Guardian 24370/Brendan – placeholder
Posted by Colin Blackburn on 23rd April 2008
Talk amongst yourselves…
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Independent 6714/Dac
Posted by neildubya on 23rd April 2008
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | PET,RA – an archeological site in Jordan and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Would “old city” been a fairer definition? |
| 4 | (GERMAN IS T)* – great clue, smoothly worded. |
| 10 | A in CHIC,NO |
| 11 | T,READ,MILL – that’s John Stuart MILL (“of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill”). I think I might have got this a bit quicker had I not thought the definition was “becomes routine”. |
| 14 | IN,NY in (TALKS)*,TE – nothing wrong with the clue but I bet there are a few complaints about this phrase. For the non-coffee drinkers, something is SKINNY if it has skimmed milk in it instead of the full-fat version. |
| 17 | SAX (“sacks”),OP,(NO THIS)* – SAXOPHONIST. Another top-drawer clue. |
| 19 | “mullED WIN” |
| 21 | (WHOSE PAST)* – SWEATSHOP. I thought this was great too, especially as “whose past” doesn’t sound like anagram fodder at first. |
| 26 | WAKE,FIELD – a novel by Oliver Goldsmith. |
| Down | |
| 1 | PROS,T |
| 2 | THE,W in REITH |
| 4 | PIT (“raised”) in MULL,EXES – another fine clue although at the time of solving I couldn’t see where EXES came from. Looking it up, I see that it’s a colloquialism for “expenses”. Not sure why this is “further costs” though rather than just “costs”. |
| 5 | SIC – “sick”. “So” is the definition. |
| 8 | OD in GOSPORT – I filled this in without really getting the wordplay and it was only later that I saw GOSPORT, which for some reason I thought was up North. |
| 14 | CORED in WARS (going up) |
| 15 | RIGHT in BEST – some very subtle &lit wording here which makes the clue sound like a straight definition. |
| 17 | (FOR US NO)* – SUNROOF. |
| 20 | H in WACK – I didn’t know that “wack” was a scouse word but with W?A?K filled in this wasn’t a problem. |
| 24 | SHE – a novel by Rider Haggard. |
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