Friday 24 July 2020

No 12996, Friday 24 Jul 2020, Incognito

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ACROSS
8   Toil rigorously at first in Eastern vessel (4) WORK {WO{Ri...y}K}
9   Mistakenly raid office for getting communication device (5) RADIO {RAID*}{O}
10 Having a couple of eggs before prawn soup, for starters, and producing an exclamation of regret (4) OOPS {OO}{Pr..n}{Soup}
11 Insects go around a couple of students — pretty girls (6) BELLES {BE{LL}ES}
12 Lived through mutating virus by rejecting ice-less device (8) SURVIVED {VIRUS*}{DEVice<=}
13 Dissociate from Princess taking position (8) DISTANCE {DI}{STANCE}
15 Loan I'm arranging for crude trader? (6) OILMAN*
17 Dispute a saying... put it differently (7) GAINSAY*
19 Throw grenade and unbalance (7) DERANGE*
22 Improve electric vehicle parked in ascending part of road (6) REVAMP {R{EV}AMP}
24 Itinerant Siamese twins leave mews and clean up (8) SANITISE {SIAmesE+TwINS}*
26 Contain a bit of hair and feather (8) LOCKDOWN {LOCK}{DOWN}
28 Engineers won back name and fame (6) RENOWN {RE}{WON<=}{N}
30 Deliver, for example, Chinese dumpling at first (4) HAND {HAN}{Du...g}
31 Count motorcades moving after leaving winding roads (5) COMTE MOTorCadEs*
32 Initially, men request for visor (4) MASK {Men}{ASK}

DOWN
1   Altinho merchant’s place of residence (4) HOME [T]
2   Made of bones, it’s not sleek in motion (8) SKELETON*
3   Jail stir (6) PRISON [DD]
4   Dyes soy prepared for long journey (7) ODYSSEY*
5   Tetrad flies more UFOs (8) FOURSOME*
6   Therefore, spies starting to love can be civil (6) SOCIAL {SO}{CIA}{Love}
7   Mad dolt leaves tadpoles squirming in one part of church (4) APSE tAdPolES*
14 Silly Anne is following setter! Silly! (5) INANE {ANNE*}<=>{I}
16 Sugar scattered for Odysseus’ dog (5) ARGUS*
18 Near a doubly soft fish (8) APPROACH {A}{PP}{ROACH}
20 My nation produces this element (8) ANTIMONY* There is an error in this. See comments by Kishore
21 Tunas scattered around Michigan in destructive water flooding (7) TSUNAMI {TUNAS*}{MI}
23 Top class child gets ring for martial art (6) AIKIDO {A1}{KID}{O}
25 Medically treats sisters, for example (6) NURSES [DD]
27 Egg-shaped ember may be removable (4) OVAL remOVAbLe [CA]
29 Swashbuckler has bath (4) WASH [T]

Reference List
Office = O, Student = L, Princess = DI, Electric vehicle = EV, Engineers = RE(Royal Engineers), Name = N, Soft = P, Top class = A1


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  1. AJ24 July 2020 at 07:10

    9a
    Mistakenly raid: RADI
    Office: O
    RADIO: communication device

    10a
    Couple of eggs: OO
    Prawn soup starters: PS
    OOPS: exclamation of regret

    15a
    OILMAN: crude trader (loanim)*

    19a:
    DERANGE: unbalance: (grenade)*

    28a:
    RE(engineers) NOW(won back) N (name)
    RENOWN: fame

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  2. Remy24 July 2020 at 07:12

    22 a Revamp-improve R(ev)amp.
    24 a Sanitise.siamesetwins-mews.
    26 a lockdown-contain.hair-lock+down-feather.
    28 a renown-re(now)<n.
    32 a mask.m+ask.

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  3. AJ24 July 2020 at 07:12

    In 15a, arranging and
    In 19a, throw are the anagram indicators

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  4. Remy24 July 2020 at 07:13

    compensating for28 a.25 d Nurses.DD.
    .

