No 14700, Monday 26 Jan 2026, Incognito

REPUBLIC DAY GREETINGS

Artwork by Prasanna

Rangoli by Gowri

 Solution to 15A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered 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   Alight in Jalandhar (4) LAND [T]

9   Model leaves bathroom fitting for new president at one time (5) BIDEN BIDE(-t+n)N

10 State: Everyone can see hat spinning (4) UTAH {U}{HAT*}

11 Deer milling about church go back (6) RECEDE {RE{CE}DE*}

12 Military officer's issue? (4,4) ARMY BRAT [CD/GK]

13 Article with editor expressed opposition (8) OBJECTED {OBJECT}{ED}

15 Bone in possession of leaders of the ancient lawmen of the tribe (6) T?I?A?

17 Alternatively, wrongly detains (7) INSTEAD*

19 Go ahead with poster on American vice-president (7) ADVANCE {AD}{VANCE}

22 Demand American forks are destroyed (3,3) ASK FOR {A}{FORKS*}

24 State: Ship with an elite special force (8) ARKANSAS {ARK}{AN}{SAS}

26 Boast about friend Hector (8) BALLYRAG {B{ALLY}RAG}

28 Scared artificial intelligence is spreading across French Academy and starting to dominate (6) AFRAID {A{FR}{A}I}{Do...e}

30 Prohibit going around mid-afternoon to produce husk (4) BRAN {B{a..eRn..n}AN}

31 Dance for actor playing Hans Lada (5) WALTZ [GK] Landa and not Lada

32 Old silver with senior journalist (4) AGED {AG}{ED}

DOWN

1   Garden implement from Thrippunithura, Kerala (4) RAKE [T]

2   At this time at this place with book's follower (8) ADHERENT {AD}{HERE}{NT}

3   A hollow boast about the French becoming most fit (6) ABLEST {A}{Bo{LES}asT}

4   Wrongly discard identification documents (2,5) ID CARDS*

5   Excited tailless creature with Theodore (8) ANIMATED {ANIMAl}{TED}

6   Silent bachelor at one city (6) MUMBAI {MUM}{BA}{1}

7   Beat a monk (4) LAMA {LAM}{A}

14 Wedding announcement from bachelor fixed on northern poles (5) BANNS {BA}{N}{N}{S}

16 Air conditioned car crashed in city (5) ACCRA {AC}{CAR*}

18 Employees in planes giving extraordinary war cries (8) AIRCREWS*

20 Unusual moral ban, perhaps (8) ABNORMAL*

21 Called up ex Nepalese PM for getting floor decoration (7) RANGOLI {RANG}{OLI}

23 Musk, perhaps, is hidden in outskirts of Faraday... That's a crime! (6) FELONY {Fa..{ELON}.aY} 

25 Pale Zulu in Karnataka gets currency (6) KWANZA {K{WAN}{Z}A}

27 City in Anantnag ravine (4) AGRA [T]

29 Cold dice rolled (4) ICED*

Reference List

Model = T, New = N, Everyone can see = U, Church = CE, Editor = ED, Poster = AD, American = A, French = FR, Academy = A, This time = AD, Book = NT(New Testament), The in French = LES, Bachelor = BA, Northern = N, Poles = N,S