Off to the dairy farm.....
ACROSS
1 - Engineer lodged in a walled building is knowledgeable (4-4) WELL-READ {WELL-{RE}AD*}
5 - Saw soldiers replacing the professional device used for echo effects (6) - REVERB (-pro+re)REVERB
9 - Victor left the liquid sedatives in a part of New York (4,4) - EAST SIDE SEDATIvES*
10 - Dairy product with unrefined cane sugar inside a trifle was sent back (6) - YOGURT {YO{GUR}T<-}
11 - Magic tune vicar played in a loop (14) - CIRCUMNAVIGATE*
14 - Discredit the letters from the Zagreb utility company (5) - REBUT [T]
16 - Element found with silicon inside a large wine bottle boxed in the Orient (9) - MAGNESIUM {MAGN{E}{SI}UM}
17 - Perplexing anachronism in Switzerland banished to another country (3,6) - SAN MARINO ANAchRONISM*
19 - The right way is to go west for a transplant involving the kidneys (5) - RENAL {R}{ENAL<-}
20 - Declare isotope to be unstable using an astronomer's aid (5,9) - RADIO TELESCOPE*
23 - Allegiance to the king taken out by force from the estate property (6) - FEALTY (-r+f)FEALTY
24 - Has to return (after confiscating the army officer's jalopy) to the plant (8) - SALTBUSH {SA{LT}{BUS}H<-}
25 - Apple that might spoil the barrel (6) - ROTTEN [CD]
26 - Connected family (8) - RELATIVE [DD]
DOWN
1 - Overheard the method to obtain a dairy product (4) - WHEY(~way)
2 - Damsel in recital gets an Indian drink (5) - LASSI (~lassie)
3 - Diamond description? (4,3) - ROSE CUT [CD]
4 - Reminder given by the press counter to the Oreintal doctor's indignation (4-7) - AIDE-MEMOIRE {AIDE-M<-}{E}{MO}{IRE}
6 - Environmental nightmare, a Greenpeace concern? (7) - ECOCIDE [E]
7 - Training in a bare retreat housing a positively charged particle finishes early (9) - EDUCATION {EDU{CATIOn}N<-}
8 - Dairy product, dairy product, dairy product! (10) - BUTTERMILK {BUTTER}{MILK}
12 - Pile found in the dilapidated motel garage (11) - AGGLOMERATE*
13 - Costa Rica sailor cites a point moving up top direct to another entry, say (5-5) - CROSS-REFER {CR}{OS}{(+s)S-REFER(-s)}
15 - Missing line break in plan to obtain a monetary instrument (4,5) - BANK DRAFTAnno pending (Addendum - {BlANK} {DRAFT} - See comments)
18 - Champion reformer (7) - APOSTLE [CD]
19 - Dairy product made in Rhode Island lodge without garlic extract initially (7) - RICOTTA {RI}{COTTAge}
21 - Pilau cooked by the Austria-born physicist... (5) - PAULI*
22 - ... paying heed to the concealed dairy product (4) - GHEE [T]
ACROSS
1 - Engineer lodged in a walled building is knowledgeable (4-4) WELL-READ {WELL-{RE}AD*}
5 - Saw soldiers replacing the professional device used for echo effects (6) - REVERB (-pro+re)REVERB
9 - Victor left the liquid sedatives in a part of New York (4,4) - EAST SIDE SEDATI
10 - Dairy product with unrefined cane sugar inside a trifle was sent back (6) - YOGURT {YO{GUR}T<-}
11 - Magic tune vicar played in a loop (14) - CIRCUMNAVIGATE*
14 - Discredit the letters from the Zagreb utility company (5) - REBUT [T]
16 - Element found with silicon inside a large wine bottle boxed in the Orient (9) - MAGNESIUM {MAGN{E}{SI}UM}
17 - Perplexing anachronism in Switzerland banished to another country (3,6) - SAN MARINO ANA
19 - The right way is to go west for a transplant involving the kidneys (5) - RENAL {R}{ENAL<-}
20 - Declare isotope to be unstable using an astronomer's aid (5,9) - RADIO TELESCOPE*
23 - Allegiance to the king taken out by force from the estate property (6) - FEALTY (-r+f)FEALTY
24 - Has to return (after confiscating the army officer's jalopy) to the plant (8) - SALTBUSH {SA{LT}{BUS}H<-}
25 - Apple that might spoil the barrel (6) - ROTTEN [CD]
26 - Connected family (8) - RELATIVE [DD]
DOWN
1 - Overheard the method to obtain a dairy product (4) - WHEY(~way)
2 - Damsel in recital gets an Indian drink (5) - LASSI (~lassie)
3 - Diamond description? (4,3) - ROSE CUT [CD]
4 - Reminder given by the press counter to the Oreintal doctor's indignation (4-7) - AIDE-MEMOIRE {AIDE-M<-}{E}{MO}{IRE}
6 - Environmental nightmare, a Greenpeace concern? (7) - ECOCIDE [E]
7 - Training in a bare retreat housing a positively charged particle finishes early (9) - EDUCATION {EDU{CATIO
8 - Dairy product, dairy product, dairy product! (10) - BUTTERMILK {BUTTER}{MILK}
12 - Pile found in the dilapidated motel garage (11) - AGGLOMERATE*
13 - Costa Rica sailor cites a point moving up top direct to another entry, say (5-5) - CROSS-REFER {CR}{OS}{(+s)S-REFER(-s)}
15 - Missing line break in plan to obtain a monetary instrument (4,5) - BANK DRAFT
18 - Champion reformer (7) - APOSTLE [CD]
19 - Dairy product made in Rhode Island lodge without garlic extract initially (7) - RICOTTA {RI}{COTTA
21 - Pilau cooked by the Austria-born physicist... (5) - PAULI*
22 - ... paying heed to the concealed dairy product (4) - GHEE [T]
7 - Training in a bare retreat housing a positively charged particle finishes early (9) - EDUCATION {EDU{CATIOn}N<-}
ReplyDeleteReversal indicator to be added in Anno.
