Monday Prize Crossword / Nov 7, 2016
Dante, safe and sound.
Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate.
| Across | ||
| 1 | OLIVER | He has nothing against meat (6) |
| O (nothing) + LIVER (meat) Some may think of Oliver Twist, I was thinking of Jamie Oliver. But as Bruce says below (and rightly so), it does not have to be a specific person. |
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| 4 | MANGROVE | Tree supplying person with wood (8) |
| MAN (person) + GROVE (wood) | ||
| 9 | SOFTEN | Subdue back of class at frequent intervals (6) |
| [clas]S + OFTEN (at frequent intervals) | ||
| 10 | GIN AND IT | Drink provided for dining at mess (3,3,2) |
| (DINING AT)* [* = mess] | ||
| 11 | ABROAD | Jack on the way overseas (6) |
| AB (Jack, a sailor) + ROAD ((the) way) | ||
| 12 | ALIENATE | Foreigner satisfied his appetite only to lose friends (8) |
| ALIEN (foreigner) + ATE (satisfied his appetite) | ||
| 13 | DUD | Such a cheque is no good, even when returned (3) |
| DUD is a palindrome [even when returned] | ||
| 14 | LIE LOW | Have an inferior berth, but remain quiet? (3,3) |
| The first bit is cryptic: when you ‘have an inferior berth’, you might be ‘lying low’ | ||
| 17 | RECOUNT | Check votes again in detail (7) |
| Double definition | ||
| 21 | NATIVE | Local vet in a panic (6) |
| (VET IN A)* [* = panic] | ||
| 25 | AUK | A British winter visitor to our shores (3) |
| A + UK (British, UK as an adjective) One from Kathryn’s Dad’s Book of Birds. |
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| 26 | AS IT WERE | Wear ties knotted unusually, so to speak (2,2,4) |
| (WEAR TIES)* [* = knotted unusually] | ||
| 27 | FIDGET | Perhaps gifted young scholars may be told not to (6) |
| (GIFTED)* [* = perhaps] | ||
| 28 | MAINTAIN | Declare support (8) |
| Double definition | ||
| 29 | VISION | Dream of Bernadette, perhaps (6) |
| Probably a Cryptic definition, rather than a Double defintion Bernadette (1844–79) was a French peasant girl born as Marie Bernarde Soubirous. Her visions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858 led to the town’s establishment as a centre of pilgrimage. She later became a nun and was canonised in 1933. |
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| 30 | RAIMENTS | Martine’s changing gears (8) |
| (MARTINE’S)* [* = changing] | ||
| 31 | INSTEP | Popular move, building arch (6) |
| IN (popular) + STEP (move) | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | OBSTACLE | Race problem? (8) |
| Cryptic or Double definition, depending on how you look at it | ||
| 2 | INFORMER | Sneak attending class with hesitation (8) |
| IN (attending) FORM (class) + ER (hesitation) | ||
| 3 | ELEVATOR | Resort to a lever to provide lift (8) |
| (TO A LEVER)* [* =resort] | ||
| 5 | AFIELD | A piece of land away from home (6) |
| A + FIELD (piece of land) | ||
| 6 | GLARES | Looks like one of Elgar’s variations (6) |
| (ELGAR’S)* [* = one of …. variations] | ||
| 7 | OLD SAW | Ancient words of wisdom from Oswald (3,3) |
| (OSWALD)* [* = from] | ||
| 8 | ESTEEM | The respect in which going up fits the point (6) |
| Reversal [going up] of: MEETS (fits) + E ((the) point, East) | ||
| 12 | AUTOCUE | Prompt aid for those on TV (7) |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| 15 | WEE | A little Scotch (3) |
| (Not so) Cryptic definition | ||
| 16 | INN | Popular name for a pub (3) |
| IN (popular, again!) + N (name) | ||
| 18 | TAHITIAN | A husband embraced by red-haired islander (8) |
| A + H (husband), together inside TITIAN (red-haired) ‘Titian’ is short for ‘Titian red’, the bright golden/red colour used by the famous Italian painter, especially for hair. |
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| 19 | LINGUIST | Language master resorts to Latin initially, using it in translation (8) |
| L[atin] + (USING IT)* [* = in translation] | ||
| 20 | BEATEN UP | Got the game moving and thrashed (6-2) |
| Double definition | ||
| 22 | FARMER | Continual growth is important to his industry (6) |
| Cryptic definition | ||
| 23 | BIKINI | Pacific island in which one may be found sunbathing (6) |
| Double definition | ||
| 24 | SWATHE | Hit with explosive – bandage needed (6) |
| SWAT (hit) + HE (explosive, High Explosive) | ||
| 25 | ARTIST | A model employer? (6) |
| Cryptic definition (and almost my FOI) | ||
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Thanks Dante and Sil. So much nicer than the weekend
Thanks Dante and Sil
A pretty straightforward offering by Dante with the only hold up caused by initially writing in BARBER at 22d, until I got MAINTAIN at 28a.
Have only heard of BEAT rather than BEAT UP to flush out game birds for shooting so again had to wait until all crossers to write that in.
Similarly to another recent clue where the setter has just defined ‘He’, I took OLIVER to be a generic male name rather than referring to someone in particular.