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*}
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]
DOWN
1 Quarry owned by me (4) MINE [DD]
2 Mound cur destroyed displays abrasive mineral (8) CORUNDUM*
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}
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}
25 Where the camper gets desire? (6) INTENT {IN TENT} [C&DD]
Reference List
Female = F, Catholic = C, Sailor = AB, Ship = SS, Note = TI, Yankee = Y, American = A, Large = L, Left = L, Boy = B
Is it because Incognito, you have not given it in the title?
ReplyDeleteForgot.
DeleteAll EYES were on Vladimir and his IMPALA car as he arrived in the COURT along with his AGENT.
ReplyDeleteHe 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?
Col - kindly post my Rangoli & Prasannas drg for Janmashtami.
ReplyDeleteHappy Janmashtami/ Gokulashtami/ Krishna Jayanthi/ Sri Jayanthi to all.
DeleteThank you sir......Vasudeva Kudumbakam
DeleteThank you Colonel!
DeleteWish everyone & their families a happy Krishna Jayanthi!
No RA today!
ReplyDeleteCol., 10A- reverse T to be indicated.
ReplyDeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteThat's a good one Sathia!!
DeleteYounger incognito would have made the learner to go down.....now grown up, due disciplined by PP !!!
DeleteTut! Tut!
DeletePrasad, I don't remember to have seen your comments during PP times. Silent follower?
DeleteWhat are PP times Sir? Please share.
Delete@paddy. Yes. Almost 3 years.
DeleteOh! Really?
Delete@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.
😜
DeleteI was a silent follower during PP times. I remember some of her 'digressions'.
DeleteNote- TI....take information?????
ReplyDeleteAmerican-, and British-English, the solfège 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
Deletethe clue 28a. anno.for note-TI not correlated to music. def. is cleaning.
DeleteNote: - TI(musical note)
DeleteDeparted - DIED
cleaned up(def) - (TI)(DIED)
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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Deletete or ti noun (tes or tis) music in sol-fa notation: the seventh note of the major scale.
Si was replaced with te/ti
Thank you Sree_sree sir.....it's about musical notes. Acc. to the notes 'TI' matches with word play.
Delete30Ac MOLE - (DD)
ReplyDeleteSecret Agent=Mole=Pier
DeleteFrom my checking, I got the idea that piers are sometimes called moles. But moles (secret agents) are not called piers.
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DeleteI should've put them separately - secret agent - mole & pier - mole
DeleteMole:
Deletea large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway.
Typo in 7D anno.
ReplyDeleteI 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).
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
20D- small is meant to get op from operation.
DeleteMy point is that OP is already an abbreviation for "operation".
DeleteI think 'small' adds to the difficulty of the clue. Without it, the clue becomes easier than it is.
DeleteThank you col.sir for posting the Artwork & Rangoli.
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