ACROSS
1 - Two workers besiege ultimately lazy helper around the house (8) - {HAND}{Y}{MAN}
6 - Dumbhead's difficulty in defeat (4) -{D}{RUB}
9 - Yes, in German, rile badly against prison-in-charge (6) - {JA}{ILER*}
10 - Almost perfect for Left to provide meaning (7) -{PURe}{PORT}
13 - Replica from a machine (5,4) - XEROX COPY [CD] This has become the accepted word for what is actually Photocopy.
14 - Share that is delivered to smart girl (5) - {CUT}{IE} Are all cutie's smart !?!
15 - Frolic quick in dropping extremes (4) - pROMPt
16 - Will these entertainments be bubbly? (4,6) - SOAP OPERAS [CD]
21 - Sound come-back (4) - ECHO [CD]
24 - Former star prepared to drop second newspaper supplement (5) - {EX}{TRAs*}
25 - A bit of taste in my white foreign pen (4,5) - {MON}{T} {BLANC} The price at which these pens are sold is mind boggling.
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2 - A granma goes crackers over a wordplay (7) - {A}{NAGRAM*}
3 - Superior branded soap falls in river (2,4) - {DE {LUX}E}
5 - Brisk at low temperature (5) - NIPPY [CD]
7 - Enthusiast clutching second bird (7) - {ROO{S}TER}
12 - Training manual? Not exactly! (8,4) - {EXERCISE} {BOOK}
17 - Tee shirts of a kind: marks around fifty-one (4,5) - {PO{L}{O NE}CKS}
18 - Preserve by treatment trembling lamb following typical measure (6) - {EM}{BALM*}
20 - Sort of disaster an earthquake is (7) - NATURAL [CD]
22 - Fellow and Super consuming tea with Indian bread (7) - {CHAP}{A{T}I}
Hi friends
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed solving today's puzzle in full. HAND+Y+MAN, D+RUB, JA+ILER*, PUR(-e)+PORT, XEROX COPY, CUT+I+E, ROMP (I hope I am right, since I have not checked the Col's notes), SOAP OPERAS (frothy one!), IN NAME ONLY (somehow I didn't 'like this only'! ;-), ECHO, EX+TRA(-s)*, MONT BLANC (an expensive one!), OARSMAN*, CRAV(-e)+A+T, KILT, HYSTERIA*, ANAGRAM* (anagram of an anagram), DE(LUX)E, MARCO POLO, NIPPY, ROO(S)TER, BUTTER+SCOTCH (yummy!), RECIP*+E, EXERCISE BOOK (nice one), POLO NECKS, EM+BALM*, NATURAL, CHAP+A(T)I, A+B+LAZE, MONTH (clever one)...
POLO makes double appearance in 'mint' condition.
Just a thought. The brand-name XEROX is rampantly misused in the signboards in a dime-a-dozen, street-corner photocopying shops in India and elsewhere. Could the Xerox company be fuming and fretting at the blatant copyright infringement or just enjoying and basking in the free publicity it gets? ;-)
Hi
ReplyDeleteStarting Down with an anagram of ‘anagram’, Gridman has brought in 2 brand names MONT BLANC and XEROX (COPY), the latter possibly being the most misused brand name in the world (at least definitely in India) and even transcending into a verb ‘Xeroxing’. CRAVATS, KILTS and POLO NECKS complete the ensemble of a (BUTTER) SCOT(CH) to go with the RECIPE for a CHAPATI. In India, it is probably the Army alone which uses Cravats today.
CV mentioned yesterday about Blitz’s last page having cuties ! Look for a CUTIE in the last page of today’s TH.
Kishore,
ReplyDeleteYou forgot LUX soap.
Even in the army Cravat's are no longer in use, it's only some old timers who still wear them.
Hi Col, great illustrations with Sean Connery and Quasimodo.
ReplyDeleteLoved the cartoons :D
ReplyDeleteFor those who thought my earlier poser on KILT : "What does a Scotsman wear under his Kilt ?" was having a devious answer and hence did not respond, the correct answer is 'His socks/stocking and footwear'
ReplyDeleteCol: 835 You are right, I forgot to mention LUX.
ReplyDeleteKishore,
ReplyDeleteNow Google may have taken the top position from Xerox.
'Bangalored' is newer than Google and Xerox.
ReplyDeleteDeepak
ReplyDeleteI was cock-a-hoop over the cartoon you chose for ROOSTER.
