Plenty of time today to read about the Budget!!
ACROSS
ACROSS
1 - The dull routine that a char goes through? (3,5,5) - THE DAILY GRIND [CD]
10 - Instrument that could endlessly injure a girl (9) - HARMONICA {HARm}{MONICA}
12 - … a bygone article, Italian dish (5) - PASTA {PAST}{A}
13 - Treating a sour boil, involving hard work (9) - LABORIOUS*
14 - Commotion made by the modest around India briefly (6) - SHINDY {SH{IND}Y}
16 - Administrative division in England, no unknown, can have an effect (5) - COUNT COUNTy
19 - Custom in America followed by leaders in government everywhere (5) - USAGE {USA}{G}{E}
20 - Give support to one of sixty in a minute (6) - SECOND [DD]
26 - His object is to hit the target (5) - AIMER [CD]
27 - Nut initially cultivated in a region (5) - ARECA {ARE{C}A}
28 - The drones, challenged, are cut down a bit (9) - SHORTENED*
29 - Fixture in aircraft to deter a tobacco addict (5,8) - SMOKE DETECTOR [CD]
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2 - Difficult conditions created by an unyielding craft (8) - HARDSHIP {HARD}{SHIP}
3 - Epic character, a prosecutor taking boy (5) - DRONA {D{RON}A}
4 - Say, look at the sickle, an evidence of freeze (6) - ICICLE (~eye~sickle){I}{CICLE}
5 - Unknown listener to order in advance an annual publication (8) - YEARBOOK {Y}{EAR}{BOOK}
6 - Allusion made by an arbiter going around North Carolina (9) - REFERENCE {REFERE{NC}E}
7 - Inclination for a wee bit of music in midday (6) - NOTION {NO{TI}ON}
8 - Figures of singular, hard primates (6) - SHAPES {S}{H}{APES}
9 - It may bring transparency to things (5) - GLASS [CD]
15 - Get off the ship! (9) - DISEMBARK [E]
17 - Suffering great anxiety? Diagnose problem (8) - AGONISED*
18 - Special trooper to order start of operation (8) - COMMANDO {COMMAND}{O}
21 - Ridicule some gender ideas (6) - DERIDE [T]
22 - Food fish with strange parts (5) - SPRAT*
23 - Sell stock, get money (6) - REDEEM [CD]
24 - A plan by the French, unknown, revealed (6) - LAYOUT {LA}{Y}{OUT}
Today's CW was like 1A Completed on first pass almost.
ReplyDeleteSameera Reddy wants a weekly to apologise to her because it has carried on the cover a picture of Vijay Mallya flanked by her. She says she has nothing to do with him or his company.
ReplyDeleteShe also says Mallya is her 'uncle'.
Could anyone tell me if the two are actually related as uncle-niece or she is
using it the way young persons refer to any old person as 'uncle'.
Plenty of time today to read about the Budget!!
ReplyDeleteNot to forget the hundredth hundred, the paper carrying a second editorial on the Op-Ed page!
10a Something that our setter Textrous plays, I believe.
ReplyDeleteI hear with my ear organ, I see with my eye organ, I smell with my nose organ and I speak with my mouth organ.
DeleteAll in all, you're an organic creature.
DeleteKishore,
DeleteYou don't play with your mouth organ??
Quite an organized discussion!
DeleteDeepak, only when I espy organza.
DeleteToday's CW was like 1A Completed on first pass almost.
ReplyDeleteThe Finance Minister said he was 'cruel to be kind'. Our setter is kind to be kind?
He is the kind who is kind to be kind.
DeleteWho am I kind(l)ing ;-)
Zany of Old Pranab-uncle to be quoting old 'amlet
DeleteHindi film lyrics puts it as:
DeleteMeeThi choori say hua halaaal
Butchered by a sweet sword...
Time enough for Kishore to raed a lot (between lines of the budget)and reminisce a lot after a walk in the park ( I mean completing the 1A)!
ReplyDeleteHalal is supposed to mean Excise duty?
ReplyDeleteDid not catch it till you said it. Good one that
DeleteAnd service tax on all services, except a negative list yet to be announced. According to the MOF, the negative list will have around 10 items.
DeleteTo set CV's mind at rest:
ReplyDeleteSameera is a far relative of Vijay Mallya.
Her role in Varanam Ayiram opposite Surya was good, thanks largely to Gautam Menon's direction.
1 across reminds me of the famous Chakki pisaaoing and pisaooing and pisaaoing by that HAM of all Ham(lets) Dharam Gharam. Thank God I'm not any where near his Lady Love Dhanno, who'll jam me for damning her Ham- Hamaara Dharam. Do they still make RI prisoners to do Chakki Pisaaoing? Or are they allowed to use Mix-n-Match Mixer, grinder?
ReplyDeleteKishore: Why not Halal first and then Namak chidakao Anti-aam- aadmi Da? BUT they never GET it right anytime, Da?
ReplyDeleteICW for icicle ?
ReplyDelete