Wednesday, 23 February 2011

No 10085, Wednesday 23 Feb 11, Sankalak

Extra from Sankalak?
ACROSS
1   - The power of the big star (5,6) - SOLAR ENERGY [CD]
9   - Russian, deadly with a drink (7) - MOLOTOV [CD]
10 - Vegetable in jar decays in the outskirts of Betul (7) - {Bet{RINJA*}uL}
11 - Part of an act (5) - SCENE [CD]
12 - A measure to maim Gill, that is about right (9) - {MILLIG{R}AM*}
13 - Do some art work and so on, Henry (4) - {ETC}{H}
15 - Hoped to get the snake the Cockney rented (7) - {ASP}{hIRED}
19 - One of the joints that get rapped as a punishment (7) - KNUCKLE [CD] Have received many at school!
20 - Chopped meat that contains a bit of heat (4) - {HAS}{H}
24 - Nature cult, losing article, turns hostile (9) - TRUCULENTa*
25 - Indian mother close to Asian capital (5) - {AMMA}{N}
27 - It gets knocked down in a bowling alley (7) - SKITTLE [E]
28 - One of those a governor has in President's rule (7) - ADVISOR [CD]
29 - Kind of worker finished off following pre-finals (4-7) - {SEMI-S}{KILLED}
DOWN
1   - Work out love's mystery (5) - SOLVE*
2   - Foam in which one gets very agitated (6) - LATHER [DD]
3   - Patch up by a priest and a redcap (6) - {REV}{A}{MP}
4   - Treat blues in leader of engineers — administer a medicinal spray (8) - {NEBULIS*}{E}
5   - Problem in the nose lands one in endless thirst, oddly (8) - {RH(IN)(I)TISt*}
6   - Holy book that Raju and Davey mastered (5,4) - YAJUR VEDA*
7   - One greatly admired, but a butterfingers? (7) - SMASHER [DD]
8   - The region for beginning to cultivate a citrus (5) - {C}{LIME}
14 - Who said everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it? (9) - CONFUCIUS [E]
16 - Get one used to a conservative tradition (8) - {A}{C}{CUSTOM}
17 - Stupid, and without the means of doing a crossword (8) - {CLUE}{LESS}
18 - Vigorous dance by artist after a heady drink (7) - {BHANG}{RA}
21 - By the way, a deposit of hidden money (5) - {ST}{ASH} My COD
22 - It's art re-presented in clouds (6) - STRATI*
23 - A wonderful person seen in a Myanmar velodrome …(6) - MARVEL [T]
26 - … pondered, as did the doctor, about employment (5) - {M{USE}D}

GRID


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  1. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 08:31

    Plenty of Indian brew (AMMAn, Raju, Betul, Gill (a Punjabi surname, I remembered Wg Cdr HS Gill, who was shot down in the ’71 war, with no news of him for 3 years, though the grapevine had rumours that he was alive and a POW, and finally officially declared dead in ’74 and awarded a Vir Chakra ).
    My cod, of course is the double malt, BHANG-RA, encompassing two Indian words.
    SEMI SKILLED (semis killed) was a SMASHER.
    Some days back I had quoted Ruddy (If Yeddyurappa can be Yeddy, Theodore Roosevel can be Teddy, Kipling can be ---) :
    You may talk o' gin and beer

    Now time for a follow up line with today’s 8d:
    “...
    Now in Injia's sunny C-LIME,
    Where I used to spend my time
    ...”
    Now, Injia is supposed to be a mythical land of Injuns by some and others may feel it is an irreverent way of mentioning India. But no cause for resentment I think: Wut wohnt nur im Busen von Dummköpfen, as Alfie said..

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  2. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 08:33

    Missed mentioning YAJURVEDA in my first post !

    Deepak, your skittle cartoon had me roaring my head off :-)

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  3. Suresh23 February 2011 at 08:38

    VEry enjoyable cw. Lots of COD candidates.

