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ACROSS
1 Toilet occupied? No further options? (7,2,2)
9 In South Africa, little one gets diving equipment (5)
10 Simple meal with fish? It's hard... (9)
11 Sad? Sprint away and get plans... (10)
12 Kind of light one distributed at noon (4)
13 Animal changing lane at end of road (5)
15 Puts off US and Jordan arrangement (8)
17 Person wanting to get away from reality, having Spanish headgear, is trailing at first (8)
19 Remembers carrying smouldering coal (5)
22 Spotted salmon from company head office (4)
23 Company's objective? To get a cut! (10)
26 Removed organ and saved (9)
27 Prompt running guardsmen after throwing away arms (5)
28 Information about power supply in latest headlines? (7,4)
DOWN
1 Run about carrying gold in island country (5)
2 Concluded. "Is fully absorbed" (7,2)
3 Need GI at sea? Insert... (4,2)
4 Blew up! Blew up rude pet! (7)
5 But endless nylon gets entangled (4)
6 A lovebird can mutate to show uniform colour (5,4)
7 American sailor at port with leave finally capable of utilisation (6)
8 Spies' silver wrongly sent (6)
14 Person addicted to liquor obtained from Cocoa Hill (9)
16 Respect old boy arranging seance around 1 (9)
17 Create cipher from "Nurse fish and start to experiment" (6)
18 Plague Supreme Court and love press? (7)
20 Called queen's forest officer (6)
21 In the middle of a street, dim characters retreat (6)
24 Remove oar from dinosaur writhing in river (5)
25 Completed 6 deliveries (4)
9a scuba - diving equipment from cub - little one in SA
ReplyDelete,6D Olive drab - uniform colour from A Lovebird anagram
19a ember- smoldering cold from rEMBERers
15 a Adjourns - puts off from anagram of US JORDAN
ReplyDelete10A Gruelling - hard from Gruel- meal and Ling - fish
Another joy ride of a grid from Inc.
ReplyDelete+1.
DeleteConfused- Happy Incognito started his run/ sad Dr.X had to give way.
I feel the other way around. Incognito was my first. I feel good after solving their puzzles. Dr. X is too tough.
DeleteJust read his clues first and enjoy. Solving comes next.
DeleteIm new to solving cryptic crosswords so i find incognito’s surfaces are much more simple.
Delete1. NAURU is an island country RUN around AU (gold)
ReplyDeleteIt is not just 'Run' around Au, but an anagram of (Run)*
DeleteThe anagrind shd also be given to complete the parsing.
25D. OVER made up of 6 deliveries in cricket
ReplyDeleteVery easy to solve ..breeze
ReplyDeleteOne of my fastest completion.
ReplyDelete14D. ALCOHOLIC - anagram of cocoa and hill
ReplyDelete24D. INDUS river by DINOSAUR - OAR anagram
ReplyDelete22A. COHO - CO for company + HO for head office - also known as silver salmon, they have a metallic blue colour with dots on their back and tail
ReplyDelete17ac. Spain(es)headgear(cap) is (t)railing at first is ESCAPIST - person running away from reality
ReplyDelete8d
ReplyDeleteSpies=agents
Silver=ag
ag+(sent)*=agents
In the middle=amidst
a street=a+st
(a+st+dim<=)*=amidst
charectors retreat= reversal indicator
11a BLUEPRINTS=Plans
ReplyDeleteSad =blue, (Sprint)*=prints
How does sprint become prints? Is away some sort of indicator
DeleteYes
DeleteYes, Prints is an anagram of Sprint with 'away' being anagram indicator.
Delete20d RANGER=Forest officer
ReplyDeleteCalled=RANG, queen=ER
16d OBEISANCE =respect
ReplyDeleteO(ld), B(oy)[sea(i)nce}*
13 A (LANE) changing (anagram indicator) + end of roa(D) = ELAND
ReplyDeleteRight
Delete23A commission, com-company, objective-mission
ReplyDelete26A- delivered , de(liver-organ)ed
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get Deed from
Delete18D- scourge , sc(supreme court, o-love, urge-press)
ReplyDelete17d encode - (N)urse (COD)fish and start to experiment (e)
ReplyDeleteIncorrect
DeleteSorry nurse is EN
Delete2Dn WRAPPED UP - DD
ReplyDelete27A:nudge=prompt-
ReplyDelete{(guardsmen)-(arms)}*
5d ONLY - but(def) endless nylon(NYLO) is entangled (annagrind)
ReplyDelete1A. NOWHERE TO GO. Toilet occupied and no further options.DD.
ReplyDelete2D. WRAPPED UP. DD for concluded and fully absorbed.
21D.AMIDST. retreat is reversal indicator for dim. A street is AST. In the middle= amidst.
28A.CURRENT NEWS. Information=news and power supply=current. Latest headlines= current news.
22a COHO: salmon
ReplyDeleteCO( company)HO( head office)
Message from Vijayalakshmi sent to me
ReplyDelete26-A- Removed organ means de-livered
Saved also means delivered
Deliver us from evil