| Across | |
|---|---|
| 4 | SCHNAPPS – cleverly done. A drunkard might pronounce “snaps” (pictures = shots) as SCHNAPPS. The literal reading works too. |
| 10 | D in LANG,RAVE – this was new to me but fairly easy once I stopped thinking about Lean (ie, David) as the film director. A LANDGRAVE is a count that has jurisdiction over certain territory. |
| 11 | VIE in GENEVE – I think I vaguely knew that GENEVIEVE was a film but I couldn’t tell you anything about it. |
| 13 | CHEST in GRANTER |
| 17 | (SOUTHERN [-M]EDOC)* – nice anagram but it was the clue enumeration that helped me get this one. Can’t really avoid that I suppose. |
| 24 | SWILL – the last one in for me, and I wasn’t completely convinced about it at the time although I am now. Pigs’ SWILL is made from scraps so I guess that counts as “refuse” and a SWILL is a gulp of beer or other alcohol. |
| 26 | W,EIGHT |
| Down | |
| 1 | ENG in (EAGER)* – really good clue, with a good surface: “Sign up again, eager for training to include engineering”. |
| 2 | MAD ON,N,AS – once I’d worked out that “really into” was MAD ON, then MADONNAS had to be the answer but it took me a while after that to spot “when” for AS. |
| 3 | KIR,OV[-er] |
| 5 | S in (MONK DECLINED)* – wasted some time assuming that “Monk” was the definition. I kicked myself when I finally saw CONDENSED MILK as I had written out the remaining anagram fodder and MILK should have leapt out at me from that. |
| 6 | (WEIGHT RAN)* – oddly enough, I got this (from the definition) before I got 26A. |
| 10 | L,I,ECHT,E[-i]NSTEIN – easy enough to get from “Learner” indicating something beginning with L and the fact that we’re looking for a 13 letter place in Europe but the wordplay is not so obvious. ECHT means genuine or authentic and “clever fellow, one given promotion” means move an I in EINSTEIN up a bit. OK, it’s slightly vague but, for me at least, the wordplay confirmed the answer rather than led to it. |
| 14 | T,ER in ROUSED |
| 19 | W in CREEL – quite a tough clue so I’m glad I knew that CREEL is something for holding bobbins in a spinning machine. “With” for W is tricky to spot too as it’s so often used as a link word. |
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Genevieve is a classic British film from the 50’s about a couple of vintage car enthusiasts (and their other halves) racing to Brighton (one of the cars being the “eponymous” Genevieve) with distinctive scoring by Larry Adler on his harmonica.