Lorraine: Good morning to one and all.
A most enjoyable solve with lots and lots of favourites – 1ac 5ac 11ac 12ac 18ac and 21ac. 3dn 4dn 8dn 16dn 19dn and 22dn. 6dn might have stumped a few of you if not up on your Ballerinas.
Big thank you to Everyman as always.
| Across | ——————————————————————– | ||
| 1. | Battleship RAF woman redesigned (3-2-3) | ||
| MAN-OF-WAR | (RAF WOMAN)* | ||
| 5. | Unique description of switch saving energy (3-3) | ||
| ONE-OFF | pun | ||
| 10. | Liven up after Sunday Mass (5) | ||
| SWARM | WARM after S | ||
| 11. | A deejay might assume a haughty manner (3,2,4) | ||
| PUT ON AIRS | pun: put on songs | ||
| 12. | Tell a story about Dracula, say (7) | ||
| RECOUNT | RE+COUNT | ||
| 13. | Dog mine? Nonsense (3,4) | ||
| PIT BULL | PIT+BULL | ||
| 14. | Sloganeers, upset about circular letter, fly off the handle (4,4,3) | ||
| LOSE ONES RAG | (SLOGANEERS*) around O | ||
| 18. | Pasta Hector prepared, a disaster (11) | ||
| CATASTROPHE | (PASTA HECTOR)* | ||
| 21. | Acknowledged everyone had debts (7) | ||
| ALLOWED | ALL+OWED | ||
| 23. | A peculiar team game, recalled layman (7) | ||
| AMATEUR | A+(TEAM*)+(RU<) | ||
| 24. | Pointer, a liability? To some extent, among other things (5,4) | ||
| INTER ALIA i | hidden: poINTER, A LIAbility | ||
| 25. | King in game put back in deck (5) | ||
| ORLOP i | R in (POLO<) | ||
| 26. | Wake in a river, river passing through York (6) | ||
| AROUSE | A+R+OUSE | ||
| 27. | Offensive individual (8) | ||
| PERSONAL | cdd | ||
Down |
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| 1. | Another touring quite empty Indian city (6) | ||
| MYSORE i | Y(e)S in MORE difficult clue to parse |
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| 2. | Sister outside a church in shade (6) | ||
| NUANCE | (NUN around A)+CE | ||
| 3. | Passing remark? (6,4,5) | ||
| FAMOUS LAST WORDS | pun:cd | ||
| 4. | Eater – pips taken out to make starter (9) | ||
| APPETISER | (EATER – PIPS)* | ||
| 6. | Throwing event is not ideal for a ballerina (7,2,6) | ||
| NINETTE DE VALOIS i | (EVENT IS NOT IDEAL)* | ||
| 7. | Notice your bait working? (8) | ||
| OBITUARY | (YOUR BAIT)* | ||
| 8. | Strong wind getting up breaks safety device in body of aircraft (8) | ||
| FUSELAGE | (GALE<) in FUSE | ||
| 9. | Finish second and first (4) | ||
| STOP | S+TOP | ||
| 15. | One could look after the children if their parents are late (9) | ||
| ORPHANAGE | cd – late = dead | ||
| 16. | Form of neuralgia may cause spasmodic twitching in Isaac, unfortunately (8) | ||
| SCIATICA i | TIC in (ISAAC*) | ||
| 17. | Knife fight about it upset Labour’s leader (8) | ||
| STILETTO | SET-TO around ((IT<)+L) | ||
| 19. | From what is heard, Garden City is favourably placed (4,2) | ||
| WELL IN | homophone: welwyn garden city | ||
| 20. | Drive mostly right, then left (6) | ||
| PROPEL | PROPE(r)+L | ||
| 22. | This herb may make daughter poorly (4) | ||
| DILL | D+ILL |
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Thanks Everyman and Lorraine.
I think you mean Welwyn Garden City [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwyn_Garden_City]
I didn’t know ORLOP or the ballerina although both were well clued. I particularly liked FAMOUS LAST WORDS and STILETTO.
Another enjoyable Sunday morning puzzle from Everyman. The anagram fodder for MAN-OF-WAR was a good spot by the setter. 6dn was my LOI and seemed the most likely answer from the anagram fodder.
