ACROSS
1 - Draw a circle round a dealer in stolen goods, for a complete barricade (4-5) - {RING}-{FENCE}
5 - Stopped without starting and relaxed (5) -
8 - Tin toque redesigned but just short of what it should be (3,5) - NOT QUITE*
9 - Fights over leftover pieces of food (6) - SCRAPS [DD]
11 - A willow that is very big? That is right (5) - {OS}{IE}{R}
12 - Take it or leave it (9) - ULTIMATUM [E]
14 - The queen, anyone can see, is wearing pure sky blue (8) - {C{ER}{U}LEAN}
18 - Sheridan's competitors (6) - RIVALS [CD]
22 - He won't do a day's work perhaps (4-5) - PART-TIMER &lit
24 - Father, but not necessarily an elderly person (3,3) - OLD MAN [CD]
25 - Crawly creature that I may drop in confusion (8) - MYRIAPOD*
27 - Desk-bound, needs arty make-up (9) - SEDENTARY*
DOWN
1 - Decorative art on Indian house front (7) - RANGOLI [E]
3 - Change fifty careful men spot in a source of light (11,4) - {F{L}UORESCENT LAMP}*
4 - Umpire's decision allowing the batsman to bat on (3,3) - NOT OUT [E]
6 - Let's eat out here in Washington (7) - SEATTLE*
7 - They collect rubbish from Delhi University people crossing street (7) - {DU}{ST}{MEN}
10 - Article in Emergency Room that can put people to sleep (5) - {E{THE}R}
15 - A thousand soldiers upset by Greek character (5) - {SIG}{M}{A}<-
17 - Baked dish from Ulster, cooked with a drop of Drambuie (7) - {STRU{D}EL*}
19 - Old Roman general who had a hold over Pennsylvania (7) - {A}{GRIP}{PA}
20 - Agent carrying treated gold is stained (7) - {SP{LODG*}Y}
21 - Worn out at the edges, like temper waiting to flare up (6) - FRAYED [CD]
Hi everyone
ReplyDeleteNice to be back in the arena after a small break.
What's our complaint today? That the puzzle was very easy? We are indeed a hard-to-please lot.
Some nice clues, anagrams and play with words.
Learnt a couple of new words - CERULEAN, MYRIAPOD. Liked the clue for NOTHING.
EXCOMMUNICATION, NOT OUT and a few others were total giveaways. SPLODGY appears in only some dictionaries.
The NOT QUITE SEDENTARY six SIGMA OLD MAN AGRIPPA from SALOP, had NOTHING against EXCOMMUNICATION of his RIVALS EASED out from SEATTLE, who were PART-TIMER DUSTMEN drawing SPLODGY CERULEAN RANGOLI on MYRIAPODS in APRIL, INGEST(ing) STRUDEL SCRAPS, when they were NOT OUT of the OSIER RING FENCE, under COPIUS ETHER for COSMETIC SURGERY under a FLUOROSCENT LAMP, after they were served an ULTIMATUM on their FRAYED nerves.
ReplyDeleteParttimer cartoon reminded me of the poster: DO NOT WAKE WHEN I AM WORKING
ReplyDeleteYep, today's puzzle was pretty easy. Liked 5A, 12A, 10D,15D, 16D and 17D.
ReplyDeleteMy MS word doesn't recognize "splodgy" as a word. Nice clue though
It's a shame that I couldn't get 1D (RANGOLI). The only one I missed. Maybe was reading too much into the clue. Even crossings didn't help.
So one's expected to know the US state abbreviations and major cities (and their states) in the US, I guess for THC.
ReplyDelete24 A was good, I thought.
ReplyDeleteGot 14 A from crossings, but looking at the anno, does 'U' stand for 'anyone'?
ReplyDelete@Giridhar,
ReplyDelete'U' stands for 'anyone can see'' 'U' certification in films
Yep, I reckon so. You gotta know a bit about English counties too. As regards Indian Geography, it's enough to know that there's a town called "Erode." ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Deepak, didn't make the connection with film certification :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd Yes going by 26 A, English counties too, though they figure less frequently than US names.
ReplyDelete@ Col, CV
ReplyDelete21 - Worn out at the edges, like temper waiting to flare up (6) - FRAYED [CD}
The typology should be DD
Worn out at the edges - FRAYED
FRAYED temper waiting to flare up
I remember Gridman using Gooty once, to my pleasant surprise. You see, Gooty is a small town in Andhra, near my mom's hometown of Anantapur and I have passed through the former many a time.
