Thursday 28 June 2018

No 12355, Thursday 28 Jun 2018, Incognito


The Bulls and The Bears!

ACROSS
8   A word of request, after losing last two letters, remains a request (4) PLEA PLEAse
9   French fries and crisps (5) CHIPS [CD] [DD] See comments
10 Join baron on first of December (4) BOND {B}{ON}{De...r}
11 Ashram embers contain an arm or a leg, for instance (6) MEMBER [T]
12 Substitute old coins (8) EXCHANGE {EX}{CHANGE}
13 Make into parts before New Delhi gives payoff (8) DIVIDEND {DIVIDE}{ND}
15 Fire policeman, before dark, on the walkie-talkie (6) IGNITE {IG}{NITE}(~night)
17 Leaders of East India Company consuming diet mix display memory that is photographic (7) EIDETIC {East}{In..a}{Co...y} over {DIET*}
19 In Maharashtra, you find a place to rest your butts (7) ASHTRAY [T]
22 Small clergyman appears before king and queen's agent (6) BROKER {BRO}{K}{ER}
24 Dance after prisoner's payment for postponement of delivery (8) CONTANGO {CON}{TANGO}
26 Shareholder's revelations about loss of ale sent back (8) INVESTOR REVelaTIONS*
28 Note alien's trading place (6) MARKET {MARK}{ET}
30 Dispose battery component on radio (4) SELL (~cell)
31 Exchange art returned by Delaware... (5) TRADE {ART*}{DE}
32 ... amateur and revolutionary? It’s a pain! (4) ACHE {A}{CHE}

DOWN
1   Depressed boy was in front of the washroom, I hear (4) BLUE {B}{LUE}(~loo)
2   She gets married during conflict, maybe? (3,5) WAR BRIDE [CD]
3   Al Capone releases Fanny Adams initially and becomes hard to find (6) SCARCE SCARfaCE
4   Tell an untruth about an alcoholic beverage — it is actually nimbu paani (7) LIMEADE {LI{MEAD}E}
5   Mentally deranged persons leave operation theatre to persons with ESP (8) PSYCHICS PSYCHotICS
6   Get Indian after boat crash (6) OBTAIN {BOAT*}{IN}
7   Return weapons and become comfortable (4) SNUG<=
14 Electrician, after loss of broken lancet, turns more frigid (5) ICIER ElectRICIan*
16 Nasal noise made after dropping first letter from place in Arunachal Pradesh (5) TWANG TaWANG
18 Annoy deformed rare titi (8) IRRITATE*
20 Eat — it is time for some rest (3,5) TEA BREAK {EAT}* [RA]
21 University in Ghana's capital has student accumulation (7) ACCRUAL {ACCR{U}A}{L}
23 Knight born before Latin saint genuflects (6) KNEELS {K}{NEE}{L}{S}
25 ,for example, new colour (6) NUMBER {N}{UMBER}
27 Soldiers retreat, with energy, to a tree (4) NEEM {ME{E}N}<=
29 Repeat communications code before Foxtrot (4) ECHO [DD]

GRID
Bhargav's Talepiece

The bouncer and the dancer - Part 73

To MARKET, to market, to buy a fat pig!

A greedy MEMBER of Parliament was told that money was flowing in the two nightclubs in Shangri-la.

Two money spinners! His INVESTOR PASSION was ignited with this news. He was keen in any ACCRUAL which paid rich DIVIDENDS. Two  BLUE CHIPS in one stone! "Let me OBTAIN both and have two more milch cows".

He had enough NUMBER two and as usual decided  to buy Incognito. The exchequer owed him money for two FDI deals he had negotiated and he could make good use of the money. 

During TEA BREAK the politician was sitting SNUG in his easy chair sipping his LIMEADE.  The BROKER sent by him came in and gave him the news:

"But they are not willing to SELL, Sir."

This IRRITATED the politician.  TWANG. He banged his ASH TRAY on the table and was in a mood to throw it at the broker. But this not so SCARCE behavior of the politician did not bother the broker. 

" Of course they wont sell you fool. Who asked you to PLEA? I said "I want to buy. Understand?"  I will send my side-kick. He will butt in with you and help you. Rest your butts and don't move till they agree."

(He KNEELS before God and thanks Him for giving "ACHHE DIN".) He called his black cat and asked him to get ready 108 coconuts..

The politician ( the white tiger ) also wanted to kill the fatted calf.

What happened next? It is left to your imagination...

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39 comments:

  1. sree_sree28 June 2018 at 08:34

    9a DD? Chip:potato crisp.

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  2. sree_sree28 June 2018 at 08:51

    19a, 4d, 16d and 25d were aha clues. 5d was led to psychopaths before setter set it back to psychotic. Enjoyed doing without grid except 16d.thanks incognito.

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  3. Padmanabhan28 June 2018 at 08:57

    Without Grid? Cold solve? Wow!!
    Most of the clues were Aha for me, Enjoyed a fast ride. Thank you Incognito- bulls were not at all threatening.

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  4. Padmanabhan28 June 2018 at 08:57

    Just do it CGB!

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  5. raju umamaheswar28 June 2018 at 10:25

    19 across: This is a classic clue with double entendre ! But, BUTT gets battered ! N+UMBER is a good example- as mostly amber is known than umber .

    EIDITIC is a new word to be added to my glossary.

    Thanks, Kishore. You clues are so simple yet difficult and hence a good start for beginners in cryptic crosswords.

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  6. cdrgani2928 June 2018 at 11:11

    Raju Umamaheswar's comments on Incognito's clues quite correct. But I still don't get 19A

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  7. cdrgani2928 June 2018 at 11:14

    Sorry about last post. It is not 19A but 26D that I can't get.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 June 2018 at 11:22

      Please read the clue as 26, for example....

