Monday Prize Crossword/Jul 14
Time for another pleasant and not too demanding Falcon who, quite surprisingly, gave us his first full anagram only at 17d (immediately followed by a second and last one at 18d).
Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate.
| Across | ||
| 1 | CLIENT | Customer’s legal right in court (6) |
| LIEN (legal right) inside CT (court) | ||
| 4 | SCABBARD | Evidence of wound on poet that carries a sword (8) |
| SCAB (evidence of wound) + BARD (poet) | ||
| 10 | ANTIPASTO | A new piece of advice about an appetiser (9) |
| A + N (new) + TIP (piece of advice) + AS TO (about) | ||
| 11 | LOGAN | Article by trunk in Boston airport (5) |
| LOG (trunk) + AN (article) | ||
| It took a while to get this answer as I wasn’t familiar with Logan Airport. Now if it were Johnny Logan … 🙂 | ||
| 12 | KWAI | Some duck waifs in river in war film (4) |
| Hidden solution (‘some’): [duc]K WAI[fs] | ||
| The Bridge over the River Kwai, with that famous marching tune that my father loved so much. He hated war , though. | ||
| 13 | WANDSWORTH | Staff’s value in prison (10) |
| WAND’S (staff’s) + WORTH (value) | ||
| The largest prison in London. | ||
| 15 | RISSOLE | Faggot, using last of liver, is one (7) |
| [live]R + IS + SOLE (one) | ||
| 16 | RATHER | More correctly speaking, in some degree (6) |
| Double definition | ||
| 19 | STATUS | Class, say, mostly American (6) |
| STAT[e] (say, mostly) + US (American) | ||
| 21 | STEEPLE | Irish writer, Sir Richard, includes page identifying tower with spire (7) |
| STEELE (Irish writer, Sir Richard) around P (page) | ||
| Richard Steele (1672-1729), co-founder of both the Spectator (1711) and the Guardian (1713) – however, not those ones! | ||
| 23 | EAT ONE’S HAT | Be very surprised at one in unseemly haste (3,4,3) |
| {AT ONE} inside (HASTE)* | ||
| 25 | TRIO | Group of musicians finish in great Brazilian port (4) |
| [grea]T + RIO (Brazilian port) | ||
| 27 | ERASE | Remove from register, as emigrated (5) |
| Hidden solution (‘from’): [regist]ER AS E[migrated] | ||
| 28 | EYE-OPENER | Regard key as something amazing (3-6) |
| EYE (regard) + OPENER (key) | ||
| 29 | TINY TOTS | Wee drams for wee bairns? (4,4) |
| TINY (wee) + TOTS (drams) | ||
| 30 | LET OUT | Freed the Parisian solicitor (3,3) |
| LE (the, Parisian) + TOUT (solicitor) | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | CRACKERS | Exceptionally fine things off one’s trolley (8) |
| Double definition | ||
| 2 | IN TRANSIT | Travelling from place to place, I managed during stint abroad (2,7) |
| I + {RAN (managed) inside (STINT)*} | ||
| 3 | NAPS | Cross over racing tips (4) |
| Reversal (‘over’) of: SPAN (cross) | ||
| 5 | CHOWDER | Thick fish stew, food put before the German (7) |
| CHOW (food) + DER (the, German) | ||
| 6 | BELLWETHER | Ring that woman about feeble leader (10) |
| {BELL (ring) + HER (that woman)} around WET (feeble) | ||
| A word that I didn’t know and therefore one my last entries. | ||
| 7 | ANGER | Fury shown as lid comes off crate (5) |
| BANGER (crate) without its starting letter (‘lid comes off’) | ||
| 8 | DINGHY | Husband on board poorly lit little boat (6) |
| H (husband) inside DINGY (poorly lit) | ||
| 9 | ESTATE | English country manor (6) |
| E (English) + STATE (country) | ||
| 14 | CONTINGENT | Detachment of Gurkhas initially sent into Africa? (10) |
| G[hurkas] inside CONTINENT (Africa?) | ||
| 17 | ESPERANTO | Ten operas rewritten in international language (9) |
| (TEN OPERAS)* | ||
| 18 | DEMOCRAT | Kennedy was one in Tremadoc, surprisingly (8) |
| (TREMADOC)* | ||
| 20 | SUSPECT | Have doubts about us parking in camp (7) |
| {US + P (parking)} inside SECT (camp) | ||
| 21 | STAKES | Son wins prizes (6) |
| S (son) + TAKES (wins) | ||
| 22 | DEFECT | Failing to change sides (6) |
| Double definition | ||
| My last one in and as ever a double definition. | ||
| 24 | TRAIN | Series can about artist (5) |
| TIN (can) around RA (artist) | ||
| 26 | APSE | Primate covering small church recess (4) |
| APE (primate) around S (small) | ||
I failed on 15a,16a & 6d. I had crackpot for 1d which didn’t help with 15a. I would still be sitting here trying to get bellwether.
Don’t remember any great difficulty, Logan gave some pause, nicely deceived, did have to check Steeple.
Many thanks Sil.
Thanks Falcon and Sil
Found this very straightforward with the initial filling out of the grid.
However, the parsing check revealed that although HANDSWORTH was the name of two places in England – neither had a prison – had to look at a different sort of staff (HAND to WAND)! Again with 19a – where I had written STATES as my last one in – and after not being able to fully parse that … finally saw STATUS.
Did learn the term BELLWETHER from somewhere in the past and still use it in conversation occasionally.
Didn’t know LOGAN Airport even though a good friend flies from there a couple of times a year to visit Australia from Boston where he works.