Lorraine: Nice easy plod along this week, had to look up 1 down and 7 down to confirm my guesses. Can’t say any one clue was particularly outstanding as I always enjoy all the clues; thanks again Everyman 🙂
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Legend to solution comments:
* = anagram.
< = word reversed.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Circle newspaper article revealing chief troublemaker in group (10) | ||
| RINGLEADER | RING+LEADER | ||
| 6. | A cat, ounce (4) | ||
| ATOM | A TOM | ||
| 9. | Very bad, the French records (10) | ||
| CHRONICLES | CHRONIC+LES | ||
| 10. | Artist’s line after nothing said (4) | ||
| ORAL | RA+L after O | ||
| 12. | Swindle German woman and daughter (5) | ||
| FRAUD | FRAU+D | ||
| 13. | One in bar ordered drop of rum – that’s something requiring little thought (2-7) | ||
| NO BRAINER | (ONE IN BAR*)+R(um) | ||
| 15. | Besides displaying bravado, one is struggling against second in league (4,3,5) | ||
| OVER AND ABOVE | (BRAVADO ONE*)+V (versus, i.e. against)+E | ||
| 18. | It’s nothing to get in? Not right, there’s this charge (9,3) | ||
| ADMISSION FEE | ADMISSION F(r)EE | ||
| 21. | Spy on the awfully small witch (9) | ||
| PYTHONESS | (SPY ON THE)* | ||
| 22. | Had on about son being poorer (5) | ||
| WORSE | WORE around S | ||
| 23. | Toy boy losing head twice, flipping (2-2) | ||
| YOYO | (b)OY< twice (see comment #1) definition doing double duty? |
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| 24. | Dora lit me a fresh cigarette (6-4) | ||
| TAILOR MADE | (DORA LIT ME A)* | ||
| 26. | Sounds like legal documents for top hotel (4) | ||
| RITZ | homophone: WRITS | ||
| 27. | Player against international, an opener for Trinidad (10) | ||
| CONTESTANT | CON+TEST+T(rinidad) | ||
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| 1. | Fierce criminal in Brazilian port (6) | ||
| RECIFE | (FIERCE)* | ||
| 2. | Common girl’s language, initially (6) | ||
| NORMAL | NORMA+L | ||
| 3. | Maths exercise causing lengthy disagreement (4,8) | ||
| LONG DIVISION | LONG+DIVISION This method of division is now lost on the younger generation, I guess! |
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| 4. | Area in court to be renovated? On the contrary (2,9) | ||
| AU CONTRAIRE | (AREA IN COURT)* | ||
| 5. | River in Sussex, England (3) | ||
| EXE | hidden: sussEX England |
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| 7. | In which one may see Ping, Pang and Pong go round a point (8) | ||
| TURANDOT | (TURN around A)+DOT Ref: this opera |
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| 8. | Potential army leak? Nonsense (8) | ||
| MALARKEY | (ARMY LEAK)* | ||
| 11. | Make a short speech, or be taciturn about article (3,1,3,5) | ||
| SAY A FEW WORDS | SAY FEW WORDS around A taciturn means ‘disinclined to speak’ etc. |
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| 14. | Dish – nuts left in mine (6,5) | ||
| BANANA SPLIT | BANANAS (nuts) + L in PIT | ||
| 16. | One supporting the Treasury wielding party axe? (8) | ||
| TAXPAYER | (PARTY AXE)* | ||
| 17. | In the morning they changed stone for a purple variety of sapphire (8) | ||
| AMETHYST | AM+(THEY*)+ST | ||
| 19. | A jolly girl in navy (6) | ||
| ARMADA | A RM (Royal Marine=jolly)+ADA | ||
| 20. | Leave course, disheartened (6) | ||
| DESERT | DES(s)ERT | ||
| 25. | Head of Assembly, shot in the past (3) | ||
| AGO | A+GO | ||
23a: Toy is the definition; it’s BOY losing head twice that gives the solution.
I think the boy loses head twice in a manner of speaking and not literally!
In the above comment, I forgot to mention the reversal operation that is involved in getting the answer.
The comments are visible to me too after you made the adjustment.
Nick
I don’t know what is happening.
Again the ends of the comment lines are truncated in both of your posts.
It is obvious that the white area will hold no more than certain number of characters per line.
If the tab before the anno is removed and a dash is used instead, perhaps all the characters will be visible.
Gaufrid
Please delete all these posts once it’s set right.
Rishi, I have adjusted the table on both this and my AZED blog again… let me know what you see.
BTW, I do not understand what you mean by ‘If the tab before the anno is removed and a dash is used instead’? I also do not think it is a character per line limitation, else I would not see the whole blog perfectly!
Nick
3d has nothing beyond I.
I am not a computer expert but I think it’s the use of tab that is causing problem.
If a sentence reaches the end of the right edge, the rest of the words don’t seem to fall below in alignment or misalignment with the tab but just vanish.
I am sorry to say that it has not improved in the AZED blog either.
Seeing as I do not use a tab, it isn’t that 😉 What browser do you use, MS IE?
Nick
Yes, MS IE.
I visited the blogs using Mozilla FF and Chrome but the problem persists.
OK, I can see what is going on – it’s to do with font size and (physical) screen area size. I have resized the table now to very narrow, but what you can try in your browser settings is to (temporary)reduce the font size – it will then hopefully stop the words being pushed from the WordPress viewing ‘window’.
I don’t know how to fix this properly though… 🙁
Nick
Nick
Now it’s OK.
Thanks for your patience!
The first two Comments fix the anno for YO-YO, which I think Lorraine is yet to see.
Done!
Nick