[If you’re attending York S&B please see comments 32&33] - here
A typical BRADMAN offering this Friday morning. Thanks Don.
FF: 8 DD: 8
| Across | ||
| 1 | GUSHER | Good American, that woman who oozes enthusiasm? (6) |
| G (good) US (american) HER (that woman) | ||
| 4 | CHUCKLED | Cast came first and laughed (8) |
| CHUCK (cast) LED (came first) | ||
| 10 | MEASLIEST | This writer is resting in a street, being most miserable (9) |
| ME (this writer) [ LIES (is resting) in A ST (street) ] | ||
| 11 | MAVIN | The old woman, French wine expert (5) |
| MA (old woman) VIN (french wine) | ||
| 12 | LOUD | Flashy couple left, heading back (4) |
| DUO (couple) L (left) all reversed | ||
| 13 | IMPENITENT | Inept men involved in modern technology showing no remorse (10) |
| INEPT MEN* in IT (modern technology) | ||
| 15 | PIQUANT | Very good designer, zesty (7) |
| PI (very good) QUANT (designer) | ||
| 16 | TITCHY | Little desire they must have for that fellow (6) |
| cryptic def; TITCH is a small person | ||
| 19 | COBRAS | Firm supports for occupants of snake pit? (6) |
| CO (firm) BRAS (supports) | ||
| 21 | SWEAR IN | Install something wicked outside show (5,2) |
| SIN (something wicked) outside WEAR (show) | ||
| 23 | FUNCTIONAL | Operative finds something oily in Cornish river (10) |
| UNCTION (somthing oily) in FAL (cornish river) | ||
| 25 | BLAH | Be loath, oddly, to offer nonsense (4) |
| Be LoAtH (odd letters of) | ||
| 27 | EDWIN | King hated winter to some extent (5) |
| hidden in “..hatED WINter..” | ||
| 28 | APENNINES | A group of English hills or Italian mountains (9) |
| A PENNINES (group of english hills) | ||
| 29 | SUNBATHE | Seek a tan, being ashen but changing (8) |
| ASHEN BUT* | ||
| 30 | DEARLY | How lover is regarded, costing a lot of money (6) |
| double def | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | GYMSLIPS | James makes a mistake, we hear, getting tunics (8) |
| GYM (sounds like jim, james) SLIPS (makes a mistake) | ||
| 2 | STATUS QUO | Sort out squats? The rebels don’t like that (6,3) |
| OUT SQUATS* | ||
| 3 | ELLA | Woman from Spain that’s upset everyone (4) |
| E (spain) [ ALL (everyone) , reversed ] | ||
| 5 | HOT SEAT | Those horrible cheers going up – a tricky situation (3,4) |
| THOSE* AT (reverse of TA – cheers) | ||
| 6 | COMMITTEES | Decision-making groups cost me with time wasted (10) |
| COST ME TIME* | ||
| 7 | LEVEE | French student heading off to join English bank (5) |
| eLEVE (french for student, without starting letter) E (english) | ||
| 8 | DONATE | Member of university staff had to be present (6) |
| DON (member of university staff) ATE (had) | ||
| 9 | PERMIT | Authorisation for each American university (6) |
| PER (each) MIT (american university) | ||
| 14 | MAURITANIA | Mother goddess having a sort of appeal in African country (10) |
| MA (mother) [ URANIA (goddess) containing IT (sort of appeal) ] | ||
| 17 | HARDLINER | Husband, terrible nerd and liar who won’t compromise? (9) |
| H (husband) [ NERD LIAR ]* | ||
| 18 | ON THE SLY | Deviously or possibly honestly? (2,3,3) |
| HONESTLY* (bit of a chestnut, this one) | ||
| 20 | STOMACH | Put up with terrible host, entertaining Scotsman? (7) |
| HOST* containing MAC (scotsman) | ||
| 21 | SPARED | Padre’s animated, being saved (6) |
| PADRE’S* | ||
| 22 | AFTERS | What sounds like tea comes here – something to eat (6) |
| cryptic def; T (sounds like tea) comes AFTER S in the english alphabet | ||
| 24 | NO WIN | Like a hopeless situation currently at home (2-3) |
| NOW (currently) IN (at home) | ||
| 26 | ANNE | Princess featured in Equestrian News? (4) |
| hidden in “..equestriAN NEws” | ||
*anagram
thanks turbo! nice blog. Straightforward indeed for a Bradman (duck, quixote etc.) — I interpreted 16a as T(ITCH)Y with itch=desire replacing he=that man in “they”. BTW, what does FF count?
Thanks Turbolegs. Pretty straightforward indeed.
I’d not previously thought of a gymslip as a form of tunic, and I’ve never heard of mavin.
Just a minor issue – the french for student is étudiant, élève is pupil.
Ilan @1, the letters are Turbolegs’ puzzle ratings. FF = Fun Factor, DD = Degree of Difficulty.
I liked this puzzle. With plenty of elegant clues and nothing contentious, it reminded me of an old school Everyman. The hidden ANNE had a nice bonus in the surface.
Grumpy: a student in a grande école is called élève.
Liked this crossword even though I had to look up GYMSLIPS, AFTERS, and TITCHY. How true that COMMITTEES “cost me time.” Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs for the blog and your numerical ratings.
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
Nice puzzle without too many holdups – except where I lazily wrote in MADAGASCAR, parsed only to the ‘mother’ level and then had to repair the damage a bit later on. Didn’t know of Ms QUANT until my brother-in-law enlightened me. Was with Ilan@1’s parsing of TITCHY.
Hadn’t come across the ON THE SLY chestnut before so that raised a grin.
Finished with that TITCHY, HOT SEAT and SWEAR IN as the last few in.