ACROSS
1 - From where one may shout in joy (7) - ROOFTOP [CD]
5 - Impulse for business proposal caught in oil spillover (6) - LI{BID}O*
9 - Said in French to duplicate (5) - DITTO [E]
10 - Racialist fixed for being cutting (9) - SATIRICAL*
11 - Music maker's final letter has answer for thin material (7) - {ORGAN}{Z}{A}
12 - Disgraces contemptible types pulling back scholars (7) - {STIG<-}{MAS}
13 - Therefore women are heard (5) - HENCE(~hens)
14 - Ohio poll I conducted with ordinary people (3,6) - HOI POLLOI*
16 - Just the one to give a moral lesson (9) - RIGHTEOUS [E]
19 - Sulks with leading model offering awful pose (5) - {M}{OPES*}
21 - Soft, love! I and young boy gather in rainy period (7) - {P}{LUV}{I}{AL}
23 - Resentment voiced by private (7) - RANCOUR(~ranker)
24 - Have on hand pickles to be distributed (9) - STOCKPILE*
25 - Writ by British woman (5) - {BR}{EVE}
26 - With precision, cattle reaches likely limits (6) - {NEAT}{L(
27 - What pupils hating exams want? Not exactly! (4,3) - TEST BAN [CD]
DOWN
1 - Medical practitioner finds a third-rate op is unsettling (5,9) - RADIO THERAPIST*
2 - One month Goan formed a figure (7) - {OCT}{AGON*}
3 - Defeat trio with a heavyweight replacing a number (7) - {TR(
4 - Haiti cops disperse nut (9) - PISTACHIO*
8 - One who alters features in a theatrical operation (7,7) - PLASTIC SURGEON [CD]
15 - Guerrilla inrush note mentioned regularly (9) - {INSURGE}{N
17 - Sticky substance covers lettuce — it's sweet (7) - GLU{COS}E
18 - Disgusting to be in the Middle Eastern bush (7) - {TH{ICK}E}{T}
19 - Newspaper employee in — I'm lifting vehicle (7) - {MI}{NI}{BUS}<- )
20 - Saw an expert is needed for a part of speech (7) - {PRO}{VERB} Great clue
22 - Flock to the U.S. city — it's close to many (5) - {LA}{IT}{Y}
Good Morning
ReplyDeleteLiked 27a Test Ban (treaty with Kapil Sibal?), Food carries on Burrito after risotto, ravioli..., 2 docs in 1d and 8d Radio Therapist and Plastic Surgeon (I saw a sign which said ‘surgeon’ in Kannada script instead of ‘shastra vaidya’, sounded more like opposite of durjan –bad person, as against the real opposite ‘sajjan’), 26a Neat’s foot oil was made from hoofs to apply on leather, 11 organza is the sheerest silk cloth, whereas organdie is the sheerest cotton cloth
Found 24a Stockpile v/s 27a Test Ban contradictory words.
As the Col. observed yesterday, Vive la France.... 9a dit, 11a Organza is woven in France, 14a Hoi Polloi,
@ Col:Agree on ounce being non heavy. Also liked Minibus, where sub (editor) is the newsguy, in, im, come in reverse order.
ReplyDeleteHi everyone
ReplyDeleteAppeared formidable at first glance. But everything melted soon, clue by clue. Could complete within half an hour or so.
Middle Eastern t was good ! Colonel, I am colour blind and cant make out the coloured highlights, so might sometimes not be able to appreciate that you have highlighted something. Where you can, request you to please go Eas(t)ern instead of colouring
ReplyDelete@ Richard: Savour those melting moments, in the heat of Mangalore everything melts, Pabbas and Crosswords...
ReplyDelete@ Col: Thank god, its not super heavy weight a la Cassius Marcellus Clay
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Kishore.
ReplyDeleteMesha (Aries)Sankranti wishes to everyone.
Happy Vishu to all Malayalees. (liked the India) in Col.s byline. As some visitor is said to have said, I didnt meet any Indians in India, only ..., .... and ....
ReplyDeleteRe Ounce. Maybe it refers to the snow leopard, which may be a heavyweight
ReplyDelete@ Suresh, Uncia uncia is the smallest of the big cats, max weight about 60 kgs
ReplyDeleteDarjeeling has a snow leopard breeding centre, beautiful animal.
ReplyDeleteYou have to balance 'ounce' which is a little over 437 grains and 'ounce' the big cat, which must weigh heavy, though it might be the least weighty among like animals.
ReplyDeleteHow come Gridman uses German, French, Spanish but never any Latin? I'm sure he knows that language well as well.
ReplyDeleteI think these setters are nuts about pistachio.
ReplyDelete@ Dan, they also go bananas over fruit.
ReplyDelete@Dan, @Richard - they are flowery about blooms, and crazy about lunatics, and measured about ounces.
