The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29909.
Another cracking crossword from Paul; on first scanning the clues, about the only thing that was clear was the presence of scattered players, which it turns out pointed to 1D PIANIST, with many taking a bow in other clues. As I often find with Paul, clues that at first seem impenetrable gradually resolve in a very satisfying – and amusing – way.
| ACROSS | ||
| 1 | PICARO |
Choose a line to read out for villain (6)
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| Sounds like (‘to read out’) PICK A ROW (‘choose a line’). | ||
| 4 | FOUGHT |
Reportedly, army post was combative (6)
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| Sounds like (‘reportedly’) FORT (‘army post’). | ||
| 9, 15 | FACE CARD |
Meet character in Jack, say (4,4)
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| A charade of FACE (‘meet’) plus CARD (‘character’). | ||
| 10 | MOUNTEBANK |
Hustler, 1 Down nabs fresh bun with tea (10)
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| An envelope (‘nabs’) of UNTEBA, an anagram (‘fresh’) of ‘bun’ plus (‘witn’) ‘tea’, in MONK (Thelonious, ‘1 Down’ – pianist). | ||
| 11 | TISSUE |
Delicate material put out on time (6)
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| A charade of T (‘time’) plus ISSUE (‘put out’). | ||
| 12 | THESPIAN |
Player in turn penning one article after another (8)
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| A charade of THE (‘another’ article) plus SPIAN, an envelope (‘penning’) of A (‘one article’) in SPIN (‘turn’). | ||
| 13 | STATISTIC |
Nobody in fact? (9)
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| Double definition – a STATISTIC is ‘nobody’ in particular. | ||
| 15 |
See 9
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| 16 | AUNT |
Female relative in grandma? Untrue (4)
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| A hidden answer ‘in’ ‘grandmA UNTrue’. | ||
| 17 | LEND-LEASE |
Old tennis player with effortlessness defending Act of Congress (4-5)
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| A charade of LENDL (Ivan, ‘old tennis player’) plus EASE (‘effortlessness’) For the definition, see Wikipedia. | ||
| 21 | STAR SIGN |
Archer perhaps with string as tight (4,4)
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| An anagram (‘tight’) of ‘string as’, the ‘archer’ being Sagittarius. | ||
| 22 | MYSORE |
What I find tender in Indian city? (6)
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| MY SORE. | ||
| 24 | WELLINGTON |
1 Down on back of cow – something afoot? (10)
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| A charade of W (‘back of coW‘) plus ELLINGTON (Duke, ‘1 Down’ – pianist). | ||
| 25 | HOPI |
Native Americans shaving 1 Down (4)
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| [c]HOPI[n] (‘1 Down’ – pianist; Frédéric was his first name, not that it is often used) removing the outer letters (‘shaving’). | ||
| 26 | LIFTED |
Organ in song amplified (6)
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| An envelope (‘in’) of FT (Financial Times newspaper, ‘organ’) in LIED (‘song’). | ||
| 27 | BORAGE |
1 Down fed a herb (6)
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| An envelope (‘fed’) of ‘a’ in BORGE (Victor, ‘1 Down’ – pianist). | ||
| DOWN | ||
| 1 | PIANIST |
Part taken by 12 Across is torturous for player (7)
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| A derived hidden answer in thesPIAN IS Torturous, where THESPIAN is the answer to ’12 Across’. | ||
| 2 | CHESS |
Musical overture from concert 1 Down (5)
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| A charade of C (‘overture from Concert’) plus HESS (Myra, ‘1 Down’ – pianist). | ||
| 3 | RIMLESS |
As hat may be when lacking an edge, lacking an edge – lacking an edge! (7)
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| A subtraction: [b]RIMLESS (‘as a hat may be when lacking an edse’) minus the fisrt letter (‘lacking an edge’ for the second time of asking). | ||
| 5 | OUTLET |
Valve released in reverse? (6)
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| LET OUT (‘released’) with the two words exchanged (‘in reverse’). | ||
| 6 | GO BY PLANE |
Fly open, ably sorted out after last bit of wiggling (2,2,5)
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| A charade of G (‘last bit of wigglinG‘) plus OBYPLANE, an anagram (‘sorted out’) of ‘open ably’. | ||
| 7 | TANKARD |
Cheers before drunk drank – pint in that? (7)
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| A charade of TA (‘cheers’) plus NKARD, an anagram (‘drunk’) of ‘drank’. | ||
| 8 | SUSTAINED NOTE |
