The usual relatively easy Sunday solve from Quixote. And a rather hurried blog from me.
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| 6 | SCHOLASTIC | Hot classic in translation – it’s educational *(Hot classic) |
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| 9 | NAIL | Slow creatures shedding outer coverings (hard plate) [s]NAIL[s]. NAIL in the sense of fingernail or toenail. |
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| 10 | QUIBBLER | Disputant puts question to vicar finally about Bible not being inerrant QU = question; R = vicar finally; *(Bible). ‘Not being inerrant’ (i.e. being errant) is the anagram indicator. |
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| 11 | MOONIE | Member of sect, I’m one sadly without love *(I’m not); O = love. The Moonies |
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| 12 | GENERAL-PURPOSE | Like a nonspecific tool that could make one grapple? Sure *(one grapple sure) |
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| 13 | RODNEY | Boy given the stick, having ache after bending over ROD = stick; YEN = ache (longing), reversed |
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| 15 | HI-TECH | Sexologist and companion using the latest gadgets? Shere HITE; CH = Companion [of Honour] |
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| 17 | REPRESENTATION | One interprets a strange painting? *(One interprets a) |
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| 21 | LITCHI | Fruit, one given to learner having hunger L = learner; ITCH = hunger; I = one. Alternative spelling of lychee |
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| 22 | WHIPLASH | Wife has worried about joint that’s left with injury W = wife; HIP = joint; L = left; *(has). An injury to the neck caused by the sharp forwards-and-backwards wrenching it suffers in a vehicle collision |
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| 23 | TRIO | Small group in civil unrest, the one at the back coming right forward RIOT, with the R coming to the front |
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| 24 | ESSENTIALS | Lassie sent out to get required items *(Lassie sent) |
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| 1 | SCOURGER | One to punish son (gosh!) having inner impulse S = son; COR = gosh! URGE = impulse |
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| 2 | BONBON | Sweet VIP repeatedly turning up NOB, reversed, twice |
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| 3 | STEROL | Alcohol left at back of untidy store L = left; *(store). A solid higher alcohol, such as cholesterol or ergosterol |
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| 4 | UNCOUPLE | Separate from member of family outside publishing house UNCLE, outside OUP (Oxford University Press) |
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| 5 | SIRIUS | A star – what we heard someone on tennis court couldn’t be? Sounds (more or less) like “serious”. John McEnroe famously said “You cannot be serious!” to an umpire during a match at Wimbledon in 1981. |
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| 7 | AS LARGE AS LIFE | A fearless gal, a revolutionary – one bound to be real and vibrant *(A fearless gal a), containing I = one |
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| 8 | COMMUNICATION | Message in church service interrupted by one moggy COMMUNION (holy communion, a church service); I CAT = one moggy |
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| 14 | DIRECTOR | As leader of firm, I had upset someone with a sermon? I’D (I had) reversed; RECTOR = a clergyman (one with a sermon) |
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| 16 | HONESTLY | Fairly pious when outside the home HOLY = pious; NEST = home. ‘Fairly’ is the definition. |
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| 18 | EMIGRE | One abandoning the country? It’s little good being stuck in English mud G = little good; E = English; MIRE = mud |
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| 19 | NEWISH | Desire of people in Gateshead maybe no longer quite what it was? Gateshead is in the north-east (NE) of England, so their desire could be an ‘NE wish’. |
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| 20 | INLAID | One leading the Netherlands needing help (‘not outstanding’) I = one; NL = Netherlands (IVR); AID = help. The definition is ‘not outstanding’. |
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Thanks Quixote and jetdoc for a good blog. 🙂
Having a bit of time today, this is the first time I’ve looked at the Sunday Indy. Seemed quite easy, especially with all the anagrams. I have never seen LITCHI before as an alternative to ‘lychee.’
I put in RODGER at first for 13 😉
Many thanks for the blog, Jetdoc, and Quixote for the puzzle. Like Robi at comment #1, I found it quite an easy puzzle, but also got stuck at 13 across for a while before realising it was RODNEY.
Thanks jetdoc.
Found this one straightforward as well.I think the aim is to be the Sindy version of the Everyman puzzle and it fits the bill perfectly.Flawlessly clued,with the usual excellent surfaces.
Thanks Quixote.