Posted by smiffy on 26th June 2008
In the interests of timely publication, I’ve kept annotations to a minimum today. Nothing too untoward here, although the repeated use of “shock”=hair seems a touch gratuitous, and a couple of the single letter/abbreviation indicators are in questionable territory.
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Posted by John on 26th June 2008
My goodness me. What a mountain to climb. Well, at least I’ve filled everything in, but one or two I don’t quite understand; when they are explained no doubt I’ll be full of admiration, but in some cases I think I do understand and am a bit sceptical. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by nmsindy on 26th June 2008
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Posted by diagacht on 26th June 2008
Apologies for a rather brief blog today.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | DEVILS ADVOCATE: DEVIATE around anagram of CALVADOS (without an ‘A’) |
| 9 | UKRAINIAN: UK RAIN + IAN |
| 10 | PROMO: PRO + MO |
| 13 | DIASTOLE: AID (reversed) + STOLE (liturgical garment) |
| 14 | CAVEAT: AVE in CAT |
| 19,12 | CABERNET SAUVIGNON: anagram of SOT CRAVING BEAUNE + N (drop of Niersteiner) |
| 22 | UPPERMOST: PERM in anagram of POUTS |
| 25 | CALVE: L in CAVE |
| 26 | BASTINADO: T (turnip top) in BASIN + ADO |
| 27 | O TEMPORA O MORES: anagram of ROOM ROOM (double room) A STEEP. A quotation from Cicero’s First Speech against Catiline. It means ‘Oh what a time! Oh what customs!’ |
| Down | |
| 1 | DOUBLE DECLUTCH: DOUBLE DUTCH around CE (backwards) + L |
| 2 | VERBENA: VERA around BEN |
| 3 | LEICESTER: ICE in LESTER |
| 4 | ACID SALT: anagram of CAST LAID |
| 6 | CAPRI: half CAPRIcious |
| 8 | GOING TO THE DOGS: &Lit |
| 15 | AVERROISM: AVER + IS in ROM. Reference is to the 12C philosopher Ibn Rushd |
| 16 | FANTASIA: U in CAPLET. Reference to Romeo and Juliet |
| 18 | CAPULET: A DIG in PARM(a) (Italian city lacking a) |
| 20 | NOT FAIR: IR (one river) + AFTON (Scottish river) all reversed |
| 21 | BOOBOO: BOO BOO (repeatedly voice disapproval) |
| 24 | RHEUM: HE (explosives) in RUM |
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 26th June 2008
So, I am getting to know Falcon now. This was a little more difficult than the few of his I have done before. Clue 5A in particular took me a while.
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