Kcit’s last EV, Wind, was only six weeks ago and a bit of a tester. Here we had misprints which would lead to a two-word message which would show how to interpret the unclued entries.
Unlike Wind, this turned out to be a pretty easy puzzle, and the two-word message was revealed as ignore bar lines. Chambers has bar lines as two words in itself, so I think this should have been described as a three-word message! It didn’t take long to notice that the unclued entries became the names of composers when the grid bar line before or after each is removed.
Solving time: another quick week at about 1¼ hours, but entertaining nonetheless.
Legend:
Definition in clue
Wrong/Wring = misprinted/corrected word in clues
A = letter poached from preceding or succeeding square
ABC* = anagram
ABC< = reversal
abCDef = hidden
| ACROSS | |||
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| No | Misprint | Answer | Clue and Explanation |
| 1 | RELIC | Hangover recipe involving couple of bits of liquid (5) REC (recipe) holding LI (couple of bits of LIquid) |
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| 5 | CHARBRIER | Unclued Emmanuel Chabrier, French romantic composer, 1841-1894 |
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| 12 | I | OLEO | Central part of hoot encapsulating the French imitation of owl/oil (4) OO (central part of hOOt) holding LE (the in French) |
| 13 | ENOUNCE | State opera company’s gain after dismissing head (7) ENO (opera company, ie English National Opera) + (B)UNCE (gain) |
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| 14 | SCHNITTKE | Unclued Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer, 1934-1998 |
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| 15 | SHARN | Farm waste, mostly solid, put in tin (5) HAR(D) (mostly solid) in Sn (tin) |
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| 16 | G | LEAR | Kind/King of play where line’s given attention (4) L (line) + EAR (attention) |
| 17 | REATE | Water plant clogging mere at Evesham (5) in meRE AT Evesham |
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| 20 | N | NEON | He/Ne redrafted one note (4) ONE* + N (note); ie He becomes Ne which is neon |
| 22 | MASSENET | Unclued Jules Massenet, French operatic composer, 1842-1912 |
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| 23 | ISOBASE | One’s mostly serious about second line on map (7) I (one) + SOBE(R) (serious) about A S (second) |
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| 26 | SOUSA | Unclued John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor, 1854-1932 |
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| 28 | ELAPS | Snakes glide, tail first (5) LAPSE (glide) with E, tail, first |
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| 31 | O | PAIR | Dud/Duo piano tune (4) P (piano) + AIR (tune) |
| 34 | CLOTE | Plant hard to remove from dress? (5) CLOTHE (dress) – H (hard) |
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| 36 | BEETHOVEN | Unclued Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist, 1770-1827 |
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| 37 | R | STALAGS | Sinks filled with a lot of remarkable poisons/prisons (7) SAGS (sinks) filled with TAL(L) (remarkable) |
| 38 | E | FILE | Frequency that is carrying start of live link/line (4) F (frequency) + IE (that is) holding L (start of Live) |
| 39 | HONEGGER | Unclued Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer, 1892-1955 |
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| 40 | B | RIDER | Man on Aran/Arab, say, one making delivery half-heartedly (5) RIDDER (one making delivery) with only half the number of Ds at heart |
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| No | Misprint | Answer | Clue and Explanation |
| 1 | ROSSINI | Unclued Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer, 1792-1868 |
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| 2 | ELCHI | Ambassador that is up to take in Luxembourg and Switzerland (5) IE< (that is) taking in L (Luxembourg) CH (Switzerland) |
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| 3 | LEHAR | Unlcued Franz Lehár, Austrian composer, 1870-1948 |
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| 4 | CHINAMAN | Aggressively question article about morning delivery (8) CHIN (aggressively question) AN (article) about AM (morning); a chinaman is a type of delivery by a left-arm bowler in cricket |
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| 6 | A | ANTRES | Poetic coves/caves not enthralled by Greek god (6) NT (not) surrounded by ARES (Greek god) |
| 7 | BOKO | Bloke put on canvas — by punch here? (4) BO (bloke) + KO (put on canvas); boko is the nose, so “by punch here” refers to being hit on the nose |
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| 8 | R | RUELLE | Regret involving railroad in deception/reception (6) RUE (regret) involving ELL (railroad) |
| 9 | IN RE | Anger about Nationalist is concerning (2,2) IRE (anger) about N (Nationalist) |
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| 10 | ECTASES | Gradually manoeuvres around court revealing instances of abnormal stretching (7) EASES (gradually manoeuvres) about CT (court) |
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| 11 | REGRET | Deplore hunter finally going after bird? On the contrary (6) EGRET (bird) before R (hunteR finally) |
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| 13 | ETAT | Worry about tense state (4) EAT (worry) about T (tense) |
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| 17 | L | ROOF | Run out of beads/leads (4) RO (run out) + OF |
| 18 | ISSACHAR | Jewish group‘s cash is distributed by Arab (8) (CASH IS)* + AR (Arab) |
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| 19 | ONUS | British avoiding extra responsibility (4) BONUS (extra) – B (British) |
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| 21 | I | ESPARTO | Spawn’s/Spain’s product ruined seaport (7) SEAPORT* |
| 23 | IMPISH | Mum follows warriors, being mischievous (6) SH (mum, ie silent) after IMPI (warriors) |
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| 24 | BURBLE | Incoherent speech city area allowed to go unfinished (6) BURB (city area) + LE(T) (allowed) |
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| 25 | SEA-EGG | Marine creature one, say, found among local marsh plants (6, hyphenated) A (one) EG (say, ie, for example) in SEG (marsh plants) |
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| 27 | TAVENER | Unclued John Tavener, British composer, b1944 |
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| 29 | N | LETS | Rests/Rents like this, each losing heart (5) L(IK)E T(HI)S |
| 30 | STELE | Stone tablet‘s very hard, left in slightly higher position (5) STEEL (very hard) with L (left) in higher position, ie moved up one space in a down entry |
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| 32 | IRAN | Arab country‘s wet weather having one moving (4) RAIN (wet weather) with I moving (to the top) |
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| 33 | E | PEAG | American broad/bread, one getting stuck into brandy and soda (4) A (one) in PEG (brandy and soda); peag is Native American shell money |
| 35 | S | OVID | Nothing against one day being writer with output of Verne/verse (4) O (nothing) V (against) I (one) D (day) |