Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Monday, 2 April 2018

No 12280, Monday 02 Apr 2018, Incognito


Answer and anno for 1D left for a first time commenter till 10AM.

ACROSS
8   Rhino lost one mutilated body part (4) HORN RHiNO* Semi&lit
9   Machine oriented river test (10) INDUSTRIAL {INDUS}{TRIAL}
10 Put money into inner-wear (6) INVEST {IN VEST}
11 In a Mumbai suburb, corporation displays a venomous creature (8) SCORPION {S{CORP}ION}
Scorpion Photograph By Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg
12 American politician entering lair before editor’s retarded (8) DAMPENED {D{A}{MP}EN}{ED}
14 Impersonator has no time or right to levy tax (6) IMPOSE IMPErSOnator* Deletion elements not clear. What is the Anind? (Addendum - IMPOStEr - See comments)
16 See ... princess returns to object of adoration (4) IDOL {LO}{DI}<=
17 Train Blackbeard (5) TEACH [DD]
18 Gals went back to a contemptible person (4) SLAG<=
19 Doctor at orphanage concealed a speaker (6) ORATOR [T]
21 Chopped up mahogany for the year end in Scotland (8) HOGMANAY*
23 Separate the two following the French one (8) UNCOUPLE {UN}{COUPLE}
26 He, having jumped into rum at the beginning of the year, was covered with mucus (6) RHEUMY {R{HE}UM}{Year}
27 Oakland Building houses top king in hill station (10) KODAIKANAL {OAKLAND}* over {A1}{K}
28 Keen about X (4) INTO [DD]

DOWN
1   Gaze vacantly at Country Queen's vehicle that’s out of this world (10) ?O?N?A?D?R
(Addendum - MOONLANDER {MOON}{LAND}{ER} - See comments) 
2   Indian petrol was refined for a world police organisation (8) INTERPOL {IN}{PETROL*}
3   Please — German head of Nematology is stung (6) BITTEN {BITTE}{Ne...y}
4   Chances of confused dodos dropping an egg (4) ODDS DODoS*
5   Surprise his son at dancing (8) ASTONISH*
6   Put warm clothing on little dog following Western artists (4,2) WRAP UP {W}{RA}{PUP}
7   Knockout some Karnataka youngsters (4) KAYO {KAr...a}{YOu...s} (Correction - [T] - See comments)
13 Squashing head and pushing in tip of tomahawk led to end of life (5) DEATH {DEA{To...k}H*}
15 POW camp has small arachnid and limestone deposit (10) STALAGMITE {STALAG}{MITE}
Zeushoehle.jpg

By Ingo Wölbern - Own work, Public Domain, Link
17 Flip fish on tolled road (8) TURNPIKE {TURN}{PIKE}
18 Fraudulent health product made from special kaoline compound (5,3) SNAKE OIL {S}{KAOLINE*}
20 Norse god accepted a kiss on chest (6) THORAX {THOR}{A}{X}
22 Sound of gruel cooking after midnight (6) GURGLE {niGht}{GRUEL*}
24 Either way, the sun is at its highest at this time (4) NOON <=>
25 Bird found in southern England (4) ERNE [T]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus2.jpg
By David Menke , Public Domain, Link

GRID

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58 comments:

  1. sree_sree2 April 2018 at 08:32

    14a imposter -t -r

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  2. C.G. BHARGAV2 April 2018 at 08:33

    Boo boo by The Hindu.
    Today's crossword is from INCOGNITO.

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  3. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 08:33

    How TH gave credit to Arden in the on line version,but to Incognito in the print version?!

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    1. sree_sree2 April 2018 at 08:35

      Oh and I was congratulating myself for cracking Arden so fast.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2018 at 08:39

      I was wondering whether Arden's quota was increased!

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  4. Murali2 April 2018 at 08:34

    Printed edition credits the setter Incognito.

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  5. Suresh M S2 April 2018 at 08:35

    Moonlander
    MOON+LAND+ER
    Vacantly gaze+ country+ queen

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  6. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 08:39

    ...and it has the stamp of Incognito all over.

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    1. Chaturvasi2 April 2018 at 08:53

      Just wondering how that stamp looks - what the size, shape, design are.

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    2. sree_sree2 April 2018 at 09:03

      Like 1d. With incognito gaze vacantly would be moon. Arden took me to GE and many other variants which didn't fit and eventually come back to moon.

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    3. C.G. BHARGAV2 April 2018 at 09:05

      Those who have been regularly solving for years can easily identify
      Incognito, Buzzer, Arden, xChequer,
      Gridman.
      Others may not be this easy. Say whether the crossie is from Dr.X or Afterdark.
      Further comments welcome!

