ACROSS
1 - It is considered in an auction (7) - BIDDING [CD]
5 - Father, finally today has the fruit (6) - {PAPA}{Y}{A}
11 - Slippery fruit (6) - BANANA [CD]
14 - Dutifully pray to the noble deity (10) - OBEDIENTLY* Put in REVERENTLY [CD] first and was stuck for a long time
16 - Volunteers will go regularly to the right dressmaker (6) - {TA}{I}{L}{O}{R}
18 - It can be pleated with caution over the large mesh (8) - CA{SHME*}RE Large is back after a long time!
21 - It is exempted under 80G in India (8) - DONATION [CD] Wonder if NJ made a Donation out of her CW earnings to get this relief before 31 Mar !!
22 - Get hold of naughty Santa leaving a church (6) - {SNAT(-a)*}{CH}
25 - Angrily, bees trip behind the firm stair used on the wall (10) - {CO}{RBIESTEP*}
30 - Disease from the French is no good for you and me finally (6) - {DE}{NG}{U}{E}
31 - Ridicule the German, one successor not caught (8) - {DER}{I}{S(-c)ION}
32 - Stadiums are regularly near the far end of airports (6) - {ARE}{N}{A}{S}
33 - Holy man in the morning is in front of the old soldiers with a lot of energy (7) - {ST}{AM}{INA}
DOWN
2 - Mites embedded in the articles (5) - ITEMS*
3 - Medicine, a bit dropped on the prayer mat (4) - {D}{RUG}
4 - Adjoining even if head boy is in place of the learner (6) - NEAR(-l+b)BY
6 - Familiar to be in rickshaw areas (5) - AWARE [T]
7 - A section of workers are on time in the chamber (9) - {A}{PART}{MEN}{T}
8 - Examine a new drop of alcohol solution containing sulphur (7) - {A}{N}{A}{LY{S}E}
9 - It's spotted in the wild by an Officer Commanding the eastern group (6) - {OC}{E}{LOT}
15 - Cut off an animal right in the garrison (4) - FORT Anno pending (Addendum - {FO(-x)}{RT} - Thanks to Shuchi)
17 - One racing around has no knowledge (9) - IGNORANCE*
19 - Writing skill (4) - HAND [DD]
20 - Wet, holy man is following one in Missouri (5) - {MO}{I}{ST}
21 - Somehow used acid to discard the second tissue (7) - DECIDUA(-s)*
23 - Oddly hear the truck in a large city (6) - {H}{A}{VAN}{A}
24 - Hate the Democratic leaders in an investigation (6) - {DE}{TEST}
26 - Language I will read at the University in Los Angeles (5) - {I}{R}{U}{LA} Irulas are a tribe and not a language!
28 - Bird is initially soon out of the cage (5) - P?I?N(Addendum PRI(-s)ON - Thanks to Kishore)
Now over to my double Patiala
Good Morning all:
ReplyDeleteHad to Google Chetumal, Decidua and Corbiestep to confirm. Chetumal sounded like a Marwari name to me!
15d:Tried for animals which can be cut down to Fot, unsuccesfully.
Best liked 7d Apartment: A+part(section)+men(workers)+t(time)=chamber
The pairing continues: After Fleas and Beetle, and Patiala and Baisakhi, today we have Papaya and Banana.
Best clue of ET: 16d Twiddle toes with a man in secret (8)
28d= Prion (a petrel)= Prison(cage) -s (initially soon)
ReplyDeleteGood morning one and all
ReplyDelete14A - OBEDIENTLY - Cleverly set without anagram indicator
21A - Liked this one under section 80G of the Income Tax Act.
30A - DENGUE - The 'visiting' doctors here may please clarify. Can dengue be regarded as a disease? It could be an ailment.
9D - Liked this. Good play on 'spotted'.
Failed to get 15D and 28D. Deepak, your top note says 28A. Guess it should be 28D
@Col: All those doubles in the last few days entitle you to a double Patiala, so you can see double. To misquote from Macbeth, Double, double, for the toil and trouble. A real witches' brew, huh?
ReplyDeleteFor Irula, I came across this. Says its a language
ReplyDeletehttp://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Irula
Irula is the language spoken by Irula tribe. This is also mentioned in the Britannica.com
ReplyDeleteKishore
ReplyDeleteSince you seem to be an avid solver of the ET/Daily Mail crossword may I bring to your attention that we have an Orkut community where we solve that crossword:
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#CommMsgs?cmm=60010798&tid=5457844818546989110&start=1
While the crossword itself is impeccable I can't help noting that the Indian paper shamelessly repeats the same crosswords over and over again at intervals of some months and we have noted instances of the same crossword used thrice!
Emails/registered letters with ack due have elicited no reply.
The above community also solves the NIE crossword.
It is owned by my brother Bhargav and moderated by him and Raghunath.
We also have an Orkut community for the HT?The Times crossword:
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?rl=cpl&cmm=99084770
I own and moderate the above.
15D - Cut off an animal (FOX) right (RT) in the garrison - FO(-X)RT
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your blog, Colonel. Started following it a few weeks back. Keep up the good work.
15 - Cut off an animal right in the garrison (4) - FORT Anno pending
ReplyDeleteProbably FO{-x} + RT, with "in the" as connector.
In case anyone's missed this: Limericks for NJ.
