Lorraine: Good morning happy solvers,
Nothing to difficult this week, seemed pretty straight forward to me.
I absolutely loved 18ac, what an excellent clue. 4dn was also very good.
I enjoyed solving this weeks puzzle – it is nice to sit down and complete a
crossword without to much effort.
Big thank you to Everyman as always.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Make a further judgement about foolish female? (8) | ||
| REASSESS | RE+ASSESS punning – (if) a male fool=ASS, then a female fool is an ASS’ESS |
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| 5. | You’re reportedly an American with a heavenly body (6) | ||
| URANUS | homophone: (YOU ARE=UR)+AN+US | ||
| 9. | City in Brazil surrounded by delightful lake (8) | ||
| SUPERIOR | SUPER around RIO | ||
| 10. | Peninsula in part of Russia (not South) (6) | ||
| IBERIA | (s)IBERIA | ||
| 12. | A profit, not for the first time (5) | ||
| AGAIN | A+GAIN | ||
| 13. | Swivels round and dog runs away (5,4) | ||
| TURNS TAIL | TURNS+TAIL(follow, dog) | ||
| 14. | I must leave info on dead consumed by ordnance fired, expendable men (6,6) | ||
| CANNON FODDER | ((i)NFO+D)) in (ORDNANCE*) | ||
| 18. | In which every second one is a starter (12) | ||
| TARAMASALATA | strange clue, not sure how to classify this, but every second letter is an ‘A’ | ||
| 21. | Professor’s soft seat? (4,5) | ||
| EASY CHAIR | cryptic def. EASY+SEAT | ||
| 23. | Delicate, fellow at bar (5) | ||
| FRAIL | F+RAIL | ||
| 24. | Reckless plan involving aide-de-camp (6) | ||
| MADCAP | ADC in MAP | ||
| 25. | Legislators upset stores across North America (8) | ||
| SENATORS | (STORES*) around NA | ||
| 26. | Beam spanning river, it may be an uncommon object (6) | ||
| RARITY | RAY around (R+IT) | ||
| 27. | Model players playing similar roles (8) | ||
| TYPECAST | TYPE+CAST | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | Rogue in Dartmoor, a ‘scally’ (6) | ||
| RASCAL | hidden: dartmooR, A ‘SCALly’ | ||
| 2. | Charm may be a quiet ringing of bells (6) | ||
| APPEAL | A+P+PEAL | ||
| 3. | Show violence towards robust member (6-3) | ||
| STRONG-ARM | STRONG+ARM | ||
| 4. | Annie Oakley, for example, a fireball (8,4) | ||
| SHOOTING STAR | cdd | ||
| 6. | A puzzle for Rankin’s inspector (5) | ||
| REBUS | Ref: Ian Rankins ‘Inspector REBUS’ series of novels | ||
| 7. | Name US conductor appearing in French region (8) | ||
| NORMANDY | N+ORMANDY see this link – ORMANDY |
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| 8. | Second shaded avenue cook shows young children (5,3) | ||
| SMALL FRY | S+MALL+FRY | ||
| 11. | In England, carry out a type of theft (5,7) | ||
| GRAND LARCENY | (ENGLAND CARRY)* | ||
| 15. | Motivated by girlfriend, no longer current? (3,2,4) | ||
| OUT OF DATE | punning: infers the girlfriend got you to do something ‘OUT OF (a) DATE’ | ||
| 16. | Flag master unfurled round about (8) | ||
| STREAMER | (MASTER*) around RE | ||
| 17. | Campaigner more offensive about Salvation Army (8) | ||
| CRUSADER | CRUDER around SA | ||
| 19. | Greek island area producing a savoury pastry (6) | ||
| SAMOSA | SAMOS+A | ||
| 20. | Private room near top of tower (6) | ||
| CLOSET | CLOSE+T(ower) | ||
| 22. | Skill with boats (5) | ||
| CRAFT | dd | ||
| … | |||
Thanks, Lorraine. I agree about 18a – I laughed out loud when I got it! But I came on here this morning to see if I’d missed something in 21a which seemed a very weak clue, but I hadn’t!
Just could not get
7d -didn’t help that ormandy was unknown.
16d Never thought of a flag as being a streamer
19d I was looking for pork pie, sausage roll -never thought of the indian snack.
21a Got the second word but not the first.
24a Map=plan just didn’t come to mind
27a
Some days they might have dropped -last Sunday they didn’t.
Good puzzle, as ever.
Thanks Lorraine; I, too, loved TARAMASALATA – what an excellent clue!