An easyish Thursday morning stroll, this, with just enough in it to kickstart the brain but straightforward enough to get through before the coffee goes cold.
Aside from one or two moments of not-quite-sureness, this was a good, neat, fun puzzle. Thank-you, Peto.
| Across | ||
| 1 | SATRAP | Governor’s role since retiring (6) |
| Reversal of part [role] as [since] |
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| 4 | COMPLETE | Rival crosses line to finish (8) |
| L [line] within compete [rival] | ||
| 10 | INTRICATE | Reorganisation of it certain to be very complicated (9) |
| Anagram of it certain | ||
| 11 | OP ART | It may give the impression of movement from the top of one side (2,3) |
| O(ne) part [side] | ||
| 12 | ABEL | Murder victim found in lake near Lincoln (4) |
| Abe [Lincoln] l [lake] | ||
| 13 | REFINEMENT | Polish soldiers face striking workers at the end of August (10) |
| RE [Royal Engineers, soldiers] fine [striking] men [workers] (Augus)t | ||
| 15 | LOOKOUT | Seem to be exhausted causing concern (7) |
| Look [seem] out [exhausted] – ‘lookout’ here is in the sense ‘That’s your lookout’ | ||
| 16 | GANDER | Look for girl returning in the middle of Zagreb (6) |
| Reversal of Edna [girl] within (Za)gr(eb) | ||
| 19 | HEALED | Put right in front to cover both sides of lane (6) |
| L(an)e within head [in front] | ||
| 21 | COUNTER | Opposing a return attack (7) |
| Double definition (just about) | ||
| 23 | LIEUTENANT | Officer’s story has you speaking to social worker after bag is returned (10) |
| Lie [story] U [you] reversal of net [bag] ant [social worker] | ||
| 25 | WANE | Rooney reportedly in decline (4) |
| Sounds like Wayne [footballer Rooney] | ||
| 27 | SHEER | Very thin cut on the tongue (5) |
| Sounds like shear [cut] | ||
| 28 | FORESIGHT | Forget his playing around with Prudence (9) |
| Anagram of forget his | ||
| 29 | RED ALERT | About to walk back around west end of loch in a state of readiness (3,5) |
| Re [about] l(och) within reversal of tread [walk] | ||
| 30 | ERODED | Even pieces of gold break before diamond gets worn away (6) |
| Even letters from gOlD within ere [before] d [diamond] | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | SUITABLE | Appropriate to become qualified (8) |
| 2 | TITLE ROLE | Retell it differently to include Ophelia’s tip for Hamlet perhaps (5,4) |
| O(phelia) within anagram of retell it | ||
| 3 | ARID | Dry run held by assistant is cut short (4) |
| R [run] within aid(e) [assistant] | ||
| 5 | OPENING | A job opportunity in Gap (7) |
| Double definition | ||
| 6 | PROPER NOUN | Appropriate one in order to implicate old James for instance (6,4) |
| Proper [appropriate] o [old] within nun [one in order] | ||
| 7 | EVADE | Fellow brought up niece’s heart bypass (5) |
| Reversal of Dave [fellow] (ni)e(ce) | ||
| 8 | ENTITY | A thing made from tin yet to be modified (6) |
| Anagram of tin yet | ||
| 9 | LAMENT | Deplore uninspiring books (6) |
| Lame [uninspiring] NT [New Testament, books] | ||
| 14 | COLLATERAL | Aside from the main issue of security (10) |
| Double definition | ||
| 17 | ESTRANGED | Earl getting unexpected note becomes disaffected (9) |
| E [earl] strange [unexpected] D [(musical) note] | ||
| 18 | ARRESTED | A revolutionary gathering support is seized (8) |
| A rest [support] within red [revolutionary] | ||
| 20 | DONE FOR | Assaulted president almost gets killed (4,3) |
| Done [assaulted] For(d) [president Gerald] | ||
| 21 | CANARD | Hoax by daughter managed to get Bill upset (6) |
| Reversal of d [daughter] ran [managed] ac [account, bill] | ||
| 22 | CLOSER | Complete run within a shorter distance (6) |
| Close [complete] r [run] | ||
| 24 | EMEND | Part maintaining setter is correct (5) |
| Me [setter] within end [part] | ||
| 26 | TSAR | Ruler turns up among Laura’s things (4) |
| Hidden in reversal of lauRAS Things | ||
Thanks Ringo and Peto – It was indeed a good romp, nothing too taxing.
Ringo – 1D is missing its parsing (dd).
Cheers
Mahesh
I saw 1d as: suit = become + able = qualified
I agree with what Ringo says — and must thank him for explaining 11ac OP ART. I wrote it in, but wasn’t sure why. And thanks to Peto for a very pleasant (but not over-easy) stroll.
Hi Muffy – both parsings seem to be correct. Wonder which one Peto had in mind….
Regards,
TL.
Some of the double defs were more duplicate definition, shame really as bits were rather good.