It's 6 on the 22 17 today
ACROSS
8 Mafia enforcer's headgear has a ring (4) CAPO {CAP}{O}
9 Disposes off, I hear, energy sources (5) CELLS (~sells)
10 Bad-looking, inebriated guy hugs lady (4) UGLY {UG{L}Y}
11 Repaired furniture without using fir? False (6) UNTRUE
12 Design tower and dismantle (4,4) TEAR DOWN*
13 Novelist is thrice misquoted (8) CHRISTIE*
15 Revolutionary robs Chinese soup (6) BORSCH {ROBS*}{CH}
17 State old urge (7) EXPRESS {EX}{PRESS}
19 A Gallic building's icy cold (7) GLACIAL*
22 Amazing tenor hugs setter in Asia (6) ORIENT {OR{I}ENT*}
24 Walk into a river? That's a diplomatic initiative? (8) DEMARCHE {DE{MARCH}E}
26 Massive deficit in fuel (8) COLOSSAL {CO{LOSS}AL}
28 Dislike hire charged around Spain (6) RESENT {R{ES}ENT}
30 Western author's colour of hair in old age, perhaps (4) GREY (~gray)
31 Lawyer's yelling at first, "Flower!" (5) DAISY {DA}{IS}{Y
DOWN
1 Prominent water body (4) MAIN [DD]
2 Woo a queen's attendant (8) COURTIER {COURT}{1}{ER}
3 Swallow one cubic-centimetre ethyl pentanoate at first - before end of breakfast (6) ACCEPT {A}{CC}{E
4 Squash and some coffee in foreign surroundings (7) FLATTEN {LATTE} in {F
5 Constantinople's brown, tailless animal is in the lead (8) ISTANBUL {I}{TAN}{BUL
6 Put down Red Rum ... Bottoms up! (6) MURDER [T<=]
7 Foot-rule's imperfection (4) FLAW {F}{LAW}
14 Her ex may be a bewitching person (5) HEXER*
16 Teacher's carriage (5) COACH [DD]
18 Reserve ideas (3-5) SET-ASIDE {IDEAS}* [RA]
20 Stroked and folded sarees before keeping in empty cupboard (8) CARESSED {SAREES}* in {C
21 Idli - add a bit of cilantro and lime chutney - finally mix it all up. That's perfect! (7) IDYLLIC {IDLI+C
23 My peon is excited - he's a person after whom something is named (6) EPONYM*
25 Railway and tram return for suffering person (6) MARTYR {RY}{TRAM} <=
27 Go back on monster (4) OGRE {GO<=}{RE}
29 Cow is without water (4) NEAT [DD]
Incognito celebrates Agatha Christie's tour de force(perhaps launch of the new movie based on it) & how!Very enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteBettered yesterday's record! Thank you Incognito.
ReplyDeleteI was so intent on solving and enjoying the CW, I missed the wood for the trees. Felt bad since I had read the book and enjoyed it. One of Christe's best.
ReplyDeleteCol. blogging from the airport/ flight? Orient express is on time!
I have a special edition of the book issued on Christie's 125th birthday. The other special edition is The Mystery of blue train(hard bound-limited edition)
DeleteNice to hear about specials- esp. Christie's.
DeleteI haven't ever seen the Orient Express late!
DeleteReminded of a very old joke of trains running late,
DeleteA man was surprised that the GT express (then the only train to Delhi from Chennai,nee Madras) came an hour ahead of schedule. Imagine his horror when he was told that it was yesterday's train and that it is actually 23 hours late!!
I did not know cow as neat-29D.
ReplyDeleteNicely coded headliner from Col.
cow:neat, Gridman used it as early as 2009. incognito's Spirits always seem to be without water.
DeleteNeat!
ReplyDeleteDAISY.
ReplyDeleteShe was far from UGLY. She looked quite charming and NEAT in her GREY salwar.
Her ambition was to become an author and if you asked her who wrote " MURDER on the ORIENT Express" she would immediately without batting an eyelid say AGATHA CHRISTIE.
She felt that the COACH appointed to prepare her for the entrance EXAM was a COLOSSAL waste. There was this FLAW... The MAIN aim of parents was that their children should become Doctors or Engineers, Why? Why can't they ACCEPT her desire and ambition she thought as she CARESSED the draft of the story she had written, before sending it to the magazine....
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DeleteIncidentally, Daisy was intimately connected to the Murder, though not traveling on the OE
DeleteYes. Daisy Armstrong Murder Case
DeleteOur Orient Express is doing a good job of expressing his thoughts on Cw's and connected issues.
DeleteHi all, landed at Colombo at 6:30 AM, 1 1/2 hours behind schedule!! The holiday begins off now for a tour of Colombo city
ReplyDeleteEnjoy! Sing Galle-Galle lije Balle-balle and have some Kandy
DeleteRaju:refer yesterday's comment. I have been lucky to have worked in a few cities across India. Never stepped out of the country. You have been to many countries(Kenya,Japan, US,etc).Your wanderlust is more as Col commented
ReplyDeleteNo dear Vasant: I went to Singapore (& Malaysia) for the first time ever on a holiday to be with my (now) wife). My job took me to Kenya, my kids' need for further education to Toronto , where they graduated from and then to Japan where my son picked up a job. Later to the US ( NY) where my daughter is working ( with her husband ). Later , I re-visited Nagoya again to see my grandson , spent a month and then again twice to NY where my daughter gave birth to twins. All these trips I attribute to happenchances when I am compelled to, in the call of my duty . The only holidays I have had were to the UK and then to Mauritius , a free junket courtesy the British Airways ,for goofing up our trip to the UK earlier.
DeleteNow that you have pointed out, I do agree that I have travelled far and wide, though unwillingly and under duress of family needs. Hahaha ! I eat crow now !
My first visit abroad was only in 2007. till then I used to say that my Passport is unblemished! So everyone has his own time and schedule. But interest to travel and see places is in everyone, I am sure.
ReplyDeleteKishore in his punning best - 21 down is delectably concocted into a salacious Idly and chutney . Again, 20 down - caressed - is soft and smooth as the word suggests- with our wothout contents of the pleated pleasant apparel !
ReplyDeleteVery interesting Raju.
ReplyDeleteKeep travelling- happenchance or otherwise.
eopnym and hexer - two new words learnt !
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