A very enjoyable workout from a rare Friday setter. Thanks ARTEXLEN !!
FF: 9 DD: 8
| ACROSS | ||
| 1 | LAVISH | Extravagant, somewhat like throne room? (6) |
| cryptic def; read as LAV-ISH (like throne room) | ||
| 4 | CONFIDES | Entrusts passwords to guard back in barbican, if recalled (8) |
| CODES (passwords) containing [ N (back, last letter in barbicaN) FI (reverse of IF) ] | ||
| 10 | GERMINATE | Start to develop golf – stop losing lead (9) |
| G (golf) tERMINATE (stop, without first letter) | ||
| 11 | RULER | Judge introducing right measure (5) |
| RULE (judge) R (right) | ||
| 12 | LOAD | Charge nothing to feed youth (4) |
| O (nothing) in LAD (youth) | ||
| 13 | TIGER SHARK | Rogue rigs the ship for marine hunter (5,5) |
| [RIGS THE]* ARK (ship) | ||
| 15 | SHINDIG | Do quiet indignation, ignoring people (7) |
| SH (quiet) INDIGnation (without NATION – people) | ||
| 16 | FLABBY | Learner involved in great times hanging loose (6) |
| [ L (learner) in FAB (great) ] BY (times) | ||
| 19 | DEPUTY | Record concealed by tax official (6) |
| EP (record) in DUTY (tax) | ||
| 21 | MALARKY | Foolishness of mine trapping a bird (7) |
| MY (mine) containing [ A LARK (bird) ] | ||
| 23 | COUNTYWIDE | Change now due with city and across region (10) |
| NOW DUE CITY* | ||
| 25 | NERO | Roman noble disheartened, retreating soldiers (4) |
| NE (NoblE, disheartened) RO (reverse of OR, soldiers) | ||
| 27 | IMAGE | International journal with European representation (5) |
| I (international) MAG (journal) E (european) | ||
| 28 | INCURIOUS | Gain debts? Not interested (9) |
| INCUR (gain) IOUS (debts) | ||
| 29 | PRESTIGE | Standing quietly, others mingled regularly (8) |
| P (quiet) REST (others) IGE (mInGlEd, regularly) | ||
| 30 | STRESS | Pressure second player to drop account (6) |
| S (second) acTRESS (player, without AC – account) | ||
| DOWN | ||
| 1 | LEGALESE | Bar talk from members consuming beer with ecstasy (8) |
| [ LEGS (members) containing ALE (beer)] E (Ecstasy) | ||
| 2 | VERSATILE | Wicked keeping rent rates changeable (9) |
| VILE (wicked) containing RATES* | ||
| 3 | SKIN | Hide from southern relatives (4) |
| S (southern) KIN (relatives) | ||
| 5 | ONESELF | What you are regarding feels awkward (7) |
| ON (regarding) FEELS* | ||
| 6 | FORESTALLS | Hinders everyone interfering in ecosystems (10) |
| ALL (everyone) in FORESTS (ecosystems) | ||
| 7 | DELTA | Peddled drugs with a fallen foreign character (5) |
| DEaLT (peddled drugs) with A moving to the end. | ||
| 8 | STROKE | Gently rub butterfly, perhaps (6) |
| double def | ||
| 9 | SAVING | Give welcoming French wine discount (6) |
| SAG (give) containing VIN (wine, french) | ||
| 14 | ADJUSTMENT | Bill people after fair time for alteration (10) |
| AD (bill) [ JUST (fair) MEN (people) ] T (time) | ||
| 17 | BARGEPOLE | Good to acquire, operable refurbished propeller (9) |
| G (good) in OPERABLE* | ||
| 18 | SYNOPSIS | Outline in hills is pony stable to the north (8) |
| hidden, reversed in “..hillS IS PONY Stable..” | ||
| 20 | YAWNING | Gaping opening in yacht’s canopy (7) |
| Y (Yacht’ opening) AWNING (canopy) | ||
| 21 | MEDICO | Physician from foreign land, exchanging Germany for centre of Wrexham (6) |
| MExICO (foreign land, with D – germany, Deutschland replacing X – centre of wreXhand) | ||
| 22 | SCRIMP | Coppers upset receiving lip in stint (6) |
| RIM (lip) in reverse of PCS (coppers) | ||
| 24 | USAGE | Master supporting university convention (5) |
| U (university) SAGE (master) | ||
| 26 | TROT | Pace wrong when climbing (4) |
| reverse of TORT (wrong) | ||
A very pleasant Friday workout: thanks, Artexlen. I could be a bit pernickety about some of the parsing, but I won’t because they didn’t slow me down. And thanks Turbolegs for your early blogging.
A fun puzzle. Typo in 16a. should be FAB (great). Thanks Turbolegs and Artexlen.
Got totally stuck at one point in bottom right. all i could come up with for 17d was gropeable.
Decided to break for lunch at that point 🙂
Thanks to Artexlen and Turbolegs. Enjoyable. I took a while getting FLABBY and especially BARGEPOLE.
A Goldilocks puzzle – not overly taxing but not a doddle either. BARGEPOLE and FLABBY were our last ones in – we knew what the definitions were but couldn’t immediately think of the answers. But BARGEPOLE was then our CoD.
Thanks, Artexlen and Turbolegs.
Always happy to see a crossword by Artexlen and I was not disappointed today. Liked FLABBY, MALARKY, and SAVING in particular. Thanks Turbolegs for the blog.
Many thanks to both. I liked this but got myself in a bit of a pickle by writing DEALT as the entry for 7d. That held me up for some time at the end. But getting there produces a good number of smiles.
Thanks John@2 for spotting the typo. I have made the edit.
Regards,
TL
Thanks Artexlen and Turbolegs
Actually finished this back near publication date but only getting to check it off now as I move around to different areas working from home.
Found this a bit of a challenge and especially made a mess of 11a with METER, followed by METRE before settling on the correct RULER in the end. Had FLABBY in but had found a definition for FABBY that was pretty close to ‘great times’, so missed the correct FAB BY parsing.
Hadn’t seen this spelling of MALARKY before and note that the more common MALARKEY was used in an earlier puzzle by Mudd (16484). That was my third to last in, followed by the excellent MEDICO and BARGEPOLE as the last one in.