ACROSS
4 - Get the diamonds cut into this shape, maybe (8) - {BAG}UETTE anno pending, unless it's just a CD
8 - Emigre gets disturbed by the ruling body (6) - REGIME*
9 - Dull is the French king held by a small group of people (10) - {LA}{C{K}LUSTER*}
10 - Main tree is oddly a small thing (4) - {M}{I}{T}{E}
11 - Briefly see the covered note to review the jewellery box (4) - {SAw}{FE}
13 - Identify Anu playing with the flying squirrel (6) - {TAG}{UAN}
15 - Favourite one initially is aroused by this flower (7) - {PET}{UN}{I}{A}
17 - Coffee on an island (4) - JAVA [DD]
18 - You name it on the back of the purse regularly (4) - {NO<-}{U}{S} See the link and you will get confused with the definition here!!
19 - Big mess left in for the girl indulging in salon activity (7) - {STY}{L}{IN}{G} Such messy clues make me want to quit NJ's CWs
21 - Prakash largely holds a stone slab (6) - ASHLAR [T]
22 - Assignment letters (4) - POST [DD]
25 - White material covers the particular thing (4) - ITEM [T]
26 - Throw out from the parapet a desert lizard (10) - {CHUCK}{WALL}{A}
27 - It may be tense in the present time (6) - FUTURE [CD]
28 - Support below the brooch (8) - {UNDER}{PIN}
DOWN
1 - Set up the bowling unit (5) - FRAME [DD]
2 - Turkish title on a hat displayed for the mystery woman (6) - {AGA}{THA*}
3 - Guy tumbled in the middle of the stair (5) - {FELL}{A}
4 - Caught this French following an American man in the bowling game (5) - {BO}{C}{CE}
5 - Cotton fabric for the Greek nymph (7) - GALATEA [DD]
6 - Calm person (9) - EASYGOING [CD]
7 - Kind of book where men are included in the sign after Aries (9) - {T{HES}AURUS}
12 - Tomato, technically in France is for an upper class Italian (5) - {FR}{U}{IT}
14 - Indian state kings sing anthems cut out from the note paper (9) - {RAJAS}{THANems*}
15 - Turn the fragment in this place, he reserved for animal skin (9) - {PA{RF<-}LEC*}{HE}
16 - I go around to see the white house (5) - {IG{LO}O}
19 - Complete mismanagement by the southern company in Uttar Pradesh (5,2) - {S}{CREW} {UP}
20 - Fail to start this kind of cuisine in an old city for the movie director (6) - {sAUTE}{UR}
22 - Half of London follows the defaced infiltrator on the bridge tower (5) - {sPY}{LONdon}
23 - Workers on duty at the flagpole (5) - STAFF [DD]
24 - Force the little devil in the equatorial side (5) - {IMP}{E}{L}
4 - Get the diamonds cut into this shape, maybe (8) - {BAG}UETTE anno pending, unless it's just a CD
8 - Emigre gets disturbed by the ruling body (6) - REGIME*
9 - Dull is the French king held by a small group of people (10) - {LA}{C{K}LUSTER*}
10 - Main tree is oddly a small thing (4) - {M}{I}{T}{E}
11 - Briefly see the covered note to review the jewellery box (4) - {SA
13 - Identify Anu playing with the flying squirrel (6) - {TAG}{UAN}
18 - You name it on the back of the purse regularly (4) - {NO<-}{U}{S} See the link and you will get confused with the definition here!!
