Monday, 24 February 2020

No 12866, Monday 24 Feb 2020, Incognito


ACROSS
8   Rejects order after order for South Asian dumpling (4) MOMO {OM}{OM}<=
9   North European covers clubs’ disco, for example (5) DANCE {DAN{C}E}
10 Right in Goa, rocking ship (4) ARGO {A{R}GO*}
11 Animal crawling with nest can be nauseating (6) IGUANA {nAUseAtING}* [CA] Saw this fellow in Bali yesterday
12 Ivan and Carl pirouette at celebratory event (8) CARNIVAL*
13 Bail arranged with directions for some Indonesians (8) BALINESE {BAIL*}{N}{E}{S}{E} I am amongst them for the last few days!
15 Artist in coffee shop gets flask (6) CARAFE {CA{RA}FE}
17 Arrive around ten at first, wearing special uniform clothing (7) COSTUME {COME} over {Ten} in {S}{U}
19 Moulding irons having carbon with one cutting tooth (7) INCISOR {IRONS}* over {C}{1}
22 Mummy, Cain returned for lunatic (6) MANIAC {MA}{CAIN<=}
24 Arranging oil pacts for sources of fuel (8) COALPITS*
26 Distributor’s pupils damaged in front of emergency room (8) SUPPLIER {PUPILS*}{ER}
28 Soldier’s German march (6) PARADE {PARA}{DE}
30 Royal captivated by munchkin girl (4) KING [T]
31 Amount returned by in-charge for some entertaining notes (5) MUSIC {SUM<=}{IC}
32 Gave money some time before Easter (4) LENT [DD]

DOWN
1   Boy meets girl in air (4) SONG {SON}{G}
2   He may study bonsai mutation around end of August using tweezers at first (8) BOTANIST {BO{a...sT}ANIS*}{Tw...s} &lit
3   Time Washington Engineers’ promotional program (6) ADWARE {AD}{WA}{RE}
4   Passed groggy cat during destruction of Eden (7) ENACTED {EN{CAT*}ED*}
5   Tom’s partner’s tin fuel container (8) JERRYCAN {JERRY}{CAN}
6   Vehicle crossed road for expensive foodstuff (6) CAVIAR {CA{VIA}R}
7   City’s fragrant part (4) AGRA [T]
14 A Gypsy’s smell (5) AROMA {A}{ROMA}
16 Look in lard for buoy (5) FLOAT {F{LO}AT}
18 Scotsman and his mother, to some extent, show aggressive masculinity (8) MACHISMO {MAC}{HIS}{MOt..r}
20 Scamp riles badly and endangers (8) IMPERILS {IMP}{RILES*}
21 Auditor returns with hair for female performer (7) ACTRESS{CA<=}{TRESS}
23 Call into question one military policeman with damaged gun (6) IMPUGN {1}{MP}{GUN*}
25 Camelid found in Tegucigalpa cathedral (6) ALPACA [T]
27 United Nations’ information technology establishment (4) UNIT {UN}{IT}
29 Have food and pass away around mid-morning (4) DINE {DI{m.rNi.g}E}

Reference List
Order = OM, Club = C, Right = R, Artist = RA, Special = S, Uniform = U, Emergency Room = ER, German = Deutsch = DE, In-charge = IC, Girl = G, Engineers = Royal Engineers = RE, Auditor = CA, Military Policeman = MP


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29 comments:

  1. RKE24 February 2020 at 08:35

    Film reporter's diary

    The outdoor UNIT of the film crew was all set to shoot a SONG and DANCE sequence at AGRA. The heroine's role was to be ENACTED by a BALINESE ACTRESS. The art director had put up a set of a South American CARNIVAL, with a PARADE of FLOATS, resembling the ARGO, atop one of which the heroine was to dance the samba, of course with hardly any COSTUME, other than an elaborate ALPACA fur hat and an IGUANA skin thong. The MUSIC director, JERRY CANute, was a KING in composing item numbers, thanks to the support LENT by a MANIAC drummer.
    The actress had a hard time in keeping off the amorous advances of the MACHISMO hero, right from the time they DINEd the previous night. He had ordered CAVIAR hoping to impress her but she was attracted by the AROMA of steamed MOMOs. But being figure conscious, she asked the SUPPLIER for only a CARAFE of green tea. The director arrived in time to tear the hero away from the scene and prevented the IMPUGNing of the heroine's repute in order not to IMPERIL the progress of the shooting. She had to put on an extra layer of greasepaint to hide the lovebites from his INCISORs.

