Lorraine: Good morning crossword solvers,
I enjoyed this weeks offering tremendously, wizzed through it with no problems.
Favourites this week were, 1, 3, 9, 14 and 17ac, 1, 6, 10(first in the grid) and 19dn. I hope you all enjoyed this weeks crossword as much as I did, you should not have
had to many problems solving this one!
| Across | |||
| 1. | The Parisian on Northern Ireland river (4) | ||
| NILE | LE after NI | ||
| 3. | What may show twenty with chap bagging a run? (10) | ||
| SCOREBOARD | SCORE+(A+R in BOD) &lit | ||
| 9. | Writer may have question after dance (9) | ||
| BALLPOINT | POINT after BALL | ||
| 11. | Invigorating air round region (5) | ||
| OZONE | O+ZONE | ||
| 12. | Where lots go to join game (7,6) | ||
| AUCTION BRIDGE | AUCTION+BRIDGE | ||
| 14. | Garden centre in northern Surrey, flourishing (7) | ||
| NURSERY | (N SURREY)* | ||
| 16. | Nobleman, one meeting the Queen beforehand (7) | ||
| EARLIER | EARL+I+ER | ||
| 17. | Flinches, with reference to snakes (7) | ||
| RECOILS | RE+COILS | ||
| 19. | Sharp end (7) | ||
| EXTREME | dd | ||
| 20. | How to handle unwanted photo opportunity? (4,3,4,2) | ||
| GRIN AND BEAR IT | cd | ||
| 23. | Engaged in a contest (5) | ||
| ABOUT | A+BOUT | ||
| 24. | Caution shown as gift horse put out (9) | ||
| FORESIGHT | (GIFT HORSE)* | ||
| 25. | Takes over from leading exporter, initially in casual dresses (10) | ||
| SUPERSEDES | (UP(leading)+E(xporter) in (DRESSES*) | ||
| 26. | Study prepared? Almost (4) | ||
| READ | READ(y) | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | In bar, señor prepared questions that are very easy to answer (2-8) | ||
| NO-BRAINERS | (IN BAR SEÑOR)* | ||
| 2. | Ring up about first of images in colour (5) | ||
| LILAC | (CALL<) around I(mages) | ||
| 4. | Ring about name on top of yellow funnel (7) | ||
| CHIMNEY | (CHIME around N)+Y | ||
| 5. | One no longer working on Hebridean island (7) | ||
| RETIREE | RE(on)+TIREE | ||
| 6. | Family is concerned about Pinter’s last play (5,8) | ||
| BLOOD BROTHERS | BLOOD+((pinte)R in BOTHERS) | ||
| 7. | Together in the past (2,3,4) | ||
| AT ONE TIME | sort of cdd | ||
| 8. | Fight scheduled – end of April (4) | ||
| DUEL | DUE+(apri)L | ||
| 10. | Brief man about elected premier (5,8) | ||
| PRIME MINISTER | PRIME+(MISTER around IN) | ||
| 13. | Determined one’s position with an editor, upset having received note (10) | ||
| ORIENTATED | (AN EDITOR*) around TE(a note) | ||
| 15. | Musicians, perhaps, sway Greek publisher (4,5) | ||
| ROCK GROUP | ROCK+GR+OUP | ||
| 18. | Appropriate bit (7) | ||
| SNAFFLE | dd (appropriate=steal, bit=part of a harness=snaffle) | ||
| 19. | Favour daughter entering English and another language (7) | ||
| ENDORSE | D in (E+NORSE) | ||
| 21. | Profligate nicking grand, the villain (5) | ||
| ROGUE | G in ROUE(a profligate) | ||
| 22. | Transfer to be approved (4) | ||
| PASS | dd | ||
| … | |||
Yes, pretty straightforward but still enjoyable.
Thanks Lorraine; I toyed with AUCTION houses at first, but was soon disabused.
I liked GRIN AND BEAR IT.
Thanks Lorraine. No real problems here except that I entered ABOUT at 23a without knowing why. I understood A+BOUT of course, but why engaged? Can someone please explain?
‘Engaged in’ rather than ‘engaged’ is the definition.
Thanks Paul B. Just shows how precise you have to be!
“Just shows how precise you are!” 🙂
I don’t like ‘caution’ as a definition of FORESIGHT. But my argument is with the dictionaries, not the setter I suppose.
Hi first time posting, I love this blog and try really hard not to peek before I have finished, but please as a person who still after quite some time regards herself as a cryptic beginner, don’t assume that people should have had no problems with a particular puzzle. It is really disheartening and makes me feel inadequate when I have had!!