ACROSS
1 Bad blood shown by heartless opponent about it (6) ENMITY {EN
4 Smart to disconnect after energy conserved by family (5-3) CLEAN-CUT {CL{E}AN}-{CUT}
10 Arms race participant? (9) GUNRUNNER {GUN}{RUNNER} &lit
11 Agricultural machine the Parisian kept in farm building, briefly (5) BALER {BA{LE}R
12 Graceful Ragdoll is so meek inside (7) LISSOME [T]
13 Special phone link may cause heated row (7) HOTLINE {HOT}{LINE}
14 I consume poison - terrible illness results (14) PNEUMOCONIOSIS*
18 Complaint in sheikdom, unease spreading (10,4) HOUSEMAIDS KNEE*
20 Dismiss teller (7) CASHIER [DD]
22 Robot in Dr No novel brought in to help (7) ANDROID {A{DR NO*}ID}
24 I must sit in cleaner seat (5) CHAIR {CHA{I}R}
25 Smart having line deleted in travel document? The other way round (4,5) VICE VERSA {VI{C
26 At Naples? That may be nice (8) PLEASANT*
27 Popular act? Certainly (6) INDEED {IN}{DEED}
DOWN
1 For example, loses one's composure after last of strong drinks (3,5) EGG FLIPS {EG}{
3 Organised tour taking in centre of early market town (5) TRURO {TRU{
5 Feature of spectacular Christmas tree (5) LARCH [T]
7 Cornelius is cool about opposing philosophies leading to conflict (9,6) COLLISION COURSE*
8 Aim at goal (6) TARGET [DD]
9 Telephone system popular company installed in Trinity, for example (8) INTERCOM {IN}{TER{CO}M}
15 Joker, male, is seen on Baghdad river (9) MISTIGRIS {M}{IS}{TIGRIS}
16 Canine with us, barking - a pest (8) NUISANCE*
17 Leader to go ashore in cape (8) HEADLAND {HEAD}{LAND}
19 I, about to step over frozen summit (6) ICECAP {I}{C}{ECAP<=}
21 Heading off, yellow and black bird (5) RAVEN
23 Dove flying over northern county (5) DEVON {DOVE*}{N}
Missed only the MISTIGRIS :( This CW would be cake walk for everyone you people.
ReplyDeleteYou are right to some extent, Ram. Mistigris was the last one in. I could complete the puzzle, of course, with some help from Net. :)
DeleteNo announcement about Sunday Spl?
ReplyDeleteI missed both the complaints. Otherwise no complaints.
ReplyDeleteDitto here. Hope I don't go near any of them or rather they don't come near me!
DeleteI missed the non Tigris half!
9 Telephone system popular company installed in Trinity, for example (8) INTERCOM {IN}{TER{CO}M}
ReplyDeleteWhat's the link btn 'trinity' and 'term' pl?
One of the three terms of school/ college? Before the advent of semester system,of course.
ReplyDeleteNo special today?
Thanks, Paddy :)
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ReplyDeleteYou had given a brief forerunner here to your article in the Open page of TH today on bindi.
Well-written.
The other day I had sent a piece on GoI's clean-up campaign as it impacts on our home life. It was rather a satirical piece. I got a private note from the editor concerned that he liked it bit it didn't see the light of day.
Thanks, CV. Thanks also to our dear Col who facilitates us in free expressions by '' ''tolerating'' our thoughts in this blog. This blog also enthuses us and other bloggers to become budding columnists.
DeleteOne day, there can be a possibility of publishing these comments as a THCC blog Book. what say you, Col? Incidentally, my other pastime is to visit this blog at leisure and run through the archives to read past comments. Very interesting !
Congrats, Raju Umamaheswar! I fully agree with every word of your article,"The sheer power of the dot". I think it was the cine director Balachander who introduced putting the dot on the bridge of the nose. I seethe in anger at his setting in such an unsightly trend. It is a pity to see even older women yielding to modernism! We who follow the centre forehead really need a sort of stout moral stamina to face all the snickering we get from the younger group. Lately, to my horror, the bare-forehead trend has strongly set in!!! I loathe to see it! Again the media is the culprit. Except jewellery and pattu sari ads all other ads show girls in crazy outfits with bare/nil adornment!!! I hate to see a female-whatever the age-without adornment! My views on the subject are strong(=violent) and saddens me beyond words to see a new generation of females -from pre KG age-emerging as bare forehead tots!
DeleteNo dot, no jewels, no flowers, no traditional dress- but hefty amounts spent in cosmetics and beauty parlour visits! Simply crazy!
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