Posted by beermagnet on 8th February 2008
I’m putting this short post in place to carry the chat requested by others elsewhere.
I, too, would like explanations for a few answers here.
I’ll remove this post on request.
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Posted by neildubya on 8th February 2008
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 8 | FAST FOOD – I think this could be considered an oxymoron because fasting means not eating at all. |
| 9 | NET,(LET)* – “stingy” is made all the more deceiving because of the money reference in “tax deducted”. |
| 10 | W,HIP – in Parliament, a WHIP is a note sent to MPs requesting their attendance to vote on a particular issue. The definition in the clue – “Persuade MPs” – suggests that it can also be used as a verb. |
| 11 | FRIEDMAN – first name Milton, and an economist, like J.M.Keynes. |
| 13 | SNITCH – for those who have managed to avoid the books and films, Harry Potter plays a game called Quidditch; one of the objects of the game is to capture a small flying gold-coloured ball called the SNITCH. Doing so ends the game, I believe. |
| 14 | ARNI[-e],CA – Good clue, with a great surface reading. |
| 18 | WAS A BI |
| 27 | MORPH in (ATOMISES)* – METAMORPHOSIS. One of our Australian readers told me recently that the Independent crossword is syndicated to his state paper but with one detail missing – they don’t publish the name of the setter. So the “me” in this clue won’t mean much to him (or people solving the clue online) but it’s a common enough word and the wordplay is straightforward so hopefully it wouldn’t have stopped anyone from solving the clue. |
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| 3 | EGOS – I liked this one a lot: “When they clash, you’ll ‘ear either ____ or I go!” EGOS sounds like “‘e goes”. |
| 4 | UNDER THE WEA(THE)R – this is very nicely done: “ill fitting” looks like the definition but it’s actually definition plus a key wordplay element. |
| 12 | BUTS (reversed) |
| 15 | (MAY DREAD)* – DAYDREAM. |
| 17 | (BOW OAR T)* – ROWBOAT. “All found at sea” seems to be doing double-duty as the anagram indicator and definition, unless I’m missing something. |
| 19 | BACCHUS – “back us”. |
| 20 | A,DON,IS – the previous clue had “God, he’s drunk” for the definition and this one has “God, he’s gorgeous…” |
| 22 | LOC[-k],UM |
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Posted by diagacht on 8th February 2008
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | GAINSBOROUGH: the town profits; the borough gains |
| 8 | IBERIAN  l)IBERIAN, African country without left (l) |
| 9 | BEARS UP: E in BAR + SUP |
| 11 | DONNISH: IN NOD (reversed) + SH |
| 13 | NADAL: N (new) + A + LAD (reversed) |
| 14 | RESONATES: SONAT(a) in REES |
| 16 | SERVIETTE: VIE in anagram of STREET |
| 19 | MABEL: M (beginning of malign) + ABEL (biblical character) |
| 21 | ESSAYER: anagram of YES (i)DEAS, where (i)deas is ideas without the disowned ‘i’ |
| 23 | PERUGIA: GI between PERU and A |
| 24 | SATSUMA: SA (appeal) + A MUST (reversed) |
| 25 | ORIGAMI: O (old) + RIG + AMI |
| 26 | NOTHING DOING: NOTHING DO + IN + G |
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| 1 | GLEANED: LEANED in GED (a kind of fish) |
| 2 | INITIAL: I (island) + I (one) in LATIN (reversed) |
| 3 | SANDHURST: &Lit |
| 4 | ORBIT: R in OBIT |
| 5 | OVATION: (inn)OVATION |
| 6 | GO SHORT: OR in GOSH (as in goodness me) and T (first letter of truth) |
| 7 | FIND ONES LEGS: anagram of DESIGN OF LENS |
| 10 | PENNSYLVANIA: referring to American Presidential election, I think |
| 15 | SHEEPFOLD: Jacob is a breed of sheep |
| 17 | RISOTTO: SIR (reversed) + OTTO |
| 18 | IVY BUSH: IVY + BUS + H (hotel) |
| 19 | MARTINI: ART in MINI |
| 22 | DRAIN: RA in DIN |
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Posted by ilancaron on 8th February 2008
A pretty easy and pedestrian puzzle. I had to look up the Tuesday ref in 2D and there were a couple of weak clues in my opinion — unless I missed some subtlety.
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Posted by Hihoba on 8th February 2008
After three pretty difficult ones, this was a bit of relief.
Most of the “normal” clues were pretty strightforward. One piece of wordplay eluded me for a long time – “Fourteenth place on the crawl” for barn. I’m still not entirely convinced about my explanation below (21A).
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