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1 Willing to learn from medical man, the Italian head of embryology (6) DOCILE {DOC}{IL}{E}
4 Son, violently attacked crossing Libya's capital, ran (8) SMUGGLED {S}{MUGG{L}ED}
9 Tea is prepared after Sunday afternoon nap (6) SIESTA {S}{TEA+IS}*
10 Extramarital sex upset true lady (8) ADULTERY*
12 Sash to wrap round body after first of wins (6,5) WINDOW FRAME {W}{INDOW} {FRAME}
13 Novelist from district of London close to Pimlico (3) ECO {EC}{O}
14 Mysterious death in a short, Hitchcock's last film (1,4,2,3,4) A SHOT IN THE DARK {DEATH+IN+A+SHORT}*{K}
17 Nervous MP has date with former PM in a London park (9,5) HAMPSTEAD HEATH {MP+HAS+DATE}* {HEATH}
19 Sky broadcast (3) AIR [DD]
21 Relatives at sea? (6,5) SISTER SHIPS [CD]
23 One daughter, Isolde, possibly put on a pedestal (8) IDOLISED {1}{D}{ISOLDE*}
24 Clever to bring in an English king (6) CANUTE {C{AN}UTE}
25 Tass, long spreading a Gorbachev initiative (8) GLASNOST*
26 Understood about place causing anger (6) SPLEEN {S{PL}EEN}
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1 Deny any connection with row about pig (6) DISOWN {DI{SOW}N}
2 Mo changes, changes dress (9) CHEONGSAM*
5 Editor, one got hold of by graduate, examines university course (5,7) MEDIA STUDIES {M{ED}{1}A} {STUDIES}
6 See supporting information about grey duck (9) GOLDENEYE {G{OLD}EN}{EYE}
8 Cold, plant where a liner may be built (3,4) DRY DOCK {DRY} {DOCK}
11 Place not catering for private dining? (8,4) OFFICERS MESS [CD]
15 Ruling passion of old boy sitting (9) OBSESSION {OB}{SESSION}
16 A special characteristic, odd trait, found on Scottish island (9) ATTRIBUTE {TRAIT*}{BUTE}
17 Male group welcoming a court case (7) HEARING {HE}{A}{RING}
18 Behind adult not inclined to leniency (6) ASTERN {A}{STERN}
20 German's OK after port wine (5) RIOJA {RIO}{JA}
22 Pickle's fraudulent business scheme - Peregrine's first (5) SCAMP {SCAM}{P}
10:30 special today by Doppelganger. Today onwards any leftovers in the specials after 6 PM is open to anyone.
ReplyDeleteCV Sir just happened to see the Tamil edition of The Hindu. Moolaikaran Pettai was there for a word search puzzle. :) we're you referring to this or it was a surprising coincidence. Or did you coin the term for The Hindu ?
ReplyDeleteTOI is a strange newspaper. Same CW appears in the main paper and supplement but with different numbers. 2908 in supplement and 2903 in the main :)
ReplyDeleteThey know only puzzle enthusiasts look at it so they can be puzzled !
DeleteI commented on this earlier.
DeleteThe point is whether any of these two are printed in such a decent manner that one can do it comfortably.
That Tamil term appears to be a coinage of the paper and as I buy it from Day One, I saw it there and simply lifted it from there.
Incidentally, very near my home there is kolaikaranpettai - the area is still there but the bus stop that was known by that name in the fifties and sixties and maybe some years later has shed it.
BTW, I am contributing some word puzzles (in Tamil) for that column but I am not proud about it as the editorial attention leaves much to be desired (the bane of crosswords in India).
My translation was: "the ghetto of brainy fellows" !
DeleteHas it shed the name yet? Because I remember reading a news item a month back stating that the residents have appealed to the corporation to change the name.
ReplyDeleteAfter correcting a couple of small mistakes:
ReplyDeleteFor a day or two I eagerly looked at the moolaikkaran pettai and alas! Decided to keep away from it. I regularly solve online Tamil crosswords and word puzzles which are classy and are built on the grid rules of English crossword puzzles. The veterans are Parthasarathy(he does it as a team with his wife Amrutha), Muthu and Vanjinathan to mention a few.
Vanchinathan is a pioneer in cryptic crosswords in Tamil. His work I first saw in Thendral, the Tamil magazine, when I was in California. I respect his work. I did write complimenting him but not sure if he saw my mail. I think it was after him that Parthasarathy with his wife does cryptics in Tamil. Where does Muthu's work appear?
ReplyDeleteShrikanth: Yes, residents want the name changed. One suggestion that was floated was Jayalalitha nagar! What a rise was there, my countrymen! The bus stop has shed its name. There was a time when I have said (while using buses on Route 3 from Broadway to Mylapore - since defunct) Kolakaranpettai onnu!
It is a pity these veterans do not find huge readership. They send puzzles to the few ardent followers by mail.
ReplyDeletePP,
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you request them to include some of us in their mailing list? My mail Id is
padmanabhan.pb@gmail.com.
I would be very thankful to you, indeed.
A nice Sunday THCrossword. Fit for Every man and woman !
ReplyDeleteMy permanent wail for this: Poor appearance of bloggers here. I wish everyone gets my kinda of- Obsessive compulsive nature. I wouldn't term it a disorder !
GLASNOST: a coinage by Gorbachev, and a man after my heart !! God Bachao him in good health !!
Bloggers of the THCC unite and keep the flag fluttering higher ! No half-masts !
Right now, CV , Naiorobi is a Kolaikaranpettai !! The terrorists have shot dead a young 8 months' pregnant girl known to us point blank; I b3lieve, they were asking questions like do you know Mohammed's wife's name? If you didn't, you die !! The siege of the hostages held is still unlifted--
One wonders whether there is a retributive God? Or else, why should innocents die? Like at a Church prayer congregation in Pakistan? Where's humanity gone?
It was the Mohammed's mother. Wife at least people stood a chance. Point is they could be of any religion not just non-Muslims. Price of being non- religious? Such questions asked to the Hindu kids of today, half the population would be wiped out. :(
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