Independent 11,554 by Tees

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Tees gets us underway for the new week

Can’t see any themes as such so over to you, thanks Tees

picture of the completed grid

ACROSS
1. Detachment from south getting in roaring drunk (8)
GARRISON

S(outh) inside a drunk ROARING*

6. King Crimson with a large following (6)
ALFRED

Tees is an old prog rocker and King Crimson were pioneers of that sort of thing anyway it’s A & L(arge) & F(ollowing) & RED – crimson

9. One replacing striker scores couple at Bernabéu for starters (4)
SCAB

Starting letters of Scores Couple At Bernabeu

10. One to pick idiots keeping upper-class in boozer? (4,6)
BASS GUITAR

U – upper-class inside ASS & GIT, both idiots all inside BAR – boozer I guess bass guitarists use picks anyway.

11. Deer in an enclosure for bears in Wisconsin (6)
WAPITI

Type of Elk so A(n) & PIT – enclosure inside WI(sconsin)

12. Buffet youth in Basra rioting (5,3)
SALAD BAR

LAD in a rioting BASRA*

13. Perhaps killing time, start to add spice to food (4,6)
OPEN SEASON

OPEN – start & SEASON – add spice to food

16. Current and classical law brought together Holly and relatives (4)
ILEX

I – electrical current & LEX – law

17. Reed instrument my cello player auditioned? (4)
OBOE

Sounds like OH, my & BOW cello player

19. Dessert wine causing tremors later (10)
AFTERSHOCK

AFTERS – dessert & HOCK a German wine

22. Storm as girl unknown appears in Shakespeare? (8)
BLIZZARD

LIZ – girl & Z – maths unknown all in BARD – Shakespeare

24. Spot fairly quiet in grandiose residence (6)
PIMPLE

MP – musically fairly quiet inside PILE – country house say

26. Be drawn to no male medic in party wear? (5,5)
FANCY DRESS

FANCY – to be drawn to & whimsically a female doctor could be a DR-ESS

27. One obsessed in original way renouncing whiskey (4)
NERD

W(hiskey) removed from NE(w) – original & R(oa)D – way

28. Tory occasionally seen in rolling news broadcast (6)
STREWN

ToRy inside a rolling NEWS*

29. Food in check reportedly not hot (8)
OMELETTE

H(ot) taken from (h)OME – IN & sounds like LET, obstruction, a check

DOWN
2. Fish loses head catching seafood in bright light (3,4)
ARC LAMP

A headless (c)ARP with CLAM – other seafood inserted

3. Black Rod upset one yeshiva teacher (5)
RABBI

B(lack) & BAR – rod – both upset & I – one

4. Drop from reserve XI? (7)
SUBSIDE

SUB(stitute) – reserve & SIDE – XI, eleven, team

5. Runners sometimes succeeded stopping voters against (5)
NOSES

S(ucceeded) inside NOES – votes against, as in noses run in our family

6. Woman holding a record returned from Luanda? (7)
ANGOLAN

The Angolan capital, [A LOG] – record reversed inside ANN

7. Cooked in the pan with cream for 14? (9)
FRIEDRICH

(pan) FRIED & RICH for cream and 14 – Nietzsche

8. Point made by mum tucking into American broad beans (7)
EDAMAME

E(ast) a point & MA – mum inside DAME – American broad derogatory woman

14. Superman’s creator reorganising Zen ethics (9)
NIETZSCHE

No, not that is it a bird, is it a plane Superman but a re-organised [ZEN ETHICS]*

15. Habitual drinker very troublesome at first (3)
SOT

SO – very & start of T(roublesome)

18. Advanced learner caught in explosion — weighty matter (7)
BALLAST

A(dvanced) & L(earner) both inside BLAST – explosion

19. V Lake’s frequent co-star in pantomime? (7)
ALADDIN

Veronica Lake often appeared with A(lan) LADD & IN from the clue

20. Sally ready to cross Old Street (7)
RIPOSTE

O(ld) ST(reet) all in RIPE – ready

21. Miscreant, prude losing grand coming into Scientology? (7)
CULPRIT

Take G(rand) from PRI(g) – prude and insert into CULT – Scientology say

23. Two passes needed for Maradona? (5)
DIEGO

DIE & GO both mean pass

25. Chop‘s rotten at one end, consumed by rodents (5)
MINCE

End of (rotte)N in MICE – rodents

 

16 comments on “Independent 11,554 by Tees”

  1. Thank you.
    I failed on OMELETTE and EDAMAME. V. Lake and A LADD raised a smile, although I wonder how well-known they are today.

