1 - Disjointed nonsense is swallowed by agent (7) - {S{CRAP}PY}
5 - A kiss for a dollar! (7) - SMACKER [DD]
10 - Rope that was her undoing (6) - HAWSER*
11 - It can heat a room but cool an engine (8) - RADIATOR [E]
13 - New moon, light weight, seen in design on clothes (8) - {MONO*}{GRAM}
14 - Burke or Hillary (6) - EDMUND [DD]
15 - Successfully complete clearing taint after initiation of arraignment (6) - {A}{TTAIN*}
18 - Containing nitrogen (6) - NITRIC [E]
20 - French lady gets me across a weir (6) - {M{A}{DAM}E}
23 - Exercise control, take a break before fall (8) - {REST}{RAIN}
25 - Place in society given by sculpture-a change at last! (6) - STATU(-e+s)S
26 - A worm in a position of leadership? Thin joke! (8) - {HELM}{INTH*}
27 - Aromatic stuff from a part of the sea, a spirit (3,3) - {BAY} {RUM}
28 - Lacking creativity but clean enough for surgery (7) - STERILE [DD]
29 - Mr. German at home with good fish (7) - {HERR}{IN}{G}
2 - Switch coins (6) - CHANGE [DD]
3 - The cops maybe looking for him (9) - ABSCONDER [CD]
4 - An upstart hit back with Gopal's flute (7) - {PAR<-}{VENU} Never knew VENU meant flute
6 - Famous singer crazy about North America (7) - {MAD}{ON}{NA}
7 - Loud noise made by leaders in class lustily announcing new guidelines (5) - {C}{L}{A}{N}{G}
8 - Intense love of oneself with image on a roll (8) - EGOMANIA*
9 - A liqueur that Met-men cheered wildly (5,2,6) - CREME DE MENTHE*
16 - Twain's adventurous hero (3,6) - TOM SAWYER [CD]
17 - Hope for a drowning man (8) - LIFEBELT [E] Not for a woman?
19 - One of many for the viewers' entertainment on TV (7) - CHANNEL [CD]
21 - Bad lies that could somehow incapacitate one (7) - DISABLE*
22 - The season of decline in America? (6) - AUTUMN [CD]
24 - Is it right to leave out ‘uprising' in an island? (5) - {TIMO<-}{R}
Hello all
ReplyDeleteLiked STERILE, PARVENU, CREME DE MENTHE and a few others.
VENU in PARVENU reminded me of BANSURI we had some time ago.
Hi
ReplyDeleteIn AUTUMN, the EGOMANIA(c) ABSCONDER EDMUND from TIMOR, IGNORE(d) the RESTRAIN(ed) and DISABLE(d) PARVENU TOM SAWYER, CLANG(ed) the NITRIC acid store door shut and sprinkled some STERILE BAY RUM on the SCRAPPY LIFEVEST with a MONOGRAM, before delivering a SMACKER smelling of CREME DE MENTHE on MADAME MADONNA and tying the HERRING and the HELMINTH to the RADIATOR CHANNEL using a HAWSER, ATTAIN(ing) the STATUS of a CHANGE(ling).
Edmund reminded of not only Edmond Dantes of the Mount of Conte Cristo (!), but also Jeffrey Archer’s Paths of Glory via George Mallory via Edmund Hillary. Parvenu makes an appearance after a long time. Smacker used in a different connotation above.
@ Col & CV: Yesterday’s 1730 fall is today’s 22d :-)
Venu as in Venugopal or Murali-dhara. By the way, Bansuri might have its origins from Bans(bamboo) and sur (note).
ReplyDelete17D could also be LIFEVEST
ReplyDeleteDeepak
ReplyDeleteShe will clutch at a straw!
@ Col: I had put in LIFEVEST in 17d. Reminds of MAE WEST.
ReplyDelete:-)
ReplyDeleteIf you go to any Sri Venugoplaswamy temple, Krishna will have the flute in His hands.
ReplyDeleteThe temple in Gopalapuram, Chennai, where I am a volunteer, is one such.
The idol is quite a big one.
