I'm all at sea today.
ACROSS
ACROSS
4 - White bath bombs (8) - SOAPSUDS [E] Why white?
8 - Far end of the seat (6) - BOTTOM [DD]
10 - Attractive quality of a thing (4) - LOOK ? (Addendum - LURE Thanks to VJ, see comments)
11 - First multiply one large number (4) - {M}{ANY}
13 - President is in the capital of an ancient city (6) - {DEL{P}HI}
15 - Villainous in-house character (7) - HEINOUS*
17 - Adjacent apartment has the sample cloth (4) - TAPA [T]
18 - Praise the advertisement (4) - PUFF [CD]
19 - They may be used in chemical equations (7) - SYMBOLS [CD]
21 - Short movie for Lawrence is on the right screen (6) - {FILm}{TE}{R}
22 - Mostly make a note of the decree (4) - WRITe
25 - Oddly Sputnik has failed (4) - {S}{U}{N}{K}
26 - One may be earning twice the pay for each hour of work (6,4) - DOUBLE TIME [CD]
27 - Bound to include the German leader in front of the right alliance (6) - M??D?R (Addendum - {MER{G}E}{R} - See comments)
28 - Archimedes is in to start off the race initially on road (8) - {IN}{eVENT}{O}{R}
DOWN
1 - Virus will finally strike an American man in the large city (5) - {E}{BO}{LA}
2 - Watch around very fast (6) - ?T?O?? ( Addendum - {STAR{V}E}- Thanks to VJ, see comments)
3 - The end of a sign is cut short in Georgia (5) - {OMEn}{GA}
4 - Kind man will first fit in the broken toys (5) - {SO{F}TY*}
5 - Malls are accepting the software to be sold initially (7) - {AR{CAD}E}{S}
6 - Worn by many in the prayer hall (9) - SKULLCAPS [CD]
12 - A fool has a free house in New York (5) - {N{INN}Y}
14 - Zodiac sign (9) - CAPRICORN [E]
15 - Can follow a way considered fit to be lived in (9) - {HABIT}{ABLE}
16 - Colour in the cucumbers (5) - UMBER [T]
19 - Obsolete bass cornet (7) - SERPENT [E]
20 - Headless judge follows King George with resentment (6) - {G}{R}{jUDGE}
22 - Sound of revolution escalates without Henry and the bishop (5) - W{H}I{RR} Anno pending
23 - Time to dispose the small things (5) - {ITEM*}{S}
24 - Petticoat of a woman (5) - SKIRT [E]
Hi
ReplyDelete27a I put in MERGER but not sure of anno, German leader =G or Ger... Merger=alliance
27 - Bound to include the German leader in front of the right alliance (6) - M??D?R
ReplyDeleteMER{G}E{R] as 20 down is grudge ,the 4 th letter happens to be g and not d{typo corrected]
5th Dr not 4th
ReplyDeleteThanks Kishor & Dr RP,
ReplyDeleteI got foxed because of my typo
@ Col: Regarding your byeline:
ReplyDeleteIf all the seas were one sea,
What a great sea it would be
If all the soapsuds were one soapsud,
What a great soapsud it would be,
and the great soapsud covered the great sea....
2D STARVE = fast
ReplyDeletewatch = STARE
very = V
Guess 10A = LURE
ReplyDeleteCan someone enlighten me on the connection between BOUND and MERE in 27A, I'm too pooped to trawl the internet for it
ReplyDeleteThanks VJ I think that's it for today's NJ
ReplyDelete10 - Attractive quality of a thing (4) LURE
ReplyDelete@ KISHORE
ReplyDelete5th Dr not 4th, I meant it for merger and was in NJ's wavelength and thanks anyway.
Checked one of the online dictionaries...
ReplyDeleteOne of the definitions of mere happen to be "boundary." It's archaic though. Maybe this is the connection NJ was looking at.
Sorry, Dr
ReplyDeleteAvaLL (NJ) yeppomey bulb aDikkira
Re BOUND and MERE
ReplyDelete3 /mɪər/ –noun British Dialect - a boundary or boundary marker. Also, mear.
Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE ( ge ) mǣre; c. ON mǣri; akin to L mūrus wall, riM
@ Deepak
ReplyDelete"I'm all at sea today."
You did amazingly well in the circumstances. The top right hand corner foxed me totally because I wrote shampoo instead of soapsuds + several other minor problems
22D If we remove H and RR we are left with WI.IW could stand for Information Warfare. So maybe that fills in for 'revolution escalates', with 'revolution doing double duty.
ReplyDeleteAny ideas on why BO should be an American male
ReplyDeletePerhaps NJ had a bad experience with an American male.
ReplyDeleteWell after all the googling, that's the only conclusion I could make.
ReplyDelete@ Suresh
ReplyDeleteProably NJ has taken it from "Bo" Diddley, who passed away in 2008. He was an American rock and roll vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and inventor. Known as "The Originator", he played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock & roll.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley
There are several other persons with Bo as first name. To mention but a few:
Bo Hopkins, American actor
Bo Jackson, American former NFL and MLB All-Star, and the subject of the "Bo Knows" advertising campaign
Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
Bo Pelini, American football coach
In fact, the only BO most of us recall may be the actress of 10
ReplyDeleteBo reminded me of Bo didley all right. But "BO" for "an American man" is too far fetched.
