Arden scores again. The long ones are handled beautifully.
... me to play a prank on her today, just like in the past 24 years. My prank this year will be not playing a prank that is warily expected. After all 25 years of putting up with me has to be rewarded.
Here’s an update on the personal front. My wife is expecting
....
ACROSS
1 It is crazy to put up a Latin song (8) MADRIGAL (MAD RIG A L)
5 Graceless girl would pine about the upper class (6) GAUCHE (G ACHE around U)
10 Caught with it in true performance (7) RECITAL (REAL around C and IT)
11 Final score may be a hundred less — ratify it (7) ENDORSE (END ScORE*)
12 Cooler, with publicity becomes more expensive (5) ICIER (prICIER)
13 Direction to avoid electric shock — a close call indeed (4,5) NEAR THING (N EARTHING)
14 St. Lucia sorts out accommodation for most visitors who go there (7,5) TOURIST CLASS (ST LUCIA SORTS)* Sorts as fodder and not anagram indicator was novel
18 Kind of clay found perhaps in Buckminster’s world (7,5) FULLER'S EARTH Never even imagined that the man behind the geodesic domes and after whom bucky balls are named could come in a crossie.
23 Average time intended (5) MEANT (MEAN T)
24 Bouncer gone away with resentment (7) DUDGEON (DUD GONE*)
25 Sadly the beast is back for some wine (7) MARSALA (ALAS RAM<)
26 Ridicule when one gets embarrassed over fish (6) DERIDE (DER< IDE)
27 Flood of interest over sister’s boyfriend (8) INUNDATE (I NUN DATE) A sister with a boyfriend !
DOWN
1 Profit will spoil a drink (6) MARGIN (MAR GIN)
2 Takes a month to tie up duplicity (6) DECEIT (DEC TIE<)
3 Butt in and get no respite (9) INTERPOSE (NO RESPITE)* Thought of Interfere and Interlope, before cottoning on to the anagram
4 New girl in stall prepared for a no-holds-barred sport (3-2,9) ALL-IN WRESTLING (NEW GIRL IN STALL)*
6 Lose nothing and gain time from sound check (5) AUDIT (AUDIo+T)
7 May be visiting in a large number, say (8) CARDINAL (CARD, may be a visiting one, IN A L)
8 Green revolution is eye opener — lend power to it (8) ENERGISE (GREEN* IS E)
9 Following revival he has many interests (11,3) RENAISSANCE MAN (HE on double duty, as part of definition 'he has many interests' and as part of charade) Also works as an &lit, I think. Resisting the urge to insert my own picture here ;-)
15 Act strangely on a master managed craft (9) CATAMARAN (ACT* A MA RAN) Many of our setters seem to like going around on this craft wearing 19d
16 Hurt? not on before it’s finished (8) OFFENDED (OFF ENDED)
17 Nothing to list on the German plant (8) OLEANDER (O LEAN DER), the mariner's list here
19 State of the headwear (6) PANAMA 2
20 Can attack faster perhaps (6) STRAFE (FASTER)*
22 Accepted without starting to show desire (5) GREED (aGREED)
... me to play a prank on her today, just like in the past 24 years. My prank this year will be not playing a prank that is warily expected. After all 25 years of putting up with me has to be rewarded.
Gridman too had CATAMARAN once in a grid. His clue was
ReplyDelete1 Rama can, at a pinch, make a boat (9)
(Not a very good one!)
The word was part of another clue:
17 Skill doesn’t start in making catamaran (4)
(Which requires to be solved)
The fodder and the def, both suit the answer. English is sure a funny language!
DeleteSmooth one from Arden today.
Resisting the urge to insert my own picture here ;-)
You do that and Suresh would cut you down to size as he does with Bhala's pic.
Suresh is cutting down to size for sure, but the blog is inexplicably blowing it up!
DeletecRAFT. From the crafty young man!
ReplyDeleteI forgot today is Kishore's turn and also about the first of April until I saw the second part of the byline and wanted to congratulate (thinking it may be Bhavan!)
ReplyDeleteSame here!
DeleteProvidence threw the first of April into my lot. And it would have been a loss of opportunity to let it go. But I did not want to play any prank that would hurt anyone's feelings. I had also thought of publishing an inverted or mirror image of today's post, but then it would be contrary to the concept of this blog.
DeleteAfter 25 years,Mrs.Kishore is spared and we get trapped!
ReplyDeleteI really don't think so...
DeleteThe poor lady will be on tenterhooks till midnight strikes, looking out for pitfalls at every turn...
Congratulations to Gita Kishore on putting up with all the pranks all through the silver line...
DeleteI 11Ac the 11Ac. That is my COD. Loved the earthing part too,being an electrical man.Paradoxically earthing IS the electric shock too!