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    4. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 09:37

      Say, a Moon lander, Tomahawk for a simple T, linking Oakland & Kodaikanal...
      I could only say this much, probably felt more while solving.

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    5. Vasant2 April 2018 at 09:39

      By this time I think we can identify almost all setters by their cluing style. Dr. X would have a few puny DDs, AD will have no CDs etc

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    6. Vasant2 April 2018 at 09:59

      Also the grids. All the setters have their own grids from which we can identify them:XChequer & Sunnet work with 1 type of grid only.

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    7. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 10:01

      AD will have lots of additions,deletions- to which Raju may be allergic.

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    8. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 10:02

      Vasant is a specialist on grids.

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    9. Vasant2 April 2018 at 10:17

      Not a Specialist but the grid also (in addition to the clue writing) fascinates me.

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    10. Mukundala Balasubramanyam2 April 2018 at 11:07

      Paddy @ 10:01 am
      +1

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    11. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2018 at 11:45

      Paddy, sometimes allergies can become addictions!
      Otherwise, how do you explain the deletion/addition clue of Raju in the yesterday Sunday Special?

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    12. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 12:06

      :-)

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  7. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 08:43

    Col.
    Thank you for the link on 'Snake oil'. It was new to me.

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  8. kalsri19522 April 2018 at 08:44

    Down 1
    Moonlander?

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    1. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 08:47

      Pl. see anno by Suresh above @8.35.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath2 April 2018 at 08:49

      Kalsri, there is no point giving an answer without attempting to annotate it. Your annotation may not be correct but one should try

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  9. sree_sree2 April 2018 at 08:53

    7d I took as T clue. Is it not.

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  10. Sudha A2 April 2018 at 08:58

    27 Oakland Building houses top king in hill station (10) KODAIKANAL {OAKLAND}* over {A1}{K}
    I got the answer from crossings but could not understand what A1 stands for ...

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  11. kalsri19522 April 2018 at 09:09

    Moon... listless behavior
    Land... nation
    Er... queen
    Am I right?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath2 April 2018 at 09:45

      Moon = To yearn or pine as if infatuated = Gaze

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  12. maradnusro2 April 2018 at 09:28

    I love Incognito. It cannot be Arden even as I like him.

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  13. maradnusro2 April 2018 at 09:34

    I must add, I am as yer uncomfortable with XChequer, Skulldugger and buzzer

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  14. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 09:39

    Buzzer?!

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  15. C.G. BHARGAV2 April 2018 at 09:43

    The Orator said that Jules Verne went under the sea, to the centre of the earth and around the world. Why, he even flew in a balloon. But he never spoke of a moonlander...
    This guy who spoke ad infinitum was bitten by the travel bug. Wanting to pep up his dampened spirits he took a trip to Kodaikanal on Hogmanay.
    There he wanted to see the stalagmite caves visited by his movie idol.
    As he crossed the turnpike he was told that the odds of being bitten by a scorpion was high. Better carry some snake oil.
    A teacher walking close by imposed himself and said (a) snake oil is not a cure for scorpion bite and (2) Guna caves are not stalagmites.
    This did not astonish the orator. He had already googled....

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  16. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2018 at 11:49

    Incognito still remains Incognito in the online edition. Position as at 11.48AM

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    1. sree_sree2 April 2018 at 12:31

      incognito at 1230

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    2. Vasant2 April 2018 at 12:38

      Yes. But I think work is still going on back stage as grid is not allowing you to enter

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2018 at 12:57

      It looks fine now.

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  17. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 12:04

    You mean he still remains Arden?

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  18. Kishore2 April 2018 at 14:08

    Belated April Fool's prank, friends! :)

    Areden is Incognito's pseudonym and my pseudo-pseudonym

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2018 at 14:11

      OH! YOU TOO ARDEN!

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    2. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 15:48

      'Oru naal Arden'!! (Like oru naal raja)- thanks to TH.

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    3. Vasant2 April 2018 at 20:54

      Typical of Incognito to turn a boo boo into a prank😀😀

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    4. Kishore3 April 2018 at 06:22

      ;)

      Today you got the SCORPION. The sting will follow...

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  19. raju umamaheswar2 April 2018 at 15:00

    A case of cog in the wheel? Hardened in cognito !

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  20. Vasant2 April 2018 at 20:57

    Strange that Incognito hasn't fooled us...his puzzle in 1Across yesterday was on Easter(or was it?)..
    The special prize..hmmm..

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  21. Vasant2 April 2018 at 21:20

    But times are such that you are spoilt for choices. Whether you do an Incognito in THC or an Oracle in 1Across. Of course you want to do both & more (perhaps a Balderdash in Sunday Special:-) )

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  22. Padmanabhan2 April 2018 at 21:31

    More the merrier!

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