Lorraine: Good morning one and all,
lovely puzzle this week, I enjoyed it tremendously.
Lots of favourites, 4, 14, 26 and 27ac and 1, 5,6, and 19dn.
Big thank you to Everyman, this was so much fun to solve.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Sent a message about Slovenian tourist destination (6) | ||
| CABLED | CA+BLED see this LINK |
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| 4. | Desert that woman? On the contrary (6) | ||
| RATHER | RAT+HER | ||
| 10. | Brings up in houses built across river (9) | ||
| NOURISHES | (IN HOUSES*) around R | ||
| 11. | Count’s child at university (3,2) | ||
| TOT UP | TOT+UP | ||
| 12. | Unfashionable shed one rejected (7) | ||
| OUTCAST | OUT+CAST | ||
| 13. | Starts to avoid key meals (7) | ||
| LUNCHES | L(a)UNCHES | ||
| 14. | Groom’s award in sport? (3,2,3,5) | ||
| MAN OF THE MATCH | cd | ||
| 17. | The most tongue-tied manages this without the slightest exaggeration? (2,3,3,5) | ||
| TO SAY THE LEAST | cd | ||
| 21. | Royal attendant has no time for messenger (7) | ||
| COURIER | COUR(t)IER | ||
| 22. | Urge simple changes involving uranium (7) | ||
| IMPULSE | (SIMPLE*) around U | ||
| 24. | Love game, possibly last in series (5) | ||
| OMEGA | O+(GAME*) | ||
| 25. | I must be protected by guns regulation (9) | ||
| ORDINANCE | I in ORDNANCE | ||
| 26. | I may pose a problem for a dog (6) | ||
| SETTER | cd | ||
| 27. | Stand by wife, a sly type (6) | ||
| WEASEL | EASEL after W | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | Charlie, on French river, making soup (8) | ||
| CONSOMME | C+ON+SOMME reference from the phonetic alphabet, alpha (or alfa), bravo, charlie… |
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| 2. | Lacking sharpness, trombone, say, in club? (5,10) | ||
| BLUNT INSTRUMENT | BLUNT+INSTRUMENT (CLUB is the definition) | ||
| 3. | Girl from Israeli port brought over around one (5) | ||
| ERICA | (ACRE<) around I see this LINK |
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| 5. | Social worker, woman, having short chat before the baby’s born (9) | ||
| ANTENATAL | ANT+ENA+TAL(k) | ||
| 6. | Struck senior teacher – possible punishment to get prominent media attention (3,3,9) | ||
| HIT THE HEADLINES | HIT THE HEAD+LINES | ||
| 7. | Meal for old man, among others (6) | ||
| REPAST | PA in REST | ||
| 8. | Roofing material which church required (6) | ||
| THATCH | THAT+CH | ||
| 9. | A squalid property surrounding yard provides sanctuary (6) | ||
| ASYLUM | A SLUM around Y | ||
| 15. | Charm of fiesta can, somehow (9) | ||
| FASCINATE | (FIESTA CAN)* | ||
| 16. | Light ale brewed at that place inside (8) | ||
| ETHEREAL | THERE in (ALE*) | ||
| 18. | Flowering plant in a Lancashire river (6) | ||
| YARROW | dd | ||
| 19. | What one may have expected from ‘Sweeney Todd’ (musical affair)? (6) | ||
| HAIRDO | HAIR(musical)+DO(affair) | ||
| 20. | Game the French boycotted is over (6) | ||
| ACROSS | (l)ACROSS(e) | ||
| 23. | Writer, for example, brought up in a London suburb (5) | ||
| PENGE | PEN+(EG<) | ||
| … | |||
Thanks Lorraine,
No really stubborn clues this week but still very entertaining. For pure entertainment, I think it’s the highlight of the week.
I did however think that rat=desert was a stretch too far.
I particularly liked OUTCAST, TO SAY THE LEAST, COURIER, WEASEL, ETHEREAL and HAIRDO (my COD). Thanks.
While 1a,3d,13a couldn’t have been anything else, I would still be trying to work out the word play
1a& 3d Hadn’t heard of bled or acre.
13a I’m afraid I still I don’t see this. Starts =launches. How does “to avoid key” mean remove the letter “a”?
Thanks
Bamberger,
The sense of key is musical as in the key of A.
Thanks Davy -you could have sat me down all year and I would never have got that. I’d half thought of key=answer and answer =a.
Thanks, Lorraine, I enjoyed it too.
I thought MAN OF THE MATCH was clever, and I never knew that YARROW was a NW river, so I learned something.
Another pleasing Sunday puzzle from Everyman.