Saturday, 9 September 2023

No 13966, Saturday 09 Sep 2023, Incognito

ACROSS
8   Father's anger (4) SIRE {S}{IRE}
9   Boy has longing for female animal (5) BITCH {B}{ITCH}
10 Land in middle of water? Somewhat misleading... (4) ISLE [T]
11 Carrying processed weed in ship for some Europeans (6) SWEDES {S{WEED*}S}
12 Began including learner. Surprised? (8) STARTLED {START{L}ED}
13 Taking part of lunch as tea is indecent (8) UNCHASTE [T]
15 Sudden's put bar in a mess (6) ABRUPT*
17 Wail, "Tag is destroyed by bird" (7) WAGTAIL*
19 Go and exercise after putting note in ATM (7) ATTEMPT {PT}<=>{A{T{TE}M}
22 John (in England) gets a dog, for example (6) CANINE {CAN}{IN}{E}
24 Jerkily nods away in these times (8) NOWADAYS*
26 Hen traps laid out for animals (8) PANTHERS
28 Know Leonard's back in the doghouse (6) KENNEL {KEN}{LEN<=}
30 Satellite's rings mentioned in a couple of consecutive letters (4) MOON {OO} in {MN}
31 Good precipitation results in edible seed (5) GRAIN {G}{RAIN}
32 Orient every article supplied together, for starters (4) EAST Acrostic

DOWN
1   See and compete with West (4) VIEW {VIE}{W}
2   Cause of violent death around Japanese ruler dropping weapon? (8) HEADSHOT {DEATH*} over {SHOgun}
3   Sailor employs swear words (6) ABUSES {AB}{USES}
4   Hid leaders of the African state in barn (7) STASHED {S{The}{Af...n}{St..e}HED}
5   Bird badly hates nap (8) PHEASANT*
6   Illuminated the extraordinary relic initially seen in garbage (6) LITTER {LIT}{The}{Ex...y}{Re..c}
7   Sad and tailless bull runs around with last piece of rope (4) BLUE {BULl}*{ropE}
14 Animal kept in many a laboratory (5) NYALA  [T]
16 Yup, rejected! Including parish priest's young animal (5) PUPPY {YUP}<= over {PP}
18 Big scree movement may result in shipping hazards (8) ICEBERGS
20 Imperil aim with ire (8) ENDANGER {END}{ANGER}
21 Rare ulna is broken and scattered around American university (7) UNUSUAL {ULNA}* over {US}{U}
23 Mean Indian nurse (6) INTEND {IN}{TEND}
25 Rouses woman with crawling snake (6) WAKENS {W}{SNAKE}*
27 Try wearing silver to get full of intense excitement! (4) AGOG {A{GO}G}
29 Eating Asian spicy yam for starters is not difficult (4) EASY Acrostic

Reference List
Boy = B, Ship = SS, Learner = L, Exercise = PT, Note = TE, England = E, Good = G, West = W, Sailor = AB, Parish priest = PP, University = U, Woman = W

8 comments:

  1. Easy, smooth flowing and themed to complete the round?

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  2. Any declared holiday? No one seems to be around.

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  3. It was so easy and hardly any questions. Finished the grid while watching Medvedev finish Alcaraz. A little disappointed there.

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  4. The grid design was the same as yesterday. Incognito uses it frequently. There were some easy acrostics at the bottom right corner. "Know" as KEN in 28A was an interesting verb of Dutch & German origins. The "sad and tailless bull running around with last piece of rope" in 7D was a nice surface and had echoes of the "toad hopping around damaged tent" in yesterday's puzzle. 18D also had a neat surface reading. The word NYALA (14D) appears to be frequently used in THC - at least 25 times previously as per a search through this blog!

    It was impossible to get the anno for 2D even after solving the clue. It seems that "violent death" is on double duty as [anagrind][anagram] and part of the definition "cause of violent death...?" The words "by" in 17A and "and" in 7D could have been avoided as link-words (it would necessitate removal of "is" in the case of 17A for a grammatically correct surface).

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    1. 2D was the last one to fall in place for me with the inevitable assumption /conclusion that 'violent death' is on double duty.

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  5. Weekend completed by solving incognito grid. All four grids were excellent and interesting.

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