A good straightford offering from Cinephile today, not too easy but not really that hard either.
Clue of the day – my favourite clue was 14, 24. Click the ‘vote’ link to vote for your clue of the day. See the results so far here
Hold mouse over a clue number to read the clue.
| Across | |||
| 1, 19 down | TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS | vote | PUDDLE (water) inside (MORTALS TRY)* anagram=transported, moved around |
| 6 | TOPIC | vote | TO PIC (picture, illustration) |
| 9, 11 | RIGHT HONOURABLE | vote | (BERLIN AUTHOR HOG)* – honorary title for members of the Privy Council |
| 10 | SOVEREIGN | vote | OVER (excess) E (enegry) in SIGN (symbol) |
| 11 | vote | See 9 | |
| 12, 6 down | LEFT TURN | vote | LEFT (abandoned) TURN (entertainment) – reference to British politics |
| 14 | BRASHER | vote | Double definition – Chris Brasher, former athelete, entepreneur and broadcaster |
| 15 | PROVERB | vote | PRO (for) VERB (part of speech) |
| 17 | VOYEURS | vote | (US O VERY)* o=love, zero (tennis score), anagram=possibly – definition is &lit |
| 19 | MATISSE | vote | IS S (second) inside MATE (friend) |
| 20 | RAVE | vote | contRAVEntion – & lit, an unlicenced event |
| 22 | FAIRY CYCLE | vote | FAIRY (spirit) CYCLE (series of events) – a child’s bicycle |
| 25 | DESULTORY | vote | L (learner, student) USED (employed) reversed and TORY (Conservative) |
| 26 | ROAST | vote | Right OAST (oven) |
| 27 | EATEN | vote | sounds like “Eton”, the school |
| 28 | DISCOURSE | vote | OURSElves (in part, only part of) following DISC (record) |
| Down | |||
| 1 | TORCH | vote | CH (church) on TOR (hill) |
| 2 | LEGENDARY | vote | LEG (member) END (finish) A RY (railway, line) |
| 3 | UNTRUTHFUL | vote | RUTH (pity) inside United Nations (international body) and LUFT (‘air’ in German) reversed |
| 4 | DESPAIR | vote | PRAISED* |
| 5 | ENVELOP | vote | definition is ‘to cover’ I can’t quite fathom the wordplay. Obviously a letter is found in an envelope, so is enveloped, but is this really all there is to it? Hardly seems cryptic at all. |
| 6 | vote | See 12 | |
| 7 | PRIZE | vote | sounds like “prise” – to exert leverage |
| 8 | CONSTABLE | vote | CONS (reads) TABLE (lsit) |
| 13 | MONTE CARLO | vote | ON (performing) TEC (sleuth) inside MARLOwe (poet, we missing) |
| 14, 24 | BEVERIDGE PLAN | vote | (GRIPE LED)* inside Aneurin ‘Nye’ BEVAN – document proposing a national health service for the UK, instigated by Nye Bevan and produced by William Beveridge. |
| 16 | EASY CHAIR | vote | Definition and cryptic definition |
| 18 | SEA FOOD | vote | (A DOSE OF)* anagram=fizz, moving around |
| 19 | vote | See 1 across | |
| 21 | VISIT | vote | IS IT following V (five) |
| 23 | ESTEE | vote | ESTEEm (respect, most of the letters) |
| 24 | vote | See 14 | |
*anagram
Thanks PeeDee, and Cinephile. Enjoyed this one. I also found it not too hard but there were some ingenious clues – like 1, 19.
Thanks for the blog, PeeDee. I’m glad Cinephile left you with no unsolved mysteries this week!
I agree with your assessment of the puzzle and with you, Mike, re the quality of 1,19. I loved the bordering-on-&litishness of its surface and also that of 14,24. &lits don’t come two-a-penny and to get two genuine ones, together with these two clues, was quite a feat, I reckon.
[So I’m willing to overlook 5dn, where I share your qualms. 😉 ]
Would have helped if I had had the slightest idea who the Tolpuddle Martyrs were 🙂