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  5. Suresh M S24 July 2020 at 08:29

    8A WORK = toil{ Rigorously first in Wok= eastern vessel}
    12A SURVIVED =lived{virus+device-ice, anagram}
    GAINSAY =dispute{a saying anagram}
    1D HOME =residence{altinHO MErchant}
    29D WASH = bath { sWASHvuckler}

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  6. Vasu24 July 2020 at 08:29

    4d. Long journey = odessey (dyes spy)*
    6d. Civil = social. Therefore = so; spies= CIA; starting to love = l,

    (So + CIA= l)
    20 d. Antimony = element (my nation)*

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  7. Vasu24 July 2020 at 08:32

    Correction: dyes soy

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  8. Vasu24 July 2020 at 08:34

    21d.tsunami = waterflooding (tunas + mi)* mi for michigan

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  9. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 08:35

    Antimony is right,but does not go with 28A- Renown and 32A- mask.
    Is there a problem?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 08:50

      Yes there is a problem

      Delete
    2. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 08:51

      Incognito either got the defintion wrong as the word should be ANTINOMY or he typed it in incorrectly and gave the defintion for ANTIMONY

      Delete
    3. Kishore24 July 2020 at 11:34

      Filled Antinomy at time of filling grid and read Antimony at time of writing clue

      Delete
  10. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 08:36

    Only Antinomy fits the crossings?!

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  11. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 08:42

    Unusually high no.of deletions in an Incognito CW.

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  12. AJ24 July 2020 at 08:46

    Antinomy fits, but element?
    Antinomy is something like a contradiction or paradox as far as my understanding goes. Element may have other meanings also.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 08:53

      See my comment in response to Paddy's comment above

      Delete
  13. Orthopaul24 July 2020 at 08:47

    2d SKELETON...(not sleek)*
    11ac BELLES..be(ll)es ll..couple of students
    15ac OILMAN..(loan I'm)*
    16d ARGUS.. (sugar)*
    30ac LAND..lan is chinese (d)umpling

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    1. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 08:54

      3oA is incorrect

      Delete
    2. AJ24 July 2020 at 09:09

      Odysseus' dog is Argos, not Argus.
      Or, is it also known as Argus?

      Delete
    3. AJ24 July 2020 at 09:31

      Argos in Greek is Argus in Latin.
      Just looked up.

      Delete
    4. Orthopaul24 July 2020 at 10:02

      Latin version fits better as it's an anag of sugar

      Delete
  14. Ravi24 July 2020 at 08:52

    23 d. Top class ai , child is kid, ring is o. Gives you aikido for martial art
    18 d. Doubly soft is pp. Roach is fish. Hence the answer is approach for near.

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  15. Ravi24 July 2020 at 08:56

    5 d. Foursome, anagram of more ufos, which is tetrad.

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  16. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 09:04

    Yet to be solved
    Across - 12(Anno only), 13, 30, 31
    Down - 3, 7, 14, 27

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    1. Unknown24 July 2020 at 11:48

      12a is survived
      13 a distance
      3d prison
      7d lapse
      14d inane
      27d oval

      Delete
  17. Brajesh24 July 2020 at 09:18

    20d antinomy is an element of paradix

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  18. Brajesh24 July 2020 at 09:20

    7d apse tadpoles minus dolt

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  19. Jacob Brahmakulam24 July 2020 at 09:26

    13A DISTANCE; dissociate; {DI}{STANCE}
    30A HAND; deliver; {HAN}{Dumpling}
    31A COMTE; Count; { MOTORCADE - ROADS*}*
    3D PRISON (DD)
    14D INANE; silly; {I}{ANNE*}

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  20. Brajesh24 July 2020 at 09:27

    20d spelling paradox

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  21. Brajesh24 July 2020 at 09:31

    3d prison -jail
    13a distance princess is Di and stance is position

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  22. DRRGC24 July 2020 at 09:31

