ACROSS
1 - Would the salesman soar to a theme repeated in music? (7) - {REP}{RISE}
5 - What a query seeks (6) - ANSWER [E]
11 - Invigorate with some Payyoli venison (5) - LIVEN [T]
12 - Alumna, o'so peculiar and inconsistent (9) - ANOMALOUS*
13 - Desolate place made famous by Eliot (9) - WASTELAND [DD]
14 - The girl about to return is so thin (5) - {SHE}{ER<-}
15 - A hoodlum would add a plug to it (4) - UGLY ? Anno pending (Addendum (-plug-)UGLY - Thanks to Kishore see comments)
22 - Strip the skin of poacher's first slippery swimmer (4) - {P}{EEL}
26 - He would lead a novice into drug (5) - {P{I}{L}OT}
27 - Relatively smaller fish, a subordinate (9) - {UNDER}{LING}
29 - A German terrorist, heartless and losing head, reformed by university official (9) - {RE{G}ISTR{A}R
30 - Say hello, get to receive a note (5) - {G{RE}ET}
31 - Go back escorting girl on a pleasure trip (6) - {O{UTIN}G}<-
32 - Commercial poetry unfavourable to one's interests (7) - {AD}{VERSE}
DOWN
2 - Part of the roof whereunder one may overhear talk (5) - EAVES [CD]
4 - POW camp that put gals at jeopardy (6) - STALAG*
6 - Craft of Biblical survivors (5,3) - NOAHS ARK [E]
7 - Everything, with a bit added, is nutritious (9) - {WHOLE}{SOME}
8 - Place to relax with others around Oregon (6) - {RES{OR}T}
9 - Weapon for a second grade, depressed shooter (7) - {B}{LOW}{GUN}
18 - Enthusiastic supporter of division at home accepts appeal (8) - {PART}{I{SA}N}
19 - Draughtsman's tool (1-6) - T-SQUARE [E]
23 - Spectacles include harbour in Portuguese town (6) - {O{PORT}O}
24 - Admired — dead or otherwise (6) - ADORED*
25 - The accent of a born blackguard (6) - {B}{ROGUE}
28 - The things revealed when kismet is reversed (5) - ITEMS [T<-]
Hi everyone
ReplyDeleteToday's grid pattern is not something that is found often. The top and bottom halves are linked only at two places - 7D and 16D. A few at the bottom left corner luded me.
REP+RISE, ANSWER, LIVEN, ANOMALOUS*, WASTELAND, SHEER, CLA(R)ION*, I+M+PASSE, UNDER+LING, G(RE)ET, ADVERSE, EAVES, RENNET(<-), STALAG, NOAH'S ARK, WHOLE+SOME, GON(D)OLA*, F(L)IGHTS, ADORED*, B+ROGUE, ITEMS(<-) - good ones.
Hi
ReplyDeleteOn the whole an enjoyable CW. A nice visual clue in 23d O-PORT-O, spectacles represented by O-O steals the LIMELIGHT. ANOMOLOUS, REGISTRAT, WASTELAND and UNDERLING were WHOLSOME . BROGUE, PILOT, PARTISAN and STALAG have returned after a long time.
@ Shuchi: My TENNER in response to CV’s article in your blog (along with TIEDOWN) seems to have gone AWOL, but turned up here (pun intended) as RENNET.
15A too eluded me. I too had UGLY in mind, but had no idea of anno.
ReplyDeleteKishore,
ReplyDeleteYour entry at Shuchi's blog says TIE-DOWN and TIDIER there's no TENNER there, maybe someone needed it and TIDIED it up!!
Yup, exactly, that post seems to be AWOL and I have put it up again today.
ReplyDelete31a Girl=NITU, a pet name for NITA?
ReplyDeleteCol 834:Sankalak, the collector/arranger collected it for today's CW
ReplyDeleteKishore 08:36
ReplyDeleteRemember Neetu Singh of our times, who is now better identified as Ranbir Kapoor's mother?
Richard
ReplyDeleteBy "our" stressed like that, what do you imply? I protest! I am very young at heart.
Deepak
ReplyDeleteWe get the warning "To help protect your security, IE has blocked this website from displaying content with security cert. errors".
This, I think, is bec of a pic you're using.
Just last night I was watching Neetu & Rishi gyrating to the tune of 'Ek mai aur Ek tu'
ReplyDeleteKishore
ReplyDeleteI did notice you lost momentarily in the xing. Glad that you're now on the other side.
