Independent 6775/Nimrod
Posted by neildubya on July 3rd, 2008
A bit of a mixed bag this: very tough in places, very easy elsewhere. Still don’t understand 10, 11 and 19 though.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | ERA,SPOT< in TRICES – TRICERATOPSES. I found this very tough and only got it once I had all the checking letters in place. |
| 10 | EN,GROSS – don’t really understand this one. The definition seems to be “Largely copy” (assuming “French in” is EN and “bulk” is GROSS) but that doesn’t mean ENGROSS does it? |
| 11 | ALL-TIME – don’t understand this one either: “To date compiler, in advance it will win one over”. |
| 14 | (ID EXTRACT)* – DIRECT TAX. |
| 16 | ROTTER,DAM |
| 22 | CHANCRE -”chancer” with the last two letters swapped. |
| 23 | ARBUTUS – an identical piece of wordplay to 22 is used here: A,BRUTUS with the BR swapped. |
| 24 | ON,SENSE in (NERVES)* – NONSENSE VERSE. Lear being Edward rather than the King. |
| Down | |
| 2 | RE,GENTS |
| 4 | (SCREEN DID)* – RESCINDED. “Off” is the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it anagrind. |
| 5 | hidden in “FurTWANGler” |
| 6 | ABL[-e] in (COP SELECTION)* – POLICE CONSTABLE. |
| 7 | ED,I,TOUT |
| 8 | (FREE IF CLASSIC)* – SELF-SACRIFICE. |
| 9 | (IT GOES FOR LEX L)* – REFLEXOLOGIST |
| 15 | R.E.M,I,GRATE |
| 19 | SHIITES – don’t understand this one: “Chap’s position affected when Nazis circle sect members”. The last two words must be the definition but that’s all I can work out. |
| 21 | LIE-IN – this one puzzled me too but looking at it now I can see that LIE appears IN “client”, “suppliers” and “believe”. |
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
10ac: I didn’t know this before but I find [Collins]; ‘engross’: ‘to write or copy [manuscript] in large legible handwriting’.
11ac: this is pretty tortuous but could it be ME[compiler] then ‘in advance’ IT’LL [rev.] ‘over’ win [gain] A??
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
19. Chap’s position is his site. Move the nazis (SS) to the outside and you get shiites.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
11. The ‘a’ at the front is ‘advance’.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
11. I meant ‘A’ to be ‘one’.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Thanks for the explanations – I didn’t get the wordplay for SHIITES or the definition of ENGROSS.
Good puzzle, liked 2d REGENTS and 13a AISLE.
One quibble – I felt slightly uncomfortable ignoring the umlaut in Furtwängler. I know we ignore them in grid words, because they’re all in caps, but can ‘twang’ (as opposed to ‘twäng’) truly be said to be in Furtwängler?
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Mixed bag indeed.
Re 13A how do you get the SLE is this an indirect anagram of LES? If so I’m not keen.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
13a – I think it’s A = best, ISLE (of Man).
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
13A I read as A (Best) ISLE (Man) without being 100% sure. Did like FINISHING SCHOOL
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Ahh! That makes much more sense (I just kept thinking A1 for best!)