Saturday, 28 March 2015

No 11354, Saturday 28 Mar 2015, Incognito


Incognito is on radio today

Across

1 Display vessels and flying machines (8) AIRSHIPS {AIR}{SHIPS}
5 Champion queen does not have Indian article (6) VICTOR {VICTORia}
10 Queue has soldiers with sex appeal (5) PLAIT {PLA}{IT}
11 Compound amines found behind broken pot are alkaloids (9) PTOMAINES {POT*}{AMINES*}
12 Lager mixture has an unknown quantity by design (6) ARGYLE {ARG{Y}LE*}
13 Face to face encounter where no one followed person with egg (3-2-3) ONE-ON-ONE {ONE}-{O}{N}-{ONE} / {ONE}-{O}{N-ONE} (see comments)
15 Support very old word of encouragement (5) BRAVO {BRA}{V}{O}
17 Repent, man! Corruption is eternal (9) PERMANENT {REPENT MAN*}
19 Scarlet haired revolutionary chief editor (9) REDHEADED {RED}{HEAD}{ED}
20 Award for big vehicle (5) OSCAR {OS}{CAR}
21 Silviculture for East Street railway (8) FORESTRY [FOR][E][ST][RY]
23 Yes, Spanish make mistake on a mountain (6) SIERRA [SI][ERR][A]
27 Ahem, Carl was confused about first item: material used for making paint brushes (5,4) CAMEL HAIR {AHEM CARL Item*}
28 Citadel is rebuilt in absence of in-charge of estuary (5) DELTA [ciTADEL*}
29 Oedema caused by globules of yeast initially (6) DROPSY {DROPS}{Y}
30 I hear, sin by a soft sister causes fusion of chromosomes (8) SYNAPSIS {~SIN}{A}{P}{SIS}

Down

1 First letter to a Greek student from a medical pharmacy (5) ALPHA (T)
2 Bring up sentry for defence of the hind (9) REARGUARD {REAR}{GUARD}
3 Accommodation for hot English student (5) HOTEL [HOT}{E}{L}
4 Italian pope has two personal assistants (4) PAPA {PA}{PA}
6 Mad! Main speaker has no right lover (9) INAMORATO {MAIN*}{ORATOr}
7 Brown! Try and dance (5) TANGO {TAN}{GO}
8 Revere her Cockney venerator (9) RESPECTER {RESPECT}{ER}
9 Feather quality leads to a demotion (9) DOWNGRADE {DOWN}{GRADE}
14 Peter Parker heard, “Look next to the German male” (9) SPIDERMAN {~SPY}{DER}{MAN}
15 A sort of liar who is clean shaved? (9) BAREFACED (CD)
16 Exaggerates: Finished second on lengths (9) OVERSELLS {OVER}{S}{ELLS}
18 Plants key on a flummoxed loser (9) ESCAROLES {ESC}{LOSER*} {ESC}{A}{LOSER*}(see comments)
22 Capital had nothing for a hero (5) ROMEO {ROME}{O}
24 Country in main diagram (5) INDIA (T)
25 A ceremony to gather ... (5) AMASS {A}{MASS}
26 ... ten artists before you start showing a medical photo (4) XRAY {X}{RA}{Y}

Reference 

Indian=I,Article=A,Unknown Quantity=y,Sex Appeal=IT,No=N,Egg=OVery=V,Old=O,Editor=ED,Big=OS,East=E,Street=ST,Railway=RYYes Spanish = SI,In-Charge=IC,Sister=SIS,English=E,Student=L,Personal Assistant=PA,The German= DER,Second=S,Key=ESC,Nothing=O,Ten=X,Artists=RA

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44 comments:

  1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam28 March 2015 at 08:31

    Back to samosa days! Thanks, Incognito, for the spicy offering!! I relished it!!!

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  2. Deepak Gopinath28 March 2015 at 08:32

    Anno for 13A should be {ONE}-{O}{N-ONE}

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  3. SandhyaP28 March 2015 at 08:32

    13 Face to face encounter where no one followed person with egg (3-2-3) ONE-ON-ONE {ONE}-{O}{N}-{ONE}

    i took this to be: {ONE}-{O}{N-ONE}

    No one: none

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  4. RameshJ28 March 2015 at 08:44

    For 13A both seem to work; "No = N & one as is" or "No One = None".

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    1. Kishore28 March 2015 at 10:20

      My line of thinking was as put by DG and SP, but you are correct too.

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  5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam28 March 2015 at 08:50

    3 Accommodation for hot English student (5) HOTEL [HOT}{E}{L}

    HOT is a give away! In its place, how about .... for 'spicy English student'?!

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    1. Chaturvasi28 March 2015 at 09:08

      Agreed 'hot' is given gratis.
      In crossword clueing, the setter has to keep in mind the surface reading as well.
      A sexually excited person is 'hot'.
      'spicy student' wouldn't mean anything. A masala dosa might be spicy. Even a tale told by a narrator might be spicy. But a student?

