1 - British fashion designer holding a drive for part of a circle (8) - {QU{A}{DR}ANT}
6 - Enthusiasm for last letter by each learner (4) - {Z}{EA}{L}
9 - Catch parent on the move (6) - ENTRAP*
10 - Choke on bit of boiled vegetable (3,4) - {POT HER}{B} Pother is a ew word for me
14 - Broadcasting very happily (2,3) - ON AIR [DD]
15 - Cut a cross journalist (4) - {A}{X}{ED}
16 - It keeps one buoyant (4,6) - LIFE JACKET [CD]
19 - Boy's right! Guess what a young girl may want to flaunt (4,6) - {T{R}IM} {FIGURE}
21 - Turn to Victor, always! (4) - {V}{EER} Put in EVER first and got stuck till the end!! VEER is also one of our commenters here
24 - Lord Siva's vehicle (5) - NANDI [E]
26 - Dorian's carried out raids (7) - INROADS*
27 - Novelist has a point on perfume base (6) - {N}{ORRIS} Had to google this one
29 - Not the one to utter an ‘aye' (8) - NAYSAYER [CD]
DOWN
2 - Weaken some gunner venturesomely (7) - UNNERVE [T]
3 - Mock eiderdown — not own and worn-out (6) - DERIDE
4 - Thinking well of Andhra Pradesh corroborating (9) - {AP}{PROVING}
5 - Home of the brave? (5) - TEPEE [CD] Interesting description, have a look at the picture below
8 - Testing facilities (12) - LABORATORIES [E]
11 - Involving give-and-take on a kind of street? (3-3) - TWO-WAY [CD]
12 - Be wary of PTA tie Antony established (3,9) - PAY ATTENTION*
17 - Operative Rae, new one in my accommodation, to get wages (4,5) - {EAR*}{N} {M{ONE}Y}
18 - Continent where aircraft is hovering without right (6) - AFRICA
20 - Paid no attention to eroding ground (7) - IGNORED*
22 - Woman holding up entry form is dodgy (7) - {EV{ASIV<-}E}
25 - Poles go around the States for a woman (5) - {S}{USA}{N}
Hello everyone
ReplyDeleteNice to have more clues related to India, like NANDI, NADA. You feel a sense of belonging.
21A, Veer, this is dedicated to you!
SAME PLACE, TWO WAY, EARN MONEY - nice ones.
AERODROME - hope some expert will not wonder if an aerodrome can handle jets, the phrase jet-set apart. :-)
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ReplyDeleteOne more of our friends figures in 21a. I don’t know if he has a 19a, a TRIM FIGURE. But 25a, SAME PLACE ?? I think a negative got missed somewhere. Hence, this clue gets 28a NADA in Spanish.
That Nandi, the Mysore one Deepak ? Cant be Lepakshi looking at the background.
ReplyDelete25A - Where lightning is said to strike twice (4,5) - SAME PLACE I thought Lightning 'never' strikes in the same place twice!!
ReplyDeleteEven I had the same reservation. It has been dinned into our heads from school-going days. Any recent research saying otherwise?
Something wrong with 25A. Lightning is said not to strike in the same place twice.
ReplyDeleteDid not enjoy today's CW very much. 24A, 8D I thought were okay in a quick crossword and not in a cryptic.
Apna apna Khyal hai
19A - Boy's right! Guess what a young girl may want to flaunt (4,6) - {T{R}IM} {FIGURE}
ReplyDeleteIs the insertion indicator clear here? Maybe 'Boy's got right' could have been in place.
Richard. Lightning can strike the same place more than once, but the popular saying is that it doesn't.
ReplyDeleteLiked the brave clue best.
ReplyDeleteRichard, I agree that was what was dinned in. But logically, if a certain area had a tall building with a lightning conductor, there is a good chance of it striking in the same place. In a lighter vein, lightning is like a bad carpenter...
If I remember right, the Lepakshi one has the street and the electric poles on its left...
