1 - Virtue of a good tribe (5) - {G}{RACE}
4 - First to put out the topic covering an English con man (7) - {CH{E}A
10 - Follow the trade with the colleague initially in place of an agent (6) - CHAN(
11 - Certainly may include a politician and an insurance giant for this course of action (8) - {CA{MP}{AIG}N}
14 - Point to the man in a Spanish grocery (6) - BODEGA Anno pending (Addendum - {BODE}{G}{A} - See comments)
16 - Bad marks can break out in the middle of teens (4) - {ACN*}{E}
17 - Addition written after the main work (10) - POSTSCRIPT [E]
21 - Not new for an American journalist (4) - {US}ED}
24 - Strict character traits (6) - STRAIT*
26 - You get rid off such kind of liquor in Zambia with a lot of sentimentality (8) - {S
28 - Touchdown of aircraft (7) - LANDING [CD]
29 - Carry Albert to the gate (6) - {PORT}{AL}
30 - Lustre on the thin wedge in the French sea (7) - {SHIM}{MER}
31 - Reading in the library (5) - STUDY [DD]
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2 - Religious education has a right statistical measure to consolidate (9) - {RE}{A}{R}{RANGE}
3 - Headless jack is in Sri Lanka in the direction of the sound (6) -{C{
5 - Try as a case hither, overheard (4) - HEAR(~here)
6 - Coming close to the landfall (8) - APPROACH [CD]
7 - Select few of the Spanish leaders in ten establishments (5) - {EL}{ITE}
8 - Plant a bill in front of the secret service (6) -{AC}{A}{CIA} I've always been fascinated by the shape of the canopy this tree
12 - Take up the cause with ease to cook soup for an English leader (7) - {ES}{POUS*}{E}
15 - Go up to an area (7) - STRETCH [DD]
18 - Protected one sultan harassed by the journalist (9) - {I}{NSULAT*}{ED}
19 - Bull characteristic in the stock market (8) - OPTIMISM [CD}
20 - Distribute the results outside the contest (6) - TUSSLE
22 - Flash the notice up in Zambia with a dash of zeal out on the road (6) - {DA<-}{Z}{ZLE
25 - Tip off roughage in the church farm (5) - {
27 - Discover the progress of a monster (4) - OGRE [T]
Hello everybody
ReplyDeleteOnly the top left corner posed some problem today.
26A - SCHMALTZ - a new word, a Google gift.
28A - I always thought the touchdown is A part of LANDING.
11A - MP and LIC could be easily guessed but not the word.
POSTSCRIPT, TRESPASS, USED, STRAIT, PORTAL, SHIMMER (?), STUDY, HEAR, ELITE, ESPOUSE, INSULATED, OPTIMISM, IMPORT, DAZZLE, TUSSLE, OGRE - were all OK.
4A - In common parlance, CHEATER is often used. Although it is not wrong, CHEAT itself means 'one who cheats'. In fact, 'He is a cheat' sounds better and more elegant.
Hi
ReplyDeleteQuite a globetrotting Geography lesson today: English, French, Zambia, Spanish(twice each), American, , Sri Lanka, Thailand in clues.
Before the EL-I-T-E OGRES (T) with ACNE start CARELESS(ly) APPROACH(ing) the LANDING near the ACACIA PORTAL on the STRAIT, and TRESS-PASS-ES by SHIM-MERing into the STUDY, I want to RE-A-R-RANGE a POSTSCRIPT written with OPTIMISM and INSULATED SCHMALTZ to STRETCH its IMPORT(-ant) to say that TUSSLE in a RAN-CH or a BODE-G-A with a IN-FAN-T CHEATER by CHANCE calls for a CA(MP-AIG)-IN to DA<-Z-ZLE with G-RACE and CACKLE.
Oh, I was stuck at 11A relying on the old faithful LIC than the new generation AIG.
ReplyDelete26A - Why 'rid off'? The correct expression is 'rid of'. (I hope it is a typo. Supports the case for a crossword editor.) Another phrase wrongly used is 'to dispose off'. The correct form is 'to dispose of'.
Richard, I too thought of LIC then realised AIG. Shim is a thin wedge.
ReplyDelete8d, Deepak,I too like The Thorn Tree in Africa, favs with the cameleopards, also a restaurant at the Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, where Hemingway used to frequent.
14a Point=bode as in does not bode well=does not point to good, G=genteleman, a=BODEGA, a Spanish grocery shop
14 - Point to the man in a Spanish grocery (6) - BODEGA Anno pending
ReplyDelete{BODE}{G}{A}
20A may be TRESSPASSES, with ES from es-tate, which is what an 'intruder tries', and succeeds to use a STRETCH of imagination and OPTIMISM, if he gets caught, he does a STRETCH.
ReplyDelete20D How is deletion of r indicated?
ReplyDeleteTresspasses is what an 'Intruder did' and not what he/she 'tried' :-)
ReplyDeleteOutside = out R
ReplyDeleteWell, she (NJ) tried !
ReplyDeleteRichard,
ReplyDeleteAIG would not have been around but for support from the US govt. after the recent crisis. So relying on the old LIC in crossword solving might lead one astray but in real life one would probably have fared better. :-)
She is always trying
ReplyDeleteI do not agree with 'strait' being a synonym of 'strict'. It is used commonly in 'straitlaced' which can mean 'strict', but on its own I cannot claim to have heard it used in any other sense than the body of water dividing two landmasses (i.e. Strait of Malacca, etc.).
