ACROSS
1 - Check and find little crawler has accepted cash (7) - INSPECT {INS{P}ECT}
5 - Locates variety of sugar found in milk (7) - LACTOSE*
10 - An Earl may turn for her (6) - LAURAE {A+EARL+U}*
11 - Outstanding feature of British and German currency (8) - LANDMARK {L}{AND}{MARK}
12 - A sorcerer from Australia! (6) - WIZARD [CD]
13 - Cleaner who is wary about son (8) - CHARLADY {CHAR{LAD}Y}
14 - Only engineer found in what is now Sri Lanka (6) - CEYLON {ONLY+CE}*
15 - Rejects with contempt, at railway siding, on two points (6) - SPURNS {SPUR}{N}{S}
18 - Does such electricity have no switch? (6) - STATIC [CD]
20 - It's completely in Latin (2,4) - IN TOTO &lit
23 - Mocking, scornful (8) - DERISIVE [E]
25 - Film Red Indian tribe in Senegal (6) - SCREEN {S{CREE}N}
26 - Bliss is being in the procession (8) - PARADISE {PARAD{IS}E}
27 - Young man dons the best dress (6) - ADONIS {DONS+AI}*
28 - Withdraws soldiers with flags (7) - RETIRES {RE}{TIRES}
29 - Not committed to run late dance (7) - NEUTRAL*
DOWN
2 - Can I analyse one new vitamin? (6) - NIACIN {CAN+I+I+N}*
3 - Entrap men into fixed arrangement (9) - PERMANENT*
4 - Rush during short visit about a set of principles (7) - CREEDAL {C{REED}ALl}
6 - Year books of plants (7) - ANNUALS [DD]
7 - Take time to mail subject into a vernacular language (5) - TAMIL {T}{MAIL*}
8 - On way, tried to point excitedly with a loud and grating voice (8) - STRIDENT {ST}{TRIED+N}*
9 - Rambling Lord I silenced — that was rash (3-10) - ILL-CONSIDERED*
16 - Furthest away but can talk more than anyone (9) - UTTERMOST {UTTER}{MOST}
17 - See great changes in accommodation at the lower end (8) - STEERAGE*
19 - Nice for us to have a kitchen department (7) - CUISINE {NICE+US+I}*
21 - Note to say one is willing (7) - TESTATE [CD]
22 - He has an outfit set up for flight (6) - HEGIRA {HE}{GIR)(A<-}
24 - A form of Arabic (5) - IRANI [CD]
14a reminded me of the golden years of Radio Ceylon (later Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corpn.) and their Binaca (later Cibaca) Geetmala (with Amin Sayani),
ReplyDeleteAlso the other programs of the radio era:
Take it from me (Bobby Talyarkhan) (sponsored by Erasmic?),
Inspector Eagle (sponsored by Eagle
Vaccum flasks),
Hawa Mahal, Forces Request,...
24 - A form of Arabic (5) - IRANI [CD]
ReplyDeleteThis might be Iraqi.
Iraqi (n) :
1.A native of Iraq
2.The form of Arabic spoken in Iraq
Talking of Erasmic, I think it was my first shaving soap.
ReplyDeleteTend to agree with Bhavan, as the language of Iran is Farsi, which I feel is not a form of Arabic.
ReplyDeleteOn further Googling, Arabic is an Afro Asian language, whereas Farsi is an Indo Aryan language. So no way Irani can be an Arabic language, though it does have common words because of Arab occupation.
ReplyDeleteOther brandnames in memory:
ReplyDeleteRemy (?talcum powder)
Sunlight (washing soap before the days of the so-called detergent, I think)
Afghan snow
Flex (shoes: was this an Indian company?)
Dalda (this appears to have been revived now after a hiatus; am I right?)
Remy snow, Cunega scent, Gopal/Nanjangud toothpowder, Binaca toothpaste,Himalaya snow? (not the present Himalaya)....
ReplyDeleteCV, CGB,
ReplyDeleteI remember an antacid I used to mooch off my uncle : Rennie, Murphy radio(along with Phillips, Grundig and Telefunken), HMV, Remington and Halda (from Rayala Corp).
I think Faroukh Engineer did the Erasmic ad.
Nanjangud and Dalda are still there.
Iranians perhaps do not put themselves in the category of Arabs. They use the Persian script, though, which is close to Arabic.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bhavan, IRANI is not an Arabic lingo.
ReplyDeleteBefore the Irani/Iraqi conflict, I had initially put in Omani, remembering Richard, but had to x it out after getting the x-ings.
ReplyDeleteKishore, thanks for the nostalgic thoughts on Radio Ceylon. I loved both English and Hindi broadcasts. The Hindi programme would start at 7 am with fifteen minutes of film songs on instruments - Sunil Ganguly, Enoch Daniels et al - followed by songs from a new movie up to 7-30 am, then for half an hour of old favourites, the last one being reserved for the great Kundan Lal Saigal. On the first of every month, the last song would be Pehli tarikh hai from the movie, if I am not mistaken, 'Bank Manager'.
ReplyDeleteAt 8 am it would be request songs. There were many other creative programmes like duets on relay Badalte Hue Saathi - Rafi and Lata, Lata and Mahendra Kapoor, Mahendra Kapoor and Suman Kalyanpur, Suman and Mukesh, Mukesh and Asha and so on. There were many more interesting programmes. And their short wave transmissions were very powerful. Our desi Vividh Bharti was no patch on those features in that era.
Phew, those were the days!
Kishore,
ReplyDeleteI think Engineer was the model for both Erasmic & Brylcream. Hardly anyone who has not strted with Eramic shaving cream. I think those days Palmolive was the closest competitor. About Binaca Geetmala, it can hardly be bettered. What a voice Ameen Sayani had!! Take it from me & Bournvita quiz were some of the picks.
Richard, I think the movie was also Pehli tareekh.
ReplyDeletePaddy, the Bournvita quiz had the favourite line 'there goes the bell' after the tick tock ended !
ReplyDeleteYes, Engineer was for Brylcreem too ! I think the brand was Brylcreem and not Brylcream.
Brylcreem had an ad which went:
ReplyDeleteThe reason you have hair is to attract women. That's why girlfriends make you want to pull it out.
Suresh 13:53 I stand corrected.
ReplyDeleteKishore 15:36 A hair-raising issue!
Hardly. I have used it and see what happened
ReplyDeleteSuresh would therefore call it a hair-razing issue!!
ReplyDeleteI used to listen to the English version of Radio Ceylon and one of my favourite programs was " Discs at Daybreak " at 6.30A.M. every morning.I am not a western music buff but I still remember some of the songs broadcast in that programme.
ReplyDeleteRadio Ceylon:
ReplyDeleteHow about Ilangai Vanoli vartthaga oliparappu and the DJ Mayilvahanan with his inimitable style similar to Amin Sayani.
It is not just Mayilvahanan, it used to be "Ungal Mayilvahanan"!
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