Sankalak is back and he allows you plenty of time to do your other morning chores.
ACROSS
1 - Keeping a check on population growth at the home front! (6,8) - FAMILY PLANNING [CD]
8 - Charge that supporter is steeped in drink (6) - AL{LEG}E
9 - The kind of state in which ignorance may place one (8) - BLISSFUL [CD] 'Ignorance is Bliss'
11 - Janitor may shoot again in transport (9) - CA{RETAKE}R
12 - Garment worn by some Tumkur Tamils (5) - KURTA [T]
13 - Radical reorganisation by an Arab chief, reportedly out of bed (5,2) - SHAKE(~sheik) UP
15 - Chemical, metallic element, returned with ceremony (7) - NIT<-{RITE}
17 - Fashionable girl’s object — to come into property (7) - {IN}{HER}{IT}
19 - He fights to manage red soil (7) - SOLDIER*
21 - Ground for painting in the outskirts of Edinburgh (5) - E{ART}H
23 - Oh, a refund for breakage? Inconceivable! (7-2) - UNHEARD OF*
25 - The cause of many mishaps on top of a burden (8) - {OVER}LOAD
26 - Primate and soldier, g’good French author of a great decline and fall (6) - {GI}B{BON} What type of clue is this called. It has a charade, it has a Double definition as well
27 - A hint of what is to come makes twins wither and suffer (5,2,3,4) - STRAW IN THE WIND*
DOWN
1 - Name made famous by Assisi (7) - FRANCIS [CD]
2 - Personal grinder (5) - MOLAR [CD]
3 - A long, long distance to travel — in easy time (5,4) - LIGHT YEAR [DD]
4 - Part in an aircraft, a real one, no fake (7) - A{I}LERON*
5 - A place where money is made (5) - NASIK [CD]
6 - Queen who ordered nitrite mixture containing iron (9) - NE{FE}RTITI*
7 - Begin courting with permission, cling on (6) - {C}LEAVE Was not aware that cleave had this meaning also
10 - Move on snow softly or miss out on it (4) - SKI{P}
14 - Bather Ron turns loathsome (9) - ABHORRENT*
16 - Chatty story about little Katherine, four (9) - TAL{KAT}{IV}E
17 - Vintage refrigerator (6) - ICEBOX [CD]
18 - Giant wave, it went up around chap, American (7) - T{SU}{NAM}I <- )
19 - It’s so hot here in a part of London (4) - SOHO [T]
20 - Genteel and cultivated but penalised again? (7) - {RE}FINED
22 - Indian sweet for which Henry was docked (5) - {HAL}{WA}(-s) Have any of you tried the Banana Halwa from Calicut (now Kozhikode) it's really Yummy, so also the Muscoth Halwa from Tirunelveli
24 - State which you may dub the best (5) - DUB{AI}
'Cleave' is one of a bunch of words that have two meanings that are diametrically opposite.
ReplyDeleteI must look up one or the other of books on words in my library (e.g., "The Joy of Lex") for me to give the term for this type of words and other examples.
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ReplyDeleteAs for memories kindled by the term 'halwa'.
ReplyDeleteBack to 1958 when I was a student of Mani High School in Coimbatore. I was staying with my uncle and grandfather while my parents were in Durgapur, WB, where there were no schools at all at that time when the steel plant was coming up and forests were cleared before my very eyes for quarters to be built.
After the school closed for the day I would walk to the municipal hospital nearby, where my uncle (different from the one above), a retired Army Capt. (having been in service during the war) was the chief doctor.
This doctor in those days was probably the only person in our extended family who owned a car - a black Plymouth.
The good doctor, myself, the compounder, the attender - everyone would get into the car and the doctor's chauffeur would drive to Seetharama Vilas on the Railway Station Road.
On any day we go to the hotel the munificent doctor would order badam halwa and other dishes for all of us and pick up the bill at the end.
The halwa had a heavenly taste.
The dish that I eat now very rarely cannot be a match to it.
With grateful memories of Capt. C. K. Sreenivasan, who was a very popular and successful doctor known to everybody as teh Captain.
Hi Murthy,
ReplyDeleteVisit the site at the link shown below, it is managed by Shuchi who is a keen CW solver. She has given a lot of tips there with regards to solving crosswords.
http://www.crosswordunclued.com/
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ReplyDeleteCol Sir,
ReplyDeleteI am a beginer in solving xwords. i regularly do THC and by 5pm i visit your blog aswellas the orkut community for the unsolved clues.
Sir, can you explain how you got 22 dn.
does henry means hal? and docked means you need to cut the last letter?
Await your enlightning reply
Hi Bluerains,
ReplyDeleteAs regards Hal it is a variant of the name Henry, if you check it on the internet you will find it.
One of the meanings of Dock is deduct, that is how 's' is deducted from was. You may have heard cricket commentators say that 'the team was docked one over for a slow over rate'
Hal is what is called a diminutive of Henry.
ReplyDeleteLike Visu for Viswanathan, say.
Like Pachcha for Parthasarathy, where '-chcha' is not part of the longer name at all but merely changed to be easy on the tongue.
Our knowledge of these English diminutives comes from reading literature or popular novels.
But without that long-drawn process, one may turn to the back of The Chambers Dictionary for a list of names and their popular forms.
Pet owners often 'dock' the tails of their dogs.
ReplyDeleteAny idea why this is done?
Thank you Col sir and Vasi sir.
ReplyDeletereg tail docking
pls see http:/www.britfeld.com/tail-dock/facts.htm
or http:/www,cdb.org/case4dock.htm
i got it from google.