Wednesday, 6 September 2023

No 13963, Wednesday 06 Sep 2023, Incognito

Rangoli by Gowri

Artwork by Prasanna

Solution to 30A 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
8   Female spreads oil to make pastry dough (4) FILO {F}{OIL*}
9   Wandering, came across Catholic and Islamic holy c ity (5) MECCA {ME{C}CA*}
10 Flower carried back in Antonov aircraft (4) AVON [T]
11 Legendary lady from small European sea and America (6) MEDUSA {MED}{USA}
12 Speed up putting tepid mixture in river (8) EXPEDITE {EX{TEPID*}E}
13 Aid car damaged in precipitation loaded with hydrogen ions (4,4) ACID RAIN {AID+CAR}*{IN}
15 Sailor on street in another country (6) ABROAD {AB}{ROAD}
17 Increase soldiers after August and commencement of tension (7) AUGMENT {MEN}<=>{AUG} and {Te...n}
19 Minor actress shakes rattles (7) STARLET*
22 Dead bodies resulting from fight on board ship (6) STIFFS {S{TIFF}S}
24 Start IIT eat-in cooking (8) INITIATE*
26 Sorry, coir tent is dismantled (8) CONTRITE*
28 Note: Departed and cleaned up (6) TIDIED {TI}{DIED}
30 Secret agent's pier (4) ?O?E (Addendum - MOLE [DD] - See comments)
31 Shoot young descendant of influential family (5) SCION [DD]
32 Order followed by Yankee? Follow order! (4) OBEY {OBE}{Y}

DOWN
1   Quarry owned by me (4) MINE [DD]
2   Mound cur destroyed displays abrasive mineral (8) CORUNDUM*
3   Badly limp around an American animal (6) IMPALA {IMP{A}L*}{A}
4   Hides displays (7) SCREENS [DD]
5   Facility producing LNG, perhaps, can make gals pant (3,5) GAS PLANT*
6   Large snake? It may help you reach higher places! (6) LADDER {L}{ADDER}
7   Sprinter's putting egg into bacon, lettuce and tomato initially (4) BOLT {Ba..n}{O}{Le...e}{To...o}
14 What the amorous lawyer did at his workplace? (5) COURT [C&DD]
16 Spy one decent guy (5) AGENT {A}{GENT}
18 Badly designed tin seats are most unpleasant (8) NASTIEST*
20 Smallest unit of precipitation, perhaps, managed to cover one doctor having small operation (8) RAINDROP {RA{1}N}{DR}{OP}
21 Left European peninsular area for country in Africa (7) LIBERIA {L}{IBERIA}
23 Pop has stout with that lady (6) FATHER {FAT}{HER}
25 Where the camper gets desire? (6) INTENT {IN TENT} [C&DD]
27 Boy wearing spectacles has European musical instrument (4) OBOE {O{B}O}{E}
29 Sees from end of bridge? Correct! (4) EYES {b...gE}{YES}

Reference List
Female = F, Catholic = C, Sailor = AB, Ship = SS, Note = TI, Yankee = Y, American = A, Large = L, Left = L, Boy = B

38 comments:

  1. Is it because Incognito, you have not given it in the title?

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  2. All EYES were on Vladimir and his IMPALA car as he arrived in the COURT along with his AGENT.

    He explained his INTENT and clarified that he had TIDIED the mess ABROAD (i.e. in Mumbai).

    "I am willing to OBEY your order"

    Did the court INITIATE proceedings against him?

    What happened next?

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  3. Col - kindly post my Rangoli & Prasannas drg for Janmashtami.

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    1. Happy Janmashtami/ Gokulashtami/ Krishna Jayanthi/ Sri Jayanthi to all.

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    2. Thank you sir......Vasudeva Kudumbakam

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    3. Thank you Colonel!
      Wish everyone & their families a happy Krishna Jayanthi!

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  4. Col., 10A- reverse T to be indicated.

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  5. I had an optical illusion while reading the clue for 5D. I read it as ending in Gas plant instead of 'Gals pant' and wondering why the solution is given straightaway!

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    1. Younger incognito would have made the learner to go down.....now grown up, due disciplined by PP !!!

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    2. Prasad, I don't remember to have seen your comments during PP times. Silent follower?

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    3. What are PP times Sir? Please share.

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    4. @paddy. Yes. Almost 3 years.

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    5. Oh! Really?
      @Rao- PP is one of our very early bloggers. a lady who used to pull us up whenever we strayed and tried to be cheeky! All in good fun though.

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    6. I was a silent follower during PP times. I remember some of her 'digressions'.

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  6. Note- TI....take information?????

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    1. American-, and British-English, the solfĆØge syllables are DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA, TI, DO. If you listen to the Rodgers and Hammerstein song DO-RE-MI from The Sound of Music, you will notice the lyric for the 7th note is Tea- a drink with jam and bread. - curtsey Google

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    2. the clue 28a. anno.for note-TI not correlated to music. def. is cleaning.

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    3. Note: - TI(musical note)
      Departed - DIED
      cleaned up(def) - (TI)(DIED)

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    4. Thanks . Pilla. quite tough to get the clue & anno. Almost got it. still my point is abbreviation of TI. Take note or some thing else.

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    5. From chambers
      te or ti noun (tes or tis) music in sol-fa notation: the seventh note of the major scale.
      Si was replaced with te/ti

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    6. Thank you Sree_sree sir.....it's about musical notes. Acc. to the notes 'TI' matches with word play.

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  7. From my checking, I got the idea that piers are sometimes called moles. But moles (secret agents) are not called piers.

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    2. I should've put them separately - secret agent - mole & pier - mole

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    3. Mole:
      a large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway.

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  8. I enjoyed some of the charades such as 15A {AB}{ROAD}, 32A {OBE}{Y} and "boy wearing spectacles" for {OBO} in 27A. 5D was hardly cryptic. 6D had me thinking about snakes & LADDERs, a game in which the board looked somewhat like a crossword grid. Quoting from Wikipedia: The name "corundum" is derived from the Tamil-Dravidian word kurundam (ruby-sapphire) (appearing in Sanskrit as kuruvinda).

    The word "small" could have been deleted from 20D, leaving the clue technically correct. As a DD, one of the definitions in 25D was "where the camper" which isn't grammatically correct, although if you read the clue as CD&lit it works.

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    1. 20D- small is meant to get op from operation.

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    2. My point is that OP is already an abbreviation for "operation".

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    3. I think 'small' adds to the difficulty of the clue. Without it, the clue becomes easier than it is.

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  9. Thank you col.sir for posting the Artwork & Rangoli.

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