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  2. RKE24 February 2020 at 08:42

    Did anyone get the topical theme?

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    1. Vasant24 February 2020 at 08:52

      I can spot a few: Carnival, music, costume, Parade, song, dance all woven together in the tale-piece!

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    2. Kishore24 February 2020 at 10:16

      King Momo may not be familiar to some of you...

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    3. sree_sree24 February 2020 at 10:31

      You are not supposed to eat without his permission. I dined with one in 2017.

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    4. Prasanna Rao24 February 2020 at 17:28

      Historical spot ans esp. AGRA and BALI as Col. and Trump visited the spot in same day...

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  3. Padmanabhan24 February 2020 at 08:42

    Carnival theme?
    Yesterday Incognito had asked us to look out for something topical. Is it the carnival or is it Col. being a Balinese?

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 February 2020 at 08:47

      I too feel so.

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    2. Kishore24 February 2020 at 08:51

      Yes sir, the Goan carnival is presently going on. The Balinese iguana is a coincidence

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    3. Padmanabhan24 February 2020 at 08:54

      Iguana is nicely done and I could not spot the CA.

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    4. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 February 2020 at 09:10

      True, Paddy. It took some time for me too. CA from CA to CA!

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  4. Padmanabhan24 February 2020 at 08:44

    Iguana kept me off for a long time since I could not parse it (though I had to fill in once the boy met the girl)

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    1. Vasant24 February 2020 at 08:53

      A rare CA from Incognito.

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    2. Kishore24 February 2020 at 08:57

      Considering that Incognito used to be a CA in the distant past

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    3. sree_sree24 February 2020 at 09:02

      Indeed a rare CA who by all accounts sets solvable pizzles

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    4. sree_sree24 February 2020 at 09:02

      Puzzles.

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    5. Vasant24 February 2020 at 09:06

      @ Kishore 8:57: :-)

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    6. RKE24 February 2020 at 09:36

      Once a CA, always a CA! Have you heard what auditors do when they retire?

      They write an account of their life instead of other's accounts.

      Any ideas?

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    7. Vasant24 February 2020 at 09:55

      Kishore for one is growing vegetable marrows and writing wonderful short stories in his blog.
      Other CAs here:KKR, Suresh

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    8. Kishore24 February 2020 at 10:28

      Those interested are welcome to visit my blog at https://goencho.blogspot.com/ to read the stories and leave their comments, if any. The stories are usually less than 3 pages long, except for an illustrated novella, based in Goa, which is about 35 pages long and posted in 4 parts

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    9. Prasanna Rao24 February 2020 at 17:34

      let me read and ack. soon

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    10. RKE24 February 2020 at 22:48

      Thanks for the link to your stories Incognito. Enjoying them

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  5. Padmanabhan24 February 2020 at 08:48

    Order=OM, order of merit?

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  6. RKE24 February 2020 at 08:52

    In Tamilnadu in the past 'supplier' used to refer to the server in a restaurant and this is the sense it is used in my tale!

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    1. Padmanabhan24 February 2020 at 08:57

      Nice observation.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 February 2020 at 09:13

      Even in AP, we used to call them so. Nowadays, the word is extinct and server means IT domain.
      By what designation, do we call them today?

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    3. Prasanna Rao24 February 2020 at 17:31

      but few of them calling as "bearer" I heard often in club \ Pub and some big hotels...

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  7. Padmanabhan24 February 2020 at 09:19

    Dr.meant
    'supplier',not server. In days past ( have not heard it in the City) waiters/ servers used to be called suppliers (now they have become caterers,of course in bulk)

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