ReplyDeleteShocking man!!
DeleteA down to earth revelation
DeleteKishore,
ReplyDeleteSo when are the Silver Jubilee celebrations?
In the next few months...
DeleteBut don't wait until the top-crop turns silvern...
DeleteAny one interested in a Marsala Dosa to go with Irish coffee
ReplyDeleteserved only in Bangalore?
ReplyDeleteToday's ToI has the startling news that menopause is starting to hit career women in late 20s and early 30s because of stresses they undergo.
ReplyDeleteThe mathematical limit to that happening will be adolescence! The lower limit for this (M) cannot fall below the lower limit of that (A). Otherwise, the world will not have MA
DeleteThis news was carried out in the first page and the third page of TOI twice in Ahmedabad edition. In the first page they had used different name saying to protect identity and in the third page same article with different names appeared, as usual giving the original names!
DeleteYgel sebi g;l niib ytqik rlebh ygi wygiu g;bk wb ygi ditnw;uk
ReplyDeleteAgreed,today is 1st April :-)
DeleteHwwh owud, Delgwui
Deletea2#
Deletetwr lgwrsk owud jwu U:O
We are not to be let in on your coded msgs? We seem to need Holmes!
DeleteOh, a simple substitution code that the Colonel has cracked. When typing, just use the right hand instead of the left and vice versa, to create the code. The same MO for decoding it.
Delete:-) - April Fool's day turned out to be a samosa day, with many interesting turns!
ReplyDeleteGood day all.
Late arrival today - being lazy due to the Bangalore heat. Really enjoyed Arden today (and all your comments). Now off to plan a fiendish April Fool trick on my son in law, ably assisted by my two boys ....
ReplyDeleteKeep us posted, Dobby.
DeleteIf bangalore is hot then Ahmedabad is an oven!
DeleteKishore:
ReplyDeleteThat was a frontal attack on all of us !
May there be lesser fools on this day !
The core of this day's fun is the surprise element of a guerrilla , as we do not expect the unexpected to happen !!
Nice one from Arden today.
ReplyDeleteAnd equally good one Kishore, with byline, especially with the style change from Red to Blue fonts to throw us off track :)
"Fuller's earth" always reminds me of Sherlock Holmes & the adventure of the engineer's thumb !!
@ Kishore Expected some prank from you! As usual it is there:-)
ReplyDeleteA good one. I got the Marsala confused with Martini (must get to know wines better) and therefore got Strike for Strafe and Canada for Panama. The last in particular made no sense and now I know where I went wrong
ReplyDeleteMy wife didn't have to wait for an April Fools' Day to deal with me. Moments after I tied the thali around her neck, with all the milling mamis in heavy brocades and with jangling necklaces and chains crowding around us (they were ensuring that the knot was firm!), she winked at me. Heaven's choicest blessings falling in a shower as devoutly prayed for by the near and dear in innumerable telegrams stopped. I could not immediately put a meaning to that communication from her heavily Eyetexed eye. Later when we were left alone I queried about it. She told me "You're a fool to have married me." For me every February 8 is April 1.
ReplyDelete- The opening lines from a novel I have just begun to write.
Thank God it is only Feb.8th!
DeleteYou are safe on all other days:-)
It is you or the hero.
That apart, the beginning is good and the novel has to be good too. But write the novel in between your CW's- I mean time wise.
Gripping! An autobiography or novel?
DeleteBut what a truthful communication. All Fools' Day can rightly be rechristened All Husbands' Day.
cardinal brought the memories of school days and English teacher's questioning us how you ask somebody about his/her order among his /her bros and sis (how manyath child you are - our reply)and of course wren and martin
DeleteI cut pasted this and sent to my wife by email (She is on tour!) we also got married on 8th Feb!
DeleteAh eyetex - forgotten brand names of the yore and very cleverly put! "eyetexed eye sending texts setting the poor manly heart on flutter, making his life a clutter, rendering his speech thereafter into a stutter!
Time to admit the truth !
ReplyDeleteWhere is your better half Kishore?
DeleteFirmly at my side. Cannot think of a better boss.
DeleteGone to wager that there cannot be a greater fool than . . .
ReplyDelete(read above the opening lines of the novel that I have launched)
All the best for your novel.
DeleteAre you aware of an April Fools' Joke played on The Times crossword solvers today?
ReplyDeleteIt seems they published a crossword whose gridfills were the same, word for word, as those of a prize crossword that appeared in the same paper less than a week ago. As it was also the day when the sol grid of the prize puz was to appear, the solution of the very puz (though with the number of the prize cwd) was alongside!
Not at all a bad idea: rechristening All Fools' Day as All Husbands' Day! How apt!
ReplyDeleteFor once PP approves of me!
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