1 - Money a person gives inconspicuously to keep quiet (5,4,4) - {PURSE} {ONES} {LIPS}(Correction - {PURSE} {ONE}{S LIPS})
9 - Give father a hand to cut vegetable (7) - {PA}{R}{SNIP}
10 - Cryptic clues editor reviewed and put away from the rest (7) - {SECLU*}{DE<-}
11 - He hits top layer of metal vigorously? (5) - {S{M}ITH}
12 - Directions to support one supplying extras perhaps (9) - {N}{E}{W}{S}{STAND}
13 - Philosophies that idolise ego in an unhealthy manner (10) - IDEOLOGIES*
15 - Country representative coming back for all to see (4) - {PER<-}{U}
19 - Point anger to strike for every spy (10) - {W}{IRE}{TAP}{PER}
24 - Fuss about love (5) - {ADO}{RE}
25 - Scolded kid not getting fifty “Study!” (7) - {CHI
26 - A thermodynamics term made by first, second and zeroeth law practising groups (7) - {I}{S}{O}{BARS}
27 - They steal from the pocket! Animals in a way (13) - KLEPTOMANIACS*
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2 - Institute you express approval of (7) - {U}{PRAISE}
3 - Transgression by king — an imbroglio causing depression (8) - {SIN}{K}{HOLE}
4 - Live-forever or quietly stay at home (5) - {OR}{P}{IN}
5 - Tested wheels before in another place (9) - {ELSEWH*}{ERE}
6 - See crop spoiled primarily on the inside by insect (6) - {LO}{CU{S}T}
7 - Fruit kept to ripen in a bunch of feathers (7) - {PLUM}{AGE}
8 - Coins have a noggin on the top or the base (12) - {HEAD}{QUARTERS}
9 - A talented footballer is capable of this fling (7,5) - PASSING FANCY [DD]
14 - Islands go haywire, continuous sliding causes this (9) - GLISSANDO*
16 - Mother's cooking: I. A corn pasta (8) - {MA}{CARONI*}
18 - Bore again with over exercise (7) - {RE}{DRILL}
20 - Commonplace to wear capris with a hole (7) - {PR{O}SAIC*}
21 - Assistance from the French coming in but delayed (4,2) - {HEL{D U}P}
23 - When rising, captures photo of a star (5) - {S{PIC}A<-}
Hi
ReplyDeleteLiked HEADQUARTERS best. Followed by NEWSSTAND.
Hi folks
ReplyDeletePURSE ONE'S LIPS ( new phrase for me), PARSNIP, SECLUDE, NEWSSTAND, PERU, GARB, WIRETAPPER, ADDRESSES, ADORE, ISOBARS, UPRAISE, SINKHOLE, LOCUST, PLUMAGE (classic!), HEADQUARTERS, MACARONI, PROSAIC, HELD UP, SPICA - were all well clued.
IDEOLOGIES, KLEPTOMANIACS, ELSEWHERE - good anagrams.
CHIDDEN (never came across this past participle form of 'chide'), GLISSANDO (no hint of a musical term here) - new words for me, courtesy Google-saab. 20D PROSAIC could be a description for 18D.
Missed GLISSANDO
ReplyDeletehmm... strange one today...
ReplyDeleteFirst read seemed easy enough. Did manage to get thro' most clues in good time, and then got really puzzled w/ the last few. Even fair amount of online help didn't get me the last 4-5... :(
But all-in-all, good offering.
9D: I had 9D as PASSING GAMES instead of FANCY... so of course, CHIDDEN was out of the question! haha
ReplyDelete22A: I had this as ADDRESSER, which I still think makes more sense given the clue. Wardrobe = Dresser... Not Dresses! And this gives ADDRESSER, who is someone who does the talking!
Hari,
ReplyDeleteWardrobe can also mean clothes, hence dresses is correct.
Will someone attempt 100 words in which a wardrobe does the talking to his wife (or her husband) or to a celebrity, perhaps!