Kishore
Cutie on the back page of TH? How did I miss that? I rose from my computer chair and betook myself to the drawing room where some five papers usually lie on the centre-table and quickly flipped the side... you've a sardonic sense of humour, man.
Kishore,
ReplyDeleteRegarding your poser on the Kilt SEE THIS
Kishore, who's the cutie? The tigress?? For a moment I thought you meant the guy holding a cricket bat and I was going like... not there's anything wrong with that.
ReplyDeleteWell thanks to you, I just came to know who the current British PM is.
Deepak
ReplyDeleteI too dislike the butter scotch flavour in ice cream. This may be because I don't like anything sour - I don't take buttermilk, curds, etc and won't take even morekuzhambu or thayir vadai.
I guess you do take the latter and so why not butter scotch, I wonder.
Give me pista, badam, kesar, rasperry, black currant, choco chips, blue curacao, etc, etc.
When I attend the wedding receptions in Madras the caterer serves some icecream that is not ice cream at all and I usually avoid them. Can't our people who spend so much on these feasts attend to minute details. The contractors take them for a ride and the people who pay jump willingly on to the agon. It's a pity.
At these wedding receptions, they take out the ice cream pack and keep it for several minutes in room temperature and it melts - by no means a pleasure to eat ice cream in por consistency.
Indeed a remarkable coincidence - a clue answer and part of a backpage headline - QT, in the same issue!
ReplyDeleteChapati vs Roti - Was it a Nagesh song.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know Roti is dry and oil is used in making Chapati (mostly in the South?)
Can someone decode 1A for me please..
ReplyDelete@Chaturvasi - I guess I can't share my favorite curd rice, vethakozhambu or puli-kaachal meals with you! Even rasam, I prefer lemon rasam!
ReplyDeleteYou are sweet, I am sour.
Gita 09:02 - Tastes do differ!
ReplyDeletePappu, HAND and MAN are the two workers that beseige Y (from ultimately laz"y")
ReplyDeleteHANDYMAN = "helper around the house."
In my college days ice cream parlours were not ubiquitous as they are now.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the brands that are popular now had not come on the scene at all.
We used to love visiting the ice cream parlour at the New Elphinstone theatre for treats.
Its ambience can't be matched by present-day parlours (which are really booths... bah!)
Mais où sont les neiges d'antan!
Agreed the setter is Gridman but isn't this too much emphasis :)
ReplyDelete1A Handyman
9A Jailer (well not strictly)
19A Manly one...
26A Oarsman
28 Scotsman
4D Marco Polo
7D Rooster
8D Ram
22 Fellow
Unless of course he thought one 14A smart girl can stand up to them all :)
PS : Just kidding, I don't intend to start a gender war.
Gita
ReplyDeleteLet me assure you that I like vathakozhambu, pulikaichal and rasam - of any flavour, including lemon.
As a committe member at the local temple, I have been having meals there where japams and homams are being held by visiting shastigal: the rasam has been exceptionally good!
For me no meal is complete without this item!
@Bhavan - You forgot DRUB, HYSTERIA, ROMP, EXTRA. I guess Gridman did emphasize on the male today.
ReplyDeleteChaturvasi, I totally agree with your comments. The kind of ice cream that people serve at wedding receptions here is totally awful. First off, it's tooooooo small. And they always select some flavor I totally hate. Like you mentioned, it's nothing like ice cream. It's more like a bad yogurt.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I like home-made morekozhambu, thayir vada, curd-rice (thadyonam or whatever) etc.
A manly man, an abbot able - Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales.
ReplyDelete@Gita, I was ignoring nickname :)
ReplyDelete*nicknames
ReplyDelete@Pappu Re 1A
ReplyDeleteHand and man are both words used for worker. The Y in between is from lazy(ultimately indicating the last letter
Bhavan
ReplyDeleteYou missed the man lurking in 'manual' in Clue 12a!
VJ @9.12
ReplyDeletecurd rice: Dhadyoannam -- Iyengars prefer to call
by this word. Difficult to introduce Tamil pronunciation using english letters
Colonel asked,
ReplyDeleteAre all cutie's smart !?!
Well, two days into my marriage (two days because I'm a bit slow) I found out that all women, not just cute women, were automatically smart! PPMadam will confirm her husband's similar epiphany. If my memory serves me right, Gita's husband wasn't any different. Now, which Gita am I referring to? Hmmm, ... :-)
Kishore @ 8.39
ReplyDeleteI was about to write on the kilt, but you overtook me by miles.
