Monday Prize Crossword/Oct 10
A gentle puzzle from Mr Natural. 🙂
Nothing to worry about, just a nice starter of the week. Some familiar words (like CHAIRMAN which was similarly clued in the Guardian that Monday), some over-familiar constructions (BIGAMY, NUTS, PRESERVE) but all in all good entertainment.
| Across | ||
| 1 | REPAST | Pop into lounge for a meal |
| PA (pop) inside REST (lounge) | ||
| 4 | SIMPLEST | The easiest word may be misspelt |
| (MISSPELT)* | ||
| Would have been fun when Dante would have misppelt something 🙂 …. | ||
| 9 | BIGAMY | Generous girl having two husbands? |
| BIG (generous) + AMY (girl) | ||
| 10 | ENVELOPE | Cover note might be put into this |
| Cryptic definition. As John Newman @1 says, calling this a Double definition is probably better | ||
| 12 | CHAIRMAN | Yet he enjoys some standing at meetings |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| 13 | CEMENT | Join me in the money |
| ME inside CENT ((the) money) | ||
| 15 | NUTS | Stagger back, deprived of one’s wits |
| Reversal of STUN (stagger) | ||
| 16 | SUPERVISOR | Splendid face-saving feature for a manager |
| SUPER (splendid) + VISOR (face-saving feature, part of a harness) | ||
| 19 | KEY WORKERS | Computer operators are indispensable members of the staff |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| 20 | MAIM | Mother, I’m seriously hurt! |
| MA (mother) + I M | ||
| 23 | IN LIEU | Not out to use deception to go to university in place of another |
| IN (not out) + LIE (deception) + U (university) | ||
| 25 | OUTRIGHT | Completely wrong direction |
| OUT (wrong) + RIGHT (direction, as opposite to ‘left’) | ||
| 27 | THESPIAN | The spell of time I put in as an actor |
| THE SPAN (the spell of time) around I | ||
| I liked this one, probably my favourite of the day. | ||
| 28 | ALLIED | Everything that is finally told or related |
| ALL (everything) + IE (that is) + [tol]D | ||
| 29 | RESENTED | Need rest perhaps when taken ill |
| (NEED REST)* | ||
| 30 | REPAIR | Couple again seen in resort |
| Double definition | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | RUBICON | River crossed by burning bridges |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| 2 | PAGEANTRY | Display for long time in food store |
| AGE (long time) inside PANTRY (food store) | ||
| 3 | SOMBRE | Gloomy doctor put in a sensitive spot |
| MB (doctor) inside SORE (a sensitive spot) | ||
| 5 | INNS | Is including two names for pubs |
| IS around NN (two names, N[ame] plus another one) | ||
| 6 | PRESERVE | Jam book under piano |
| RESERVE (book) underneath P (piano) | ||
| 7 | ELOPE | Make a run to clinch the match |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| 8 | TWEETER | Speaker of high tone |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| A tweeter is a “loudspeaker used in high-fidelity sound to reproduce the higher frequencies”. Sounds like living in the Seventies or the Eighties, doesn’t it? | ||
| 11 | MAZURKA | Muzak a right blend for music to dance to? |
| (MUZAK A R[ight])* | ||
| 14 | BEAR OUT | Confirm a wild animal has escaped |
| Double definition with the second somewhat cryptic | ||
| 17 | SHANGRI-LA | Girl has an unusual idea of earthly paradise |
| (GIRL HAS AN)* | ||
| Nice simple anagram and it reminded me of a great Kinks song with the same title. Watch this: Shangri-La | ||
| 18 | HOMESPUN | In-joke about southern rustic |
| HOME-PUN (in-joke) around S (southern) | ||
| 19 | KNITTER | One providing cast-off clothing? |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| 21 | MATADOR | Ring-fighter likely to produce a pass when charged |
| Straightforward definition with a cryptic element added | ||
| Not my last one in, but one that made me think rather deeply till the very end. | ||
| 22 | GRILLE | Cook last of the cheese on part of the barbecue |
| GRILL (cook) + [chees]E | ||
| 24 | LEEKS | Loss of water, we hear, in vegetables |
| Homophone of LEAKS (loss of water) | ||
| 26 | LAME | Cooked meal of game |
| (MEAL)* | ||
Thanks Sil. I couldn’t get CEMENT. Don’t know why, easy isn’t it?
Shouldn’t 10 be double definition? “Cover” plus the cryptic “note may be put in this”.
TWEETER bothers me a little. I wrote it in as I knew the straight forward definition. But it is not very cryptic is it? Isn’t the word high also meant to refer to a bird which tweets?
cheers
John