Friday, 21 February 2020

No 12864, Friday 21 Feb 2020, Incognito

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Across
8 Thanks! With side-car for hire? (4)
9 American emergency room’s customers (5)
10 Hit returning friends (4)
11 Champion consumes and swindles (6)
12 Scurrying mice follow a boor and scholar (8)
13 Now, present book and sticker (8)
15 Portray German with ancient Scot (6)
17 Man from Kigali managed to hold magical stick (7)
19 Stern champ’s pained expression (7)
22 Elves scamper around Saint’s ship (6)
24 Look Duke! Stare! Possibly, it is Polaris (8)
26 Rich and excited flute fan (8)
28 Soon returns carrying special drug and traps (6)
30 Plot in Lapland (4)
31 Helpmates, not wayward pals, can be subject matter (5)
32 Smashing pie after end of dinner’s ready to eat (4)

Down
1 Cab returns with hotel musician (4)
2 Wild animal consumes engineer and vegetable (4,4)
3 Gold ship that is from Down Under (6)
4 Fine writing instrument’s with a lieutenant by end of day (7)
5 I smear Hawaiian, for example (8)
6 Dozing general’s surrounded by snake (6)
7 Waterway in Dharwad, India (4)
14 Prescribed medicine quantity, including a drop of wine and divine groundwater (5)
16 Two military commanders get a drink (5)
18 Horribly laments about current diseases (8)
20 State: “Young woman and heavenly beauty, but not hot” (8)
21 Praise father consuming milky coffee (7)
23 South American queue to get sodium chloride solution (6)
25 Destroyed garden menace (6)
27 Touched soft material (4)
29 For starters, entertainer showed public yellow spot (4)

 

51 comments:

  1. 1a
    Thanks: TA
    side: eleven: XI
    TAXI: car for hire

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  2. 9a
    American: US
    emergency room's: ER
    USERS: customers

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  3. 30A: PLAN ( Telescopic clue)= Plot
    26A: AFFLUENT ( anag. Of flute +fan with anag. indcator excited)
    17A: RWANDAN: R(WAND)AN.... Magic stick- Wand within RAN - managed.
    21D: F(LATTE)R... Praise. Father: FR and milky coffee: LATTE
    3D: SUSSIE: Man from Down Under ( Australia) . Gold (AU)S+ship (SS)+that is (IE)

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  4. 9a users American-us Emergency RoomS
    6d Asleep Lee surrounded by asp
    26a affluent from flute fan
    32a ripe pie and end end of dinneR

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  5. 10 a
    friends: pals returning SLAP
    SLAP: hit

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  6. Correction: 3D: AUSSIE and not what's mentioned above. It's a typo.

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  7. 1d - bach - cab-<+(h)otel
    6d - snake - asp, general - lee - ans. asleep
    10a - slap (pals - friends returning) meaning hit

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  8. 11a
    Champion: CH
    Consumes: EATS
    CHEATS: swindles

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  9. 7d - wadi - inside Dharwadi, india - means waterway

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  10. 12a
    a boot: A CAD
    scurrying mice: EMIC
    ACADEMIC: scholar

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  11. 32a - ripe (pie<- at end of dinner)

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  12. 19a grimace stern-grim and ace- champion

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  13. 13ac ADHERENT. Def Sticker. Now- AD, present- HERE, book- NT
    12ac ACADEMIC. Def scholar. Boor- cad, anagram of mice after a boor
    24ac LODESTAR. Def Polaris. Look- Lo, duke- D, anagram of stare
    4dn PENALTY. Def Fine. Writing instrument- pen, A Lieutenant- A Lt, , end of day- y
    27dn FELT. DD.

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  14. 17Ac RWANDAN - Wand insde Ran
    14D DOWSE - W(-ine) insideDose
    24Ac LODESTAR - LO+D(uke)T+Stare*

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  15. 5Dn ISLANDER - I+Slander (smear)

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  16. In place of 24Ac
    31Ac THEME - HE(LP)M(-A)TE((-S)*

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  17. In lieu of 17Ac
    29Dn ESPY - E(nter..r)S(howed)P(ublic)Y(ellowe)

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  18. In place of 13Ac
    22Ac VESSEL - S(t) inside Elves*

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  19. 22 a vessel-ship anag of elves ves(s)el.S -Saint
    15 a Depict-portray.German-de+pict-ancient scot.
    28 a nooses-traps.noo(S E)s.S soecial, Drug-e
    16 d cocoa-co+co+a.drink.
    23 d saline.South American-sa+line-queue.Saline-sodium chloride solution .

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  20. 2d vegetable; LIMA BESN; BE in ANIMAL*

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  21. 2d correction LIMA BEAN;
    5d ISLANDER; Hawailian perhaps; {I}{SLANDER}

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  23. 5dn
    Solved by Jacob Brahmakulam at 9: 49
    and DNM Rao at 9:20

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  24. 30a plot is plan which is in lapland
    25d anagram of garden is danger(menace)

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  25. in lieu of 16D:
    30a PLAN; plot; laPLANd

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  26. in lieu of 5d:
    25d DANGER; menance; GARDEN*

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  27. 18D: AILMENTS {LAMENTS}* around {I(=current)} = DISEASES

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  28. Good show. Incognito made it easy for all. Thank you.
    Thank you Prasad forpublishing and monitoring.

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  29. Lima bean was the last one to fall (for me)
    8A- Hyphen fits perfectly.

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  30. I was waiting for all the solutions to come in and I had sent the tale piece to Col. At the usual time. Apparently, he is out enjoying himself in the far east. Snatched some time to post this piece now

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  31. An AUSSIE agricultural scientist, ACADEMIC by nature was a LODESTAR to his students. He went to the MISSOURI University with a PLAN to further his research on techniques to get a RIPE crop of LIMA BEAN and COCOA, hoping to patent his technique and thereby become AFFLUENT. There he FELT FLATTERed by the attentions paid to him by a RWANDAN girl, a research assistant who was quite a head turner and who also shared his interest in the classical music of BACH. Once on a TAXI ride to a plantation, the ISLANDER fell ASLEEP on her lap. She was concerned about the DANGER of some AILMENT having overcome him. She told the driver to take them to a hospital, where the nurse was about to start a drip of SALINE. The doctor knew better and just SLAPped his face and he woke up with a GRIMACE. The PENALTY they had to pay for this incident was being DEPICTed in a slanderously THEMEd cartoon in the univerity student magazine.Had he been an ADHERENT of the seat belt regulation, he could have avoided putting his head in a NOOSE.
    Moral: Always use a seat belt for your safety

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    1. Just superb! Seat belt has some unstated benefits too or perhaps this is a boon and not bane.

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  32. Thanks Prasad for posting today. Reached the room just now so couldn't add DrRKE's TalePuece in the main post

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  33. 10A..Friend= (PAL+S) <---- & returning = SLAPS
    9A....American = US; emergency room’s = ERS ....USERS
    7D...Waterway in Dharwad, India ----> T = WADI
    25D.... Destroyed garden menace = garden* = DANGER
    29D...For starters, entertainer showed public yellow spot = ESPY ....ACROSTIC

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  34. 17a woman from Kigali would have been more apt given the role they played in rebuilding after the second recorded genocide, the world witnessed. "Women stepped in when men were emotionally and psychologically drained". Its first of the neo-nation to have made 30% a culture.

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