    By the way the Comments box is not working. It ticks but does not stick

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  4. Suresh23 February 2011 at 08:51

    I think it sticks now. I think I looked for the tick in the box and not the six in the last. Or my mind went on a blink?

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  5. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 08:58

    Aint raising a stink on the voting, but nice to see unanimous votes of good and easy. Sankalak has, as usual, churned out good stuff and not too esoteric.

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  6. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 09:06

    Deepak
    Just one more ploy to try!
    Suppose you change Quality/Difficulty: to Q/D (from the choices that follow anyone can figure out what these single-letter abbreviations stand for), can the last choice too come into permissible single line?

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  7. Padmanabhan23 February 2011 at 09:08

    "not too esoteric"is very apt and that is what makes it all the more enjoyable!
    Liked Raju & Davey,though I must confess that I have some selfish interest there.My grandson's name is Yajur!You can understand my euphoria!Thank you,Sankalak-you made my day.I cant wait to share it with him.

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  8. Padmanabhan23 February 2011 at 09:10

    Kishore-I could not translate your German though I learnt a bit of it long ago.
    Kicking myself for missing the Banghra.

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  9. Padmanabhan23 February 2011 at 09:12

    Saw skittle cartoon after reading Kishore's comments,My God!! I envy Col.'s choice of cartoons.Keep it up!

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  10. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 09:14

    Paddy,
    Rage/anger dwells only in the bosom of fools !

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  11. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 09:16

    I am providing the third line... others will give the fourth and fifth lines, one each.
    Now in Injia's sunny C-LIME,
    Where I used to spend my time
    With a lovely apsaras
    ...
    ...
    ===
    NB: The word 'apsaras' is in the Chambers dictionary.

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  12. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 09:20

    A coincidence that Kung fu tzu appears in 14d in THC while today's TGQC 10422 in Metro Plus has Kung fu in 17d

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  13. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 09:22

    CV: How may in the harem ? a vs apsaras..

    Will add next line after being sure whether you are spending time and whatever else in a mono or multi mode :-)

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  14. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 09:32

    Kishore
    I am raring to go!
    But as you left it incomplete, I added the third line and let it at that.
    Let's see if there are any takers.
    Maybe tomorrow you and I (and those who provide the fourth and fifth lines) can each give our versions of the complete limerick from where we left off..

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  15. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 09:32

    read: left it at that.

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  16. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 09:40

    CV, clever of you to turn the quote from Gunga Din into a limerick. But my worry was about the numerical mismatch in your line between the a and the apsaras.

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  17. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 09:41

    Kishore
    Your quote about anger and our expression or suppression of that reminded me of the poem

    http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poison-tree/

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  18. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 09:52

    I split it into two separate ones, monogamous and polygamous:


    Now in Injia's sunny C-LIME,
    Where I used to spend my time
    With a lovely apsara
    And lots of Viagra
    Enough to last me a life time.


    Now in Injia's sunny C-LIME,
    Where I used to spend my time
    With some lovely apsaras
    Who knew all the sutras
    Heck! it was always bedtime.

    I conservatively used Heck in the last line, other four letter words could fi :-). Sutra is also in the dictionary, of course, the most famous one known in the English world is refered in this limerick.

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  19. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 09:56

    Hey, it's NOT a numerical mismatch.
    'apsaras' is singular.
    'apsarases' is plural.
    Apsaras is the word for divine figure.
    At least in Tamil I have heard sentences such as
    "Ava enna raangi pannra paaraen. Edho thaandhaan periya apsaras-nnu nenaippu..."

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  20. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 09:56

    Apropos the poem, CV, paraphrasing Blake:

    Did he who pen the tyger pen thees ? ;-)

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  21. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 10:00

    I see Chambers says that apsaras is singular, but I frankly think they are misguided as we all know the correct usage.

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  22. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 10:06

    Kishore: Granting that you have produced excellent limericks with apsaras and apsaras...

    Now in Injia's sunny C-LIME,
    Where I used to spend my time
    With a lovely apsaras
    And red wine in glass
    There are tales of political grime.

