1 - Mischievous child in difficult situation (6) – PICKLE [DD]
4 - Liqueur, Italian, knocked back by a girl (3,5) – {TI<-}{A} {MARIA}
10 - Stable one working horse (8) – {STALL}{I}{ON}
12 - Look at first batsman, a revelation (3-6) – {EYE}-{OPENER}
13 - Greek character - he volunteers after short time (5) – {T}{HE}{TA}
14 - Retrogade move giving support to protégé going on stage (8,4) – {BACK}{WARD} {STEP}
18 - Expression up north a serf used (4,2,6) – TURN OF PHRASE*
21 - Leader of expedition put down an antelope (5) – {E}{LAND}
24 - Transfer diamonds in German city (4,4) – {HAN{D} OVER}
25 - Muddled situation resulting from other ranks being admitted to service (6) – {M{OR}ASS}
26 - Set off to make famous college in time (8) – {D{ETON}ATE}
27 - Lifted boa - constriction finally follows (6) – {STOLE}{N}
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1 - Eyewitness parking, bishop in Sayers novel (6-2) – {P}{ASSER-{B}Y*}
2 - Pressure to keep two Frenchmen in business (8) – {CO{MM}ERCE}
3 - Drunk started smoking (3,2) – {LIT} {UP}
5 - Not earning extra money from pursuit - charitable? (8-4) – {INTEREST}-{FREE}
6 - Being deciduous, they have roots (4,5) – MILK TEETH [CD]
7 - Added clause about a marauder (6) – {R{A}IDER}
8 - One's published yearly, the recorded events of twelve months around university (6) – {ANN{U}AL}
11 - Nine starting out, obstinately maintaining an attitude (12) – INTRANSIGENT*
15 - Relaxed in NI county after injury (5,4) – {WOUND} {DOWN}
16 - "Foul" - audible cry in game (8) – {BASE}{BALL}
17 - Nozzle is not spraying, so discard (8) – {JET}{TISON*}
19 - Stanislavsky's acting technique course? (6) – METHOD [CD]
20 - Girl in car, greedy type (6) – {G{ANNE}T}
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ReplyDeleteDotty: Murder must Advertise: Are Women Human ?
I had initially put S(coop) for 23d and changed to ROO(S)T after IN EARNEST came in.
Yesterday’s TH, Bang Ed, on page 3 had a caption under a picture of a crashed chopper “Fallen Bird: Luckily, the main rotor of the Chetak stopped functioning, averting a possible disaster.’ What is missing is perhaps the words ‘just after take off’ or words to that effect, just before the comma. But what got printed attributes malfunction to luck.
Talking of antelopes (21a), the young of an antelope is calf, not KID as a clue yesterday might have suggested.
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ReplyDeleteYou may want to bang Ed.
Not very comfy with 27a, 19d
ReplyDeleteCV, Yup, I bang ed my 'ed, in other words, Uncle Ned.
ReplyDeleteDeepak, wonderful cartoon for 26a, the worst that can happen is that they get 'fired'.
ReplyDeleteCV, the copy right is printed today...
ReplyDeletePl ignore extra space
ReplyDeleteRe 9a
ReplyDeleteThe Lady of the Lake in the Idylls of the King (by Tennyson) has her described thus: "Clothed in white SAMITE, mystic, wonderful". (emphasis added)
I used to have this book but it must be among scores of books (mostly literature) that I donated to a private library in 1990s.
Thanks to the Internet, physical possession of books is not strictly necessary now. Also, the search facility enables us to track down a half-remembered quotation more easily than before.
I am donating some 100 Tamil books to another private library tomorrow.
12 A was a nice clue.
ReplyDelete14 A 'going on stage' made me put down 'play' for the second part.
While the internet definitely has made it convenient to access books, especially reference books, and books not available in printed form locally, for me the feel of holding a book in my hands especially when it is a new book, is something that cannot be replaced
ReplyDelete@Kishore,
ReplyDelete27 - Lifted boa - constriction finally follows (6) – {STOLE}{N}Not very comfy with 27a, 19d
boa Syn:stole.
Constrictio[n] finally ,is n
lifted: stolen
are U comfortable with this?
19 d , I am also not comfy with.
19 D While METHOD is the correct solution here, 'Method' acting is connected to Lee Strasberg and Stanislavsky's creation is the 'SYSTEM'
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting
Of course!
ReplyDeleteWhat I hold in my hands now are new books that I buy from time to time. I do admire the binding and the design not only of thejacket but the inner wear as well. I do enjoy the smell that emanates from some of them. I like to hear the rustle of the pages as I turn them. I may make pencil markings on the margin but will never fold down any page for where I left off: I always use book marks - cut out from the various invitation cards that I receive from the Madras Book Club or Landmark. &c. &c.
Lost is the love for old, musty, tattered books - some that were rebound but again spineless. These I am discarding but those in shape are being given away.
I think we should be of a certain age to know what &c denotes.