ReplyDeleteOf course, many other setters have used other places like Vellore, etc., usually with the phrase "on the outskirts of ..."
@Venkatesh at 09:29
ReplyDeleteI agree.
Giridhar, that's exactly why I added "a bit of...." It's a fact that US cities, towns and states figure more often than English counties or cities. In Sunday Crosswords, you'll find a lot of clues related to UK geography.
ReplyDeleteWhile it is understandable that Sunday crosswords(published in The Hindu) have lots of UK geography related clues, because they are direct reprints of UK crosswords, I wonder why there is a predominance of US city/state names. Is this because of US popular culture having a strong influence, or the feeling (on the part of setters) that people are more likely familiar with US names because of the travel to and fro between US and India? (in which case it is likely to have increased in the last decade or so).
ReplyDelete@ Richard: Thanks for reminding of Malaika in yesterday's blog. We seem to know the songs Malaika and Katrina well before Miss Arora and Miss Kaif became well known (may be even born). I given below one version of Katrina:
ReplyDeleteMale :Ye ye kathrina
Female:Na Na Younchina - 2
Male :Tuka bycala thoun mahim'k vortho
Mahim than tuko bandra vortho
Bandra cha thya rananth tuka loving chikoitha
Female:Sadans mujha patlan yethai laus nasthana
Kathrin Kathrin munoun thuji ladin sukana
Male :Potlun dorun vagin mujha mog karthana
Laus kithyak soglo soumsar haav dakoithana
Female:Sal Sal Younchina
Male :Kithyal Baye Kathrina - 2
Female:Botete vade gaun dishi
Bail puri badun dishi
bycala ani america sangatha yetha
Female:Sabar saley maka lagun mithyo marthaley
thitlye korun vagien dorun mog karthaley
Male :Utra tujhi iekun baye maka amaal zaley
Kathrin baye tuve maka cathrinth galey
Male :Ye ye kathrina
Female:Na Na Younchina - 2
Male :Tuka bycala thoun mahim'k vortho
Mahim than tuko bandra vortho
Bandra cha thya rananth tuka loving chikoitha
Female:Barah sorun therah lagli praie zalie maka
Ounkar ravoun puro zaley kazar za moga
Male :Bees hazar doth ani ghar tu di maka
Na thar baye dismiss kaley thu maka naka - 2
Male :Ye ye kathrina
Female:Na Na Younchina - 2
Male :Tuka bycala thoun mahim'k vortho
Mahim than tuko bandra vortho
Bandra cha thya rananth tuka loving chikoitha
Female:Sal Sal Younchina
Male :Kithyal Baye Kathrina - 2
Female:Botete vade gaun dishi
Bail puri badun dishi
bycala ani america sangatha yetha
Giridhar, I think you're right. It could be 'cause of the influence of American pop culture. That and US being India's second home.
ReplyDelete@CV sir,
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for the link to Madras Musings in yesterday's blog. I enjoyed a lot going through the archives.
Dr.D.Srinivasan
Sad to find 'rang' missing in the Colonel's photo for rangoli! Making it up by giving this link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Album?uid=13446707661093644414&aid=1246398711
Sorry, the link does not work. Instead I direct orkut friends to 'vanna kolangal' in my photos in my orkut page.
ReplyDeleteHi PP,
ReplyDeleteI purposely did not put in a coloured picture. I wanted to show the typical 'Kolam' which is seen in front of houses on a daily basis.
Here is the link to PP's Kolams
ReplyDeleteMrs PP's Kolam designs
11AC: OSIER. is 'very big = OS'? Over Size? What's the answer?
ReplyDeleteOS = outsize (very big)
ReplyDeleteThis is also used in referring to overly large piston rings=OS rings
ReplyDeleteFrom MM:
ReplyDeleteParry’s Corner The firm of Parry which has stood here
(George Town) for over two centuries.
Can anyone furnish some more information on the above? I was, with a few others, operating a small business during 1974-84 in a old palatial building
in Mowbray Road (Yes, though incorrect, I have never seen it spelt as Moubray Road except in historical references). This building was DARE HOUSE and said to be the former head office of Parry and Co. This place is now known as Mowbrays Garden and has a few bungalows. The present Parry's corner building is also known as DARE HOUSE.
CGB
ReplyDeleteWas a tutorial college running in the property on Mowbray's Road that you mention above?
