Guardian 24,491 – Auster
Posted by Ciaran McNulty on 11th September 2008
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Independent 6835/Scorpion
Posted by neildubya on 11th September 2008
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | ASS,ASS,IN – I liked “rears” to indicate the two ASSes. |
| 9 | B(I,OP)IC – writers aren’t always people. |
| 10 | BAN< in WANE – I’m pretty sure I haven’t come across WANNABE in a puzzle before and I thought it was nicely handled in this clue. |
| 11 | C(H,EYE)NN,E |
| 12 | KIN in GUN< – NUKING is a bit of informal slang that’s made its way into the dictionary. |
| 13 | YELLOW JERSEY – which is what the leader of the Tour de France and other multi-day cycling Tours wears. I guess this is a reasonably well-known phrase so you shouldn’t need to be a cycling fan to have heard of it. |
| 16 | NORMAN WISDOM – very strange clue, consisting of two sentences that don’t really seem to have much to do with each other: “William’s prudence lofting arrows in battle? His quick-fire delivery had us doubled-up”. The second sentence immediately suggested a comedian to me but I didn’t understand what the first part of the clue was on about at all. Once I had a few letters in the answer suggested itself and it became clear that “William” must be a reference to William the Conqueror, who led the Normans, although I still don’t know what “lofting arrows in battle” is supposed to be about: was that a sign of this particular Norman’s wisdom? |
| 19 | S,EC,ON,D – “old money” is S for shilling and D for sixpence and EC is the postcode for much of the Square Mile in the City of London. |
| 23 | RESIST – “resits” with the T moving forward. |
| 24 | hidden in “tO WEDding”- very cleverly done. “Due” is easy to overlook as the definition and “some get carried away” is a great way of suggesting a hidden answer. |
| 25 | D,MANY LSE< – DES LYNAM. I really liked this one too, especially “numerous economists” for MANY LSE (LSE is the London School of Economics). |
| Down | |
| 4 | SECOND,WOR(L)D,WAR – “Nineteen” is a reference to the answer at 19a. |
| 5 | NOW,HERE |
| 6 | LACKEY in SEB (going up) – BLACK EYES. |
| 7 | SI,EN,NA – not really sure how “couples placed constantly” indicates the middle pair of letters in “casino, frenzy, Monaco”. |
| 8 | ONO,(RENTS WOMENS)* – ON ONE’S OWN TERMS. I did briefly wonder whether YOKO might have been part of the anagram fodder. |
| 14 | LAND OF NOD – why “where crawling creatures live”? |
| 15 | CORAL SEA – don’t understand this one: “Exam once left space for another answer – ‘part of Pacific ocean’”. “Exam” looks like it could be ORAL but that’s all I can work out. |
| 17 | [-t]ANNOYED |
| 18 | (WHEN PE[-t])* – NEPHEW. |
| 21 | PUSSY – or pus-sy. |
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Financial Times 12,870 set by Falcon, Sep 11th 2008
Posted by Octofem on 11th September 2008
ACROSS
A rather dull and obvious puzzle I am afraid – the sort where you see the answers as the sheet is coming off the printer. I have struggled to make anything interesting out of the blog.
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Independent on Sunday 969 by Quixote (7 Sep 2008)
Posted by nmsindy on 11th September 2008
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Financial Times 12,860 by Cincinnus
Posted by Pete Maclean on 11th September 2008
I found this more challenging than the typical Cincinnus puzzle but just as enjoyable and satisfying. I failed to fathom the wordplay in one clue, 16A. I especially liked 9A, 10A, 2D and 23D.
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Financial Times 12,861 – Dante
Posted by Uncle Yap on 11th September 2008
From Monday Prize Puzzle on 1 September 2008
dd = double definition
cd = cryptic definition
rev = reversed or reversal
ins = insertion
cha = charade
ha = hidden answer
*(fodder) = anagram
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