ReplyDelete19 - Stanislavsky's acting technique course? (6) – METHOD [CD]
ReplyDeleteMethod Acting and Stanislavsky
The major features of Method acting are taken from the teachings of Russian stage director Konstantin Stanislavski.[googled]
Dr I am not comfortable with boa=stole. In what sense?
ReplyDeleteCV: 912: I wish we could similarly get rid of spineless politicians, so that they don't rebound.
Wow! I enjoy such repartees or is it ripostes?
ReplyDeleteCV 916: A subterfuge used in exam answer papers when we run out of examples to give an impression to the examiner that we actually had more examples to give but gave up on account of constraints of time, paper, space etc. etc. (look I did it)
ReplyDeleteWhy, Kishore?
ReplyDelete'boa' is "a long, serpent-like coil of fur, feathers or the like worn round the neck by women" (Chambers).
We should be able to derive this from 'stole' unless you think that a stole doesn't clasp the neck as a boa does.
BTW, is there any term for Indian jewellery that hugs the woman's neck (as opposed to, say, long chain)?
CV: In ancient times, my one sure destination in Madras was Moore Market (an also an old paper shop run by Kumaran in Usman Street), where I used to pick up quite a lot of second hand books.
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ReplyDeleteboa:
i.large snake
2.a fluffy scarf usually of fur or feathers[scarf syn : stole ][webster dic}
Choker, necklace ?
ReplyDeleteThanks Dr, CV
ReplyDeleteBoa is a woman's throat wrap (also called stole)
ReplyDeleteChaturvasi,
ReplyDeleteis there any term for Indian jewellery that hugs the woman's neck (as opposed to, say, long chain)?
it is called choker .
What is the term in any Indian language?
ReplyDeleteDr 935 ref 929
ReplyDeleteCV: Would our Band-gala suits qualify, not jew I know.
I don't how anybody can wear Band-galas in Delhi summers.
ReplyDeleteCV@ 9:12 You might like this book.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.flipkart.com/groaning-shelf-other-instances-book-book-9380143033
Kishore @9:29
I never had the chance to visit the old Moore market. I don't know where one would look for second hand books today in Chennai.
Thanks, Giridhar.
ReplyDeleteI don't have this book but I was going to mention the author's name for I have thoroughly enjoyed reading some of his pieces in his Column in TH.
And the title touches a raw nerve. Someone got me a bookshelf in which I stacked many books that were in cartons lying on the loft for years.
But modern furniture (imported from Malaysia or Thailand or God knows where) is so flimsy that the shelves sagged. The glasses and the railing are so flimsy that they get stuck or fall to pieces on the floor. These don't even have grooves or handles to slide them.
The old almirah that I bought for under Rs. 500 is still going strong!
Such experiences made me decide to part with books except for those that might be useful for my grandchildren and the treasured ones relating to my pastime.
CV @08:34
ReplyDeleteKid is given in the Freedictionary.com, which is in turn referring to Collins Dictionary as
'the young of a goat or similar animal, such as an antelope'
Suresh: You must be kidding
ReplyDeleteSuresh,
ReplyDeleteAgreed Kid is the young of a goat etc, but Kid by itself cannot lead to Eland which was the solution
Deepak, I think Suresh was referring to yesterday's kid which became antelope not today's eland.
ReplyDeleteRef my 11:25 post FOR Eland READ Antelope :-)
ReplyDeleteSuresh
ReplyDeleteThanks.
When I wrote that the young of an antelope is calf, not KID as was suggested by a clue yesterday, I suspected as much that it might be disputed. If my authority is Chambers, yours is Collins, both reliable.
In any case, as Deepak notes above and as it must have been established yesterday itself, 'kid' by itself cannot lead to ANTELOPE. We can speak of the kid of an antelope dying soon after its birth or the kid of a goat gambolling.
Fully agree that kid as a ref to antelope is weird
ReplyDeleteWe can say "The farmer led both the cow and its calf back into the shed" or "Both the eland and its kid in the open enclosure at the zoo drew a large crowd".
ReplyDeleteSay "The farmer led the kid back into the shed" or "The kid in the open enclosure at the zoo drew a large crowd". It doesn't work!
Clue-writing cannot be done with just dictionary or thesaurus lookups.
CV: I'm surprised you don't know the Tamil term for choker:) It is 'addigai' (அட்டிகை) . It was also called kanThi in the old days (कण्ठी). There are many temple jewellery called makarakanthi (மகரகண்டி) . For example, the Varadaraja Perumal in Kanchipuram has a piece of crocodile shaped jewellery - emeralds studded in gold - called the Clive makarakandi (கிளைவ் மகரகண்டி) etc etc
ReplyDeleteLook at this video: Venkateswara's jewellery is described starting from his choker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHk2YVX1QYg
Of course I know the Tamil term as a term. Frankly and honestly I didn't know that it was the same as 'choker'.
ReplyDeleteThere is a whole lot of such Tamil terms for jewels that adorn the different parts of a woman. I remember a Tamil magazine carrying a labelled picture several years ago.
The opening line was left out while posting.
ReplyDeleteThanks, LNS.
Labelled picture, eh? That should have made interesting reading!
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