The usual (although he is a fairly new contributor) good crossword from Klingsor. There is a nice range of clue-types and some of them are very clever.
Maybe there is some Nina here but although as soon as I looked at the completed grid I saw ‘Bad’ and ‘Rem’ straddling some across answers, I suspect there is nothing in this.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | REVERB — (breve r{ecording})rev. — a nice &lit. I think because this seems quite a good way to define reverb |
| 5 | AD JUST |
| 9 | OUGHT — I’m not quite sure here: it seems to be {r}ough t, where ‘can be hard’ is ‘rough’, but quite apart from the possible dodginess of the syntax, does ‘rough’ really equal ‘can be hard’? |
| 10 | ROTATORY — A Tory with Rot coming first |
| 12 | NURTURE — (turn)* Ure |
| 13 | MONITOR — 2 defs, although some might say that a monitor is not part of a PC but an adjunct to it |
| 14 | CON G{aol} A |
| 16 | NOSTALGIA — (a lost ag{e} {pi}ni{ng})* — another good &lit. |
| 18 | {w}I{n}N{i}N{g} KEEPER — def ‘He should look after draughts’ |
| 21 | REMIT — (timer)rev. |
| 22 | UN(A WAR)E — ‘boxing’ indicates the act of surrounding |
| 24 | A M(PO{t})ULE |
| 26 | BELGRADE — (Beadle)* around g{ross} |
| 27 | LOG I{ndustry} C |
| 28 | murAL COVEring |
| 29 | DO SAGE |
| Down | |
| 2 | ELGAR — (leg)* a r |
| 3 | ENTOURAGE — encourage (= egg on) with c replaced by {toas}t |
| 4 | BURGEON — (grub)rev. (one)* |
| 5 | ARTEMIS — (I met)rev. in ars |
| 6 | J {g}ET ON |
| 7 | S TRAT A GEM |
| 8 | CONNECTICUT — Stamford USA is in Connecticut, connect = bridge, I, cut = give up (?? not sure here) |
| 11 | BREAK THE ICE — if you break ‘the ice’, in other words form an anagram of it, you can get ‘techie’ |
| 15 | N(ON PAR)EIL |
| 17 | ACROPOLIS — a crop (silo)rev. — This always reminds me of Les Dawson — if you can do better than I did and find a YouTube clip of this then I recommend it — Later: try this |
| 19 | PEERAGE — a joke: a pee-rage is arguably a fight in the toilets and Ladies are examples of those in the peerage — very good |
| 20 | REAR-END — {ca}r (need a)* around R{olls} — rear-end as a verb |
| 23 | AG(GR)O |
| 25 | {f}UN GAG |
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