  2. Very enjoyable indeed with lots of nice misdirection…..but quite tricky for a Monday.
    I particularly enjoyed ALFRED, BLIZZARD, RABBI, NOSES and DIEGO but wasn’t keen on the dated ALADDIN.
    Many thanks to Tees and flashling.

    Not sure of the protocol of these things but anyone wanting a slightly more gentle offering can go to MyCrossword where I have one published under my pseudonym Dharma.

  3. Lots of fun and, as StephenL says, with its tricky aspects. I have never encountered MP as fairly quiet (and parsed it as M = medium (fairly?) P = quiet which may be wrong but did get me there). GARRISON, WAPITI, STREWN, NOSES, NIETZSCHE and RIPOSTE were favourites with ALFRED as COTD.

    Interesting to learn that Tees is an old prog rocker: I live in the same small town as Robert Fripp (married to Toyah). It does sometimes seem bizarre to bump into an international rock god popping into Tesco Express for a pack of butter.

    Thanks Tees and flashling

  4. Another very enjoyable puzzle from Tees.

    My particular favourites were GARRISON, for the surface, SCAB, ditto – very clever, NOSES, for the smile, FRIEDRICH NIEETZSCHE, for the nifty link and ALADDIN, because I do remember VL and AL.

    Thanks to Tees and flashling.

  6. Lift-and-separates: “roaring drunk”, “King Crimson”, “Dessert wine”, “rolling news broadcast”, “Black Rod”, “broad beans”, “Old Street”
    Left NIETZSCHE till I got BLIZZARD – Wikipedia helpfully redirects the common misspelling – https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nietszche&redirect=no
    Veronica Lake made 4(+3) films with the only actor in Hollywood relatively near to her in height. Alan Ladd was 5′ 6″ and she was just 4′ 11″.
    tilt – ‘mp: abbreviation of mezzo-piano meaning “somewhat soft” ‘
    Nice one – Thanks T&f

  7. Thx flashling for the parsing of OMELETTE, and Tees for, esp., the grin raised by A Ladd. The middle of 28a was fun to type.

  8. Could have stared at the parsing of 29 all day and not cracked it.

    Thanks to Tees for the fun and flashling for filling in the holes in my abilities.

  9. If only I’d put the correct ending on the first word of 10a, I wouldn’t have spent so long looking for the ‘idiots’ – no, don’t say it!
    Baulked at the spelling of 14d and really liked the clues for AFTERSHOCK and DIEGO.

    Thanks to Tees and to flashling for the review.

  10. Very enjoyable, though I’m another who ran aground on the parsing of 29, so that was my last in. Also failed to remember A Ladd but love the clue, most amusing.

    Thanks, Tees and flashling.

  11. Thanks both. Aside from the obscure and contrived wordplay for OMELETTE this was a good level of challenge for me, though needed help to complete the crossing ILEX and EDAMAME which were both unknowns, wherein for the latter the apparently superfluous ‘made’ in the clue being an anagram of dame created additional confusion for my Monday brain

  12. Thanks Tees, good stuff as always. My top picks were ALFRED (any clue that mentions King Crimson automatically gets a tick from me), ILEX, AFTERSHOCK, BLIZZARD, and DIEGO. I couldn’t parse OBOE, NERD, and OMELETTE so thanks flashling for the blog.

  13. It’s always good to be able to deduce some general knowledge from a clue, so today I learned that Alan Ladd appeared with Veronica Lake. It’s interesting that Tees chose to avoid “Spot politician in a grandiose residence” in favour of the the less hackneyed but (to me) obscurer mezzopiano.

  14. Well, I thought, we’re not having ‘politician’ for that AGAIN. So.

    Thanks Flash, thanks all.

    Cheers
    Tees

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