19 - Big mess left in for the girl indulging in salon activity (7) - {STY}{L}{IN}{G} Such messy clues make me want to quit NJ's CWs
21 - Prakash largely holds a stone slab (6) - ASHLAR [T]
25 - White material covers the particular thing (4) - ITEM [T]
26 - Throw out from the parapet a desert lizard (10) - {CHUCK}{WALL}{A}
28 - Support below the brooch (8) - {UNDER}{PIN}
DOWN
1 - Set up the bowling unit (5) - FRAME [DD]
2 - Turkish title on a hat displayed for the mystery woman (6) - {AGA}{THA*}
3 - Guy tumbled in the middle of the stair (5) - {FELL}{A}
4 - Caught this French following an American man in the bowling game (5) - {BO}{C}{CE}
6 - Calm person (9) - EASYGOING [CD]
7 - Kind of book where men are included in the sign after Aries (9) - {T{HES}AURUS}
12 - Tomato, technically in France is for an upper class Italian (5) - {FR}{U}{IT}
14 - Indian state kings sing anthems cut out from the note paper (9) - {RAJAS}{THAN
15 - Turn the fragment in this place, he reserved for animal skin (9) - {PA{RF<-}LEC*}{HE}
16 - I go around to see the white house (5) - {IG{LO}O}
20 - Fail to start this kind of cuisine in an old city for the movie director (6) - {
22 - Half of London follows the defaced infiltrator on the bridge tower (5) - {
23 - Workers on duty at the flagpole (5) - STAFF [DD]
24 - Force the little devil in the equatorial side (5) - {IMP}{E}{L}
20 - Fail to start this kind of cuisine in an old city for the movie director (6) - {sAUTE}{UR}
ReplyDeleteI think this is (h-)AUTE from Haute Cuisine
Peekaboo has commented on the Special and given out the details of the special features included. Go back to the Peekaboo special to see them. Link to the puzzle is under the blog archive on the left
ReplyDeleteHats off to Col.!!
ReplyDeleteI have heard someone say-"Two people knew it when I wrote this (God & me)Now only one knows and that is not me"!Can this hold good for crosswords too?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Deepak on completing this crossword. I could not and gave up.
ReplyDeletehmmmmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteenna solrathunne theriyala....
mathu.
Mathu
ReplyDeleteEnakkum atheythaan.
quite a contrast to yesterday's. 9A says it all.
Almost easy today. 24/32 for me .
ReplyDelete4 D - BO for Barack Obama?
11 A.- Someone please explain me the anno.
Ajeesh, hope this helps :
ReplyDeletehttp://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Barack+Obama
shows BO for what you thought it might be. Not sure how reliable the site itself is.
11 Briefly see the covered note to review the jewellery box (4)
My take is S(AF<-)E(-e)
Briefly see = SE(-e)
note = FA
review = reversal/anagram indicator (ok, I'm in wild guess territory here)
The Saturday Times had three interesting words today: LOLLAPALOOZA, PANJANDRUM & COCKAMAMIE. How many of us have come across these words before?
ReplyDeleteHave come across cockamamie before, but not the other two.
ReplyDeleteThere was a musical titled Panjandrum produced by De Wolf Hopper and his Opera Company in 1893.
ReplyDeletePanjandrum, known also as The Great Panjandrum, was a massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II but never used in battle.
But, who introduced the nonsense term "Grand Panjandrum" into the English language? The credit goes to Samuel Foote, an English dramatist, actor and theatre manager.
At one particular lecture, Foote extemporized a piece of nonsense prose to test Macklin's assertion that he could memorise any text at a single reading.
"So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. "What! No soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots."
The word 'Lollapalooza' originated in a late 19th/early 20th century American idiomatic phrase meaning "an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance." The word also appears in a Three Stooges movie. In time, the term also came to refer to a large lollipop.
ReplyDeleteIt has also been adopted as the title of a popular annual music festival in the USA which has also debutted abroad.
Cockamamie is an American slang word that means trifling; nearly valueless; ludicrous; or nonsensical. By origin, it is a close relative of decal, a design prepared on special paper for transfer to another surface.
ReplyDeleteThnaks Bhavan ( eventhough i am still not convinced abt SAFE:)and congrats our Team India. One of the best day in my life.:)
ReplyDelete11 Briefly see the covered note to review the jewellery box (4)
ReplyDeleteMy take is S(AF<-)E(-e)
Briefly see = SE(-e)
note = FA
review = reversal/anagram indicator (ok, I'm in wild guess territory here)
That was my take on it as well.