ReplyDeletesurprisingly easy outing from Gridman today. Was able to get through the bulk of it in under half an hour... and then I got stuck! :)
ReplyDeletecouldn't get NORRIS and TEPEE for the life of me. Was left wondering what kind of HERB was 10A .. never considered "POT"! lol! :)
Other than that, mostly easy type clues today. Similar reservations on LIGHTNING...I thot maybe Gridman was trying to be clever... but then, that would probably require an ! at the end...
Thot 19A and 22D were really clever.
Scientifically, the statement that Lightning cannot strike twice in the same place has been proved to be untrue. I read somewhere on the web that the Empire State Building is struck many times during the same thunderstorm.
ReplyDeleteI had the same doubt about lightning too.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, when I first solved Quadrant,Zeal and Axed I thought Gridman was aiming at a pangram and so it turned out.
Kishor @ 8:35 & 8:41
ReplyDeleteThat is the NANDI bull at Chamundi Hill in Mysore, the road is to my right and to the left in the picture.
There might be a mistake in 25d but see
ReplyDeletehttp://www.weatherimagery.com/blog/lightning-strike-twice/
Bhavan @ 8:43
ReplyDeleteDidn't notice the Pangram that's what happens when one doesn't solve it on paper.
@ Kishore 8:40 - Very clever remark on "bad carpenter"! lol! It reminds me of something Drew Carey would've said on Whose Line Is It Anyway! :)
ReplyDelete@Deepak 08:43. The clue refers to it as a saying or something that is said. In that context there is a missing negative.
ReplyDelete24A. Nice T shirt again:)
ReplyDeleteCV @ 8:46
ReplyDeleteBut the standard phrase is 'Lightning never strikes in the same place twice' irrespective of the fact that this is scientifically untrue.
Sures @ 8:50
ReplyDeleteYou got me there. However even though the colour is the same it is is not 'THE' red one :-)
Deepak
ReplyDeleteI have conceded that there is a mistake in 25a. This has escaped in several stages of revision.
Richard 08:39
ReplyDeletePlease see
Possessive -> Has
here
http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2010/04/apostrophe-s-in-cryptic-clues.html
@ Bhavan : Very interesting! Did not notice the pangram. :)That was clever...
ReplyDeleteRe: lightning... I suppose most (if not all) of us know that lightning can in fact strike a spot repeatedly, but the popular saying is contradictory. Hence, my 2c. would be that if it's used in a clue referring to that idiom, then it should conform... or if debunking the myth, then it should have some sort of indicator... like "Really?" or "!" or something along those lines. :-D
Oh... and here's a little link on the idiom..
http://www.answers.com/topic/lightning-never-strikes-twice-in-the-same-place
CV
ReplyDeleteSorry for striking on that for 'two' long.
Bhavan while entering his quota of answers in the Orkut community: The Hindu Crossword Solutions had the following as a second deck to his mandatory caption:
ReplyDeletebutter trailing a sharp feeling ...
Howevermuch I thought (in the wee hours), I did not understand it.
That makes sense now - in the light of an observation above by the selfsame person.
Crossword compilers don't have long memory!
boy's right seems ok to me. As in...
ReplyDeleteIt's a boy's right to be a doofus. The right "belongs" to the boy... and hence is inside TIM..
But hey, what do I know.. I'm an amateur! :-D
Kishore 08:40 - If lightning is a bad carpenter, why is it called a 'bolt' from the blue?
ReplyDeleteBtw, missed mentioning this yesterday. After your Pun-jab and Hyderabad Pun-tulu labels, thank heavens you were not in Satyamangalam. You would have been called Veerap-PUN!
Butter = Ram in Bhavan's context. Now, how am I supposed to see that on a Friday evening when a six pack is chilling in the refrigerator! :-)
ReplyDeleteNice one, though, Bhavan.
I wrote above: Crossword compilers don't have long memory!
ReplyDeleteNow, I would like to add this: And they don't solve their own crosswords!
Utensil weight is today's puzzle (7)
ReplyDeleteWould that work CVasi sir?
My doubt on 19A (Boy's right) has been cleared. Thanks, Chaturvasi and Hari.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, boys have got to be right. Right?
SAtya 09:16
ReplyDeleteWell, it might. But 'in today's puzzle' is too broad a definition for the word required. Solvers may not see A to Z of it!
