A solid workout from BRADMAN this Friday morning. Was able to keep chipping away at it until everything fell in place. Thanks Don.
FF: 9 DD :8
| Across | ||
| 1 | CAPOTE | US author’s old books received by head (6) |
| OT (old books, old testament) in CAPE (head) – truman capote | ||
| 4 | PRIDEFUL | The whole group of lions being jubilant? (8) |
| PRIDE (group of lions) FUL (~full, the whole) | ||
| 10 | VARIETIES | Different types of very small stars held together with string (9) |
| V (Very, small) [ ARIES (stars) containing (~held together with) TIE (string) ] | ||
| 11 | See 9 | |
| 12 | ROOM | Space in wild territory that’s gone over (4) |
| MOOR (wild territory) reversed | ||
| 13 | EQUALS SIGN | Two lines of mathematical text (6,4) |
| cryptic def | ||
| 15 | GRANDEE | Bigwig’s cry of surprise grabbing money abroad (7) |
| GEE (cry of surprise) containing RAND (money, south african) | ||
| 16 | ENTICE | Lure of apprenticeship but with outsiders missing out (6) |
| apprENTICEship (without outsiders) | ||
| 19 | RELIES | Banks about to introduce accounts seen as unlikely? (6) |
| RE (about) LIES (accounts seen as unlikely) | ||
| 21 | GROWLER | Iceberg lettuce initially picked by gardener? (7) |
| L (Lettuce, initially) in GROWER (gardener) – didnt know this meaning of the word | ||
| 23 | ABSTENTION | Doing without booze is what give muscles tightness, they say (10) |
| ABS (muscles) TENTION (sounds like tension – tightness) | ||
| 25 | CAIN | Actor Michael inadequate as a murderer (4) |
| CAINe (michael, not complete) | ||
| 27 | HORDE | Crowd in anguish or delight? (5) |
| hidden in “..anguisH OR DElight” | ||
| 28 | LEVIATHAN | Beast terribly evil nearby losing tail (9) |
| EVIL* [ AT HANd (nearby, without last letter) ] | ||
| 29 | MINATORY | Dictator, first to last, politician regarded as threatening (8) |
| MINA (idi AMIN, with the A moving down to the last) TORY (politician) | ||
| 30 | GLANCE | Mineral containing lead, look! (6) |
| doubel def | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | COVERAGE | Reporting from old-fashioned fellow with anger (8) |
| COVE (old word for fellow) RAGE (anger) | ||
| 2 | PARSONAGE | Minister’s home is what you’d expect with wise person holding on (9) |
| PAR (what you’d expect) [ SAGE (wise person) containing ON ] | ||
| 3 | THEM | Subject matter not entirely suitable for those people (4) |
| THEMe (subject matter, not entirely) | ||
| 5 | ROSEATE | Blooming girl, female causing trouble! (7) |
| ROSE (girl) ATE (female causing trouble, greek goddess of mischief) | ||
| 6 | DEPOSITION | Statement of option with side being beaten (10) |
| OPTION SIDE* | ||
| 7 | FERMI | Self-identification of judge standing up – or physicist (5) |
| I’M REF (self identification of judge, reversed) | ||
| 8 | LOSING | Heather must conceal exceptionally large behind (6) |
| LING (heather) containing OS (exceptionally large, over size) | ||
| 9, 11 | CINQUE PORTS | What drinkers do after dinners, we hear, in locations close to the Channel (6,5) |
| sounds like SINK PORTS (what drinkers do after dinners) | ||
| 14 | ADVISEMENT | Consideration of mad event is awful (10) |
| MAD EVENT IS* | ||
| 17 | CALLAGHAN | Visit a country in Africa that lacks a prime minister (9) |
| CALL (visit) A GHANa (country in africa, without ‘a’) – james callaghan, uk pm 1976-79 | ||
| 18 | ORDNANCE | Soldiers cavort around end of town, displaying military equipment (8) |
| OR (soldiers) [ DANCE (cavort) around N (end of towN) ] | ||
| 20 | SETTLER | Dog jumping over wall finally, one occupying new territory (7) |
| SETTER (dog) containing L (walL , finally) | ||
| 21 | GROOVY | Like vinyl that’s very good (6) |
| cryptic def | ||
| 22 | FATHOM | Make sense of measure for sailors (6) |
| double def | ||
| 24 | SIREN | Warning of wickedness about to be received (5) |
| SIN (wickedness) around RE (received) | ||
| 26 | BAIL | Security of something on cricket field (4) |
| double def or cryptic def – take your pic | ||
*anagram
Missed out on GLANCE (didn’t know the mineral) and BAIL (easy on hindsight). Wasn’t convinced I had properly parsed 10a which is missing in the blog. I went for V (very small, i.e. abbrev. for very) + ARIES (stars) around TIE (held together with string). This last part suggests TIE=together with string.
Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs.
….maybe “held together with” denotes inclusion and STRING=TIE as in “string him up”?
Hi Hovis@1,
I had the same parsing as you – not sure why it didn’t transcribe over from the tool in to the blog. Thanks for pointing it out.
Regards,
TL
Although fine as a puzzle, I cant help thinking as Bradman as a second label as compared with his (excellent) Pasquale in the Graun earlier this week.
GROWLER and GLANCE went in as unknowns and I missed the parsing for ATE in 5d. Yes, a solid workout which needed a bit of thought, just as a cryptic crossword should.
Maybe not very exciting, but I liked CINQUE PORTS for the reminder of Sir Robert Menzies, the ex-Australian PM who was the Lord Warden back in the 60’s to ?70’s.
Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs
Surely, doing without booze is “abstinence” – “abstention”
means to withhold one’s vote.
Great challenge for me this one. Managed three quarters of it then the white flag came out. Thanks for the clues and the solution here.
Timothy B@6 – Chambers has the word with two meanings i.e. refrain from voting and staying away from alcohol.
Regards,
TL
Re comment 5: I do indeed attempt to adopt different styles for the different Dons!
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
Finished filling the grid on this one a while ago, but wasn’t happy with GLANCE because I just couldn’t parse it – thinking that there was an insertion of an L (‘containing lead look’) or an N (containing lead’ – thinking pencil, but that would have been H anyway). Eventually dawned that there might be a mineral GLANCE that contained lead and after looking it up saw that it was so. Derrh !
Did struggle with other parts, writing in ABSTINENCE initially at 23a and MENACING at 29a without being able to fully parse either of them until was able to correct the errors with SETTLER eventually. Thought PRIDEFUL was more about being conceited but saw that there was another definition meaning ‘excited or jubilant’. Did like the GROOVY clue.
Finished with RELIES (caught up in the misdirection) and that GLANCE as the last couple in.