ACROSS
1 - Charm listener after finish (6) - {END}{EAR}
5 - Plays around Madras (6) - DRAMAS*
8 - Birds in Florida and China are very large (9) - {FLA}{MING}{OS}
1 - Charm listener after finish (6) - {END}{EAR}
5 - Plays around Madras (6) - DRAMAS*
8 - Birds in Florida and China are very large (9) - {FLA}{MING}{OS}
9 - Taste is a bit unusual for the woman without the vitamin at lunchtime (5) - {U}??M? (Addendum - {U}{MA(-a}M}{I} - New word for me. See comments)
10 - These maybe the gatherings to mark an event! (7) - SOCIALS [CD]
12 - Empty out the griddle in the city (6) - {O(-u)T){TAWA} TAWA or TAVA is a griddle in India
14 - Poet is against even to be under protection (5) - AE{G}{I}{S} Anno pending (Addendum -{AE}{G}{I}{S} )
16 - Band is in silence when inside (4) - S{AS}H How did IS become AS (Correction AS is from WHEN)
19 - Want the boy to eat the vitamin (4) - NE{E}D
20 - Method of cutting the hard ring out of the overhanging pieces (9) - ENGRAVING(-h-o)*
21 - Animal driving the market upwards (4) - BULL [E]
22 - Anyhow save the birds (4) - AVES*
25 - I initially run after the man turning back at a low point (5) - {NAD<-}{I}{R}
10 - These maybe the gatherings to mark an event! (7) - SOCIALS [CD]
12 - Empty out the griddle in the city (6) - {O(-u)T){TAWA} TAWA or TAVA is a griddle in India
14 - Poet is against even to be under protection (5) - AE{G}{I}{S} Anno pending (Addendum -{AE}{G}{I}{S} )
16 - Band is in silence when inside (4) - S{AS}H How did IS become AS (Correction AS is from WHEN)
19 - Want the boy to eat the vitamin (4) - NE{E}D
20 - Method of cutting the hard ring out of the overhanging pieces (9) - ENGRAVING(-h-o)*
21 - Animal driving the market upwards (4) - BULL [E]
22 - Anyhow save the birds (4) - AVES*
25 - I initially run after the man turning back at a low point (5) - {NAD<-}{I}{R}
27 - Mostly the boy is in a grand large gathering (6) - {TH(-e)}{RON}{G}
29 - Many distraught by a rebellious animal in the country (7) - {MYAN*}{MAR-} )
32 - Mistake the burial chamber to have a note in place of a sign (5) - (-v+f)FAULT
33 - Improving the limitless kind of rejoicing after a regular change in the wrong direction (9) - ENHANCING Anno pending (Addendum - {E}{N}{H}<-{(-d)ANCING} )
34 - Strong guide sold herb to be distributed (3-10) - BIG-SHOULDERED*
DOWN
2 - Subtleties unidentified before hundreds guarding the front entrance (7) - NUANCES Anno pending
3 - Noise in each city (5) - E{DIN}A
4 - Rough-textured grouse is disturbed (6) - RUGOSE*
5 - Particles from the French street (4) - {DU}{ST} Today THE in Frenchis DU for NJ
6 - Age category in a disco initially for you has been left out at last (5) - {A}{D}{U}{L}{T}
7 - Were homes designed at an unknown location? (9) - SOMEWHERE*
8 - They may get clenched in anger (5) - FISTS [E]
11 - Wooden frame on an insulating material (7) - LAGGING [DD]
12 - Guard nothing on the way mostly in the fringes of a rally (7) - {O}{ST}{I(-n)}{A}{RY}
13 - Weight of the strings of a horse-drawn carriage (5) - {TON}{G}{A}
32 - Mistake the burial chamber to have a note in place of a sign (5) - (-v+f)FAULT
33 - Improving the limitless kind of rejoicing after a regular change in the wrong direction (9) - ENHANCING Anno pending (Addendum - {E}{N}{H}<-{(-d)ANCING} )
34 - Strong guide sold herb to be distributed (3-10) - BIG-SHOULDERED*
DOWN
2 - Subtleties unidentified before hundreds guarding the front entrance (7) - NUANCES Anno pending