INDEED. MANI'S TUTORIAL COLLEGE, which used to do roaring business. We were occupying a portion of the building and have many a time seen filmstars ( I think Kamal Hasan and Prabhu were among them{?})attending classes to clear their SSLC.(They attended classes irregularly) Prof. Mani was a friend of former President V.V.Giri who used to visit the place once in a while. His security officers would occupy our office room and make (free) telephone calls informing his whereabouts, etc. Stop/Nostalgia!
ReplyDeleteDear Bhargav,
ReplyDeleteHave you seen this exhibit called the Notebook of 1833 of one John Symons? You will find in it that as of 1833 there are a number of English people living in the area called Mowbray's Garden. At that time of course JW Dare, who co founded Parry and Dare in 1819, lived in Amunjeecari (Aminjikarai or அமைந்தகரை) on Poonamalli Road. I feel he might have bought a residential property on Mowbray's Garden area. This is what might have been represented in the later period as an HQ of EID Parry.
You may also try 'Madras - Then and Now' by S Muthiah, a book based on pre photographic plates obtained by FV Arul (former IGP, Madras) from the descendants of an old Madras family then living in the Nilgiris.
Muthiah's 'Madras Discovered' does not have anything on it.
Sorry to be citing S Muthiah. For reasons I'll not go into, I feel he's a rather mediocre chronicler. But we don't have anyone better- more's the pity.
Dear Bhargav,
ReplyDeleteOne of my close friends says the 1833 Notebook is available online:
http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/id39.html
Dear LNS,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info.
BTW, I had an opportunity of meeting and supplying a new air-conditioner to Mrs. Arul a few years back, in their house in the corner of Pantheon Road (adjascent to Actor Balaji's house.)
I've been in that house too - to meet with the son - some 25 years ago.
ReplyDeleteDear Bhargav: JW Dare however seems to have died May 18, 1838, per obit below:
ReplyDelete18 At Madras suddenly John William Dare Esq senior partner of the firm of Messrs Parry Dare and Co Injuries produced by a fall from his horse and terminating in apoplexy were the causes which led to this unexpected event.
See http://bit.ly/9vwBLm
The plot just thickens. Maybe one of his descendants moved to (or bought a house near) Mowbray's Garden.
What's the probability however that a guy living in Amunjeecari in 1833 would have moved to Mowbray's area before he died in Negapatam in 1838?
Sorry, he died in Madras, not Negapatam. That was a cut-paste boo boo.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don't know much about Chennai and its history and background, I had the good fortune of meeting Mr Arul's daughter, Jennifer Arul of the NDTV a couple of times during my visits. A great person and journalist !
ReplyDeleteAt one time, Mowbray's Road reportedly had only a few houses with large grounds along it.
ReplyDeleteWe can form an idea of this from 'The Grove' now opening on Eldams Road. Once part of a much larger property called “The Baobab, this 13 acre property was originally purchased by Rajatantra Pravina The Hon’ble Palle Chentsal Rao Pantulu, CIE for Rs. 26,ooo. It extended from Mowbrays Road to the present HD Raja Nagar. He sold the land adjoining Mowbray's Road to Canjeevaram Venkata Subbiah and his son-in law to Pattabhirama Iyer, civil court judge and father of Sir C.P.Ramaswamy Iyer. Palle Cenntsal Rao was appointed as Deputy Collector, in the Inams Commision in July 1859 at the age of 27. His family was perhaps the earliest residents on Eldams Road and his descendents continue to live here
The Grove,so named because of the large number of trees in the grounds, houses a school by that name run by the Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer Foundation in a .”magnificent 125 year-old building; along with a couple of other buildings. In the early part of the last century, Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer renovated the property purchased by his father, bv adding the first floor and using teak from Burma, marble from Venice, and ceiling tiles from Belgium.
Another of the few surviving stately homes on this road is ‘Mithila”, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Nagoji Rao, descendents of an old Maharastrian family. This house, built in 1931, features high ceilings, deep verandahs and projecting eaves and gables.
The Madras Club, founded in 1832, is now located in what was formerly Mr.Mowbray's House in TTK Road (Mowbrays Road). First we go down the road from Music Academy, cross the road after Park Sheraton and keep going straight till we reach the last house at the end of the road, now called Boat Club Road. This club is often confused with the Madras Boat Club which was adjacent.
Incidentally, there is also a Dare house in Pachaiappa’s College compound once occupied by Robert Clive during the French occupation of Fort St.George.
Vivekanandar Illam was initially called Ice House (The bus stop here is still called Ice House Stop.) It was used for storing the ice sent from Bost on, USA by ship.