Posted by Mister Sting on 13th March 2011
I-I-I! Mea culpa! The piercing eye of the acute observer will have noticed that I’m a tiny bit late with this post. Sorry. I was obsessively cataloging my alphabetti spaghetti. I’m sure you’ll understand. My therapist does.
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Posted by Andrew on 13th March 2011
Another reasonably straightforward Azed, as far as I remember, helped by an easy 1 across to get me started, though as usual a fair bit of Chambers-trawling was needed to confirm all the details for this blog. (Apologies for the late posting, which is due to me having got my dates muddled.)
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Posted by flashling on 13th March 2011
Seems ages since I did a blog – I’ve added the clues to remind solvers as it was published a week ago. A couple of rarer words and some nice wordplay here. But generally it’s a lovely Quixote puzzle. Got mislead a couple of times as a decent crossword should – see blog.
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Posted by PeterO on 13th March 2011
And the envelope contains…
| Across | |||
| 1. | I’m so sexy in new lace undergarment (8) | ||
| CAMISOLE | Envelope (‘in’) of MISO, an anagram (‘sexy’) of ‘Im so’ in CALE, an anagram (‘new’) of ‘lace’. | ||
| 5. | A couple of lines in poor song (6) | ||
| BALLAD | Envelope (‘in’) of A LL (‘a’ ‘couple of lines’) in BAD (‘poor’). | ||
| 9. | Beginning to laugh, interrupting funny gag (8) | ||
| STRANGLE | Envelope (‘interrupting’) of L (‘beginning to Laugh’) in STRANGE (‘funny’). | ||
| 10. | Article by good man on church’s position (6) | ||
| STANCE | Charade of ST (‘good man’) + AN (‘article’) + CE (‘church’ of England). | ||
| 12. | Buddhist monk holding head of lowing animal (5) | ||
| LLAMA | Envelope (‘holding’) of L (‘head of Lowing’) in LAMA (‘Buddhist monk’). | ||
| 13. | Popular French novelist’s crossing small British city (9) | ||
| INVERNESS | Envelope (‘crossing’) of S (‘small’) in IN VERNES (‘popular’ ‘French novelists’). | ||
| 14. | Checking text from academic going round old English university (12) | ||
| PROOFREADING | Envelope (‘going round’) of O (‘old’) in PROF READING (‘academic’ ‘English university‘). | ||
| 18. | Speculation after son’s dismissed? His crime? (12) | ||
| EMBEZZLEMENT | Peculation is EMBEZZLEMENT, and also [s]peculation minus s (‘after sons dismissed’). An unusual style of clue. The Z from 3D made the answer obvious some time before I saw the wordplay. | ||
| 21. | Typeface used by Cambridge college lecturer penning first of novels (9) | ||
| CLARENDON | Envelope (‘penning’) of N (‘first of Novels’) in CLARE DON (‘Cambridge college‘ ‘ lecturer’). | ||
| 23. | Ring about daughter’s cycle (5) | ||
| PEDAL | Envelope (‘about’) of D (‘daughter’) in PEAL (‘ring’). | ||
| 24. | Beast kept by Pakistani male (6) | ||
| ANIMAL | Hidden in ‘PakistANI MALe’. | ||
| 25. | A name in staircase window (8) | ||
| FANLIGHT | Envelope (‘in’) of A N (‘a’ ‘name’) in FLIGHT (‘staircase’). | ||
| 26. | Hear about object, all the rage (6) | ||
| TRENDY | Envelope (‘about’) of END (‘object’) in TRY (‘hear’ in the judicial sense). | ||
| 27. | On which runners make tracks? (3,5) | ||
| SKI SLOPE | Cryptic definition. | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | Keep left in station (6) | ||
| CASTLE | Envelope (‘in’) of L (‘left’) in CASTE (‘station’ of life). Defining CASTLE as ‘keep’ is a little questionable. | ||
| 2. | New, in fish sauce (6) | ||
| MORNAY | Envelope (‘in’) of N (‘new’) in MORAY (‘fish’, the eel). Mornay sauce is a white sauce with cheese, which may well be served with fish. | ||
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