No 12102, Saturday 02 Sep 2017, Incognito

Incognito distributing chocolates & cigars for the delivery of his 100th baby 

ACROSS
1   Accountant's excited combat in crypt (8) CATACOMB {CA}{COMBAT*}
5   Sounds like hermit's kind of acid (6) ACETIC {~ASCETIC}
10 Maid has some mystical allure (5) CHARM {CHAR}{Mystical}
11 Cheat badly about cool mixture and food (9) CHOCOLATE {CHEAT*} around {COOL*}
12 Bug found in mountain sections (6)  INSECT (T)
13 Forceful chimp ate awkwardly (8) EMPHATIC {CHIMP+ATE}*
15 Doubter: "Commander-in-Chief captured New York when returning?" (5) CYNIC {C{NY<=}IC}
17 Erotic nun danced for Roman army officer (9) CENTURION {EROTIC+NUN}*
19 Setter's Indian firm shooting back after losing one-third of showrooms (9) INCOGNITO {IN}{CO}{shoOTING<=}
20 Long stories having primarily erotic illustrations (5) EPICS {Erotic}{PICS}
21 Gherao English nymphomaniac initially at roundabout (8) ENCIRCLE {EN}{Nymphomaniac}{CIRCLE}
23 Ability of a copper and soldiers (6) ACUMEN {A}{CU}{MEN}
27 Clean a bum perversely in hospital transportation (9) AMBULANCE {CLEAN+A+BUM}*
28 Room under roof's dry in CIA building (5) ATTIC {CIA}* around {TT}
29 Woes about/without credit for amount held in trust (6) ESCROW {WOES}* around {CR}
30 Flawless ring for large Spanish cigar (8) PERFECTO {PERFECT}{O}

DOWN
1   Violent tactic after initially throwing away thorny plants (5)  CACTI {tACTIC*}
2   Tragic! After loss of gravity, first nerdy son jumped in at speed that's around Mach 1 (9) TRANSONIC {TRAg{Nerdy}{SON}IC}
3   Funny! Company has tailless animals (5) COMIC {CO}{MICe}
4   Weapon for Scotsman at end of queue (4) MACE {MAC}{queuE}
6   OK, CO's running Head Office's benefit canteen (9) COOKHOUSE {OK+CO*}{HO}{USE}
7   Reduce, without study, parcel of land (5) TRACT {conTRACT}
8   Catholic dislikes holding cold symbols for moon and silver (9) CRESCENTS {C}{RES{C}ENTS}
9 Marcos, for example, to give instruction to leaders of old soldiers (9) COMMANDOS {COMMAND}{Old}{Soldiers}
14 Croon around cloudy knoll and get old Austrian money (9) SCHILLING {S{C}{HILL}ING}
15 Servicewoman expels son and organises a spurt in illegal activities (5,4) CRIME WAVE {sERVICEWoMAn}*
16 Thin smoke arising from garlic oil processing (9) CIGARILLO {GARLIC+OIL}*
18 Mother, when wearing silly dress, can be non-literal (9) IDIOMATIC {IDIO{MA}TIC}
22 3 dimensional design of CBI has copper on top (5) CUBIC {CU}{CBI*}
24 Waste tea with a couple of females (5) CHAFF {CHA}{F}{F}
25 China chose hoarding Mexican chip (5) NACHO (T)
26 Last month returns primarily enhance yield (4) CEDE {DEC<=}{En...e}

Reference list  

Accountant=CA, Commander-in-Chief=CiC, New York=NY, Indian=In, Firm=Co, English=E, Copper=Cu, Soldiers=Men, Dry=TT, Credit=Cr, Ring=O
Gravity=G, Company=Co, Scotsman=Mac, Head Office=HO, Study=Con, Catholic=C, Cold=C, Cloudy=C, Mother=Ma, Tea=Cha, Couple of females=FF

Color/Font Scheme

Definition, Solution, Component letters, Embedded links, Anagram Indicator, C/C indicator, Reversal Indicator, Hidden word Indicator, Letter Pick indicator, Deletion Indicator, Homophone Indicator, Movement Indicator, Positional Indicator, Substitution, Indicator, Link/Connector, Extraneous

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 Thanks to Prasad for the C'd image (Add one C from 'Set by Incognito'

                       26 Last month returns primarily enhance yield (4) CEDE

No 12101, Friday 01 Sep 2017, Incognito

Incognito getting dressed to kill!

ACROSS
1   Bottle bombs exploded around centre of Delhi, accompanied by release of some bright flares (4-7) BELL-BOTTOMS {deLhi} in {BOTTLE+bOMBS}* What a craze they were in the 70s! I had bell-bottomed jeans with tassels at the bottom!!!

9   Sappers manage show once again (5) RERUN {RE}{RUN}
10 Place where a hundred and fifty were covered by molten rock by graduate initially (9) BALACLAVA {BA}{L{A}{C}{L}AVA}
11 Lama worked excitedly for a bird from the New World (10) MEADOWLARK*

12 Piercing wail (4) KEEN [DD]
13 Tree snake entraps Nightingale at first (5) ASPEN {ASP}{En...s}{Ni...e}
15 Spread canard about American soldier returning sweater (8) CARDIGAN {GI<=} in {CANARD}*
17 Reinforce old ship returning to lock (8) BUTTRESS {TUB<=}{TRESS}
19 Judge may frequently repeat this: "Command and discipline" (5) ORDER [DD]
22 Critical situation : absence of credit for Daesh (4) ISIS crISIS
23 Informing (including United Nations nominees at first) on digging of underground passages (10) TUNNELLING {T{UN}{No...s}ELLING}
26 Strengthened die fit for moulding (9) FORTIFIED*
27 Former spouse returned paintings, for example, ... more than what was required (5) EXTRA {EX}{ART<=}
28 He cuts off your top reeds, sirrah, in a frenzy (11) HAIRDRESSER*

DOWN
1   Redesigned UK bar dress (5) BURKA*
2   Laird's network's not working with expected regularity initially (9) LANDOWNER {LAN}{DOWN}{Ex...d}{Re...y}
3   Couple of boys fall into black beer and talk foolishly (6) BABBLE {B}{A{B}{B}LE}
4   A lariat may be fashioned into heavenly footwear (7) TALARIA*

5   At one time, snow leopard released you, I hear (4) ONCE OuNCE
6   Supreme Court exacted retribution and hunted for usable material (9) SCAVENGED {SC}{AVENGED}
7   American travels without a hint of nausea in Tauric peninsula (6) CRIMEA AMERICan*
8   One needs balls to use this field gun (6) CANNON [CD]
14 Father-figure Patrick's royal chair's renovated (9) PATRIARCH {PAT}{R}{CHAIR*}
16 Finally nod and rotate head resulting in comedy (9) DROLLNESS {noD}{ROLL}{NESS}
17 Explains intimate things (6) BRIEFS [DD]
18 Considered a piece of jewellery that is dazzling at first (7) STUDIED {STUD}{IE}{Da...g}
20 Confused, Jerome left violent Major General's sleeve (6) RAGLAN {mAjor+GeNeRAL}*

21 Highly strung Ogden goes travelling to the Orient (2,4) ON EDGE {OGDEN}*{E}
24 Bury in the English region, to start with (5) INTER {IN}{The}{En...h}{Re...n}
25 Fruit used in Nagasaki witchcraft (4) KIWI [T]

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