Friday, 13 April 2012

No 10436, Friday 13 Apr 12, Incognito

HAPPY TAMIL NEW YEAR
Welcome to another new setter, I'm losing track of the schedules!! 
ACROSS
1   - A bird chasing cat gets a hatchet (8) - TOMAHAWK {TOM}{A}{HAWK}
5   - Car hidden by an imp a lama brought (6) - IMPALA [T]
10 - Papa leaves the golf club, say (5) - UTTER pUTTER
11 - Marker advocating the dead to rest in peace (9) - TOMBSTONE [E]
12 - Good French Income Tax Officer gave us fish (6) - BONITO {BON}{ITO}
13 - Recite Om combination to describe rapid rise (8) - METEORIC*
15 - Get up, I am in Company Law Board (5) - CLIMB {CL{I'M}B}
17 - Expel from club and cut into pieces (9) - DISMEMBER {DIS}{MEMBER}
19 - Drug got when Palin did not start to follow the finger (9) - DIGITALIN {DIGIT}{pALIN}
20 - Acknowledgement that pirate flag is not jolly (5) - ROGER {jolly ROGER}
21 - Evidences of fountain pen usage on a schoolchild's visage (8) - INKBLOTS [CD]
23 - Caped crusader who had the first mobile, maybe? (6) - BATMAN [GK]
27 - Overcome soldiers for William's title (9) - CONQUEROR {CONQUER}{OR}
28 - Question a sitter (5) - POSER [DD]
29 - Saint covers ravaged isle and is most deceitful (6) - SLIEST {S{ISLE*}T}
30 - Hidden spies go round donkey to get sugary by-product (8) - MOLASSES {MOL{ASS}ES}
DOWN
1   - Digit placed on one's nose for a pejorative gesture (5) - THUMB [CD]
2   - My uniting movement is revolting (9) - MUTINYING*
3   - Afghan city where heart is agitated (5) - HERAT*
4   - About 1/746 of one HP, say, what? (4) - WATT(~what)
6   - Athos, Porthos or Aramis, take your pick (9) - MUSKETEER [GK]
7   - Boundary score for a paper size (1,4) - A FOUR {A 4}
8   - Top tennis player or high achiever (3,6) - ACE SCORER [CD]
9   - Pens drama around a symbol (9) - AMPERSAND*
14 - Oar adults push around for laudators (9) - ADULATORS*
15 - Fish bits for medieval trouser accessories (9) - CODPIECES {COD}{PIECES}
16 - Palm seeds put in Indian paan (9) - BETELNUTS [CD]
18 - Two mothers-in-law is the punishment these two-timers get (9) - BIGAMISTS [CD] Will they be lucky or unlucky guys?
22 - Japanese write with these Chinese characters (5) - KANJI [GK] And we drink it here in India!!
24 - First one comes before Bravo (5) - ALPHA [DD]
25 - Northern Reds at sea become socially impaired intellectuals (5) - NERDS {N}{REDS*}
26 - Therefore, in Latin, ogre is confused (4) - ERGO*

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30 comments:

  1. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 08:35

    My usual welcome to Incognito:

    Josip Broz came to be called Tito,
    Il Duce was actually born Benito,
    Infamy or fame,
    What’s in a name?
    Anyway, most setters are Incognito.

    Sorry to put you in the same line as these worthies, but that is a peril you face for debuting on Friday, the 13th.

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  2. Chaturvasi13 April 2012 at 08:35

    Deepak

    Did you have a hand in changing the appearance of the Labels at left so that the tags are not in alphabetical order but in descending order of occurrences?

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    1. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 08:37

      Thought the two Ex-es top the list, NO.3 and 4 will cross them within a short time.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath13 April 2012 at 09:59

      CV,

      Yes I did change it

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  3. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 08:37

    Impala comes again within within a couple of days, now the car not the animal...

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  4. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 08:38

    Happy New Year to all of you.

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  5. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 08:40

    Deepak, loved the two car pictures. As you will recall the Impala was the choice car in old Hindi movies, usually owned by the heroine's father who was usually, euphemistically, in the 'import-export business'

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    1. Deepak Gopinath13 April 2012 at 10:00

      As kids we used to call the Impala 'Eyes with Kajol' as the tail lamps looked like a pair of made up eyes

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  6. Venkatesh13 April 2012 at 08:45

    A Happy Tamil New Year to all solvers.

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  7. Venkatesh13 April 2012 at 08:47

    17a DISMEMBER is a DD

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  8. D.Srinivasan13 April 2012 at 09:13

    14 D LAUDATORS as an anagram also gives adulators.

    Did we have any such words before?

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    1. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 20:40

      I give below a few, though they might not have appeared in crossies:

      ROWDIES=WEIRDOS
      BRUSH=SHRUB

      Maybe we can call them SYNOGRAMS or ANANYMS, both being portmanteau..