Mark on musical score held, Estonian duets played (9,4)
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| An anagram (‘played’) of ‘Estonian duets’. | ||
| 14 | TENOR CLEF |
Retuned, cornet went briefly – would that be symbolic for 1 Down? (5,4)
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| A charade of TENORC, an anagram (‘retuned’) of ‘cornet’) plus LEF[t] (‘went’) minus its last letter (‘briefly’). | ||
| 16 | ACT WELL |
1 Down secures first place in competition – to be a decent player? (3,4)
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| An envelope (‘secures’) of C (‘first place in Competition’) in ATWELL (Winifred, ‘1 Down’ – pianist). | ||
| 18 | DOMINGO |
1 Down inspiring good singer (7)
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| An envelope (‘inspiring’) of G (‘good’) in DOMINO (Fats, ‘1 Down’ – pianist), for Plácido DOMINGO. | ||
| 19 | STROPHE |
That man overcome by mood, part of ode sung (7)
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| A charade of STROP (bad ‘mood’) plus (‘overcome by’) HE (‘that man’). | ||
| 20 | MINNIE |
Mouse wee in one’s ear? (6)
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| Sounds like (‘in one’s ear’) MINI (‘wee’, small). | ||
| 23 | SCHWA |
Southern bloke cut short defending wife – ‘e flipped? (5)
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| An envelope (‘defending’) of W (‘wife’) in S (southern’) plus CHA[p] (‘bloke’) minus its last letter (‘cut short’). The symbol for a schwa is an inverted e. |
It was the Iron Duke’s boot that gave the musical Duke, and then borage gave Victor B and confirmed 1d. Great fun, thx Paul and Peter.
A good, eclectic collection of 1 Downs, ingeniously clued, I thought. I was listening to MONK playing ‘Misterioso’ with Sonny Rollins just last night. You would have to be of a certain age to recall 17D’s Winifred on TV back in the 1950s, so I think there may be a bunch of NHOs as the comment thread develops later.
Of course, I was looking for pee for wee for MINNIE, so properly fooled, and thus my LOI.
Great puzzle, thanks Paul and PeterO
[Chez the ginfling, the grown-ups thought Winnie Atwell an abomination — classical zealots! I secretly thought her fun]
I’m a big fan of Paul and this puzzle didn’t let me down. It took me a while to parse PIANIST and I was definitely slower on the bottom half of the grid, but I really enjoyed the test. My favorites were MYSORE and MINNIE. Thanks Paul and PeterO!
I would be very surprised if pianists are ever called on to read tenor clef (a C clef generally only used for bassoons, cellos etc. in their upper registers) and they would complain every second they did.
Like others in the thread I was surprised that Winifred Atwell made the cut, a distant memory of ‘my other piano’, but MOUNTEBANK was my way in to the theme, which made PIANIST a write-in before solving THESPIAN. WELLINGTON took me far too long, as did MINNIE. Had to look up PICARO, though should have guessed via ‘picaresque’. Liked LEND-LEASE and STROPHE. Thanks to Paul and PeterO.
Winifred Attwell, Victor Borge, Fats Domino, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Ivan Lendl. One for the youngsters today, then
Stretchy double-definitions are becoming a Paul trademark and STATISTIC was a cracker
LEND LEASE sent me up the wrong garden path – it being Paul I’d assumed act of Congress had to be a sex reference
Bit too much GK for my taste but all very clever
Cheers P&P
Very Paul. I recognised some of the pianists but not all – and generally when backparsing rather than solving. And, like Bodycheetah, assumed Act of Congress would be sexual but not this time. nho PICARO. RIMLESS made me smile.
Thanks both
A pianist rehearsing a choir might well need to read C clefs depending on the age or scholarly claims of the score. Orchestral score-reading at the piano would also require ability to read C clefs for viola, cello, bassoon and alto and tenor trombone. Pianists playing Bach’s Art of Fugue from the original score format would need at least three C clefs (soprano, alto, tenor).
Clever and amusing.
Like others, I chuckled at the double-bluff of Paul using Act of Congress to mean an Act of Congress.
It would have been even better if the blogger with the job of explaining 23d had been sschua.
Thanks both
Struggled with the South East corner. Act of congress surely had to involve the bedroom being Paul. MYSORE I have only ever seen spelt Mysuru. Didn’t know SCHWA and looked unlikely as a word and STROPHE also not in my dictionary. I don’t think HOPI and BORAGE are near the top of first thoughts for those definitions. A few checks used to finish that off.
