ACROSS
1 - Spray for treatment of roseola (7) - AEROSOL*
5 - A piece of paper (7) - ARTICLE [CD]
9 - Persuade Lawrence, congressman, to appear on time (5) - {TE}{MP}{T}
10 - Abstemious member of Biblical society? (9) - R?C?A?I?E(Addendum - RECHABITE [CD] - Thanks to Kishore)
11 - New head adept at parading as an overeducated person (6) - {PEDA{N}T*}
12 - The problem about gnats making horses rear (8) -{MU{STANG<-}S<-}
15 - Tied, perhaps, after no ball? Send the offender overseas (9) - {EXTRA}{DITE*}
18 - Loaded beyond capacity (9) - OVERLADEN [E]
20 - Disturbed to see old boy completely fat (5) - {OB}{ESE*}
24 - Somehow sister has to hinder the action (6) - RESIST*
26 - Place for scholar to display his skill? (3,6) - ART SCHOOL*
27 - I spoil the game, figuratively speaking (5) - {I}{MAGE*}
28 - In the hostel Eva tended to exhilarate (7) - ELEVATE [T]
29 - Boils with anger as he sees the disaster (7) - SEETHES*
DOWN
1 - Not at Pisa, perhaps, this course? On the contrary! (9) - ANTIPASTO*
3 - Wicked and I can't alas, reform (9) - SATANICAL*
4 - Old city the French surround to bait (4) - {L{UR}E}
5 - Article about a foreign nobleman — a hard worker he figures (10) - {A}{C}{COUNT}{ANT}
6 - Sat around to drink to success (5) - {TO}{AST*}
8 - First lady adds couple of points to make equal money (5) - {EVE}{N}{S}
13 - Inclined to tamper with Moslem deed (10) - MEDDLESOME*
16 - All together in the past (2,3,4) - AT ONE TIME [DD]
17 - Build up the head's standing (9) - {ERECT}{NESS}
19 - Spite may be shown by the French in communication (7) - {EPIST*}{LE}
21 - I shall never live to see mine! (7) - EPITAPH [CD]
23 - Bill in car crash in Ghana (5) - {AC}{CRA*}
25 - Slam for not giving charity to poor (4) - ALMS*
Hi
ReplyDeleteA huge haul of anagrams: AEROSOL, PEDANT, MUSTANTS, EXTRADITE,OBESE, ANIMATED (innovative use of AND), RESIST, ARTSCHOOL, IMAGE, ELEVATE, SEETHES, ANTIPASTO, RAMADAN, SATANICAL, TOAST, MEDDLESOME, EPISTLE, ACCRA, ALMS.
First couple appear in 2d Adam and 8d.Eve
Another self reference: 21d I shall never live to see mine: EPITAPH (initially thought of FUNERAL, but dropped on crossings). Col: RIP van Winkle’s great !
10a RECHABITE (CD)
ReplyDelete@ Col: Also like 6a Captain Hook and Pegleg John Silver
ReplyDeleteThanks Kishore. Never heard of Rechabite. That's why I don't like CD type of clues especially when they are rarely heard words and there is no word play to assist.
ReplyDeleteYup, pretty obscure. But CDs are sometimes great: Ref todays TNIE 20a They don’t meet in the gymnasium (8,4)
ReplyDeleteHi all
ReplyDeleteDeepak, Kishore dashed past me on RECHABITE. Took slightly longer time to solve the top right corner. As usual a mild dose of words related to Christianity.
Some nice anagrams and play with words.
Liked the pics. However, but for having been aimed at the pirates, the TOAST cartoon may have been termed as a sample of black humour.
Contd: I hadn't heard of it too, till I started leafing through the dictionary !
ReplyDeleteRich, Just got lucky, thought it would something ending in ite like Carmelite, Jacobite, Hittite (?), Samsonite (!, not Biblical, of course, but just impedimenta)
ReplyDeletePARALLEL BARS is not an obscure word so it's not difficult to imagine
ReplyDeleteurbanite, socialite
ReplyDeleteParallel Bars reminds of the street in Asterix where there are Wine and Spirits shops on both sides of the street, so that they form parallel bars
ReplyDelete@CV: Not to forget the whole lot of materials ending with ite, like bakelite, haematite, siderite, limonite, anthracite...
ReplyDeleteC&C in today's paper had an interesting bit of history of Chennai. I used to wonder about the origin of the word Cotaurs (Salt Cotaurs is located close to Basin Bridge). It says that Cotaurs is the anglicized version of the Telugu word Cotaru for 'godown', that there existed once a godown for storing salt bags here.
ReplyDeleteThere are several words that south Indian languages have contributed to the English language. From Tamil, for example, we have Mulligatawny (milagu thanni), Conicopoly (kanakku pillai/ clerk), Catamaran (kattu maram).
It will interesting to know of words from other languages also.
Deepak Sir, the pic uploaded is for obese or overladen?
ReplyDeleteConicopoly!!!! LOL, the word sounds really funny.
ReplyDeleteI need some help here...
ReplyDeleteI've often seen the word "number" abbreviated as "no." How does it really work?
Subramanaim, I think it's a double play.
ReplyDeleteChair: Overladen, the person: Obese.
A thoughtful selection.
No. is an abbr. of the Latin numero, a form of the word for 'number'.
ReplyDeleteThanks Chaturvasi :)
ReplyDeleteHamilton, Hamilton, Ambiltun, Ambuttan....
ReplyDeleteHamilton bridge, in Chennai got corrupted in local parlance to Ambiltun and from there went to Ambuttan which of course is barber in Tamil and a popular surname in English. Finally reappeared on the scene as Barbers Bridge.