ACROSS
1 - Miner's light carried on auto front? (8) - HEADLAMP [DD]
5 - Exultant exclamation made by solver on finishing? Yahoo, right?
Confused? (6) - HOORAY {YAHOO+R}*
10 - Out! No, nothing in a notion (3,2) - NOT IN NOTIoN
11 - Accelerates reaction by stirring classy tea (9) - CATALYSES*
12 - Gavel is a millimetre inside her (6) - HAMMER {H{A}{MM}{ER}
13 - Bill confused one novice (7) - INVOICE {I}{NOVICE*}
15 - Caper a romantic hid (5) - ANTIC [T]
17 - Bare, without a bare necessity (9) - UNCLOTHED [CD]
19 - K'ung-fu-tzu known to the English by another name (9) - CONFUCIUS [GK]
20 - Unpleasantly ingratiating, circulating a posy (5) - SOAPY*
26 - Song having merit can fly (9) - AIRWORTHY {AIR}{WORTHY}
28 - Drink in honour of browned bread (5) - TOAST [DD]
29 - Puzzle! Imagine India missing. Puzzled? (6) - ENIGMA IMAGiNE*
30 - Software that duplicates, say, a flightless bird afterwards
(8) - EMULATOR {EMU}{LATOR}(~later)
DOWN
1 - Intuitive feeling held by a Notre Dame resident with a soft
corner for Esmeralda? (5) - HUNCH [DD]
2 - Robot modelled an atom out (9) - AUTOMATON*
3 - Weapon lost when corporal got his rank (5) - LANCE {LANCE corporal}
4 - Flower flowed back for diminutive Scot (3) - MAC <-
6 - Unmindful about what is easily seen around fifty one (9) - OBLIVIOUS {OB{LI}VIOUS}
7 - Hi, Sir! Confused about Indian sage? (5) - RISHI*
8 - Beatles' song about day before today (9) - YESTERDAY [DD]
9 - Flight made of alternating risers and treads (9) - STAIRCASE [CD]
14 - Cat killer, as the saying goes (9) - CURIOSITY [GK]
15 - Port city of Alaska (9) - ANCHORAGE [GK]
16 - Cross looking shape? (9) - CRUCIFORM [E]
18 - Rat deaths give initial advantage in a race (4,5) - HEAD START*
22 - Cockney exclamation before soldier got a dog (5) - CORGI {COR}{GI}
25 - Indian instrument hidden in a depositary (5) - SITAR [T]
15 - Port city of Alaska (9) - ANCHORAGE [GK]
ReplyDeleteI took this as a DD, &lit
Port, city of Alaska
1 - Intuitive feeling held by a Notre Dame resident with a soft corner for Esmeralda? (5) - HUNCH [DD]
27d reminded me of Popeye: And I yam what I yam and I yam what I yam that I yam and dats all that I yams
I took this as a part of HUNCHback
wow , easy day,,, 10 anagrams and general knowledge
ReplyDelete, cake walk for you col??
Nice flowing CW, though I am cross with myself for not getting cruciform & curiosity.
ReplyDeleteNot sure of the alternating risers and treads in the staircase. Does CD here mean ConfuseD or am I missing something
ReplyDeleteHad to let off some steam:
ReplyDeletehttp://cgrishi.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/the-pic-that-wasnt-there/
Sorry Incognito to be negative, but today's crossword wasn't that enjoyable for me. For these reasons:
ReplyDelete+ Most of the surfaces were implausible
+ Some of the E/GK clues had no cryptic elements to them
+ Overuse of punctuation marks (?, !)
And I failed to spot the alter ego/pseudonym that Incognito promised will be part of these puzzles. Did anyone else find it?
And not to mention the fact that "confused" is thrown around liberally - at least once in each clue or something like that.
DeleteHow about Confucius and Rishi?
DeleteChaturvasi,
ReplyDeleteWordpress asks me for a username and password, when I attempt to view your blog post.
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5A - The part about the crossword solver was superfluous, I thought.
To look at 17A in another way, although the clue has to be slightly altered for that and interpreted differently...
Def. = Bare = UNCLOTHED
Bare = NUDE
[missing anag. ind.]
without (taken around)
a bare necessity = CLOTH
{UN{CLOTH}ED*}
Off topic
ReplyDeleteNavneeth et al
Sorry that the blog is inaccessible.
This is what I wrote:
In a recent row, it is said that the cartoon that accompanied matter in a school textbook had no relevance whatever with the illustration.
This morning as I was trying to open yahoomail, I came across the headline:
Sunny Leone goes topless for a magazine
The text read:
Sunny Leone makes a splash on the May cover of the FHM magazine in a transparent sari, without a blouse.
When we click on a link to a slide show, we get the first pic – and then next, and then next but none of the pics has SL wearing anything that is remotely resembling a sari.
Somewhere along we read the text:
Porn star, ex-Bigg Boss house inmate and now a Bollywood actress, Leone has made a splash on the May cover of the magazine in nothing but a transparent palin deep green sari, without a blouse, complete with Indian accessories and a bindi.
So we have to grab the May issue of FHM. Any idea when it hits the stands?
The parliamentarians want cartoons banned from all textbooks. I say ban pictures from all these Internet gossip writings.
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PS: Not off topic after all. The note above is related to the clue 17a in today's crossword.
Haha, yes. This is far from gossip; it's more like an advertisement. Some might even go so far as to say a public service announcement!
DeleteThanks for copying the post here.
First of all, we should ban all cartoons from parliament and politics.
DeleteThe Beatles ?
ReplyDeleteThink I'm doing Incognito for first time. Not the most elegant for sure, and sometimes like a two minute crossword (Day before today? come on!).
ReplyDeleteReading the blog entries makes it worth the while to persist!!!
Just completed Monday's.
ReplyDeleteUgh !! so many four and five letter words. Very vexatious for even the most dextrous, Textrous !I got very 23 Across. Can't say I had a 22 down of a time. I dodn't like 27 across one bit. Why race, after the arms ? Why not then WRISTS? Badly constructed clue. You have tried to be a 19 across BE- A- CON with all of us. Alas, OOPS !!
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the valuable feedback. I shall certainly try to improve. By the way, all those ‘confused’ were a dig at Confucius. Sorry if it upset some solvers. And, of course, the Colonel is correct. It was Rishi.