My choices in the CW today, thanks Gridman, but too many CD's for my liking.
ACROSS
1 - Get rid of the girl’s scrap (8) - DISPATCH {DI'S}{PATCH}
5 - America’s Uncle to stop spicy liquid dish (6) - SAMBAR {SAM}{BAR}
9 - Pity co-ed working to prepare matter for publication (8) - COPYEDIT*
10 - Tell others to sell directly (6) - RETAIL [CD] (Addendum - [DD] - See comments)
12 - Sole loony runs without a hoop (4) - ONLY LOoNY*
13 - Scholar loads as a cooked spicy dish is here (6,4) - MASALA DOSA {MA}{SALA DOSA*}
15 - It is hard: We want to hear from you, apparently (6) - CALLUS (~call us)
17 - Fairy begins looking for danger (5) - PERIL {PERI}{L}
20 - Fellow, try to get the fruit (5) - MANGO {MAN}{GO}
.jpg)
21 - Result-oriented city (6) - ULSTER*
24 - Stress gran is devious enough to break law (10) - TRANSGRESS*
27 - Release without charge (4) - FREE [DD]
30 - Pet pundit doesn’t have an agent that precipitates action
(8) - CATALYST {CAT}{anALYST}
31 - Catch the woman below (6) - NETHER {NET}{HER}
32 - Building for English soldiers occupying temporary accommodation
(8) - TENEMENT {T{E}{MEN}ENT}
DOWN
1 - No, for one, to a movie buff (6) - DOCTOR [CD]
2 - Arm with flexibility? (6) - SUPPLY [DD]
3 - Region of the Far East (4) - AREA [T]
4 - Some search in Arikamedu for pottery (5) - CHINA [T]
6 - Near a dilapidated structure for sports (5) - ARENA*
7 - Coat of arms in brilliant display (8) - BLAZONRY [DD]
8 - Right, the priest’s clever and trustworthy (8) - RELIABLE {R}{ELI}{ABLE}
11 - Black currant cordial for accountant’s relative (6) - CASSIS {CA'S}{SIS}
14 - Henry, there’s nothing to the charismatic glow (4) - HALO {HAL}{O}
16 - See a kind of ray on Paris museum (6) - LOUVRE {LO}{UV}{RE}
17 - Quarry’s loud appeal (4) - PREY (~pray}
18 - It represents a person’s mood virtually (8) - EMOTICON [CD]
19 - An inspiring aid to a patient with URTI (8) - INHALANT [CD]
22 - Not beginning largely obscure diamond-shaped pattern (6) - ARGYLE lARGELY*
23 - Set of six disjointed texts put around leading educationist
(6) - SEXTET {SEXT{E}T*}
25 - Hell to move son ahead in sunless spot (5) - SHADE (+s)SHADE(-s)
26 - It causes redness to quiet girl (5) - SHAME {SH}{AME}
28 - Fickle person’s conceited, it’s said (4) - FAKE [DD?] (Addendum - VANE (~vain) - See comments)
L & G, the afore-promised MASALA DOSA from the Grid-dle-man has arrived today. Duly accompanied by SAMBAR, and, of course, presented on the best CHINA. Creme- de-CASSIS can ease your taste-buds if the dosa was too spicy.
ReplyDeleteA singular coincidence on the cartoon page: Six Chix refers to a ‘search engine’ as does 4d in the Guardian Quick Crossword.
hello every one, sorry was absent for a long long time.was not in station. how could i fill in masala dosa as BAnana dosa??? HOWW???
ReplyDeletefun filler clues.
good day all. :D
We all went bananas over masala dosa...
Deletearms with flexibility can be supple too, yeah?
ReplyDeleteI did fill as SUPPLE and thanks, I have company!
Delete2D - Arm with flexibility? (6) - SUPPLY [DD]
DeleteI guess there is a dual meaning conveyed here. To arm = supply and also as the adverb form of 'supple', though the two words are pronounced differently. (sup+ply and sup+plea).
one more to the supple list- Gridman wanted to test us and we were misled.
Delete
ReplyDeleteHi everybody
What better can one ask for to begin the day with than SAMBAR and MASALA DOSA, with MANGO, to boot?
10A was topical with the ongoing FDI debate. Liked TRANSGRESS, CRAVAT, NETHER, TENEMENT, RELIABLE, WANE, ARGYLE, SEXTET and a few others. EMOTICON and INHALANT were great.
COPYEDIT showed the pulse of a journalist. I wasn't sure of the anno for CATALYST. Have to look into the blog up here.
CHINA, ARENA and a few others were too easy.
28D - I took it as WANE (~VAIN) - A weatherwane is a weathercock. How about that?
ReplyDelete21A, Is ULSTER a city or Province? Have lived in that province for 2 years.
ReplyDeleteSorry; it's a mistake that went unnoticed. Thanks DS for pointing it out. I crave your indulgence.
Delete---
As far as I can see there are only two CDs (10a is not a CD as noted in the blog). are two CDs in a set of 30 clues 'too much'?
---
Richard is right, except that the spelling is 'weathervane' - not -wane. The answer to the clue is VANE. A vane is a ficlke person.
---
The answer to the clue
Arm with flexibility? (6)
is SUPPLY. Arm (v.) is 'supply' (as in "I armed the terrorist with necessary equipment"; 'with flexibility' is 'supply' (adv.)
---
I was out of town for a couple of days. My sympathies are with people living in CBE and other cities. In CBE people have power outage for more than 10 hours and you don't know when you have power and when you don't have it. People constantly look at the pilot lights in their inverters to regulate their power use. I congratulated myself for living in Chennai with just one hour of power cut. Even here power supply can be erratic but it is nothing like what people in other cities in TN experience.
