Tuesday 21 July 2020

No 12993, Tuesday 21 Jul 2020, Incognito

Solution to 12A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular/novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS
7   Church recess collapsed to some extent (4) APSE [T]
8   Went back and administered therapy again (9) RETREATED {RE-TREATED}
10 At first Persian monarch consumes some eatables in Beijing (6) PEKING {Pe...n}{Ea...s}{KING}
11 Hostage-taker’s bad error before court review (8) ABDUCTOR {BAD*}{COURT*}
12 Their devil may turn a lad into a lady! (8) ?R?N?E?S (Addendum - PRINTERS [CD] - See comments)
14 Clutches hundred and fifty snakes (6) CLASPS {CL}{ASPS}
16 First male-soldier’s unwavering (7) ADAMANT {ADAM}{ANT}
18 Make up one’s mind to decode again (7) RESOLVE [DD]
21 Look! That’s a male goose! (6) GANDER [DD]
23 Brits are excited about rabbits from Wales? (8) RAREBITS*
25 Senior nurse initially gets some coffee for unkempt woman (8) SLATTERN {S}{RN} over {LATTE}
27 Spanish town post office has blue building (6) PUEBLO {P{BLUE*}O}
29 Mess party organised by M, for example (9) SPYMASTER*
30 Checks animal doctors and experienced soldiers briefly (4) VETS [MD]

DOWN
1   A paper circulated by editor came out (8) APPEARED {A+PAPER}*{ED}
2   Yosemite’s type of trailer in America (4) SEMI [T]
3   British rascal’s Irish accent (6) BROGUE {B}{ROGUE}
4   US stars danced for composer (7) STRAUSS*
5   Chief! A revolutionary can be a pain! (8) HEADACHE {HEAD}{A}{CHE}
6   Circular letter on spasm of the ear (4) OTIC {O}{TIC}
9   Doctor’s operation covers hole and sag (5) DROOP {DR}{O}{OP}
13 Mando composed for Rover (5) NOMAD*
15 Destructive device in Bandra, Bombay (1-4) A-BOMB [T]
17 Ron names wandering Scandinavian (8) NORSEMAN*
19 Victor, it’s in Italy’s exuberance (8) VITALITY {V}{ITAL{IT}Y}
20 Hard-rock rating is manipulated by European (7) GRANITE {RATING*}{E}
22 African mountain range in map-book (5) ATLAS [DD]
24 Statement about alcoholic beverage (6) REPORT {RE}{PORT}
26 Drunkard returned carrying Yankee playthings (4) TOYS {S{Y}OT<=}
28 Begrudge agent losing ring (4) ENVY ENVoY

Reference List
Hundred = C, Fifty = L, Nurse = RN(Registered Nurse), Editor = ED, British = B, Operation = OP, Victor = V, European = E, Yankee = Y


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47 comments:

  1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao21 July 2020 at 08:37

    Good selection of clue for solving, Col!

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  2. Eswaran N21 July 2020 at 08:40

    Neat Solving experience

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  3. wannabewodehouse21 July 2020 at 08:41

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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  4. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 09:07

    Actually, the phrase is "printer's devil', not printers' devil. So I am wondering if the use of "their' is quite apt. Or maybe it's neutral pronoun. Anyway, original these devil's were boy apperentices with printer's. Some of the great writers originall worked as printer"s devil's.

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  5. AJ21 July 2020 at 09:19

    12ac
    PRINTERS: printer's devil is mistake in printing ; so can turn lad into a lady

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  6. Padmanabhan21 July 2020 at 09:21

    From Peking to Bombay,loved the surfaces and realised that the pleasure in solving cryptics arises from enjoying the apt surfaces- for example the simple 'Otic'.
    Made a small mistake but realised in time. On seeing code thought 18A to be remorse (of course it did not fit the def.) but changed once I got Vitality to solve 19D.
    Thank you Incognito.

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  7. Unknown21 July 2020 at 10:22

    15D. Interactive version has 5 as enumeration. Have mved to Bengaluru to be with my son. He has opted not to get his newspaper home-delivered. Hence I subscribed to the interactive cw. Jayanti Gupta is my daughter-in-law. VDS Prasad

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  8. Unknown21 July 2020 at 10:23

    "Unknown" in the last two comments is Jayanti Gupta.

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  9. Unknown21 July 2020 at 10:35

    12 A - Princess , The Nazi SS (referred as their devil here) is added to Prince to make him a Princess.

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    1. Unknown21 July 2020 at 10:36

      got carried away a bit. Sorry!

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    2. Deepak Gopinath21 July 2020 at 10:45

      Princess is incorrect

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    3. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 10:50

      I think it is a joke. That if SS is added to Prince (lad), it becomes Princess.