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    2. Deepak Gopinath28 June 2018 at 11:34

      You mean 25D..

      25, for example = NUMBER

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 June 2018 at 11:55

      Yes, Col. Sorry about the number. CDRGANI must have had doubt about 25DN only. 26AC shouldn't be difficult to interpret your explanation.

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    4. Padmanabhan28 June 2018 at 12:05

      He must have found the Number clue a little difficult to parse and so did I for a while.
      Clue No.25, for example- is a NUMBER- N(UMBER), Umber being a colour.

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    5. cdrgani2928 June 2018 at 14:25

      Thank you, Messrs. Koteswara Rao and Padmanabhan for the explanation.
      Really, a clever and subtle clue!

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    6. Vasant28 June 2018 at 14:27

      New firm incorporated today by CDGRani😀😀

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    7. cdrgani2928 June 2018 at 15:10

      I don't get the import of your comment, Vasant! You my have to explain this also to me.

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    8. Padmanabhan28 June 2018 at 15:23

      He means M/s Kote.... mentioned by you. People tend to talk in cryptic language here!

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    9. Vasant28 June 2018 at 16:00

      Apologies to CDGRani Sir:No offence intended..meaning as given by Paddy.

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    10. cdrgani2928 June 2018 at 16:32

      Pl. don't bother about it. I shall learn

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  8. Vasant28 June 2018 at 11:46

    Incognito acquaints us today with share market glossary. Contango and Eidetic were new words for me. 19A was one of the rare risque clues created by Incognito.
    Thanks Incognito.

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    1. Padmanabhan28 June 2018 at 12:02

      19A- On the face of it, it is cigarette butt and let us leave it at that.

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    2. Vasant28 June 2018 at 12:13

      Face-butt?😀😀

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    3. Padmanabhan28 June 2018 at 15:26

      "Place to rest your butt"- ashtray is one meaning. Reading more into it is reader's privilege! (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder) Writer may as well say,"Is it so?" (knowing Kishore as we do!)

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    4. C.G. BHARGAV28 June 2018 at 16:31

      Butter / Ram we have come across several times. While on butter we should recall that Dean Martin was not only an actor but a very good singer too. You may like to watch his super-duper hit song of yesteryears: Buttercup A Golden Hair
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaXz8LaV1po

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    5. raju umamaheswar28 June 2018 at 16:33

      There's nothing risque about butt which the compiler meant to be a cigarette butt but butt also means one's derrière which is euphemistically meaning one's buttocks. Better than ASS or A--e ! Either Butt can be rested, one on a surg=face and another in an ashtray. cryptic cluing at its best , but. Whoever thought otherwise should be given a best in the butt. ! I better stom buttering the compiler's prowess. What say, Kishore ?

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    6. Vasant28 June 2018 at 16:50

      The Rajuisms today may be bouncers to many😀

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    7. sree_sree28 June 2018 at 17:01

      BTW, the urban dict version of ashtray is lot closer to raju's a-e.

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  9. Vasant28 June 2018 at 12:07

    Meanwhile in Russia it was a new Loew yesterday in contrast to the Messinic high of day before yesterday.

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    1. Padmanabhan28 June 2018 at 15:29

      One has to pity Germany for having conceded not one but 2 goals in 'stoppage' time- not sure how many hearts stopped during those few minutes.

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  10. C.G. BHARGAV28 June 2018 at 16:35

    JUST DO IT?
    How can I Just do it?
    I am Justin.
    Just a minute.
    I always try to jest do it.
    Prasad gets solutions from clues.
    I get clues from solutions!!
    (to be continued)

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  11. C.G. BHARGAV28 June 2018 at 16:58

    After the crossword is solved (on a scale of 1 to 10, it is around 3 for XChequer and 9 to 10 for Incognito with the rest falling inbetween) I have to look up for the rest.
    I feel I am like Vasant ( Vasant the super detective in Sujatha's novels).
    A little while later I am like our Vasant singing:
    "Yeh kya hua kaise hua kab hua kyun hua jab hua tab hua
    O chhodo yeh na socho "

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  12. Vasant28 June 2018 at 17:01

    Today's cartoon: Remembered Ajit and his side kicks
    Lily, dont be silly
    Michael tum cycle pe jao
    Mujhe keval teen cheez pasand Mona, Sona aur Mona ke saath Sona
    Robert tum isse liquid oxygen mein daldo, liquid ise jeena naho dega, oxygen ise marne nahi dega

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  13. C.G. BHARGAV28 June 2018 at 17:07

    Did someone say "BALLS?"
    Yes Sir. The solutions are like Crystal balls.
    Cricket ball - you can hit it.
    Hockey ball - you can push it.
    Football - you can kick it.
    Golf ball - you can even lose it and not bother.
    Throw ball - you can throw it.
    Bowling? - you can roll it.
    But Crystal balls? You have to keep gazing.
    What wealth will the show bring?
    If I am inspired the story will continue.
    Otherwise it is prespiration.
    Just beat about the bush.
    And then again like our Vasant:
    "Phir kya hua? Yeh na poocho!!!!"

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    1. Kishore28 June 2018 at 19:00

      Kuch aisee baat ho gayi ...

      Ask Paddy about the blind Venetian ...

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    2. sree_sree28 June 2018 at 19:19

      That would be

      Jungle jungle baat chali hai

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    3. Padmanabhan28 June 2018 at 20:39

      Fact of the matter is that I am still loving the blind Venetian! Fortunately, being blind, the Venetian can't reject me!
      Chodo, yeh na poocho!

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