Enjoyed RIMLESS once I got my head around the clue and STATISTIC got an enjoyable “huh? Oh!” Reaction which I enjoy.
MINNIE also got a chuckle. That mouse and his wife(or are they living in sin?) are the bane of my life with young children.
Pianists not my strongest subject but after probability and gambling yesterday I was probably due it.
Thanks Paul and PeterO
There was a fair amount of head scratching to start with, then it gradually fell into place. As usual with Paul there was plenty of entertainment along the way. I confess that (given his well-earned reputation) the ‘Act of Congress’ was going to be something else – a deliberate misdirection perhaps!
Not much for me here to cheer a dark, wet January day. I got PIANIST but it didn’t help at all with the eight other clues referring to it. I know Thelonius Monk and Duke Ellington from my younger days but they didn’t come to mind. Racked my brains for old tennis players but there are so many. I started revealing answers quite quickly!
Life too short.
I couldn’t parse STATISTIC and now I see why: one of the defs is pretty stretchy. On the other hand, I’m kicking myself for not seeing (or rather hearing) MINNIE. PICARO was a jorum, and LEND-LEASE led me up the same bedroom path as others: Paul trading on his reputation there.
Slow but rewarding: I enjoyed remembering all the pianists (Crispy@8: would you like to suggest some examples more suitable for younger solvers? I can see how frustrating this could have been if you didn’t know many of the musical references), though I failed to parse PIANIST itself.
Gladys@17. All the pianists were familiar to me. It’s just that there are often comments here re the somewhat dated references, such as the ones I mentioned. I’d have been stuffed if Paul had referred to current pianists!
PeterO sums this puzzle up perfectly in his last sentence and I absolutely loved it. Like Tomsdad @7, MOUNTEBANK was my way in to PIANIST and I was another looking for the sexual meaning of congress, an excellent misdirection based on what’s expected from Paul. Even the nho Atwell was gettable from the wordplay and if Chopin is fair game in the list of pianists, then surely 20th century protagonists, no matter how long ago, should be as well.
Ta Paul & PeterO.
As CHESS is the only musical I know that begins with c and has 5 letters, I was worried that we were going to get Fascist themed puzzle. I knew all the pianists, but I had to back parse them.
I didn’t know most of the pianists, but still enjoyed the puzzle a lot – lots of tentative answers and squints, but it stretched my brain in an entertaining way.
Completely defeated by the south east, but as I’ve never heard of borage, lendl or domino and mysore only rang the vaguest of bells I’m not too upset about that.
Thanks both
Brilliant crossword from Paul and what an eclectic selection of pianists. Winifred Atwell was one of my Dad’s favourites, my Mum was the musical snob who wouldn’t let him put the records on.
Thanks Paul for an easier solve than usual, but no lack of laughs. Thanks too to PeterO for the blog. All cheering stuff for a dark wet January morning, with happy memories of Winifred Attwell entertaining the assembled company at a church hall party around 1960.
My heart sort of sank when I saw that we were going to be expected to know the names of some PIANISTs. But as it turns out, the only pianist here that I hadn’t heard of was ATWELL, though HESS I only know because she’s popped up in these puzzles before, so that’s one and a half, really. I think of Chopin and Ellington as composers, and Fats Domino as a singer, but of course they all also were great at the bench too.
I’m another who was suckered into thinking that the Act of Congress was going to be naughty. Great clue.
Funny how it all makes sense once it’s explained! Not my finest hour…
Clever and hats off for rimless. Back when I started doing these, Paul was my way in, but I think I maybe lacking an edge myself now. Schwa was a new one. Glad I’m not learning English. It looks very difficult!
Very clever yes, but too old and highbrow for me to make much headway. I got frustrated and hit reveal for quite a few and could spend all day on research. Hopefully i will remember some for the future. I am still waiting for a setter to theme sci-fi films, metal industrial bands and cyberpunk authors. I can imagine the outcry of future solvers for such outdated references. Aroha to you all on 225.
I usually dislike puzzles that rely heavily on linked clues, and this is no exception.
I wouldn’t call a PICARO a villain. Lovable rogue is closer to the original meaning.
Had to grit my teeth at FOUGHT/fort. Just awful to my ear, with a different vowel sound as well as the non-rhoticism.
