ACROSS
1 - Stop the furnace fuel from engulfing the house (5) - {C{H}OKE} CHOKE
4 - He may be the one at the casino table (7) - GAMBLER [CD]
10 - Commander is hit in an attack (6) - {COM}{BAT} COMBAT
11 - Being the only one to chant, you are in front of God (8) - {SING}{U'{LA}R} Anno not clear SINGULAR
13 - Stop conserving the plantation largely widespread (8) - NATIONALpt* How do we take out 'pt' NATIONAL
14 - Winter coat (6) - ANORAK [E]
17 - Presiding judge has an opportunity to file the return (10) - {CHANCE}{LLOR<-} File & Roll? CHANCELLOR
20 - Discourteous angry casino guru (10) - UNGRACIOUS*
21 - Best agent is continuously without women (4) - STAG [T] Surely not James Bond!!
24 - Casual doorman is standing out at eleven (6) - R?U??? (Addendum - RANDOMo* RANDOM - See comments)
26 - Supporter is firm on eating one of the Italian flat cooked dish (8) - {BRA}{C{I}O}{LA} Is 'la' 'the' in Italian? BRACIOLA
28 - Unused portion of food (8) - LEFTOVER [E]
29 - Stand for a French man involved in a love affair (6) - ARDOUR ARMOUR ?
30 - Stuck firmly to the redhead in trouble (7) - ADHERED*
31 - Submits the income tax returns (5) - FILES [CD]
DOWN
2 - Cut-up the line of the large tendon (9) - {HAM}{STRING} HAMSTRING How is Ham connected to cut up!!
3 - Alerting device (6) - KLAXON [CD]
5 - Turning point for eleven soldiers in front (4) - {A}{XI}{S} AXIS
6 - An apprentice repairs an engine in the British Rail (8) - {B{EGINNE*}R} BEGINNER
7 - Mathematician in Seoul even has the French right (5) - {sEoUl}{LE}{R} EULER
8 - Restricted to check the territory borders (6) - {SCAN}{T}{Y} SCANTY
9 - Market figure (6) - BROKER [CD]
12 - Second shikari learns to omit one language (7) - {KASH{M}IRi*} Isn't the language Kashmiri? 'M' for second!!KASHMIR (Addendum - {B}{ASHKIRi*} BASHKIR - See comments)
15 - Ask for the popular leading escort (7) - {IN}QUIR{E} Anno pending INQUIRE
18 - Chinese stone (9) - LITHOPONE [CD] NJ has conveniently swallowed an 'H' from LITHOPHONE
19 - Physicist at lunchtime is in the capital city (8) - {?A???}{ONE}(Addendum - {GABOR}{ONE} GABORONE - See comments)
20 - Difficult to control an international law contract at the end of the day (6) - {UN}{RULe}{Y} UNRULY
22 - Assault the following man on the horse-drawn carriage (6) - {G}{HARRY} GHARRY
25 - E-fund development in the desert area (5) - UNFED* Desert area!!! (Addendum - NEFUD* - See coments)
24 - Casual doorman is standing out at eleven (6) - R?U??? RANDOM*(-o) = casual?
ReplyDelete12 - Second shikari learns to omit one language (7) - {KASH{M}IRi*} B ASHKIR*(-i)
19 - Physicist at lunchtime is in the capital city (8) - {?A???}{ONE} GABOR ONE
25 - E-fund development in the desert area (5) - UNFED* Desert area!!! NEFUD*
NONE yesterday was right.
ReplyDelete25 - E-fund development in the desert area (5) - UNFED* Desert area!!!
ReplyDeleteNEFUD* (desert in Arabia)
24 - Casual doorman is standing out at eleven (6) - R?U???
Crossing with above: RANDOM
DOORMAN- O ( I remember Suresh saying that it once stood for eleven)
18 - Chinese stone (9) - LITHOPONE [CD] LITHOTOME is what I put in.
