Bit of a challenge from Armonie this morning
Sorry for the late post.
While solving the clues was not too hard (though I couldn’t parse ORDINAL (now fixed – thanks Jon Delfin@1)) … making up a grid was rather more tricksy!
Thanks ARMONIE!
Loud accurate alarm
FRIGHT
F (load) + RIGHT (accurate)
Waste processor having no time for musician
COMPOSER
COMPOS[t]ER (waste processor having no T (time))
Caught redhead inflating standing charge
OVERHEARD
R[ed] (head) inflating OVERHEAD (standing charge)
Once more making a profit
AGAIN
A + GAIN (profit)
Irish TV keeps a standard
RATE
RTE (irish tv) keeps A
Animal has a sudden feeling of fear in the country
CHINCHILLA
CHILL (sudden feeling of fear) in CHINA (country)
Lay a pound in saucer, carelessly
SECULAR
L (pound) in (SAUCER)* (*carelessly)
Songs the chief heard
LIEDER
“leader” (the chief, “heard”)
Charlie’s bar? It’s bright!
CLEVER
C (charlie) + LEVER (bar)
Saint introduced to composer and lexicographer
WEBSTER
ST (saint) introduced to WEBER (composer)
Preoccupied when taken out
ABSTRACTED
Double definition
Desperate fellow going out with Aurora
DAWN
DAN (desperate fellow, from the Dandy) going out W (with)
Rush back with oriental deal
TRADE
(DART)< (rush, <back) with E (oriental)
One holding money in both hands in Russia
ARCHANGEL
A (one) + (CHANGE (money) in LR (both hands, left and right))
Fed boa in fragments? True! [two words]
BONA FIDE
(FED BOA IN)* (*fragments)
German admitting the object is sex
GENDER
GER (german) admitting END (object)
Display a frown when tucking into seafood
FLOURISH
LOUR (frown) tucking into FISH (seafood)
In dialect translation is the same
IDENTICAL
(IN DIALECT)* (*translation)
Sunk fence? That’s a laugh! [hyphenated]
HA-HA
Double definition
Service book for German Standard’s spoken about
ORDINAL
ORAL (spoken) about DIN (German Standards)
Statesman embraces one and all on the island? That’s sweet! [two words]
PEACH MELBA
PM (statesman) embraces EACH (one and all) on ELBA (island)
Old Bob’s lofty hedge
STALL
S (old bob, shilling) + TALL (lofty)
Books included in substantial charge
RENTAL
NT (books, new testament) included in REAL (substantial)
Priest put article in a good way
FATHER
THE (article) in FAR (a good way)
Many left on the other side of the junction
CLOVERLEAF
C (many) + L (left) + OVERLEAF (on the other side)
Andre gets badly alienated
ESTRANGED
(ANDRE GETS)* (*badly)
One who argues peevishly with bishop about fish
WRANGLER
W (with) + (RR (bishop, right reverend) about ANGLE (fish))
King free to eat fish
RICHARD
RID (free) to eat CHAR (fish)
Good-for-nothing women heave
WRETCH
W (women) + RETCH (have)
Pretentious? A bishop of Cambridge?
CANTAB
CANT (pretentious) + A + B (bishop)
Produce superior hock
SPAWN
S (superior) + PAWN (hock)
Fit for a hot drink
HALE
H (hot) + ALE (drink)
Re ORDINAL: I gather it has something to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Institut_f%C3%BCr_Normung
Thanks Jon Delfin@1 – have now fixed that one!
Thanks Teacow, and a special word of appreciation to Armonie for such an enjoyable puzzle. Thanks indeed.
I knew about DIN because I am so old. 🙂 My 50 year old speakers have DIN plugs. Recently I got the sprog at Richer Sounds to fit banana plugs on the amplifier end, and he gazed in amazement at the DINs, never having seen or heard of them before.
Thanks Armonie and Teacow
Always look forward to the annual Carte rosee puzzle ! Calculated that with 16 across and 16 down clues, it would be a standard grid with two clues in rows 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 , 11, 13 and 15 – similarly for the down clues.
Still made this things harder than they need be by entering STALL in at 6d, instead of 7d early on and it took just under 2 hours to complete across several sittings to get it out.
A good mix of more straightforward clues to get one going with some trickier ones to keep the challenge going.
Finished with WRANGLER (when finally saw the RR bishop and not the B one), OVERHEARD (with the tricky definition and a while to see OVERHEAD afterwards) and FLOURISH (working back from FISH) the last few in.
Great challenge from Armonie, which we saved for the weekend. Out of interest, the grid used is the same as that for the first ever FT Crossword back in 1966. Thanks to Mudd for his excellent book The History of the Crossword for that piece of cruciverbalist trivia!