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam28 March 2015 at 09:18

      Agreed. Thanks, CV Sir. :)

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam28 March 2015 at 10:16

      One more gratis 'FOR' seen in 21A FORESTRY.

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    4. Kishore28 March 2015 at 10:25

      "'spicy student' wouldn't mean anything. A masala dosa might be spicy. Even a tale told by a narrator might be spicy. But a student?"

      Reminded me of a movie....
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Tasty_Was_My_Little_Frenchman

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    5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam28 March 2015 at 11:01

      The title of the movie reminds me of a cannibal joke. Here it is ---

      A cannibal son and his father are out looking for food. They are watching people walk down the street. The son suggested a particularly plump woman and the father rejected saying that she's too fatty. Later on the son asked about a very skinny woman. Again the father refused saying that she’s too skinny. After a while the son pointed out a very attractive woman.” sure son" the father replied, drooling. “We’ll take her home and eat you mother!"

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    6. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 11:17

      :-)

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  6. VMA Nair28 March 2015 at 08:53

    Today s style is not mobile friendly. Need to zoom out to see answer part and it sometimes taking me back to previous page as I think some part is on a different page in html?

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    1. VMA Nair28 March 2015 at 08:56

      I mean today the page almost looks like Web version.

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    2. RameshJ28 March 2015 at 08:56

      Looks like it is not wrapping. Let me see how to fix it

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    3. RameshJ28 March 2015 at 09:48

      Better now?

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    4. VMA Nair28 March 2015 at 10:11

      Yes yes. Thank you

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  7. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 09:03

    Thank you Incognito (or is it cognito now?) for the hot crisp samosas to start the day. Enjoyed solving it and learned a couple of words.

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  8. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 09:06

    I did not know the 'Queue' meaning for plait, but it sat snugly with crossings. Checked up later with free dic.

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  9. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 09:07

    PLA- Palestinian Liberation Army?

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam28 March 2015 at 09:22

      PLA = Peoples Liberation Army. PLO = Palestine Liberation Organisation. I think.

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    2. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 09:30

      Thank you MB.

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  10. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 09:13

    Had to look up 'Ell'-
    1. (Units) an obsolete unit of length equal to approximately 45 inches
    New to me.

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    1. Chaturvasi28 March 2015 at 10:01

      There are some people. Give them an inch and they will take an ell! One of the proverbs that I learnt from my father.

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    2. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 10:25

      Thank you CV. I did not know that, though I too have learned a lot from my father.

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    3. Ramani28 March 2015 at 12:54

      Onda vandha pidari....

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam28 March 2015 at 13:14

      ...onnume puriyele! :(

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  11. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 09:24

    Col.
    The CW grid appears in the main Hindu page but not in "Today's paper- Misc."

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    1. Deepak Gopinath28 March 2015 at 09:26

      I just search for it daily after 8 or so and then add the link, it's normally uploaded between 8 and 8:30

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    2. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 09:29

      Oh! I did not know that but actually stumbled on it today for the first time.

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  12. RameshJ28 March 2015 at 09:54

    Updated links for PLA & Queue

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  13. Mukundala Balasubramanyam28 March 2015 at 10:09

    18D Anno needs one more letter pl.

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  14. Suresh28 March 2015 at 10:32

    28A. remember from the Geography class in school that estuary was a mouth of a river where there was no delta.

    Freedictionary does not give thix meaning specifically.

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    1. Kishore28 March 2015 at 11:35

      You are correct, Suresh. They are not exactly the same.

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  15. Kishore28 March 2015 at 11:37

    15d was intended to be a CD,DD

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  16. Padmanabhan28 March 2015 at 11:58

    Thanks to both of you for pointing out. Frankly, I did not know the difference. Here it is-
    Best Answer: Estuary is the entrance of the river into the sea where the river water may be entering the sea or the tidal waves may be entering the river; mouth of the sea.

    Delta is the landscape formed by the deposit of the fine particles carried by the river in the tail end of the course. Usually such deposits of alluvial soil at the end of the river causes a blockade of its course and the river rises and there is a change of course to the left or right . This is going on in a phased manner and there forms a delta in the shape of a triangle-in th shape of the Greek alphabet 'delta.'
    Source(s):
    Wikipaedia

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  17. PKPSwami28 March 2015 at 12:05

    quite enjoyed the x'ie.21a -we could logically infer from sylvan path.29a- globules -drops. good teaser.16d intriguing and interesting as well.6d- Though a fluffy clue we need not fluff it. All told a good refresher.

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  18. Raghunath28 March 2015 at 12:24

    30A Who was the partner in sin causing fusing of chromosomes? 22D?

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    1. Kishore28 March 2015 at 13:18

      Where(fore) art thou, Romeo? ...Whither Juliet?
      "
      Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
      With Romeo, till I behold him—dead— " Act3 Scene5

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  19. Ramani28 March 2015 at 12:57

    Thank you Incognito for the samosas!

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  20. Kishore28 March 2015 at 19:23

    7d 3d 1d November Kilo 23a, 1d Lima Lima

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