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    2. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 20:45

      Oh, I missed:

      ANGERED=ENRAGED,

      which I am sure has come in crossies.

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  9. Suresh13 April 2012 at 11:20

    Nice debut. Do you want to remain incognito?

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  10. Chaturvasi13 April 2012 at 12:09

    I have posted a detailed analysis of his crossword here:

    http://cgrishi.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/getting-to-know-incognito/

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  11. Dr.gayathri Sreekanth13 April 2012 at 12:27

    hi. thanks to you. i am hooked to crossword. i am able to solve most of them but for unsolved ones, i peek in at around 9 o clock. great going. thanks and happy tamil new year

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    1. Deepak Gopinath13 April 2012 at 12:53

      You're welcome, Unknown. It would be better though if we knew you!

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  12. Padmanabhan13 April 2012 at 13:40

    2 incognitos on the same day?

    A belated Tamil New Year Wishes to all !

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  13. Jeevan13 April 2012 at 13:41

    Happy Tamil New Year Folks!! Another new Setter!! Its so easy to loose track of the Number of Setters!!

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  14. Krishnan13 April 2012 at 15:55

    Happy Tamil New Year ! Doubly glad that I was able to finish in 15-20 minutes flat.

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  15. Incognito13 April 2012 at 18:43

    Commencing with dedicating the crossword to:

    the armed forces represented by

    the Admiral, the Colonel and any others that may lurk here from the other forces, IAF,BSF,CG, TA,

    and the unripe*,

    the civilians represented by

    the GM; Eve, the First Lady of Indian crosswords, other setters and solvers

    *persons who inhabit the grey area between the armed forces and the civilians, the persons who live in the shadowy world of cloak and dagger, who shy away from the fame or notoriety they may rightly or wrongly deserve, who remain nameless and...Incognito...

    A small Heads-up here: Till stocks last, all Incognito crossword puzzles will have at least one alternative name, alter ego, pseudonym or appellation of a person, entity, place or character either self-assumed or bestowed.Eg: Today, Batman is the alter ego of Bruce Wayne.

    Thanks to the Colonel for a great blog and to all solvers who tried this puzzle. I hope you enjoyed it.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath13 April 2012 at 19:09

      Thanks Incognito,

      So I was not off the mark when I was searcing for a Batman picture for 15D

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  16. Incognito13 April 2012 at 18:48

    Regarding the Friday 13th and the Tamil New Year:

    shreyascha preyascha manushyametastau
    samparitya vivinakti dhirah /
    shreyo hi dhiro’bhipreyaso vrinite
    preyo mando yogakshemād vrinite //
    - Kathopanishad, 1/2/2

    So all the best to all of you for the New Year

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    1. Chaturvasi13 April 2012 at 18:59

      Interpetation of the above quote:

      The majority of the people, because they do not believe in re-birth,
      do not feel the necessity of enquiring into Shreya and Preya, and thus they become deeply attached to worldly pleasures, and they ruin this precious (human) body which even the gods rare to get, in animal-like sense-gratification. On the other hand, the wise and steady persons (dhira) who believe in re-birth
      and the other world, they attempt to thoroughly understand the pros and cons of both Preya and Shreya and like the discriminating swan, they accept Shreya rejecting Preya.

      - Interprtation by Sonaram Chutiya)
      See: http://www.atributetosankaradeva.org/shreya.pdf

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    2. Suresh13 April 2012 at 21:27

      With a surname like that he would have been the butt of jokes

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    3. Arunava Gupta26 April 2012 at 15:17

      Shri Suresh above:-

      >With a surname like that he would have been the butt of jokes

      Well, not exactly. 'Chutiya' (pronounced 'Soo-ti-yaa') is a perfectly valid surname in Assam. Moreover, why would you stoop so low as to disregard the thought of an individual and look only into his/her surname!

      The interpreter of the above quote, Shri Sonaram Chutiya, is a respected Vaisnava scholar of Assam.

      http://www.atributetosankaradeva.org/shreya.pdf#page=4

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  17. Chaturvasi13 April 2012 at 19:03

    To understand those terms I had to go to the Internet again:


    Sreyas = Acquiring possessions by Dharmic or rightful means for spiritual development. The prosperity an individual enjoys, when all around him also prosper. This is good and preferable.

    Preyas = Acquiring possessions by rightful means for worldly enjoyment (pleasure) which is materialistic.
    - taken from http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091024231912AAJkD9W

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  18. Chaturvasi13 April 2012 at 19:28

    I appreciate the mission statement above by Incog.

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    1. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 20:33

      I think he missed out on descendants of the servicemen ;-)

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  19. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 19:38

    Thanks, CV, for translating that. Nice discovery by DS.

    Deepak, I was tickled by your rock polo cartoon.

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