A colourful offering from Chalmie this morning…
…with many of the clues or solutions being colours.
My stand-out clue was 14 down, although it is a little risqué for some tastes, I’s imagine (certainly wouldn’t pass the American “breakfast test”).
Thanks, Chalmie.
| Across | ||
| 1 | CHERRY | Red revolutionary on right track (6) |
| CHE (Guevara – “revolutionary”) + R(ight) + RY (railway “track”) | ||
| 4 | DEJECTED | Blue director thrown out (8) |
| D(irector) + EJECTED (“thrown out”) | ||
| 10 | WEBSTER | Playwright’s book has point about leading lady (7) |
| B(ook) has WEST (“point) about + ER (the Queen, so “leading lady”)
Refers to John Webster, who wrote The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. |
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| 11 | ENOUNCE | Nurse cat, say (7) |
| EN (enrolled “nurse”) + OUNCE (big “cat”) | ||
| 12 | RARE | Uncommon camera revealing bottles (4) |
| Hidden in “cameRA REvealing” | ||
| 13 | OUT OF ORDER | Too rude for being so? (3,2,5) |
| *(too rude for) | ||
| 16 | LEAVES | Abandons rocket? (6) |
| Double definition, the second referring to the vegetable also known as arugula in many parts of the world. | ||
| 17 | BELIEFS | Complaints about Liberal International’s principles (7) |
| BEEFS (“complaints”) about L(iberal) I(nternational) | ||
| 20 | ASEPTIC | When recording nervous symptom, be sterile (7) |
| AS (“when”) + EP (“recording”) + TIC (“nervous symptom”) | ||
| 21 | MAROON | Purple strand (6) |
| Double definition | ||
| 24 | SIDESADDLE | Team Blue note the French equestrian method (10) |
| SIDE (“team”) + SAD (“blue”) + D (“note”) + LE (“the French”) | ||
| 25 | FAIR | Loud song not particularly good (4) |
| F (“loud” in music?) + AIR (“song”) | ||
| 27 | FELLINI | Had swimming-pool accident with independent film director (7) |
| FELL IN (“had swimming-pool accident”) with I(ndependent) | ||
| 29 | YAWNING | Back of grey canopy is wide open (7) |
| (gre)Y + AWNING | ||
| 30 | REBELLED | Rose rang about going first (8) |
| BELLED (“rang”) with RE (“about”) going first | ||
| 31 | ORANGE | One rag off colour (6) |
| *(one rag) | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | COWARDLY | Yellow milk producer unlikely in the East End (8) |
| COW (“milk producer”) +’ARDLY (“unlikely”, or “hardly” to a Cockney, so in the East End) | ||
| 2 | EMBARRASSED | Red seams barred by order (11) |
| *(seams barred) | ||
| 3 | RITZ | They’re crackers to announce legal actions (4) |
| Homophone of (to announce) WRITS (“legal actions”) | ||
| 5 | EYESORES | European agreement covers putting up pink monstrosities (8) |
| E(uropean) + YES (“agreement”) covers <=ROSE (“pink”, put up) | ||
| 6 | ECOLOGICAL | English company thinking green (10) |
| E(nglish) + Co.(mpany) + LOGICAL (“thinking”) | ||
| 7 | TAN | Brown thanks Nicaragua’s leader (3) |
| TA (“thanks”) + N(icaragua) | ||
| 8 | DREARY | With no alcohol around, singer Chris is boring (6) |
| DRY (“with no alcohol”) around (Chris) REA (“singer”) | ||
| 9 | TROUT | Rainbow possibly ending in abject defeat (5) |
| (abjec)T + ROUT (“defeat”) | ||
| 14 | DEFLORATION | Taking one across ford with toenail broken (11) |
| *(ford toenail)
Taking one’s cherry (see 1 across) is another term fro taking someone’s virginity (defloration) |
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| 15 | KEEPS STILL | Fortress’s moonshine producer freezes (5,5) |
| KEEPS (“fortress’s”) + STILL (“moonshine producer”) | ||
| 18 | WILDFIRE | Spooner’s classified cable causing widespread destruction (8) |
| FILED WIRE (“classified cable”) given the Spooner treatment would be WILD FIRE | ||
| 19 | INTRIGUE | Conspiracy to be fascinating (8) |
| Double definition | ||
| 22 | ASK FOR | Request a review of forks (3,3) |
| A + *(forks) | ||
| 23 | FLOYD | Pink possibly starts to fade, leaving obnoxious yellow detritus (5) |
| Initials of (starts to) Fade Leaving Obnoxious Yellow Detritus | ||
| 26 | EWER | Jug of wine we relish (4) |
| Hidden in “winE WE Relish” | ||
| 28 | LOB | Throw ball after removing cover (3) |
| b(LOB) (“ball”, after removing cover) | ||
*anagram
Nice. I parsed 28d as gLOBe. Thanks to S&B.
Thanks S & B. Hovis, me too!
Thanks, loonapick. I agree with Hovis and john about 28d, by the way.
Thanks Chalmie and loonapick
Can’t believe that I didn’t see the colours for the clues !!!
Was another who stripped ‘globe’ rather than ‘blob’.
Did like the FELLINI clue and finished up with that DEFLORATION (which I hadn’t fully associated with ‘taking the cherry’) and ENOUNCE (which I think was a new word – it maybe that my memory has forgotten it from another crossword).
Thanks to Chalmie and loonapick. Very enjoyable (and colorful). I join the chorus of those who saw (G)LOB)E. I did not know the singer Chris Rea for DREARY (I’m more familiar with the actor Stephen Rea from Crying Game and other films), but for a change I did manage to parse everything else.