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hankir | 16:45 Sat 07th Aug 2021 | Crosswords
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About 7 remain to be solved. have not started filling the grid yet. Clues are in Alpha order.
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Denounce with no written words about exam cheat (4) Starts with C or D

Scandinavian right to invade calls subject to rising (8) Starts with N or O

Call for effort with little time about 8 miles from Bombay (5) starts with U to Z

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2 Norseman r inside names on reversed
CRIB
YOJAN
...prosCRIBe 'with no written words' [minus 'prose'].
call for effort = YO + JAN(uary).
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Thanks Toorak and ProfessorM.

Every time I see an Indian word,
I am surprised because I do not expect them in English puzzles.
Yojan is a familiar word but did not see in context of IQ.

I have D at 1a. Hope that starts me off with grid fill.
Yes, it's D at 1ac (I thought you might know 'yojan', hankir - it's the first time I've encountered this particular Indian word but lots of them crop up in crosswords over here).
By the way, if you have all of the 7 letter answers only two of them can match crossing the grid's centre square.
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Thanks ProfessorM.

The theme was easy to discover and most of the unclueds I was familiar with so it went fast.

We are aware of Yojan but no one uses that word to describe distance any more.
How might it be used these days? If you haven't moved on maybe you could give me a couple of examples, hankir (it just might help with a future definition).
...have just tried google translate - something to do with planning?
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ProfessorM,
Yojan used to be the distance of four villages. I have seen it described in one dictionary as 4 miles, though IQ describes it as 8 miles.
When I grew up we used miles but around the time I moved to USA, India switched to metric system. (I am still not good with metric system, as US won't switch)
In ancient times they used Yojan. (Masculine usage)
I knew that word but I have never used it in a sentence.

Yojana is arrangement, planned activity (Feminine)

Yojak would be the doer of Yojana or planner.

They are all derived from Sanskrit.
Thanks, hankir - the detail you provide is very interesting.
I had another look at the def in Chambers and it mentions a village area that is to be ploughed, so perhaps that's where the planning idea comes in (like you, I'm still not good with the metric system - but it's only been about 50 years since we switched, so there's hope yet...).

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