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Friday, 4 July 2025

No 14528, Friday 04 Jul 2025, Incognito

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ACROSS
7   Carry in vehicle... Piece of cake, right? (4) CART {CAke}{RT}
8   Mutant roach DNA covering one spider web like membrane (9) ARACHNOID {ROACH+DNA}* over {1}
10 Distributing grapes endlessly around youth centre in city (6) PRAGUE {GRAPEs} over {yoUth}
11 Scrutinises bug carrying a bit of pollen at start of study (8) INSPECTS {INS{Po...n}ECT}{St..y}
12 Eastern relation, perhaps (8) ORIENTAL* 
14 Insect spreading acid in California (6) CICADA {C{ACID*}A}
16 Extended play is initially tantalising with the French letter (7) EPISTLE {EP}{IS}{Ta...g}{LE}
18 Customers ordered stencil (7) CLIENTS*
21 A kind of pain around end of stomach producing a bile acid (6) CHOLIC {C{s...cH}OLIC}
23 Birds over Crusoe (8) ROBINSON {ROBINS}{ON}
25 Scare right inside marshy land (8) FRIGHTEN {F{RIGHT}EN}
27 Extraordinary priest is most mature (6) RIPEST*
29 Start speech about one drink (9) ORIGINATE {OR{1}{GIN}ATE}
30 Spoil small planet (4) MARS {MAR}{S}

DOWN
1   Grooming aid's hot air goes right into pores at first (8) HAIRGRIP {H}{AIR}{Goes}{Ri..t}{Into}{Po..s}
2   Buck got by throwing gats (4) STAG*
3   Gift story book (6) TALENT {TALE}{NT}
4   Cricketer Shastri mixes oil to prepare stuffed pasta (7) RAVIOLI {RAVI}{OIL*}
5   Tangible clay ship is sailing (8) PHYSICAL*
6 & 15 Arrive, bathe and reveal (4,5) COME CLEAN {COME}{CLEAN}
9   Period editor is worshipped (5) DOTED {DOT}{ED}
13 Stand in support of artist (5) EASEL [CD]
15 See 6 
17 Food additive made from litchi paste spread around eastern pole (8) LECITHIN {LITCHI}* over {E} with N
19 Pants, "Powdered ores rust" (8) TROUSERS*
20 Scotsman hugged Indian queen and Asian national (7) IRANIAN {I{RANI}AN}
22 Oprah goes back for Groucho's brother (5) HARPO<=
24 Edge English cricketer (6) BORDER [DD]
26 Greek and Indian give broad smile (4)  GRIN {GR}{IN}
28 Redrawn map includes university zoo resident, perhaps (4) PUMA {P{U}MA*}

Reference List
Right = RT, The in French = LE, Over = ON, Marshy land = FEN, Small = S, Hot = H, Book = NT(New Testament), Period = DOT, Eastern = E, Pole = N, Indian Queen = RANI, Greek = GR, Indian = IN, University = U


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58 comments:

  1. anonym4 July 2025 at 07:54

    14A cicada,acid+ca (california)

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    1. Col_Gopinath4 July 2025 at 08:15

      Acidv+ ca will become acidca?

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    2. Col_Gopinath4 July 2025 at 08:17

      Please edit your Blogger profile to show your name

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  2. anonym4 July 2025 at 07:55

    8a, anagram of roach and DNA

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  3. anonym4 July 2025 at 07:55

    Arachnoid 8a

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  4. anonym4 July 2025 at 07:57

    10a, Prague, grape (endlessly) + u, yo'u'th centre

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  5. anonym4 July 2025 at 07:58

    4d. Ravioli, ravi (shastri) +oil

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    1. Col_Gopinath4 July 2025 at 08:19

      Please show complete annotation. Ravi+ oil will become ravioil?

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  6. Radhamani4 July 2025 at 08:09

    2d
    Buck=stag
    (gats)*
    Tangible=physical
    (clay ship)*
    11a
    Scrutinises=insects
    bug=insect
    pollen=p
    start of study=s
    ins(p)ect+s=inspects

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    1. Radhamani4 July 2025 at 08:12

      12a
      Eastern=Oriental
      (relation)*=Oriental

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    2. santha4 July 2025 at 11:30

      30A MARS=planet
      1A ..CART=to carry in vehicle(defy)

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  7. Shay4 July 2025 at 08:27

    18A - Clients - customers; Stencil - anagram
    30A - Mars - planet; spoil- Mar + s(small)
    27A - Ripest - most mature; priest - anagram
    3D - Talent - Gift; story - Tale, book - NT
    20D - Iranian - Asian national: Rani + Ian - Indian queen (rani), Scotsman - Ian

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    1. Padmanabhan4 July 2025 at 08:56

      You must also say how the letters are arranged. (Eg) I(RANI)AN, where Ian is a Scotsman.

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    2. Shay4 July 2025 at 09:02

      Thank you and noted for next time

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  8. Brajesh4 July 2025 at 08:46

    29a originate -start from orate + i + gin anagram

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    1. Col_Gopinath4 July 2025 at 09:07

      Brajesh you have been requested N number of times to learn how to give proper annotation.
      Orate+i+gin will be orateigin?

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    2. N Sridhar4 July 2025 at 10:35

      or(i)(gin)ate- start; orate is to speak but speech?