Why ‘defending’ in 17a?
I took far longer than I should have to suss 1d because I had the great misfortune to find in the internet ether a bishop called Atwell who used to be a monk. You can imagine the wild goose chase I went on. However, it was my conviction that the Act of Congress just had to be a sex act (this is Paul after all) that gave me the longest diversion. The answer was so clever I could have wept but it was my LOI. As others have said it was cheering to find I knew more pianists than I expected to know. Thank you so much Paul for your marvellous wit and ingenuity. Thank you PeterO for your helpful blog (which helped me understand the parsing of 1D for which I had a very awkward and wrong theory).
poc@28 LEND-LEASE was an act of the US Congress assisting Britain in it’s defence (i.e. defending) during the early years of WW2, while America was still officially neutral.
Thanks for the blog , LEND-LEASE was quite neat I suppose .
I do not see STATISTIC = nobody even at a stretch .
Winnie ATWELL was mentioned in Fawlty Towers by the Major , real name Marjorie but looked like Churchill .
Personally, I don’t like key clues that rely on others for solving. However, I managed to complete this after seeing MONK and ATWELL. I did like the THESPIAN penning articles, the not naughty LEND-LEASE, GO BY PLANE with the fly open, TENOR CLEF, where I misread retuned as returned at first, the shaven HOPI, and the flipped e in SCHWA.
Thanks Paul and PeterO.
Disappointed not to see Mrs Mills make the cut for inclusion with the other 1 Downs. Enjoyable solve as others have said today…
As foretold by Balfour@2, Crispy@8 et al, a few NHOs on the piano for this relative youngster. Pleased to make acquaintance with Atwell, Borge and Hess!
I gave it my best regardless, and learned the beautiful word MOUNTEBANK out of it. The cross-reference hidden word clue is devious (in the best way!).
Thank you Paul & PeterO!
When I saw that 2 Down was a five-letter word beginning with C, I thought for a moment that we might be getting Chick Corea, but pragmatism immediately prevailed over hope. I knew of Myra HESS because of the famous lunchtime concerts she ran at the National Gallery during the war. I had tickets to take my two then-teenage sons to see Chick Corea at the Barbican in early 2020, but he curtailed his European tour because of the looming threat of Covid and, alas, he died not long afterwards.
poc @28 and Andy in Durham @30
More specifically, as stated in the Wikipedia article to which I gave a link, the Act of Congress that set up LEND-LEASE was entitled “An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States”.
I thought I was starting to find my way with Paul, but for me this was a return to “more clever than fun”.
About the only GK that helped me here was knowing Lend-Lease. My other item of GK actually hindered me: I know Mysore by its official of Mysuru, which fits but does not parse.
NHO PICARO, BORAGE (although is probably just me), STROPHE (again, not very musical), and found most of the musicians after solving the clue.
My first 78’s as a 12 year old were Winnie’s Piano Tuners Boogie and Haley’s Rock around the Clock.Subsequently bought loads of Ellington, the odd Thelonious, reisssues of Myra Hess,Domingo and all of Fats. Thanks Paul for reminding me of 60 to 70 odd years ago. Incidentally Winnie Atwell was eventually revealed as an unscrupulous landlady! She was also known as a “vamper” played everything by ear”. Thanks for a revealing blog. Perhaps now Paul will do punk,garage,rap etc for the younger generation!
Cedric @38, Punk was half a century ago.
This puzzle was not for me. But why should it be?
Others found it appealing.
Maybe tomorrow will be their day to sign and start revealing people I’ve never heard of.
I saw Victor Borge live on a Toronto island in around 1974/5. Never laughed so much in my life. Couldn’t find a clip of that but here’s another
Thanks Peter O – can’t agree more with the overall analysis – Yes, another great puzzle from Paul – (if you’re in the mood for overlapping clues) – it was reasonably straightforward to solve 12 and 1 down. Tricky solve for me without an encyclopedic knowledge of 1downs, but to be fair, I did recognise them all after I’d solved the clue! New to me PICARO. Also needed Peter O for the explanation of ‘e-fllipped’ in 23 down. Favourite clue by far 3 down – very Paul
Beyond me today (though perhaps I’m extra cranky because I had to fast and wait a long time to have needles poked into my arm). The key 1D didn’t fall until I revealed STATISTIC, which was pretty much a non-definition by my lights. The ones relying on 1D were often single letters added to a name which meant they tended to be impenetrable without it; I did get Atwell but NHO her or Hess, and when I searched “monk atwell domino” to figure out what they had in common the first hit was this page. BORAGE and PICARO were jorums, which (with PICARO) gave me extra difficulty with 1D. A DNF in the end with several more reveals.