ReplyDeleteDeepak's ref to cricket reminds me of a question I came across somewhere. Since I am not much of a cricket aficionado , I may have got it wrong:
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to dismiss an entire team in one over (or is it one ball?), each player being dismissed in a different way?
I will have to look in the archives for the answer (and may be the correct question).
15 - Ask for the popular leading escort (7) - {IN}QUIR{E} Anno pending INQUIRE
ReplyDeleteCan it be (+IN)[-s]QUIRE
Squire is a knight's attendant.
IN replacing S
Defn: ask for INQUIRE
I think LITHOPONE (without H) is acceptable.
ReplyDelete15 - Ask for the popular leading escort (7) - {IN}QUIR{E} Anno pending INQUIRE
QUIR=
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=quir
I know it is queer, but dont ask me why!
I will only say that the urban dictionary is most unreliable.
ReplyDeleteI think it is where thoroughly offensive definitions may be found
I also think it is a website where anyone can enter a definition for a word and it need not necessarily be the correct one but rather one hazarded or invented by the poster.
Kishore, what do you say?
Lithopone is a pigment. It is brilliant white in colour and used in paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powder.
ReplyDeleteLithotome is a stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art. It is also the name for an instrument used for cutting the bladder in operations for the stone.
LITHOTOME appears to be right.
Kishore
ReplyDeleteI followed your link. Pray, what is 'underbite'? Haven't checked that dict.
As a beginner at cyptics, I find the likes of Nita Jaggi hugely discouraging. Just when I think I've gotten the hang of things with a few Sankalaks and Gridmans, along comes a week of NJs and makes tear my hair out in frustration.
ReplyDeleteTo lend more credence to the unreliability of Urban Dict, please see this :P
ReplyDeletehttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eksi
I remember that in Secunderabad (I lived near Benachetty village in my early teens) there is an area called Trimulgherry.
ReplyDeleteDoes its origin have anything to do with 'gharry' above?
Sudalamani
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing 'urbane' about that dict!
CV,
ReplyDeleteIt is the anglicised name for Tirumalagiri.
Thanks, Venkatesh!
ReplyDeleteYou're a repository of info, ready to deposit it at the drop of a hat (or even without it).
The expression 'at the drop of a hat' which means 'acting readily or on some single signal' comes from the American West, where, in the 19th Century, the signal for a fight was often just the drop of a hat or sweeping the hat downward while holding it in the hand.
ReplyDeleteSource: "Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers
And when the going gets difficult, would they throw in the towel?
ReplyDeleteI use hotmail for most of my e-correspondence.
ReplyDeleteIt is most annoying that when I hit the Send button it does not alert me that I am yet to enter a topic name but simply despatches it.
You don't start writing something with a topic name (unless you are an examinee in an English paper).
And, worst of all, it has '(No subject)' in the relevant field at the receiver's end.
How embarrassing to the sender!
From THC 6767 8 June 2000 (courtesy SRV, for special consideration of CV, Deepak, me and Sridhar Iyer)
ReplyDelete26 Think deeply about company girl with alien backing (8)
CV,847: Totally agree with you. On going through the def of underbite in that dict, I am sure you have.
ReplyDelete933: I hope you dont sent a No subject to a monarch.
This Gharry belongs to the same set as sari, Curchorem, Howrah, ...
ReplyDeleteKishore@9.37-
ReplyDeleteThe answer reminds me of Gita who hac been missing from the blog for a long time.
Kishore 0937 - Good one. Your wife would feel flattered. So could be other Gita-jis.
ReplyDeleteLet me try.
ReplyDeleteSix ways in which batsmen can be dismissed in different ways in a single over (would that be two hat tricks?)
bowled
caught and bowled XXX
c XXX b YYY
stumped
hit wkt
lbw
I am a casual cricket fan who looks more at cheerleaders (except those of the Chennai team) than the pitched battle.
More knowledgeable fans will correct me.