ReplyDeleteIt's a monologue. No responses from the person addressed.
17A : Didn't know "about" could be used as "R" as well as "RE"
ReplyDelete4D: ORPIN fit, but my first look showed a plant... then realized it's a plant that "lives forever"! This was a little too abstract for my taste...
6D: Again.. got the word, but couldn't get how CUT came about... crop primarily gave C, on the inside gives position... that leaves just the word "by"... Where does cut come from??
21D: Whats DU stand for in french? I figured it had to be HELD UP, but I've never seen DU used like this..
Hari, even I had it as ADDRESSER and the crossings I had was R_I_A. I had two options i.e. RAITA and RAINA. I filled the grid with the latter just for the heck of it thinking cryptonyte was a huge cricket/ Raina fan (clue had the word "star" in it). Couldn't make any sense of the wordplay though
ReplyDelete@ Col 8:50 - Thx Col! :) I thought about that too, but it wasn't particularly satisfying to me.
ReplyDelete@ CV 8:51 - lol! :)
Hari, boast = brag it reverses. About is a reversal indicator
ReplyDelete6D LO + CU(S)T. spoiled primarily giving S, which goes inside.
ReplyDelete@ VJ 8:55 - haha! I'm glad I wasn't the only one then! :) RAINA!! haha
ReplyDeleteNow before I sound too critical of the last 2-3 clues that didn't impress me, let me also mention the ones I really liked! :)
- KLEPTOMANIACS was very cleverly disguised.
- ISOBARS had me as confused as Thermodynamics did in college. Eventually, it got the better of me, as did TD in college! :) At least, it made me refer to the laws for the first time in decades!
- GLISSANDO: Totally new word, but the clue was not contorted... hence giving a fighting chance at finding the anagram.
- PURSE ONES LIPS was broken down nicely
@ VJ 8:57 = AAAAHHH!! Thx! Can't believe I missed that!!! :)
ReplyDeleteCROP = CUT! Duh! Thanks. I'm having my fair share of Duh moments today! :)
LOL Hari. It's all right. Could happen to anybody.
ReplyDeleteHari, Just look for 'live forever' in an on line dictionary and the meaning is orpit.Hence, it is not exactly abstract.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I had neither heard of orpit or live forever, so I had to google both.
Hari, Du in French is 'from the'.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I'm having my fair share of Duh moments today! :) I thought this statement was very funny.
Chaturvasi 08:51
ReplyDeleteI did make an attempt at it. Seemed to be a tall order. My brain malfunctioned, a la wardrobe malf...
Didn't get SPICA ;-(.
ReplyDeleteRichard - you are too funny!
Richard
ReplyDeleteI would've said it was a tallboy order!
The slip slipped?
ReplyDelete19 - Point anger to strike for every spy (10) - {W}{IRE}{TAP}{PER}
ReplyDeletePoint indicates W here ?
Gita :)
ReplyDeletewhen=AS<- rising,reversal
photo captured = insertion of PIC
S(PIC)A<-
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ReplyDeleteWardrobe to wife:
ReplyDeleteYou know, I'd love to add variety and spice to my life. But it is so filled with T shirts, and they are all the same colour. Not that I mind red, but there is a limit you know.
Wife: Hey you got a grey T shirt the other day.
O yeah! An aberration I thought that things would start looking different. But the next time, it is red again.
Oh well! I guess I'll have to take solace in the blue jeans once in a while.
09:42 I drive a WagonR with a tallboy shape and structure and it is in order.
ReplyDeleteSuresh 09:52 The legendary red T shirt ! hmm...
ReplyDeleteSuresh,
ReplyDeleteNice one, only 85 words though CV wanted 100. Was that a take off on my famous Red T-shirt?
Suresh your first post was perfect, but for the length. CV wanted a monologue with no responses.