Thanks Paul and PeterO.
[In case I didn’t comment on Paul’s most recent prize, I should mention here that that was extremely satisfying!]
Today’s puzzle is Paul’s 250th Daily Cryptic for the Guardian in the 2020s.
Reaching this mark was naturally more common in previous decades when there were fewer setters. These are the numbers for full decades:
1970s: Lavengro – 521; Araucaria – 483; Janus – 396; Altair – 289
1980s: Araucaria – 722; Custos – 500; Crispa – 293; Janus – 284
1990s: Araucaria – 584; Rufus – 405; Crispa – 283; Custos – 268
2000s: Araucaria – 571; Rufus – 409; Paul – 336
2010s: Paul – 481; Rufus – 339
At his current rate Paul is set to finish 2029 on around 425-430, meaning his will be the lowest decade total for the most prolific setter by some distance. Only Vulcan is in with a shout of reaching 250 before the end of 2029 – he’s currently on 156 so if he continues steadily at one puzzle a fortnight he’ll finish the decade on 257. Picaroon was well on target before he jumped ship – he provided 161 dailies from the beginning of 2020 to his last puzzle on 30/1/25.
Three jorums for me today, picaro which I justified to myself by reference to picaresque, schwa which I eventually duckduckwent as it seemed the only credible solution, and Winifred Atwell, I’ve just had a pleasant 20 minutes in YouTube enjoying some honky tonk from her.
The surprise is Paul NOT being naughty!
Challenging but fun – wish they were all this good. Thanks Paul and PeterO.
I have found Paul’s most recent 3 puzzles all very tough, but enjoyable. Here i was assisted by good fortune with two or three jorums and luckily was aware of the pianists bar Hess – Atwell thanks only to Pot Black on my BBC Sporting Themes LP! Chuckled at LAND-LEASE and thought SCHWA (LOI) excellent. Thanks PeterO for explanations especially STATISTIC (I suppose in a Stalinist sense it works too), a nice counterpart to STOCHASTIC yesterday, and thanks Paul, despite mild disappointment that Rowlf (1d disturbed flow after start of recital ) did not make it into the grid.
I interpreted Organ as foot abbreviated ft. Never heard of this usage for a paper.
I really enjoyed this puzzle. I was slow to get 1d but then I started to fill in the lights. NHO Picaro: it’s in Collins but not in Chambers.
This tricky puzzle combined the twin challenges of a Paul cryptic with an inquisition from Joe Cooper on Face The Music. Didn’t know any of the pianists other than Ellington and Monk, there were several personal other NHOs (STROPHE, PICARO), a lot of other GK, and the crossword-only chestnut SCHWA. As such, surprised and delighted to finish in reasonable time. Favourite was LEND-LEASE for the misdirection, and the partial extended definition given Ivan Lendl’s indefatigably defensive playing style.
DNF for me today, with BORAGE (nho) and LEND-LEASE missed. I liked the theme. I didn’t know Myra Hess, but got the others.
The surprise for me was that it took until Gazzh @46 for Atwell’s signature tune Black and White Rag and its Pot Black connection to be mentioned. I learned from Wikipedia that she wrote a tune called Piarco Boogie, which is an odd anagrammatical coincidence with 1a.
Thanks for the lunchtime diversion, Paul and Peter.
manoj@47: ‘organ’ meaning ‘publication’ was one of the first things I learnt from cryptics. Worth stashing away. No help to me today though so it may be some time since I last saw it.
I can’t go on – I am out of tea trays and have to go purchase one for failing to equate ‘monk’ with ‘pianist’. Later…
Mitz@43: Are we being a bit unfair to Paul? Taking a very un-Rumpole-like risk of asking a question to which I do not know the answer – is it not fair to say that Paul also sets for other ‘organs’ and to ask does the same apply to other ‘most prolific setter’…s?
Given that I ran an ELLINGTON repertory band for nearly twenty years, 24ac took an inordinate amount of time.
Winifred ATWELL was one of many musicians whose ambitions for a classical career were frustrated by her colour. What she was known for was very much a second choice. And MONK and ELLINGTON’s music is still widely played today. It’s not their fault (and your loss) if you don’t listen to it, or support the musicians playing it.
