1 - Means of communication to help clone perhaps (9) - CELLPHONE* I initially put TELEPATHY and went totally off track
5 - Good man with deposit, a hidden store (5) - {ST}{ASH}
8 - Soften by soaking in money? A make-believe (8) - P{RET}ENCE
9 - Where might beer be kept – in a pub? Right, by the Spanish (6) - {BAR}{R}{EL}
11 - Objects of worship (5) - IDOLS [E]
12 - Eliminate water-like stuff, blended tea (9) - {LIQUID}{ATE*}
13 - Fighter, military man sporting French name (3-3) - NO{N-CO}M
14 - For ready money, nothing more than soft cloth (8) - {CASH}{MERE}
16 - Cheerful race treated gratis (8) - {CARE*}{FREE}
18 - Symbol that may resemble money to an extent (6) - EMBLEM [T]
22 - See prudes running to take the place of another (9) - SUPERSEDE*
23 - Tree with a large bend beginning to hang (5) - {L}{ARC}{H}
25 - With oriental taste, he develops into a lover of art (8) - {AEST{HE}T*}{E}
26 - Putting carbon in drink makes you shrink back in distaste (5) - WIN{C}E
27 - Bruhaspati to the gods (9) - PRECEPTOR [E]
DOWN
1 - It describes a picture of a chicken swallowing a note (7) - {CAP{TI}ON}
2 - Get ready to sleep? (3,4) - LIE DOWN [E]
3 - Emphasise meeting as a way of feeding newspapers (5,10) - {PRESS} {CONFERENCE}
4 - Mysterious part of Medoc culture (6) - OCCULT [T]
5 - In emptiness, a hotel conjures up something to eat (7,8) - SPANISH OMELETTE*
6 - Price that a flier has to pay (7) - AIRFARE [E]
7 - A Greek in Hades is ahead of a point (7) - {HELL}{ENE}
10 - Indian wife in America (5) - SQUAW [E]
15 - Sheep in empty jail, a precious thing (5) - J(
16 - Source of wealth – for the dairyman? (4,3) - CASH COW [CD]
17 - Persuaded one to take part in new period play (5,2) - {ROPED I*}{N}
19 - Big way, second to none in size (7) - {LARGE}{ST}
20 - Here's ma, worried about fish (7) - MAHSEER* This photo has been taken at the Cauvery fishing village near Bangalore, one of the resorts established by 'Papa' Wakefield who passed away recently and Richard wrote about him.
Hi
ReplyDeleteI WINCE(d) at the PRETENCE of my CAREFREE NON-COM PRECEPTOR, who was an AESTHETE, called me on my CELLPHONE to SUPERCEDE me and advised me LIQUIDATE my assets (which included a CASH COW, a MAHSEER and my AIRFARE), STASH the ICONS/IDOLS and the LARGEST JEWEL in a BARREL made of LARCH and covered with CASHMERE, CODING it with an OCCULT EMBLEM and CAPTION, then RECEDE to my room and LIE DOWN with HELLENE SQUAW (shades of Mona-tony here) ROPED IN for the purpose, after having a SPANISH OMELETTE at a PRESS CONFERENCE.
I know a HELLENE SQUAW sounds odd, but if a Greek lady married an American Indian, well, there you have it.
CASHMERE and CASHCOW, lots of money here! IDOLS or ICONS would both fit 11a, depending on one’s viewpoint, since one can idolise icons or iconize idols.
Good morning folks
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed solving today's puzzle. Many clues with anagrams and word-play.
26A - 'Putting carbon in drink.....' - brought back the memories of childhood days, when we had the aerated 'golie' soda. A set of three bottles, each having a moving glass ball at the mouth, fitted in a rotating box and charged with CO2.."Yeh daulat bhi le lo, yeh shohrat bhi le lo, bhale chheen le mujhse meri jawani, magar mujhko lauta do bachpan ka sawan.......', courtesy Jagjit Singh. (If I translate it into English, its flavour will be lost.)
27A - Preceptor and Bruhaspati - good comparison. Also liked the clues for SQUAW and MAHSEER.
@ Richard: Just after you dropped us at the Flower Market, I wanted to introduce my son to a Golie soday at Temple Square. The sodas were there but bottles did not appear very clean. So we took a rain check. At that shop, they used to make Lemlet from the golie soda (probably a corruption of lemonade). They also used to have a ginger drink.
ReplyDeleteSome new words for me today - capon, ret, hellene, preceptor.
ReplyDelete10 - Indian wife in America (5) - SQUAW
ReplyDeleteNot a good one.
Offensive and inappropriate.
10 D - In the US, yes, but not in India, I would think. Of course there are certain terms which are not PC in India, but not this one.
ReplyDeleteGood morning all
ReplyDeletebeing a regular follower of this blog and comments thereafter i have almost finished the entire squares except for that squaw, hellene and mahsheer. initially i got stuck with telephone later changed it as cell phone.
Thank u all for my marked improvement..
good day and happy week end ahead
Good morning, almost got all but for two, Non-Com and Larch.
ReplyDeleteWell, well, things seem to be on the quieter side. Let's keep the forum abuzz.
ReplyDelete22A - See prudes running to take the place of another (9) - SUPERSEDE*
Can this word SUPERSEDE be called a 'spell-trap' ? A new coinage under the Poetic Licence Act. ;-)
More often than not it is being spelt as 'supercede' because of its phonetic (rhyming) association with words like cede, accede, concede, precede, recede, secede on the one hand and with those like exceed, proceed and succeed on the other.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/supersede
Origin: 1485–95: Latin: 'supersedere' to sit above or upon, forbear, equiv. to super- super- + sedere to sit
However, a couple of online dictionaries have given 'supercede' a seal of approval. A commenter had opined here some time ago that the dictionaries in print form are the ultimate reference recourse for accuracy. I fully agree with the view. Since the Latin root is 'supersedere', SUPERSEDE should be the correct form, what can I say, IMHO?
Perhaps it is one of the very few words in English vocabulary to end with 'sede'. Will be glad if my friends here can come out with any other words.
Similarly, there are some words ending with 'sy' but are erroneously spelt with 'cy'. Some examples: hypocrisy, idiosyncrasy, fantasy, ecstasy, apostasy etc. These mistakes do not occur intentionally, but only because of other similar-sounding words.
Interestingly, PROPHECY is a noun and PROPHESY (pronounced 'pro-fe-sai') is a verb.
This, please, should not be regarded as being fusSY on flimSY matters.
The Daily Telegraph carries an article on Roger Squires, the UK crossword composer (Daily Telegraph, Guardian, FT, etc) and also the syndicated UK crossword that the New Indian Express carries.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7652591/Meet-the-Telegraphs-cryptic-crossword-maestro.html
Friends, the author of the quote in para 4 of the article is yours truly!
The URL of the original article is:
http://bigdave44.com/2010/03/01/dt-26176/
Today I wrote a blog on the FT crossword:
http://fifteensquared.net/2010/04/30/ft-13373-bradman/
@C-Vasi
ReplyDelete'Bar of soap' (3,6,6)The Rovers Return
Pl explain
Is this a reference to the fictional pub Rovers Return Inn in the soap Coronation Street?
ReplyDeleteYes, I think it's a bar (pub) in a TV serial (soap as in 'soap opera', sentimental stuff like many of our own TV serials).
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