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Monday Prize Crossword/Sep 24
Not C- or D-day this time, but an elegantly clued crossword by Falcon which can be found here. Very enjoyable, but also very easy. There are people visiting this site who think these two cannot go together. I am not one of them.
Sorry that the blog doesn’t look as neat as it normally does. I am experimenting with PeeDee’s blogging utility but I haven’t got round it completely/sufficiently.
Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate
Across
1 Dock worker, one having lost a few pounds? (10)
LIGHTERMAN LIGHTER MAN (one having lost a few pounds)
7 Exaggerated the military life (4)
CAMP Double definition
9 Excursion to ancient Sumerian city (4)
TOUR TO + UR (ancient Sumerian city)
10 Tailor is called to Spanish region (3,7)
OLD CASTILE (IS CALLED TO)*
11 Stick plug in this place (6)
ADHERE AD (plug) + HERE (in this place)
12 A centre in the French ball game (8)
LACROSSE A CROSS (a centre) inside LE (the, in French)
13 Unfaithful daughter of priest is scared, shaken (8)
CRESSIDA (IS SCARED)*
15 Forward’s second goal (4)
SEND S (second) + END (goal)
17 Hit wood on Birkdale’s first (4)
BASH ASH (wood) after B[irkdale]
19 I can show how it’s done – on next EP, possibly (8)
EXPONENT (ON NEXT EP)*
22 Packed, needing to stay for a period in America (4,4)
FULL STOP FULL (packed) + STOP ((to) stay)
23 Source of power in English home close to Seascale (6)
ENGINE ENG (English) + IN (home) + [Seascal]E
25 Certain trees always found on parts of golf courses (10)
EVERGREENS EVER (always) + GREENS (parts of golf courses)
26 Joy requires shelter following onset of gale (4)
GLEE LEE (shelter) following G[lee]
27 Stick around to speak about head of the lodge (4)
STAY SAY (to speak) around T[he]
28 Thinks date, abused, was extremely upset (3,7)
HAD KITTENS (THINKS DATE)*
Down
2 Fitting one after another (2,5)
IN ORDER Double definition
3 Huge crowd in store, reportedly (5)
HORDE Homophone of HOARD (store)
4 Mysterious coteries formed (8)
ESOTERIC (COTERIES)*
5 Fat appearing in eg a dad’s prime – led astray? (6-3,6)
MIDDLE-AGE SPREAD (EG A DAD S PRIME LED)*
6 Sister outside a church in shade (6)
NUANCE {NUN (sister) around A} + CE (church)
7 Famous English golfer’s directed towards twigs (7,2)
COTTONS ON COTTON (famous English golfer) + ‘S + ON (directed towards)
8 Curse male accompanied by girl (7)
MALISON M (male) + ALISON (girl)
14 Academic knowing about arrest, say (9)
SCHOLARLY SLY (knowing) around CHOLAR (homophone of COLLAR (arrest))
16 A crowd beginning to knock one activity at Klosters? (5-3)
APRES-SKI A + PRESS (crowd) + K[nock]
18 Adult left to get hold of a very strong drink (7)
AQUAVIT A (adult) + {QUIT (left) around A V (very)}
20 Gran cutting cotton cloth (7)
NANKEEN NAN (gran) + KEEN (cutting)
21 Child supporting celebrity becomes stiff (6)
STARCH STAR (celebrity) + CH (child)
24 Soldier acquired a leg of mutton (5)
GIGOT GI (soldier) + GOT (acquired)
Thanks Sil and Falcon.
As you say both easy and enjoyable. I do have a question about the significance of “lodge” in 27ac. Am I missing something?
After further consideration, I have an answer to my own question, though not I’m totally sure. Could it be that “lodge” is the containment indicator, and not “about” as I originally thought, and “say”=”to speak about”?
Sorry, it’s “… I’m not totally sure…”
Hi Sil, drop me a mail with your sugestions of how to neaten the format and I will include them into the blogging utility.
sschua, just like you I was (and still am) puzzled by ‘lodge’ too.
Because I was too much fiddling about with PeeDee’s software, I didn’t include personal comments this time.
Very easy? I suppose it depends how good you are. I could take you down a ski slope that would be very easy for me but you might freeze in panic half way down.
Anyway after an eternity I gave up still needing 7a,8d & 13a . I’d never heard of 8d or 13a so would never have got them.
Stick around and lodge could simply be a double definition albeit with the subsidiay part in the middle.
to lodge = to stay
re 27a
Stick around and lodge could simply be a double definition albeit with the subsidiay part in the middle.
to lodge = to stay
Well, ernie, I am happy to underline ‘lodge’ too, but it’s still not very satisfying. Falcon is, IMHO, too precise (perhaps even, er, Ximenean) to follow your idea.
It would be nice if Falcon joined in to explain what’s going on here (like he sometimes does in the Observer wearing his Everyman dress).
Oh, and sorry, Bamberger, I really found this very easy.
And believe me (which some don’t) I am really just an average solver.
Re CRESSIDA, in the early 70s I had two albums (LPs as they used to call them then) by a band with that name, a band that I really liked. I still have them!