I’m only commenting because of my choice of username: worked out the theme from BORAGE, ACT WELL and WELLINGTON. Worth listening to them all as Zoot said (presumably to Dr Teeth) Very Paul; very good.
I thought this was quite tough. Never having heard of Hess, Atwell, or Borge didn’t help.
STATISTIC could mean “nobody” if you say something like, “As for the soldier on the Eastern front, he was a mere statistic as far as [insert dictator] was concerned.”
STATISTIC per UB40:
I am the one in ten even though I don’t exist.
Nobody knows me, but I’m always there.
A statistic, a reminder of a world that doesn’t care.
I struggled with the SE corner, after looking for a Chopin reference elsewhere it took filling in STROPHE to get HOPI. Did better with Monk dredging up MOUNTEBANK from who knows where.
I confess to revealing 1D as had no idea. This didn’t help much. As a newbie, I found the related clues a log jam which impacted on the overall fun. NHO Mountebank, Picaro, Strophe, Schwa & Lend-Lease. The assault on Mt Grauniad continues. Thank you to bloggers and setter.
Piano Man@54 The Muppet saxist and I both take our monickers from the great jazz tenor player Zoot Sims, who was enormously proud of being ‘ the only one with a Muppet named after me’.
About 3/4 done, but finally defeated by my lack of knowledge of pianists. When a stab at 16d pushed me to looking up to see whether there had been a notable pianist named Atwell, even though there was (and good to read about her), I threw in the towel.
Others were obviously up to the challenge, so fair enough. If it was easy every time, what would be the point?
Thanks PeterO for clarifying several parsings (RIMLESS for one), and Paul for scoring an exercise that sadly I found was rather above my Grade 1!
I’m another who did not know Winifred Atwell. After reading her bio on Wikipedia, I was amazed at how a performer could be so successful and famous in the UK and Australia and virtually unknown in North America. She certainly had a remarkable career.
Re 14d TENOR CLEF, while I of course am very familiar with that clef, I would have thought that pianists would not have to be. Early music keyboard specialists, yes, but their instruments are not pianos. I have never seen a piano part that included any tenor clef sections.
I got the Monk and Ellington clues early on and was expecting a jazz piano theme, so like Balfour@35 I was looking for Corea, Hancock, Tatum et al, but alas it was not to be.
This was another example of a Paul puzzle that defeated me, but I nevertheless thoroughly enjoyed. So thanks P&P for the pianistic puzzling pleasure and parsing.
Well, in spite of getting over half way through I still had to get 1d by crossers, which then made the rest just a bit easier…
Whether it’s a tool that I’ve just put down, or a word among possible others, I often develop a blind spot for the very thing that I’m searching.
Thanks everyone.
Great puzzle, I generally enjoy Paul now I’ve learnt just to keep staring at the clues until finally the penny drops with a satisfying clunk.
Can anybody clarify 8d ?
I know what a sustained (or held) note is, and what a score is, but the syntax of the clue doesn’t quite make proper sense to me.
My problem with the SE corner was if anything too much GK. I know lots of pianists, old tennis players and herbs – too many to try solving by going through the list. On the other hand I don’t know any Acts of Congress so didn’t get 17a, even though I guessed that it would be a misdirection.
Unfolded slowly, as described in PeterO’s preamble. Finally solved the keystone clue 1d PIANIST (which was a very clever construction, using a solution as part of a container) late in the game, but the SE remained completely unsolved. Enjoyable nonetheless, except for the non-rhotic soundalike at 4a FOUGHT. Gotta move on
MJ@62 The definition for 8d SUSTAINED NOTE is indeed oddly worded. I’m not sure if PeterO intended a break between the first two words? In which case perhaps he can clarify? I took the definition to be “Mark on musical score held”, meaning a note written on a musical score that is held for a long time, i.e. a sustained note, which is a thing. Not sure if that clarifies anything for you?
[Mitz@43 – Great stuff! Very interesting, many thanks]
Mig @64
No, the break in undelining after ‘Mark’ in 8D was not intended – I am not sure how it crept in. It’s a bit late, but I will get rid of it.
I knew borage as a.drink my sister added to brandy, before the firm making it stopped production and it became unobtainable. I mention this because, at 92 years of age, my borage-loving sister passed away earlier today.
If you ever look here as late as this, erike44, then please accept my condolences for the loss of your sister. Robinistanbul
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