Solution to 20D 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.
Open for anyone to answer, if not solved by 1 PM.
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11 Eleven, sequentially... (3,2,3) ONE BY ONE Definition by example
16 A boy accompanied by noise? He's a story book hero (7) ALADDIN {A}{LAD}{DIN}
18 Organise armies including new specialised soldiers (7) MARINES {MARI{N}ES*}
21 Tin with LED arrangement? It can give light! (6) CANDLE {CAN}{LED*}
23 Snakes repent crawling around in ship (8) SERPENTS {S{REPENT*}S}
25 Completely break down and destroy limo shed (8) DEMOLISH*
27 Small de-husked seed containing some aromatic matter initially mentioned in famous opening phrase (6) SESAME {S}{sE{Some}{Ar...c}{Ma...r}Ed} Semi&lit
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1 Raw material to make a mountain? (8) MOLEHILL [GK]
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6 Jealousy displayed by Yankee following English victor (4) ENVY {Y}<=>{EN}{V}
9 Hundred and ninety nine produce stimulant (5) TONIC {TON}{IC}
13 Continued, "... dead wrong about dead-end" (5) ADDED {DEAD*}{deaD}
15 I love crushed fruit (5) OLIVE*
19 Guess mate's tie is crooked (8) ESTIMATE*
20 Avoids sweetheart carrying cashew-nuts after losing a squabble initially (7) ?S?H?W? (Addendum - ESCHEWS {swEet} in {CaSHEW}*{Sq...e} - See comments)
22 Helps in crime, throwing dope from damaged speedboat (5) ABETS SpeEdBoAT*
24 Engineers type, "Place for rest and recreation" (6) RESORT {RE}{SORT}
26 Has title to a part of township (4) OWNS [T]
28 Boy mentioned in emergency message cries (4) SOBS {SO{B}S}
Reference List
New = N, Ship = SS, Small = S, Island = I, Commanding Officer = CO, Yankee = Y, English = EN, Victor = V, Hundred = TON, Ninety nine = IC, Engineers = RE(Royal Engineers), Boy = B
Nutty
ReplyDelete11A- 11, Eleven sequentially (including clue no.- thoughtful)
ReplyDelete1d making a mountain out of molehill
ReplyDelete27A- what is the famous opening phrase?
ReplyDeleteOPEN SESAME (Thiranthidu sesame)
DeleteOpen sesame
ReplyDeleteNice pictures Col.- colourful and inviting!
ReplyDeleteFrom One thousand and one(Arabian) nights.
ReplyDeletethe phrase Open Sesame is used by Ali Baba to open the door of the thieves' den, which he had discovered by chance.
The SCOTCH consumed by Vladimir earlier in the day seemed to be working as things began to fall ONE BY ONE.
ReplyDeleteDid it?
He felt that the woman in front of him was OLIVE whom he had met at Times Square the other day. Seeing her was TONIC!
(Was it Olive or a TELUGU lass?)
What if I invite her to CANDLE Light dinner at the RESORT thought he.
Was he right or was he making a mountain of a MOLEHILL?
What happened next?
If things start falling one by one after a scotch, maybe we should try it before trying a tough CW!!
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Delete20d avoids=eschews
ReplyDeleteCashews after losing a=ceshew
Squabble initially=s
ceshew+s=eschews
Short of correct anno.
Deleteceshew+s = ceshews
Cashews - a is cshew
DeleteWe still need an 'e'
What about sweetheart ? Why is it there ?
DeleteE is the heart of SWEET OK 👍
Delete1d Knowing the idiom (making a mountain out of molehill) makes it a GK type clue? Is there a better classification?
ReplyDeleteFrom past
ReplyDeleteAt home, sign mostly on a church bill (2,5)
Prasad garu,
DeleteIs the enumeration (2,5) or (7)?
For (7) my answer is
INVOICE - bill
At home - in
sign - v for victory
a - one - i
mostly on - o
church - ce
{in}{v}{o}{i}{ce}
Its 7.
DeleteWell done Ramesh. Since it was 2,5 I could not go beyond in.
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DeleteWow, to solve a NJ with wronh enu.
DeleteDevasena was one of them skyclads! (8)
DeleteDevasena was one of them skyclads! (8)
DeleteDIGAMBAR [C&DD]
Ref: Monk Devasena of the Digambara (skyclad) sect of Jains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devasena_(Jain_monk)
20D – {{E}SCHEW*}{S}
ReplyDeleteC(-a)shew - losing – a
S – squabble initially
Sw(e)et - heart of sweet – ‘E’ i.e sweet heart carrying ‘cashew’ over E*
Def. is “avoid”
All in all, eschew using too much oil from any of these sources...
ReplyDeleteThanks for solving, folks...
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DeleteThank you Barghav for bringing Aloi Baba to us.
ReplyDeleteEven without saying 'Open sesame' Col. opens out THC for us promptly at 8.30 am everyday!
Thank u Kishore. Is it a themed puzzle?
ReplyDeleteNutty Fairy tales?
My fav - TONIC, ALADDIN, SESAME.
Look fwd to cing u next month.
As a standard practice, all the themed words are being marked in yellow by Col
DeleteIncognito's 4th and final edition of the month is slightly more challenging than usual, accompanied with suitable rewards for those who took the efforts.
ReplyDeleteThe theme was nuts (perhaps in more ways than one). Curiously "Cashew" got ESCHEWED from the grid but featured in the clues. TIRAMISU and SCOTCH in row 6 were presumably the intended desserts. TELUGU returns to the grid for the first time since Hypatia's "century" CW last month, while ALADDIN tied in with SESAME for yet another easter-egg.
8A GROUNDNUTS, in line with the general theme, was a fine execution of the Reverse Anagram format (though whether RA is a fair clue type is itself another matter). 11A ONE BY ONE ("Eleven, sequentially...") was top-class wordplay. One of the clues with a nice surface reading was 23A SERPENTS ("Snakes repent crawling around in ship").
There were fewer telescopic clues than in recent Incognito grids. A few clues followed a pattern of subtraction from anagram fodder, for example 17D INEDIBLE ("Crabs removed from indescribable preparation"), 22A ABETS ("throwing dope from damaged speedboat") and 20A ESCHEW ("sweetheart carrying cashew-nuts after losing a squabble initially").
The wordplay was shared between 8A GROUNDNUT (anagram of "tun") and 4D COCONUT (NUT being reversal of "cask" or "tun"). "De-husked seed" in 27A was clever clueing for EE in keeping with the theme.
@Economizer, I saw your response to Wordle yesterday. It is too easy and quick for long haulers. During the initial buzz, I used to solve it for the sake of comparing notes on WA.
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