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Wednesday, 29 November 2017

No 12175, Wednesday 29 Nov 2017, Incognito


Long time since I read a good Piccadilly Western.

ACROSS
8   Mafia boss had egg on his headgear (4) CAPO {CAP}{O}
9   Kitchen garment ... it is normally used by pilots (5) APRON [DD]
10 These creatures can be found returning amongst earthworms, leeches, etc. (4) EELS [T<=]
11 Bopped in the company outhouse (6) COSHED {CO}{SHED}
12 Triple success for a bowler, say, at deception (3,5) HAT TRICK {HAT} {TRICK} &lit
13 Sailor with pipe or kidnapper? (8) ABDUCTOR {AB}{DUCT}{OR}
15 The French trollop was heard in city (6) LAHORE {LA}{HORE}(~whore)
17 Owned a wharf for fish (7) HADDOCK {HAD}{DOCK}
19 A street travel on a horse (7) ASTRIDE {A}{ST}{RIDE}
22 Bay for Hardy's mate (6) LAUREL [DD]
24 Pockets and pants (8) TROUSERS [DD]
26 Bread roll consumed during case in the legal forum (8) TRIBUNAL {TRI{BUN}AL}
28 Jim Green's riding unsaddled after getting rid of crooked lad (6) SUDDEN UNSadDlED*
30 Got back love for country (4) TOGO {GOT<=}{O}
31 Detest, after losing time, dashing to get a horse (5) STEED DETESt*
32 Number held by the Omani newspaperman (4) NINE [T]

DOWN
1   Papa had nothing for skirting (4) DADO {DAD}{O}
2   Baffle one dog and get another dog (8) FOXHOUND {FOX}{HOUND}
3   Gangster's group has sex appeal (6) BANDIT {BAND}{IT}
4   A Roman Catholic Yankee corrals that lady to display shooting sport (7) ARCHERY {A}{RC}{HER}{Y}
5   Establishes places where the moonshine was made (8) INSTILLS {IN}{STILLS}
6   Look for south-eastern building feature (6) SEARCH {SE}{ARCH}
7   Inconclusively stall a group of nations (4) BLOC BLOCk
14 Intoxicated nawab becomes boss in Kenya (5) BWANA*
16 Condition of one who is 19 (5) RIDER [DD]
18 Occupier : is tenant at first (8) COLONIST {COLON}{IS}{Te...t}
20 Head of state without power is just an occupant (8) RESIDENT pRESIDENT
21 Old Bob spoke and followed (7) STALKED {S}{TALKED}
23 Kick again to restart the computer (6) REBOOT {RE}{BOOT}
25 One went around little Sidney ... Not offside! (6) ONSIDE {ON{SIDney}E}
27 Bird on board? (4) ROOK [DD]
29 Mountain erupts tamely, not agitatedly, in the beginning (4) ETNA Acrostic

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27 comments:

  1. Padmanabhan29 November 2017 at 08:49

    Wondering about the theme until I saw Col.'s byline.
    Looks like yesterday I did this- completed soooo long ago. Had a fast ride- astride on saddles?
    I had to think only to get the bun out of rolls and to get Pro. Haddock.

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  2. sree_sree29 November 2017 at 08:58

    27d bird -> rook. Does on board also lead to rook.

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  3. Col_Gopinath29 November 2017 at 08:58

    There should be more to the theme, unless I've got it wrong

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    1. Padmanabhan29 November 2017 at 09:00

      Thought so too. Still trying.

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    2. Vasant29 November 2017 at 09:16

      Perhaps more words like Trousers, Apron,Stalked, Reboot?

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  4. C.G. BHARGAV29 November 2017 at 09:00

    Rook on chess board.

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  5. Padmanabhan29 November 2017 at 09:14

    A search revealed that Rook is a comic book character. Now I start wondering if the theme is comic books.

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  6. Padmanabhan29 November 2017 at 09:16

    ...with Haddock leading them?

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  7. Kishore29 November 2017 at 09:35

    Sorry folks, no theme intended today ;) Any resemblance to a theme is entirely co-incidental ...

    Will compensate tomorrow for absence of theme today

    By the way, Colonel, do watch a Spaghetti western after the Picadilly ;)

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    1. Col_Gopinath29 November 2017 at 09:40

      Wouldn't mind watching one from the Bus Spencer-Terence Hill series

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    2. Col_Gopinath29 November 2017 at 09:40

      Bud not Bus

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    3. Chaturvasi29 November 2017 at 09:57

      Mani Osai has come. The 'yaanai' will come tomorrow !!!

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    4. Kishore29 November 2017 at 09:59

      They call me Trinity! I love the way Colt 45 has been weaved into the lyrics of the title song.

      http://youtu.be/b_mMMI0Kc7I

      The song was reprised in Django Unchained not long ago

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    5. raju umamaheswar29 November 2017 at 13:51

      Mani Osai munne, Yaanai varum pinne ? Is this where bellwether came form ?

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    6. sree_sree29 November 2017 at 14:12

      We should all learn by tomorrow. https://youtu.be/vrOKxl92u8U

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  8. Chaturvasi29 November 2017 at 09:49

    Terence I remember as an entry in a small (at the most 11x11) crossword that Brylcreem used in a promotional crossword (with straight definitions) published in the paper before I really got into cryptic crosswords.I remember sending a filled-up form but I don't recall the result - whether I got some sample for all entrants. But in 1953 we children saw the bottle of hair cream on my father's dressing table in the dressing room!

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  9. Padmanabhan29 November 2017 at 10:12

    I remember Farookh Engineer as a model for Brylcream.

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    1. Kishore29 November 2017 at 10:41

      He was probably one of the first cricketers in ads.

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  10. C.G. BHARGAV29 November 2017 at 10:16

    A BANDIT well versed in ARCHERY was riding ASTRIDE a STEED followed by a FOXHOUND and another NINE in LAHORE.
    All of a SUDDEN he heard someone shouting "ROOK. Have a samosa"
    The rider was neither a RESIDENT nor a COLONIST. " One? When I say one I mean a hundred. Make it TO GO. I have to give to all when STALKED."
    Wondering what?
    Superstar is on location shooting...

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  11. Ramani29 November 2017 at 12:33

    Incognito gave me the experience of the speed with which the stalwarts used to crack the grid! Thank you.

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