ACROSS
1 - Dashing Russian woman footloose in middle age (7) - {R}{USHa}{IN}{aGe} RUSHING
5 - Loud knocker not finishing iced drink (6) - {F}{RAPPEr} FRAPPE
9 - Dog and animal doctor failing to complete turn (5) - {CUR}{VEt} CURVE
10 - Withdrawal from engineers' meeting announced (9) - {RE}{CESSION}(~session) RECESSION
11 - Courses of artist's instruments Poles removed (7) - {RA}{VIOLIns} RAVIOLI
12 - Supreme Court's cheer dissolved in sound of brakes (7) - {SC}{CREECH*} SCREECH
13 - Piece of land in motel site facing eastwards (5) - ISLET <-
14 - Keep the distance from old loofah that's dirty (4,5) - HOLD ALOOF*
16 - What you do when you retire (2,2,5) - GO TO SLEEP
19 - After endless tiff, station master gets twitch (5) - {SPAt}{SM} SPASM
21 - They report fresh Poles are going around the Middle East (7) - {NEW}{S{ME}N} NEWSMEN
23 - South Indian father to hang on edge-torn dress (7) - {APPA}{RELy} APPAREL
24 - Proverbially it catches worms (5,4) - EARLY BIRD [CD]
26 - A safety-first desi edited remarks we're not supposed to hear (6) - {A}{S}{IDES*} ASIDES
DOWN
1 - Deed writer that Abou Ben Adhem encountered (9,5) - RECORDING ANGEL [CD]
2 - Confess learner is dry (7) - {SHRIVE}{L} SHRIVEL
3 - Winter vehicle (7) - ICEBOAT [E]
5 - Flying Officer's incomplete oath is the main concern (5) - {FO}{CUSs} FOCUS
8 - When a woman is expectant (2,3,6,3) - IN THE FAMILY WAY [CD]
15 - A member of a Finnic people, friend recalled space vehicle (9) - {LAP<-}{LANDER} LAPLANDER
17 - In the direction of hospital rooms (7) - {TO}{WARDS} TOWARDS
18 - Dog uncle and Scottish grandchild to end of Peterhead (7) - {SAM}{OYE}{D} SAMOYED
20 - Cut a kind of loan (7) - {A}{BRIDGE} ABRIDGE
22 - Exemplar of slowness shifted small fasteners (5) - (-s)NAIL(+s)S NAILS
Photographs of Veer and his family
Photographs of Veer and his family
4 - One who is stopped from paying debt here gains required letters (9) - GARNISHEE* New word for me
ReplyDeleteTwo kinds nisi and absolute are usually used in commerce and banking textbooks.
1a reminded me of the Pat and Mike crosstalk acts in PGW, which had lines like:
Why is that woman rushing in and out of the stage?
Because it is a Russian ballet
16 - What you do when you retire (2,2,5) - GO TO SLEEP
ReplyDeleteRaising the ghost of an old topic here:
When MARITAL tuns MARTIAL, and/or when BEDROOM leads to BOREDOM, one goes to sleep, usually facing the other way ;-)
7 - Book on no new card game (7) - {PRIMEROn} PRIMERO
ReplyDelete{PRIMER}{O(-n)}
@Kishore: :P
ReplyDelete24 - Proverbially it catches worms (5,4) - EARLY BIRD [CD]
ReplyDeleteAs Calvin put it in yesterday's funnies:
Ugh!
Sandhya @ 8:36,
ReplyDeleteThanks, I forgot the brackets
For once I'm a 24A. Nice crossword today. I do like the way gridman manages to get new words into his puzzles. Now tempted to dash to CCD for a cafe frappe.
ReplyDeleteThen you can have the first row of today's crossie:
ReplyDeleteRUSHING FRAPPE
When I write greetings on tags to wedding presents, I combine the two Rs in MARRIED in such a way that the vertical line is only one (in the middle): not sure if the couples unwrapping gifts ever notice that!
ReplyDeleteNewly marrieds have no time to notice such things!
ReplyDeleteDo they 16A?
ReplyDelete1A anno should be RU SH(-E)IN (-A)G(-E)
ReplyDeleteNice to see the mention of Abu Ben Adam too. It is one of the first poems I remember my mother reading to me. That and The Lady of Shallot. My absolute favourite though is Marvell's To His Coy Mistress. Anybody else want to divulge their favourite poems?
ReplyDeleteSuresh @ 9:10,
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily
Dashing = Definition
Russian = R
woman footloose = USH(-a)
in = IN
middle age = (-a)G(-e)
I'd rather side with Suresh's anno; as I said a few days back, having arbitrary proper names clued as boy or girl is always a pain.
ReplyDeleteYes David, I've quite a number of favourites. The most prominent ones being, Shirley's Death, the Leveller, Ozymandias, Frost's After Apple Picking and Mending wall, and a certain 'Gulzaman's Son' by a poet I do not remember :)
Pigtail, Village Schoolmaster, If, Gunga-Din, Six Honest Serving Men, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Lochinvar....
ReplyDeleteThe Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
ReplyDeleteThat should be An elegy
ReplyDeleteDo you think we should bring in Eskimo Nell here?
ReplyDeleteDave
ReplyDeleteYou mention 'To His Coy Mistress' and I can quote from memory:
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Can't say when I realised the sexual imagery in the last few lines of that poem.
I remember other poems with the 'carpe diem' theme (Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May). Favourites? Far too many to mention.
