Monday 15 July 2013

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER: No 10826, Tuesday 16 Jul 2013, Incognito

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER
No 10826, Tuesday 16 Jul 2013, Incognito
Jul 16th 2013, 03:00, by Deepak Gopinath

 Nice one from Incognito. Plenty of Tarts today as well.
ACROSS
7   Small version of a big car (4) LIMO [CD]
8   Incubus left us at Oregon and got an egg heater (9) INCUBATOR {INCUBus}{AT}{OR}
10 Stag party for a person yet to kick the butt (6) SMOKER [DD]
11 Over everything else like Abou Ben Adhem's name (5,3) ABOVE ALL [CD]
     ........And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
12 "Gratis: as in no bucks," he exclaimed (8) BUCKSHEE [T]
14 Boggy ground where French gold is hidden in Massachusetts (6) MORASS {M{OR}ASS}
16 Dire areas mad artists find themselves in, like the Gibraltar or Sunda (7) STRAITS*
18 Deceiving dexterity at sledge time (7) SLEIGHT {SLEIGH}{T}
21 She embraced pet, resulting in injury (6) SCATHE {S{CAT}HE}
23 lcy uncle travels to get transport (8) UNICYCLE*
25 Best quality upper-cut (3-5) TOP-NOTCH {TOP}-{NOTCH}
27 Tormented ailing Indian antelope (6) NILGAI*
29 Strikes, with the foot, a trollop, to start a motorbike (9) KICKSTART {KICKS}{TART}
     Hardly see these being used nowadays after intro of electric starters.
30 Invoice from li'l William (4) BILL [DD]
DOWN
1   Get off a princess's horse (8) DISMOUNT {DI'S}{MOUNT}
2   Cut an animal's tail in the witness box (4) DOCK [DD]
3   Harris comes back with an address (6) SIRRAH<=
4   Frozen water gets older in cold periods (3,4) ICE AGES {ICE} {AGES}
5   Odd type of blood that Psycho Bates, when not finished, left (8) ABNORMAL {AB}{NORMAn}{L}
6   Nasty eye problem is not visible, at first glance (4) STYE [T]
9   What a king does with a scale? (5) RULES [CD]
13 Snake god found in a collection of tools (5) KRAIT {K{RA}IT}
15 Wet weather when Yankee followed gunners in (5) RAINY {RA}{IN}{Y}
17 Dissertaton about treaties (8) TREATISE*
19 One time popular pieces of baggage said to contain everything small (8) HOLDALLS {HOLD}{ALL}{S} Standard item in an armymans belongings! Couldn't find an image of it on the net.
20 Forsythe P.Jones, as better known to fans, is prison chief (7) JUGHEAD {JUG}{HEAD}
22 Dagger's partner in espionage modified a lock (5) CLOAK*
24 Energise Neyveli coal without starting to burn (6) IGNITE lIGNITE
26 Narrow part of a fennec knee (4) NECK [T]
28 Ear lug found in eyebolts returned (4) LOBE [T<=]


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