Solution to 16A 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
7 Prohibits watering holes (4) BARS [DD}
8 Nude relative consumes hot roll before commencement of dinner (9) UNCLOTHED {UNCL{HOT*}E}{Di...r}
10 Absorbent orb's lost and missing (6) ABSENT ABSorbENT
11 General, after drinking a bit of liquor, produces material capable of causing bodily harm (8) ALLERGEN {GENERAL+Li...r}*
12 Organise vocals in forerunner of some East European languages (8) SLAVONIC*
14 Time. (6) PERIOD [DD]
16 Mix drug with Yankee's drink (7) ?H?S?E? (Addendum - WHISKEY {WHISK}{E}{Y} - See comments)
18 Danger signal often seen in Russia or China (3,4) RED FLAG [DD]
23 Extraordinary rum label! It may save you from rain... (8) UMBRELLA*
25 Circuit around street having carbon monoxide, for example, may result in final breath (4,4) LAST GASP {LA{ST}{GAS}P}
27 Girl with circular land unit measuring around 2400 square feet (6) GROUND {G}{ROUND}
29 Perhaps, Peter Scot is very highly classified (3-6) TOP-SECRET*
30 Keen part of Kannada video (4) AVID [T]
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2 Land surrounded by water? Misleading to some extent... (4) ISLE [T]
3 King's first love is surrounded by horrible aunts (6) SULTAN {SU{Love}TAN*}
4 Superficial wound from the very beginning (7) SCRATCH [DD]
5 Lac poles break and fall down (8) COLLAPSE*
6 Writer donating gold becomes god (4) THOR auTHOR
9 Because of song for two with love (3,2) DUE TO {DUET}{0}
13 Counsellor releases advertisement for Sir Lancelot's face saving device (5) VISOR adVISOR
15 Hunt for gun (5) RIFLE [DD]
17 Trapped English players with devilish dare (8) ENSNARED {EN}{SN}{DARE*}
20 Stay and consume drink (7) SUPPORT {SUP}{PORT}
22 Earth shaking core? (5) HEART*
24 Chance upon model wearing neck adornment in capital (6) BOGOTA {GO}{T} in {BOA}
26 Antelope's hat? (4) TOPI [DD]
28 Operation by criminal to get gem (4) OPAL {OP}{AL}
Reference List
Drug = E, Yankee = Y, Street = ST, Girl = G, Advertisement = AD, English = E, Partners = N,S(North and South in Bridge card game), Saint = ST, Book = NT(New Testament), Island = I, Consume = SUP, Model = T, Operation = OP, Criminal = AL(Capone)
20D is my COD
ReplyDelete+1
Delete6D- Author can donate gold from either end!!
ReplyDeleteThen you will be left with a God named AUTH :-)
DeleteTH!!! If from both ends.
DeleteI'm not complaining- just mentioned the coincidence!
DeleteKabbalah- I was totally lost (except for Abba) Of course googkw to the rescue. I rarely do it for an Incignito CW.
ReplyDeleteTo help himself stand firmly on the GROUND in BOGOTA, Vladimir held the
ReplyDeleteBARS near the kerb for SUPPORT.
DUE TO the gale both his UMBRELLA and TOPI were blown off.
Losing HEART was not to be found with Vladimir...PERIOD
He was seen to SCRATCH his head and sing
"Ae Meri Topi Palat Ke Aa"
CGB sir.....aage kya hoga???????
ReplyDeleteWatch in SILVER SCREEN!!
DeleteUnfair to call CHO just a 'Tamil actor'. He was multifaceted 🙂
ReplyDeleteDef.one of his facets.
DeleteI remember CHO was a regular with NAIR and SEN in TH crosswords, decades back.
DeleteCHO was referred as politician
+1(though I don't know nair and sen, i used to see his references.),
DeleteIf you are referring to a certain CHO Ramaswamy.
I had the privilege of meeting CHO Ramaswamy in his Greenways Road office once in Chennai, around 15 years ago, when I was studying for +2. I grew up near that area, not more than 5 minutes away on foot. The meeting was regarding some project work I had done in school, the details of which elude me. I recall that he was generous with his time, and I think he signed one or two books containing his plays for me.
DeleteOnly tomorrow's setter knows!!! (Not even CGB)
ReplyDeleteThat has already been delivered!!!
Delete....to TH, not to us or CGB.
Delete16 across solved, let others try
ReplyDelete16 a is whiskey. Whisk is mix. E is drug and y is yankee
ReplyDelete👍
Delete17D I didn't understand how to get SN from 'players'.
ReplyDeleteReference list gives
"Partners = N,S(North and South in Bridge card game)"
May be it should replace partners with players.
North and South are denoted as partners in a game of bridge the other two being East and West
DeleteMaybe he meant E foe English and NSN as players (not partners) If it is just N&S, Incognito would have used partners.
DeleteReference list has to list players for SN is what I mean.
DeleteBridge is a game I know very well.
Bond fixes cards and bids 7 clubs(grand slam) in one of the famous games in movies/novels. Though I like the straight flush in Casino Royale more.
Straight flush in poker*
DeleteA fine puzzle from Incognito, perhaps a SMIDGEON harder than usual. I found that I had to disengage from autopilot mode to solve a handful of clues - 11A ALLERGEN (for which the anagrind proved unusually elusive), 16A WHISKEY (for which the unusual crossings of ?H?S?E? were not enough to remind me of the pleasures of the drink), 27A GROUND (for which I needed to do some research), 4D SCRATCH (for which I only had ?C???C? until the end) and 24D BOGOTA (which took embarrassingly long, considering BOA as "stole" had appeared in a recent THC edition).
ReplyDeleteThere were 6 DD clues, which is more than usual for Incognito. I found it interesting that a number of clues were of a "hybrid" variety that did not fall neatly into one bucket or the other. 10A was a telescopic clue with deletions. 8A UNCLOTHED, 1D KABBALAH and 17D ENSNARED were partly charades and partly anagrams. Thanks Kishore for the puzzle.