ReplyDeleteLatin?
ReplyDeleteFrom my dB of Gridman's crosswords:
18 Antony’s wife has nothing to court on a Roman road (7)
{O}{CT}A{VIA}
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ReplyDeleteMore, more ...Encore, I mean!
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Happy Vishu to all.
ReplyDeleteAnother great offering from Gridman. Pluvial stumped me.
More, more ...Encore, I mean!
ReplyDeleteHear, hear!
The same here, here too !
ReplyDeleteFrom Asterix: My first is a hundred, my second is a sign of the Zodiac, my third is a Hibernian, my fourth is the Egyptian Sun god and Julius Ceasar loves my whole (?) ?
ReplyDelete26 A - With precision, cattle reaches likely limits - can somebody tell me what is the role of the word "cattle" there ?
ReplyDeleteKishore, answer is (C) (leo) (pat) (ra)
ReplyDeleteGot it myself googling that one of the obsolete terms for cattle is neat. Wow! how much we learn from this heavenly pursuit.
ReplyDeleteCould some one explain, 13 - Therefore women are heard (5) - HENCE(~hens)
ReplyDeleteWhy are women equated to hens ?
Could some one explain, 13 - Therefore women are heard (5) - HENCE(~hens)
ReplyDeleteWhy are women equated to hens ?
I leave it to any hen-pecked husband to answer.
I am sure most of us are hand-picked husbands.
ReplyDeleteNo husband over here is going to admit he is hen-pecked. I hope Agent Chu has got the point.
ReplyDeleteLots of followers here are still to send in their Photographs
ReplyDelete@Krishnan: Yu are right, and I had given a hint on Neat in my post at 8:31. Of course, neat also means without adding any water or soda in some context. I dont know if adding rocks would qualify as neat or not
ReplyDelete@ All hen pecked husbands: I am willing to start a Hen Pecked Husband's society (lemme check with my wife first). All applicants need to send their wife's photo, as the wife will be the benami member and rule the meetings albeit through hubbies.
ReplyDelete@Col
ReplyDeleteWhat is the email id where i can send pictures or can i upload it directly?
HAPPY VISHU
ReplyDeleteHere is a quotable quote from a h-p-h:
"I am the head of the family. I have my wife's permission to say so."
When washing machine and other electric appliances were being introduced in the 1960s and 1970s, this ad appeared in papers targeting the husbands:
"Don't kill your wife with hard work. Let electricity do it for you."
(? the killing)
"I am sure most of us are hand-picked husbands."
ReplyDeleteLOL, men sure as hell know how to flatter themselves.
Very enjoyable comments
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ReplyDeleteThe e-mail ID is deepakgita@gmail.com
Hoi polloi is Greek
ReplyDelete@LNS: You are right. Its all Greek to me. Just checking out how many people read posts. Counter has just moved to 1. ;-)
ReplyDeleteBTW if Laity (14a) can be considered 'not of the elite of the cloth', from the standpoint of the clergy, it could mean 'hoi polloi' (22d), the masses.
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ReplyDeleteAs all you brilliant men are aware, hens peck their mates only when they fail in their duties (hens pluck the feathers off their cocks to get their attention), and that's how the expression 'henpecked' came about. So, as in everything else, it's the male of the species that's the trouble...
ReplyDelete@Kishore - 'Hen Pecked Husband's society' ;-) - way back, a newbie at H-P, I started a WATS - Women Against TV Sports. No TV Sports, no henpecking!
Re 9A, where does the 'French' come into ditto?
ReplyDelete@Giridhar,
ReplyDeleteThis is what the net says
Ditto (from Italian [Tuscan dialect] ditto "(in) the said (month or year)"
So you are right there is no French here
@ Gita, nice pic. Now we can begin identifying the mutiple Gitas one by one. :-)
ReplyDeleteHere's where the French is: SAID in French is DIT. Add the TO, to make DITO. Gridman does not make mistakes ;-)
ReplyDelete@Ricahrd - thks. I usually keep my personal page updated every month, but I've been distracted lately. http://theiyerfamily.org. for more photos. I know I should send one in to the Blog's album, but I can't find a pensive/intelligent looking one ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks to Colonel for the clarification. After reading Gita's post and googling and looking at a translation website, looks like 'dit' is used in certain contexts for 'said' in French but 'said' doesn't seem to directly translate to 'dit'.
ReplyDelete@Giridhar - literal translation is SAID. As in 'j'ai dit' - I have said. It's from the verb Dire (to say)
ReplyDelete@Gita - Thanks, your are right. Obviously I did not do a good job of looking up translation for 'dit'.
ReplyDelete@ Gita: Hen pecked people usually work in Hindustan Petroleum and Hewlett Packard as a cover up! My Gita does not hen peck me, by the way.
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