Independent 7,030/Radian
Posted by Ali on April 28th, 2009
Radian’s certainly developed a fairly unique and often fairly tricky style in his short time as an Indy setter, but I’m a fan. There’s some nice stuff here. There’s a kinda theme too I think, with the word AND (or a variation on A N and D appearing in an awful lot in the answers.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | WANT ADS – WAN,TADS – A very nice clue |
| 5 | ADMIN – D in (Idi) AMIN |
| 10 | ANDIRON – 1 in DR, all in ANON |
| 11 | SCANDAL – C and A in [-o]SL[-o] |
| 13 | GERMINATED – (GERMAN DIET)* |
| 14 | DARN – DAR[-wi]N – The subtraction here is a touch ambiguous I think |
| 15 | HEATHLAND – (Ted) HEATH,LAND |
| 17 | HANDS – Hidden in healtH AND Safty, although I’m not sure where the indicator is here |
| 18 | NAIAD – A in N[-eed],AID |
| 20 | ANDALUSIA – (A,SAL[-m]A[-g]UNDI)* |
| 22 | LUCY – LUC[-k]Y |
| 23 | IDLE-HANDED – LE (loose ends) in I’D HANDED |
| 26 | RWANDAN – (DARWINIAN)* less all the Is |
| 27 | ABDOMEN – B[-ombay] in (MOANED)* |
| 29 | ADMAN – [-br]ADMAN |
| 26 | ADORING – (DORIAN)*,G[-ray] |
| Down | |
| 2 | ANDORRA – AND,ORRA – |
| 3 | TARNISHED – (DRAT SHINE)* |
| 4 | DONNA – No idea on this. Clue is ‘Verdi lady joins e-mobile’ |
| 6 | DEAN – Hidden in maDE A Name |
| 7 | INDRAWN – WARD rev. in INN |
| 8 | CARGO HANDLER – ARGO in CHANDLER |
| 9 | ASCENDED – Odd letters of AlSaCe,ENDED |
| 12 | LONG-STANDING – LONG + STANDING |
| 16 | ABANDONS – ON in A,BAND’S |
| 17 | HOLLANDER – HOL,LANDER – Hague as in ‘Den Haag’ |
| 19 | INCHARD – (RANCH I’D)* |
| 21 | SIDEMAN – NAMED IS rev. |
| 24 | ELAND – Last part of MatabelELAND, &lit. |
| 25 | EDNA – E,D.N.A |
April 28th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
4d. There’s an aria in Verdi’s Rigoletto called ‘La Donne e Mobile’.
April 28th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Sorry ‘Donna’. Must stop using that stuff, it blurs your vision.
April 28th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
“And” or anagrams (of DNA?) appear in ALL the answers, except Lucy.
April 28th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
In HANDS, I think it’s not hidden but is using abbreviations of Health and Safety. Strange puzzle, noticed A in every answer and lots of ANDs and, then as mentioned above, no A in Lucy, which threw me. Is there something more behind it all that I’ve missed?
I suspected from the less than 50% checking in the top and bottom rows, there would be a theme.
April 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
PS in 12 I think it’s LONG (STAND) ING stand = partnership (cricket) in longing.
April 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I parsed 17a and 12d in the same way as Nmsindy.
It is interesting that 22a is the only answer not to contain a combination of AND. It could easily have been changed to LAND with 19d becoming INNYARD then all answers would have been alike.
I am wondering if Lucy was used so that she didn’t feel excluded when Dan featured so prominantly. Incidentally, A N & D also appear in the setters name.
April 28th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Perhaps his real name is Dan Air, and his partner, Lucy, contains no DNA?….
April 28th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Nice one Ian, though my memories of Dan Air are not good – too many dodgy landings?!
You’re nearly there. Everyone contains a random mutation of DNA except our common ancestor Lucy of Olduvai Gorge fame – in whom it’s taken for granted – oh, and her identical twin Edna.
April 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Here’s Lucy:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/human/human_evolution/mother_of_man1.shtml
She’s not much of a looker, but at least she doesn’t have Edna’s specs
April 28th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
damn, I was literally seconds too late in posting about that Lucy. I guessed that the joke might be that she was a missing link, though.
Thanks for a very entertaining puzzle, Radian, and Ali for the helpful post.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Ta Eimi for your correction: Lucy’s stomping ground was apparently Ethiopia, not Olduvai. That’s in Tanzania.