at the end.
Nice clues....
ReplyDeleteSee you later, alligator is a nice 50s song.
19A is a bit confusing. ARCS and G don't appear in the same order. Thought "bends back" was the clue for SCRA.
4D - worded nicely...
Solved most of the clues by reading just one part of the clue. With Sankalak it often works.
Richard,
ReplyDeleteI couldn't resist putting that one in
VJ,
ReplyDeleteUnhealthily thin creature = Definition
a bit glum = G
bends = ARCS
back = Reversal indicator for G ARCS so SCRA G
Deepak, regarding 'that' one, it reminds me of an old lady who shot herself in the knee, trying to commit suicide... Leave it to your imagination...
ReplyDeleteThanks Deepak.
ReplyDeleteThis always happens to me with reversals.
Kishore (840).... LOL, that was hilarious
ReplyDeleteRead somewhere on the Net:
ReplyDelete"My breasts were once firm as two peaches,
And now they tuck into my breeches.
I'm happy," she sighs,
"It's my baggier eyes
That cause horrified looks on nude beaches."
Col,
ReplyDelete11 - Seductive women against accepting current measure (5) - {V}{AMPS}
Anno needs correction. It should be
against VS (for versus)
accepting - inclusion indicator
current measure - AMP
Defn: seductive women - {V(AMP)S}
26 - Old official seen here before evening (5) - {RE}{EVE}
ReplyDelete@Colonel: to nitpick, this is a [T]
Venkatesh,
ReplyDeleteBoth are correct V is also accepted for against
Deepak. Venkatesh has a point on VAMPS. The use of the word 'accepting' in the clue would support Venkatesh's anno., even though 'v' is acceptable as an abbr. for against.
ReplyDeleteBut it is a minor issue
My view is that since v. and vs. are both pucca abbrs. for 'versus' and since 'accepting' can be taken as an instruction for adding charade component as well as for insertion, both the annos - that given by Deepak and that sugegsted by V, are perfect.
ReplyDeleteAlso, from 'current measure' we can get AMP as well as AMPS.
ReplyDeleteSo there is no prob. with either anno.
C'vasi 09:02
ReplyDeleteDid we hear a female voice saying "Boys do not grow up"?
Richard: That applies to girls too .... They too grow down, not up. This has already been discussed earlier today.
ReplyDeleteRegarding, boys with similar problems, I recall a Tamil ditty which I heard many years back. I will drop the operative word. The cognoscenti will understand.
Taata-ka -------du,
PaaTi-ku teriyerdu.
for 26 too, both annos look fine.
ReplyDeletePresence felt in spite of absence!!!lol!
ReplyDeleteHi all
ReplyDeleteNice one. But i am stumped on scrag and momentos. I thought it spelt MOMENTOES. In cottage cheese where is the fourth "e"
Good day
Mathu.
Mathu,
ReplyDeletechurch = CE
So, the anagram fodder see the church cat go = SEE THE CE CAT GO. The anagram of this is COTTAGE CHEESE
crazy - anagram indicator
Mathu,
ReplyDeleteScrag has been explained in my 8:38 post and VJ has given you the source of the 'e'.
Thanks colonel and VJ
ReplyDeleteGot it.
Mathu.
In Tamil we have kazhugu, parundhu, vallooru, garudan - can anybody match eagle, kite, vulture or anyother words for them?
ReplyDeleteThe picture example for Eagle seems to be garudan - am I right? This only made me to raise the above query.
ReplyDeleteSubramaniam: These words are not synonyms but seem to stand for different species within the same overall class of birds. Given that the same species do not exist in common between (say) Tamilnadu and England, it may be hard to find exact equivalents. I have all this from a friend of mine who's a near professional bird watcher.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of words, you have kazhugu (griffin vulture), parundhu (common kite), valluru (royal falcon), garudan (strictly a mythical bird - described as a white headed kite), rajaali (same as valluru), naraiyan (white headed kite), eruvai (another kind of kite).In addition there are also some kites which have brown crest but white or whitish plumage.
