Posted by NealH on 27th October 2008
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone
An enjoyable puzzle with nothing very controversial. Only one clue I didn’t entirely follow (19 down). Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Ciaran McNulty on 27th October 2008
Quite tricky for a Monday, in my opinion. A minor theme of -ee suffixes (9A, 12A, 30A, 17D, 18D) and the little square of three-letter words around the centre was quite interesting.
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Posted by beermagnet on 27th October 2008
Some particularly nice anagram clues this time.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 7 | ROOST ROO,ST |
| 9 | SCAPEGOAT S,CAPE,GOAT |
| 10 | MASTER-KEY (MEERKAT’S)* Y AInd: screwed Favourite clue: Penetrator of more than one hole, meerkat’s screwed an unknown quantity (6-3) |
| 11 | RAKED RAKE,D |
| 12/13 | DMITRY MEDVEDEV (MID-TERM DVD EVERY – R)* AInd: crappy I needed several crossing letters before spotting this anagram. Nice clue I thought So-called leader’s crappy mid-term DVD every leader of Republicans ignored (6,8) |
| 16 | NEMESIS (SEMEN)< 1S |
| 18 | SLAPPER CD-ish kind of DD |
| 20 | ANNOTATE O,TAT inside ANNE |
| 22 | ALUMNI A,LUM (scottish smoker), (IN)* AInd: pissed. I prefer to think of pissed as an AInd rather than a reverse ind. |
| 26 | ELBOW ROOM ELBOW (MOOR)< |
| 27 | TENT-POLES CD Couldn’t make a clue for tent-poles without mentioning erections really, could we Camp types erection aids (4-5) |
| 28 | DONOR CD |
| Down | |
| 1 | PRIMA DONNA PRI[nce] MADONNA Is Cyclops linking Madonna with Prince now? I suppose stranger things have happened in the world of the unbelievably egotistical. |
| 2 | BONSAI BROWN without R[esistence] and W[ith] then (IS A)* AInd: hit |
| 3 | EASY-PEASY (PAYEES SAY)* AInd: aroused |
| 4 | HENRY V HENRY [Fonda] V[ery] letter count was a bit of a give-away |
| 5 | COCKED UP ED (Balls) inside COCK-UP At first I thought it was some kind of double-def. Balls possibly getting in an erect state, handled badly (6,2) |
| 6/25 | STUD POKER Boss, “one who stuffs” |
| 8 | THE ARTS HE inside TARTS |
| 9 | SAKE SA[c]K,E I found the use of wine in the wordplay and just “drink” for the definition somewhat confusing |
| 14 | VIRGIN MARY Airline, (ARMY)* AInd: out |
| 15 | TSETSE FLY (FELT TESS [dal]Y)* AInd: Dicky Do tsetse flies suck? I thought they bit. |
| 17 | MONOKINI (NO)< OK (very well) inside MINI |
| 19 | ALLOWED [h]ALLOWED |
| 21 | THRIPS THRI[bb] PS Ref E.J.Thribb (17½) “our versifier” famous for his “So. Farewell then…” poems in the Eye. Surely it’s thrips that are the suckers? |
| 23 | MOOING MO (woman), [d]OING (acting head off) |
| 24 | IBIS BI inside IS |
| 25 | PITT PIT,T |
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