Richard said,
ReplyDeleteAfter all, boys have got to be right. Right?
That sure was my opinion until one week into my marriage. Not after that. :-)
Ah, Kishore @8.34, wish you were more right with the TRIM FIGURE - I'd probably go better with a ROUND FIGURE better these days..But, though coincidental, I will take any good way I can to get my name into the paper.
ReplyDeleteSatya, on that point I'll go with the majority opinion. Don't want to be 'left' out.
ReplyDeleteSatya, I liked your clue with utensil weight. Good one.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, will PANGRAM mean a village in India growing betel leaves?
TRIM FIGURE reminded me of an old anecdote. A husband was telling a friend that his wife had bought an expensive dress for a ridiculous figure.
Richard, in that vein, is Kishore from Pun graam? :-)
ReplyDeleteI have been pulling his legs too often. Aur PUN-ga lene se dar hai. (Scare of inviting further trouble.)
ReplyDeleteJo Kishore ne kaha tha woh pun thee.
ReplyDeleteJo path pe chaltha hai woh punthee.
Kishore should henceforth be called "Pun-nagai Mannan".
ReplyDeleteSo, an aggressive punster can be an ugra-punthee?
ReplyDeleteAnd five such people?
ReplyDeletePuncha punthee.
ReplyDeleteNice puzzle on a whole. Really loved solving. Got stuck in Norris and veer ( i too put ever ).
ReplyDeleteInitially put Hot Herb then corrected it as Pot Herb ( thinking about sprouts at that instant)
Doubts on same place cleared now at the lightning speed the comments originated.
Good day and happy weekend
Mathu
I think we can call an aggressive punster, a punther.
ReplyDeleteCGB 10:18 I guess punnagai in Tamil means either smile or one with a (beautiful) smile.
ReplyDeleteNames in different languages representing smile or one with a beautiful smile are really nice and pleasant-sounding. Here are a few examples:
Smita, Suhasini etc in Indian languages. Even Kamal Haasan might mean one with a lotus-like, blossoming smile.
Many parents name their female children 'Sushmita' which is a Bengali version. I won't term it wrong. But in other states, 'Susmita' could be more correct.
Trust the Col won't throw us out for talking shop. ;-)
While on smile, Tabassum and Ibtisam of Arabic origin are also nice names.
ReplyDeleteRichard@11.24
ReplyDeleteKamal Hassan starred in Punnagai Mannan and your ref therefore is apt, as always.
Your detailed dwelling on smile will definitely
add smile to many a face and surely Col won't frown!
16A
ReplyDeleteSo much of discussion today on so many topics and no reference to Mae West appearing in different form?
The only friend of ours who could kept Mae West afloat seems to be away from his desk.
ReplyDelete* It should read "who could have kept...."
ReplyDeleteHaving faced the (khap ? )pun-chayat, I have only one thing to say:
ReplyDeletePaNam, Pun, Paasam...
I see the discussion today has revolved around the longest word in English.
Talking of MW, I think, the next generation talked in terms of Dolly Parton...
And that's what, two generations before this one?
ReplyDeleteAt the least, keeping in view the rate of multiplication..
ReplyDeleteKishore, 12:56 The longest word s<-mile->s...
ReplyDeleteRichard, 1341,def better than floccino... etc., huh?
ReplyDeleteKishore fnnpf is not the longest word Look up Longest word in English in Wiki
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ReplyDeleteSuresh, I know it is not. That is why the etc.
ReplyDeleteCV Sir 09 40 The owner of the hotel does eat here - was seen in one of the hotels in Matunga in seventy-eighties
ReplyDeleteTalking of multiplication in 1310, I remembered multiplication is sometimes dead easy, to double a number, one has to just shift the digits left and add a zero. Anyone remember this?
ReplyDeleteI really liked this clue (from today's Indian Express crossword)
ReplyDelete"Of all the trees, only the ashes will be left after this (6,4)
VJ @21.53
ReplyDeleteFOREST FIRE ?
Dr. DS. Yes it is. Nice solving :)
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