During my college days, there was this very fair girl with a receding hairline. She was nicknamed 'garudan' - extremely rude of course - but I never figured out why that name was chosen until I saw the picture of a garudan.
Hope this helps,
LNS
LNS, that was very informative. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWas just going through some of the wikipedia pages. Kites and vultures seem pretty impressive. Awesome wings they got, especially kites.
It's pretty difficult to identify these birds in reality 'cause we rarely get to see 'em in close range (and well, thank god for that). Nonetheless it's great to watch 'em all fly, any bird for that matter.
LOL at that nick name. I thought it was mild. Hope she didn't take offense. Anywayz, I like the bald look. It looks nice on some women. Watched one movie yesterday where Natalie Portman was bald (totally). She looked really nice.
LNS
ReplyDeleteYou have called Garuda a "strictly mythical bird". The bird exists. It is called The Brahmini Kite (Haliastur indus), also known as the Red-backed Sea-eagle. In Tamil Nadu, it is called the Krishnar Parundu/Kazhugu. The Brahminy Kite is the official mascot of Jakarta.
You can find a photo of the Brahmini Kite at
http://rprabhu.blogspot.com/2006/05/glorious-garuda.html
and at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahminy_Kite
I second Richard's 08:30 comment. Sankalak is probably ideal for neophytes -- and unlike Gridman he doesn't fill it up with acronyms/*; there is a nice mix of clue types.
ReplyDeleteToday, in fact, I left my house a little after the paper was delivered and I didn't open the crossword page until the evening. I solved most of the clues in the time that most of you take to solve everyday. (Incidentally, Colonel, IRENIC was new for me too, along the NEUVE and REEVE.) Still, I couldn't complete them all.
I'm be leaving the Land of The Hindu for a couple of days and will likely miss the next two offerings.
Venkatesh: you may be right. I'm not much of a bird watcher. However here's the deal. There's no bird which matches the description or representation of Vishnu's vahana.
ReplyDeleteOne could of course say that the Brahminy kite is a contemporary representation of the Garuda. Is it the original Garuda? The Brahminy kite is too small for the achievements attributed to the Garuda. Of course other than carrying Vishnu, in one play it even carries a young boy over a great distance. Of course there the garuda is called by one of its synonyms, 'vainateya'.
Even in the blogspot link you sent, the garuda is refered to as செந்தலை meaning red crested, whereas garuda's are generally white crested. There's quite a bit of confusion with regard to the exact features meant by a single name.
In traditional art and literature, there's not a single representation or description of the garuda as a pure bird. It is always rendered with a human face and a human body or with a near human face with a bird's body.
Next time, you go to the temple, take a look at any garudavahanam. It is a human being with human hands etc wearing dhoti etc .
It may not be mythical - it could have existed at one time. I didn't mean to offend your feelings. But we don't know which type of kite or eagle it resembled the most.
Re: bird names, I'd always that raajaLi was vulture and kazhugu eagle.
ReplyDeleteAfter frivolous posts on suntan (or the absence of it!), we have serious discussion on birds. Very interesting!
ReplyDeleteI wonder whether there is any confusion between 'garuda' and 'garuda bhagavaan'.
Leaving it aside, an old friend of mine once took me to a private temple in Pallikaranai. There he told me that for some years the temple was not attracting many visitors. My friend advised the trustees that in any Perumal temple there must be 'garuda bhavagaan' and he being also an artist painted a large picture of Him and presented it to the temple. Once hung on the wall opposite the deity, the temple has become popular, I am told.
I always thought eagle was 'Kazhugu' in Tamil. I have come across expressions like 'Kazhugu paarvai' to denote good eyesight.
ReplyDeleteWe can add 'kazhugukku mookula viartharpol' vanthuttan - unexpected visitor on time
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the info