Happy Pongal!

Hi all,


Tamil-vaalga wishes all a very great year ahead!

The solutions of the previous post:

1. Ray, losing tail, swam erroneously, but in a musical tempo (6) - Swaram
2. Come home, in Hindi; denotes the musical lineage (7) - Gharana
3. Basha, altered, to provide the premise (5) - Sabha
4. Baassha, altered, to get a spontaneous, verbal acclaim (7) - Sabaash
5. Oil, found in Fifth, for a musical accompaniment (6) - Violin
6. A morphed Sangara to obtain a great raaga (7) - Saranga
7. Malladi, Alathur, Hyderabad............ - all have a common fraternal tag (8) - Brothers
8. Mambalam, Sikkil, Bombay......... - they have the same sorority tag (7) - Sisters


This post's bag of clues:

1. M. Varadu goes berserk to hide the annual timeline (7)
2. A parasite or a card, both! (5)
3. A rice-based breakfast item (or) our harvest festival (or) simply “an overflowing”, all!! (6)
4. Rum Buka erroneously spilled for this cash-crop sake (7)
5. Man Hagar shuffled to form the eclipse (8)
6. Milan re-ploughed to get the base (5)
7. An auspicious cash-crop or an auspicious color? Both (6)
8. Nayir’s ducks… look-up to Sun to solve this (8)

Regards,

Vijay