A couple of new words learnt today.
ACROSS
1 It is held and stretched out by an alms-seeker (7,4) BEGGING BOWL [CD]
9 Indian teacher circumspect in drinkers’ organisation (7) ACHARYA {A{CHARY}A}
10 Give attention at another time to a kind of pottery (7) EARTHEN {EAR}{THEN}
11 Song from nobody tuned at first (5) NONET {NONE}{T}
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| Courtesy Kishore |
13 Father backs man in stage area (5) APRON {AP<=}{RON}
15 Again here to act (9) REPRESENT {RE}{PRESENT}
18 One doesn’t look forward in this post-event explanation (9) HINDSIGHT {HIND}{SIGHT}
21 Team leader prying about old fighter (5) TYSON {Y}{SYON<=} He's just 47 !
22 Woman’s advertisement for bird (9) BROADBILL {BROAD}{BILL}
26 It may come and go — out of respect! (7) SPECTRE*
28 Give certain ones amount — a good total (8,3) HANDSOME SUM {HAND}{SOME} {SUM}
DOWN
1 Supporter in laundry? Change the mind! (9) BRAINWASH {BRA}{IN}{WASH} My COD
3 Nuisances from Indian Railway putting it in angry tirades (9) IRRITANTS {IR}{R{IT}ANTS}
4 Workman who can improve your outlook at home (7) GLAZIER [CD]
5 Deliveries completely done! Eat too much! (7) OVERSUP {OVERS}{UP
7 Conversations about mad men? (8) CHATTERS {C}{HATTERS}
8 Girl to eat up (4) ENID <=
14 Managed some money for the one who pays the kidnapper (8) RANSOMER {RAN}{SOME}{R}
16 Ultra credo (9) EXTREMISM [CD]
17 Wimbledon, Roland Garros and other places form this (9) TENNISDOM [CD] ? Is there such a word?
19 Show not old penny but new to a northern national (7) GUINEAN {GUI(-d+n}NE}{A}{N}
20 Bells or bell-ringers (7) TOLLERS [DD]
22 Word of disapproval about second party (4) BASH {BA{S}H}
23 Stay away from said French honour (5) DITCH {DIT}{CH}
25 Variety of spice in major stories (5) EPICS*
Re the cartoon at 11a.
ReplyDeleteIt seems Kishore has drawn a cartoon for the following clue by Gridman (THC 9782, March 5, 2010):
Some music apparently puts the trapeze artist in danger (5)
17 Wimbledon, Roland Garros and other places form this (9) TENNISDOM [CD] ? Is there such a word?
ReplyDelete17d I suspect the intended word was probably
Tenniseum
and something went wrong somewhere. Gridman will possibly confirm or deny my conjecture ...
Don't think so as Tenniseum is in Roland Garros
DeleteI didn't have 'Tenniseum' in my mind. (That is new for me.) Nor can I say where I got 'tennisdom' from! But google always comes to our rescue and even a coined word will get a hit there!
DeleteLet me inform Kishore that I didn't get into any bad corner and put in TENNISDOM to rescue myself from the situation. It was an intended entry.
Let RajuU add one to his list of new words. I want to add a Comment to his late-evening posts yesterday. This I will do by and by.
Neologismdom...
DeleteTennisdom did get a hit on google as under
DeleteAn Evaluation: Tennisdom with Abraham Maslow's Need Hierarchy Theory
By Rohini Iyer (Senior Writer) on May 8, 2009
Neolog-wisdom !
Delete21 Team leader prying about old fighter (5) TYSON {Y}{SYON<=} He's just 47 !
ReplyDeleteWhen he was born, he had a son. So his son must be 47, so he must be around 65 or more, at the least ;-)
CV: Kishore: Neoblogwisdom?
DeleteI have to wait for your comments until its a daybreak in India.
Acharya is a word in the OED? No gripe, though. This is the only way we can add on to it by our contributions to the Hinglish vocabulary, thanks to the THCC!! Babudom, Papodum, Sheikdom, and now Tennisdom-- more power to the THCC !! Google Kaka will aid and abet in our efforts as he is so ubiquitous and democratic to gobble everything and anything like a open-mouthed cauldron of cultures.
