Lorraine: Good morning to you all.
Absolutely enjoyed this weeks offering. Lots of favourites especially 19ac, 23ac and 1dn. Excellent cluing throughout the whole crossword.
Many thanks to Everyman, without you our Sundays would be drab and boring 😉
| Across | |||
| 1. | Thief and fence in possession of 1000, policeman recalled (10) | ||
| PICKPOCKET | (K+COP<) in PICKET | ||
| 6. | Rosemary, perhaps, in feather bed (4) | ||
| HERB | hidden: featHER Bed | ||
| 10. | Seat I must sit in daily (5) | ||
| CHAIR | I in CHAR | ||
| 11. | Incorrect ad bothers acting profession (3,6) | ||
| THE BOARDS | (AD BOTHERS)* | ||
| 12. | In disarray, everywhere (3,4,3,4) | ||
| ALL OVER THE SHOP | dd – ‘all over the show’ fits here too without any checking letters | ||
| 14. | Crystal getting rid of good sword (7) | ||
| CUTLASS | CUT(g)LASS | ||
| 15. | Book about English County Council described by graduate (7) | ||
| REBECCA | RE+(BA around ECC) | ||
| 17. | Skirt around centre of Edinburgh in a taxi (7) | ||
| MINICAB | MINI+CA+(edin)B(urgh) | ||
| 19. | Get hairdo in a place buzzing with activity? (7) | ||
| BEEHIVE | cd | ||
| 20. | Islander checks out writer (7,7) | ||
| CHARLES DICKENS | (ISLANDER CHECKS)* | ||
| 23. | Night out? Not for me! (9) | ||
| INSOMNIAC | cd | ||
| 24. | Correct an error in short advert recruiting soldiers (5) | ||
| AMEND | MEN in AD | ||
| 25. | Produced round cheese (4) | ||
| EDAM | MADE< this could also be MADE ’round cheese’… |
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| 26. | Wearing ceremonial garment causes speculation (10) | ||
| INVESTMENT | IN+VESTMENT | ||
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| 1. | Choose the best tool for breaking rocks (4) | ||
| PICK | three definitions | ||
| 2. | One of the Brontës, reportedly an impostor (9) | ||
| CHARLATAN | homophone: CHARLOTTE+AN | ||
| 3. | Part of paper producing peculiar post (8,6) | ||
| PERSONAL COLUMN | PERSONAL(peculiar, as in ‘peculiar to’)+COLUMN | ||
| 4. | Richest somehow acquiring medieval instruments (7) | ||
| CITHERS i | (RICHEST)* | ||
| 5. | One choosing to drop opener – might he make one cross? (7) | ||
| ELECTOR | (s)ELECTOR | ||
| 7. | Soil shortage duke ignored (5) | ||
| EARTH | (d)EARTH | ||
| 8. | Contestant after singer, a guitarist (4,6) | ||
| BASS PLAYER | PLAYER after BASS | ||
| 9. | Influence, by chance, quick early business meeting (5,9) | ||
| POWER BREAKFAST | POWER+BREAK+FAST | ||
| 13. | Fridge that is broken by clumsy mechanic (3,7) | ||
| ICE MACHINE | (I.E.+MECHANIC)* | ||
| 16. | Customers about right to send a message, briefly (9) | ||
| CLIENTELE | C+LIEN+TELE(gram) | ||
| 18. | Obtains supply for a fortified place (7) | ||
| BASTION | (OBTAINS)* ‘supply’ here means ‘freely/bendy (ref. supple)’ | ||
| 19. | After duck, child tucked into cheese roll (7) | ||
| BRIOCHE | (O+CH) in BRIE | ||
| 21. | Some of what’s eaten on the ocean (2,3) | ||
| AT SEA | hidden: whAT’S EAten | ||
| 22. | Tide rising? Correct (4) | ||
| EDIT | (TIDE<) | ||
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I thought this one was a little harder than most Everyman puzzles, and I needed all the checkers to get CITHERS. INVESTMENT was my LOI.
Thanks, Lorraine.
For 16D, I had tele(x) rather than tele(gram).
Thanks Everyman and Lorraine.
I think I tried ALL OVER THE SHOW at the beginning. I particularly liked INSOMNIAC. I know that this is supposed to be a relatively easy crossword but I thought ‘tide rising’ for EDIT was too straightforward – maybe sea or some such?
I agree with jvh@2 that the ‘briefly’ in 16D is more likely indicating removal of only one letter i.e. in Tele(x).
Super to see other NZ residents enjoying ARAUCARIA’s crossword puzzles. I really enjoy reading the answers and comments. For those of you who would like to know more of the compiler’s history ( he unfortunately contracted cancer and died last November ) some truly amazing obituaries were published in overseas papers eg Guardian and Telegraph. I hope I’ve spelled his code name correctly, if not, you could also google John Graham.