BTW, was "Cholee ke peechey kya hai" inspired by
"what does a Scotsman wear under a Kilt"?
On Brnad Name misuse, I have heard HOOVER being commonly used in England for any Vacuum cleaner
ReplyDelete@Satya - Well, in these cases the husbands were smart to have married the women they did - we have to give them that!
ReplyDeleteDr D Srinivasan, Yep, that's exactly what we call it when it's flavored with green chillies, mustard, curry leaves etc. Didn't know how to spell it though.
ReplyDeleteWhen I-POD first came out, it was like the generic name for all MP3 players. I once overheard somebody saying this at an outlet. "Inga Sony I-pod irukka?"
ReplyDeletegood morning all
ReplyDeleteenjoyed solving today.nothing so brain storming.very rare. Thanks Gridman
Whats special today there is a lot of talks going on mosuranna, puliyodare, saaranna and ice cream. one clue kindles the taste buds i trust.
but i have a doubt whether butter scotch is a single word or two word.
good day
mathu
Just going off-track:
ReplyDeleteAre there any Jim Reeves fans in this forum?
Every year, we hold a Jim Reeves memorial concert in Mangalore, to mark the death anniversary of the golden-voiced singer on July 31, but this year's concert will be on Aug 1. Read about it here:
JIM REEVES MEMORIAL CONCERT.
The fan club has a website also. Visit.
JIM FANS SOUTH INDIA WEBSITE
Incientally, July 31 marks is the death anniversary of another legendary singer, Mohammed Rafi Saab.
The last sentence above to read: Incidentally, July 31 is also the death anniversary of another legendary singer, Mohammed Rafi Saab.
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard for reminding me about the immortal legend "Ever Velvet" Rafi.
ReplyDelete@Richard: I enjoy listening to Jim Reeves' songs - especially Roses are Red, For the Good Times, Snowflakes, & Wishful Thinking.
ReplyDeleteloveable mad,
ReplyDeleteTo answer your query,
BUTTERSCOTCH is one word, as Gridman has indicated by his enumeration.
You can trust him to have done his dictionary work.
I needn't have to butter anyone and I will scotch any misapprehensions.
DS: I had asked the Kilt question inspired by the Col.'s ref to the song in relation to a solution CHOLI. What a coincidence that son is the father of man!
ReplyDeleteRichard: You may think this odd, but over all the songs JR has sung, the one closest to my heart is ' But you love me, Daddy'.
Col: Your illustration after 27d seens well dressed, a cravat above and a kilt below. Having spats and shoes would have completed the kit.
I love Jim Reeves, particularly his song, 'May the good Lord bless and keep you'! So soul-stirring his voice and rendering makes it!
ReplyDeleteVJ857 IMO, a tigress is the ultimate cutie. Now dont you get further ideas like the one mentioned in your mail !
ReplyDeleteKishore, Nah!! my imagination doesn't run that wild...
ReplyDeleteI just noticed an error in my comment. The last part of it should read "not that there's anything wrong with that."
I sure as hell can't say that this time around.
Shore you cant, unless you're el tigro. BTW, all of us make typos and grammos, so unless the meaning goes wrong, I think we can let it rest, as the sense of it can be read in quite cleary.
ReplyDeleteSeeking Colonel's pardon for space-hogging:
ReplyDeleteKrishnan @ 11:45 and all other Rafi fans
I have made a random, representative pick from his masterly renditions:
He duniya ke rakhwale (Baiju Bawra - 1952)
Jawaniyan yeh mast mast bin piye (Tumsa Nahin Dekha - 1957)
Hum bekhudi mein tumko pukare (Kala Pani - 1958)
Chaudhvin ka chand ho, ya aftab ho (Chaudhvin ka Chand - 1960)
Teri pyari pyari soorat ko (Sasural - 1961)
Baar baar dekho, hazar baar dekho (China Town - 1962)
Yaad na jaaye beete dinon ki (Dil Ek Mandir - 1963)
Chhoo lene do nazuk honthon ko (Kaajal - 1963)
Taarif karoon kya uski, jisne tumhe banaya (Kashmir Ki Kali - 1964)
Rang aur noor ki barat kise pesh karoon (Ghazal - 1964)
Chahoonga main tujhe (Dosti - 1964)
Pukarta chala hoon main (Mere Sanam - 1965)
Din dhal jaye haye (Guide - 1965)
Pardesiyon na aakhiyan milana (Jab Jab Phool Khile - 1965)
Hum tumse juda ho kar, mar jayenge ro ro kar (Ek Sapera Ek Lutera - 1965)
Baharon phool barsao, mera mehboob aya hai (Suraj - 1966)
Koi sagar dilko bahlata nahin (Dil diya Dard Liya - 1966)
Deewana mujhsa nahim, is ambar ke neeche (Teesri Manzil - 1966)
Nazar na lag jaye kisi ki rahon mein (Night in London - 1967)
Hui shaam unka khayal aa gaya (Mere Hamdam Mere Dost - 1968)
Yeh reshmi zulfen, yeh sharbati aankhen (Do Raaste - 1969)
Wow, Richard I did not know you were a Rafi fan, else I would have spent more time discussing his songs than crosswords when I met you.
