Independent 6370/Monk
Posted by neildubya on March 24th, 2007
As if to prove that Sudoku really does appear everywhere these day, it’s even made its way into cryptic crosswords. If you don’t know what I’m on about, have a look at the 6 unchecked letters that go horizontally through the middle of the grid.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | (USED)* in PO – using the old flow-er=river trick. |
| 5 | “CUEING” – what you do at snooker (or pool) tables. |
| 9 | RAM in PASTI(ES) |
| 10 | CU(R)BING – I spent far too long trying to work out what the connection was between 3 (Down) and 27 (Across). There was none, obviously. To make 3 27, you have to cube it. |
| 11 | (D BEER)*,G |
| 14 | (AT GOD JENKINS)* |
| 22 | reversed and hidden in “briDES UNUsually” |
| 25 | SENT(I)ENCE |
| 26 | (BATTERY)*,E |
| Down | |
| 2 | S,HANDY |
| 3 | (READS UNTRUE)* – UNTREASURED was new to me and seemed a bit unlikely when I stumbled into it. Also spent some time thinking that “plundered” might be the anagram indicator but (LOOT SOMEHOW)* didn’t look very promising. |
| 4 | (EGO ANDREA)* – very well hidden definition of “squash”. Again, my first thought was “upset” as the anagram indicator and (ANDREA ALL) as the fodder. |
| 5 | ETE in QUID |
| 6 | EMCEE – if this is right (at the time of writing I haven’t seen the solution) then I don’t know why. |
| 8 | NUN,C,HAK,U – difficult-ish word, straightforward-ish wordplay. |
| 13 | RIJKSMUSEUM – pretty tough as the clue is a cryptic definition so there’s no wordplay as such to help you out. I had R?J?… which seemed an unlikely English word. Can’t remember how I got the answer but I’m sure Google had a hand in it somewhere. |
| 15 | (CANNOT RUL(-e))* |
| 21 | M(ilk)Y,WAY – excellent clue with a great surface. |
March 24th, 2007 at 10:20 am
6D Compère regularly ordered by head of Entertainment?
Even letters of CoMpErE after the E of Entertainment gives a compère
March 24th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
We also had a homophone for sudokuing at 1 and 5 across. Any other sudoku stuff in there?
April 2nd, 2012 at 12:04 am
6D – EMCEE is correct, means “Master of Ceremonies” commonly known as MC in other words a compere