[If you’re attending York S&B please see comments 32&33] - here
Some pleasantly tricky clues from Neo today.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | PLASTIC SURGEON *(SUSPECTING ORAL) |
| 10 | HOGAN HOG (pig) AN (one). The reference, of course, is to Hogan’s Heroes. I can still hear the theme music from my childhood in my head. |
| 11 | EXAMINEES AM IN E (before noon in Spain) in EXES (former partners) |
| 12 | COULDN’T *(LUND) in COT (bed) |
| 13 | EVASIVE *(SAVE) + IV (four) E (Euoros) |
| 14 | ALLOW ALL (everything) O (nothing) W (West) |
| 16 | COD FILLET C (Cinephile’s instigation) + *(FT OLDIE L[eft]) |
| 19 | STRANGLER STR[eam] + ANGLER (fisherman) |
| 20 | NUTTY dd |
| 22 | ARMREST M (Frenchman) in ARREST (detention) |
| 25 | CUTLASS CUT GLASS (crystal ornaments) minus the G (gravity) |
| 27 | TOSCANINI TOSCA (the opera) + IN (popular), reversed twice, yields the conductor |
| 28 | ROGUE GO (journey) reversed in RUE (sorrow) I think this is RUE as a noun. |
| 29 | PRISON SENTENCE *(SIN ONCE + SERPENT) |
| Down | |
| 2 | LEG-PULLER LEG (cricket side) PULLER (one to attract a crowd) |
| 3 | SYNOD S[trateg]Y (“strategy on evacuation”) + NOD (go-ahead) |
| 4,24 | IDENTICAL TWINS cd, which fooled me until I had some crossing letters |
| 5,17 | STAGE DIRECTION RE (on) C (clubs) in STAG (men only) EDITION (magazine) |
| 6 | RUINATION *(OUT IN IRAN) |
| 7 | ELEMI hidden |
| 8 | NASCENT N (new) ASCENT (hill) |
| 9 | CHA-CHA dd |
| 15 | WINNEBAGO WIN (are victorious) BAG (land, as a verb) in NEO (“my”). A tribe before it was a recreational vehicle. |
| 18 | LETHARGIC *(THE GARLIC) |
| 19 | START UP STAR (famous) TUP (sheep) |
| 21 | YES-MEN S (direction) in YEMEN (Arab state) |
| 23 | MASAI hidden |
| 26 | THREE H (hotel) in TREE (poplar). Should perhaps be “Poplar, perhaps,” since it is defining the general with the specific. |
Well, erm, just you and me then Agent Zee. And maybe some of the financial wizards of the world.
The Poplar one at 26dn had a ‘say’ appended to it in the original submission, almost as per your suggestion, but some pollarding seems to have been applied.
Ta very much for the blog.
I enjoyed that, Neo.
Thanks, Andy!