A puzzle by Eclogue this week – four cells containing clashes, the wordplay in each clue having an extra letter and the first line of a verse to find. If that’s not enough the last word of the first line is to be written beneath the grid.
Some amusing clues – 8ac to me was a little unconventional unless I’ve missed something with chariot serving a dual purpose as definition and anagram source. 3dn seems to lead to an extra p which may well be my mis-parsing.
As to the four clashes – I was expecting single letters but they proved to be multiple letters which when combined spelled out types of teeth.
WISDOM (16ac and 2dn)
INCISOR (13ac and 10dn)
CANINE (25dn and 35ac)
MOLAR (37ac and 23dn)
As to the extra letters they spelled out
TO PASS UP GOBSTOPPERS FROM RESPECT TO ME CHOPPERS – P. AYRES (Pam Ayres)
http://pamayres.com/index.php/2011/08/oh-i-wish-id-looked-after-me-teeth/
The first line of which is “Oh I wish I’d looked after me teeth”.
TEETH is to be written under the grid with Oh I wish I’d looked after me being seen in 2 semicircles passing through the clash squares (which were to be blackened – indicating tooth decay) with the semicircles representing a mouth.
All in all a very satisfying end game – and a poem best listened to.
Thanks Eclogue
Key: * anagram; Rev. reverse; DD double definition; Underline definition
ACROSS
| 1 Japanese wrapping damaged tutus with smut (8) | |
| T | (tutus+smut)* = TSUTSUMU |
| 6 Chariot crashing, losing one colt (4) | |
| O | (Chariot – I – c)* = RATH |
| 9 Keeps running off posters (6) | |
| P | (posters)* = STORES |
| 10 Spain follows return of European payment for bank, in some cases (6) | |
| A | e (spain) after Re (e (European) + award(payment) = DRAWEE |
| 12 Such a troll perhaps is loutish (6) | |
| S | So (such) + a + fish (troll) = OAFISH |
| 13 Nice daughter isn’t playing this scene (6) | |
| S | (nice + d + isn’t)* = INCIDENT |
| 14 Wife’s about to employ a pad for the head locally (4) | |
| U | W (wife) + a (about) + use (employ) = WASE |
| 15 Pooh’s parent, writer recalled beyond measure (5) | |
| P | Mil (measure) + Rev. (pen (writer)) = MILNE |
| 16 Small women with nervous sigh, whisper perhaps (3) | |
| G | S (small) + w(woman) + (sigh)* = SWISH |
| 18 Girl, single, returning to the heart of Rear Admiral (4) | |
| O | Ra (rear admiral) around Rev. (one(single)) = RENA |
| 20 Breaking down, lovelorn young son initially embraces sibling (5) | |
| B | Lys (, lovelorn young son initially ) around sib (sibling) = LYSIS |
| 22 SA ostrich is running and so on (6) | |
| S | (and so on)* = NANDOO |
| 24 Greyfriars’ coffin came into contact with fate (6) | |
| T | Kist (Greyfriar’s coffin) + met (came into contact with) = KISMET |
| 26 Army’s out of French butters (5) | |
| O | TA (army) + hors (out of French) = TAHRS |
| 31 Gold strike in the air (4) | |
| P | Au (gold) + rap(strike) = AURA |
| 33 Old Uncle Earl’s one sitting in Brussels (3) | |
| P | E (earl) + mep (one sitting in Brussels) = EME |
| 35 One taking orders got ironed out before middle of week (5) | |
| E | (ironed)* + ee (middle of week) = ORDINEE |
| 37 Awkward girl left after concerning germicide (4) | |
| R | For (concerning) + mor (awkward irl) + l (left) = FORMOL |
| 38 Will’s to enable hearing and German’s safe somehow (6) | |
| S | Und (and German) + (safe)* = UNDEAF |
| 39 Fritter’s cooked on ring (6) | |
| F | (fritter)* = TERRIT |
| 40 Translator’s subject is material (6) | |
