REPUBLIC DAY GREETINGS
ACROSS
1 - Proper way of dealing with need for some fun? (4,9) - FAIR TREATMENT [CD]
8 - One producing trim craft? (7) - CLIPPER [DD]
9 - Revenue obtained for aeroplane cargo (7) - PAYLOAD [CD]
11 - Calamitous as horseplay becomes in less than a second (6) - TRAGIC {T{RAG}ICk}
13 - Surprised to go ahead with the French at a point (8) - STARTLES {START}{LE}{S} Surprised or surprises?
15 - Machine to take down shorthand notes (5) - STENO [E]
16 - Doesn't take responsibility for broadcast with noises all around (7) - DISOWNS {DI{SOW}NS}
18 - Native of a West African country leading a Scot (7) - GHANIAN [CD] Why have leading a Scot?
19 - One's big thanks to being in the money (5) - TITAN {TI{TA}N}
21 - He shows a decided preference for quiet workers (8) - PARTISAN {P}{ARTISAN}
23 - Cruel depression inside where experiments happen to turn up (6) - BRUTAL {B{RUT}AL<-}
25 - Former title given to Turkish civil officials (7) - EFFENDI [GK]
26 - Worked for a wage under a pound despite being well educated (7) - LEARNED {L}{EARNED}
28 - Noble head supporter in a position to offer something a lady can wear (5,8) - PEARL NECKLACE {P{EARL} {NECK}LACE}
DOWN
2 - Shake the thing in marble (7) - AGITATE {AG{IT}ATE}
3 - Grave letters that bring a tear (3) - RIP [DD]
4 - Not often two lots of soldiers get together (4) - RARE {RA}{RE}
5 - Carelessly eat pip and give voice if it's tasty (10) - APPETISING {APPETI*}{SING}
6 - Youth roam around to find city chief magistrate (5) - MAYOR {MA{Y}OR*}
7 - Soon led astray and may end in the soup (7) - NOODLES*
8 - Tom perhaps as the pro collapsing in disaster (11) - CATASTROPHE {CAT}{AS+THE+PRO*}
10 - Put out when Di's led round by a pig, we hear! (11) - DISGRUNTLED {DIS}{GRUNT}{LED}
12 - A circuit with Anil may help find her (5) - ILONA {O+ANIL}*
14 - Maid made allowance and gained respect (10) - ADMIRATION {MAID*}{RATION}
17 - Necessary for washing operations (5) - WATER [CD]
18 - Caught in a social blunder is one king famed for sticking a neck out (7) - GIRAFFE {G{I}{R}AFFE}
22 - It's next to the bull's eye (5) - INNER [CD]
24 - Nations form together for a common objective (4) - BLOC [E]
27 - High class apprentice may be trouble (3) - AIL {AI}{L}
18 - Native of a West African country leading a Scot (7) - GHANIAN [CD] Why have leading a Scot?
ReplyDeleteWas trying to make sense of GHAN, taking IAN to be a Scot. Anyhow reminded of Jerry Rawlings...
Happy to see Yezdi in the R'day awards.
ReplyDelete18 - Caught in a social blunder is one king famed for sticking a neck out (7) - GIRAFFE {G{I}{R}AFFE}
ReplyDeleteRemembered the Giraffe Centre in Nairobi, where you get to feed the camelopards.
Do you need a ladder/ platform to feed them or do they come down as shown by Col.'s picture?
ReplyDeleteYou stand on a small tower.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.giraffecenter.org/
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ReplyDeleteThis crossword is best forgotten. R Day parade and other matters of topical interest are better. With so many Gaffes leaving us startles and wondering how stenos become machines and the E/GK clues, Manna is fast taking over NJ's legacy.
ReplyDeleteThe highlight of today's RD parade was the new high kick by the marching contingent leaders as they passed the saluting point.
ReplyDeleteIt was a treat to see MoAF Arjan Singh, DFC, at his usual best. Much more impressive than 'Charlie' Browne, I think. One of the last few living DFC awardees, I think.
Looks like no crossie today, the 27th..., in hard copy too.
ReplyDeleteI have got the hard copy and it's no show.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, last year 27.1.11 did have THC No.10062 from Gridman.
18 - Native of a West African country leading a Scot (7) - GHANIAN [CD] Why have leading a Scot?
ReplyDeleteCould this be:
a West African country - GH (country code for Ghana)
a Scot - AN IAN
(GH)(AN)(IAN)
Could be, but with double duty..., bcos Native would be an incomplete def.
ReplyDeleteWhy is there no crossword today? Very disappointing!
ReplyDeleteNo CW in Chennai edition too. No comment or explanation!
ReplyDeleteYes quite puzzling why The Hindu did not carry CW today.
ReplyDeleteYes quite puzzling why The Hindu did not carry CW today.
ReplyDeleteNobody seems to have noticed the absence of Sudoku in Chennai edition - perhaps any other edition of the paper in any other centre where the printing unit worked yesterday.
ReplyDeleteCV,
ReplyDeleteI was expecting you might have some news/ explanation for the absence of CW. But you have added one more item to the puzzle!
