Monday Prize Crossword/Aug 19
Once more an Armonie puzzle in his eminently recognisable style. Mostly very easy, using mainly ‘standard’ devices (no CDs though) – no sneakiness but throughout elegantly clued.
Armonie’s alter ego in the Guardian is Chifonie who produces crosswords that are very similar. Last week, Chifonie got over 40 comments. That will never happen here, I guess. And I must admit there is no reason for it either (other than to perhaps show appreciation for the setter’s skills).
Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate.
| Across | ||
| 1 | DELAWARE | The state of the French pottery (8) |
| DE LA (of the, French) + WARE (pottery) | ||
| 5 | GENDER | German admitting the object is sex (6) |
| GER (German, abbreviated) around END ((the) object) | ||
| 9 | ACCIDENT | Can edict produce tragedy? (8) |
| (CAN EDICT)* | ||
| 10 | REDCAP | MP carped outrageously (6) |
| (CARPED)* | ||
| MP being Military Police here. | ||
| 12 | ON THE MEND | Looking up and working with those people with purpose (2,3,4) |
| ON (working) + THEM (those people) + END (purpose) | ||
| 13 | ASSES | Endlessly value beasts of burden (5) |
| ASSESS (value) minus the last letter (‘endlessly’) | ||
| 14 | OPUS | Some desktop users produce work (4) |
| Hidden solution: [deskt]OP US[ers] | ||
| 16 | NOISOME | Moonies upset? Disgusting! (7) |
| (MOONIES)* | ||
| 19 | EXPIRED | Old relationship Lefty brought to an end (7) |
| EX (old) + PI (relationship, between diameter and circumference of a circle) + RED (Lefty) | ||
| 21 | MINX | Cheeky girl gives clergyman a kiss (4) |
| MIN (minister, abbreviated) + X (a kiss) | ||
| 24 | LUCRE | Wealth leads Charlie into temptation (5) |
| C (Charlie) inside LURE (temptation) | ||
| 25 | RESTRAINT | In repose practise self-discipline (9) |
| TRAIN (practise) inside REST (repose) | ||
| 27 | TRAVEL | Tense composer makes journey (6) |
| T (tense) + RAVEL (composer) | ||
| 28 | PALL MALL | In the afternoon, everybody meets everybody in London street (4,4) |
| {ALL (everybody) inside PM (in the afternoon)} + ALL (everybody) | ||
| 29 | DIESEL | Passes on the foreign fuel (6) |
| DIES (passes on) + EL (the, foreign – in this case, Spanish) | ||
| 30 | TEAR DOWN | Drop feathers in trash (4,4) |
| TEAR (drop) + DOWN (feathers) | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | DRAGON | Harridan to keep going (6) |
| DRAG ON (keep going) | ||
| 2 | LOCATE | Find commander among dead (6) |
| OC (commander, Officer Commanding) inside LATE (dead) | ||
| 3 | WEDGE | Jam in a piece of cake (5) |
| Double definition | ||
| ‘Jam’ as a verb: to be jammed. | ||
| 4 | RANGERS | Referee initially upsets football team (7) |
| R[eferee] + ANGERS (upsets) | ||
| And there were others that upset Rangers, too, only a couple of years ago. But they’re on their way back! | ||
| 6 | ELEVATION | Joy embraces English victory and promotion (9) |
| ELATION (joy) around {E (English) + V(victory)} | ||
| 7 | DECISION | Problem is in code? Result! (8) |
| (IS IN CODE)* | ||
| 8 | RAPESEED | Oil producer finds primates hidden in grass (8) |
| APES (primates) inside REED (grass) | ||
| As a (weekend) country walker I can tell you: it’s a smell producer too ….. | ||
| 11 | ADEN | A hiding place for the port (4) |
| A + DEN (hiding place) | ||
| 15 | PERSEVERE | Exercises Rex finds demanding? Struggle on! (9) |
| PE (exercises, Physical Education) + R (Rex) + SEVERE (demanding) | ||
| 17 | DEFLATED | Put down legal document about property (8) |
| DEED (legal document) around FLAT (property) | ||
| 18 | SPECTATE | Observe shocking treatment during flood (8) |
| ECT (shocking treatment, Electroconvulsive Therapy) inside SPATE (flood) | ||
| 20 | DART | Dutch painting is flash (4) |
| D (Dutch) + ART (painting) | ||
| 21 | MISTAKE | Oversight creates major road risk (7) |
| MI (M1, major road) + STAKE (risk, in betting) | ||
| 22 | MIKADO | Kipling’s boy upset over trouble for Japanese emperor (6) |
| MIK (reversal of KIM (Kipling’s boy, novel by Rudyard Kipling)) | ||
| 23 | STOLEN | Pilfered wrap that’s new (6) |
| STOLE (wrap) + N (new) | ||
| 26 | RULER | Regret drinking port with royal head of state (5) |
| {RUE (regret) around L (port, ie left = L)} + R (royal) | ||
Thanks Sil makes a change from Dante anyway. Easy yes but I think that’s the remit for these “prize” puzzles.
Not sure why but this doesn’t render correctly on my phone other blogs do but for some reason yours and Duncan’s don’t. Just an observation does anyone else have this issue?
Thanks Phil for flagging this up.
I sent you an email with more details.
Do others also have problems with (perhaps, some of) my recent blogs?
For example, I myself cannot read all of 19ac and 4d on my screen today – when I zoom out to 75%, I can.
I put a lot of time, energy and love into these blogs, but if something’s not right Please tell me.
Sil
Thanks for your (and others) blogs which, as a learner, I find very helpful
Re the appearance, on an iPhone I can only read the whole of your writing above in landscape – when I hold the phone in portrait only the left hand side is visible and I cannot scroll across to read the hidden bit.