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Sopan Carries Home · Saturday, 18 July 2026 · Ahhhh!
July 2026
Saturday,
18 July 2026
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Sigh after the first bite of home cooking (2)
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Warm and dry while the rain does its worst (4)
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Quick hello at the office door (2)
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Season that keeps Mumbai's umbrellas open from June to September (7)
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'Thanks a ___!' (3)
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Where the dal bubbled before the half-past-nine pickup (3)
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Slow-cooked dish, or the state of a hungry clerk at five to one (4)
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Mumbai courier in a white cap, relaying food from kitchens to offices (9)
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Out ___ breath after climbing five floors (2)
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Stack of steel tins, chapatis on top and rice below (6)
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What the rain makes on a tin roof (5)
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Way in, or a line in a ledger (5)
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Steel and brass, for two (6)
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What a dropped crate on the toe gets out of you (2)
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Midday meal that crosses the whole city to reach its eater (5)
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Thums Up, for one, at a platform stall (4)
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Where the Lakers play, briefly (2)
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'If ___ the trains were this punctual' (4)
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Reaction to a soaked sock (3)
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Wear away, pothole by pothole (5)
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'How ___ you take your chai?' (2)
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'Hey ___!': a hot meal seems to materialise on the desk (6)
Down
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When the collection round starts, on a clock (2)
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___ on: board a Churchgate local (3)
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'I told you ___!' (2)
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Answer to 'Is the dabba late?' (2)
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Too risky to cross, like the Andheri subway when a cloudburst meets high tide (6)
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Cry of the sea wind along Marine Drive in a storm (4)
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Stephen King's clown story (2)
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Yes, without a word (3)
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Borivali or Churchgate, where crates are sorted at speed (7)
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Rested at an angle, like a parked bike against a wall (5)
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Sibling who shares your birthday, and maybe your face (4)
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Food ___: the slump after a big thali (4)
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Ride for the first leg, tins swinging from its handlebars (7)
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Beau, in a text (2)
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Regardless, as the deliveries go on in a downpour (6)
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Like the carrier at eleven and the clerk at two (4)
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What a Dadar lane turns into by noon in July (5)
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Frankie or kathi, at a street stall (4)
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One o'clock ___: exactly on the hour (5)
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Painted on a lid, it routes each box through the relay (4)
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Loved ___ at the end of the line (4)
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What the rains leave on every heel in town (3)
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Two rings of the guard's bell, to a Mumbai motorman (2)
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Sink ___ swim, on a flooded street (2)