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WORD GAMES, 2016

LITERARY CLUB, IIT DELHI
By Aditya Kumar

PART 1: A Cocktail with Literature

1: The Not So Small Crossword: (85 3+4+1)

Presented is a British style crossword (sans the tradition of
maintaining rotational symmetry of checks and some makedos!) with clues ranging across etymology, some general
knowledge (like those buried inside newspapers) and
significant literary knowledge mostly spanning popular books.
Fill out the grid. No negatives. (Sheet provided)
Instructions:
1. 1 across and 51 across are pronouns. 3 across is a
preposition. 1 down is a proverb. 2 down: Jurassic _? (Time)
2. Atypically, 67 across does NOT intersect 59 down while 4
down does NOT merge into 19 down. The dotted barrier
marks the end. | separates disjoint clues.
Across:
5: Blue like the sky, Ancient Greek pottery dye (8)
7: Alonso Quixanos squire: ________ Panza (6)
9: Viola in Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing (7)
13: Aladdin and Sindbad, Nocturnal tales but where? (6)
15: Jim Carrey with Chinese puzzles for the knight? (7)
16: Moments can turn things around, you know. (6)
18: Susan Bones aunt in the Wizengamot (6)

22: The Lady of Lrien, of Light and the wood. (9)

23: Inception reference: Edith Piafs song:
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait
(Not the good things that have been done to me)
Ni le _____ tout a m'est bien gal
(Nor the bad things, it's all the same to me) (3)
26: Sly, stealthy and surreptitious as in a problem/evil? (9)
27: State a German philosopher: Immanuel ______. Cant? (4)
28: Common to Piscines life and solar spear (7)
29: Flying saucer, or not (1,1,1)
30: Presides over leisurely sports of famishing | 7 little men with her (4)

36: (Archaic) Go away! Rhymes: Voldemorts maternal granddads surname (6)

37: Dragon matriarchs handmaiden speaks 19 tongues. Who? (9)
38: Errol and Pigwidgeon (4)
39: Unrestricted public exhibition subject to parental guidance for
children below the age of twelve (2)
41: Pale skin, green eyes, hero Kingkiller chronicles by Rothfuss (6)
42: Tiny Ladies?: best remembered work. Surname (6)
43: The City of Joy, Five Past Midnight in Bhopal. First name (9)
48: Dakota smacked and tied up: First Name (9)
49: Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn;
But where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He's under a _______,
He's fast asleep. Come look for needles. (8)
50: _____ Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable
home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best
blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the
world with very little to distress or vex her. |Elementary Watson,
you played mudblood. (4)

53: Some mountain killed his wife and sons. (7)

54: Charlottes orphan in bildungsroman has a last name! (4)
55: A perennial herb with blue flowers (8)
56: Adorns a flamboyant moustache; The Persistence of Memory (4)
61: John Adams wife: the second First Lady, the first Second Lady,
her correspondences with Jefferson are treasured remnants (7)
62: All You Need Is Kill: Live. Die. Repeat. Tom Cruises what of the
next day? (4)
64: Archaic name for chlorine was _____ gas. The prefix means
acid/sharp (used as prefix elsewhere too as in another gas or in a
term for things like falsely true). The rest is just a variant name
for HCl acid, suffixed ic as in hydrochloric. (11)
67: Antouccis widely popular American animated series. One of the
longest too. (2,3,1,4)

68: The French reporter searches for Chang, after plane crash, in ___ (5)
69: Chinua Achebes magnum opus; Last word of the novel (5)
71: But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest,
because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I
can't stand it. I been there before. (11)
73: If I should stay, I would only be in your way
So I'll go but I know, I'll think of you every step of the way
And I... will always love you, ooh, will always love you
Last name is Texan, First name. (7)

74: I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In
his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was
not that he felt any emotion akin to love for _____. (5)
75: If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss. (7)
76: The unemotional, logical Vulcan (5)
77: Idiom! To add substance or matter to your claims/arguments is to
______ up your claim/argument. A very 70 down idiom! (4)
78: Augustus, Veruca, Violet, Mike and Charlie find. Singular. (6)
80: Sirius: it's very important for us to have spies inside the
Ministry, because you can bet Voldemort will have them"
Arthur Weasley: "We've managed to convince a couple of people,
though. Tonks here, for one she's too young to have been in the
Order of the Phoenix last time, and having Aurors on our side is a
huge advantage - ________'s been a real asset, too;
he's in charge of the hunt for Sirius, so he's been feeding the
Ministry information that Sirius is in Tibet!"

