Cyclops 436: Smutty innuendo…
Posted by jetdoc on February 13th, 2011
… and all the better for it! The usual fun from Cyclops — a relatively quick solve, with nothing too tricky.
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| 1 | EMBRACES | Hugs as Ed Miliband starts getting supporters EM = initial letters of ‘Ed Miliband’. BRACES = supporters |
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| 6 | INBRED | Bride screwed around and briefly present at birth *(Bride N), N being a contracted form of ‘and’, as in “fish’n’chips” |
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| 9 | SMUTTY | Must change Tony – extremely blue *(must TY), where TY are the extremities of ‘Tony’ |
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| 10 | INNUENDO | Slur that is about naughty nun and name associated with party IE = that is; NNU = *(nun); N = name; DO = party. |
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| 11 | TRADE-OFF | Compromise for Ed, fat bastard *(for Ed fat), with ‘bastard’ as an excellent anagram indicator |
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| 12 | BEHIND | Supportive of an arse Double definition, and a lovely concise clue |
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| 13, 15 | ONE OFF THE WRIST | Shot executed by a wanker of a tennis player? Simply to call this a double definition is not to do it justice. So I will refer you to Urban Dictionary, which does not mention the phrase in the context of tennis, but does offer links to intriguing mugs, t-shirts and magnets, should you be interested ( “a magnet?”). |
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| 17 | FALSETTO | Tales of Barking entertaining Tory leader (unnaturally high) *(Tales of T). Barking, as well as being a district of east London, can mean ‘barking mad’ and is therefore an anagram indicator. |
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| 19 | PIRACY | Crap put out about Cyclops and unknown person bootlegging *(Crap); I = Cyclops (the setter); Y = unknown (person); ‘bootlegging’ is the definition. |
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| 20 | ASLEEP | A drip takes Labour’s leader out A; SEEP = drip: L = Labour’s leader; ‘out’ is the definition. Nicely deceptive wordplay |
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| 22 | FOREPLAY | Driver’s warning on parking before bonk: do this first “Fore!” is a warning given by a golfer (driver) to anyone in the way of the ball; P = parking; LAY = bonk. I refer you to this site. I’d probably call this clue an &Lit, but some might disagree |
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| 24 | CADILLAC | Transport of Herb when taken by Bill both ways DILL = herb; CA/AC = bill (account), both ways |
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| 25 | SEPTIC | “Off piste” Conservative – bad *(piste C), with ‘Off’ as the anagram indicator |
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| 26 | PRAYER | Devotion shown by settler grabbing Boer’s rear PAYER = settler (one who settles an account); R = Boer’s rear |
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| 27 | DOLDRUMS | David, finally past it, takes drinks, causing depression D = last letter of David; OLD = past it; RUMS = drinks. The Doldrums |
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| 2 | MEMORANDA | Dick half cut or Dana pissed? (Making notes) MEM[ber] = dick half cut; *(or Dana) |
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| 3 | RATED | Balls, familiarly attached to underside of arse, admired RAT = arse (generally unpleasant person); ED = Ed Balls (Why didn’t he change his name?) |
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| 4 | CRY WOLF | Do it and risk no response to genuine warning of blubber on Casanova? CRY = blubber; one definition of WOLF in Chambers is ‘a man who insatiably pursues and seduces women’. |
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| 5 | STIFF | One who’s late having an erection Double definition — ‘stiff’ can mean a corpse, or ‘one who’s late’. |
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| 6 | IGNOBLE | Mean of Giles, madly getting end away, to constrict 75% of penis *(Gile), i.e. ‘Giles’ without S, ‘madly’ being the anagram indicator; ‘constricting’ [k]NOB |
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| 7 | BLETHERER | One who goes on the beer, drunk “burying length”, right? *(the beer); L = length; R = right. ‘One who goes on’ is the definition. |
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| 8 | END ON | Butts together, climax – proceed END = climax; ON = proceed (as an interjection). ‘Butts together’ is the definition. |
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| 14 | OBSCENITY | Old boy’s about to have sex in east New York filth OB’S = old boy’s; C = about; IT = sex (in crosswords, anyway); E NY = east New York. ‘Filth’ is the definition. |
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| 15, 22 | TWO FACED | Mugged twice? False Using ’mug’ in the sense of ‘face’. |
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| 16 | SOCIALISM | In this way, Islamic “nuts” ditched by Blair? SO = in this way; *(Islamic). Tony Blair created ‘New Labour’ by ditching the socialist ideals of the Labour party. |
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| 18 | TIPPLER | Piss-artist, one advising retaining Clegg’s no.2! TIPPER = one advising; L = Clegg’s no.2 |
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| 19 | PERUSAL | Examination in China sure to be fixed PAL = China (Cockney rhyming slang — China plate = mate); *(sure) |
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| 21 | STAIR | Archer’s introduction in jail: a step down – or up? A = Archer’s introduction; STIR = jail. A reference to the ever-delightful Jeffrey Archer and his come-uppance is never to be resisted. |
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| 23 | PAPER | Rubbish reading matter round about — e.g. the Sun PAP = rubbish; RE = about, reversed (‘round’). I suppose the Sun is a paper… just about. |
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And, to conclude: Why do meat pies have little holes in the top? So that people from Wigan can pick up four at once.
February 14th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Excellent blog, thanks. Made little progress with the crossword at the time, but plenty of “kick myself” moments now…
February 14th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Thanks for a blog as fun as the puzzle.