Dalibor’s contribution to the Derby S & B event can be found here: Dalibor @ Derby. If anyone who wasn’t there last Saturday still would like to solve this puzzle, then click on the link before looking any further.
Dalibor’s crossword has many Waterfalls in it to mark the day.
Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate.
| Across | ||
| 1 | FACE THE MUSIC | Accept unpleasant consequence of ELO album having Waterfall on it (4,3,5) |
| Double definition | ||
| 10 | HOLY COW | This animal‘s droppings may cause strong language (4,3) |
| A holy cow’s droppings could be “holy s**t” (strong language) | ||
| 11 | CASCADE | Waterfall event welcomes the return of Indy setter (7) |
| CASE (event) around CAD (reversal (‘return’) of DAC (Indy setter)) | ||
| 12 | ANGEL | A new setter spotted in Waterfall (5) |
| A + N (new) + GEL (setter) | ||
| 13 | YOSEMITE | Anglo-German mix of Hey Jude in Waterfall? (8) |
| Mixing up English and German, Hey Jude! might become YO SEMITE! (Jude is the German word for Jew) | ||
| 15 | ECONOMICAL | Saving half of coal found in dirty coalmine (10) |
| CO[al] inside (COALMINE)* | ||
| 16 | HERB | Perhaps Rosemary‘s Baby‘s leading character’s stalking that woman …. (4) |
| B[aby] following (‘stalking’) HER (that woman) | ||
| 18 | HEAR | …. to find out the neighbour’s penetrating that woman (4) |
| [b]A[by] inside HER (that woman) | ||
| 20 | RINGLEADER | Mastermind in Ireland and Germany not a lot different (10) |
| (IRELAND + GER[many])* | ||
| 22 | VICTORIA | Top player, one breaking through in Waterfall (8) |
| {[a]CTOR (top player, ie take the first letter away) + I (one)} inside VIA (through) | ||
| 24 | SAULT | Use force when ripped off in Waterfall (for Canadians) (5) |
| ASSAULT (use force) minus (‘ripped off’) AS (when) | ||
| 26 | IN TRAIN | Going on, he avoids getting wet (2,5) |
| IN T[he] RAIN | ||
| 27 | FIDELIO | Under the influence whenever going west to see opera (7) |
| Reversal (‘going west’) of: OILED (under the influence) + IF (whenever) | ||
| 28 | CAUTLEY SPOUT | In Waterfall, cruciverbalists may discover a clue for “eucalypts” (7,5) |
| Reverse anagram: ‘eucalypts’ can be CAUTLEYSP OUT (‘out’ being the anagram indicator) | ||
| Down | ||
| 2 | ALLEGRO | Waterfall‘s running out of liquid stuff ultimately, therefore must be internally reorganised in fast tempo! (7) |
| ALL (WATER (liquid) + [stuf]F taken away from WATERFALL) + EGRO (ERGO (therefore) with the central letters swapped (‘internally reorganised’)) | ||
| 3 | ESCALLOP | Key to a large chop is meat (8) |
| ESC (key, on a computer keyboard) + A + L (large) + LOP (chop) | ||
| 4 | HOWL | The way in which Loroso’s debut makes one cry (4) |
| HOW (the way in which) + L[oroso] | ||
| 5 | MOCK ORANGE | German cook prepared a shrub (4,6) |
| (GERMAN COOK)* | ||
| 6 | SASSE | Lock up about 25% of hopeless asylum seekers (5) |
| Hidden solution (‘about 25% of’, ie 5 out of 21 letters): [hopel]ESS AS[ylum seekers], then reversed (‘up’) | ||
| 7 | CHALICE | Cup of tea with suckers (7) |
| CHA (tea) + LICE (suckers) | ||
| 8 | THE AYES HAVE IT | Hesitate to support heavy changes? A majority does not, apparently (3,4,4,2) |
| (HEAVY + HESITATE)* | ||
| 9 | REVERBERATION | Sending back riverboat, never used after five once disappeared (13) |
| (RIVERBOAT + NE[v]ER)* | ||
| 14 | DIVISIONAL | Splitting image, splitting face (10) |
| VISION (image) inside DIAL (face) | ||
| 17 | MESSED UP | High speed (in m/s) about acceptable after leaving home? It’s not clear (6,2) |
| (SPEED [in] MS)* around U (acceptable), the deleted ‘in’ being ‘home’ | ||
| 19 | ASCETIC | Amount of names including Charlie and Monk? (7) |
| A + {SETIC (reversal of (‘mount of’) CITES (names)) around C (Charlie)} | ||
| 21 | DOUBLE-U | Rufus regularly reveals: Waterfall‘s top! (6-1) |
| [r]U[f]U[s], two Us, ie DOUBLE-U (W[aterfall]) | ||
| 23 | OTAKU | It is not a Kuwaiti, essentially one from Japan, a nerd (5) |
| Hidden solution (‘essentially’): [it is n]OT A KU[waiti] | ||
| 25 | IFFY | Erection second time failing, disappointing (4) |
| STIFFY (erection) minus S,T (second, time) | ||