ReplyDeleteI thought the dialogue made it better. Blue jeans are the add on
ReplyDeleteDeepak @ 8:56. That should read red T shirts not T shirt:)
ReplyDelete:-)
ReplyDeleteSuresh, my 09:55 and Deepak's 09:56 almost coincided. Both referred to the same thing.
ReplyDeleteKrishnan @ 9:43
ReplyDeleteThat's right.
I need to expand on the faded blue jeans to make 100 words +
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ReplyDeleteWe can change rules as we go along. No prob.
ReplyDeleteYou can make it "not less than 100 words".
If you wish, you can even make it a dialogue too.
(Wardrobe to my wife: imaginary monologue)
ReplyDeleteEveryone is enamoured of Conjeevaram silk saris but you don't seem to care for them as you rarely take them out.
Your husband is complaining to me that while you spend his money on countless saris, you wear them only when you go out and display them to others. At home you always wear that soiled housecoat.
I don't like the smell of the air freshener that you use. Please change it!
And after locking me, don't leave the key in the keyhole; your husband is prying when you're away.
Another moderate one for me.
ReplyDeleteI got Kleptomaniacs, seclude, parsnip, redrill, prosaic, held up, ideologies, peru in no time.
Purse ones lips - slipped
Iso bars - a real nice one.
Addresses i had a doubt now a days called AD ( is it after death or what )
Interestingly i thought since I dont have a fancy for football let me just passed it..bang there goes the chance of filling it up..asadu vazhinjen.
Chidden, spica, plumage, wire tapper all eluded me.
Elsewhere is part anagram or is it anagram in full? i doubt.
Good work hari...thool kelapparel pongo.
mathu
100+ words
ReplyDeleteWardrobe to wife:
You know, I'd love to add variety and spice to my life. But it is so filled with T shirts, and they are all the same colour. Not that I mind red, but there is a limit you know.
Wife: Hey you got a grey T shirt the other day.
O yeah! An aberration I thought that things would start looking different. But the next time, it is red again.
Wife. You also have lots of blue. so what more variety do you need.
Oh! The jeans? I didn't notice. Anyways they are all faded. Maybe that's why I am feeling blue today.
Anyone's wardrobe can finish the monologue or dialogue like: "And just as you do with my doors most of the time, keep your mouth too..."
ReplyDeleteMathu, nowadays = Anno Domini = AD. It's a bit antiquated IMO
ReplyDeleteReckon CE (common era) is the new replacement for AD.
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ReplyDeleteMy wardrobe's observation of me:
ReplyDeleteHe is so fat, whenever he wears these pants, he pants.
He is so lazy, whenever he dons these slacks, he slacks.
Oh! I am closeted! Even jail life would have been better. At least I could have spent my time counting those iron bars. So dingy! And this stingy ... Hasn't he heard of Odonil? These napthelene balls are revolting. At least he could have pasted a few pin-ups to give me some respite. Vests, banians, pants, shirts, dhoties... Can't I ever get to see some sarees, jackets, petticoats.....
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ReplyDeleteA short essay, shorter than envisaged: And they think this is a mirror on my front !
ReplyDelete(I have a reputation for brevity which I need to keep up !)
The day I get delayed in visiting the blog is when exciting things are happening : )
ReplyDeleteSelf-addresser
ReplyDeleteA wardrobe's soliloquy
I wonder if these people realize this.
I was better off in my earlier home. The starlet didn't have much taste, but at least I got to house expensive clothes.
Much like how God created them with different organs for specific purposes, my own maker put some thought into my structure.
I'm neatly divided into shelves, adorned with rails and decked with hooks. Meant to be a compact organised space for their clothes.
Instead they pile them haphazardly. Used, unused, never to be used.
I can't take this abuse anymore. Tomorrow I refuse to & will open up !
I was wondering what the two vertical red stripes at the top were.
ReplyDeleteSecond I read all the posts.
Then I saw Suresh's red shirt post.
Came to the conclusion that it was some red letter day.
Finally it dawned that it was Peru's flag !
