Monday 22 August 2011

No 10239, Monday 22 Aug 11, Sankalak

ACROSS
1   - Onset of terrible riot in Madras thwarted by one in charge of management (13) - ADMINISTRATOR ADMINIS(T)RATOR*
10 - Reusable weapon down under (9) - BOOMERANG [E]
11 - Put to rest in Bury (5) - INTER [DD]
12 - Follow directions, take legal action (5) - ENSUE {E}{N}{SUE}
13 - Kind of special care givenin the past or present, say, including a drip (9) - INTENSIVE {IN}{TENS{IV}E}
14 - System of ideas to expound some thing — like the unknown about gold (6) - THEORY {THE}{OR}{Y}
16 - Instrument to measure and give out resistance (5) - METER {METE}{R}
19 - A smoke to get police officer in transport (5) - CIGAR {C{IG}AR}
20 - Hit and add fuel to the fire? That's about right (6) - STROKE {ST{R}OKE}
25 - Go along with a conservative business enterprise (9) - ACCOMPANY {A}{C}{COMPANY}
26 - Audibly choose to offend one (5) - PIQUE (~pick)
27 - The feature of impertinence (5) - CHEEK [DD]
28 - What the baker may use to raise dough (9) - LEAVENING [E]
29 - Clinical cleansing of a tailor's site in disrepair (13) - STERILISATION*
DOWN
2   - The kind of service that appeals to stay-at-homes? (8) - DOORSTEP [CD]
3   - Girl displays anger over two points (5) - IRENE {IRE}{N}{E}
4   - A licit arrangement for a bent type (6) - ITALIC*
5   - Got up, with a clear sky in company (8) - TOGETHER {TOG<-}{ETHER}
6   - Lining up good nitrogen in food (9) - ALIGNMENT {ALI{G}{N}MENT}
7   - Where in France a fool could get the better of one (6) - OUTWIT {OU}{TWIT}
8   - The intention is to protest (6) - OBJECT [DD]
9   - Produce a black kind of grass (5) - BREED {B}{REED}
15 - He makes money for his boss — but could he also induce a fall? (4-5) - RAIN-MAKER [DD]
17 - Latitude given to special trooper leading three trainees around the east (8) - PARALLEL {PARA}{LL{E}L}
18 - Pest of a British flier in WW II (8) - MOSQUITO [DD]
21 - Physical power of work unit in Eastern New York (6) - ENERGY {EN{ERG}Y}
22 - The imagination of an admirer caught beginning to yell (5) - FANCY {FAN}{C}{Y}
23 - Stress produced by the way one speaks (6) - ACCENT [DD]
24 - Say, acquire permit for an operation (6) - BYPASS (~buy){BY}{PASS}
26 - Fold seen in sheep leather (5) - PLEAT [T]

Photographs of my visit to Raju's residence can be seen at this link.


38 comments:

  1. Nice one.

    18d reminded me of the short novel 'The Shepherd' by Frederick Forsyth.

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  2. Col,

    Ref the photos with Raju when you visited him at CBE.

    Patel shot is a candid photograph with a person in the foreground and a place or object of interest in the background. Here, one does not see the 4ftx4ft CW in the background. So, how are you calling it a Patel shot?

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  3. Kishore,
    Mosquito aircrafts also figure in the 'Biggles' stories.

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  4. Nice photos with Raju. Any chance of posting a close up of a small part of the CW to put things in perspective? Mere zoom did not help much to bring things into focus.

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  5. Venkatesh,
    You can take the curtain behind us as the object of interest!

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  6. Venkatesh.
    I am not very sure, since the earlier ones had other aircraft, including Sopwith Camel.

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  7. Kishore,
    Raju will have to send us close up shots of the CW as I forgot to carry my camera with me.

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  8. Oh, I thought the sling across your chest was a camera bag. Maybe it was a canteen? I remember those metal canteens with a kidney cross section and fabric cover which were popular long back.

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  9. Really good puzzle again. With the only nit to pick being pick for pique

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  10. Kishore

    Oh yes, I remember those canteens from my days in Jalahalli and Secunderabad when we were living with our father serving in the Air Force.

    Well, I knew the word 'canteen' only in the sense of cafeteria or restaurant or a shop for soldiers.

    So I have learnt from yoy a new sense of an old word.

