Independent 6750/Dac
Posted by neildubya on 4th June 2008
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | MAT,THE,W – not sure which writer this is referring to; perhaps the author of the Gospel of MATTHEW? |
| 5 | DEFACED – the letters of which are all musical notes. |
| 10 | OB,[-a]VIATING |
| 11 | DE,CLARE – I didn’t understand “nun, poor woman” when I filled this in but a bit of Googling reveals that it seems to be a reference to Clare of Assisi, who founded an order of nun known as the Poor Clares. |
| 16 | PROPOSITION – not really about this one. A PROPOSITION is an invitation to have sex, which kind of fits with “call girl’s job” but why does the clue end “is to —”? |
| 18 | ERE in THIN |
| 24 | [-m]INI,GO |
| 25 | (ENTRIES)* – a reference to the schools founded by STEINER Waldorf. |
| Down | |
| 2 | TOUT COURT – this was new to me also. Literally means “very short” (I think) in French but has come to mean “briefly”. |
| 5 | VID (going up) – DIV is a shortened form of “divvy”. Nice (and somewhat surprising) to see that a bit of playground slang from my childhood has made it into the dictionary. The COED has, tantalisingly: “-ORIGIN 1970s: of unknown origin”. |
| 6 | RAG in FILE |
| 7 | hidden in “lunCH IN Eatery” – a cut of meat, usually pork I think. |
| 8 | DIG,IT,A LIN[-e] |
| 12 | (TO S COU[-n]TRIES)* – ECOTOURISTS. |
| 13 | DIP,”Styx” – a reference to the mythological river which separated Earth from the Underworld. |
| 14 | (TRAIN LINE)* – TRIENNIAL, or once every three years. |
| 19 | hidden reversed in “determinED AVEnger” |
| 21 | E,POXY |
| 23 | alternate letters of “rEpAiRs” |
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