Carnatic Quick Crossword - 3

naarayanan · Post by **naarayanan** » 04 Sep 2009, 09:22

hi folks, next one in the quick crossword series.

http://carnatiquiz.blogspot.com/2009/08/cq-49.html

enjoy.

p.s. there r 2 'narayanan' type clues in the puzzle.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 04 Sep 2009, 22:45

naarayanan
I am just seeing this only today, not yet clicked the link. Possibly will take a print out during the week. Will keep the deadline till next weekend sept 12,2009.

When you say

p.s. there r 2 'narayanan' type clues in the puzzle.

I am assuming they are in arabic where the answer can be malayalam in only one way

Is that right?

naarayanan · Post by **naarayanan** » 05 Sep 2009, 08:53

haha rajesh, i was waiting for you. no arabic. only inverted 'vavval' types.

naarayanan · Post by **naarayanan** » 16 Sep 2009, 07:11

till rajesh rejuvenates this thread, let me give u some single clues. this has nothing to do with the above crossword. just individual clues. of course related to carnatic music.

catch the phrase (4)

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 16 Sep 2009, 09:21

naarayanan
Give me this weekend please....

naarayanan · Post by **naarayanan** » 16 Sep 2009, 10:14

sure rajesh. take ur own time.

naarayanan · Post by **naarayanan** » 18 Sep 2009, 09:44

catch the phrase (4)

ans: pidi

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 18 Sep 2009, 09:59

naarayanan
I got 10 or 12 in first pass. I have not written the answers in the crossword directly as you have two googlies which are from right to left. I prefer you to atleast point which are the two googlies from right to left (dont give answers) so that we dont mess the crossword and break our head by writing it wrongly.

No more piDi's please....

naarayanan · Post by **naarayanan** » 18 Sep 2009, 18:29

haha. 12 and 22 down. both are inverted and not from right to left.

16 and 15 also combine to form a single clue. the raga's name contains 9 letters and i have split into 5 and 4 letters. of course it makes sense even after splitting.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 18 Sep 2009, 22:41

naarayanan
One in lefttop pending ,one in right top pending , Struggling in about 5 clues in right bottom side. Let me try tomorrow

Sujiram,arunk, RT, sridhar_rang,etal...
Are you all participating?

For all others please try many are easy you will get atleast 5 in first pass.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 19 Sep 2009, 23:52

In across struggling with the below two:
19. Arre oh sambha, vigilantly listen to this janyam of sucharitra (8)
24. Maintain a gamaka without nishadam (6)

In down struggling with below
12. Say Madhyama differently , say upside down, to meet this composer (5)
17. Ghanam krishna iyer's atana is as sublime as this great mountain (8)

naarayanan,
OK let me tie the paper by tomorrow Sunday evening say 6pm or so ,then you can give answers after checking your mail for my answers.

How about others , are there no takers, suji, arunk ...

naarayanan · Post by **naarayanan** » 21 Sep 2009, 19:22

19. it is hidden in 'sambha, vigilantly'.

24. it is one of the 15 gamakas hidden in 'maintain'.

12. Madhyama is Ma. put it along with say.

17. it is just a google away. sri chakra is worshipped in this form.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 21 Sep 2009, 22:31

Naaryanan
Sent you all the answers except two to you as an email from , checkup.
The two that I didnot get is

17.Down --- Ghanam krishna iyer's atana is as sublime as this great mountain (8) - despite your clue and
9.Across --- She is born to dharmavathi, but follows kamala, abhaya, meena et al (6)

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 01 Oct 2009, 15:56

Narayanan
Looks apart from me no one has shown interest, Can you publish the answers please.We can continue to discuss in this threaded discussion.

BTW did anyone try this. It was in a wide range some of which is dead easy, some like Ghanam krishna Iyer's atANA only nArayanan knows.

naarayanan · Post by **naarayanan** » 01 Oct 2009, 20:34

sure rajesh.

naarayanan · Post by **naarayanan** » 01 Oct 2009, 21:36

http://narayananswaminathan.blogspot.co ... ord-3.html

Across:

7. Fourth chakra (4) VEDA. All of us know that the chakras are named with mnemonics. Indu - named after moon, which we have only one. Netra - eyes, which are 2 in number etc. Veda- we have 4 vedas. so fourth chakra named as veda.