My friends know how, when a word crops up, I recall lines from some poem or the other.
My dad used to read poems to me and my siblings when I was a child (ABA, was one of them) and I remember him gratefully for getting me interested in Eng. Lit.
Now, I am reading poems to my granddaughter who is on a visit from the US. Already, she writes poetry!
Not to forget:
ReplyDeleteOne Winter Night in August
and Roald Dahl's poems based on Fairy Tales.
Re 1a.
ReplyDeleteThe setter's intended anno was Deepak's (at least when G checked the crossword on the day previous to the publication).
But, it might have been the other one on the day G set the puz some six or seven months ago.
Sometimes G fails to recall the wordplay, so he rewrites the clue so anno will be at hand!
It is definitely a poem of seduction, and I must admit I used it to woo my wife. The lines
ReplyDelete"the graves a fine and private place
But none I think do there embrace"
Stick in my mind.
Kishore@08:56
ReplyDeleteNewly-weds 16a?
At least I was acting the part of Columbus!
Dave
ReplyDeleteWhile wooing we don't use English poetry. We use lines from Tamil film songs. This was in the Sixties and Seventies when lyrics were intelligible (now, it's cacophony).
A man might tell a woman:
Unnai kaanaadha kannum kann alla
(The eyes that don't look at you aren't eyes)
She, by no means coy, may say:
Uththiravindri ulle vaa
Unnidam aasaik konaen vaa
(You need no permission to enter
I long for you, enter)
CV 1001: Idiomatic sleep
ReplyDelete*kondaen
ReplyDelete@chaturvasi
ReplyDeleteLove it' wish I had access to such lyrics in my gilded youth.
Dave
ReplyDeleteLeave alone long poems such as 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' or 'My Last Duchess' (on which I can write reams and reams), even little poems are memorable.
Take Herrick's:
Whenas in silks my Julia goes
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
The liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free,
Oh, how that glittering taketh me!
Women gliding in Kanchipuram silk saris must be attracting lot of attention!
Late in joining-Alas! Most of my favourite poems are already listed.Great ones,indeed.
ReplyDeleteHowever,I would like to add one more-"A Psalm of Life"by Longfellow.A part of it-
"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;
Oh chaturvasi! Methinks we are twins. My last Duchess is a close runner up to Marvell. It is so elegantly chilling. Let's see if we can make it a hat trick - how about Shakespeare's "my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun"
ReplyDeleteOr
ReplyDelete'She was more beautiful than day'
Would this apply to Doris Day ?
CV: What about your 'linear distance' ?
ReplyDelete'linear distance'?
ReplyDeleteKishore, It is not from a poem.
It is from a Hardy novel.
Let me try:
"Her face, upturned from the microscope, was so sweet, sincere, and self-forgetful in its aspect that the susceptible Fitzpiers more than wished to annihilate the lineal yard which separated it from his own."
Can you be more roundabout than this to say ... guess what.
Hi,
ReplyDeletePlease explain the 'TO' part in 17 d.
Dave
ReplyDeleteLack of adornment in a woman does not stop a man from loving her?
Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds...
17: Entire clue acting as wordplay?
ReplyDeleteCV, my bad. Woodlanders. The shortest way of expressing that is x.
ReplyDeleteNo, not exactly your bad, Kishore.
ReplyDeleteI may have used the words 'linear distance' myself.
Kishore - elegantly succinct!
ReplyDeleteMy final poetic offering by Emily Dickinson which was brought to mind by yesterday's assuage
They say that time assuages
Time never did assuage
An actual sorrow hardens
As sinews do from age
From memory so apologies if it's not quite right
As a lawyer, I always appreciate grids featuring obscure legal terms (garnishee). Thanks :D
ReplyDeleteWe had ALTER EGO from Gridman yesterday (1 Ac). Here's how it has been clued in HT today:
ReplyDeleteAn army officer before leave becomes close friend (5,3)
.. and ORIGAMI, which appeared on Wednesday, has been clued in HT as
ReplyDeleteIt’s crafty folding yellow periodical up in two (7){OR}{I{(GAM<-)I}
I find that ORIGAMI has been clued by G six times so far, each time a different version.
ReplyDeleteHe is not quoting them in case he should find the word again among his gridfills and, having exhausted all wordplay, has to fall back on one of these!
I didn't read Frost or Emily Dickinson in college but both were my favourite poets and I have their complete works in my library (read: packed with other books in a carton among others on the loft).
ReplyDeleteI believed 'there's no frigate like a book'.
A nightingale that all day long...
ReplyDeleteCannons to the right of them...
What is this life, if full of care..
These are among a few poems even today I sometimes
feel my Dad is reading aloud to me... Now I wish I should have sat with him more and listened to many more in his lovely voice.... CV must have been more luckier...
In my post at 13:36
ReplyDelete*believe
Hi,
ReplyDeleteCan you help me with the below?
5A - How did F come?
9A - How did Cur come?
6D - How did you remove AL?
(Sorry, I am a newbie. Hence bugging you guys!)
Hi Labak,
ReplyDelete5A - F = forte, comes from "Loud." F is used to denote a loud passage in music.
9A - CUR comes from "dog." It's a kind of dog.
6A - AL = A Scholar (where scholar = learner = student = L). It's removed 'cause the clue says, A scholar (AL) leaves one country (AUSTRALIA) to another (making it AUSTRIA)