    My end goes well with 'Now', the opening word.

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  23. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 10:15

    My end goes well with 'Now', the opening word.

    Hoping that your end is far away in time. Yes, your limerick fits an entity which went with the initials NDT.

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  24. Deepak Gopinath23 February 2011 at 10:46

    Now in Injia's sunny C-LIME,
    Where I used to spend my time
    With a lovely apsaras
    Who taught me some asanas
    On how to feel sublime

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  25. SandhyaP23 February 2011 at 11:13

    Great limericks guys!
    Of course, the ones by Kishore are the best by far ; )

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  26. Padmanabhan23 February 2011 at 11:43

    and more'thought provoking'too!!

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  27. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 11:54

    Thanks, Sandy and Paddy, I hope you did not consider it too risque. After all, limericks are supposed to have a dash of spice in them. My non limerick poems are usually cleaner by far.

    BTW, Sandy, did you read my response long back to your query on the THCC families post on SBII photos?

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  28. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 12:08

    Kishore
    If I call your limericks risque, that would mean I have not read such five-liners. Yours is clean as a whistle.

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  29. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 12:30

    pl. Apsaras or Apsarases? Is 'apsaras' singular?

    Opinion is divided.

    But see

    http://www.dkprintworld.com/product-detail.php?pid=1280856653

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  30. Suresh23 February 2011 at 12:34

    In Telugu you would say apsarasa for the singular

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  31. Padmanabhan23 February 2011 at 12:44

    You will always have such problems when you import a word from other languages.There can never be an unanimous opinion.If I remember right,apsaras is a Sanskrit word and is meant to be a singular.I think this has been adopted as it is in Tamil.But I am not sure about the plural,I mean in the original language

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  32. Rengaswamy23 February 2011 at 14:25

    Now in Injia's sunny C-LIME,
    Where I used to spend my time
    With a lovely apsaras
    Using mantras and tantras
    It was a nice pastime

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  33. Padmanabhan23 February 2011 at 15:22

    reading & writing limericks looks to be a nice pastime-esp. in the next few days when we may not have much to discuss on crosswords!Good one from rangaswamy.

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  34. Padmanabhan23 February 2011 at 15:24

    Kishore-I think you do the quick crossword which appears in Metro plus.Can you explain something about 24a-pease pudding.What is pease?

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  35. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 15:44

    pease
    a pea or pea-plant, now almost wholly superseded by the new singular pea and plural peas, except in a collective sense.

    The present singular 'pea' was formed from 'pease' mistaking the latter term for a plural.

    The present plural is peas.

    It seems the old term 'pease' still exists in such phrases as pease pudding.

    Ref: Chambers dict.

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  36. SandhyaP23 February 2011 at 15:49

    @Kishore(11:54): Read the SBII pics response just now :)

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  37. SandhyaP23 February 2011 at 16:00

    @Padmanabhan: There's also a rhyme called Pease Pudding Hot. Check the following site for the rhyme and etymology of the words:

    http://www.rhymes.org.uk/pease_pudding.htm

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  38. Padmanabhan23 February 2011 at 16:36

    Thank you CV & Sandhya.It is a pleasure to get immediate clarification on any subject and I enjoy it so much.Thank you once again.

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  39. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 17:26

    In the light of 'pease', read the following in A Word A Day

    http://wordsmith.org/words/fomes.html

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  40. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 17:30

    The URL doesn't seem to go where I intended.

    Visit the home page of A Word A Day.

    FOMES is today's word.

    If visiting the page tomorrow, look for the word under This Week's Words in the top right panel within the page.

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  41. Padmanabhan23 February 2011 at 17:39

    I tried.It takes me to the correct page.Anyway what you explined is the best way.

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  42. Chaturvasi23 February 2011 at 18:35

    Thanks, Padmanabhan.

    I am glad that the URL works.

    Also, thanks for your private mail, though it crossed with the mail from AWAD.

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