Carnatic Cryptic Crossword Puzzle #1

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 29 Mar 2009, 22:54

http://sunson.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/ ... d-puzzle-1

Enjoy!

Arun

vidya · Post by **vidya** » 30 Mar 2009, 01:11

Arun,
Nice one. Loved clues 4 and 12 in particular!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 30 Mar 2009, 09:22

Arun,
Great job! I am a crossword buff but couldn't do more than a few (not well-versed in music and cryptic really gets me!)

Vidya,
Naturally, it was a piece of cake for you! I liked all the straight forward clues including the Asterix one!

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 30 Mar 2009, 09:34

Arun
Please give atleast a week from today,before you give answers(including this weekend)

vganesh · Post by **vganesh** » 30 Mar 2009, 09:56

Arun! Wonderful. But unfortunately I also say Vidya's answer. Obviously I could have not answered all. Request members not to post back. Please give a week's time for posting the answers.......

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 30 Mar 2009, 11:39

arun, i don't have a printer.. just, copied the image (and answers too! than..than..than..than.than.than.thanthanthan vidya) in paint...

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 30 Mar 2009, 11:41

I liked 12 and 5. Struggled with 1 for a while until I realized that it was a shortened form! Thanks - really enjoyed it...

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 30 Mar 2009, 11:54

Thanks. Got 'em.

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 30 Mar 2009, 15:39

Well since all of the others have been nailed - Arabhi should be Saveri - i. e "save" "ri" - a nice one!

vainika · Post by **vainika** » 30 Mar 2009, 16:06

15 was my favourite!

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 30 Mar 2009, 17:10

I liked the fact that the crossword was invariant with respect to V-W substitutions (MalAwi ,"Dwijavanthi").

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 30 Mar 2009, 17:12

Thanks guys.

Others - keep working although you may want to ignore the posts here (unless you are stuck

).

erode sir - wow! I didnt realize somebody could work on it in Paint - ingenious indeed!

Arun

vidya · Post by **vidya** » 31 Mar 2009, 08:09

Duh @ Saveri! I got a great kick out of the fact that the rishabha being a jIvaswara of Arabhi
also contained an anagram of the raga that I could not look beyond it. Next time we will only email the answers and wait for a week.

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 01 Apr 2009, 14:07

vidya wrote:Duh @ Saveri! I got a great kick out of the fact that the rishabha being a jIvaswara of Arabhi
also contained an anagram of the raga that I could not look beyond it. Next time we will only email the answers and wait for a week.

Very strict rules of crosswords! Anagrams are indicated in some way and parts of phrases indicated in other ways. The two cannot be combined in one clue. i.e. We cannot have an anagram of part of a word/phrase. I think Arun has followed almost all of crossword etiquette except perhaps for the non-diagonal-symmetric grid. Good one!

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 05 Apr 2009, 21:13

Solution has been posted: http://sunson.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/ ... d-puzzle-1

Arun