ACROSS
1 - Boy with right to carry eggs to water boiler (7) - {SAM}{OVA}{R}
9 - Tissue under control, like the biceps say (9,6) - VOLUNTARY MUSCLE [CD]
10 - Public disapproval heard when a bowler makes an appeal? (6) - {OUT}{CRY}
11 - Very fond of embassy official and daughter (8) - {ATTACHE}{D}
13 - I'd burn copper to become rosy in complexion (8) - RUBI(CU)ND*
15 - Author — one for a leisurely stroll? (6) - AMBLER [DD]
18 - Little William meets alien in lodging (6) - {BILL}{ET}
19 - Support a revolutionary with lumbago (8) - {BACK}{A}{CHE}
24 - A beggar may not be able to do so (6) - CHOOSE [CD]
27 - What one may do when inflation hits — let bones get thin somehow (7,4,4) - TIGHTEN ONE'S BELT*
29 - Not a setting for indoor games! (4,3) - OPEN AIR [CD]
DOWN
1 - Taste that traps one redeemer (7) - {SAV{I}OUR}
2 - Deceive a male cult somehow (5) - {M}{ULCT*} New word for me
3 - In a vital organ it is a throbbing, live centre, almost (9) - VENTRICLE
4 - Wander in a European capital, say (4) - ROAM (~rome)
5 - Company (English) accepts a returned toy wolf (6) - {CO}{YOT<-}{E} I loved these cartoons
7 - A slave of Bacchus? (9) - ALCOHOLIC [CD]
8 - Not a pinchpenny he (7) - SPENDER [E]
12, 17 - The kind of ticket when no return is expected (3-3) - ONE-WAY [E]
14 - Entertainment not popular with bovine creatures? (9) - BULLFIGHT [CD]
16 - What one had better do when the sky is not overcast (4,5) - MAKE HASTE [CD]
17 See 12
18 - Lend support to lobster cocktail (7) - BOLSTER*
20 - One in great demand every five years? (7) - ELECTOR [CD] Especially in India!!
23 - Wash the creature hot with energy (5) - {BAT}{H}{E}
25 - Theatre work on time (5) - {OP}{ERA}
26 - Invalidate one leaving international industrial body (4) - UN
Hi
ReplyDeleteThe revolutionary from 19a is also hiding in the answer for 11a. And not only is 15a an author as described, so is 8d. Two waistline reduction methods, both 15 letters each: strengthen VOLUNTARY MUSCLE or TIGHTEN ONES BELT. COLLARS was the last to fall.
CV, entirely agree with your views in your letter to Ed. What did the Forest Department expect from him: Plead with, cajole or advise the leopard ? And what if instead of a leopard it was a terrorist with a gun at his hostage’s head. Would the soldier/policeman shooting the terrorist be prosecuted ? Strange behaviour. The way our governments behave reminds me of a tale of a visitor to a snowbound town finding to his chagrin that the ferocious dogs are loose and stones are tied down.
28 - Rodent catchers find a new treat in empty rooms (7) - {Ro{ATTER*}omS} Never knew there was such a word
ReplyDeleteAs linked by you, the word exists. Probably MOUSER is better known.
2 - Deceive a male cult somehow (5) - {M}{ULCT*} New word for me
Well known to the topiwala in the 20d cartoon.
Liked the Wile-e Coyote. Remember most contraptions ordered by mail order were from Acme....
I have restored the reactions feature, so be honest and submit your reactions to the CW once only, remember the reactions are on the standard of the CW for the day.
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ReplyDeleteJust back from the temple. Thai is born and my every-day-morning work during Margazhi has ended.
Thanks for your comment after reading my letter to the Editor of The Hindu that was published this morning.
I have made no collection of the clippings.
Not every letter gets into print (I don't know who selects and on what basis), but I write when I feel strongly about something and not as some senior citizens do regularly and routinely about staples in food packets, absence of zebra crossing at a road junction near their apartment building, need for speedbreakers near their grandchild's school, pasting of posters on their compound wall, date stamps on letters being illegible (you can add any similar topic!).
I have been writing letters from my school/college days.
You know, sometime in the late 1960s, when I was in college, I wrote a letter in The Hindu saying "I do not agree with Mr. C.A.C. Muruguppan..." This gentleman's letters appear to this day and I wish I could meet him (he lives in Kothamangalam).
Though I must have agreed or disagreed with several people, I remember only a couple of names. One is Murugappan; another is Jinni Chari (with whom I joined issue when he coined the word 'scooticide' in a letter in The Mail).
Last evening I went to hear Cho's annual speech: Imagine those people attending music concerts sitting in chairs inside now squatting on the cement floor of the compound looking at the LCD screen. Such was the crowd!
Another good one from Sankalak. Not necessarily as exciting as some of his previous ones, but still good. Missed COLLARS and LAURA...
ReplyDeleteNo time... Have to visit relatives for Pongal. :)
@ Col: Nice toons again. :) Didn't quite get the humour in the bull-fighting one... unless they were implying that in today's age, even the bulls are watching the replays??
