It’s Loglady today.
It’s also Tuesday and Loglady has given us a themed puzzle based around TEXTILE (9ac). There were a few that needed some checking and we both hold opposite views on whether M changing to N is going forward or backward in the alphabet.
An anagram of CUT IN – anagrind is ‘a different way’
An anagram of SNOBS and LIMO – anagrind is ‘up the garden path’ which amazingly only appears in Chambers Thesaurus and is not in the dictionary.
TEXT (writings) and ELI (biblical priest) reversed or ‘rejected’
An anagram of IN TRACT – anagrind is ‘that’s circulating’
An anagram of DOPER – anagrind is ‘worried’ – around or ‘about’ HIT (drug dose) around or ‘injecting’ BI (twice)
Hidden (‘partially’) in ‘ouTWITted’
MUSLIm (religious person) replacing M with N – ie moving forward in the alphabet. There may be some who would argue that this is moving the letter ‘back’ in the alphabet if A is at the front. We have opposite views on this! The 1st TEXTILE (9)
I (‘first’ letter of ‘impression’) and SHED (cast off) after PUN (joke)
CASH (money) MERE (unimportant) but we struggled to find it as a synonym in Chambers. However, on closer inspection both words have ‘petty’ as a synonym. The 2nd TEXTILE (9)
A reversal or REPAID (discharged) or ‘from the rear’ – the wordplay conjures up a rather unpleasant image!
An anagram of SPOT – anagrind is ‘horrible’
SEER (prophet) SUCKER (fool) – the 3rd TEXTILE (9)
Even letters only or ‘not oddly’ in wArMoNgErS kIn and A
BY around or ‘touring’ LIGHT (with less luggage)
ENT (Ear Nose and Throat as in the hospital department) ANGLED (unaligned)
A reversal or ‘revolution’ of NAIVE (green)
TO and PUT (deposit) reversed or ‘rising’ (in a down clue)
SIOUX (‘brave’ – member of the Amerindian tribe) swapping first and last letters or ‘sides’ after NO (refusal)
An anagram of CITIeS’ CRIMeS missing both Es or ‘without either energy’ – anagrind is ‘reconstructed’
I (island) and a homophone (‘reportedly’) of BEERIER (more boozy)
BUTT (bottom) before PURE (sheer) reversed or ‘climbing’
O (duck) INK (something in a pen)
STREW (scatter) THe missing last letter or ‘most of’
MOCK (laugh at) TUDOR (‘house’ as in the Royal House)
DIM (dark) I (one) NUT (fiend) I’VE (I have)
MI (busy road) CROW (boast) AVE (short for avenue – ‘street’)
F (folio) REEF (bank) ALL (completely)
SAT (brooded) around or ‘over’ TINE (point) – the 4th TEXTILE (9)
An anagram of OK and A CHIP – anagrind is ‘salad’. We weren’t sure that ‘salad’ was a good indicator of an anagram but Chambers Thesaurus has said listed under both mishmash and ragbag.
PRO (for) BED (somewhere to sleep)
cRAYON (pencil) missing first letter or ‘without lid’ – the 5th TEXTILE (9)
A SIN (‘sloth’ is one of the 7 deadly sins)
Is MUSLIN the checked answer? I put MUSLIM, because I agree about which way is forward, also because of the ‘of’ in the clue, which I don’t think would come just before the definition.
STREWTH very neat, also liked MICROWAVE
Thanks loglady, B&J
Yes, MUSLIN is correct. However, we are not normally fond of letters moving backwards or forwards as it seems to cause confusion. In this case, the theme helped.
Thanks. Yes, theme helped me to get muslin, but I didn’t think that meant the answer had to be that. Actually, I think either answer works whichever way you take forward to be. If you read it as:
‘you would get muslim if you forwarded the last letter of this textile’ then textile is def, A is forward
‘you get muslim if you forward the last letter of a textile’ then religious person is def, A is forward
‘take a muslim and forward its last letter to get a textile’ then textile is def, A is backwards
hmm, can’t get option 4 to work. I prefer 1 to 3 as a way to get MUSLIN, but 2 generally
‘Up the garden path’ is in Chambers, as part of ‘lead someone up the garden path’. Not too challenging, this one, though ‘satinet’ was new to me.
A nice cup of ‘pok chai’ anyone?
I only went for MUSLIN because it was a thematic clue, but wasn’t convinced about the ‘forwarding last letter’ bit either. DIAPER was good in a yucky sort of way and I liked the reaction to the MOCK TUDOR ‘architectural style’.
Thanks to Loglady and B&J.
I loved this puzzle. My only (very slight) query is the plural answer for 3 down.