ACROSS
1 - Boy managed good-looker's wave (8) - {B}{RAN}{DISH}
5 - Organised persecution is Italian flower girl's first memory (6) - {PO}{G}{ROM}
9 - Specialist leaves enthusiast to work up massaging technique (7) - SHIATSU(-ent)*
10 - Reportedly looks on what windows in severe winter may (3,4) - (~eyes over)ICE OVER
11 - Busybody entertaining a strange guest in gracious gesture (4,5) - BE{A}{U GEST*}E
12 - Look on deadly finale — so mad! (5) - {LO}{ON}{Y}
13 - Combat of the French and the Spanish (4) - {DU}{EL}
14 - Royal shifting in small ship is rather large (6,3) - P{R}ETTY {B(-r)IG}
17 - Animals notoriously quarrelsome (5,4) - ALLEY CATS [CD]
19 - Satisfied, revolutionary sticks (4) - SMUG<- )
23 - Take on vagrant (5) - ROVER [DD]
24 - Compatible couples are made for … … (4,5) - EACH OTHER [E] Do they still have the WILLS made for each other contest?
25 - Brand debt notices as doubtful (7) - {DUB}{IOUS}
26 - Repetition about radio gets prize (7) - RO{SET}TE
28 - Cyberian ID (4,4) - USER NAME [CD]
DOWN
1 - Meddler in public vehicle: young man close to quarry (8) - {BUS}{Y}{BOD}{Y}
2 - Create a stir with it in a portal (7) - {A}{G{IT}ATE}
3 - Do the young have this type of infatuation? (6) - {DO}{T}{AGE}
4 - They may be in court to suppress fraudulent activities (6,7) - {SQUASH} {RACKETS} Nice clue
7 - Head of restaurateurs with one instrument, not entirely used to make a pasta dish (7) - {R}{A}{VIOLI(-n)}
10 - Distinct, readymade credentials (8,5) - IDENTITY CARDS [E]
15 - Spread over twelve months (8) - YEARLONG [E]
16 - Cause pain to a good, nearly formidable woman (8) - {A}{G}{GRI(-m}{EVE}
18 - See, five fit and worthy of affection (7) - {LO}{V}{ABLE}
20 - Mother has concealed cover for a great soul (7) - MA{HAT}MA
21 - Journalist cycled in, worn down (6) - E{RODE}D
22 - Instigator initially slips into rake at railhead (6) - {ROU(+s)SE}{R}
Good morning folks
ReplyDeleteERODE surfaces again.
BUSYBODY appears as clue and answer in the same grid.
Liked LOONY, DUBIOUS, DUEL and a few others. MAHA + ATMA = MAHATMA = Great soul, great clue.
ALLEY CATS, EACH OTHER - cakewalk !
Cyberian ID - USER NAME - superb !
Contd.
ReplyDeleteLiked POGROM also. SQUASH RACKETS - good pun in both words.
I simply LOVED today's puzzle! Got a chuckle out of DOTAGE, BUSYBODY!
ReplyDeleteI love Gridman's puzzles. It's so refreshing to sit down to one of these, and so satisfying to fill in each and every answer.
Loved Squash Rackets too ..
ReplyDelete@ Subramaniam: Mea culpa, concedo. Shall contain myself to your contentment.
ReplyDelete@ Richard: Yup, liked the busybody in double role. Reg: Erode, it is at least not in its TN town role. And of course, the double pun.
@ Col: Other than the ITC Wills, wills are usually made for each other !
ReplyDelete22 - Instigator initially slips into rake at railhead (6) - {ROU(+s)SE}{R}
ReplyDeleteRake - roue
with s inside and r
It should be {ROU(S)E}{R} = instigator
Deepak
ReplyDelete22d is ROU(S)E R
where ROUÉ is from 'rake' (not as a garden implement but as a dissolute person).
Kishore
ReplyDeleteI am willing to go with you!
Busybody figured twice in today's THC once as the solution for 1D and in the other place as part of the clue of 11A. The meanings differed - meddler and bee.
ReplyDelete@Venkatesh & Chaturvasi'
ReplyDeleteI was trying to make it a bit clearer by writing (+s) though {ROU{S}E}{R} would have been more appropriate
Normally an answer to one of the clues does not appear verbatim in another clue
ReplyDelete@Kishore,
ReplyDeleteI wonder where Chaturvasi is willing to go with you !!!! ;-)
Kishore @ 8:40
ReplyDeletePray who is Subramaniam ?
@ Col: Pl refer Sunday's posts.