ReplyDeleteMy personal favourites (other than several greats you have already covered):
Madhuban mein Raadhika (Kohinoor 1960)
Aasman se aaya farishta (An evening in Paris 1967)
Babul ki duwayein (Neel Kamal 1968)
Kya kya na sahe ham ne sitam (Mere Huzoor 1968)
Dil ke jharoke main (Brahmachari 1968)
Likhe jo khat tujhe (Kanyadaan 1968)
Sau saal pehle (Jab pyar kisise hota hain 1965)
His best romantic songs were picturised on Shamsher and every jhatka of the actor was echoed in the nuance of the songs.
VJ: You will observe that I dont have to correct the typo in the last word of my 1618 post, you would have got my drift anyway.
ReplyDeleteI am both a Rafi and Jim Reeves fan. I would like to add " Toote Hue Khwabon Main"[Madhumati] and Jim Reeves' 'Billy Bayou" to the collection.
ReplyDeleteThe Rafi classics mentioned by Kishore @ 19:21 and Jaggu @ 19:30 are my favourites too. So is the case with Jim's Billy Bayou'
ReplyDeleteFor Krishnan, Kishore, Jaggu and all Rafi fans, more on the great singer:
ReplyDeleteExcerpts from my tribute to Rafi, which was published in a website a few years ago -
QUOTE
Rafi's hallmark was his ability to mark out a different shade of voice each to different heroes. 'Chhalke teri ankhon se, sharab aur zyada' (Arzoo - for Rajendra Kumar), 'Mujhe duniyawalo sharabi na samjho (Leader - for Dilip Kumar), 'Falsafa pyar ka tum kya jano' (Duniya - for Dev Anand), 'O khilona, jaan kar tum to mera dil tod jaate ho' (Khilona for Sanjeev Kumar), 'Aane se uske aaye bahar' (Jeene ki Raah for Dharmendra), 'Baar baar din yeh aaye, baar baar din yeh gaaye, tum jiye hazaro saal, yeh meri hai arzoo' (Farz - for Jeetendra) and so on - each of them had such a distinct stamp of its own that the hero of the movie could be identified when the songs were first released.
UNQUOTE
BTW, these two headlines from yesterday and today might interest his fans.
Unheard Songs of Rafi, Madan Mohan
Rafi's Son to Launch Music Academy
In fact,it was Rafi songs that inspired me to learn more about Urdu shaayri and join Jamia Millia to learn the language. In olden days, my mum used to sing beautifully melodious songs using a tiny 8 page booklet which used to be available for every movie ( in fact it used to be a single page folded into 4 to yield 8 printed pages. So somewhere in 1980s I bought a Rafi song book from a shop opposite Russel Market and I still have it, though the paper is becoming brittle.
ReplyDeleteToday's TH Friday Review (Bangalore ed.) has an article on him on page 4, though it doesn't quote songs.
ReplyDeleteKishore, of course, I got it. I see most of the users doing it, so though I would jump the bandwagon. Otherwise I hardly correct my typos, grammos or whatever.
ReplyDeleteTo all my friends here:
ReplyDeleteBahut shukriya baDi meherbani,
Meri zindagi mein, Huzoor aap aaye !
(Ek Musafir ek hasina-1962, filmed on Joy Mukherji and Sadhana, adding another hero to Richard's 1948 list)
@Richard, Thanks for the link.I've been a fan of Jim Reeves since schooldays.Oh! for Ceylon, later SriLanka Broadcasting Corporation's Jim Reeves' Quarter and a whole hour dedicated to him on July 31st every year!You tube has many of his hits, even the rare ones, and even a few I'd never heard in my crazy teens.Any more fans? Wishful thinking??
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