Thursday 7 July 2022

No 13602, Thursday 07 Jul 2022, Incognito

Solution to 16D 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   Brandish wand for start of day (4) DAWN
9   Greek letter has directions for river (5) RHONE {RHO}{NE}
10 Ripped damaged leotard after lad was expelled (4) TORE lEOTaRd*
11 Pop and Mom go around North American country (6) PANAMA {PA}{NA}{MA}
12 Wolf's expulsion of liquids (8) OUTFLOWS {WOLFS}* [RA]
13 Ace's grid messed up, resulting in ignominy (8) DISGRACE*
15 Incorrectly cites about boy cut into two (6) BISECT {CITES*}<=>{B}
17 John performed first part of activity to produce some kind of yeast (7) CANDIDA {CAN}{DID}{Ac...y}
19 Animal carrying Egyptian god and sticky sweet (7) CARAMEL {CA{RA}MEL}
22 Wrongly said, “At sports venues” (6) STADIA*
24 Erroneously perceived sound from Mr Depp's ex on radio (8) MISHEARD (~ miss heard)
26 Altered toccatas to produce abrupt and disjointed notes (8) STACCATO*
28 Wrongly reappraises, in absence of paper, to give increases in salary (6) RAISES reappRAISES
30 Sign girl is in wash-room? (4) LOGO {LO{G}O}
31 Outsider? A falsehood, no? (5) ALIEN {A}LIE}{N}
32 Ancient Roman church had, in the beginning, a curved support structure (4) ARCH Acrostic

DOWN
1   Information contained in Golconda tablet (4) DATA [T]
2   Swollen green dal is cooked (8) ENLARGED*
3   Spanish navy's weapon is with Aeronautical Development Agency (6) ARMADA {ARM}{ADA}
4   Yankee left settlement with the Spanish military officer (7) COLONEL {COLONy}{EL}
5   Wild beaver carrying hollow root shows a bit of spine (8) VERTEBRA {VE{RooT}EBRA*}
6   Delays constructions meant to house horses (6) STALLS [DD]
7   Staff endlessly wreck building (4) CREW WRECk*
14 Spilling paint is not appropriate (5) INAPT*
16 Encourage revolutionary queen (5) C?E?R (Addendum - CHEER {CHE}{ER} - See comments))
18 Attract ward (4,4) DRAW AWAY {WARD}* [RA]
20 A man consumes rice pudding from the US (8) AMERICAN {A}{M{RICE*}AN}
21 Munitions with National Investigation Agency produce noxious gas (7) AMMONIA {AMMO}{NIA}
23 Medico appearing briefly in Madras Central (6) DOCTOR {maDRas}
25 Jump! Substitute one end of gadget with another and run! (6) SPRINT SPRIN(-g+t)T
27 Consumed potassium also, at first (4) TOOK {K}<=>{TOO}
29 Every idea changes to some extent (4) EACH [T]

Reference List
Directions = N,E, John = CAN, Girl = G, Washroom = LOO, No = N, Yankee = Y, The in Spanish = EL, Queen = ER

21 comments:

  1. 16D CHEER = Encourage {CHE, revelutionay, + ER , Queen}

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  2. Another enjoyable one from Incognito.
    Struggled fro a while (surprisingly) to get caramel taking animal as def.
    Filled in Doctor for the medico without getting into the core of Madras. Thank you for sticking to the good old name!

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    1. Can't imagine how Incognito hit upon Madras Central to get 'dr' Excellent!

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  3. Nice to see Col. in the grid.
    Ra- Egyptian Sun God- Reminded of Ra mesh- is he out of the country?

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  4. An ideal grid to explain the nuances in crossword solving to beginners 🙏

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    1. That is exactly what I felt. I copied the grid into a folder marked as "Teaching Cryptics"

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  5. Expertise lies in making it enjoyable to experienced solvers as well.

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  6. Came across this clue in ET today-
    Individual refuses to collect bird names (10)

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    1. Setter with dental problem gets drug names

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  7. Only Prasad can answer a question with another question. I had to solve and managed.
    How does one spell the dental problem you mentioned?

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  8. I+DEN(TIT)IES; I+DENTITI(E)S; Not sure of dentitis

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  9. Nice grid. Solved in 10 mins. My fav - LOGO, DOCTOR
    Thanx Kishore

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  10. No words to say. ultimate grid. solved in 45 min. nice to see COLONEL present in grid. thanks Kishore . have a gr8 day.

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