Independent on Sunday 1053 by Quixote 18th April 2010
Posted by Handel on April 22nd, 2010
A pleasant and fairly quick solve over a pint in our local. We were pleased to get both 8ac and 23ac, which were words and phrases we did know, but had to root around in the back of our minds for.
ACROSS
1. TUNIC ‘Cnut’ reversed with ‘i’ for island inside
4. B(RICK)RED
8. PACHYDERMATOUS (supremacy had to)* means ‘thick-skinned’
9. CAR VERY
10. TRI(VI)A(l)
12. LOG(O)S
14. PRIS(TIN)E
16. TRADE GAP cryptic definition
18. MAN I C
20. B(EH)OLD
21. CARDIAC ‘card’, the AI (tiptop) reversed, then ‘c’
23. DOG IN THE MANGER (hardening got me)*
24. WET NURSE ‘unrest’ anagramised inside ‘we’
25. D(u)RESS
DOWN
1. TOPICALITY ‘top’ (chief), ‘IC’ for ‘in charge’ and then ‘Italy’ anagramised
2. veNICE Really
3. CO Y NESS don’t quite understand why ‘ness’ is ‘to get involved’
4. BYE-BYE sounds like ‘by by’
5. I’M MATURE reference to Victor Mature
6. KITTIES dd
7. E(R.U.)DITION
11. PEACE CORPS (ace coppers)*
13. GRACE NOTE ‘girl’ is Grace, ‘see’ is note
15. MANDATER ‘man’ then ‘re tad’ reversed
17. E MOTION
18. MERMAID (dream I’m)*
19. AC C(ED)E
22. IN GLE(n)
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:03 am
I think that the ‘get involved’ in 3 down relates to the Y = yen getting involved ie cryptically being contained in company head ie CO NESS.
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:47 am
Ah, that’ll be it. It was the head=ness that stumped us, despite having looked the word up recently.
April 25th, 2010 at 6:03 am
15ac is MANDATOR – the OR coming from Other Ranks – “other soldiers”.
April 25th, 2010 at 6:04 am
Sorry meant 15dn!
April 28th, 2010 at 7:04 am
can you explain 20across more fully
April 28th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Uncle Yap, re 20ac: “Observe what’s striking on the outside” I parsed as: BEHOLD: “what”(?) EH(?) inserted in “striking” BOLD.