3 - Noise in each city (5) - E{DIN}A
4 - Rough-textured grouse is disturbed (6) - RUGOSE*
5 - Particles from the French street (4) - {DU}{ST} Today THE in Frenchis DU for NJ
6 - Age category in a disco initially for you has been left out at last (5) - {A}{D}{U}{L}{T}
7 - Were homes designed at an unknown location? (9) - SOMEWHERE*
8 - They may get clenched in anger (5) - FISTS [E]
11 - Wooden frame on an insulating material (7) - LAGGING [DD]
12 - Guard nothing on the way mostly in the fringes of a rally (7) - {O}{ST}{I(-n)}{A}{RY}
13 - Weight of the strings of a horse-drawn carriage (5) - {TON}{G}{A}
15 - Ambitious girl regularly has a name in an advertisement (5) - {G}{R}{A{N}D}
17 - Prison largely in Bahrain removes the new hidden device (3,6) - A{BUG} GHRAIB(-n)* (Correction - A{BU G}HRAIB(-n)*)
18 - Greeting that is heard on the other end of the line! (5) - HELLO [CD]
23 - Left out the primeval kind of dangerous creature (7) - VAMPIRE(-l)*
17 - Prison largely in Bahrain removes the new hidden device (3,6) - A{BUG} GHRAIB(-n)* (Correction - A{BU G}HRAIB(-n)*)
18 - Greeting that is heard on the other end of the line! (5) - HELLO [CD]
23 - Left out the primeval kind of dangerous creature (7) - VAMPIRE(-l)*
24 - Skinny type of neck (5) - SCRAG [DD]
26 - I am somehow happy not to heartlessly pay for the pupil in the city (6) - {IM}{PHA(-p-y)*}{L}
28 - Politicians trap us (5) - {NET}{AS} How did US become AS?? NETA is a politician in India
30 - Initially a new number is enlisted for the girl (5) - {A}{N}{N}{I}{E}
31 - Public protest for the trial software (4) - DEMO [DD]
26 - I am somehow happy not to heartlessly pay for the pupil in the city (6) - {IM}{PHA(-p-y)*}{L}
28 - Politicians trap us (5) - {NET}{AS} How did US become AS?? NETA is a politician in India
30 - Initially a new number is enlisted for the girl (5) - {A}{N}{N}{I}{E}
31 - Public protest for the trial software (4) - DEMO [DD]
9 across: {U}{M{AM}I(-a)}
ReplyDeletemeaning: a savoury taste produced by glutamates
Good morning Colonel and everyone:
ReplyDeleteCol, hope Gita-ji is fine.
9A - Taste is a bit unusual for the woman without the vitamin at lunchtime (5) - {U}??M?
UMAMI?
16A - Band is in silence when inside (4) - S{AS}H How did IS become AS
When = AS?
17D - Prison largely in Bahrain removes the new hidden device (3,6) - A{BUG} GHRAIB(-n)*
Seems to be a typo, with an extra G. The answer is ABU GHRAIB.
TAWA and TONGA could be harbingers of a regular flow of Indian words in crosswords.
Nice clues: 34A and 7D.
Re DU, DE, LE, LA etc. A crash course in French is recommended. Hope we are being heard.
Richard
33 across: {E{N}HANC{IN}G*}
ReplyDelete(CHANGE* + IN + N)
Oh, on 9A - UMAMI, Sandhya appears to have beaten me narrowly.
ReplyDeleteRichard
Deepak,
ReplyDeleteYour pic of tonga seems to be from an SE Asian country.
In India it was jutka.
As a lad of some 16 years I was part of a group of relatives that hired jutkas to go from Samier New St to R S Puram in CBE where the munificent family of my Aunt lived.
I have never hired a jutka myself!
Jutkas have disappeared from Chennai: a few stray one are seen outside Government hospitals. They carry stiff charges (if you know what I mean!)
I think the annotation for 9A is: {U}{MA(-a)M}{I
ReplyDelete@ Chaturvasi
ReplyDeleteYour note on jutkas brought back a sense of nostalgia. Thanks.
Lest it should be lost attention of, I am continuing today my comments on your last post of yesterday.
