ACROSS
1 - Many in South Africa made a bond to organise escape (7) - {A}B{S}{C}OND Not happy with the annotation
5 - The man next in line for a major promotion? (7) - CAPTAIN [E]
9 - Within the home are the most intimate (7) - NE{ARE}ST
10 - Time ran out for one of Islam's high achievements (7) - MINARET*
11 - Works till one appears lost (5) - TO{I}LS*
12 - Catch up with, produce a gun and point it (4,5) - {DRAW} {LEVEL}
13 - That's nothing to the gardens I designed and arranged (9) - {O}{RGAN{I}SED*}
15 - He is very liberal with his perverted lies (5) - EL{L}IS*
16 - Ted developed art in buying and selling goods (5) - {TRA*}{DE}
18 - Those who advance another business man? (9) - PROMOTERS [CD]
21 - Arthur and I have difficulty swallowing a vegetable (9) - {ART}{I}{CHOKE}
25 - Pledge to get the wage estimate reduced? (7) - {EARN}{EST(
26 - Small boy not able to discourse at length (7) - {DE}{S}{CANT}
27 - New reel about a negative Plantagenet queen (7) - ELE{ANO}R*
28 - Ned used wire as tool to expand a packing case (7) - WI{DEN*}ER* Never heard of such a tool
DOWN
1 - Girl, one on the wagon comes round for some dye (7) - {ANN}{A}{TT}{O}
2 - Second only to dining it is a problem for restaurateurs (7) - {S}{EATING}
3 - Sort of respect afforded Bacon, I see (9) - OBEISANCE*
4 - Old fashioned (5) - DATED [E]
5 - Antonyms that are here today and gone tomorrow (4,3,2) - COME AND GO [CD]
6 - Arrange plane compartment (5) - PANEL*
7 - A rebel leader to be a match for the newcomer (7) - {A}{R}{RIVAL}
8 - Bugs are things the gardener tries to get ride of (7) - NETTLES [DD]
15 - Didn't leave in bad spirits (9) - EXORCISED [CD]
16 - Gin and leisure, we hear, produce entertaining activity (7) - {TRAP}{EZE} (~ease)
17 - A note about the leading goddess (7) - {A}{STAR}{TE}
19 - Make intelligible notes about nine Nepal constituents (7) - E{X}PLA{I}N*
20 - Some have chosen a Tory politician (7) - SENATOR [T]
22 - Honest and uncorrupted (5) - CLEAN [E]
23 - Ted now arranges to settle a permanent provision (5) - ENDOW*
Terrific commitment, Deepak
ReplyDelete@ Col: Good to see your blog. I had put together something which I have put in yesterdays blog. I draw your kind attention to the monstrosity appearing in yesterday’s posts at today’s time 9.06 am. I only managed to upload it now after reaching office. Even after seeing your blog, I still thought I should go ahead and post it. Hope you smile indulgently.
ReplyDelete@ Putting together the vanilla version, I realised the time and committment you must have to diligently prepare the links and things. Hats off to you, Sir.
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ReplyDeleteImagine a soldier's surprise when he reaches his objective and finds the flag already flying there and the boss present in person!
ReplyDeletein 26a, I interpeted small boy as Sid and hence discant, which is an alternative spelling for descant.
ReplyDelete8d: Extra e (ride instead of rid). Gardeners would no double like to get rid off nettles, but ride them? Ouch.
ReplyDelete1a Many=c+ South Africa=sa+ bond, muddled up (organise)= abscond =escape
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ReplyDeleteMail sent to kishoremrao@yahoo.com bounced back!
C G R aka Kesi to relatives such as Bhargav and old family friends
Kishore
ReplyDeleteI wonder whether you should have been so circumspect in providing annotated solution to today's crossword by putting it under Thursday's blogpost.
Once, when he knew he would be away, Deepak had a post with just a few lines as intro but without the answers (posted ahead of the day) and we commenters in multiple posts wrapped up the puzzle.
In international blogs such as 15sqd, TftT or BD, this is what we do: if we know our post will be delayed we put up a placeholder so that commenters may have their say before we are able to fulfil our scheduled task.
Hello everyone
ReplyDeleteWas away for sometime. I did notice that Deepak had posted a placeholder with today's date to enable visitors to post comments. But once he realized that his departure would be delayed he decided he could complete the puzzle as well and deleted it, replaced by the routine post timed to go on line at 8.30 am IST sharp.
I was about to post a comment there but suddenly observed that it had vanished ! That was sometime around 6 am IST. Many of the visitors may not have noticed it.
When we reach the home page of Deepak's blog, we have only two posts showing at a time.
ReplyDeleteIf any reader wishes to see Kishore's Comment under Thursday's post, they will have to drop down in Blog Archive at left and click on start date to end date - which will give all the posts bunched together for that period.