I think it is possible, Kishore. It will happen if there are illegal deliveries (no-balls or wides) and batsmen get run out off those. But then strictly speaking, all 10 batsmen can be dismissed even without a single legal delivery having been bowled.
ReplyDeleteCV, let one batter be stumped off a wide ball and another run out off a no-ball. That will give two extra deliveries for other modes of dismissal - handling the ball and may be time out?
ReplyDeleteOops, misread the question. Will work it out and be back. I think all the Ct have to be taken as one. And there are 10 modes in toto.
ReplyDeleteTo answer Kishore's 8:38 about dismissing an entire cricket team in one over which will have to include 4 No balls.
ReplyDeleteThis is how it can be done.
1 Handled the ball of a noball (One more ball has to be bowled)
2 Caught
3 Run out of a no ball (One more ball to be bowled)
4 Bowled
5 Hitting the ball twice of a no ball (One more ball to be bowled)
6 Stumped
7 Obstructing the field of a no ball (One more ball to be bowled)
8 Hit wicket
9 LBW
10 Timed out
I don't think the above has ever happened in the history of cricket evn though it is possible.
Since I have answered that here is a poser.
How can a Bowler take a hat trick in three overs, remember a Hat trick is when a bowler takes three wickets in three consecutive balls.
Kishore 0937
ReplyDeleteTHC 6767 is from a time before Gridman joined the panel and when crossword were published anonymously. Could be Sankalak's.
Here's Gridman's (who had no special consideration in mind):
Ponder over Hindu religious book hidden in shed (8)
Lemme try here:
ReplyDeleteBall 1: Bowled
Ball 2: Caught by someone
Ball 3: St off wide
Ball 3: Run out at non-striker or off no-ball
Ball 3: LBW
Ball 4: Hit wicket
Ball 5: Handled the ball
Ball 6: Batted twice off no ball
Ball 6: Obstructed the field off no ball
Ball 6: Timed out! (before even bowling)
Scorecard: 0/10 (5 balls)
Should be fine?
I think for Col's question, the bowler gets wickets 9 and 10 in an innings in 2 diff overs, and a wicket with his first ball the next time he bowls?
ReplyDeleteAnd for Kishore's question, given 'handled the ball' can happen off a no-ball, 4 balls seem to be enough.
ReplyDeleteThe closest I have come to see such a flurry is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXNS3kg5imk
Thanks for all the mind games - such fun they are, especially on these days :)
Can someone explain how 29 A works?
ReplyDeleteSudalamani has it partially right, it need not be Number 9 & 10 though. The first wicket can be any wicket provided he does not bowl after that till he takes the 10th wicket, so obviously the first wicket has to be taken of the last ball in his over.
ReplyDelete29a:
ReplyDeletePartial proof:
love =amour
Frenchman is usually Monsieur or M. but proper name Rene could become r
affair=Aind
that gives us ARMOUR. As to how it could be Stand/stand for, I have no idea.
The nearest to Stand I could think of was the old word armoire ...
Col 13:38:
ReplyDeleteI am no cricket expert - but was just thinking about other ways this could be achieved.
Could this be a possible situation:
1. A bowler takes wicket off the last ball of an over.
2. Takes a wicket off the first ball of his next over, then is unable to complete the over due to injury (another bowler completes this over)
3. Resumes bowling after some time and takes a wicket off the first ball (after resuming).
It is like this:
ReplyDeleteThe bowler takes a wicket off the last ball of an over.
Then someone else bowls an over.
The first bowler returns to bowling and off the first ball, he takes a wicket and, with all wickets of the opposing side down, the innings ends .
In the next innings, the same bowler takes a wicket of an opener off the very first ball that he bowls.
Will it be the hat-trick that Col Deepak speaks of?
My only doubt is if he took the last wicket he may not be a fast bowler and how come he bowled the first over of another innings when speed merchants are usually deployed.