RT U R, Shuchi
ReplyDelete@ Chaturvasi: Thanks. Yes, they not only repeat, they also commit 3 other mistakes: a. Print it in a elongated shape as if they are squeezing it into available space.b. Print it at an odd place where I have to indulge in quite a bit of creative origami to get it into a comfortable holding wad and c. forget to replace, and hence print it the next day too.
ReplyDeletecontd: I sometimes do the NIE and Times, but do not follow it avidly. I also studiously avoid the filmi ones of NJ !
ReplyDelete@ Col:
ReplyDeleteI know I am digressing, but apropos Yezdi, I happened to notice that in a large number of cases, the name on the fuel tank was fitted upside down, resulting in "Ipzah" sort of thing. Was this intentional and part of some running gag by Mr Irani?
@ Kishore, that 'ipzah' thing was discussed here a few months ago.
ReplyDeleteWhen you find the time, go on clicking the OLDER POSTS at the bottom of this page. You will find it somewhere.
I think 'ipzah' was just a matter of logo design and may not have had any significance or connotations.
Is there anyway i can get a hold of answers to Sunday crossword of Times of India?
ReplyDeleteRe Yezdi, during that two-wheeler's heyday, many owners found it fashionable to have the logo pad fitted upside down on either side of the fuel tank. I don't think Irani sa'ab would have officially allowed a thing which could affect the brand-name or its image.
ReplyDeleteDeepak on July 13 last wrote under the comments section:
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As regards IPZAH, richlas has given you the correct answer. YEZDI is embossed on the removable plate on either side of the fuel tank, what a lot of YEZDI users would do is unscrew this monogram rotate it through 180 degrees and refix it and it would read IPZAH, I too had done it for a number of years on my bike.
Unquote
@tpa,
ReplyDeleteI don't think the answers to the Sunday CW of the TOI appear anywhere, nor have I seen a blog on it. It is obviously syndicated from some paper in the UK, Chaturvasi was trying to find out about it but I don't think he has succeded. I do it on every Sunday as I find it quite engrossing with good clues. I could help you out with last Sunday's clues in case you need help
Shuchi thanks for deciphering FORT.
ReplyDeleteI loved your Limericks for NJ and have added one of mine too in the comments.
@Kishore,
ReplyDeleteYour IPZAH query has been sorted out. Yes, it was the in thing in the 70s and 80s to turn the YEZDI logo around to read IPZAH, I don't think anyone does it nowadays.
Deepak, as now there is no subject worth discussing, maybe we could digress a bit further. If it was a day of limericks yesterday, may it be a Jawa-day.
ReplyDeletePlease pardon me for the trivia. This story could interest you and other CZ / Jawa/ Yezdi aficionados.
Some good 25 years ago, a marketing guy from Bangalore, whom I had met, propounded a theory about the name JAWA / YEZDI.
Since the factory was based in Mysore, it was his argument that the former Maharajah of Mysore, JAyachamarajendra WAdiyar, Jawa in sort, might have had a stake in the firm. After his passing away, his son, Srikantha Datta, continued in his place, according to this man. The scion's initials, SD, were made into a new, homophonic name - YEZDI, he further argued.
Fertile imagination or Sherlock Holmeseque investigative instinct ? Those days, the story sounded too good to be debunked. My enquiries - remember, they were the pre-Google days - with Jawa dealers and reliable sources elsewhere did not elicit anything to corroborate the theory.
I haven't had a chance of meeting the man ever since.
Have a hearty laugh, nevertheless.
Deepak et al
ReplyDeleteI did figure out the source of the Sunday ToI puzzle and might have written about it somewhere.
It is either of the two 15x15 that the composer of the syndicated UK crossword sets in a set of 12 and which is also published in the New Indian Express.
You can check and see that the grid is the same as the 15x15 grid that appears every seventh time in NIE (supposed to appear on Saturday for a bigger weekend crossword but because of holidays in India and with no issues the next day the schedule gets upset. Crossword handlers in Indian nwspapers know nothing of such fine points.
Of course, though it's the same crossword the series in NIE and ToI differ.
There is no blog/Community for this weekly crossword but any query here with the clue text can be answered or the solver can start a blog himself for us to pitch in.
@richlas
ReplyDeleteSince dengue is a mosquito borne viral infection, and in medical texts, 'Infectious Diseases' are a heading, it may be allowed as a clue!
Richard,
ReplyDeleteThe origin of JAWA is "Jawa is a motorcycle manufacturer in the Czech republic, formerly Czechoslovakia. The name was created after its founder, Frantisek Janeček, bought the motorcycle division of Wanderer in 1929 (for their new 500 cc motorcycle engine), by concatenating the first letters of Janeček and Wanderer. The company is still active today."
As regards SD-YEZDI your source may be right
Thanks, All, for the Jawa/Yezdi remarks, especially Richard's . We have progressed from Jawa to Java, if that can be termed progress. I am also an aircraft aficionado having flown in one of the non-civil fitted DC3s, and I remember several WW2 fliers saying
ReplyDelete'Before I die,
I want to fly,
A Douglas DC3'
@All: I hope all of you guys (including gals) dont mind my chatter, a Johnny-come-lately, but I tend to play concertinas on the keyboard...
ReplyDelete@ Deepak, I was sure that the names CZ and Jawa were Czech imports. I just recalled the episode for a diversion. Thanks in any case.
ReplyDelete@ Sumitra, thanks for your response.
Answer to the ET clue above: Esoteric
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I am not kidding, Home given sacred protection 20a