    12a. Device-ice+virus=SURVIVED meaning LIVED
    13a. Princess,=di+stance (taking position) = DISTANCE meaning DISSOCIATE

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  23. bmk24 July 2020 at 09:33

    11a belles. Bees students(ll) inside

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  24. Edward CrisscrossHands24 July 2020 at 09:33

    AC
    12 SURVIVED {VIRUS*}{DEV(-ice)}<--
    13 DISTANCE = Princess + position = {DI}{STANCE}

    DN
    3 PRISON = DD

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  25. Abhishek Sridhar24 July 2020 at 09:34

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  26. Brajesh24 July 2020 at 09:34

    14d inane -silly from setter I and anne

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  27. ramesh ss24 July 2020 at 09:38

    27D Oval by deleting letters of ember from removable

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    1. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 10:35

      Ramesh, being a setter you are hardly a novice. In future please wait till 11 AM

      Delete
    2. ramesh ss24 July 2020 at 11:32

      Oops. Sorry

      Delete
  28. Dr. Lakshman Prasad24 July 2020 at 09:43

    13..A..Dissociate..princess (di) position..stance..DISTANCE
    30..A..Deliver.. Han (Chinese ) D ..(dimpling at first.. HAND.
    3..D..Jail stir.. PRISON.. (DD)
    14..D..Silly..silly Anne(nane) setter ..(I)..INANE.
    27.D..

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    1. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 10:36

      Please mention your name if commenting as Unknown

      Delete
  29. Kishore24 July 2020 at 09:56

    Sorry for messing up Antimony!

    Yesterday was anagram special, today deletion special as rightly noted by Paddy.

    Today, however, there is an additional theme

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    1. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 10:08

      Covid speial!! (Oh! not again!)
      Social Distance, Hand wash,Home work,Sanitise,Lockdown

      Delete
    2. Vasant24 July 2020 at 11:35

      Covid, Covid everywhere!

      Delete
    3. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 11:41

      .... but don't inhale a drop

      Delete
    4. Vasant24 July 2020 at 11:54

      😉

      Delete
  30. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 10:03

    an·tin·o·my (ăn-tÄ­n′É™-mÄ“)
    n. pl. an·tin·o·mies
    1. Contradiction or opposition, especially between two laws or rules.
    2. A contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally necessary and reasonable; a paradox.

    from Free Dic.
    Looks like 'Antinomy' is one of the elements of a paradox- two of them apparently in contradiction. Not the element Antimony.
    I stand corrected.

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    1. Kishore24 July 2020 at 10:30

      Thanks for imagining what I might have thought. Only, I did not. It was a goof up

      Delete
  31. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 10:04

    Did I do a Prasad?!!

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    1. Kishore24 July 2020 at 11:56

      No Prasad during Covid ;)

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    2. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 12:47

      This Prasad is always available!

      Delete
    3. sree_sree24 July 2020 at 16:08

      between the two lords, Prasad has now where to go!

      Delete
    4. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 18:41

      I think I did a fairly good job of standing in for you.

      Delete
  32. Orthopaul24 July 2020 at 10:05

    So, I think I solved the toughest clues of all crossword...the identity of the authors...at least one of them...INCOGNITO is kishore...hope I'm correct 😂

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    1. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 10:14

      You are right,thanks to Kishore's reply. It has been taken for granted,shall I say a known secret?

      Delete
    2. Kishore24 July 2020 at 10:20

      I am not incognito, as everyone knows

      Delete
    3. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 10:29

      An antinomy?
      I learned this word today,though Kishore did not mean it.

      Delete
    4. ramesh ss24 July 2020 at 11:36

      Gin tonic cocktail nothing else is as smooth and soluble as his grid!

      Delete
    5. Chaturvasi24 July 2020 at 12:29

      Ramesh, you have done a good snag discovery. What a toast!