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ReplyDelete@CV: Did not want to tread on toes and face GCM.
ReplyDeleteKindly try kishoremrao@hotmail.com, Sir.
ReplyDelete@Kishore,
ReplyDeleteHere is your post which was under Thursday I'm copy pasting it here for others info
"@ Col: Sorry for acting without your consent. The blog is back in your hands as soon as you are back. As they say in the army: Take Charge (though I know I am only a major).
Across:
1.A-b-s-c-ond 5.Captain (Yeh Gaurav ki baat hai !)9.N-ear-est 10.Minaret* 11.To-i-ls* 12.Draw Level 13.Organised* 15.El-l-is* 16.Tra*-de* 18.Promoters 21.Art-i-choke 24.Cap-on 25. Earn-est 26.Dis*-cant 27.Ele-a-no-r 28.Wi-den*-er*
Down:
1.Anna-to 2.S-eating 3.Obeisance* 4.Dated 5.Come and go 6.Panel* 7.A-r-rival 8.Nettles ( ride? ) 14.Sup-por-ter 15.Exorcised 16.Trap-eze 17.A?t???e 18.E-x-pla-i-n 20.Senator 22.Clean 23.E-n-dow"
Just for your info, as Chaturvasi has already mentioned, if ever there happens to be a delay in my post there will always be a small post mentioning the same so if need be comments or solutions can be discussed there.
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteFinally left Bangalore at 7 and reached Coimbatore at 1:30 PM including a half hour break for breakfast at Adyar Ananda Bhavan (A2B) they call it, at Dharmapuri. Excellent road except for a 5 KM patch at Salem and a narrow stretch of 20 KM between Avinashi and Coimbatore which if widened one can cover the 370 KM in 5 hours flat, touched 120 on a couple of stretches.
Thanks to everyone for keeping the blog active.
Yes I had put in a post, mentioning delayed post, which would have appeared at 5 AM, but since I delayed my start I was busy with the CW and forgot about the delay post that's how Richard saw it, I must have deleted it around 5:45 or so when I finished the CW.
@ Col: Thanks for your indulgence. BTW Coimbatore reminds me of Dr Major R Sudhakar Rao, who set up the Rao Hospital in RS Puram. The hospital is still functioning, presently run by his youngest son Dr S R Rao.
ReplyDeleteContd: He had named his house on Ponnurangam Road (off DB Road) as Hill View, since you could see the Marudhamalai hills from his house in those days.
ReplyDeleteIn Coimbatore a well-known GP in the fifties and following decades was my mother's sister's husband Capt. C. K. Srinivasan. After a short service commission in the Army during the War, he became a municipal doctor and had private practice on Thiruppur Kumaran Street. His son, a GCIM, served as a rural doctor in Andhiyur. He was on tap 24/7 and I have seen patients being brought in at any time of night by bullock carts from surrounding villages and my cousin attending to them promptly and cheerfully. My cousin now oversees a clinic in Tatabad run by his sons and d-i-l, all doctors.
ReplyDeleteMy aunt had a big house on Thiruvenkataswamy Road, R. S. Puram, and I have pleasant memories of short stays in their ever-hospitable house where Madhva Navami and other functions were held in fetive gatherings.
ReplyDeleteWho's Ellis? 15 ac
ReplyDelete@ CV: Incidentally, Major Rao (who is no more)was the son of Dr Raghavendra Rao, medical adviser to the Cochin royal family and had three sons (all doctors, one of whom Dr SP Rao was practicing in Coimbatore and had a lot of indigent patients coming to him at all hours), two doctor !) in laws married to two of his sons, and also one grand-daughter who is a doctor.
ReplyDeleteLNS: Ellis is a common first name and surname, especially in Wales.
ReplyDeleteWho's Ellis? Why Ellis? Is he the bloke who got shot on the bot? (J.LeC Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
ReplyDeleteContd: Of course, you must be familiar with Thomas Robert Ellis, who was a plant supporter.
ReplyDeleteAhmedabad has an Ellis Bridge area located along the sides of the Sabarmati river.
ReplyDeleteNumerous residential settlements (like Navkunj, Krishnakunj and Maharashtra), educational institutions, and some well known hospitals are situated here.
This place is famous for the Law Garden, the Ellis Bridge Gymkhana and the Oriental Club. Apollo is also operating a hospital here.
He is better known as TRELLIS ! and is a frequent answer in crosswords.
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ReplyDeleteKashmir House? so obviously your father is a sapper, right? When was he in Central Command? if I am not being too nosy what is his name.
I started my schooloing at Loretto and then St Paul's Lucknow when my dad was posted there,of course then it was Eastern Commmand
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