@ Bhavan 12:01 - Lol! and now u have it too! The D-uh moment! haha :)
ReplyDeleteInteresting thread, very amusing :)
ReplyDeleteThe intended reading of the "addresses" clue was supposed to be along the lines of "clothes do the talking".
Yup, Tony, I have seen some pretty loud clothes, almost on the verge of hearing them.
ReplyDeleteOn the other thread/s of the day:
ReplyDeleteGaribaldi's followers drink tea for popular garments(3,1-6)
My wardrobes comment on me:
ReplyDeleteHere comes a man who keeps on growing horizontally, but put the blame squarely on me. But i am amazed at his forecast about his physic started looking at numbers more than actually requires years back and maintaining the higher number.
But his sudden shift on his focus from larger to smaller now I (pants) cant stand without supporter ( not the "Bar" red supporter in crosswords ) my number looms larger (40 to the present 36)
Long live him as i badly need to get out of this place and as a senior member let the new entrants take their place..
Mathu
Oh boy when will she stop buying sarees!! My shelves are groaning under the weight of the Kanjeevarams, Pochampallis,Banarasis, Shalus' Paithanis' Bandhanis, Lugades, Patolas, Chanderis, Maheshwaris, Venkatagiris, Mysore silks, Tangails, Tussar silks, Organdies, Balucharis, Mangalagiris, Kanthas, 6 yard ones, 9 yard ones and Mundus and what have you and not to forget the innumerable salwar suits. It's back breaking.
ReplyDeleteHow lucky his cupboard is with just two Red T shirts and a couple of frayed jeans.
Hi Tony,
ReplyDeleteWelcome to my blog, glad to have you around to answer our doubts when we are stuck.
Hi Deepak, your wife's wardrobe answered my 1504 somewhere in its soliloquy. :-)
ReplyDeleteIf you'll haven't noticed, an Interview with today's setter Cryptonyte aka Tony Sebastian is up on Shuchi's blog, link to the same is available on the left hand side panel of this page.
ReplyDeleteListen to one of my favourite songs by Leonard Cohen 'Famous blue raincoat' at the link below
ReplyDeleteFAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT
You could substitute 'Red T-shirt' for 'Blue Raincoat'
Deepak, you seem like an expert on sarees. Impressive!!
ReplyDeleteOne of the advantages/disadvantages of being in the army. every time I got posted to a new place the wife wanted to buy sarees from that area!!
ReplyDeleteHello, all! Got to share this in order to prove some generalisations wrong. Would you actually beleive me if I told you that my contents,all clothes belong to the head of the family (the husband,without doubt)and that they exceed in number the number of sarees at home? I can imagine the expressions on the faces of all the menfolk here:"are you sure you've counted right?" Even the mirror on my door is hogged mainly by him, fortunately for me, he is pleasant to reflect.I can boast of having many of the top brands on my shelves,The only snag is they aren't as tidy as they could be, what with all the hangers and hooks and drawers.Oh, for the day when he is fed up with me and exchanges me with his wife's! Then I could hope for some order.Till then, toodle-oo!
ReplyDeleteVery nice Sumitra,
ReplyDeleteBut are you really sure that your cupboard has counted right?
LOL reminds me of the expression "skeleton in the closet."
ReplyDeleteJust like yesterday's grid, I had seven clues unfilled.
ReplyDeleteI thought SPICA was a nice one. (Incidentally, here's a photo of mine that features Spica.)
1A, the answer was among the possibilities in my mind, but I did not pen it.
11A: I thought it was LOFTS ([He] hits), from {L}{OF}{TS*}!
As for 9D, I was on the wrong road. I was looking for some (7) MATCH, given the crossings. :(
Sure, my cupboard is an expert at it, specially as the entire responsibility of keping count is hers!(please note the gender!)
ReplyDeletecorrecting a couple of spelling mistakes,to be read as 'believe' instead of beleive and'keeping' instead of keping
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