Good puzzle from Sankalak to end this run. Some really nice clues in wannabe, debonair, acetone.
ACROSS
1 The public speaker’s bete noire? (7) HECKLER (CD)
5 With very little old money, engineer is an aspirant for a new lifestyle (7) WANNABE (W + ANNA + BE)
10 Arab peasant, deadly with a bit of humour (6) FELLAH (FELL + A + H)
11 The sick pace feverishly for things to reduce fever (3,5) ICE,PACKS (SICK PACE)*
12 Third-rate telephone part with a small mark (6) DISMAL (DIAL outside S M)
13 Lacuna in the law gives an opening after flight manoeuvre (8) LOOPHOLE (HOLE after LOOP)
14 Lacking muscular tone? Get a medicine (6) ATONIC (A + TONIC)
15 What August is in months (6) EIGHTH (E)
18 FBI agent returns with an objective — to give protection (6) DEFEND (FED<= + END)
20 Charley, with no English, managed in a sly manner (6) ARCHLY (CHARLeY)*
23 Think, a sacred book in a bird shelter! (8) COGITATE (GITA inside COTE)
25 A theatre more likely to have a quake (6) TREMOR (T)
26 Notice given by worker — statement of charge (8) HANDBILL (BILL after HAND)
27 Where birds are kept in a Roman way, right close to Rajahmundry (6) AVIARY (A + VIA + R + Y)
28 Organise a royal place for shooting (7) ARRANGE (A + R + RANGE)
29 Three points in roofing material make it stretchable (7) TENSILE (E,N,S inside TILE)
DOWN
2 Medicine for sick alien mice: it makes them throw up (6) EMETIC (ET + MICE)*
3 0.62 mile (9) KILOMETRE (GK)
4 Troop formation seen in Leh once, unusually (7) ECHELON (LEH ONCE)*
6 Opening part of play about ecstasy from chemical (7) ACETONE (ACT ONE outside E)
7 Lower in worth is a cow beginning to hyperventilate (5) NEATH (NEAT + H)
8 Hard plastic used in keel, a bit fractured (8) BAKELITE (KEEL A BIT)*
9 German town in which Alex and Ali dance around church (3-2-8) AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (ALEX ALI)* outside CHAPEL
16 Allergies developed in parts of theatres (9) GALLERIES (ALLERGIES)*
17 Stylish girl coming out broadcasting (8) DEBONAIR (DEB ON AIR)
19 Arrangement in Germany for distributing cards (7) DEALING (DEAL + IN + G)
21 Get a cot designed for a small house (7) COTTAGE (GET A COT)*
22 Enclosure for cattle of pinkish-orange colour with a hint of red (6) CORRAL (CORAL outside R)
24 Trendy healer, a god in India (5) INDRA (IN + DR + A)
ACROSS
1 The public speaker’s bete noire? (7) HECKLER (CD)
10 Arab peasant, deadly with a bit of humour (6) FELLAH (FELL + A + H)
11 The sick pace feverishly for things to reduce fever (3,5) ICE,PACKS (SICK PACE)*
12 Third-rate telephone part with a small mark (6) DISMAL (DIAL outside S M)
13 Lacuna in the law gives an opening after flight manoeuvre (8) LOOPHOLE (HOLE after LOOP)
15 What August is in months (6) EIGHTH (E)
18 FBI agent returns with an objective — to give protection (6) DEFEND (FED<= + END)
20 Charley, with no English, managed in a sly manner (6) ARCHLY (CHARL
23 Think, a sacred book in a bird shelter! (8) COGITATE (GITA inside COTE)
25 A theatre more likely to have a quake (6) TREMOR (T)
26 Notice given by worker — statement of charge (8) HANDBILL (BILL after HAND)
27 Where birds are kept in a Roman way, right close to Rajahmundry (6) AVIARY (A + VIA + R + Y)
28 Organise a royal place for shooting (7) ARRANGE (A + R + RANGE)
29 Three points in roofing material make it stretchable (7) TENSILE (E,N,S inside TILE)
DOWN
2 Medicine for sick alien mice: it makes them throw up (6) EMETIC (ET + MICE)*
3 0.62 mile (9) KILOMETRE (GK)
4 Troop formation seen in Leh once, unusually (7) ECHELON (LEH ONCE)*
7 Lower in worth is a cow beginning to hyperventilate (5) NEATH (NEAT + H)
8 Hard plastic used in keel, a bit fractured (8) BAKELITE (KEEL A BIT)*
9 German town in which Alex and Ali dance around church (3-2-8) AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (ALEX ALI)* outside CHAPEL
16 Allergies developed in parts of theatres (9) GALLERIES (ALLERGIES)*
17 Stylish girl coming out broadcasting (8) DEBONAIR (DEB ON AIR)
19 Arrangement in Germany for distributing cards (7) DEALING (DEAL + IN + G)
21 Get a cot designed for a small house (7) COTTAGE (GET A COT)*
22 Enclosure for cattle of pinkish-orange colour with a hint of red (6) CORRAL (CORAL outside R)
How to tackle a heckler?