ReplyDeleteGiri, I always stick to LIC, you dont know when foreign companies will suddenly back out, leaving you high and dry.
ReplyDeleteSee the nice RAKHI GIFT that Shuchi got
ReplyDeleteIs 'Pat' (with a capital P) = caress??
ReplyDeleteAash,
ReplyDeleteNJ is right today on Strait, see the Archaic definition at STRAIT
@Giridhar - was led astray with 'Pat' as well...kept thinking it was an anagram or proper noun.
ReplyDeleteGiridhar,
ReplyDeleteCapitals in CW's are just Red Herrings
I liked the clues for 11 and 26 across. However, when did Sri Lanka become CL? Or is it in reference to the name 'Ceylon'? Quite a vague clue. Similarly, can somebody explain how 'bill' became 'AC' in 8d?
ReplyDeleteThanks Deepak, will keep that in mind.
ReplyDeleteAash,
ReplyDeleteAc = Account = Bill is commonly used in CW's.
CL is with ref to Ceylon, NJ has used it earlier also
An excerpt from Christians' daily prayer, OUR FATHER:
ReplyDelete'...Forgive us our TRESPASSes, as we forgive those who TRESPASS against us...'. (Recent versions have 'sin' in the place of 'trespass').
May forgiveness be the ruling virtue. ;-)
What I meant was that the setters' trespasses against us be forgiven.
ReplyDeleteKishore @8:48
ReplyDeleteTalking of LIC, do you remember the cartoon mini films they used to promote their products in the 70s?
Richard, I appreciate your sense of humor, and have decided that in the future I shall use that mantra to guide me through NJ grids! OPTIMISM is the key, even though sometimes it is a STRETCH!
ReplyDeleteIn other news, I will be flying to India over the weekend, so will unfortunately be INSULATED from the Everyman CW on Sunday...maybe if I TUSSLE with the internet during my stopover, I will be able to finish it by the time my APPROACH and LANDING in Chennai.
Also, where is VJ today? Out wooing some cute chicks, hoping to return ESPOUSED? ;)
Certain words are followed by "out" meaning some letters are missing in these words to be used as a clue...AVS
ReplyDeleteAash, you appear to have been bitten by the delectable Kishore bug. Kishore, the unquestioned PUN-dit of this forum is a pastmaster in creating sentences out of day-to-day answers to the clues.
ReplyDeleteGiridhar 09:09
ReplyDeleteI clearly remember one particular cartoon that was regularly run by the LIC in the print media some 30 years ago.
The caption was something like 'Forgetfulness can prove costly' (stressing on payments of premia in good time).
In a drizzling scenario, a man is seen walking away from the street-side mailbox holding a
to-be-mailed letter atop his head to cover it. An umbrella is shown in the background, neatly shoved into the mailbox.
Aash, LOL, no "wooing" or returning ESPOUSED ewwwwwww NFW. Just back with a fat stomach. It was my cousin's upanayanam today.
ReplyDeleteOn 22.5.09, in Shuchi's blog, Chaturvasi said...
ReplyDelete"
If quantity is more, quality needn't suffer.
There can be quantity without quality, quality without quantity and quantity with quality.
As one who has been solving THC from Day One, let me point out that the first ever setter was Admiral R D Katari (Rtd.) and he singlehandedly supplied the weekday puzzle for more than ten years. That his name did not enter any book of records is a different matter.
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Incidentally I happened to recall the name of Adm. Ram Dass Katari due to a photo with Neville Wadia in Page 4 of the Corporate Dossier of Economic Times, Bangalore Ed:
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Read more about this gentleman at:
Adm Katari
KISHORE said...
ReplyDeleteShe is always trying
27 August, 2010 08:47
LOL. I wish NJ had half your handle on the language. She's trying, indeed!
I had got that idea from an old Mexican/Spanish joke:
ReplyDeleteWhen asked what their favorite national sport was, the answer given was 'Bull fighting'. Taken aback the querist said 'I think its revolting' to which the pat answer was 'That's our next favorite national sport'.
Gita 2025:
ReplyDeleteIn words and in-deed
I wonder what's in store for tomorrow!!
ReplyDeleteYes, Kishore. Thanks for the nostalgic recollection.
ReplyDeleteIt was really a vintage time - the late sixties and early seventies. Those were the days when Admiral's CWs used to appear twice weekly, then on alternate days. I used to walk from our house on Baird Road to the then Connaught Place to buy a copy of Hindu (just for the CW) from the Cental News Agency which used to get it by airmail in the evening.
The Evening News (from the Hindustan Times stables) used to carry a popular Cryptic CW and a jumbo one on Fridays. The same grid was used for Easy and Cryptic and we solved the problem by writing the solutions for the Easy clues in small letters on top right and for the
Cryptic in caps at the left bottom.
Since the setter was mentioned in The Hindu just as Admiral, I did not know that it was Vice Admiral Ram Dass Katari who was the first Indian Chief of Naval Staff (appointed in April 1958) who successfully supported the liberation of Goa in December 1961. CVsir mentioned that he used to have some of the best puzzles set by Admiral in his collection.
Admiral Katari retired in April 1962, and later served with distinction as India's Ambassador to Burma for over five years. The Katari Bagh in Cochin housing naval quarters is named after him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass_Katari