Monday 18 October 2021

No 13379, Monday 18 Oct 2021, Incognito

Solution to 19A 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
8   Food consumed by Alfred Doolittle (4) EDDO [T]
9   Boss’s wonderful; having more wisdom, I hear (10) SUPERVISOR {SUPER}{VISOR}(~wiser)
10 Is rare formation in mountain range in America (6) SIERRA*
11 Settler’s a resident of city in Panama? (8) COLONIST [DD]
12 Designed usual tin vessel used by Nemo (8) NAUTILUS*
14 Wrongly grant money finally for supporting structure (6) GANTRY {GRANT*}{m..eY}
16 Col.’s father’s ship (4) PASS {PA}{SS}
17 Say, “Sin to hide love” (5) VOICE {V{0}ICE}
18 Member of school hiding in Gaddafis home (4) FISH [T]
19 Visit local... Drunk? No! (4,2) ?A?L ?N (Addenmun - CALL ON {LOCAL*}{N} - See comments)
21 Hard-working man’s after princess at 51! (8) DILIGENT {GENT}<=>{DI}{L1}
23 Person wearing a couple of wrist-watches or seeing a couple of girls? (3-5) TWO-TIMER [DD]
26 On paper, put down emir leaving dancing marionette (6) NOTATE mAriONETTe*
27 Vanuatu ore used to build decorative architecture (3,7) ART NOUVEAU*
28 Free European and go on (4) RIDE {RID}{E}

DOWN
1   Dad is excited over a small cake in African capital (5,5) ADDIS ABABA {DAD+IS}*{A}{BABA}
2   Old Greek’s distress message about container (8) SOCRATES {SO{CRATE}S}
3   Sir, ale is brewed in country (6) ISRAEL*
4   Classic record by Chip (4) EPIC {EP}{IC}
5   Introduction: Introduction to prototype Luger designed to contain two rounds separately (8) PROLOGUE {Pr...e}{R{O}L{O}GUE*}
6   No gins? Bad contract! (4,2) SIGN ON*
7   Plenty of empty sites in the US (4) LOTS [DD]
13 Saw moved fast around beginning of incision (5) SPIED {SP{In...n}ED}
15 Edit, “Increasing height of sea water, for example” (6,4) RISING TIDE {EDIT}<=
17 Polaveno mouse contains toxin (8) VENOMOUS [T]
18 Excitedly gifts her war-planes! (8) FIGHTERS*
20 Tale re-written before book is hidden (6) LATENT {TALE*}{NT}
22 Place sweet stuff under net for monkey (6) LANGUR {GUR}<=>{LAN}
24 Fight with daughter and minor under care (4) WARD {WAR}{D}
25 Marine feature in Muree forest (4) REEF [T]

Reference List
Ship = SS, No = N, Princess = DI, European = E, Record = EP, Book = NT, Sweet stuff = GUR, Daughter = D

29 comments:

  1. 19ac. CALL ON..LOCAL* N(o) means visit

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    1. For heavens sake. Please mention your name if you are posting as unknown. I don't know how many times I have repeated this request.

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    2. Incognito is allowed ONLY for the setter!!

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    3. Even he is a definite (declare himself and not unknown).

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    4. Knowingly, he declared himself as unknown!

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    5. If you know I am Incognito, then I am not incognito. If you don't know I am incognito then I am Incognito 🤪

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    7. To me, it sounded like T Rajendar"s {Silambarasan's father] dialogue!
      Haha!

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    8. +1 for KKR garu . well correlated t Rajender's style

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    1. Or maybe an 's missing after mouse?

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    2. My ??? was for Prasad.
      I think it is okay- T indicated by 'contains'.

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    3. No Paddy, Prasad is correct. There is POS mismatch

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    4. POS- position? Part of Speech.
      Wherever Prasad is involved there is always a cryptic!

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    5. There seems to be a POS (Part Of Speech) mismatch since VENOMOUS is an adjective and TOXIN is a noun?

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    6. So 'contains'on double duty- part of def.as well? That will take care of POS mismatch.

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    7. Indeed, contains is on double duty

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  3. Col. is Colonel as well as column/pass. I liked it.

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    1. Unfortunately he didn't have one. He only had a car :-)

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  4. 11a - different kind of settler.

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  5. 7D Lots need explanation for me (Is it the two 's' in U.States'?)

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  6. It is a DD. Plenty/ enpty spaces in US.
    Empty spaces are called 'lots' in U.S- what wecall plots.

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    1. I too not getting the definition while solving. I was trying letters to suit for a word plenty in US...i.e U () () S. After seeing your post.

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    2. After seeing your post understood the error

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  7. Great grid. Easy solve.
    Thanx Kishore. 😊

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