ReplyDeleteWith a Koch and Heckler ;-)
Nice run from Sankalak.
Or, rather the other way round..
Delete17A I understand it is back on stands...
ReplyDeleteIn the early years of its existence, it ran a 'sexy' crossword set by a husband and wife team.
DeleteI have more than a hundred back issues. Don't remember to have seen any crossword. Will check and get back after a few days....
DeleteBut the one issue in which I wrote a limerick is not with me! (Year 1977)
DeleteIn his memoirs, Vinod Mehta, who was once editor of Debonair, writes about the time immediately after he took over (c 1974):
Delete"Even before I sat on the chair, I accepted an inescapable reality: the Indian nudes in Debonair would be abominable. Cheap is a better word.... We paid the princely sum of Rs. 250 as model fee. And got what we paid for...."
If I remember correctly Debonair was more popular (in my college days) for something other than "sexy" crosswords. Raju may confirm this.
DeleteOne bra i'd strip for magazine (8)
DeleteIn the 1970s, the Daily Tej group of newspapers from Delhi, headed by Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, used to bring out a monthly humour magazine in English called Diwana - more or less on the lines of MAD magazine - which was very popular. It was known for the biting satire and sarcasm of its contents, with cute cartoons and strips (might mean both ways).
DeleteIt was known to lampoon the then politicians like hell. I am told that it folded up after the clamping of the Emergency in June 1975 (I was living abroad then. .
It ran a series of issues parodying various magazines with names Bedonair, Ill-LUST-rious Weekly of India, Starbust and the like. I have preserved some issues. The Weekly had the redoubtable Sardar at the helm. Diwana got away with all that without facing any libel or legal issues.
Chaturvasi or Bhargav or Kishore may have come across it.
The parody issue of the Weekly was Ill-LUST-rated Weekly of India.
DeleteRengaswamy
DeleteI like the clue!
No-one question how it can be 'one bra'. Strippers are known to wear one upon another! Perhaps this person won't go beyond one!
Richard
DeleteThanks for your input. Very interesting!
CV, can you shoot some comments on my 11-09 post above?
DeleteOur messages crossed. But have you come across that magazine since you spent a few years in the north?
DeleteI am afraid not.
DeleteI will try to fish them out of my junk archives and send you scanned copies of the covers.
DeleteI have seen Deewana during my schooldays, though my age might not have been appropriate ...
DeleteYour sense of humour proves you came of age pretty fast, thanks to your regular reading of Diwana.
DeleteNice one again .
ReplyDeleteToday's crossword was :
Mistry's work is what a tightrope walker needs? (1,4,7)
A Long Journey
ReplyDeleteI think it was 'Such a long journey'
ReplyDeleteright track wrong book :)
yes it is Such a Long Journey, shortlisted for Booker and won host of other awards.
ReplyDeleteI was hinting at the one after that.
ReplyDeleteA Fine Balance ?
Deleteyes.
DeleteNew to fill in the crossword...
ReplyDeleteAppreciate, any help on understanding and filling the crossword.
Bujji, click and visit
DeleteShuchi's blog.
You may have to go the archives for the nitty-gritty.
Thanks much Richard
DeleteNo, Dr Srini. I was caught in a time-lapse-warp for two decades and more away from India. My only memories of Bombay are with the JS of Statesman Group of Calcutta where I was instrumental in having the pictures of our intrepid war pilots in their cockpit on its cover page. Since long, their centre-fold has got folded up !!
ReplyDeleteI hope that our Big Sister(s) would not object to the harmless 'feminine'features(ed) here? Bollywood or Bust?
JS of Statesman Group--- Lot of Fans over here in this blog. Rear window, my favourite
DeleteCG Bharghav and Chaturvasi:
ReplyDeleteAs for 'sexy'theme crosswords, i have a few, UK based, which can only be shared in private emails , lest the Big Sister comes down on us with a bang!! Hilariously lewd and intelligent to solve, if one didn't mind the overt connotations.
I used to get them in Nairobi, with a prize of 100 pounds, compiled by Cyclops with the title EYE CROSSWORD
Ahaaa! Little brothers having a whale of a time?
ReplyDeletePP's choice of words is amusing in itself...
DeleteI was waiting for your comment PP
ReplyDeleteNot to miss the monkey.
DeleteAh my prediction was correct. Sankalak tends to raise the bar as we go along. Nice one today!
ReplyDeleteYes, And it was well done. Nice mix of clues that challenge all solvers and clues that are easy enough for beginners.
DeleteHOW is that all of could use names and i cannot?
ReplyDeletewhat name displays on top right when you open dashboard ?
DeleteUnknown
ReplyDeleteFull instructions are given in the Comments section of yesterday's post here.
While posting my Comments in an effort to help you, I seem to have scrolled down more than necesssary and posted them there.
Good luck to you!
I think that is the easy way CV sir.
ReplyDeleteRegards
Ajeesh
Kidu? Sounds weirdoo!
ReplyDeleteBack to real name ;-)
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