Guardian 24,371 (Araucaria)
Posted by diagacht on April 24th, 2008
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | COPPER: double definition |
| 4 | CLEMATIS: M in CLEAT IS. Clematis Vitalba is a wild flower, also known as Old Man’s Beard |
| 9 | NORMA: hidden in londoN OR MAnchester. It’s a 19th Century opera by Bellini |
| 10 | WOMANKIND: WOMAN + KIND As Eileen points out this is an anagram of MAID KNOWN (kicking myself!) |
| 11,15 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: US State + Archbishop of Canterbury (Rowan Williams) |
| 12,6 | GLASS MENAGERIE: G LASS (good girl) + MEN + AG + ERIE. A play by Tennessee Williams |
| 13 | PEARL FISHERS: PERISHERS (the lost) containing A (adult) and LF (low frequency). An opera by Bizet. |
| 17 | GOOD BREEDING: &Lit |
| 18 | ADULT: AD (poster) + ULT (last month) |
| 21 | ANDROCLES: AND + anagram of CLOSER. This was the chap who fixed up a wounded lion and domesticated the wild beast |
| 23 | STORM CONE: (MC (compere) + ON (performing)) in STORE |
| 25 | MANDRAKE: MAN + DRAKE |
| Down | |
| 1 | CENOTAPH: anagram of NOT CHEAP |
| 2 | PARENTAL: AREN’T (don’t exist) in PAL |
| 3 | ERASE: ERAS + E (entirely to start with) |
| 5 | LAMBETH BRIDGE: an actual bridge but also a reference to the Archbishop of Canterbury who living in Lambeth Palace is seen as a bridge to the various member churches of the Anglican Communion |
| 7 | TAIWAN: anagram of AIT + WAN |
| 8 | SADIST: hidden in iS A DISTinguishing |
| 10 | WEST INDIA DOCK: WE + STINK around (AID (reversed) + DOC) |
| 14 | LION TAMER: &Lit, although I may have missed something here. |
| 16 | EGGSHELL:an EGG’S HELL but also a very thin form of pottery china |
| 18 | RANSOM: ROM (read only memory) around ANS |
| 19 | SUBORN: attributes, according to the nursery rhyme, of the child born on a Sunday |
| 22 | OCHRE: CHORE rewritten so that it is led by the heart! An interesting break with the rules, but I like it. |
April 24th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I think 14dn is INTO* in LAMER, and “celebrity manager” is a sort of cryptic def: LION=celeb.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:33 am
10ac WOMANKIND: anagram of maid known
April 24th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I did get 19d SUBORN but thought I might see a query about it. Is SU a usual abbreviation for Sunday or is there something I’m missing?
April 24th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I wrote it in thinking it was BORN in SUN, and was muttering to myself “it’s ‘born on’, not ‘born in’!”, but obviously that’s wrong. I think Su, Mo, Tu, etc are sometimes used in calendars (and computer systems) where space is tight, but I haven’t got a dictionary to hand to check whether they’re recognised abbreviations.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Thanks, Andrew. my thought processes were similar to yours. It isn’t in any of my dictionaries [although I haven't a Chambers - tut!]and Google didn’t produce anything, either! I don’t know which is more annoying – to be unable to get an answer or to be unable to explain it when I have [the latter, I suspect, which is why recently stumbling upon this great site has been such a joy. Pure Serendipity!]
April 24th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Can anyone explain what the reference to 10ac is in 25 ac? I got the answer from vaguely associating a poisonous plant with a duck but it wasn’t satisfactory.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Tom _ Just as mankind includes women so womenkind includes men! Man + a duck = MANDRAKE
April 24th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Tom, I think the idea is that WOMANKIND+DUCK “goes with” MAN+DRAKE.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
26ac, “Craft holder (Roman numerals to be included)”, caused problems.
At first I thought craft holder might be “easel” and the answer “?easel”. Eventually guessed at “vessel” which turned out to be correct, but I still don’t see where the latter part of theclue fits in.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
26 ac: the roman numerals are V and L, and the Roman/Latin word meaning “to be”, esse, is included.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Hi Paul,
Re 26ac – I THINK ‘esse’ = ‘to be’, with V and L being the roman numerals around the outside. Thus the definition is ‘craft holder’, rather than ‘craft’.
Can anyone clarify this?
April 24th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Ah, Alan just beat me to it… Thanks…
April 24th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Craft holder is a double definition, isn’t it? Super clue!
April 24th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Still niggling rather re 19dn. I think Andrew’s suggestion makes sense but has anyone found Su as being a recognised abbreviation? [My calendar has 's'!] It could be helpful in the future!
April 24th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Eileen, as someone who works weekends it is usual to differentiate Saturday and Sunday with the abbreviations Sa and Su. Of course, I can’t possible say whether this is universal but I didn’t think about this one twice. (I only wish I had thought twice to spot the anagram that was so obvious to yourself!)
April 24th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Many thanks, Diagacht. I can now sleep easier. As mentioned, I am only a recent visitor [ now an
addict!] to this site: I see you work on Sundays [as well!] and therefore would know the abbreviations – and I envy you your dinner with my favourite setter! I now conclude that 19dn was yet another brilliant clue. Re the anagram: I just saw ‘about’ and thought no further – but yours made equally good sense, didn’t it? I liked 24 ac too.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Alan, Many thanks for the explanation. Paul