Lorraine: Good Morning to you all,
Pleasant solve I felt with plenty of anagrams and easy to follow cluing. So many favourites, too numerous to mention them all. All in all a most enjoyable solve for me.
One query on 3dn.
I hope you all enjoyed it as much as myself.
Big big thank you to Everyman.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Black bird dog (6) | ||
| BEAGLE | B+EAGLE | ||
| 4. | Following Carole abroad, two females go away (5,3) | ||
| CLEAR OFF | (CAROLE*)+FF | ||
| 10. | Man-made can, origin uncertain (9) | ||
| INORGANIC | (CAN, ORIGIN)* | ||
| 11. | Loud argument before noon could make one scowl (5) | ||
| FROWN | F+ROW+N | ||
| 12. | Landmark built free, to stay at sea (6,2,7) | ||
| STATUE OF LIBERTY | (BUILT FREE, TO STAY)* | ||
| 13. | Passageway in pretty empty Scottish town (7) | ||
| PAISLEY | AISLE in P(rett)Y | ||
| 14. | Find seven letters in bureau near this (7) | ||
| UNEARTH | hidden: bureaU NEAR THis | ||
| 16. | Personal objective in a move that backfired? (3,4) | ||
| OWN GOAL | OWN+GOAL | ||
| 18. | Worker fixed part of phone (7) | ||
| HANDSET | HAND+SET | ||
| 20. | Soldiers disregard an urge to change (9,6) | ||
| GRENADIER GUARDS | (DISREGARD AN URGE)* | ||
| 23. | Nerdy type, unhappy attending party (5) | ||
| SADDO | SAD+DO | ||
| 24. | Film noir, too gruesome – American (9) | ||
| NOTORIOUS | (NOIR, TOO GRUESOME)* see Notorious |
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| 25. | Bride from Welwyn confused journalist (8) | ||
| NEWLYWED | (WELWYN*)+ED | ||
| 26. | Old coin German boy brought back home (6) | ||
| FLORIN i | (ROLF<)+IN | ||
Down |
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| 1. | Some Chablis – sufficient will bring perfect happiness (5) | ||
| BLISS | hidden: ChaBLIS – Sufficient | ||
| 2. | A speech holding duke in high regard (9) | ||
| ADORATION | D in (A+ORATION) | ||
| 3. | Stage turn’s mild deception (3-4) | ||
| LEG-PULL | LEG+PULL can’t see why turn’s = pull here? |
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| 5. | Pub licence obtained from council (5,9) | ||
| LOCAL AUTHORITY | LOCAL[pub]+AUTHORITY[licence] | ||
| 6. | Kindly, a fellow in allegory (7) | ||
| AFFABLE | A+F+FABLE | ||
| 7. | Duck’s grim smell (5) | ||
| ODOUR | O[duck, zero]+DOUR | ||
| 8. | Notion which brings an exclamation of surprise (5,4) | ||
| FANCY THAT | FANCY+THAT[which] | ||
| 9. | Shocking union, a seemingly unlikely coalition (6,8) | ||
| UNHOLY ALLIANCE | UNHOLY[shocking]+ALLIANCE | ||
| 13. | With farming implement, boy makes laborious progress (7,2) | ||
| PLOUGHS ON | PLOUGH+SON | ||
| 15. | Ice, mostly, on top of old Irish lake (9) | ||
| RESERVOIR | RESERV(e)[ice, i.e. put on ice]+O+IR | ||
| 17. | Cicero’s art in prayer room (7) | ||
| ORATORY i | cd – Cicero was an orator | ||
| 19. | Position of gear in Renault, idling? (7) | ||
| NEUTRAL | (RENAULT)* | ||
| 21. | Owned liberal supply (5) | ||
| ENDOW | (OWNED)* | ||
| 22. | Girl locked up in prison, a suspect (5) | ||
| SUSAN | hidden rev: prisoN, A SUSpect | ||
Usual smooth surfaces.
Thanks Lorraine; I think the pull in 3d is in the sense of sprain, wrench as in a pulled muscle. In 9d I think ‘coalition’ should also be underlined as part of the definition.
Nice anagram for STATUE OF LIBERTY.
Lorraine, regarding your comment about pull=turn I had the same doubt as you. If you do a search in OneLook of p?l?:turn it will find pull, but down the order of relevance, and if you search t?r?:pull it will find turn, but also down the order of relevance. I looked at my Chambers and there are plenty of entries for both words, and the closest I can come to seeing where there is some symmetry of meaning is if a car pulls to the left or right it could be said to be turning to the left or the right.
As far as the rest of the puzzle is concerned it was the usual pleasant Sunday morning solve with UNHOLY ALLIANCE my LOI.
“Take a pull at the front” is a commonly heard phrase in all sorts of racing (running, bike racing, car racing). It’s used for the person who is currently setting the pace, allowing others to draft behind.
In Wales, a “pull” can be a mild heart attack, faintness or dizziness, or what in England you might call a “funny turn”
Too many hidden words?