Guardian Quiptic 819 with Picture Quiz

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(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow.  To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.)   Thanks to Pan for a puzzle that’s par for the Quiptic genre. Definitions are underlined in the clues.

Across

7    Jack certain to return badly cooked meal in old city (9)

JERUSALEM : J(a.”Jack”, as in card games) + reversal of(… to return) SURE(certain) + anagram of(badly cooked) MEAL.

8    Type to adopt quiet pastime? (5)

SPORT : SORT(type;kind) containing(to adopt) P(abbrev. for “piano”, musical direction to play softly).

9    German company invested in US currency to produce neckwear (3,6)

DOG COLLAR : [ G(abbrev. for Germany) + CO(abbrev. for “company”, a commercial firm) ] contained in(invested in) DOLLAR(the US currency).

10    Plane crash in mountainous country (5)

NEPAL : Anagram of(… crash) PLANE.

12    Son’s characteristic water passage (6)

STRAIT : S(abbrev. for “son”) + TRAIT(a characteristic).

13    Beat side suffering from medical condition (8)

DIABETES : Anagram of(… suffering) BEAT SIDE.

14    Strong drink put in rest of soft drink (7)

LIMEADE : MEAD(an alcoholic drink made from honey and water – strong?…only for the surface, I guess) contained in(put in) LIE(to rest on, say, a bed).

17    Inferior education’s received by those insisting on strict adherence to rules (7)

PEDANTS : PANTS(inferior;rubbish) containing(…’s received by) ED(abbrev. for “education”).

20    Sinful Eve ruins God’s creation! (8)

UNIVERSE : Anagram of(Sinful) EVE RUINS.

Defn: …, according to the non-explanatory explanation of its origin, as suggested by the exclamation mark? And the latter is also there for the surface reading?

22    Impede progress of picnic basket (6)

HAMPER : Double defn.

24    Soprano taking central part in musical arrangement (5)

SCORE : S(abbrev. for “soprano”) plus(taking) CORE(the central part).

25    Humiliated, when grids are reworked by a crossword’s first editor (9)

DISGRACED : Anagram of(… are reworked) GRIDS plus(by) A + the 1st letter of(…’s first) “crossword” + ED(abbrev. for “editor”).

26    Blacksmith’s tool found in Tuscan villages (5)

ANVIL : Hidden in(found in) “Tuscan villages“.

27    Booze claiming a large young male singer (9)

BALLADEER : BEER(a booze) containing(claiming) [A + L(abbrev. for “large”) + LAD(a young male) ].

Down

1    Statement about Felixstowe, say (6)

REPORT : RE(about;with reference to) + PORT(an example of which;say, is Felixstowe).

2    Buy small bag containing tea (8)

PURCHASE : PURSE(a small bag) containing(containing) CHA(tea).

3    Fit of pique about a pound left in straw mattress (6)

PALLET : PET(a fit of pique;sulkiness) containing(about) [A + L(£, symbol for the pound sterling) + L(abbrev. for “left”) ].

4    Woman getting Dan drunk in porch (7)

VERANDA : VERA(a feminine name) plus(getting) anagram of(… drunk) DAN.

5    Each excellent dish eaten (6)

APIECE : ACE(excellent;first-rate) containing(… eaten) PIE(a pastry dish).

6    Largest secondary route set to be redeveloped (8)

BROADEST : B-ROAD(a secondary road in the UK) + anagram of(… to be redeveloped) SET.

11    Sound of fruit peel (4)

PARE : Homophone of(Sound of) “pear”(a fruit).

15    Pub taking old money is blameless (8)

INNOCENT : INN(a pub) plus(taking) O(abbrev. for “old”) + CENT(a unit of money).

16    Bogarde‘s knife? (4)

DIRK : Double defn: 1st: The actor.

18    Soldiers, carrying tin and gold, finally find someone attractive to be seen out with (3,5)

ARM CANDY : ARMY(soldiers, collectively) containing(carrying) [ CAN(a metal tin container) + the last letter of(…, finally) “gold ” ].

19    Head ill-prepared for biblical temptress (7)

DELILAH : Anagram of(…-prepared) HEAD ILL.

21    Silver mine infested with rats (6)

VERMIN : Hidden in(… infested with) “Silver mine“.

22    Unpleasant old woman with deformed leg, offering to negotiate price (6)

HAGGLE : HAG(an unpleasant old woman) + anagram of(deformed) LEG.

23    English league’s first regular football team? (6)

ELEVEN : E(abbrev. for “English”) + the 1st letter of(…s first) “league” + EVEN(regular;uniform).

