Sunday rolls round again and I’ve got Wire again.
Tricky in places but probably about right for a Sunday – can’t see any theme or Nina but if you know better…
PAIN & T(udor) & BALL
Can’t say I’m a fan of female for just a woman’s name to be honest, MOA an extinct bird in – carried by – IN – current all reversed – heading westward
Hidden answer
Cryptic def
C(lubs) & ON & edges of S(och)I G(rayvoro)N
THIS* wasted & SUM reversed
A decapitated (b)EAGLE. Not a pleasant surface image
21 is a party or SHINDIG without the shin
DIE – cast reversed – spinning & Liz – E.R.
Alternate letters of KiNg EyEd and SUP – drink
E(cstacy) fuelling CHAP & an emptied L(avator)Y
L(ecturer) in PROOF reversed & LAN – computer network
End of concerT & ERSE – Irish poetically
Double def
Extended def cum all in one. GREAT* perforrming & (typifie)D ultimately & IAN (mckellen). Ian McKellen – Wikipedia
Cryptic def really with reference to acne I guess
2 x NIT – ass as in fool ascending
S(mall) & LINES- ropes inside the river cum setter TEES
I assume Jargon as in it’s all Greek to me. JAR – vessel and most of GON(e)
The chief maybe a CLAN KING
A bit of I(nfo) in the SNP
MO – a second & HAMMED for acted badly
Star Trek captain and somewhat iffy Jock for Scottish church
Extremes of H(ostil)E inside tight – drunk SEATBELT*
Reversed hidden – around to show reversal and section for hidden. priceY ART Shop
[R LEG BONE]* fractured
DE french “from” & PILATE he of the hands washing
2 is TINTIN which could be CAN CAN
A stylist could ask PERM IT?
Double definition
Sounds like RAISE
Well it is an active volcano. ANTE – bet reversed
Great surfaces, smooth and fair clueing, really enjoyed today’s offering.
Particularly liked CLANKING and JARGON
Thank you to Wire and Flashling
An enjoyable mixture of straightforward and tricky today, though I almost spoilt things from the get go by confidently slapping in FACE VALUE at 1d instead of SPOT CHECK. Realised my mistake when 13a had to be CONSIGN – though I don’t know why the C was plural rather than singular, as I thought that would indicate a CC or a CS. Is it the norm for C to stand for clubs? I’m sure someone will enlighten me.
All in all very good. Thanks to Wire and thank you flashing for the explanation of LAN in FLOOR PLAN. An expression new to me.
Yes, Salad, C is given in Chambers as abbreviation for Clubs. All four of the suits can be represented by their initial letter.
I liked the linking of TINTIN and CANCAN, and KNEES-UP and shinDIG. I confess to smiling at both the cheeky Scottishisms: CLAN KING and (sorry flashling) KIRK. ISTHMUS, FLOOR PLAN and TRAGEDIAN were my other favourites.
Thanks Wire and flashling
I don’t really see ‘consign’ = ‘relegate’, just ‘deliver’ or ‘allocate’, but no doubt someone will tell me it has this sense in some dictionary or other (none of mine). Otherwise all very fair and amusing, so thanks Wire and Flashling.
Thanks PostMark @3. Clubs as in suits! Of course! My brain was stuck on clubs as societies. So obvious when it’s pointed out but one of those woods for the trees moments.
Re consign = relegate, as in ‘consigned to the bin’, I guess.
I see what you mean about CONSIGN and ‘relegate’ Tatrasman @4. Like Salad @5, I thought of it in the sense of “consign (=relegate) to the dustbin of history”, but even in this saying, consign really just means “send to”.
Another enjoyable offering from our setter after Thursday’s Leonidas in the FT. My favourites were the all-in-one TRAGEDIAN, the parsing of FLOOR PLAN and the original def for JARGON, my last in after an alphabet trawl.
Thanks to Wire and flashling
The first definition of ‘relegate’ in Chambers is ‘consign to an inferior or less important place or position’.
Thanks both. Ideal level of challenge for me today. I’m with Tatarstan and WordPlodder in the CONSIGN/relegate debate though it did not cause me to reject the correct answer
As I was trying to think about feathered things beginning with E, EIDER came to mind, until EAGLE made more sense. Then, when I came to 20ac, I benefited from my own error. A very pleasant puzzle and blog, though I have to agree that for consign to mean relegate, you have to consign it to somewhere. I’m afraid the word is tainted for me by the attempt to rebrand Royal Mail as Consignia.
Just noticed my intro sounds like a moan. Wasn’t intended at all. Perhaps I should consign it to the bin.
Can anyone think of a way to use consign to mean sed to a superior place or position? I can’t.
Thanks Wire and Flashing – I agree with you re ‘female’ to mean a random name, otherwise an enjoyable solve.
Very clever throughout and very enjoyable. Some real smilers, not least the Scottish related clues as well as a couple of PDMs.
Thanks Wire and Flashing.
Sourdough@11 “I’ll consign this to your care.” Not superior but not inferior either.
Isn’t there a P in FLOOR PLAN?
Sorry – forget that. I was woozy with Covid when I solved, and it still hasn’t cleared…