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    4. Unknown21 July 2020 at 11:07

      It wasn't intended to be a joke. I plainly got it wrong :-). Maybe next time. Hello everyone this is Lakshman and a big thanks to Mr. Deepak Gopinath for the Crossword Corner!

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    5. Padmanabhan21 July 2020 at 13:04

      Pricess is one of the options considered by me,thinking along same lines- adding SS. I also googled SS to find out if they were called devils.

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  10. Unknown21 July 2020 at 10:48

    Not very challenging.Pueblo puzzled me.

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  11. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 10:53

    Now, who is this Unknown? Add a handle at the end of Unknown message. And, above all, know thyself, j say.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao21 July 2020 at 12:04

      Vasi Sir!
      For "Incognito" puzzles, unknown is apt too!

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  12. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 11:13

    In 1968 we had what was called the Pueblo incident. Nothing to do with the Spanish town.
    There was this USS Pueblo, a Navy intelligence vessel. It was engaged in a routine surveillance of the North Korean coast when it was intercepted by North Korean patrol boats. ... The Americans attempted to escape, and the North Koreans opened fire, wounding the commander and two others. I think the intruders were caotured and freed later.

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  13. Deepak Gopinath21 July 2020 at 11:26

    All those whose comment appears as 'Unknown' are requested to please edit their profile on blogger and add your name to ensure that they don't show up as Unknown's

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  14. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 11:37

    1968 was the year in which I joined the then undivided Indian Express as an apprentice sub-editor.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao21 July 2020 at 12:02

      Wow, Vasi Sir!
      You are really "media"eval!!!

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    2. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 12:05

      Now, this is indeed a joke.

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao21 July 2020 at 12:13

      Hope you liked the wordplay. If not, sincere apologies

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    4. Padmanabhan21 July 2020 at 13:01

      When did you retire from The Hindu,sir?

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    5. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 13:43

      2003. I left Indian Express in 1986 and joined Frontline of The Hindu group.(This was by invitation.I was not on the staff of the paper.

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    6. Kolluru Koteswara Rao21 July 2020 at 13:53

      Probably, I got to know you around this time. Thanks to the Orkut days!

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    7. janamaejayan21 July 2020 at 14:33

      how will you rate Indian Express and The Hindu in terms of english usage.

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    8. Padmanabhan21 July 2020 at 14:43

      I think it largely depends on the sub editor and the Editor. What was IE's loss would have been Frontline's gain. I also reckon that CV would have had more time to go through articles, since Frontline was a fortnightly.

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    9. Padmanabhan21 July 2020 at 14:48

      That makes it 35 years for CY at the helm- no mean achievement! Under pressure all the time,meeting deadlines.

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    10. jaggu21 July 2020 at 15:48

      1968 was the year I joined MBBS.

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    11. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 15:55

      Nice to hear from you, doctor.

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  15. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 12:44

    No problem. I can always appreciate wordplay. How else do you turn into a crossword solver or setter?

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  16. raju umamaheswar21 July 2020 at 14:03

    If Kishore can remain Incognito, why others can't ?Does it really make a difference in terms of pseudonyms as a garb ?

    Nice wordplay today. Tomorrow a bit more tough ?

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    1. Padmanabhan21 July 2020 at 14:46

      It is totally different. We know Incognito is Kishore (unofficially though) but in the blog we would not know who is commenting. If it is the same unknown or different ones. It happened even today.

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  17. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 14:35

    I am sorry i can't agree with you over your frequent questioning of setters using pseudonyms. I do not understand your insistence that a crossword setter must basically, essentially, compulsorily, unabashedly, opemly use his or her real name. There may be some reason. And it is not confined to THC. in UK the same person sets crosswords for three or four papers under different pseudonyms. In India setters have few channels. I don't mind commenters using Unknown way but each must give within the Comment a name, real or assumed, so we know who says what. My dear friend aren't you confused by those Comments above except Prasad who made the reqd disclosure.

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  18. Vasu21 July 2020 at 16:17

    I remember my teacher Sri T.R. Govindaraja Iyer telling us that "printer's devil" only refers to the person and the errors he makes should be referred to as " mischief or mistake of the printer's devil"

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    1. Chaturvasi21 July 2020 at 18:39

      He may have a point. He must have read up books on English usage and keenly followed columns like Know Your English in The Hindu.

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    2. Padmanabhan21 July 2020 at 20:27

      Yes,Indeed. Free dic gives the maening as 'An apprentice at the printing establishment'.

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  19. DrBhanuMurthy21 July 2020 at 16:20

    In Atlas ,Pueblo is in Colorado,usa,not spain?Can anyone clarify.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath21 July 2020 at 16:39

      Dr, click on the link over the word PUEBLO in the main post and you will get your answer

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  20. Vasant21 July 2020 at 17:31

    Very participative comments section today. Enlightening and instructive.

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