Looks like there is a pattern. There was no Sudoku or CW on the 16th Jan. (the day after Pongal) in the Bangalore edition of the paper. This blog carried Arden's CW and it seemed as though all of you visiting this blog knew about the paper not publishing the CW on 16th. Today again, the day after a holiday (yesterday being Republic day) the Sudoku and CW are missing. Any guesses?
ReplyDeleteI see no reason why the paper could not carry the crossword when it was printed and published. The situation is different from the Pongal day when the paper was printed here in Karnataka on one day and in Chennai on the next day. the Karnataka paper did not carry the CW whereas the Chennai edition on the next day did have it.
ReplyDeleteHere's a filler from Kishore. I did not put it earlier as I thought no one will look up the comments today.
ReplyDeleteHi friends,
I just REALISED that there are a lot ofwords beginning with RE. Some of them, like REALISE have no meaning when RE(which usually represents RESUMPTION of an activity) is removed (i.e. ALISE orSUMPTION do not seem to have any common meaning, if at all any) while is somecases like REMIX or REASSURE, it refers to mixing or assuring again. Butsometimes, after performing the RE-ectomy (removal of RE), the REMNANT has anunconnected meaning eg: REMISS (something is wrong), MISS (don’t catch, girl,etc), the words being described by ‘Something is wrong with the girl’.
The words defined below are of the last categorymentioned above and definitions of the word before and after REectomy are giventhough not necessarily in the same order:
1. Wire by instinct
2. Arrange in order at a pleasure stay spot
3. Newsman is a luggage carrier
4. Stern control
5. Free of control to ease
6. Let out on rent
7. Study again the mechanical device (one of the alternative spellings of the device)
8. Interactive chemical representing the secret service
9. Set right the two again
10. Abolish the law about ringing bells
11. Give up argument and loan out
12. Show the cattle meat
Have fun. Please send answers to kishoremrao@hotmail.com
Kishore
Thanks, Kishore (and Col.) for posting this on particularly dull day at work. :(
ReplyDeleteKishore, re:9, is the 'again' at the end required?
Navneeth, the portended googly is omnipresent...
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't object to what was posted. ;-)
DeleteThere was an assault (photographic, ofcourse) on Hindu by The Times of India - There was some discussion on the subject matter here also). After a gap Hindu has retaliated with a video, which can be accessed in thehindu.com. Don't miss the final punch line - good pun there.
ReplyDeleteRam (not the Ram, I suppose)
ReplyDeleteDid you see the comment
http://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/how-hindu-aimed-at-times-but-shot-dna/
Others
The above link has the videos too.
BTW, the models in the ads, all young men and women, by acting and pretending to be ignorant and idiotic, have earned money!
ReplyDeleteToday's paper has an ad on back page suggesting that it is for eggheads and not for oglers of pics of PYTs and the jet set. But doesn't the supplement of the paper have 'page 3 material'?
However, the competitor appears to be bolder with more explicit pics.
Today at the launch of Vinod Mehta's memoirs in Chennai, the competitor predictably came in for some adverse remarks.
Today's paper has an ad on back page suggesting that it is for eggheads and not for oglers of pics of PYTs and the jet set. But doesn't the supplement of the paper have 'page 3 material'?
DeleteMy reading of it was they have the p3 stuff in addition to the important news. But it's certainly not hardcore p3 material, if you ask me. Whenever I go to a Bangalore household which stopped subscribing to The Hindu a long time ago, I usually feel nauseated looking at the items that go on the front page of the main paper.
We get both TH and TOI on weekends. TH for me and TOI for my father. It helps keep his blood pressure going...
Deletenice quote..
DeleteSuch a callous attitude towards a section that shold be an integral feature of all respectable newspapers. Why the Crossword is missing in tody's issue? The Metroplus did carry the usual Guardian crossword.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't we persuade the Hindu Management to be more serious and print the feature regularly and also make the blocks oin the grid darker?
Any idea as to how many readers do this feature?
Col: It's better that as bloggers we have a res erve stock and post on holidays?
Incidentally, how come 27th Jan had all newspapers published, tho' 26th was a public holiday?
Thanks Kishore for Serving as a REserve alternative.
A few twists in the 26th conundrum:
ReplyDeleteLast year there was a TH issue on 27th.
This year at least some editions went to print. Why not others ? RD is not a regional festival...
The quick made it, but not the cryptic and the sudoku. I suppose they will synchronise with other editions by hop, skip and jump somewhere, since there is little possibility of the same reader seeing two different editions on the same day (except when flying).
Thanks for sharing the TH-TOI ad wars. Reminds of the cola wari.. between Pepsi and Coke. What Ram-ifications !
Re-sults for the Re-ctomy are being deffered for one more day as requested by a disc jockey.
Pros and cons of the new comment-reply format:
ReplyDeleteSame thread messages together, no need to quote name and time of post being ref to.
New posts are lurking somewhere in the middle, not at the end of the queue where they can be easily spotted.
The crossword and sudoku carried with nation wide serial numbers which could not be altered as some editions go off print. Thats the reason both of them have not appeared yesterday.
ReplyDeleteStill we miss those two.
Thanks
Mathu