Iq 1711

[hankir]

About 7 remain to be solved. have not started filling the grid yet. Clues are in Alpha order.
Help with:

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

Thanks.

[Toorak]

2 Norseman r inside names on reversed

[ProfessorMaisie]

CRIB
YOJAN

[ProfessorMaisie]

...prosCRIBe 'with no written words' [minus 'prose'].
call for effort = YO + JAN(uary).

[hankir]

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.

[ProfessorMaisie]

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).

[ProfessorMaisie]

By the way, if you have all of the 7 letter answers only two of them can match crossing the grid's centre square.

[hankir]

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.

[ProfessorMaisie]

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).

[ProfessorMaisie]

...have just tried google translate - something to do with planning?

[hankir]

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.

[ProfessorMaisie]

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...).