Monday, 19 January 2015

No 11295, Monday 19 Jan 2015, Incognito


Incognito's homage for Army Day which was on 15th.

ACROSS
9   That man (along with two trainees) is hot and fiendish (7) HELLISH {HE}{LL}{IS}{H}
10 Salt bovine male consumed - consumed a pound (7) OXALATE {OX}{A}{L}{ATE}
11 Reconstructed cafe in bad surroundings leads to avalanche (7) ICEFALL {I{CAFE*}LL}
12 Loyal saint has a sip of ale with lunch after learner has left (7) STAUNCH {ST}{Ale}{lUNCH}
13 Implementation of a death sentence (9) EXECUTION [DD]
15 Communication equipment made by confused auditor after leaving Utah (5) RADIO AuDItOR*
16 Around the end, leaders of East India Company became flexible (7) ELASTIC {E}{LAST}{I}{C}
19 Motor ad badly treated - badly treated when used as this (7) DOORMAT*
20 Not keeping well in Virginia house (5) VILLA {V{ILL}A}
21 One our neighbours might be takin' a sip (9) PAKISTANI*
25 Ridge has tree with height and nothing more (7) SALTORO {SAL}{TOR}{O}
26 Farrokh Bulsara's element (7) MERCURY Remember the Hang from IXL Finals?
28 River of ice is good and more decorative (7) GLACIER {G}{LACIER}
29 Lubricate properly - a nodding donkey found here (3,4) OIL WELL [DD]

DOWN
1   Initially transit halt of Indian soldiers enroute (to Siachen), now an airfield (6) THOISE Acrostic
2   Runaway carrying London fabric (6) FLEECE {FLE{EC}E}
3   Insulating material in my car, I hear (4) MICA (~ my car)
4   It's hot! But it's cold to the auditor (6) CHILLI (~chilly)
5   Endorse circular after West deteriorated (8) WORSENED {W}{ENDORSE*}
6   A group of sentences about men soldiers dropping from the sky (10) PARATROOPS {PARA{TROOP}S}
7   Holiness of Sai, with religious book, and primary elements of decency or mercy (8) SAINTDOM {SAI}{NT}{D}{O}{M}
8   Strangely, he got MOD operation to secure 28 near 25 (8) MEGHDOOT*
14 Or lunatics can make sounds which are of a frequency too high to be audible (10) ULTRASONIC*
16 Consider it possible - hermit may back envy on the radio (8) ENVISAGE (~envy}{ENVI}{SAGE}
17 This signal, after a blackout, may entail aluminium cellar reconstruction (3,5) ALL CLEAR {AL}{L CLEAR*}
18 Storage cabinet where one may not keep saucers? (8) CUPBOARD What do we call this type of clue?
22 Moan excitedly after UK returns land to the west of Nepal (6) KUMAON {KU<=}{MOAN*}
23 Soldiers return with hybrid animal talisman (6) AMULET {A{MULE}T<=}
24 Poems depicting minced idly in front of the lower house (6) IDYLLS {IDLY*}{LS}
27 Relay in absence of a bank (4) RELY RELaY

GRID

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41 comments:

  1. Padmanabhan19 January 2015 at 08:32

    I have placed an order for a saucerboard for our house!

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    1. Kishore19 January 2015 at 08:46

      Segregation?! Discrimination?!

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    2. Kishore19 January 2015 at 08:48

      But the bliss of slurping tea in a saucer is something different (though may be considered infra dig by some) ...

      I remember some small restaurants in days of yore who had very limited pieces of crockery and the moment you lifted the cup to your lip, the waiter promptly whisked away the saucer.

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    3. Padmanabhan19 January 2015 at 08:58

      Have you found broken edges coming in the way of slurping tea in some small (Irani?) restaurants?

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  2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 January 2015 at 08:41

    I couldn't find the 'nodding donkey' in the oil well ! Now I find it under the link given by Col Sir!!

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  3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 January 2015 at 08:49

    99 out, stumped by 25Ac SALTORO, nevertheless quite an enjoyable CW. Thank you, Incognito.

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  4. Padmanabhan19 January 2015 at 08:53

    One more wicket on 99 for SALTORO.

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  5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 January 2015 at 09:00

    18 Storage cabinet where one may not keep saucers? (8) CUPBOARD What do we call this type of clue?

    Chinaman clue!?

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    1. Chaturvasi19 January 2015 at 09:12

      Saucers are never kept in any storage cabinet to enable them to take off and keep flying whenever they feel like it.

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    2. Kishore19 January 2015 at 09:19

      ET would love your explanation, CV

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    3. Kishore19 January 2015 at 09:28

      Chinaman clue!?