Thanks, CV. It was a slip. Vane is the correct spelling.
DeleteBy the way, have you gone through all the past week's blog-posts? There was a query for you from me. Have a look at it please. It was perhaps the next day of your meeting at CBE.
CV,
DeleteLet me amplify, I should have written CD's & DD's and have amplified it with 'for my liking'. As per my count there are 7 of them 10A, 27A, 1D, 2D, 7D, 18D and 19D and with 18 & 19D in the same sector it makes it all the more difficult.
10A should be a [DD] my mistake
Though GM intended Ulster in Ireland, Ulster is also a town in Ulster County, New York, United States, so GM need not crave anyones indulgence!!
DeleteThanks Col, for your never-ending search. I learn a lot everyday from your LINK, including 22D which is in my own field
DeleteReading and researching Col.'s links is the most interesting byproduct ( or is it the main?) of solving THC and partaking of comments in the blog. You learn about quite a few things every day. Thank you Col. & nowadays Bhavan too who keeps up the tradition !
DeleteThanks for clarifying Vane! Couldn't understand Fake!
ReplyDeleteGood to have Gayathri back - missed your comments.
Though I wrote Louvre, still don't understand how L O R E are used. UV for ray is fine.
Enjoyed the masala dosa and sambar!
'LO' from see (look)? I take it 'RE' for 'on'. I also need clarification.
DeleteI filled in Vain and was wondering if tenement is right, though it had to be. Now it is clear after all the discussion.
ReplyDeleteThank you,CV, for starting us on an enjoyable breakfast !
Yes, we are fortunate to be in the capital city- powerful?! (one 'L' missing indicating the 1 hr. power cut)
@ CV - further to 9:55 am
ReplyDeleteTo save you the trouble of browsing through the past week's comments, I quote it for you -
My post on Sep 19:
Today's TH has made the following announcement:
Well-known journalist and Panos South Asia executive director A S Paneerselvan will take over as The Hindu's Readers' Editor, effective September 20, 2012.
Will this mean the dawn of a new era of a better-managed Crossword section? Maybe CV is the right person to comment on this.
Kishore's response:
You are correct. CV is the person to ask about CW.
Vijay Sarvagnam said:
No doubt CV is the person. But improvements in crossword section is far-fetched as CV has been working on it eternally and we have seen no improvements.
Hey I did not see these comments too. I think it is wrong to say that there has been no improvements in the crossword section. Has Vijay forgotten the days of NJ and Manna. There is a great improvement in the quality of the crossword and I think that a lot of the credit should go to CV for this.
DeleteRichard
ReplyDeleteFirst, Suresh is right. Certainly the crossword feature has seen improvements and I can take at least some credit for that.
Second, VS is also right in that we can hardly see some improvements/innovations that we would like to have. E.g., an interactive version and some others that needn't be listed here.
Deepak
ReplyDeleteRe Ulster. Thanks. I am breathing easy!
It was humourous GM taking his bete noire NJ's route and ironic that Col provided the proverbial fig leaf for him.
DeletePerhaps it is in instances like these that Sankalak steals a march over GM.
Well, shunting=out NJ & Manna, i did not consider, as an improvement. By improvements, i thought, things like giving proper importance to crosswords, etc.
ReplyDeleteMeaning exactly what. CV did come up with the interactive online version. Any other thoughts.
DeletePersonally I have started enjoying the crossword a lot more lately after the changes in the setters. It comes regularly, printing errors are under control I have no other bright ideas for 'improvement'
As i solve only on print edition and hunting the place of crossword daily is problem, for me, may be because of my disability. I wanted the crossword to be at one place like sports page, SUDOKU, etc.. May be it is not a problem, for others. In that case, i withdraw my statement.
DeleteI loved Gridman's puzzle today. 2D (supply) was the clue of the day for me. I also liked the surface reading of 4d. Very realistic. Blazonary was a new word for me.
ReplyDeleteIf the last one was from Bhala. Today's was from Col & The
Eccentric dam on incomplete river (6) ...r..
weir do(-n)?
DeleteOn a second reading of the list, I see doctor & catalyst making it in. So today's covers request from Padmanabhan as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you Ramesh. I missed noticing it.
DeleteThe following words/phrases from the wish list have been used:
ReplyDeletemasaladosa
sambar
ccatalyst
doctor
yourwish'smycommand
Louvre was also there on the list. So I took today's Louvre as a part of the list. Hence the pointers for the clue above
DeleteThanks, Ramesh.
ReplyDeleteWhile posting the list of words used I lost my A-Z file of suggested words. Hence the omission. I now leave it to others to keep track of used words.
Vijay Sarvagnam@6:52
ReplyDeleteI think if The Hindu's cryptic crossword becomes more popular, It would possibly be easier to convince the powers that be to get it published at a fixed place etc.
My suggestion for this is to have some one write a series of articles for say 'Young World' taking the readers through how they can solve cryptic crosswords. Something like what an introductory book on solving crosswords does.
On my part, I plan to take the children I teach ( I run a program called mind gym for a neighbourhood library and activity centre targeted at 8-12 yr olds ) to take them through an introductory course on crossword solving some time early next year. Hopefully I can convert a few of them into lifelong crossword enthusiasts.
A very laudable,useful & interesting effort. Wishing you a roaring success in your efforts. Like chess, this is also better started at an early age. If you do something on line, pl. do let me know and I would like my grandson who is in U.S. to take part.
Delete+1Ramesh
DeleteGood work. But like Ajeesh & Padmanabhan, it is difficult for me engage in any activity, other than looking after myself. Even for that my wife has to do half of it. But i can only wish all of You a success in this venture.
Delete