Pleasantly surprised to hear that you speak Kannada at home. I studied in Kannada medium, while my mother-tongue is Konkani. Kannada has assimilated a lot of Sanskrit words in its daily usage. Remember YOJANA, a word which was much bandied about here? I could hit upon it immediately because its Kannada equivalent is YOJANE.
As for KSHEENA, it is a common word in Kannada as it is in Sanskrit. Looks like it owes its origin to KSHAYA, which is used in different connotations,
a. waning moon
b. the depleting process
c. tuberculosis ( you may be aware that it is for long being referred to as 'consumption' or consuming disease)
d. general physical debility
The word AKSHAYA PATRA also takes its root here, since this vessel is known for not getting emptied, a legendary, perennial source of food.
Richard
Richard
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with the use of Du in 5D Here it stands for 'from the'.
Also the answer for 17D is spelt ABU GHARIB. So no extra G around
Colonel. Trust your wife is well
ReplyDeleteIn Tamil we had akshaya paaththiram, kshaya rogam, etc. While speaking and writing in Tamil, I still tend to use such 'old-fashioned' words derived from Sanskrit, though the local government with its political agenda would want other words in what has been declared as a 'classical language'.
ReplyDeleteCol. How many more days of torture from Nita to bear ?
ReplyDeleteSome how the orkut team seems to be waning by the day.
@Richard & Suresh,
ReplyDeleteThanks for enquiring about my wife, she had a sore throat for some days (Effects of being a KG teacher and a co-ordinator) nothing serious.
@ Chaturvasi,
I just pulled the picture of the net didn't check where it was from. It is 'Jutka' in the south but up north it is 'Tanga' actually. I used to take one to school when I was in Lucknow. Yes, they have disappeared off the streets of Bangalore as well and like we have Auto/Taxi stands nowadays, in the years of yore we had Tanga/Jutka stands.
@ Sandhya,
Thanks for UMAMI and anno of ENHANCING, though I think Sembhayya's anno looks more logical.
I had a different anno for enhancing
ReplyDeleteRegular change in wrong direction=ENC (alternate letters from 'change')
Limitless kind of rejoicing=(-D)ANCING
Tword after indicates the positioning of these segments
Sorry that should read ENH not ENC
ReplyDelete@ Sandhya,
ReplyDeleteHad a relook, the anno for enhancing is actually
Improving = Definition
the
limitless = Deletion indicator
kind of rejoicing = DANCING
so limitless kind of rejoicing = (-d)ANCING
after = Position indicator
a
regular = Indicator for alternate letters
change = fodder
regular change = E N H
in the wrong direction = reversal indicator
so we get {E}{N}{H}<-{(-d)ANCING}
@ Suresh,
ReplyDeleteYou beat me by a whisker
@ Ramna
ReplyDeleteNJ will be on till the 27th or 28th in case there is no paper on the 27th, so grina nd bear it
@ Chaturvasi,
ReplyDeleteIn Bangalore too we have a Jutka operating at one of the Government hospitals, which also carries stiff charges!!
I think it is operated by an Auto Driver on a volubtary basis.
Hindu normally close on Republic Day. So there will be a paper on 27th after which we will all have less active days for a while
ReplyDeleteThanks for the right annos Colonel & Suresh.
ReplyDeleteIn Nita Jaggi's X WORDS,I usually get the answers first and then struggle with the annotations!
SANDHYA, Sometimes I look at the answers in the blog and then get the annos
ReplyDelete@Chaturvasi,
ReplyDeleteJust had another look at the source of the picture of the Tanga I had put in(Wikipedia link for Tanga, which is included in the main post). It is from Jaora, in Madhya Pradesh and not some SE Asian country as you thought.
Anno for AEGIS.
ReplyDeleteAE is the pseudonym of the poet George William Russel so the anno is {AE}{G}{I}{S} with GIS coming from the even letters of 'against'
For NUANCES, it may be NUAN{C{E}S} don't know how NUAN and unidentified are linked
NUANCES
ReplyDeleteIn the infamous long list used by NJ NU is abbreviation for number unknown or simply unknown.
So that leaves AN which remains a mystery
Just discovered that the long list gives 'an' meaning 'before'. So that explains the anno as intended by NJ
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