Re 21a "Old" because Tyson is a retired American professional boxer. (Wikipedia)
ReplyDeleteWhen his lady told him 'bite me', he took it literally !
DeleteThe "old" was being commented upon in the sense that he is just 47 and is being considered as an 'old' fighter
DeleteIf someone retires at the age of 25 or 30 as some of the present day sportspeople, will they still be considered as an 'old' player?
DeleteYes! For 'old' denotes anyone or anything with whom or with which one was formerly associated.
DeleteWhen I, born in 1943, passed out of Mani High School, CBE, in 1958, I already became an old boy!
But I have heard wives, into marriage for only a few years, referring to their husbands as 'my old man'... ;-)
DeleteNo print Ed in Hyd today.
DeleteProbably 'former' player would be apter?
Re Kishore's comment at 8:44:
DeleteFor TYSON, NYT once had the following clue, I think:
Fighter who went from champ to chomp?
Nice one. Doesn't NYT have the living person rule?
DeleteAny clue for Mrs Bobbit ?
The NYT CWD uses the names of living persons. The clues are straightforward, with occasional cryptic element.
ReplyDeleteThe clues and lights there are quite Shortz ...
DeleteCV,
ReplyDeleteHT has now discontinued TT cryptic.
Today there was no paper available in T. Nagar area of Chennai owing to strike by paper distributors. What about other areas of Chennai?
ReplyDeleteToday there is no Vizag edition
ReplyDeleteA response that I was about to post to Raghunath's 9:39 was lost in the ether. Will try to rewrite.
ReplyDeleteForget the Mumbai afternoon newspapers, most mainstream newspapers in our country pay scant attention to the crossword feature.
ReplyDeleteMany of them use it merely to fill up some space.
NIE prints clues in a very small font size.
Mint started a weekly CWD (carrying the timepass item in its editorial page) and then stopped it.
ToI on Sundays publishes the same crossword in the main section as well as the magazine section. Why this repeeettuuuuu?
DC and ToI use the NYT crossword with its American flavour. How many solve it and savor it, I don't know.
The Hindu is the only newspaper that has an original CWD since 1971. It is sustaining the feature that was originated by Adm R D Katari. I joined the TH stable in 1986 but it was in 2001 that I was invited into setters' panel. Until that time I was merely giving tips to the subs. Now I am doing all I can to keep the flag flying. I must say that many of the new setters are eager at their task.
Speaking of allocating space, TH Sunday Ed provides an extremely generous amount. Compare this with the Sunday TOIs, where you'd get eye strain reading the fonts and filling the blanks.
DeleteIndian papers like HT and others won't even change the serial numbers of the original crosswords. They lack confidence in handling material.
DeleteA paper may start with XX Crossword 23455 but don't ask where CWDs 1 to 23454 are!
There is an announcement in the Mumbai edn of HT that from now on they will carry only the TT concise and no cryptic crossword.
ReplyDeleteYes, Hindustan Times has stopped printing the cryptic CW. And the space for the easy CW has been reduced. Now it is as bad as the Sunday ToI !
ReplyDeleteMy husband solves the week day ToI - and often complains about the multiple references to living people, mostly known in the US of A.
Rita,
DeleteThe weekday CW in the TOI comes from the LA Times with a time lag of about 3 months or so. Moreover it's not a cryptic. I used to do it some years ago and comment in a blog which is authored by a Chinese lady settled in the US, in fact that blog inspired me to start this one. I still visit that blog occasionally though I don't do the CW for the same reasons that your husband is complaining about.
Hindusthan Times and earlier, it was the Times of India that curbed and curtailed the crossworld . Who will it be next? The Hindu? Hope and pray NOT ! Are we a shrinking community like the Parsees in India ? Or Richard, is it Parsis?
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that the crossword section is given a step-motherly treatment? Diminishing number of solvers? Compilers? Invaders and predators from the Sudokodom? Compilers can never dwindle as I do the Economic Times cryptic nowadays, the very variety and virtuosity marvels me about the versatility of this hobby !
How best can we rope in more compilers and solvers into this web called cryptic crosswords?
That is a million dollar question !
DeleteNo site showing up for for Hindu CW 10875. Is there a problem today, 11.9.13?
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