ReplyDelete@ Col & Chatur: Ole Microsoft byline: Where do you want to go today?
Deepak, as both Kishore and Chaturvasi have a will to go, there will be a way - to some fine destination.
ReplyDelete@ Kishore, in the legal sense, WILLS are made for each other - one who bequeaths and the bequeathed.
@ Col & Chatur: Too many "will"s? Cigarettes, testamentary dox, CV 'will'ing to go !
ReplyDelete@ Richard: That what I meant at 8.42
ReplyDeleteAlso, reciprocal wills are made for each other, A leaves to B and B leaves to A, but simultaneous demise can make their plans go agley.
ReplyDeleteHey Kishore!
ReplyDeleteWhere did you pick up your Scottish? Burns?
@ Chaturvasi: Thanks, sir, I am an inveterate typist and had no intentions to porcine tendencies, but will have to be content about contentment on contentious matters lest it be seen as predatory or squatting. Time to sound the last post (!) today
ReplyDeletePorcine tendencies?
ReplyDeleteAh, dissertation on roast pig!
@ CV: There you switched me on again ;-) Burns via Plum (The best laid plans of men and mice aft gang agley)
ReplyDeleteHogging
ReplyDeleteAnd that was Lamb's!
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me Roald Dahl's excellent story, about which see
http://cgrishikesh.wordpress.com/?s=slaughter
@ Deepak, couldn't help noticing this in the THCC family photo corner.
ReplyDeleteYour f-i-l is also a Gopinath and he too was in the army. A rare coincidence.
Around the end of that the police feel that the murder weapon is right under their noses...
ReplyDeleteWhat I liked about Plum was the insidious way in which he inserted quotations from poems/lit. It fell to earth I know not where - when the dollop of icecream scooped in a spoon slips and lands somewhere in its journey from the hand to the mouth...
ReplyDelete"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, gang aft agley." is the correct wording, mine was impromptu based on a failing memory...
ReplyDeleteNo, not under their noses.
ReplyDeleteI never reveal the end of any story that I talk about!
From where John Steinbeck took the title for one of his novels...
ReplyDeleteI was referring to Lamb to the Slaughter, just before Mrs Mallony (correct name?) starts giggling in the next room.
ReplyDeleteA minor grouse of mine with THC in general is that most clues with CD components are not as inventive or chuckle inducing as some found in UK cryptics. But today's "Squash Rackets" was a class act. Take a bow Gridman.
ReplyDeleteBTW going by Gridman's penchant for Erode and Italian dishes ( Ravioli, risotto, pasta etc),am sure that if there exists an Italian restaurant in Erode, Gridman must be it's biggest patron. Who knows, maybe he sets all his puzzles there over a glass of Chianti :)
Talking of Plum, you might remember about the major Mr Brabazon-Plank being a minor and the minor Mr Brabazon-Plank being a Major.
ReplyDeleteBye, CV, before I become the Sub-ject of another post from Sub-bu. Will continue tomorrow
ReplyDelete@Richard,
ReplyDeleteYes, and the invitation card to my wedding had people thinking that there was a printing error as it read
Deepak
son of
Lt Col K Gopinath
weds
Gita
daughter of
Lt Col KP Gopinath
@ ColL P saved the day, I think !
ReplyDelete@Col: It could have been worse if the lady's name was DeepaK
ReplyDeleteYes, P did save the day, however my wife always gets queries from her long lost schoolfriends with whom she has been catching up of late and she has to explain to them why she is still a 'Gita Gopinath'
ReplyDeleteAs a solver I am not a star.
ReplyDeleteThere are others more smarter by far.
My posts I don't mind them.
because I'm behind them.
It's the people in front that I jar.
"Deepak
ReplyDeleteson of
Lt Col K Gopinath
weds
Gita
daughter of
Lt Col KP Gopinath"
Stupendous ! Did not know your dad too was in the Army.
Is Gaurav an Army Captain ? If so, it completes the picture !
@ Col: KP reminds me of my love/hate of Lt Gen K P Candeth
ReplyDelete@ Col: All this army of armymen, how I can I forget Sam who used to be on the board of EIH, chairman of NagFert and his daughter Sherry Batlivala who was with Mercury Travels in Chennai
ReplyDeleteAnd Kipper and Timmy, the Kodanderas
ReplyDeleteMy cup brimmeth over again, sorry.
ReplyDelete@Richard,
ReplyDeleteYes Gaurav is a Captain in the army
Setter-solver. Not really made for .... ....