NUDE<- housing CATIO[-n]
15 - Missing line break in plan to obtain a monetary instrument (4,5) - BANK DRAFT Anno pending
ReplyDeleteMissing=blank,
line break= -L
plan=draft
monetary instrument=def
15 - Missing line break in plan to obtain a monetary instrument (4,5) - BANK DRAFT Anno pending
ReplyDeleteI think this is
Missing line (L) break = BLANK (as in a gap) gives BANK
Plan = Draft
Thanks
ReplyDeleteBorn and brought up in a city, I have not had the privilege of having a cow brought to the gatepost and milched.
ReplyDeleteBut fresh, frothing milk has been delivered with the milkman bringing those long cans home (The empty containers would be tucked underarm, rather than held by the handle.) The cows and buffaloes were stabled in poorer areas of the neighbourhood, their existence known to us only by heaps of dungs on main streets when they were allowed to stray out for foraging.
When I lived with my dad in air force quarters in Jalahalli, we used to get milk in bottles - so typical in British homes with the bottles stacked in crates lying outside the door for the householder to pick up in the morning.
During our visits to the US we see people buying milk in plastic cans and storing them in the fridge. I am not sure if those cans have come to India. We have 'sachets' - no sachet more than one litre in capacity. But the pasteurised and homogenised milk comes with varying fat content.
One of the ugliest scenes in any apartment building is the dirty bag tied to the outside door for the delivery man to place the sachets.
In Chennai I don't think it's legal to breed cattle within city limits but even today it is possible to see a cow tied to a gate outside an apartment building and milched - the milk delivered to a solitary flat in the building. I leave it to you to guess the region from which that householder hails.
Before the cards came, we had coupons - each day we would tear off the required number of coupons and hand over to the delivery man. In Chennai the cards can be bought from a booth on a particular day: if missed, one has to go to the area office. Over the years I have bought the cards at the booth - the same people would come and queue up and exchange pleasantries with each other as transactions were going on. That kind of bonhomie is absent at the area office. Most people prefer to let the deliverers handle the buying and give him a fee: these deliverers are mostly aged housemaids who come with bundles of cards.
Wasn't it the Tamil film Sabash Meena in which Chandrababu was a milkman?
ReplyDeleteYes,you are right.
DeleteIs it not SAGOTHARI?
DeleteThe only thing CV missed mentioning is the rope (used to tie the hind legs of the cow while milching)thrown over the shoulder of the milkman- it is so typical.
ReplyDeleteThough living in the heart of the city (in Smith road off Whites road) for a few years, we had the privilege of fresh milk in the long can delivered by milkman and occasionally he would even bring the cow and milch it in our home. Looks like memories of a bygone era, though it was in the 70's.
And of course, always fighting about the amount of water added to the milk. People used to say the milkmen had a way of tying a tube with water around their waists and stealthily add the water even while milking the cow.
DeleteBetter to comment on cows and milk today!
ReplyDelete@CV: Consider myself not too old, but as a young boy, have often seen the familiar sight of cows (actually buffaloes I believe) tied to the lamppost in front of the gate and being milked (just in time for afternoon coffee!). Remember still my grandfather's concern that there should be no water in the pail prior to milking for fear of diluted milk!
As for breeding cattle being illegal within city limits, can show you 'agraharams' replete with obligatory cows right in the heart of the city, ie Mylapore!
@ Padmanabhan: Nice to know that you were a resident in Smith Road. You may find my post "Worked in Conran Smith and failed in Smith" interesting. It is in my blog: www.businesswithac.blogspot.com
ReplyDelete(Post of 10-4-12). There was a palatial house in Smith Road which housed a hotel Leel Maha and the owner of this place had a hectic time in vacating them. Now he is running a serviced apartment in that place.
Addison and Co was functioning from both sides of the Road. But now the tools division has been shifted to Sriperumbudur and the building demolished. A children's hospital is to be built there. From 2002 to 2009, I was having my business at Smith Lane.
And my father used to joke that when I grew up I will not be able to get my morning cuppa, because the milkman would say: Why should I get up early and go around milking cows, for these guys to enjoy their coffee?
ReplyDeleteThe theme seems to have been milked to the maximum till godhooli, or as the English say, till the cows come home.
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