@Suresh & Kishore,
ReplyDeleteIf I am not wrong LIFEVEST is written as LIFE VEST whereas LIFEBELT is one word and fits the enumeration.
My Oxford concise does not show LIFEVEST or LIFE VEST, whereas LIFEBELT is there.
No doubt on Krishna's flute, but I never knew that the VENU in Venugopal meant flute.
ReplyDeleteThese two were also good ones:
ReplyDelete2D - Switch coins (6) - CHANGE [DD] - nice pun.
22D - The season of decline in America? (6) - AUTUMN [CD] -, decline = fall, a US expression for AUTUMN.
Venu goes with 'gopala', protector of cows, by drawing them to Him by divine music (I think). The idol of the Lord in our temple has with it a cow licking a calf.
ReplyDeletevenugaanam is also there!
ReplyDeleteRichard
ReplyDelete22d: The point was made by Kishore above.
Is using words in Indian languages, as in 'Venu' here, an accepted practice among Indian crossword setters? (considering there are many Indian languages, it could become quite complicated!)
ReplyDelete@ CV:
ReplyDeleteMost common and frequently-heard expressions: 'Woman of substance' and 'Men of straw', not the other way around.
Explanation, any?
18A is very bad. What is it doing in a cryptic puzzle?
ReplyDelete17D I agree with Colonel. Life vest is two words, so lifebelt fits better.
@ CV: Contd..
ReplyDeleteThat was with ref to your 8.34 post.
Agreed Colonel on Lifebelt
ReplyDeleteIn most situations, man is somewhat gender neutral. Eg: mankind, manpower, man-days, the expression man over machine etc. It's something that feminists need to work on.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning all
ReplyDeleteAs usual got stuck in Parvenu, creme de menthe and helminth. But i put lifebelt as a wild guess not knowing whether it is a double word or single one. Even Hawser troubled me for some time.
Good day and happy week ahead.
Mathu
Appropos, the man vs woman discussion above, I had put a question on another forum some time back; which I give below:
ReplyDeleteMen have one, women have two. What am I referring two.
At least 5 different answers are possible, some anatomical, some not. Try to get at least 3.
@ Deepak, with your permission, could I set in motion a small pastime, just to beat the boredom?
ReplyDeleteOnce, in college, one of our professors had asked us to form a sensible sentence in English, made up of words with the number of letters in the ascending order. viz., the first word would have 1 letter, second 2, third 3, fourth 4 and so on.
It was a clever ploy to keep all of us engaged for some time, so that there could be some semblance of peace and quiet.
With the brilliant, creative brains in action on this blog, we can expect the imagination to run riot and some real good stuff to come out.
BTW, this is the one I had presented: I DO NOT WANT DEATH UNLESS DESTINY WARRANTS.
C'mon, folks ! Get going...
Today's crossword was one of the easiest and could be done at one pass.
ReplyDeleteI have one, though looks heavily contrived! Also doesn't sound nice!
ReplyDeletei go out with Annie daily having marital pleasure abandoned.
I am one lazy mouse potato adoring computer gamesites addictedly.
ReplyDeleteNice game, Richard. Short ones from me:
ReplyDeleteO my God what drama!
A Po can flow, ponds cannot.
I do lag; floo takes Potter quicker.
:D
ReplyDeleteI am The Nita Jaggi - doubts, anybody?
A GI ant went ahead before monkeys trapezed overnight bartending supervisors continuously.
ReplyDeleteGobbledygook, of course.
I am not very happy eating carrots breaking carnivore traditions shamelessly.
ReplyDelete@Kishore: Applause for the last one!
ReplyDeleteSomething to go with my erratic mood...
ReplyDeleteI do not like happy people..... because..... cynicism outscores positivity......
O, to sit with paper trying, because somebody completed unexpected expectation, complicating understanding,
ReplyDeletegrandiloquence notwithstanding!!
@ Suchi: Thanks. The honour goes to Mr Bhargav for the immediately previous post.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone. If an opinion poll is conducted, there could be a landslide in favour of CGB.
ReplyDeleteIt was real fun.