Many times fast bowlers have taken the last wicket.In fact,it happens regularly when non sub continent teams bowl since they have very few spinners.Their spin bowling is like what our pace bowling used to be in the olden times (single digit overs in an innings)
ReplyDeleteCV Sir
ReplyDeleteThe third wicket is off the first ball of _his_ spell, not necessarily that of the innings.
Also, why can't fast bowlers take the last wicket? Your answer is exact and which is what Col has mentioned.
I have my doubts about handling the ball & hitting it twice is allowed off no balls.Basically,this is done to prevent the ball running on to the stumps.When bowled itself is disallowed,how can these be allowed?
ReplyDeleteWe can talk about anything except NJ crossword!
ReplyDeletePadmanabhan @ 15:17
ReplyDeleteHandling the ball and hitting the ball twice are not allowed of no balls and if done the batsman can be given out if the bowling side appeals.
Now that the cricket cat is amongst the crossword pigeons, let me muddy the waters a little. I finally located the puzzle, it was by Varunesh in Mindsport. Here goes:
ReplyDelete"
Closing stages of an ODI .
WI had made 250 / 9 in their 50 Overs .
Chasing; India are 250 / 0 at the end of 49 Overs ;
both the openers going great guns at 120 each .
Surprise of surprises ; India lose .
The rules of that series ; determine the winner ;
in case of a Tie ; by the wickets lost .
Funnily ; no two Indian Batsmen
get out in the same manner !!
"
Please note no no-balls, wides etc as it will give one run to WI. Let your imagination go wild ...
Answer will be let out of the bag tomorrow evening.
"The striker shall be out from a no ball if he breaks Law 34 (hits the ball twice) and either batsman may be run out or shall be given out if either breaks Law 33 (handled the balls) or Law 37 (obstructing the field)"
ReplyDeletePadmanabhan's question is something worth pondering over.
That puzzle was published in 2006, when Varunesh, I and quite a few of my friends were regularly being published by Mindsport. I hope cricket rules have not changed since.
ReplyDeleteKishore
ReplyDeleteHope it is not some 'mokkai' :P
Back from Mumbai. Glad to have missed 3 days.
ReplyDeleteTks Deepak for getting me in touch with the only other known follower of the blog in Vizag. Known her for a long time but did not realise there was this common interest
ReplyDeleteThe only possibility I can think of is if 6 batsmen are out in six balls and 4 are timed out.
ReplyDeleteSuresh @ 15:56,
ReplyDeleteYes Vijaylakshmi had called in the morning as she was overjoyed that she had solved something that I had not, GABORONE. I gave her your number when I knew that she was from Vizag.
Sudalamani, no it is not. However, it is an unusual scenario. And I am sure Mukul would not have let it go to print if it was 'mokkai'.
ReplyDeleteIndia lose the series, not the match.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it starts raining and some funny rule of averages gives WI the match
ReplyDeleteSo three people - Suresh, Sandhya and Vijayalakshmi - are in Vizag? We must have an S&B meet there as none of them have been able to make it to Madras or Bangalore, the venues of our previous editions. (I have met Suresh though, when he was on a visit here.)
ReplyDeleteCV I thought that Sandhya was in Hyderabad
ReplyDeleteA bowler can take a hat trick in one innings itself by taking wicket no 1 of the last ball of an over and 3 of the first ball of an over. Wicket no.2 is taken by him, after another bowler bowled 5 balls and retired hurt or by bowling 2 beamers,of the 6 th ball the only ball bowled by him.
ReplyDeleteIs "GHARRY" a modification of "GAADI" in Hindi Gaadi means vehicle in Hindi.
ReplyDeleteJaggu,
ReplyDeleteExcellent guess. It is, indeed, a horse-drawn cab used especially in India and the origin of the word is from the Hindi & Urdu word gāṛī.
Pl see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharry
Yes, Jaggu, that is what I meant at 942
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of the lovely movie, 'Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi' starring the three Ganguly brothers - Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anoop Kumar.
ReplyDelete