A straightforward Cyclops, quickly solved.
He’s keeping up his usual standard with only a little bit of mild scatology in this one
| Across | ||
|---|---|---|
| 7 | TEEPEE | Shelter provided by area of golf course when taking a piss (6) TEE (area of golf course) PEE |
| 8 | CORPORAL | Hitler didn’t quite rise to this crop-twirling sort of sex (8) CROP* AInd: twirling, ORAL (sort of sex) |
| 10 | GREENWICH | Political supporter – hag! – has no time for London borough (9) GREEN (political supporter) WI[t]CH (hag – T[ime]). First one in after quickly spotting the second half of the wordplay |
| 11 | GENTS | John comes by squeezing nuts at first (5) N[uts] inside GETS (comes by) |
| 12 | TRYST | Date? Have a bash, by the way (5) TRY (have a bash) ST[reet] |
| 14 | COMMODITY | Article: “May’s number 1 involved with doom in financial quarter” (9) (M[ay] DOOM)* AInd: involved, inside CITY (financial quarter) |
| 15 | NUCLEAR TEST SITE | Foreign telecaster’s unit that’s subject of token closure by Kim Jong-un? (7,4,4) (TELECASTER’S UNIT) * AInd: foreign |
| 19 | SQUATTING | In a shit position, being a resident without entitlement? (9) Double Def. |
| 21 | SPLAT | Labour leader involved in fight makes a half-soaked impact (5) L[abour] inside SPAT (fight) |
| 23 | TUTTI | Tsk! One time back passage involving all the players (5) TUT (tsk) (I T)< |
| 24 | FULL HOUSE | Complete set of bloated politicians in session (4,5) FULL (bloated) HOUSE (politicians in session) |
| 26 | PORTABLE | Drink, large, imbibed by former president (easily carried away) (8) PORT (drink), L[arge] inside ABE (former president) |
| 27 | UNTRUE | Trump reaction to any critical news item? “Turn off! EU involved!” (6) TURN* AInd: off, EU* AInd: involved |
| Down | ||
| 1/25 | JEREMY HUNT | His main concern being the NHS, Corbyn, for one, will have nurses initially stuck in basic accommodation (6,4) JEREMY [Corbyn], N[urses] inside HUT |
| 2/16 | BEAN COUNTERS | Maybe Sean’s getting shafted by contrary accountants (4,8) COUNTER (contrary) inside (getting shafted by) [Sean’s] BEAN’S |
| 3 | BONHOMIE | Head upset: “House belittled May – that is conviviality?” (8) NOB< HO[use] M[ay] I.E. (that is) |
| 4 | EPIGLOTTIS | G-spot? It lies not quite askew, somewhere in the throat (10) (G-SPOT IT LIE[s])* AInd: askew |
| 5 | BRINDISI | British in infernal place – Cyclops makes for an Italian port (8) BR[itish] IN DIS (infernal place) I (Cyclops) |
| 6 | GLOSSY | Hello? Gutless bloke covers shortfall (6) G[u]Y around LOSS (shortfall) Last one In. Needed all the crossers before realising “Hello” referred to the pointless mag for people who don’t read |
| 7 | TIGHTEN | Wind up drunk with elastic/nylon tops (7) TIGHT (drunk) E[lastic] N[ylon] |
| 13 | THEATRICAL | Luvvie-like Rachel at it, indiscriminately (10) (RACHEL AT IT)* AInd: indiscriminately |
| 17 | RAINFALL | Spots caused by dodgy Iran dive? (8) IRAN* AInd: dodgy, FALL (dive) |
| 18 | EXTREME | Sex tremendous, not entirely intense (7) Hidden in sEX TREMEndous |
| 19 | SIT-UPS | Corporation excess reduced by such exercises? (3-3) I think this is a Cryptic Def. referencing “corporation” for “belly” |
| 20/9 | GOLD DISC | Being old, Di scarcely hides record success (4,4) Hidden in beinG OLD, DI SCarcely |
| 22 | LOUVRE | Pictures here of illicit lover grabbing Trudeau’s rear (6) LOVER* Aind: illicit, around [trudea]U |
I was cycling in to work in London the other morning and I saw this on the big red thing in front of me
“This vehicle pulls infrequently”
I thought:
No surprise.
Looks like the back end of a bus
Quickly solved, indeed (in one pass and not much more than 20 minutes), although I did need a dictionary to parse one tiny piece of the jigsaw, never having come across the word Dis before. It’s exactly the sort of word one would expect to turn up in crosswords, although not an easy one to search for on this site unless there is some way of excluding longer words from the search results.
John E
There is a way of excluding longer words from the search results. Enclose the word you are searching for in inverted commas with a space between it and them ie: ” dis “. You will still get some unwanted hits. For example, in a recent puzzle part of the wordplay was “detective inspector’s” which gave DI’s and the blogger typed DIS as part of his parsing.