| R | Tr (translator) + issue (subject) = TISSUE |
| 41 Webber, perhaps, composed opera about Evita, initially number one (6) | |
| O | (opera)* around e (Evita initially) + I (one) = EPEIRA |
| 42 Various memes scattered over with bearings (4) | |
| M | (memes)* = SEME |
| 43 Drying up? Unknown wrong answer is (8) | |
| R | X (unknown) + (answer is)* = XERANSIS |
DOWN
| 1 Thug from East London’s bungled ’eists involving books (6) | |
| E | (eists)* around ot (books) = TSOTSI |
| 2 Celebrity, perhaps, to lead rave over manuscript (5) | |
| S | Star (to lead) + do (rave) + ms (manuscript) = STARDOM |
| 3 Friends taking in short journey for exams (6) | |
| P | pals(friends) in trip (short journey) = TRIALS |
| 4 Conduct female in age-old practice (5) | |
| E | Ure (age-old practice) around she (female) = USHER |
| 5 One part of oracle residing in tauric mythology (4) | |
| C | Hidden taURIC Mythology = URIM |
| 6 Angular measurement issuing in rays (6) | |
| T | DD radiant (issuing in rays) = RADIAN |
| 7 Japanese divine composed endless nonette (5) | |
| T | (nonette – e)* TENNO |
| 8 Inside area of oche, toe roughly straight (6) | |
| O | Hidden ocHE TOE ROughly = HETERO |
| 10 Confuse discombobulated minister, do (6) | |
| M | (minister do)* = DISORIENT |
| 11 Embracing the Spanish we would join together (4) | |
| E | We’d (we would) around el (the Spanish) = WELD |
| 14 Reasons to slash wych with spades (4) | |
| C | (wych)* + s (spades) = WHYS |
| 17 In place of short hill rising to market (4) | |
| H | Rev. (hil (short hill) + eu (market) = LIEU |
| 19 Forgotten to take beef up round acreage (4) | |
| O | Re. (moan (beef)) around a (acreage) = NAAM |
| 21 Attack generated fears about training (6) | |
| P | (fears)* around pt (training) = STRAFE |
| 23 Gloomy Doc joins up with Wyatt, maybe (4) | |
| P | Dr (doc) + earp (Wyatt) = DREAR |
| 24 Russian whips tail off rising dive-bomber, capturing the same (6) | |
| E | Rev. (Stuka – a (dive bomber) around one (the same)) = KNOUTS |
| 25 Seem upset about a fish measure concerning islanders (6) | |
| R | (seem)* around a + cran (fish measure) = MACANESE |
| 27 Masters of Germany slip up with females around (6) | |
| S | Err (slip up) in hers (females) = HERREN |
| 28 Gossips to Jonathan, longing for past to be different (6) | |
| P | Yen (longing for) + (past)* = YENTAS |
| 29 Gain by labour, at first imitating every fortune maker, perhaps (5) | |
| A | Earn (gain by labour) + ie (at first imitating) = ERNIE (old Premium bond computer) |
| 30 Advantage occurring in blood dysfunction (4) | |
| Y | Hidden (bloOD DYSfunction) = ODDS |
| 32 Following trustee wrapped up in unnatural fear (5) | |
| R | Tr (trustee) in (fear)* = AFTER |
| 34 Former record company’s covering tune for bonny lassie (5) | |
| E | EMI (former record company) around air (tune) = MAIRI |
| 36 French birds suppressing call on waters (4) | |
| S | Oiseaux (french birds) – oi (call on) = EAUX |
Thanks, twencelas. A clever feature which I’m sure people have already noticed but which is nevertheless worth mentioning is that the blacked-out teeth all appear in the right places.
I must admit that I didn’t notice the positioning of the blacked-out teeth until I came to submit my entry, so I don’t think we’re you alone.
Bizarrely the penny-drop moment for me when solving came when I was listening to old episodes of Just a Minute; the person speaking when I realised who the poem was by? Pam Ayres!