Posted by Ali on 22nd January 2009
This seemed to be one of those days where I filled in a lot of answers without fully understanding them. Some will hopefully become clear as I blog, but there’ll no doubt be a few question marks. That aside, I enjoyed this one.
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Posted by Gaufrid on 22nd January 2009
Not a lot to say about this one. One minor quibble (16a), a few neat clues but nothing that really stands out.
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1 INCOME IN (popular) CO (firm) M[assiv]E
4 TRAGIC *(TRACI[n]G)
8 DEANERY *(YEARNED)
9 ACQUIRE homophone of ‘a choir’
11 BLOODY MARY *(BY OLD MAYOR)
12 MINT hidden in ‘calM INTellectual’
13 BREED RE (about) in BED – ‘about to enjoy retirement’ = ‘in bed’
14 LIPSTICK LIP (backchat) STICK (criticism)
16 DIPLOMAT DIP (creamy mixture) MA (master) in LOT (crowd) – MA is the abbreviation for ‘Master of Arts’ not simply ‘master’
18 ARGUE R[egatta] in AGUE (fit)
20 VAIN homophone of ‘vein’ (humour)
21 GROGGINESS GROG GIN (drinks) [m]ESS (dining area)
23 CROESUS *(COURSES) – the king of Lydia renowned for his wealth
24 SOJOURN JOUR (day, in French) in SON (child)
25 CUTLET CUT (economy) LET (allowed)
26 SPRAIN [tou]R in SPAIN (country)
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Posted by Andrew on 22nd January 2009
A themed puzzle from Araucaria, with 13 wordplay-only clues for capital cities (highlighted in blue below). I caught on to the theme early on by a lucky guess at PRAGUE, but still found the puzzle reasonably hard going. There are a couple of clues I don’t understand, so I await enlightenment from my learned friends in the comments
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Posted by nmsindy on 22nd January 2009
I found this quite easy. Some answers that were new to me I worked out from the friendly wordplay. Solving time, 13 mins.
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Posted by Uncle Yap on 22nd January 2009
Monday Prize Crossword on 12 January 2009
dd = double definition
cd = cryptic definition
rev = reversed or reversal
ins = insertion
cha = charade
ha = hidden answer
*(fodder) = anagram
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 22nd January 2009
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of January 10
A few minor challenges here made a typically enjoyable puzzle. Cincinnus came up with some great anagrams for the long downers. (Yeah, I know “downers” are something else and acrossers don’t even exist.)
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