Down:
4: "Yes, an electronic brain," said Frankie, "a simple one would
suffice." "A simple one!" wailed Arthur.
"Yeah," said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to
program it to say What? And I don't understand and Where's the
_____________?who'd know the difference?"
"What?" cried Arthur, backing away still further.
"See what I mean?" said Zaphod and howled with pain because of
something that Trillian did at that moment. (3)
3: A guy from 13 across faces two scores of pilferers. First name. (3)
5: Dantes divine Comedy has a hundred. Singular. (5)
6: Sea nymph. Achilles mother Thetis was one. (6)
8: Daenerys Targaryen, the First of Her Name, Queen of Meereen,
Queen of the ______ and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of

the Seven Kingdoms, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, called

Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons (6)
9: Dr. Seuss: What in the hat? (3)
10: Has filament and anthers (6)
11: Some limb of the king protects it. (5)
12: To The Pauper, ______ Court, Pudding Lane, London. (5)
14: Rubeus blind pet with a taste for flesh (6)
17: Lucy, Susan, Peter and Edmund. Children of Mr. and Mrs.____? (8)
19: (vb.) To continue in an opinion or course of action in spite of
difficulty or opposition.
20: The youngest of the Bennett daughters.|CH3NH2 to Gus, anyone? (5)
21: The motive-hunting of motiveless Malignity, Shakespearean (4)

24: Veritas. Crimson. (7)

25: The opposite of rare, scarce (10)
31: The _____ and the carpenter
Were walking cross the land
The time has come," the _____ said,
To talk of other things :
Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
Hint: With tusks and whiskers.(6)
32: Persian: bazaar:: Arabic: _____;
The acclaimed Dubai Gold ____ (4)
33: I cannot tell you how thankful
I am for our little infinity. Speaker surname. (9)
34: Lack of seriousness, light-heartedness, silliness, flimsiness (34)
35: A pretty object, an eternal pleasure? So, says. (5)
38: A French affirmative (3)
40: Between Eriador and Wilderland: nestles Rivendell (5, 9)
44: Walter Scott: Hymn to the Virgin
___ _____! maiden mild!
Listen to a maiden's prayer!

Thou canst hear though from the wild,

Thou canst save amid despair.
Schuberts masterpiece. Hint: Second word is a name. (3, 5)
45: Amazingly, one of the warmest welcomes on offer for immigrants
comes from Germany. A country whose idea of a bedtime story is
two children being left to die in the forest before being nearly
cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman. Sleep well!
John Oliver. Reference. (6,6)
46: Wilbur befriends an arachnid (13)
47: A Greek heros homecoming (7)
52: Angels and Demons: Victims are four Preferiti, essentially _____s. (8)
57: Poirot pal loves apples. Inception: the girls name, maze-solver. (7)
58: Eratosthenes devised one for primes. A strainer is one. (5)
59: Bah! Humbug. Ghosts appear. First name. (8)
60: Day after tomorrow. Shamrock and Guinness. The patron. (2, 7)
63: A dead fowl: Think a caucus race and a prized thimble. (4)
65: Kidnapped to Borduria, also Peru to be solar captive. First
Name (8)
66: This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and
its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in
every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard Dickens
finest novel according to, among many, greats like Sir G.K.
Chesterton. First word (5)
70: Odgen Nashs one of many lovable lines on animals:
The cow is of the ________ ilk,
One end is moo, the other milk.
Adjective. Relating to cattle/cows. (6)
72: "Fifteen men on the dead man's _____
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" (5)
75: Make America white again? US right extemists. Initials. (1,1,1)
79: El Dorado: Chemical symbology upon this numeral (2)

2: Word Square With a Twist: (10 5)

Clues:

The word square has ten different words, each occupying

a column or row. Hints provided for all. The clues are
however, in both cases, cyclically shifted: The column
hint 1 may not be for the first column word but say, the
fourth one. But then, the hint 2 however will be the fifth
one, hint 3 for the first one, hint 4 for the second and 5
for the third. Same for rows. The shifts may be
different for row and column cases!

Columns:
1:
2:

3:

4:
5:

Result, follow, emanate, eventuate, befall

Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a
_____.
Funny how a _______ looks so much like a fatal lasso!
The root of this word is Latin verb for hold/have: It really means
a thing you hold as belief. The root finds itself in the curling part
of plants that hold stuff, holding parts for many aquatic creatures,
an adjective for someone who holds on to something.
A length or square of fabric worn. Silk?
Dashing through the snow,
On a one horse open sleigh,
O'er the fields we go,
Laughing all the way.

Rows:
1:
The Mori, indigenous Polynesian people arrived in New Zealand
in several waves of _____ voyage. ______ traditions are important
to the identity of Mori and transcends mere seafare. A boat,
Kayak?
2:
Abel walked over to the nearby newsstand and paid the boy two
cents for the latest edition of the Chicago Tribune.

The banner headline told it all: RICHMOND HOTEL BLAZE -- _______

SUSPECTED.

