A wild and wet morning here brings Quixote for our fortnightly monday entertainment.
Quite a quick solve and blog today except possibly 17a where I feel I’m missing something possibly to do with RULED.
And congratulations to Mark Goodliffe for being the Times crossword champion (again…)
| Across | ||
| 1 | MANAGERESS | Supervisor takes a long time, getting worker finally in muddle (10) |
| 8 | PAPER | Person only half absorbs a page in daily read? (5) |
| (A & P(age)) absorbed by PER(son) | ||
| 9 | SPEEDWAY | Sport in gym with man in swerve (8) |
| (P.E. & ED) in SWAY | ||
| 10 | RECTORY | Catholic politician outside back of the minister’s place (7) |
| Back of thE in R(oman) C(atholic) & TORY | ||
| 11 | GENETIC | Like type of code giving information with name written wrong way (7) |
| GEN (info) & CITE rev | ||
| 13 | PORRINGER | Dish made of soft gold presented to member of belfry team (9) |
| P & OR & RINGER (of church bells say) | ||
| 15 | SIMON | I am entertained by boy disciple (5) |
| I’m in SON | ||
| 17 | RILED | Angry king, I wouldn’t let others usurp my role? (5) |
| R(ex) & I LED | ||
| 19 | LAY READER | Minister’s assistant has written article about Scottish town (3,6) |
| AYR in (say newspaper) LEADER | ||
| 21 | SCHEMES | Plans making school seem unorthodox (7) |
| SCH(ool) & SEEM* | ||
| 23 | HAUNTED | Relation nursed by the man died, with the ghost still around? (7) |
| AUNT in HE & D(ied) | ||
| 24 | LOCUTION | Something soothing about copper’s way of speaking (8) |
| Cu in LOTION | ||
| 25 | ATTIC | Greek room with lots of junk? (5) |
| Double def | ||
| 26 | WHITEHOUSE | English protestor in US government building (10) |
| Double def. Mary, Mary, quite contrary. Not to be confused with The Mary Whitehouse Experience which was something quite different. | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | MARCONI | Engineer setting stuff up, the operating electrical current (7) |
| CRAM rev & ON & I (electric current) Radio pioneer. | ||
| 2 | NASTY | Unpleasant street — there’s no crossing it (5) |
| ST. in NAY | ||
| 3 | GLENGARRY | Good angler in trouble with line somewhere in Scotland (9) |
| G(ood) & ANGLER* & R(ailwa)Y | ||
| 4 | RIDINGS | Girl wearing jewellery making tracks through the wood? (7) |
| DI(ana) in RINGS | ||
| 5 | SLANT | Heartless soul, worker showing bias (5) |
| S(ou)L & ANT. | ||
| 6 | SPARE PARTS | A strap’s somehow wrapped around material — such may effect repair (5,5) |
| REP (a type of ribbed cloth) in [A STRAP S]* | ||
| 7 | SPECTRAL | Various carpets, fifty covering a range of colours (8) |
| CARPETS* & L | ||
| 12 | CONTRADICT | I had turned up, coming in to shorten dispute (10) |
| I’D rev in CONTRACT | ||
| 14 | GOLDSMITH | Writer who might fashion something for the top prize? (9) |
| Cryptic double Def | ||
| 16 | MEDITATE | Ruminate when there’s change in buddy (8) |
| EDIT in MATE | ||
| 18 | DEMOUNT | Protest over country sport not wanting horse to get off (7) |
| DEMO & (h(orse))UNT | ||
| 20 | EMULATE | Mimic bird (like e.g. dead parrot!) (7) |
| EMU & LATE (dead) | ||
| 22 | HOOCH | Drink a couple of rounds with companion after end of lunch (5) |
| (lunc)H & OO & C.H. | ||
| 23 | HINDU | Asian contributing to British industry (5) |
| Hidden answer | ||
1ac – I was trying to use ANT as well, but I parsed it as AN AGE + R (worker finally) in MESS
I agree with your parsing of RILED. This puzzle was definitely one of the easier Quixote puzzles but it was still enjoyable.
Thanks folks — I think I intended ‘then’ in the Marconi clue!
More CDs and slightly whimsical definitions than usual, giving this a more Rufus-like feel. I thought “I led” for “I wouldn’t let others usurp my role” was a bit of a stretch. Also Hindu for Asian is fairly questionable – there are plenty of British Hindus.
Thanks, Quixote, for the elucidation about 1dn – and for the whole puzzle. Thanks, too, to flashling
My CoD was PORRINGER – a word I hadn’t encountered for ages. No doubt porringers (in the modern meaning of the word) will be coming into their own now the dark cold mornings are here. (Click here for an explanation of the two meanings of “porringer”.)
Oops! Something went wrong with that link. Here’s a second attempt – and it seems to work this time.