      Delete
    6. Kishore24 July 2020 at 13:18

      After Ramesh's remarks, I can just about imagine Groucho Marx snipping out the puzzle from the paper and immersing in a jug of water to check whether it is soluble ;)

      Delete
    7. ramesh ss24 July 2020 at 15:32

      Kishore - paper is material the content (text here grid) is spiritual

      Delete
  33. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 10:08

    mask

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  34. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 10:09

    Maybe Nurses also.

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  35. Ananda Rao Keerty24 July 2020 at 10:25

    1dn.home. ho from altinho and me from merchant's
    2dn skeleton letters from not and sleek
    4dn. Odyssey letters from dyes and soy
    9ac.radio raid + o from office
    12.survived virus + dev from device -ice

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    1. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 10:38

      Please show anagram indicators in the annotation or else mention it
      12A VIRUS+DEV is VIRUSDEV?

      Delete
  36. Murali24 July 2020 at 11:13

    2D SKELETON = made of bones: (NOT SLEEK)*

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  37. Unknown24 July 2020 at 11:16

    29D Wash - sWASHbuckler has bath
    24A Sanitise - Remove mews from Siamese twins and angrammise
    15A Oilman - anagram for Loan I'm
    11A Belles - LL (2 students) inside Bees
    5A Foursome - anagram for more UFOs
    Lakshman

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  38. Unknown24 July 2020 at 11:50

    21 down Tsunami. Tunas scattered around Mi in michigan

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  39. Unknown24 July 2020 at 11:53

    What is 26a ?

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  40. Unknown24 July 2020 at 11:54

    26 a Lockdown ..hair- lock, feather - down
    Contain..lockdown

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  41. Unknown24 July 2020 at 11:59

    Lived through -- survived. Virus mutated " survi" ice less device " ved"

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  42. Kishore24 July 2020 at 12:00

    Aah, one Unknown unknowingly answered the question about a clue for which the answer was unknown to another Unknown.

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  43. Unknown24 July 2020 at 12:06

    What is 31 across? yechuri.lakshmi@gmail.com

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    1. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 12:57

      M (i=nitially men) Ask (request) giving Mask-visor.
      You can look up comments above where solutions are given.

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    2. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 12:59

      Sorry.I gave for 32A.
      31 A is given below.

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    3. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 13:00

      31A is COMTE
      See answer by Svemuri at 12:39 below

      Delete
  44. Murali24 July 2020 at 12:11

    Can someone help me to solve 17A ?A?N?A?

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    1. Sritri24 July 2020 at 12:28

      Gainsay jumble a saying

      Delete
    2. Chaturvasi24 July 2020 at 14:28

      Gainsay means to contradict. It is usually used in senteces like this:
      • There is no gainsaying that Covid-19, with its widespread prevalenve, has rattled the whole world. It will be a long time before we recover from its ill effects.

      Delete
  45. svemuri24 July 2020 at 12:29

    31 Count motorcades moving after leaving winding roads (5)
    motorcades-roads=motce Anagram of Comte-is the French, Catalan and Occitan form of the word 'count'.

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  46. Vinod Sharma24 July 2020 at 13:28

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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    1. Padmanabhan24 July 2020 at 13:38

      You will have to give with proper anotations,not just solutions.

      Delete
  47. Prasanna Rao24 July 2020 at 13:32

    23A - Top class - A one-I...AI;cHILD - KID; Ring - O..AI(KID)O = AIKIDO
    15A - loan I'am - OILMAN*
    9A - raid + Office-O .....RAID*+O - RADIO
    16D - sugar - ARGUS*
    28A - Engineers-RE; won back - (NOW<--); name -N and fame - RENOWN

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    1. Prasanna Rao24 July 2020 at 14:04

      16d ....Sugar scattered for Odysseus’ dog - here "s" to be replaced with 'O"...in Dic. Odysseus dog is called ARGOS. O (-S)UGAR.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath24 July 2020 at 15:53

      16D is just ARGUS* an anagram of SUGAR

      Delete
    3. Prasanna Rao24 July 2020 at 16:10

      OMG...my anno.was wrong. ok.

      Delete

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