      I love it. After all, saucers represent China in an Irani hotel...

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  6. Padmanabhan19 January 2015 at 09:08

    Does it not come under 'easy'?

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  7. Shrikanth19 January 2015 at 09:39

    Breezy. Such a delight to solve Incognito. A small query though. 2D, should runaway have been run away ??

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    1. Raghunath19 January 2015 at 09:49

      Correct. This runaway has a different meaning.

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    2. Kishore19 January 2015 at 09:56

      Good question, Shri. You are absolutely correct. But you have no doubt heard of elision ...

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    3. Raghunath19 January 2015 at 10:01

      But why resort to Elison when run away would have served the purpose and also might have mislead, probably?

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    4. Kishore19 January 2015 at 10:29

      It may not be necessary, but it is not wrong either, just like multiple defn.s are not necessary but used. Just another twist, that's all.

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    5. Chaturvasi19 January 2015 at 11:27

      This is what is called samaalification in Tinglish.
      Also, what is elision?
      Elision is "the practice of leaving a sound out when you say a word or group of words, for example when you say it quickly in ordinary conversation".
      And where is elision when 'run away' is printed as 'runaway'?
      If at all it is collision, 'run away' becoming 'runaway'.
      Also EC is London or a London district?

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    6. Kishore19 January 2015 at 11:59

      Concede both points.

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    7. Deepak Gopinath19 January 2015 at 12:07

      Rapped on the knuckles :-)

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    8. Kishore19 January 2015 at 12:14

      Ouch! We used get wooden dusters thrown at us by our Maths teacher Ms Josephine, while our genial Fr.Britto used to take a wide stance and lay a few of the juciest on us with a cane ...

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    9. Kishore19 January 2015 at 12:30

      Sorry for being ultracrepidarian

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    10. Padmanabhan19 January 2015 at 12:43

      http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ultracrepidarian

      For the benefit of those who (like me) would like to know what this 'ultra....' is.
      We now know that it invites corporal punishment!

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    11. Kishore19 January 2015 at 12:44

      From the drill major !

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    12. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 January 2015 at 13:04

      Paddy @ 12:43 Thanks.

      Kishore @ 12:30 "Sorry being ultracrepidarian"

      That really sounds 14 Dn! Had to dig up my OED!!

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    13. Kishore19 January 2015 at 18:25

      The ref. to 'drill major' above is just a play on the previous mention of 'corporal' punishment and is not intended to label CV as one ;-)

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  8. Raghunath19 January 2015 at 09:48

    Nice one Incognito.

    Is HELLISH highlighted indicating the conditions in Siachen?

    Didn't know what a nodding donkey was, but got it on seeing the image in the blog.

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    1. Kishore19 January 2015 at 09:55

      Yes,Raghu, rather hellish there ...

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    2. Kishore19 January 2015 at 10:28

      with possible (gun)fire, but no brimstone ...

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  9. Unknown19 January 2015 at 11:14

    One more wicket at 99 for Saltoro! Very enjoyable crossword - thank you Incognito.
    And thanks to DG for showing us the nodding donkey.

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  10. Ramani19 January 2015 at 11:49

    I find myself in good company of MB, Paddy & Rita Mathur. Soooo near, yet so faaar, for samosas :(
    Enjoyed solving the rest K. Thank you

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  11. Richard19 January 2015 at 16:03

    Just en passant

    Having lived in an oil-rich country, nodding donkey was easy to grasp. I conveyed this to Incognito around 7-30 am, congratulating him on a nice crossword. Then I got busy with the daily grind.

    Regarding runaway, I had the same grouse.

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    1. Padmanabhan19 January 2015 at 16:23

      Nice to see you here after a long time. For us non oil people, only a different donkey is known.

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  12. Deepak Gopinath19 January 2015 at 17:10

    I am still to get an answer to my query about 18D clue type

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    1. Suresh19 January 2015 at 17:36

      I think it is a CD.

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    2. Kishore19 January 2015 at 18:23

      That's how I would see it,since it involves some lateral thinking.

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  13. Padmanabhan19 January 2015 at 19:11

    My answer at 9.08 was 'Easy'. Am I wrong? Not much of lateral thinking since cup & saucer are always a pair. I thought 'storage cabinet' was a give away.

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  14. Kishore19 January 2015 at 20:10

    Thanks, all. Good night

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  15. Thinker_Belle22 January 2015 at 19:30

    Hi,

    Could you please explain 7d? How does religious book become NT?

    Thanks! :)

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    1. Col_Gopinath22 January 2015 at 20:41

      NT = New Testament similarly OT = Old Testament

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    2. Thinker_Belle23 January 2015 at 01:43

      Thanks so much! This is such a useful resource for beginners :)

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