This one was tackled the East Coast Mainline, so with no access to aids. Sitting down to blog, I see that while I didn’t quite finish the puzzle, I did put in a pretty good showing, with around five answers in the SE corner left unsolved. Let’s hope the remainder make themselves known by the time I get to the end!
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | CLAW – C + LAW[n]. |
| 4 | PUDICITY – PUD + I + CITY. |
| 10 | AIRCON – C in (A IRON). |
| 12 | ZOONAL – O in ZONAL. “O” for “Ohio” was unfamiliar, so I spent some time trying to make OH fit somehow. |
| 13 | NETHERSTOCKS – NET HER STOCKS. |
| 14 | AGILE – [fr]AGILE. |
| 17 | DECOR – ROC[k]ED<. |
| 18 | DEIGNED – (1 + G + N) in DEED. |
| 19 | MAGNESIA – AGNES in AIM<. |
| 21 | AMENABLE – B in (AMEN + ALE). |
| 23 | NAUTILI – NA + UTILI[se]. |
| 25 | AEDES – A[r]EDES. |
| 28 | VROUW – V + (U in ROW). |
| 29 | MODI OPERANDI – (IPOD + RADIO MEN)*. |
| 30 | ROUTER – R + OUTER. |
| 31 | EOLIAN – O in ELIAN. The essayist is Charles Lamb, who wrote under the pseudonym “Elia”. |
| 32 | FLEETEST – FLEE + TEST. |
| 33 | DELE – DELE[gate]. |
| Down | |
| 1 | CANADIANS – (AÏDA + N)< in CANS. |
| 2 | LIEGER – I think this must be (1 in LEGER), though I can only see LEG for “swindler” in Chambers, which wouldn’t explain the ER. |
| 3 | ARTICLE – ART + (L in ICE). |
| 5 | UNRIDABLE – [r]UN + (A BRIDLE)*. |
| 6 | IOTA – [b]IOTA. |
| 7 | COOK-GENERAL – OK in (CLEANER GO)*. |
| 8 | INCAN – IN CAN. |
| 9 | TAKE – [s]TAKE. |
| 11 | CHLOANTHITE – (HEALTH TONIC)*. |
| 15 | NEGLIGÉES – EG< in (NEG + LIES). |
| 16 | ADAM’S WINE – DAM in (A SWINE). |
| 20 | SIDONIE – IS< + (1 in DONE). |
| 22 | FEUDAL – FEUD + AL[l]. |
| 24 | UNDUE – U + NUDE*. |
| 26 | DOOL – dd. |
| 27 | POET – 0 in PET. |