Hey Deepak
ReplyDeleteI was quietly resting at home.
CV,
ReplyDeleteThere must be something wrong with your IE, this reply is posted through the blog which I have opened in the IE Browser
The pic doesn't pass the security cert is at 10d.
ReplyDeleteI will try with FF and Chrome and report back.
CV,
ReplyDeleteThere must be something wrong with your IE, this ones through Firefox
CV,
ReplyDeleteThen it must be related to the security settings of your IE browser, it must be on High. The picture in any case is not objectionable as the tribal shown in 9D is wearing a loincloth
10D is just showing a Gondola
ReplyDeleteDeepak
ReplyDeleteOn FF the pic does appear but if you will notice even after the page is fully loaded the loading circle keeps on moving; wonder if something is happening behind the scenes.
In Chrome, the pic has been blocked. but with no sec cert warning.
CV,
ReplyDeleteLike I said it must be something to do with the security level settings on your computer. I have the page opened both in Firefox as well as IE and there is no problem here.
It is set at Medium.
ReplyDeleteThe settings on my IE browser is also at medium!
ReplyDelete"If the certificate has an error, it might indicate that your connection has been intercepted or that the web server is misrepresenting its identity." (from Help)
ReplyDeleteI'm using FF and 10D's (pic) not loading. Wonder what's happening inside the Gondola.
ReplyDeleteWorks fine for me with Chrome and FF
ReplyDeleteCV 08:42
ReplyDeleteGlad, nevertheless, you have identified yourself in our group. ;-)
Deepak 08:46
That was an enjoyable movie - Khel Khel Mein. And the duet, so beautifully rendered by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar.
Well tried with Chrome too... The pic ain't loading.
ReplyDeleteVJ & CV,
ReplyDeleteObviously it has something to do with the settings of your browser on your computer. I don't use Chrome, but FF and IE is showing the picture with no problem
Hey you young guys, welcome to Kishore-avasta ! The young may become old, the old may become young, but I remain young forever, even after the inevitable better half of the death and taxes couple. D comes only once, tax holds a multiple entry visa.
ReplyDeleteRichard: Neetu is also Ranbir's d-i-l.
ReplyDeleteKishore, what's the cryptic message that you're sending?
ReplyDeleteI thought Neetu is Raj's d-i-l
ReplyDeleteRaj's real name is Ranbir Raj Kapoor ! His brothers are Shamsher and Balbir, better known as Shammi and Shashi.
ReplyDeletegood morning
ReplyDeletedid charlie chaplin ever acted in a movie limelight. i thought it was city lights and filled it accordingly and stuck with it. otherwise a nice one to solve.
thanks
mathu
Apropos the licence plate C posts, some would remember that Kannada was previously called Canarese.
ReplyDeleteMathu, yes he did. 1952
ReplyDeleteMathu,
ReplyDeleteSee the link provided with LIMELIGHT
Relaxed days are over. No prizes for guessing who makes an appearance tomorrow
ReplyDeleteThe one and only NJ :-)
ReplyDeleteNITU, or scrambled TINA
ReplyDeleteAnita loses her head and judge puts gag order (on an infamous crossword compiler) (4,5)
ReplyDelete@VJ Would be great if that happens
ReplyDeleteThe pic for EAVES has the label SOFFIT for one part of the building. This word is a little-known one. I vaguely remember that several months ago an FT crossword used it, but I don't remember the clue nor wordplay.
ReplyDeleteSeems like this Chinese guy's looking to have a good time - his reward for a hard day's work!!!
ReplyDeleteCV,
ReplyDeleteSoffit is the underside of a structural component, such as a beam, arch, staircase etc
VJ: I thought of putting 'headless Anita' but dropped it thinking it might sound a tad uncharitable, so dropped the project !
ReplyDeleteBut I liked the restraining legal order passed !!!
ReplyDeleteLOL. "Headless Anita....." was the first thing that came to my mind, but didn't go through with it 'cause I found it creepy.
ReplyDeletefrom:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword
ReplyDeleteVisual Clues
Visual clues are very rare. They are best explained using an example:
Exclamation of surprise about spectacles (3)
The answer would be COO, which is an "exclamation of surprise". The 'c' comes from the abbreviation of the word "circa", meaning "about", and "spectacles" is OO because these letters look like a drawing of a pair of glasses.
Today's 23d falls in this category.
VJ &lit !
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