3:
4:
5:

Abel shook his head incredulously. Can anything else go wrong?

he muttered. -- Kane and Abel.
Awaken, stir, excite
Armada, as a noun, is the Spanish-Portuguese for this.
Don Corleone could not fetch him the golden statuette, The _____
of a Woman did.
PART 2: Straight Up, no frills

3: Apt Adages: (5 3)
An adage is a short, but memorable saying, which holds some
important fact of experience that is considered true and used
widely in expressions in day-to-day conversations. Mention an
apt adage that fits the situation described hereunder. Variants
of proverbs/idioms/sayings exist and we recognize that!
1. Few people know the story but the famous rover launched
by NASA to Mars in 2012 is actually a murderer. During
laboratory simulations, a stray kitten found its way into
the experimental dynamics chamber and got decapitated
by one of its sharp edges.
2. The Mukherjees tried to fix their out of hand son, who
had become alcoholic and spendthrift. So profound was
their shame, they referred to him as It to people when
describing his misdeeds. The counselor they met was curt
in his objection, Stop immediately! It hasnt run out of
money yet!
3. On the slopes of some lonely mountain, Sisyphus carried
out his punishment. When it rained, his feet got covered
in grime, mud, weeds and turned green. The boulder was
spot clean though.

4. Garfield relaxed in the plush Gucci handbag chowing on a

piping hot bowl of lasagna thanking the heavens.
Suddenly, he noticed a scorpion in the bowl and out he
sprang.
5. Worriedly, I asked Susan if she had the delicious red
velvet I had ordered from the closest bakery. She nodded
to my relief but asked if she could eat it. Of course not! I
snapped back.
4: Author and Poet Anagrams: (8 4)
Following are anagrams of famous authors and poets with the
letter counts of words/letter (in case of initial) indicated. Solve:
INCOME IS KINDLY (5.9)
PEN A LARGE LOAD (5.5.3)
WHAT JOINT FANS (8.5)
MACABRE LUST (6.5)
RAD JINGLES (1.1.8)
TREACHERIES TO HEBREW (7.7.5)
A REALLY SUBLIME TWIT (7.6.5)
WHITE MANS ANGER (6.9)
5: Fore and Aft: (8 3)
Fill in three letters in each case so that the prefixing and
postfixing with the given letters make sense. Example: For
ICI_ _ _ MENCY, the answer is CLE as because ICICLE and
CLEMENCY are both valid words.
CLI _ _ _ ER
RAME _ _ _ DRED
AR _ _ _ ORITY
POLE _ _ _ ELLE

SA _ _ _ RUS
TRO _ _ _ ND
STU _ _ _ OUS
LIB _ _ _ LIZE
6: Rebuses: (10 5)

7: Evil Label Babel: (5 3)

The following are proverbs/sayings/idioms with every word
having undergone a letter substitution and possibly, a word
removed. (Disclaimer: Variants of proverbs/idioms/sayings
exist and may differ here. Use your discretion.) Find them:
Hole as whore she ________ us.
Fist end quests small alter throe pays.
________ push it there angers feat so bread.
Net wind on at odd _______.
Ill what __________ in net sold.
8: Old Faithful Morph Word: (3 3)
With a letter substitution at each step and each intermediate
word making sense, complete:
1. PEAR ________ ________ ________ TIED
2. BRAIN ________ ________ ________ ________
________ ________ ________ STINT
3. MICA______ ______ ______ ______ KALE
9: Word Mine: (Letters: n n-2 pts; Capped at 45 )
Words with three or more letters to be verified from a standard
dictionary. If you feel a word may not be therein (which is
quite sometimes the case!), write out the meaning.

10: Russian Dolls: (5 3)

Best illustrated via an example. Essentially, place/insert the
right word indicated by the first clue into the right word
indicated by the second clue by a single split to generate an apt
word indicated by the third clue.
Ex:

Put a heavenly being into a game to make a word for

eternal:
changeless (angel into ch|ess )

1.
2.
3.
4.

Put an insect into tarts to make underwears. __________________

Put a word for always inside an animal to get excited. _________
Put a large vase into a gratuity to make a vegetable._____________
Put a word for exists into your artistic inspiration to make a word
meaning ill-treat.______________
5. Put a silicate mineral inside a word for talented or deft to make a
word meaning friendly.______________

11: Word in a word: (10 2)

Find out words embedded and scattered in order inside
another word having the same meaning. Example:
Masculine: _male_
Salvage
Encourage

Recline
Before
Instructor
Destruction
Indolent
Precipitation
Deliberate
Unsightly

12: The Return of Mrs. Malaprop: (5 3)

Malapropism is the mistaken use of one word for another. It is named
after Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Sheridans play The Rivals (1775),
who was fond of using malapropos (i.e. inappropriate) statements like
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory (meaning obliterate)
or My affluence over my niece is very small (meaning influence).
Can you correct the mistakes in the bold words in these sentences?
Example:
The muscles around the stomach are known as the abominable
muscles.
Answer: abdominal
1. After a long air flight, it is reassuring to get your feet back onto
terra cotta.
2. As his arguments progressed, I kept getting surer of a fundamental
contraception in them, of a mighty logical fallacy.
3. I was prostate with grief.
4. The doctor had told him he had very close veins.
5. If you swallow arsenic, you should take an anecdote.

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