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  9. Brajesh4 July 2025 at 08:47

    23a robinson crusoe from birds-:robins over- on

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  10. Brajesh4 July 2025 at 08:50

    30a Mars from spoil is mar and s from spoil

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  11. santha4 July 2025 at 08:55

    1a.cart
    Ca…rt
    30a. Mars
    Spoil=mar ans
    D s for small

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    1. Padmanabhan4 July 2025 at 09:13

      30A- What is the def.? Your solution is not complete without it.
      Same for 1A

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  12. Kishan4 July 2025 at 08:58

    16A EPISTLE - letter; {E}xtended {P}lay, IS,{T}antalising, the French {LE}
    21A CHOLIC - bile acid; kind of pain {C{H}OLIC}
    6/15D COME CLEAN - reveal; arrive {COME}, bathe{VLEAN}
    9D DOTED - worshipped; period {DOT}, editor {ED}
    13D EASEL - stand in support of artist (DD)

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    1. Padmanabhan4 July 2025 at 09:15

      13A can't be a DD. What is the second def.?

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    2. Kishan4 July 2025 at 10:01

      You are right; it is not a DD.

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  13. N.Srikanth4 July 2025 at 10:25

    25A. Frighten for scare. F right en. right goes inside Fen (marshy land)
    1D. Hairgrip for grooming air. H (hot) Air g r i p(starting letters of goes right into pores)
    5D. Physical for tangible. Clay and ship are anagrams.
    9D. Doted for worshipped. Dot(Period)+ ed (editor)
    19D. Trousers for pants. Ores and rust are anagrams.

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  14. gxdxr4 July 2025 at 10:37

    24D. BORDER {DD}

    (mistake in the clue?)

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    1. AJ4 July 2025 at 10:47

      Yes. Allan Border was an Australian cricketer, not an English cricketer.

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  15. Sathia4 July 2025 at 11:00

    17D: food additive= lecithin
    (Litchi)* paste is anagind
    Eastern is e
    Pole is n
    Hence, (l(e)cithi(n))
    Sathia

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  16. AJ4 July 2025 at 11:00

    22d HARPO: Harpo Marx, brother of Groucho Marx
    HARPO: OPRAH <= goes back

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  17. H Ramachandran4 July 2025 at 11:05

    28d PUMA - Zoo resident(map+ u)*
    U - University
    Redrawn - Anind

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    1. Col_Gopinath4 July 2025 at 11:47

      It's not a total anagram

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    2. H Ramachandran4 July 2025 at 12:39

      Right Sir! It is anagram of MAP with U inserted. Thanks

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  18. Sekar4 July 2025 at 11:26

    3d: talent = gift. Story=tale and book=ng (new testament).
    26d: grin = broad smile. GReek and INdian.

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  19. santha4 July 2025 at 11:39

    11A. SCRUTINISES=inspects.bug=insect
    Ins(p=bit of pollen)ect+s=start of study.carrying as inclusion indicator

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  20. Padmanabhan4 July 2025 at 11:40

    Incognito to learn some cricket to fix Birder!!

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  21. Padmanabhan4 July 2025 at 11:40

    Border

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  22. Padmanabhan4 July 2025 at 11:50

    In general, all solvers to note that whenever you give anagram as solution, you must clearly state-
    1. What are the components
    2. How they are to be arranged
    3. What is the anagram indicator
    And, of course the solution word to be shown in bold letters

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    1. Col_Gopinath4 July 2025 at 12:15

      You can't enter Bold in comments

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    2. sree_sree4 July 2025 at 12:30

      test

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    3. sree_sree4 July 2025 at 12:31

      You can enter Bold in comments

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    4. sree_sree4 July 2025 at 12:31

      Tried out of curiosity only Col.

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    5. Padmanabhan4 July 2025 at 13:04

      Or at least in capitals

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    6. Padmanabhan4 July 2025 at 13:06

      Most of the time, it us difficult to spot the solution word on their comments- no space, comma or full stop

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    7. Sathia4 July 2025 at 13:16

      Probably Sree Sree can indicate how he got bold letters and also possibly italic letters, so that we all can use it.
      Sathia

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    8. sree_sree4 July 2025 at 13:17

      Just use the html tags for bold and italic

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    9. Sathia4 July 2025 at 13:29

      Sorry! I am not able to get it!
      Sathia

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    10. Prasanna Rao4 July 2025 at 13:59

      *Nice Sree-sree* for the bold letters

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    11. Mohan4 July 2025 at 14:01

      Test Bold
      Test Italics

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    12. Mohan4 July 2025 at 14:25

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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  23. Col_Gopinath4 July 2025 at 13:45

    It can be done but too complicated to use html tags whole commenting. I use to post links in the comments using html tags but it's time consuming

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    1. sree_sree4 July 2025 at 16:02

      +1 but once we get used, it's not that inconvenient .

      It might even reduce the fastest finger first mode on Friday.

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    2. sree_sree4 July 2025 at 16:08

      I voice type my answer in Gemini and ask it to give in the format (you have to say in the format and not output)
      And copy paste here.

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  24. Padmanabhan4 July 2025 at 13:59

    But capital letters is easy to type and follow as well.

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  25. Prasanna Rao4 July 2025 at 14:09

    In HTML I tried it....the Bold font recognised. but not published....system seek for admin. approval. may Col.sir know about this....

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  26. sree_sree4 July 2025 at 21:00

    21a isn't colic and cholic same! Denoting the region/part of body.
    23a robin!!! It's the same for bird and man. The bird was named after the english name.

    Also the second part is irrelevant for solving the clue once we get the bird
    Same with Mar(s).
    And come clean as is inelegant!
    And ofcourse the Border.


    Too many complaints for an Incognito puzzle.

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