Monday Prize Crossword / Apr 18, 2016
Falcon has become a Monday regular which will please all those who still miss the Everyman old style.
This one was really very easy, perhaps even too easy for me.
I started the puzzle while having my usual bowl of muesli for breakfast and finished it less than 15 minutes later.
I am afraid that the muesli gave me more energy for another working day than this Falcon crossword.
That said, it was well-written as ever, so no complaints from me as far as that is concerned.
Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate.
| Across | ||
| 1 | CAMPUS | French writer describing parking in grounds of university (6) |
| CAMUS (French writer) around P (parking) Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
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| 5 | ST MORITZ | Most ornate hotel in Swiss sports centre (2,6) |
| (MOST)* + RITZ (hotel) [* = ornate] | ||
| 9 | TERRAPIN | Turtle quietly burrowing into ground (8) |
| P (quietly) inside TERRAIN (ground) | ||
| 10 | DIVERS | Various pelicans, say (6) |
| Double definition ‘Divers’ is an alternative for ‘diverse’, although rather old-fashioned. Well-loved by crossword setters, though. |
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| 11 | SCORER | Twenty by end of over – I record that (6) |
| SCORE (twenty) + [ove]R The first of a few clues with a cricket surface. |
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| 12 | LANDLADY | Catch boy by yard pointing to woman with lodgers (8) |
| LAND (catch) + LAD (boy) + Y (yard) | ||
| 14 | DRESSING DOWN | Relish not working – that may bring reprimand (8,4) |
| DRESSING (relish) + DOWN (not working) | ||
| 18 | CHEESEMONGER | Dealer in Lancashire and Cheshire? (12) |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| 22 | IOLANTHE | I, alone, misled about the short opera (8) |
| (I + ALONE)* around TH[e] (the, shortened) [* = misled] Iolanthe is a comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan. |
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| 25 | TAILOR | Such a one may suit you (6) |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| 26 | TOMATO | Fruit old lady tried initially to tuck into as well (6) |
| MA (old lady) plus T[ried], together inside TOO (as well) | ||
| 27 | DRAUGHTS | Game flows (8) |
| Double definition | ||
| 28 | STAMPEDE | Flight impressed head of Etihad (8) |
| STAMPED (impressed) + E[tihad]s | ||
| 29 | ERRANT | Racing trainer sacking one for straying off course (6) |
| (TRAINER)* minus I (one) [* =racing] | ||
| Down | ||
| 2 | APERCU | Outline of paper cup (6) |
| Hidden solution, indicated by just ‘of’: [p]APER CU[p] | ||
| 3 | PARTRIDGE | Portion free with good English game bird (9) |
| PART (portion) + RID (free) + G (good) + E (English) | ||
| 4 | SUPERSEDE | Replace wonderful watch studded with diamonds (9) |
| SUPER (wonderful) + SEE (watch) around D (diamonds) | ||
| 5 | SINGLES | Individual’s runs, perhaps (7) |
| SINGLE’S (individual’s) | ||
| 6 | MID-ON | Opener for Middlesex departs, one having been caught by leg fielder (3-2) |
| M[iddlesex] + D (departs), together around I (one), the + ON (leg) Falcon loves his cricket, doesn’t he? |
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| 7 | RAVEL | Composer’s party line (5) |
| RAVE (party) + L (line) | ||
| 8 | TURN DOWN | Go blue getting lower (4,4) |
| TURN (go) + DOWN (blue) | ||
| 13 | DOG | For example, spaniel’s tail (3) |
| Double definition | ||
| 15 | NIGHTMARE | Horrific experience of man losing a thousand on horse (9) |
| [k]NIGHT (man, i.e. a chess piece, minus K (a thousand)) + MARE (horse) | ||
| 16 | DERRINGER | Doing wrong wearing the German pistol (9) |
| ERRING (doing wrong) inside DER (the, in German) | ||
| 17 | SHOOT-OUT | Decisive gunfight? Record inaccurate (5-3) |
| SHOOT (record) + OUT (inaccurate) I guess, ‘shoot’ as in recording a movie? |
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| 19 | SIN | Second flaming offence (3) |
| S (second) + IN (flaming) My first thought when seeing ‘flaming’ wouldn’t be IN. However, the solution couldn’t be anything else than SIN. |
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| 20 | OVERDUE | Extra owed yet to arrive (7) |
| OVER (extra) + DUE (owed) | ||
| 21 | COTTON | Initially, carry on about too much material (6) |
| C[arry] + ON, together around OTT (too much) | ||
| 23 | ALARM | Put the wind up a member crossing lake (5) |
| A + ARM (member), together around L (lake) | ||
| 24 | T-BONE | Character devouring British steak (1-4) |
| TONE (character) around B (British) | ||
*anagram
Yes, this was a twenty minute wonder. Never heard of apercu and I agree in for flaming is strange, but everything else fine.
Nice to do an old Everyman again although the new one seems to have found his groove finally.
Thanks Sil and Falcon.
Thanks Sil and Falcon.
I eventually reconciled “in” = “flaming” in the hot, fashionable sense.
I couldn’t work out why SHOOT should be “record” though – but I think you have it Sil.
Sorry, team, I still don’t get ‘in’
My notes said I couldn’t parse 17d,19d & 21d.I can see 21d and I’ll live with 17d but I’m with Hornbeam on “in”.
Thanks Falcon and Sil
This didn’t feel easy whilst I was doing it, but the clock time had it finished in just over the 20 minute mark – at the quicker end for me. First one in was MID ON but never fully parsed it.
The rest of the puzzle was pretty standard fare for this setter until the last couple up in the NW corner – CAMPUS and APERCU which held me up for a while.
In means alight, though its opposite is perhaps more commonly encountered, e.g. “The fire’s out”.