8 - Campaign theory propagated for development of the film (14) - CINEMATOGRAPHY* Awesome anagram
9 - Prevent the progress on way heading off to the gym for one in Spain (6) - {ST}{
10 - Thought about a single kind of wheel popular for the journalist (8) - {I}{MAG}{IN}{ED}
11 - Country is river bound around an opening mostly at the tip of Asia (8) - {CAM}{B}ODI{A} Anno pending
16 - Detergent lexicon contains the washing machine setting (6) - GENTLE [T]
19 - Lock-up someone out in England around lunchtime (6) - {P
21 - Lay bare in the retreat you see (8) - DENUDATE Anno pending (Addendum - {DEN}{U}{DATE} - See comments)
23 - Bird lover on road will thoroughly search an underground passageway (8) - {CAT}{A}{COMB} On road and A ?
24 - It may be issued for overspeeding (6) - TICKET [CD]
26 - Run quickly towards the fatal motor-bike accident (4,1,4,3,2) - MAKE A BOLT FOR IT* Awesome again
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1 - Small bed is set down in this country (8) - {S}{COT}{LAND}
3 - Threaten the little devil to sign-off (6) - {IMP}{END}
4 - Rigid vocalist is singing out a verse (7) - STOICAL
5 - Look out of the catalogue to order for a fruit (8) - {A}{GUACATE
7 - Idea for a joke (6) -
12 - Somehow ask her for the following skeleton part of the wheeled vehicle (10) - {BONE}{SHAKER*}
17 - Petition of a specialist is left out of the realty settlement (8) - {ENT}{TREA
18 - Eccentric character (7) - ODDBALL [E]
20 - Right hand gal almost returns for the poet in an ancient city (6) - {RH}{
22 - Officially provide a number to anyhow shift out quietly at the end of the day (6) - {NO}{TIF
25 - Worry about the rear tyre behind the wheels (4) - {CAR}{E}
Hi
ReplyDeleteNice to see the gang peering out of Today’s Bangalore Metro. Hey guys and gals, you are on the same page as the Amul ad on V Anand !
A GENTLE ODDBALL doesn’t have to be STYMIEd and MAKE A BOLT FOR IT in the CATACOMB near the DANUBE, because he got a TICKET for eating an AGUACATE(an avocado by another name) riding a BONESHAKER on ONAM in DENUDATE (d) SCOTLAND or CAMBODIA , and make an MANIFESTED ENTREATY not to take him to PRISON.. Bertie Wooster would talk of IMPENDing doom requiring CARE to be taken to avoid bunkum (~BUNCOMBE) as IMAGINED, as a STOICAL CINEMATOGRAPHY version would show. What the heck, I chuck it...
Loved the use of ‘Bird lover’ for ‘Cat’, a la Sylvester, the ‘puddy cat’, as Tweety says.
The S&B meet at Chennai held on 08 Aug is featured in today's Bangalore edition of Metro Plus
ReplyDeleteTweety says 'Puddy tat'
ReplyDelete11a 'an' could be the I, but OD ?
ReplyDelete13a thought of spider monkeys reappearing, but didn't quite make the connection
7d I put in WHEEZE.
Tat is right, Deepak !
ReplyDelete21a Lay bare in the retreat you see (8) - DENUDATE
ReplyDeleteLay bare=denudate
retreat=den
you=u
see (someone)= date
23a: 'A' is a standard designation for 'road'as in A1 in UK:
ReplyDeleteRoads
"I'm a tweet wittow biwd in a diwded cage; Tweety'th my name but I don't know my age. I don't have to wuwy and dat is dat; I'm tafe in hewe fwom dat ol' putty tat."
ReplyDeleteBTW, Tweety's name is Sweety when pronounced by Sylvester and Tweety is the lisped version.
ReplyDelete13A: APEREA.... PE in AREA
ReplyDelete7D: I took it as CHEESE... not sure...
Good one VJ,
ReplyDeleteI tried every other combination of AREA and PE except this one!!
'I tot I taw a Puddy tat'
ReplyDeleteI couldn't have solved this one without the internet. An awesome invention.
ReplyDelete14A: How did L get out of blue?
Colonel,
ReplyDeleteIs there a link to the article that you mentioned - the one about the S&B meeting? I'm dying to read the article.
VJ Outside or out side is the deletion indicator for L
ReplyDeleteVJ @ 9:33
ReplyDeleteElementary NJ - outside = out L
Hi Satya,
ReplyDeleteHere's the link What's the good word.
The article is also there in the THCC families blog to which there is a link on the left hand side panel
Just read it.Thanks.
ReplyDeleteColonel,
ReplyDeleteThank you very much. I enjoyed reading the article. Thanks again.
Thanks Colonel and Suresh... I keep forgetting this one. I think it appeared in one of last week's puzzle too.
ReplyDeleteToday’s Telegraph (in Orkut) had two Prime Ministers:
ReplyDelete3 d Cameron, it’s put about, missing nothing criminal (9)
4 d Brown, raised a leftie, beginning from birth (5)
VJ 1040: Last week I fell for it.
ReplyDeleteKishore, nice clues. MICSREANT, NATAL
ReplyDeleteOutSide.... It's deceptive, ain't it. It's nice though. I like it
Col@10.40
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Link. I could read the Article here in Denmark because of the Link given.
It was a great effort by Gita Iyer, Chturvaasi sir and yourself to have made it happen.
Reading Divya's write-up, I could not help recalling Lord Byoron's "I woke up one morning and found myself famous".
Richard, where art thou ? I found this clue in today's Bangalore ET4427:
ReplyDelete2d He's got money so will find a way (7)
Nice one....
ReplyDeleteHe's got everything a man could ask for.
RICH, has nicely arranged SALAD, a queen (R), a RADO.... Well in short, wealth, health and everything else that comes with it.
{RICH}{A{R}D LAS*}{RADO}
Hi friends
ReplyDeleteKishore, 14:03 Just back from Mysore. The BSNL wireless Internet system is going through hiccups today. Hence could not operate the lappie.
VJ 15:33 LOL. Aap ne toh mera naam ka kachumbar banaya. After Dr DS, it's my turn to feel famous.
The SALAD days are a thing of the past. RADO represents time. And that is one thing that seems to be in short supply. ;-)
For those who could not follow the above sentence in Hindi/Urdu, it said 'You have made mince-meat of my name'. The saying is vegetarian, but its English rendition is non-vegetarian. :-)
ReplyDeletehi! i am new to this blog, though i have been working at the hindu crosswords for a while. i normally skip all those by nita jaggi but after going through the comments yesterday in this blog, and some of the explanations for the clues, i've worked at today's and solved a lot of it. thanks.
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