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  11. There is an Indian American joke about Patel points & Patel tours.It is said that a Patel from India visiting/studying in U.S.-particularly an eligible bachelor-would like to be photographed in front of various landmarks just to show that he has visited all these places.Unconfirmed reports say that his value(read dowry)goes up with the nos. & locations of the landmarks!Such a tour undertaken for this specific purpose was called a Patel tour.

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  12. Nice puzzle again. So rarely have a gripe with Sankalak, but pick is not anywhere near a match for pique (pronounced peek)

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  13. Kishore/Venkatesh,
    Why is the plane called a mosquito? Was it because of its size or because of its stealth(difficult to follow/trace)?

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  14. Another meaning of canteen is a formal set of cutlery.

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  15. Yes,I remember those metal containers in a sort of flattened elliptical shape with a wool fibre covering to give it a thermos effect.But I did not know about it being called a canteen.The only canteens I knew were cafes & army canteen stores where we used to get duty free goods through friends!

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  16. Indian way of pronouncing (what I have heard and been following) pique is rhyming with pick.Hope I am not 'pick'-ing holes in anyone's point of view.

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  17. I have a friend from Mombasa who would pronounce pick as peek

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  18. Ah! Does this hold true for other - ique words? Is critique crit-eek or critic. Is oblique obl-eek or oblic?

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  19. Padmanabhan,

    Information on the De Havilland Mosquito (including how it came to be designed and inducted in RAF) is availabe at the Wikipedia site and the Mosquito Page.

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  20. Paddy, quite a few aircraft got named with creatures/things connected with air:

    Gnat
    Mosquito
    Tornado
    Tempest
    Typhoon
    Toofani
    Hurricane
    Comet
    Hornet
    Snipe
    Cuckoo
    Falcon
    Lightning
    Thunder
    Thunderbolt
    Shooting star
    Meteor

    Surprisingly, quite a few planes got named after 4 legged creatures:

    Wapiti
    Camel
    Otter
    Mustang

    If only jumbos could fly!

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  21. Regarding your specific question, I guess because it was one of the first night-fighters and possibly because of its engine sound.

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  22. I have a friend from Mombasa who would pronounce pick as peek

    Kindly ask him to narrate the following conversation if he changes long vowels to short and vice versa:

    Do you make still?

    Yes, Sir.

    Do you make them in long pieces?

    No Sir, we make them in short sheets.

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  23. Can anyone help me remember what the water bottles in cowboy stories were called? The large circular ones (these ones had a large radius but small heights, if placed flat on the ground) with the opening on the curved edge. Were they also called canteens?

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  24. Sorry, Venkatesh. I see you have given the link.

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  25. Thank you Kishore & Venkatesh.I will go through the website for updating me further.
    Kishore-We HAVE made jumbos (jets) fly!

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  26. Yup, that why after typing pigs, I changed it to jumbos..

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  27. Even elephants have wings. Remember the flying elephant of Osibisa?

    Raju might remember Uhuru, a word oft hear in NBO. Probably common, next only to boards displaying 'Hatari Sitima' and billboards selling 'Tusker' under the 'Milele' banner.

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  28. And the cartoon character, Dumbo the flying elephant.

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  29. Kishore:

    You forgot the ubiquitous boards hung outside all big houses-- UMBWA KALI . One of my friends visiting from India wondered as to who this UMBWA KALI is, owning so many properties! I had to clarify to him: UMBWA KALI means BEWARE OF DOGS. We had a good laugh.

    Maha mayee -kali wouldn't like her name related to the canine species.

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  30. Yup, Raju, I think it was Mbwa Kali. And I remember Securicor had a near monopoly on house/office security. Of course, being largely vegetarian at that time, I had to forgo the Nyama choma and stick to sukuma wiki and irio.

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  31. Maha mayee -kali wouldn't like her name related to the canine species.

    Raju, Kali is not dog, mbwa is dog. Kali is an adjective for ferocious/dangerous.

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  32. Isn't it surprising that DG went to the city quite a few of our friends are connected to via a town frequently figuring in THC to meet a person who has been in the city most commonly figuring in crossies and speaks a lingo which again is a frequently clued tongue?

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  33. Deepak and Chatur:
    Sunday 1 Down;Corrupt place by underworld river(4)
    STYX -In Greek mythology, one of the principal rivers of Hades across which Charon ferried the souls of the dead.

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