ACROSS
1 - Dress beau, hatless, in customary manner (8) - {HABIT}{(-d)UDE}
5 - Caught, terrorist’s leader is scratched and struck (6) - T(-r)APPED Should have been lightly struck.(Correction (-t)RAPPED - See Sandhya's comments)
9 - Being tense, adjusted for final settlement (5,2) - WOUND UP [DD]
10 - Exclusive circle where outsiders won’t be allowed (2-5) - IN-GROUP [CD] Never heard of this group before
11 - Steward army officer, mood being nasty (5-4) - {MAJOR}-{DOMO*}
12 - I go around the scholar — an insect, in fact (5) - {I}{MA}{GO} Watch the video in the link
13 - Fools with playthings (4) - TOYS [DD]
14 - King of kings in India (9) - MAHARAJAH [E]
17 - Emphatic agreement with a cartoonist’s work? (3,4,2) - YOU SAID IT [DD]
19 - Late announcement? (4) - OBIT [E]
23 - Don’t begin to dally with firearm (5) - (-t)RIFLE
24 - Burmese leader and more smarmy one discarded shoulder belt (9) - {B}{AND}{O(-i)LIER}
25 - Durable in residence? (7) - ABIDING [DD]
26 - Partially inspect rare images (7) - SPECTRA [T]
27 - Going back to silver dole-out (3-3) - {AG}{E-OLD*}
28 - Gang leader on street calls for supplies for strippers (1-7) - {G}-{ST}{RINGS}
DOWN
1 - Good watcher gets doctor the tailless insect of the Sphinx family (4,4) - {HAWK} {MO}{TH(-e)}
2 - Sad, stupid bird (4,3) - {BLUE}{JAY}
3 - Old English-Welsh rulers’ stud or shed (6) - TUDORS*
4 - Attaché case? (10,3) - DIPLOMATIC BAG [E]
6 - Discovered ANC gal in church (8) - ANGLICAN*
7 - Fairly shared in Rome? (3,4) - PRO RATA [E]
8 - Journalist put up plan to position the troops (6) - {DE<-}{PLOY}
10 - As a policy these nations don’t get entangled with others (13) - ISOLATIONISTS [E]
15 - It is not ordinary even on losing face (8) - ESPECIAL [CD]
16 - Battles among denizens of the tinsel town? (4,4) - STAR WARS [CD]
18 - Nothing following confused desi referee’s call (7) - {OFF}{SIDE*}
20 - There from the start, like some kitchen shelves (5-2) - BUILT-IN [DD]
21 - Force fit girl (6) - {ARM}{ADA}
22 - So pure, yet in a way affected person (6) - POSEUR*
GRID
Good morning Colonel,
ReplyDeleteI didn't mind the DDs too much, but found 1D's surface unsatisfactory and the indicator "discovered" (6D) insufficient.
28A and 22D work very well, I think.
Doesn't You Said It appear in The Times of India, a rival paper? Quite sporting of The Hindu to mention it (17A), it's probably the Christmas spirit at work!
Hi Shuchi,
ReplyDeleteYou Said It is too popular a Cartoon for anyone to have a bias about
5 ACROSS:
ReplyDeleteCould it be (-t)RAPPED?
Talking about the abovementioned pocket cartoon:
ReplyDeleteI still enjoy it but nowadays I am not really comfortable about it because I feel the popularity of the cartoon and the name behind it is being unnecessarily exploited.
The name is on top but there is no signature. Why? Because the drawing may not be by the person.
There was a rumour that the person was using his left hand. Is he still using it?
If you look carefully, the drawings have different characteristics on different days: some days it has vague similarities to the master's strokes but on other days it looks like a child's work.
Is the master giving the idea and others are drawing it?
Sometimes it is mentioned on top: From the archives - which means merely reproducing an old cartoon.
I have great respect for the Tamil writer Kalki and I have his works with me and certainly I would like to reread some of them. But I don't approve of the magazine by his name constantly reproducing his works. One work alone might have been serialised thrice in the magazine over the years.
I think great masters remain masters: no artificial boosting is needed to keep the name in circulation.
@Colonel: No question about the cartoon's popularity, but it is normal for papers to avoid what they interpret as promotion for a rival. Therefore my surprise.
ReplyDelete@CV: I haven't followed the cartoon closely but it's sad if that is the case.
@Sandhya,
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely right (-t)RAPPED it is