Defn: An example of which;? is a football team. 

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The following pictures have unidentified links to the puzzle.

   

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82 comments on “Guardian Quiptic 819 with Picture Quiz”

  1. Mmmm – tricky, scchua. I recognise 1, 2 and at least two of the people in 5, but no connections yet.

  2. There was a reference to breaking down the walls of Jericho in 1 – will that do as another “old city”?

  12. #3 looks like a collection of root vegetables – the most prominent one (bottom middle) may be a JERUSALEM artichoke.

  14. Cookie @13
    Did you know that watches and clocks in adverts are nearly always set to that, because it looks like they are smiling?

  17. To make my hints explicit, Pic 1 is from “It happened one night”, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert; Pic 4 is of Nobel Literature Prize winners.

  19. #2 Manfred Mann’s first studio album was recorded at Abbey Road and included the Chuck Berry song (he didn’t write it) “Down the Road APIECE” – later to be recorded also by the Rolling Stones.

  20. I don’t know whether #1 is related to FIT OF PIQUE, which apparently Claudette Colbert suffered when asked to lift up her skirt for the hitchhiking scene

  22. JollySwagman, you’re right with JERUSALEM artichoke, which incidentally, has nothing to do with Jerusalem, nor artichokes.
    Pic1: It is Claudette Colbert hitching up her skirt to hitch a ride (hint there)
    Pic2: What is one looking at, actually?
    Pic4: … as muffin says, but which one?
    Pic5: The Pope leading … the Queen and the Duke
    Pic6: One of the reasons they’re expensive?

  25. That was supposed to be #6 just now.

    @Robi – Damn – I should have got that – I read it (rather put me off him actually – plus he lives around here somewhere.

  32. Pic 2 – According to the conspiracy theory, Paul was dead before this pic was shot, and this is a barefoot lookalike. As the Scots would say, its “nay Paul” (Nepal)

    I’ll get me coat…

  35. (Well, I nearly suggested BALLADEER – if you look again you will see that BLLADEER was the word I gave!)

  37. [muffin, perhaps scchua is taking notice of our spelling – the letters on this keyboard, especially the vowels, won’t register unless I hit hard, they have chips of my granddaughter’s nail polish building up underneath them.]

  38. More hints:
    Pic1: How far can she hitch a ride to?
    Pic2: What’s behind it?
    Pic5: That was Pope John XXIII
    Pic6: Is there a battery amongst them?

  44. Well done, Shirl.
    The “trilogy”, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy included The Restaurant at the End of the UNIVERSE, and Life, the UNIVERSE and Everything.
    The PALLET fork, and the pallets on it, are components of high-end mechanical watches.

  46. Thanks for this, scchua – hours of head-scratching entertainment.

    To sum up, we’re just missing Pic 2?

  49. Yes, just Pic 2; it has been suggested above that Abbey Road is a homophone for ‘a B ROAD’, there is a car clearly visible and a lamp-post… what about a HAGGLE, like of geese following each other?

  64. Are those VERANDAS on the roofs of the houses on the right? (Can you even have verandas on roofs?)

  66. Those could be LIME trees lining the street, but they are not the trees you get limes from to make LIMEADE, although the flowers are used to make a tissane

  69. The trees in London streets are generally London Planes (they shed bark and thus cope with pollution better than most trees.

    PLANE was in the NEPAL (“ALPEN”) clue.

  72. There seem to be some men in SPORT clothes, perhaps white cricket wear, on the left in the background, but they are hardly visible in this little photo, and certainly not if one steps back!

  75. I know this isn’t the whole pic, but the police car on the right has a blue lamp, which is the name of the film where DIRK Bogarde kills PC George Dixon

  76. Hi all,
    Pic2 is the album cover of “Abbey Road”, a track of which is “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” on which Ringo “plays” the ANVIL.

  78. Thanks scchua
    I think your connection for Pic 2 is rather more obscure than most of ours! It could also link to the “silver” in the VERMIN clue.

    I think we can be excused for not solving that one!

  79. Thanks for the fun scchua, it was great that Shirl came along, I was worried there might not be many people since this is the Quiptic. You deserve a hammering for that last one, but it was not as bad as the bunion and the foot-bath!

  80. Yes and no. There were hints given to lead to the album. Then, amongst its tracks. “… hammer” as a link to ANVIL would also have been accepted, with Ringo playing it as a further link.
    muffin, I’ve, for some time, restricted the quiz to links with only the crossword solutions themselves, and not anything in the clues.

  82. Thanks for that tip, scchua – I’ll bear that in mind for future challenges. Thanks again for this one.

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