A relatively easy puzzle from BRADMAN today. Thanks Don, for a pleasant workout. And to all who understand this, Gong xi fa cai !!
FF: 8 DD: 6
I needed google to help complete the parse for 19a.
| Across | ||
| 1 | HANUMAN | Person catching an Indian monkey (7) |
| HUMAN (person) catching AN | ||
| 5 | TYPESET | Kind group arrange for printing (7) |
| TYPE (kind) SET (group) | ||
| 9 | RUMEN | Rugby bods with a bit of stomach (5) |
| RU (rugby) MEN (bods) | ||
| 10 | REPARABLE | Touching story that could be made better? (9) |
| RE (touching) PARABLE (story) | ||
| 11 | SWEATSHOP | A pet show’s organised in nasty factory (9) |
| A PET SHOW’S* | ||
| 12 | PLEAT | Fold of sheep finally coming to trench (5) |
| P (sheeP, finally) LEAT (trench) | ||
| 13, 15 | MOST REVEREND | Like archbishop stirring storm always with consequence following (4,8) |
| STORM* EVER (always) END (consequence) | ||
| 18 | WESLEYAN | Methodist from Wales with yen for reform (8) |
| WALES YEN* | ||
| 19 | DONG | Luminous type making money in Vietnam (4) |
| cryptic def; referring to edward lear’s “the dong with a luminous nose” | ||
| 22 | GAMER | Some losing American player (5) |
| hidden in “..losinG AMERican..” | ||
| 24 | STABLEMAN | Groom to inflict wound on old lover (9) |
| STAB (inflict wound) LEMAN (old lover) | ||
| 26 | ENGINEERS | Soldiers from Niger seen in battle (9) |
| NIGER SEEN* | ||
| 27 | ESTOP | Poets working in bar (5) |
| POETS* | ||
| 28 | MISLEAD | Maiden joining loose ladies put on the wrong track (7) |
| M (maiden) [LADIES]* | ||
| 29 | NOSIEST | Like the most interfering person, giving one no rest for the most part (7) |
| NO SIESTa (rest, for the most part) | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | HARASS | Endlessly difficult donkey creating trouble (6) |
| HARd (difficult, endlessly) ASS (donkey) | ||
| 2 | NUMBER ONE | Top guy, individual who is less feeling? (6,3) |
| NUMBER (~less feeling) ONE (individual) | ||
| 3 | MONET | Artist with cash running short over time (5) |
| MONEy (cash, short) T (time) | ||
| 4 | NORTHERLY | Wind that could destabilise lorry, then? (9) |
| LORRY THEN* | ||
| 5 | TOP-UP | What we deduce is pot’s additional liquid? (3-2) |
| cryptic def; POT can be clued as TOP UP | ||
| 6 | PERSPIRED | Exuded liquid? Drippers are finally dealt with (9) |
| DRIPPERS E (arE, finally)* | ||
| 7 | SABLE | What’s black and second-rate in trade event? (5) |
| B (second-rate) in SALE (trade event) | ||
| 8 | THEFTS | The newspaper’s illegal acts (6) |
| THE FT’S (newspaper’s) | ||
| 14 | TOLERANCE | Clear note written out with margin (9) |
| CLEAR NOTE* | ||
| 16 | VENIAL SIN | Ann is evil, conjuring up a bit of wickedness (6,3) |
| ANN IS EVIL* | ||
| 17 | NANOMETRE | Granny remote having moved some distance (9) |
| NAN (granny) [REMOTE]* | ||
| 20 | AGLEAM | Shining silver meadow with a hint of mist (6) |
| AG (silver) LEA (meadow) M (hint of Mist) | ||
| 21 | INKPOT | Container of fluid could brew pint, OK? (6) |
| PINT OK* | ||
| 23 | MAGUS | Wizard periodical coming to you and me (5) |
| MAG (periodical) US (you and me) | ||
| 24 | SHERD | Broken piece the girl maybe found on road (5) |
| SHE (the girl) RD (road) | ||
| 25 | LEEKS | Vegetables should be glossy, first to last (5) |
| SLEEK (glossy) with first letter moving to the end | ||
*anagram
Yes, pretty gentle, but even so I had no idea about the wordplay for DONG and didn’t know LEAT for ‘trench’ or the ‘Indian monkey’. I liked the idea of the overweight rugby players, though I’m sure such a species doesn’t really exist.
Your ‘Gong xi fa cai’ is Greek to me I’m afraid, even with Google translate.
Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs
‘Happy new year’ for the (Chinese) new lunar year. Or, as they say in Hong Kong, ‘Kung Hei Fat Choi.’
I liked the ‘Nina’ in the middle of the Crossword – ‘Most reverend Wesleyan dong’!
Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs. Enjoyable. I’m another who did not parse DONG and needed to check Google for LEAT, HANUMAN, and SHERD as opposed to shard. I also was late getting TOLERANCE because I started with mislaid rather than MISLEAD.
A pleasant crossword containing a number of new words new to me — HANUMAN, SHERD, RUMEN, and DONG. I needed references to get the last two. Favorite was MOST REVEREND. Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs.
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
Quite a quick solve which is unusual for this setter, although lacked the knowledge of the Lear poem and the term for waterway into a mill, so those two were just biffed in. Also struggled to find a direct link between TOLERANCE and MARGIN – one seemed to be an exact engineering allowance and the other a more generic term. Was aware of HANUMAN as the monkey god in Hinduism, didn’t realise that there was a real monkey by the name.
Finished in the SE corner NOSIEST and LEEKS the last couple in – more from where I landed at the end than them being the hardest.
Thank you Bradman and Turbolegs: I agree it was not too hard since even I was able to finish.
I have to quibble about NANOMETRE: since it is a sub-sub-microscopic length (one-millionth of one millimetre), I think it does not fit with the meaning of distance.
I liked particularly 10a and 2d.