ReplyDeleteAnd I think the reactions widget is a good idea. It's nothing official or anything, and we are a pretty mature bunch here. So it might help people gauge the "niceness" of a CW ... especially if one finds a particular puzzle or setter to be easy or hard and the general community differs in their opinion....
Thanks!
I second Hari about the reactions.
ReplyDeleteThe Samovar picture reminded of the traditional water boiler which was ubiquitous in Tamil Nadu, in the bathroom in olden days as also in the tea-kaDe. These used exactly the same principle as a samovar, a central heating tube filled with burning coal/charcoal surrounded by a water container. The tea shops had a sock like netted contraption which probably had not been washed for generations...
ReplyDeleteCV, my father's elder brother writes in letters almost every day (mainly to Indian Express) and has a humongous collection of clippings which were also published by his family as a collection.
ReplyDeleteThis is the type of boiler referred to in 1107
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Happy Pongal and Makara Sankranti. Gruesome stampede near Sabarimala temple makes one sad. Will our authorities never learn their lessons ?
ReplyDelete16 Down - I do not consider this, as a proper clue!
ReplyDeleteMake hay would be more like it.I was searching for a 3 letter slot.
ReplyDeleteCol.,Pink slip cartoon was the best!!Col. would probably get more appreciation for his cartoons if there is a comments column for that!
Col.,
ReplyDeleteNo papers tomorrow.How about organising a spl. crossword pr posting from somewher?
Typo-read'or'in place of'pr'
ReplyDeleteKishore @ 11:37,
ReplyDeleteYes I remember that water boiler, we had one when I was studying in school in Wellington in the 60's. We used wood in the central tube.
No CW tomorrow but we shall have a discussion on some changes/innovations for this blog. Bhavan has sent in some of his ideas which I shall post in place of the CW and we could discuss out the same plus other ideas which may come up.
ReplyDeleteHi folks,
ReplyDeleteA week end question:
I am flying a small plane and apporaching runway 27 for a landing.However, before I reach the point of no return (the point where I have to land and cannot abort the landing), I am instructed by ATC to go round and come back for another approach due to some intruder on the runway. As I increase my power, what is the last number I see, from my perspective at the end of the runway, and what does it signify?
Have a great weekend !
Above inspired by Top Gun, going on right now on TV which incidentally had one of the early appearances of Meg Ryan, and probably rates as an all time favourite.
ReplyDeleteI had quoted from the song Danger Zone from this movie around Christmas :-)
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ReplyDeleteYou'll see a 9, upside-down. The heading of the runway in the opposite direction.
ReplyDeleteMake that an upside-down mirror image.
ReplyDeleteBoiler! Of course, I remember.
ReplyDeleteWell, some used charcoal and pieces of what is called 'varatti' in Tamil - sun-dried discs made by patting cowdung and hay together.
Well, the bathroom itself (only one) was in the rearmost verandah of the palatial house built in the 1920s. As for the 'latrines' they were set apart in a corner of the backyard. But even as a young boy growing up in Madras, I had the luxury of underground sewerage - which was yet to come even in posh areas such as R. S. Puram in CBE.
And these facilities I had after having enjoyed multiple washrooms (some attached, some semi-attached) in IAF quarters in Jalahalli and Begumpet.
Yet we children 'adjusted' and we were happy whatever came in our way. Not a word of complaint.
Before the boiler it was a whole 'hande' encased in a cement structure with hole at the bottom for fire. I have ordered firewood by a measure called 'gundu'. The 'viragu thottis' as we knew with the huge scale have all disappeared.
PS: Is my use of 'scale' OK? Should it have been 'scales'. Comments welcome.
Navaneeth, you have given a partially correct answer...
ReplyDeleteYour answer indicates you would see a 6 (inverted 9). This is incorrect. And what does it mean is also pending...
Should we restrict ourselves to Hindu(-Arabic, to be PC) numerals?
ReplyDeleteCV, You are right.I think it should be 'scales'or balance.It would always be kept with one weight in one of the pans making it touch the ground,when not in use.The same 'veragu thoddis'used to sell charcoal also.I also remember to have seen charcoal coming in wooden kegs/barrels with a bulge at the centre.Yes,those days there were no attached toilets,only detatched.Also,with those boilers it was the duty of the person using hot water to manually fill it at the top with cold water.
ReplyDeleteCV
ReplyDelete..we were happy whatever came in our way
shouldn't it be 'whatever came our way' which means whatever was our lot?
These posts are written instantly and though we do take care, some slips might happen.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of 'scale', after some more couple of words I wondered about it without revising it.
Scale is marked (usu. in plural, treated as sing. by Shakespeare)
As for the expression "we were happy whatever came in our way". Yes, the usual expression is "whatever came our way". But I am not talking of positive things, I am talking of inconveniences, discomforts, hindrances, etc., so I wrote (unconsciously) '...in our way." I think it's permissible.
After all, language is what we use when we know what we are writing!
Navneeth: WYSIWYG
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