ReplyDeleteAnd I dare not type (4,5) in the end.
Else, I will be danned. Sorry, typo!
Did you identify the one lakhth visitor to your site? No news about it.
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ReplyDeleteDeepak, my apologies for the digression and space-grabbing, but this info could interest some visitors here.
ReplyDeleteKishore in his post @ 10-17 am has referred to Kipper and Timmy, besides Lt Gen K P Candeth and Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw (all the four have passed away). Many would wonder who they were.
Col Gopinath may have known about these fine gentlemen and officers. But, for the benefit of those who have not heard the names:
Lt Gen Kunhiraman Palat Candeth (1916-2003) had a good war record. When the Indian Army liberated Goa in December, 1961, he was appointed administrator of Goa, Daman and Diu. His grandfather was Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar (1861-1914), a noted Malayali journalist. (Incidentally, Vengayil Krishnan Krishna Menon, erstwhile defence minister of India, too had the same 'Vengayil' house name. I am not sure if they were related, or hailed from the same community, family or place.)
'Kipper' was the common name of General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa (1919-1993), the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, promoted as Field Marshal over thirty years after he retired.
His cousin General Kodandera Subbaya Thimayya (1920-1965), commonly called 'Timmy', was Chief of the Army Staff from 1957 to 1961. He died in 1965 in Cyprus while heading the command of UN Peace-keeping Forces. Both were from the illustrious KODANDERA family.
Interestingly, Kipper and Timmy hailed from the martial race of Coorgs or Kodavas from Kodagu, earlier known as Coorg. It was a 'C' state until the reorganization of states in 1956, when it was merged with the then-Mysore state, now known as Karnataka.
The Kodave community, with a total population around 200,000, has contributed a good number of illustrious personalities to different fields. The list could run long. Here are a few representative names:
Politics: Former union minister and governor the late C M Poonacha, former Bangalore mayor and present Rajya Sabha member Prema Cariappa
First woman IFS / woman ambassador: C M Muthamma
Filmdom: Prema, Daisy Bopanna, Nidhi Subbaiah
International hockey stars and Olympians: M P Ganesh, M M Somaya
Cricketers: Appanna and Robin Uthappa
Motor racing couple: Jagat and Anita Nanjappa
Fashion guru: Prasad Bidapa
International pop music-writer and singer: Biddu Appaiah (of 'Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Zindagi' from Qurbani and 'Kung-Fu Fighting' fame)
Athletes: Nirmala Uthaiah, A C Pushpa, Ashwini Nachappa
VJ of MTV fame: Nikhil Chinnapa
Tennis: Rohan Bopanna
I repeat, the list is not comprehensive. Omission, if any, is inadvertent and unintentional.
Corrigendum to the above:
ReplyDeleteFirst woman IFS / woman ambassador: C M Muthamma
It should read "First woman IFS / woman career ambassador: C B Muthamma (Chonira Belliappa Muthamma)"
India's first woman ambassador was Vijayalakshmi Pandit, sister of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who had served at the UN and as High Commissioner in London.
@ Rich: Bhale ! Not only your research on Kodagu, but your physical presence there long time ago shows your liking of the place and the people. BTW a small bit of additional trivia: As you enter Madikeri from Mysore side, there is a continuous reduction of army ranks: You get FM Cariappa Cirle, Gen.Thimayya Circle and Major (I dont recollect the name) . Additionally, Sqn Ldr Devaiah of the 1965 strike on Sargodha is hounoured with a circle too. Incidentally FM Cariappa's son retired as an Air Marshal and there is an interesting story attached to him.
ReplyDeleteHis Hunter was shot down by the Pakistanis in the 1965 Indo-Pak war when he was doing a sortie as a Group Captain. He ejected at a very low height after the aircraft was hit and it led to his landing on his backside and not on his feet. It resulted in a compression fracture of the spine and a gash on his right arm. He narrated his stint as a prisoner of war (POW) in different Pakistani jails/camps from September 1965 to January 1966, that is, till after the Tashkent Pact. An interesting aspect of his capture was that it was announced on Radio Pakistan when it was discovered that he was the son of Field Marshal Cariappa who, before partition, happened to be a friend and a fellow trainee of the then President of Pakistan, Ayub Khan (himself a Field Marshal). Apparently a message was sent to Field Marshal Cariappa about his son’s capture; the latter responded by saying that there were other sons of India too in the custody of Pakistan and his son was no different from the others and did not merit any special treatment.
Apologies to all; Richard's post compelled me share the above with you.
