Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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

28 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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