Monday Prize Crossword / Feb 27, 2017
Monday puzzles are usually easy and this one was no exception.
Clear clueing, no iffiness, no controversy.
Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate.
| Across | ||
| 1 | SYLLABUS | Dessert? Unable to finish second course! (8) |
| SYLLABUB (dessert) without the last letter B [unable to finish], then + S (second) | ||
| 6 | DELPHI | Parking in Indian city, historic city (6) |
| P (parking) inside DELHI (Indian city) | ||
| 9 | RUCKUS | Uproar caused by large number ahead of us (6) |
| RUCK (large number) + US | ||
| 10 | ANTIDOTE | Poor diet, not a remedy (8) |
| (DIET + NOT A)* [* = poor] | ||
| 11 | THIN | Poor article, not good (4) |
| THING (article) minus G (good) | ||
| 12 | NELLIE DEAN | Danielle, distraught after one has rejected love – music hall song (6,4) |
| ONE minus O (love) + (DANIELLE)* [* = distraught] More of that song here . |
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| 14 | RUBBISHY | Mistake wearing gemstone of poor quality (8) |
| BISH (mistake) inside RUBY (gemstone) | ||
| 16 | ALAS | An element of political asylum, I’m sorry to say (4) |
| Hidden solution [an element of]: political asylum | ||
| 18 | USED | Employed American editor (4) |
| US (American) + ED (editor) | ||
| 19 | ONE-LINER | Quip about English ship (3-5) |
| ON (about) + E (English) + LINER (ship) | ||
| 21 | CODSWALLOP | Small beer after fish and gammon (10) |
| S (small) + WALLOP (beer), together coming after COD (fish) ‘Gammon’ in the sense of ‘nonsense’. |
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| 22 | GOTH | Old German understood by husband (4) |
| GOT (understood) + H (husband) | ||
| 24 | CLERIHEW | Form of comic verse member of the clergy abridged, then cut (8) |
| CLERI[c] (member of the clergy, abridged i.e. minus the last letter) + HEW (cut) | ||
| 26 | EXODUS | Used at sea to carry ten over in mass migration (6) |
| (USED)* around {X (ten) + O (over)} [* = at sea] | ||
| 27 | EDITOR | Journalist cycled back carrying it (6) |
| Reversal [back] of RODE (cycled) around IT | ||
| 28 | YOSEMITE | See toy I’m flying in National Park (8) |
| (SEE TOU I’M)* [* = flying] | ||
| Down | ||
| 2 | YOUTH | 7 in play out here (5) |
| Hidden solution [in]: play out here As to the definition: 7 = 7d = LAD. |
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| 3, 4 | LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS | Very much similar to Charles Pooter’s job (4,7,8) |
| Double definition Charles Pooter is the leading character in The Diary of a Nobody, see more here . |
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| 5 | STANLEY HOLLOWAY | Stupidly loathes any lowly actor (7,8) |
| (LOATHES ANY LOWLY)* [* = stupidly] I must admit I had never heard of Stanley Holloway . |
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| 6 | DETAIN | Hold back Greek character during row (6) |
| ETA (Greek character) inside DIN (row) | ||
| 7 | LAD | Boy happy heading off (3) |
| GLAD (happy) minus the first letter G [heading off] | ||
| 8 | HIT PARADE | List of popular songs apartheid affected (3,6) |
| (APARTHEID)* [* = affected] This surely must be a well-known anagram but one I’ve never come across (as far I can recall). Nice. |
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| 13 | DRAWING ROOM | Sketch popular stable lad in reception area (7,4) |
| DRAW (sketch) + IN (popular) + GROOM (stable lad) | ||
| 15 | UNSPOILED | Roof of library in complex done up, is as good as new (9) |
| L[ibrary] inside (DONE UP + IS)* [* = complex] | ||
| 17 | HELPLESS | Unable to manage without servants? (8) |
| Double definition | ||
| 20 | RATHER | Serious pest that woman? On the contrary (6) |
| RAT (serious pest) + HER (that woman) | ||
| 23 | TRUST | Hope to extend business credit to self-governing hospital (5) |
| Triple definition | ||
| 25 | ROT | Rubbish to right to be tipped (3) |
| Reversal [to be tipped] of: TO + R (right) | ||
*anagram
Thanks Falcon and Sil
Not quite as easy as he can be … I didn’t know actor STANLEY HOLLOWAY, the song NELLIE DEAN, the British term WALLOP for beer nor ‘gammon’ for nonsense. Missed the parsing of 1a and hadn’t seen SYLLABUB before.
Slick clues throughout and quite a bit of fun to have worked through … the economy of ONE-LINER was superb.
The actor was my last one in.