Independent 8196 by Quixote

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It’s that Monday morning feeling again today, slightly delayed as I’d forgotten it was my turn…..

The usual fine sound stuff from Quixote but I just don’t get 9dn

Across:

1 DISTRICT D (Germany) + 1 + STRICT
5 STRAIT Hom of STRAIGHT
10 PARAGON PA + RAG (week) + ON
11 ATELIER A + (ho)TELIER
12 EVOLUTION (r)EVOLUTION
13 TEARS T(ime) + EARS
14 SPARE BEDROOM [BOARDER MOPES]* Nicely fitting anag
18 PATHOGENESIS [AS THE GP ONE IS]*
21 ANDRÉ Hidden but which André? Previn, Watts or Tchaikovsky or other?
22 MORSE CODE [RECOM(p)OSED]*
23 LOOK SEE OK in LOSE + E (low exam grade)
24 HEIRESS IRE in (Rudolf) HESS
25 DESIRE SIR “drowned” in DEE
26 EDITIONS E + DI(c)TIONS
Down:    
1 DIPPER RIPPED with top and tail swapped
2 SORROW SOR(e) + ROW
3 REGIUS PROFESSOR [SUPER FORGER IS SO]*
4 CONCIERGE [COERCING + (employe)E]*
6 TREATED LIKE DIRT Cryptic Def
7 AGITATOR A + G.I. + TAT + O.R.
8 TIRESOME TIRE + SO + ME
9 BARN Sorry can’t see this, bit brain dead today… BAR(e) +(i)N? Help please. [Thanks Sue #1]
15 BEE ORCHID OR in BEECH + I’D [Typo fixed thanks Paul A]
16 APPALLED A + P + PAL + LED
17 STUDIOUS STUD + 1 + U in O.S.
19 COME TO COMET + O(xygen)
20 VERSUS VERS(e) + U.S.
22 MEET Double def. As in (illegal) foxhunting and PROPER. Clue implies this is archaic but my dictionary doesn’t indicate this.

 

 

11 comments on “Independent 8196 by Quixote”

  1. crypticsue
    #1 - Mon 21st Jan 13, 11:11

    A typical Quixote start to the week.

    I think 9d might be BARREN (with nothing in) with the RE (about) demolished or taken away.

    Thanks to Q and Flashling too.

  2. Paul A
    #2 - Mon 21st Jan 13, 13:04

    Typo – the tree in 15a is BEECH

  3. NealH
    #3 - Mon 21st Jan 13, 13:16

    9 lost me completely and barn was little more than a tentative guess. I also wasn’t totally sure on 22. Fortunately, when I typed them into the online version, it flashed up the message to say the puzzle was completed – otherwise, I’d still have been staring at 9.

  4. allan_c
    #4 - Mon 21st Jan 13, 14:51

    I too got 9dn without fully understanding it. And for 22dn I initially had MOOT, thinking of the Moot Halls one finds in various rural towns, which used to be places of assembly (maybe still are) though I couldn’t see how ‘illegal’ fitted in. But thanks to the online check button I then realised it had to be MEET, enabling me to get LOOK-SEE.

    Thanks, Quixote and flashling.

  5. allan_c
    #5 - Mon 21st Jan 13, 14:55

    … and the clue to 19d was quite subtle with its ‘minimal oxygen’ since, strictly speaking, the chemical symbol O refers to a single atom (not even a molecule, which is O2) of oxygen – and you can’t get more minimal gthan that!

  6. Quixote
    #6 - Mon 21st Jan 13, 15:15

    Thanks for feedback. I’ve heard this query about oxygen before. O is the symbol for the element oxygen and there is no need to go into all this atom/molecule discussion. I may be subtle sometimes, but not on this occasion!

  7. Kathryn's Dad
    #7 - Mon 21st Jan 13, 16:32

    Thanks, flashling. As Sue said, a typical Quixote – most of it went in nicely, but I too was stuck on BARN. Great surface reading, but ‘big building’ for BARN? Well, I suppose so, although there are some barns near me that aren’t that big.

    However, DIPPER, SPARE BEDROOM and TREATED LIKE DIRT were very good.

    And I put MEET straight in. ‘It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.’ Luke Chapter 15 in the King James Bible, since you ask. So I guess that counts as ‘archaic’.

    I do sometimes worry about the random stuff that is in my head. Anyway, thank you to Q for today’s puzzle.

  8. Bertandjoyce
    #8 - Mon 21st Jan 13, 18:50

    You’re not the only one K’s D! As far as barns are concerned, Bert says that some large spaces or buildings are described as ‘a barn of a building’. However, Joyce is also concerned about what stuff is in his head as well!

    Thanks to flashling and Quixote.

  9. Jan
    #9 - Tue 22nd Jan 13, 17:09

    Thanks for the blog Flashling. I really enjoy Mr.M’s puzzles.

    K’s D @7

    I do sometimes worry about the random stuff that is in my head.

    “It is meet and right so to do.” (Book of Common Prayer) 🙂

    Thanks to Crypicsue for that take on BARN – how obscure, unusual for Quixote.

    I’m still wondering how ‘American band’ is TIRE. Is this a US spelling of tyre and if so how is it a band?

  10. Jan
    #10 - Tue 22nd Jan 13, 17:12

    Would you like t, Crypticsue?;) Sorry, the edit started deleting as I inserted!

  11. flashling
    #11 - Wed 23rd Jan 13, 20:40

    Hi Jan yes a tyre/tire is a band on a wheel, especially the old cartwheel type.

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