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Solution to 19D 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.
ACROSS
1 Police force getting revised salary and uniform to heartlessly nab criminals primarily (12) CONSTABULARY {SALARY+U+TO+NaB+Cr...s}*
9 Identity established shortly. That is Latin (2,3) ID EST {IDe...y}{ESTa...d}
10 Some order ring erroneously for sidearm (9) DERRINGER [T]
11 Stormy petrel nibbles island snake (7) REPTILE {REPT{I}LE*}
12 Say nothing on split after ultimate fight for elevation (3-4) EGO-TRIP {EG}{O} and {RIP}<=>{f..hT}
13 It records jet fight (5,3) BLACK BOX {BLACK}{BOX}
14 Cushion torn on top many times (5) OFTEN sOFTEN
18 Lady's fingers occasionally overlooked rocky roads (5) OKRAS {rOcKy+RoAdS}
20 Party favours - Setters run to win them (3,5) DOG RACES {DO}{GRACES}
24 Wife leaves riches in favour of saint in secrecy (7) STEALTH (-w+st)STEALTH
26 He mends shoes for dessert (7) COBBLER [DD]
27 How long can anyone live happily in fiction? (4,5) EVER AFTER [CD]
DOWN
1 He gives best deals with value-for-money card (5-4) CHEAP-JACK {CHEAP}{JACK}
2 "Damn, ditch the devil!" Spooner says (3-4) NIT-PICK (~pit nick to nit-pick)
3 Alluring footbridge collapsed killing brigadier general (2,3,3) TO DIE FOR {FOOTbRIDgE}* Brigadier General/BG ?
4 Strip channel? Get Hooked! (6) BARBED {BAR}{BED}
5 Liberal financial assistance absent for jobless (4,3) LAID OFF {L}{AID}{OFF}
7 Uncover mutilated bodies with a hint of rotting (7) DISROBE {DIS{Ro...g}OBE*}
8 Pawn goes around river for fruit (5) DRUPE {D{R}UPE}
17 He takes possession without right from shylock exercising power (7) USURPER {USUR{P}ER}
19 High scares without leaders on the ball (3,4) A?L ?A?S (Addendum - ALL EARS {tALL}{fEARS} - See comments)
21 Polish clergyman without work? Nonsense (7) RUBBISH {RUB}{BISHop}
22 They carry loads of large number of people without money (5) ASSES mASSES
23 Got the suspect in thickly populated area (6) GHETTO*
25 Excessive deposit endangering mass adversely primarily? (5) EDEMA Acrostic &lit
Reference List
Uniform = U, Island = I, Party = DO, Wife = W, Saint = ST, Champion = CH, Liberal = L, Time = T, Money = M
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadier_general_(United_States)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thefreedictionary.com/bg
DeleteDon't know from where Free Dict got this abvn. to the best of my knowledge it is not used in any Army. Normally it is Brig Gen and never BG
DeleteIt is there in Oxford dictionary too, Col
DeleteBG Robinson
Deletehttps://www.westpoint.edu/military/commandant/biography
But KKR ji, its Narrow usage and not def gen knowledge. A hint could have been given.
DeleteStarted filling fast. Realised half way through that it is not Incognito but Karoke!! As simple as that 😊
ReplyDeleteThanks Paddy
Delete(10-4) code is interesting and new (for me) Thank you Col.
ReplyDeleteKaraoke for once has donned Incognito's hat. Breezed through. No complaints. Thanks KKR ji.
ReplyDeleteThanks RNPji
DeleteEVEN AFTER Vladimir had said that he was prepared TO DIE FOR her, Olive did not care.
ReplyDeleteHe was rejected for being poor.
Vladimir soon became USURPER of a GHETTO. Wanted to make money out of RUBBISH
and move from RAGS TO RICHES.
He was OFTEN seen moving in STEALTH holding a BLACK BOX.
What happened next?
CGB Sir, anxious to see what is inside the black box
DeleteThe whole CONSTABULARY vs his DERRENGER!!!
DeleteHope he DISROBES his EGO-TRIP before it ESCALATES to DOG RACES and this CHEAP JACK becomes the mechanical proxy for greyhounds. I am ?l? ?a?s
Happy Onam to all those who celebrate !
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ReplyDelete19Dn ALL EARS - {-(t)ALL}{(-f)EARS}
ReplyDeleteHIGH = TALL, SCARES = FEARS without leaders - T & S erased leaving All Ears meaning On the ball ( definition)
DeleteSorry read T & F erased in the above
DeleteFrom elasewhere
ReplyDeleteWho eats who can be found here!(7)
dograce
DeleteAs in 'dog eat dog'? Makes sense and the enum should be (3,4)
DeleteRatrace?
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ReplyDeleteThough it was disappointing to have fewer than usual Incognito puzzles this month, the grid was on the easier side.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought "fight" was an error in 13A and that it should read "flight" for a straight type clue. But It turns out the fight was part of the charade all along and I had been a PAWN. Until today I had never heard a footbridge described as "alluring" - I would love to see such an example in reality. 1D CHEAP JACK was also a well-clued charade. There was an appropriate use of "ceroc" as fodder and "dancing" as anagrind in 16D. 19D was a charade with 2 deletions which was unusual and neat to solve.
The spoonerism in 2D NIT-PICK was enjoyable. However, as a nit-pick, "nit-pick" and "damn" are not listed directly as synonyms (ref Chambers). The former means "to find minor faults" and the latter means "to condemn" - these are not exactly the same action.
I was unable to find a reference for Uniform = U. In what context is this abbreviation used outside of cryptic crosswords?
The definition of 12A "for elevation" should have come with a question mark or exclamation as it is not a precise definition for EGO-TRIP. It reads more like a definition for 15D ESCALATES.
"Man" in 28A is a proper noun referring to ISLE of Man and as such needs an indicator.
In 29A the definition was "who rose from poverty to affluence" while the solution was RAGS TO RICHES, which describes "how one rose from poverty to affluence" (def. describes a person vs. solution describes a process).
How does "exercising" work as a containment indicator in 17D? I feel it is a valid anagram indicator. If it is indeed an anagram indicator, then 17D is an indirect anagram without anagrind for P.
I also didn't get NIT PICK from damn. Infact I wanted to fill GET LOST but could not annotate.
ReplyDeleteAlso did not know DRUPE. Had to Google.
So tough as per normal KKR standards - according to me.
Thanx KKR!
Perhaps, the meaning is based on perception. Nit picking can be used as a deliberate ploy to damn.
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