Friday 11 November 2022

No 13708, Friday 11 Nov 2022, Incognito

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ACROSS
8   Actress that The Rolling Stones don't pick up? (4) MOSS [DD]
9   Damaged sedan in the mountains (5) ANDES*
10 Ape, policeman and Yankee (4) COPY {COP}{Y}
11 Customer's right in court (6) CLIENT {C{LIEN}T}
12 Heard chap in front of disco perhaps gives training (8) GUIDANCE {(~guy)GUI}{DANCE}
13 State: "Military officer loves collecting Republican publicity material" (8) COLORADO {COL}{0}{R}{AD}{0}
15 Assistant Secretary despatched agreement (6) ASSENT {A}{S}{SENT}
17 Receive very soft feathers and descend (3,4) GET DOWN {GET}{DOWN}
19 Leaves German components (7) DEPARTS {DE}{PARTS}
22 A bar built around Arizona market (6) BAZAAR {A+BAR}* over {AR}
24 Bade Lear, "Rewrite, be capable of comprehension" (8) READABLE*
26 Makes signs: "Guest is confused about start of service" (8) GESTURES {GUEST+IS}* over {Se...e}
28 Croon about princess's turnout (6) SIDING {SI{DI}NG}
30 River from Erode region (4) ODER [T]
31 President's rocking in bed (5) BIDEN*
32 Next to bone-yard renovated after body went missing (4) NEAR {boNE+yARd}

DOWN
1   Throw ball and dish (4) BOWL [DD]
2   Toriesad redrawn to show space rock (8) ASTEROID*
3   Kind of Ray to include right slogan (6) MANTRA {MANT{R}A}
4   A law-man and soldier's operating system to produce musical pieces (7) ADAGIOS {A}{DA}{GI}{OS}
5   Make a ball-park guess from extensive land around central Denmark after independence (8) ESTIMATE {EST{I}{denMark}ATE}
6   Fiddles around mid-afternoon and runs (6) SCRAMS {SC{a..eRn..n}AMS}
7   Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries' dubious competence in exporting cement (4) OPEC  cOmPEtenCe*
14 After circular letter, extraordinarily large final letter from the Greeks (5) OMEGA {O}{MEGA}
16 Travelling nationals leaving Sion for city in Brazil (5) NATAL NATionALs
18 Clothes cupboard's drawback? Boer is confused (8) WARDROBE {DRAW<=}{BOER*}
20 Drops sailor with old naval ship for starters (8) ABANDONS {AB}{AND}{O}{Na..l}{Ship}
21 Indecent about South Africa's holy war (7) CRUSADE {CRU{SA}DE}
23 Changes broken slate around end of summer (6) ALTERS {ALTE{s...eR}S*}
25 Blood group despatched? It's not there (6) ABSENT {AB}{SENT}
27 ConcludesEnglish daughter has son (4) ENDS {EN}{D}{S}
29 Revolting Indian agent gives up dieting... Gets bread (4) NAAN {iNdiAN+Agent}*

Reference List
Yankee = Y, Court = CT, Publicity material = AD, German = DE, Princess = DI, Right = R, Lawman = DA, Soldier = GI, Operating system = OS,  Independance = I, Sailor = AB, Old = O, Blood group = AB, English = EN, Daughter = D, Son = S


45 comments:

  1. Thank you Incognito. Almost completed your grid in wee hours. Nice to seen colonel sir today's grid. Col.sir, try to visit Bed Dwaraka.

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  2. 9ac .ANDES
    damaged SEDAN i.e anagram is ANDES

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  3. 10ac is COPY
    policeman is COP and yankee is Y

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  4. 11ac CLIENT
    court is CT
    in court a right i.e LIEN so CLIENT

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  5. 3d MANTRA
    kind of Ray is MANTA and it includes right R

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  6. 15 ac ASSENT
    assistant secretary is AS
    dispatched is SENT

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  7. 15 ac ASSENT
    assistant secretary is AS
    dispatched is SENT

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  8. 11ac CLIENT
    court is CT
    court includes right i.e LIEN

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  9. sorry double entry may be deleted

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    1. Please mention the def.as well to make it complete- in afdition to wordplay

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  10. 2d.ASTEROID.. Tories ad *
    4d. ADAGIOS.. A DA GI O(perating) S(ystem)
    DA..lawman GI ...soldier
    19d..DEPARTS.. DE( German) PARTS
    (components)
    16d. NATAL..NATIONALS minus SION is NATAL...a city of Brazil
    29. NAAN..INDIAN AGENT minus DIETING
    is NAAN..Bread

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  11. 1AC: Actress = MOSS, from the proverb, the rolling stone gathers no moss
    12A: Training = GUIDANCE. Chap = Guy = GUI (homophone), in front of DANCE (disco)
    13A: State = COLORADO. Military officer = COL, plus RAD (for Republican and publicity material) inside OO (loves)
    19A: Leaves = DEPARTS. German = DE plus PARTS (components)
    22A: Market = BAZAAR. Anagram of "a bar" around AZ (Arizona)

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    1. Replacement for 19A
      24A: Capable of comprehension = READABLE. Anagram of "bade Lear"

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  12. 31 a Biden president from in bed

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  13. 32a near from bone yard - body

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  14. 8a moss actress Kate moss rolling stones don't collect moss

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  15. 12a guidance heard guy- gui disco -dance

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  16. 16d Natal city in Brazil nationals- sion

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  17. 18d. Drawback is ward. Boer is confused,
    Hence wardrobe.
    25d. Blood group is ab. Despatched is sent. Hence it is absent.
    21d.indecent is crude. About south africa is SA. Hence its crusade which is holy war.
    26a. Guest is confuse . About is re. Start of service is s. Hence the clue is gestures for hand signals.

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    1. For future reference. Full anno for eg 26a (guest*) (re) (s) and 21d is cru(sa)de*

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  18. 23d. Alters . Broken slate and end of summer is r. Changes means alters.

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  19. 30.a erODE Region...oder...river in europe.

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  20. 14.a o(mega)....omega
    Greek letter.
    Circular letter...o
    Large file....mega

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  21. 17.a get down....descend
    Recieve....get
    Feather...down

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  22. 1d..B(OWL)....THROW.
    Ball.....b
    Dish....owl

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  23. 22a - (B(AZ)(A)AR*)
    A-A
    bar*
    Arizona-AZ
    market = BAZAAR
    My fav. is 13a - COLORADO

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  24. ESTIMATE: ball-park guess.
    extensive land: ESTATE

    Independence: I
    Central Deark: M
    EST(I) (M) ATE

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  25. My post at 11:01 corresponds to 5 d.

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  26. 7D OPEC (acrostic) and competence - cement

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  27. 6d. SCRAMS = runs

    Scams (fiddles around) around r, Mid afteRnoon

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  28. I have taken this clue as
    croon - sing
    Princes - DI
    (SI(DI)NG) which is turnout.

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  29. Replies
    1. 7D the annotation was to remove cement from competence which gives OPEC. And OPEC is acronym for Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
      Can you elaborate what is the issue Paddy.

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    2. issue is that it is not an acronym. As you rightly said it is a deletion clue. Acronym clues do not use the same elaboration- as in this clue (OPEC) The clue was not answered.
      1D is, Of course a DD= Throw ball/ Dish

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    3. Sorry. I just saw that you had answered.

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  30. 26 Makes signs: "Guest is confused about start of service" - GESTURES (Guest) + About - RE + S (start of Service) - Makes signs.

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  31. About in crypric is like ben10's watch. You don't know what it can be until you know.

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