8. Manohara, if you can adjust , you can go up easily (8) AROHANAM. anagram of 'manohara' and the anagrind is 'adjust'.

9. She is born to dharmavathi, but follows kamala, abhaya, meena et al (6) AMBIKA. a charade. ambika is a janya raga of dharmavathi. and the word 'ambika' comes in the kritis kamalambika, abhayambika, meenambika etc.

10. A thevaram sung without oriental help completes a cycle (8) AVARTHAM. anagram of 'a thevaram' without 'e'. oriental means 'east' and 'e' stands for east.

11. Dikshitar's famous surati is about him (8) ANGARAKA.

13. Koluvai _________ (6) UNNADE

16. & 15. Hana the purist, without a point sounds dissonant (9) THANARUPI. anagram of 'hana purist' without 's'. 'point' is a clue given for the directions NEWS, as these are points in a compass. and it is a vivadi raga so 'dissonant'.

17. Tansen is often referred to as (4) MIAN

18. One type of nadaswaram (6) TIMIRI. another type is bhaari. just like alto and soprano in sax.

19. Arre oh sambha, vigilantly listen to this janyam of sucharitra (8) SAMBHAVI. wordplay. SAMBHA VIgilantly.

21. Auspicious (8) MANGALAM

24. Maintain a gamaka without nishadam (6) NAMITA. jumble 'maintain' without 'ni'.

25. GKB and MMD made him immortal (8) NANDANAR

26. Hindustani practice (4) RIAZ

Down:

1. To listen to this doyen, mess with magudi 'n' loose direction (10) SEMMANGUDI. add mess+magudi+n' and remove 's' which is a direction 'south'.

2. Marry Mary? No, not until i hear raja's saramathi (4,4) MARI MARI. homonym indicated by 'hear' . 'Marry Mary' sounds like 'mari mari'.

3. KB's favourite raga but 'this veena does not know' how to play it (6) SAHANA. 'indha veenaikku theriadhu' is a famous song in the serial 'rayil sneham' by KB which was tuned by v.s.narasimhan in this raga.

4. & 6.Basic elements of indian music (4,4) RAGA, TALA

5. A koundar somehow sang kalyani at the end of shankarabharanam in lieu of bilahari (8) DORAKUNA. anagram of 'a koundar'. thyagaraja's original is in raga bilahari. kvm had tuned a 'dorakuna' in kalyani which comes in the climax of the movie 'shankarabharanam'.

12. Say Madhyama differently , say upside down, to meet this composer (5) SYAMA. anagram of 'say ma'. 'differently' is the anagrind. and it comes upside down in the grid.

14. A divine note (10) DHAIVATHAM

16. Keep dancing hana till you come to form (8) THILLANA. anagram of 'hana till'

17. Ghanam krishna iyer's atana is as sublime as this great mountain (8) MAHAMERU. http://www.saigan.com/heritage/lyrics/gki31.html

20. Chandram bhaja _______ (6) MANASA

22. One of the chakras is inverted (4) BANA. (5th chakra pancha bANa - the five arrows of Cupid) is upside down in the grid.

23. KL saigal's classic bhairavi, Babul ____ (4) MORA. this classic song 'babul mora' is in hindustani bhairavi , our sindhu bhairavi.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 02 Oct 2009, 16:47

naarayanan wrote:http://narayananswaminathan.blogspot.co ... ord-3.html

Up:

9. She is born to dharmavathi, but follows kamala, abhaya, meena et al (6) AMBIKA. a charade. ambika is a janya raga of dharmavathi. and the word 'ambika' comes in the kritis kamalambika, abhayambika, meenambika etc.

Down:

17. Ghanam krishna iyer's atana is as sublime as this great mountain (8) MAHAMERU. http://www.saigan.com/heritage/lyrics/gki31.html

narayanan,
For every crossword of yours,suji or arunk, there is a pattern to my answers :

I always struggle to get the last two , one always turns out impossible for ever till the answer is given (as mahameru) ,and the other is such a sitter that is so easy to look back and say O god how i missed this (as ambika)