ReplyDeleteNot a complaint on Richard, but my propensity to go overboard.
ReplyDeleteBrig Cariappa was the senior-most Indian officer in the (combined) Indian Army, which later got split into the Indian and Pakistani armies, at the time of Independence and was held in high esteem by senior officers of both the armies of that time.
ReplyDeleteSome other time, I shall recount Sam's MC story.
And stories of Tommy Elmhirst, Ronald Chapman, Gerald Gibbs, Subroto M, Aspy (and his brothers), JRD Tata, Jimmy Green, Mehr Singh, Jumbo, the Keelors et all,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info Richard, you could add to the list a renowned Boxer CC Machaiah who is also an Arjuna Award winner, he is also from the Madras Sappers like me.
ReplyDeleteHow could I forget Jit, who was a close personal friend and the only officer to have a MIG21 in his office !
ReplyDelete@ Thambi : Great. RE can be ME in future c-words
ReplyDelete@ Kishore, thanks. I am aware of this episode. I am told FM Cariappa's son, Nanda Cariappa, narrowly missed being elevated to the topmost post of the echelons of IAF by virtue of superannuation.
ReplyDeleteThere was also one Gen Nanda, who was Kipper's nephew. And I am referring to a real MIG21 with its engine on, not a model.
ReplyDeleteYou might recall that Kipper and Timmy had their house near Richmond Circle.
ReplyDelete@ Deepak, of course, I have heard of boxer Machaiah. I missed him out by oversight.
ReplyDeleteThe Residency Road close to the Richmond Circle in Bangalore was renamed Field Marshal K M Cariappa Road some years ago. A military ground has also been named after him.
ReplyDeleteI presume, both Mr Kishore and Mr Richard are writing from their elephantine memory (usage permitted?)and hats off to them
ReplyDeleteActually, I thought I covered a lot of ground in my general interest across a broad swathe of topics, and then I came to this forum and ever since have learnt to sit back and appreciate the trivia and interesting details that issue forth from the likes of Richard, Kishore et al.
ReplyDelete@Kishore: I do enjoy reading your comments, garrulous, brimming over or however you describe them. Not only are the subjects you write about interesting, they also seem to be interestingly written - with enough unsaid between the lines that others are compelled to come in and add to it, a good trait to have in order to have a dialogue in online writing..
Btw, I just did a small count of posts in this edition of the Col.'s blog - of the 66, including this, Mr. K has 30 and Mr. R has 10 with one deletion..should be close enough to actual, did not cross check too carefully. And about 16 of the 66 related to the actual crossword / crosswords in general..
Wonder what the Col. thought when he first started putting his blog out.. Like a modern day tech startup, the initial project plan for bringing a product to market and what ends up as the go to market product in a successful venture are most often entirely different kettles of fish, in my experience.
@ subramaniam: elephantine is ok whether you describe my memory or my physique. I hope you are not upset again by my ramblings. If so, please let me know and I shall refrain.
ReplyDelete@ veer: Your analysis repeats what subbu had to say. I seem to be hogging the space. Should contain myself. I should use other forums meant for this type of banter. Also, whenever the crossword has been completed by Col.ji (which is fairly often), others may have nothing much to add except obiter dicta. Only when there is the NJ kind of uncertainity principle kind of issues, then others post crossword related stuff. Kettles of fish can turn out to lamb chops sometimes ! BTW, I am a very serious enthusiast of the Indian armed forces, especially the IAF (Sorry, Col, but that was my first choice of career, till the optician pronounced his verdict that fighter jets were out of question) and can go on and on about them.
@ Richard: Inspite of KM Cariappa being made FM, somehow the appellation General is still used by a lot of people.
ReplyDeleteAh! Kishore, my rudimentary analysis was more a prelude to the last para I wrote than to allude to "space hogging". In the few months that I have frequented this blog, I have seen many a ebb and flow in comments / active commenters - these things go in cycles, someone has to have the most posts / words each day and on this day, happened to be you. Cheers on that, and as long your ramblings sustain interest as they do now, cheers to everyone else as well..
ReplyDelete@Kishore,
ReplyDeleteBash on regardless!
@ Col. Thanks for your approval. Cherish it.
ReplyDelete@ Veer: You are right, these things go in cycles (sometimes motorcyles !)and time permitting, I will ramble on, now that I have the Colonel's ok and follow the creed of Duty and Discipline, Duty being one responsibility to the resident of the top floor and discipline being responsibility to follow orders of the immediate boss, to wit, the Col.