Thanks Lorraine,
Another entertaining puzzle from Everyman. I didn’t know the ballerina and initially thought
that her first name must be Nanette. I then came up with de Valois which sounded good and fiddled
round with the letters until the correct answer emerged. Never mind the ballerina, I’d never heard
of Ninette as a name either.
As always, it took me ages to get the last two which were SWARM and MYSORE. Very clever !.
A big thankyou to Everyman.
PS I notice that the simple sums are getting more difficult. Is multiplication a sum ?. A repetitive one I suppose.
What are the little i’s after some of the answers?
Thanks Lorraine.
I parsed 5a as;
“description of switch” = ON-OFF around (E)nergy
Tim @4:
Links to further info. Click on one!
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Last in, with diffidence, was MYSORE. Didn’t understand the parsing then and still don’t. Could some kind contributor please explain???
Jovis, MYSORE works as YS in MORE. MORE for ‘another’ and YES for ‘quite’ which has been ’emptied’ of its middle letter. ‘Sunderland have been rubbish this season.’ ‘Quite.’
And meant to say that I too was fixated with NANETTE for our ballerina, until I realised right at the end that it couldn’t be. FONTEYN is as far as my knowledge of ballerinas goes.
Nick:
First, Lorraine is working a long day today, so I will try to settle a few points here.
Robi #1 – yes, thanks – stupid logic that I didn’t think about when typing up Lorraine’s notes for the blog – corrected.
Tim #4 and AdamH #6 – yes, the little blue ‘I’s’ are for further information. I use my own parsing script, and added this feature a few months ago – see -> http://www.nick.ukfsn.org/main/15s/index.html I usually use this for what I consider unusual words, but it can be used for all/any of of them.
Jovis #7 – very difficult clue to parse cleanly. ‘another’ = ‘more’ (as in “can I have another beer” = “MORE!”) around Y(e)S (quite=yes when empty = ys)
Nick
Thanks Nick and Kathryn’s Dad
I will reluctantly have to accept your parsing of MYSORE but had difficulty accepting the equivalence of “another” which usually applies to a noun in the singular with “more” which applies to plural nouns or – and we’re going back to O-level English language here so I may be a bit rusty – collective nouns such as “beer”.
I’m probably being a bit thick here, so thanks anyway
Thanks to Nick & Lorraine for another fine blog of my favourite Sunday morning pastime.
That said, having seen your post @10, do not overlook Tim’s comment @5: he is spot on about 5ac.
Interesting fact about Dame Ninette de Valois: she lived through the whole of the 20th century (1898-2001).
Thanks for this. I got most of them without necessarily being able to explain why so your helpful explanations are really useful. The only one I still don’t understand is the (RU<) bit of 23a
23. A peculiar team game, recalled layman (7)
AMATEUR A+(TEAM*)+(RU<)
Hi Hannah
In case Lorraine is busy again today, RU is an abbreviation for Rugby Union (game) and it is reversed (recalled) to give UR.
I failed to notice the ‘recalled’ bit and went with Ur as a game as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur
Thank you Gaufrid,
Yes I am indeed very busy at work as it is the Easter holiday’s.
Thank you to everyone who has answered queries for me.
Lorraine.
Looks like I’m the first kiwi in this week. Ninette and Orlop and Mysore got me, I couldn’t make Madras or Mumbai work for 1d, and putting in account instead of recount didn’t help!
Here’s another Kiwi. Couldn’t get Mysore or Orlop or swarm but YAY. I knew Ninette de Valois. A girl I knew in New Plymouth was taught and worked with her in the UK for years.
And another kiwi. I couldn’t get Mysore, therefore swarm or orlop either. Found orlop for deck but just couldn’t parse it.
Good heavens so many kiwis! I agree with most of the above although I did get it out. Am worried about Lorraine’s apostrophe in holidays though.
I did exactly same as you Rod must be cos we in Akl too. Hated the Mysore clue and I wrote account also…stuck on same two cities. Never heard of Orlop I my life. Thought orphanage a clever clue…..think some of the comments hilarious….especially the grammar related ones…..
Another adopted Kiwi. Same here – wrote ‘account’ without thinking it through properly so thought 1d must by ‘Mumbai’ although I couldn’t see why so no chance of getting ‘swarm’! Ditto ‘orlop’. Shame as the rest I did relatively quickly – 19d made me cheer out loud!’