A pleasant challenge from BRADMAN today; steady progress was made for nearly all of the grid with a couple of new words keeping me momentarily occupied for a little longer. 2 typos in the clues but nothing major.
FF: 8 DD: 8
| Across | ||
| 1 | PUBLISHED | One left rolling over behind inn, got rid of, put out (9) |
| PUB (inn) [ I (one) L (left), reversed) ] SHED (got rid of) | ||
| 6 | BLEEP | Signal made by British PM heading west (5) |
| B (british) [ PM = PEEL, reversed ] – robert peel | ||
| 9 | PHANTOM | Some elephant ominously apppearing? It’s an illusion (7) |
| hidden in “..elePHANT OMinously..” | ||
| 10 | TOBACCO | Explorer taken aback by firm producing harmful product (7) |
| TOBAC (explorer = CABOT, reversed) CO (firm) | ||
| 11 | SNEER | Son never heartlessly making scornful comment (5) |
| S (son) NEvER (heartlessly, without ‘V’) | ||
| 12 | OSCILLATE | What swinger will do in local site naughtily (9) |
| LOCAL SITE* | ||
| 14 | BAY | Horse in wet coastal area (3) |
| double def | ||
| 15 | REAR ADMIRAL | Officer briefly arranged a Daimler for transport (4,7) |
| ARRanged (briefly) A DAIMLER* | ||
| 17 | NIGHT SHIFTS | Workers in the dark have this thing as a result? (5,6) |
| cryptic clue; THING could be clued as NIGHT SHIFTS (i.e. NIGHT*) | ||
| 19 | TOD | Fox sending 5 into a spin (3) |
| 5d is DOT , reverse (in a spin) | ||
| 20 | MOLLUSCAN | Terrible man, heartless, callous, like a slug (9) |
| MaN (heartless) CALLOUS* | ||
| 22 | URIAH | Unfortunate warrior in old city, one with gasp of disappointment? (5) |
| UR (old city) I (one) AH (gasp of disappointment) | ||
| 24 | AGITATE | Italian blocking an entrance creates stir (7) |
| IT (italian) in [A (an) GATE (entrance)] | ||
| 26 | HIDEOUS | Hoorid dens – time to escape (7) |
| HIDEOUtS (dens, without ‘T’ for time) – typo in clue, should be HORRID | ||
| 27 | SEGUE | Keep going, say, when hugged by girl (5) |
| EG (say ) in SUE (girl) | ||
| 28 | RESIDENTS | Tiredness possibly problematical for hotel guests? (9) |
| TIREDNESS* | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | PIPES | They may have 10 very good and one being nuisance endlessly (5) |
| PI (very good, pious) PESt (nuisance, endless) | ||
| 2 | BRAVERY | Times for catching someone going wild – courage needed (7) |
| BY (times, multiplication) containing RAVER (someone going wild) | ||
| 3 | INTERPRET | Read print, tree having been destroyed? (9) |
| PRINT TREE* | ||
| 4 | HOMEOPATHIC | Like some medicine that’s bad for him – too cheap (11) |
| HIM TOO CHEAP* | ||
| 5 | DOT | Little girl making a point (3) |
| double def | ||
| 6 | BABEL | Confusion with black man getting murdered (5) |
| B (black) ABEL (man getting murdered) | ||
| 7 | EN CLAIR | Racine magically penning line in ordianry language (2,5) |
| RACINE* around L – new word for me | ||
| 8 | PROPELLED | Driven to offer support to the French female and daughter (9) |
| PROP (offer support) ELLE (french female) D (daughter) | ||
| 13 | CHAFFINCHES | Birds in rubbish in bottomless box (11) |
| CHAFF (rubbish) IN CHESt (box, bottomless) | ||
| 14 | BY NO MEANS | Troubled men sob? Nay, certainly not! (2,2,5) |
| MEN SOB NAY* | ||
| 16 | MISGUIDED | Deluded maiden is wanting good Scottish boy (9) |
| M (maiden) IS GUID (good, scottish) ED (boy) | ||
| 18 | GOLDING | Novelist taking first prize in front of glitterati (7) |
| GOLD (first prize) IN G (front of Glitterati) | ||
| 19 | TRICORN | Town crier could have this hat, we suspect (7) |
| cryptic clue; the solution TRICORN + WE can be rearranged to spell TOWN CRIER – am a bit iffy about the surface of this clue | ||
| 21 | USAGE | Style of language in American period (5) |
| US (american) AGE (period) | ||
| 23 | HOSTS | Innkeepers getting hordes? (5) |
| double def | ||
| 25 | EAR | One that has a drum to bring attention (3) |
| cryptic | ||
*anagram
Yes a breezy outing from the Don today. The PM is 6 across is, of course, Robert Peel. Seemed to be a lot of language and literary items today eg. 1ac, 6d, 7d, 18d and 21d. Thanks to setter and blogger.
Perhaps more suitable for the Grauniad with ‘Hoorid’ and ‘ordianry’. Lots of very easy clues but some hard ones, as is fairly normal for Bradman. Liked it overall.
Can you help this simpleton with 1d: how are ‘pipes’ and ‘they may have 10’ the same thing?
Kevin@3 – The answer to 10a is TOBACCO .. so they may have 10 is to indicate that pipes may have tobacco in them.
Regards,
TL
Thanks Steven@1, I have made the edit.
Regards,
TL
Apologies from a tispy typsit!
Thanks, Turbolegs
Thanks for the blog, Turbolegs.
I’ve never enjoyed Bradman’s clueing, & this crossword has done nothing to improve my enjoyment.
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
Interesting puzzle where I seemed to be changing written-in answers a little more than usual – at 17a, 7d and 16d – only my fault. A couple of Scottish and French words to keep one on one’s toes – did fruitlessly go down the track of G UIDED for good Scottish boy initially until equating GUID with ‘good’.
Had seen another clue almost identical to SEGUE quite recently.
Finished in the SW corner with USAGE (quite neat), that SEGUE and GOLDING as the last one in.