ReplyDelete@ Kishore
ReplyDeleteI thought you would refer to Bo Derek. So, I left it out of my post.
Incidentally, BO (aka Bo Obama) is also the name of the Portugese Water Dog of Barack Obama (also BO!)
Maybe BO is an abbreviation for Barack Pbama
ReplyDeleteI mean Obama
ReplyDelete@ V 1135: They probably have a 'my BO is stronger than yours' kind of argument
ReplyDelete@V 1135: Why me?
ReplyDelete@ Col
ReplyDeleteYour illustrations are apposite. They educate while at the same time adding humour.
The one for Serpent (Obsolete bass cornet) at 19D helps us understand how it must have got its name.
Kishore@8.44
ReplyDeleteLooking at the volley of comments on NJ,will Col come up with another byeline:
If all the crossword compilers were one NJ.....
If all the crossword compilers were one NJ..... would confound and confuse them
ReplyDeleteSaare kaayanat mein itni jagah nahin,
ReplyDeleteKi NJ jaise duniya mein ho aur koyi.
Kishore (11:58), fair question, but funny you know. It was like you goin' "Dear god...why me? Why am I the victim here?"
ReplyDeleteNJ's like the female version of Padaiappa (Rajanikanth)... Ava vazhi tani vazhi....
ReplyDeleteVerey yaarum andha vazhiley pomaTTanga
ReplyDeleteIncluding Shivaji Rao Bhonsle.
ReplyDeleteOrey oru oorile orey oru NJ: One of a kind(?)
ReplyDeleteVenkatesh@11:10
ReplyDeleteThere are several people with the name Bo. This apparently is a Swedish/Danish name. Not even a typical American name, though there are some Americans with that name.
As usual nothing makes sense
Kishore 16:57
ReplyDeleteI guess 'Style King' Rajani's original name was Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, not Bhosle, if you have referred to him.
A man of Maharashtrian roots, brought up in Karnataka, later going on to rule Kollywood and to some extent Bollywood too - sort of textbook for national integration, eh?
I remember a prominent political analyst's observation some time ago that had he joined politics, maybe he would have made it to the chief minister's gaddi, thus joining the elite band of persons of non-Tamil origin adorning that post - Makkal Thilakam MGR and Puratchi Thalaivi Jayalalithaa.
May I add that I am aware that Selvi J was born in a Tamil Iyengar family, but in Melukote in Mandya district of Karnataka. My reference of 'non-Tamil' was about the domicile and not family roots.
ReplyDeleteNo jokes. Naan J le-ille. Lag-le irrukken. Back home, but not yet back in action. Neenga-ellam Jalsa panni Jokes addikereal. Don't have internet as yet. Naadi Josiyam paarthal clue solve panna mudiyuma??
ReplyDelete@Richard: K'nidhi himself though a Tamil for intents and purposes speaks Telugu at home.
ReplyDeleteThe EBOLA virus anno discussion is hugely amusing :)
I saw Madrasapattinam. It's authentic 1940's Madras at its best. The filmmaker has given Tamils their own version of Titanic cum Lagaan in a 2010 package.
Richard: You are right, Gaekwad it is.
ReplyDeleteCGB: Singapore Mani kiTTE kiLi shaastram kekalaamey!
Suresh (17:24), OMG, the way you're going, I think you're gonna be losing a lot of sleep tonight.
ReplyDelete@Suresh
ReplyDeleteCome to that, Little Bo Peep who lost her sheep in the popular English nursery rhyme was also not a US male.
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, And they'll come home,
Wagging their tails behind them.
Little Bo-peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were still a-fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left their tails behind them.
It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.
She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
And over the hillocks went rambling,
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
To tack each again to its lambkin.
SOS, I need someone to instantly coach me in Tamil, so that I won't miss an iota of fun contained in the exchange above.
ReplyDeleteLNS 19:41 That's an interesting tidbit on Kalaignar Dr MK. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteRichard: (literal translation)
ReplyDeleteBharghav: No jokes. I'm (naan) not (ille) in J. I'm in (le) lag. Back home, but not yet back in action. You guys are having fun (jalsa panni) and cracking jokes (jokes adikarael). Don't have internet as yet. If I consult a thumbprint astrologer (naadi josiyam paartal) would I be able to solve the clue(clue solve panna mudiyuma)??
Kishore: You could have asked the parrot astrologer (kili shaastram kekalamey), Singapore Mani.
VJ 21:51 Thanks,very sweet of you.
ReplyDeleteLNS, movie's supposed to be good. Lotsa good reviews. Though I'm kinda tempted, not really sure if I'd watch it. Well, generally I don't watch movies that are longer than 110 - 120 minutes (well that's my cut-off). So I end up not watching most of the Indian movies, no matter how well reviewed they are. Maybe I'd make an exception here.
ReplyDeleteAh, it's nothing really, Richard
ReplyDeleteGood night people, you'll need to wake up early and fresh to tackle NJ again. What a BO on the radio.
ReplyDeleteVJ: it's harmless fun. I think it's 150 min's or so long. It felt like a cricket match. My wife and I ended up talking to each other thru the slower parts.
ReplyDelete