GUARDIAN 24,332 – RUFUS : Toothless
Posted by neildubya on March 10th, 2008
I didn’t have a lot of spare time this morning but this still didn’t fill it. I don’t usually give my solving time – but I managed to complete it during a 15 minute tube journey, which is a third of the time I usually takes me. Either I got smart over the weekend or this was the easiest crossword I’m seen for a while. 7 down was a lovely clue though.
ACROSS
1 ARTICLE – (RECITAL)*
5 SHOWER
9 KANGARO
10 WEASEL – reference to “Pop goes the Weasel”
12 ACCELERATION
15 VIBRATIONS – (BORIS IVAN T) *
17 GEL – (LEG)<
19 Omitted on purpose
20 CLASSROOMS = (SCHOOLMASTERS minus THE )*
22 HABIT-FORMING
26 ORATED
27 CALLED-UP
28 Omitted on purpose
29 SADDLER
DOWN
1 AUKS – (SKUA) <
2 TIN-(holida)Y
3 CHAR COAL
4 ELOPE
6 HYENAS – (HES ANY)*
7 WASHINGTON – A pleasant clue – reference to the apocryphal cherry-tree incident (SAW NOTHING)*
8 RELENT-LESS
11 FEINTS
13 OVERTHROWS – some cricket knowledge seems compulsory with UK crosswords
14 ABOVE BOARD
16 IGLOOS
18 IRONCLAD – (COLD RAIN)*
21 AT TEST
23 Omitted on purpose
24 IDOL = I’d + (LO)<
25 SPAR
March 10th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
27. Called up
Is there a typo in the clue?
I suspect ‘imagines’ should be ‘imagined’.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Online version has ‘imagines’ and like you thought it ought to be ‘imagined’
March 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Agree with Barbara and Berny re imagined. Considering the mismatches between paper and online etc etc, is this the return of The Grauniad?
March 10th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Yes Stan – was straightforward – as was the Times relatively speaking – Indy was a somewhat more challenging theme puzzle. After the delights of Saturday’s Araucaria’s jigsaw with its rhyming couplets, I suppose one has to go along with the run of the mill.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
The Scottish paper edition had 27ac with ‘imagines’ too. It may have been corrected in later editions.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am
As it happens, 13D works equally well for baseball fans.