*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.
Quite tough going for me this week, and there’s a couple I’m not sure about, as is usually the case!
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | PUDDING-TIME – PUDDING + TIME[s]. |
| 9 | EUPHONY – EU + PHONY. |
| 10 | LAZIO – 1 in (LAZ[y] + O[p]). That’s a bit of a guess – the full wordplay was “one secured in part of cowboy operation!”. |
| 12 | OCCLUSORS – I’m stumped: “Muscles? One-third of co-ordinating muscles could show me these”. |
| 13 | ISOLDA – I SOLD A. |
| 14 | FOSSAE – SOS* in FOE. |
| 16 | LEWES – W in LEES. |
| 19 | HEARTLET – LATER* in THE*. |
| 20 | ALE-BERRY – REBEL< in ARY. |
| 24 | CORAM – CO + RAM. |
| 26 | IASTIC – ASTI “consumed by” A C. Iastic is another name for the Ionian mode, a musical term, hence “noted”. |
| 27 | TAPETI – PET “covered by” TAI. |
| 28 | ON THE BALL – NOT* + HE + BALL. |
| 29 | NIGER – (R + EG + IN)<. |
| 30 | CHLADNI – LOAD in (CH + NI). Ernst Chladni, German physicist, 1756-1827. |
| 31 | GALLOWS-TREE – (ALLOWS + S[pec]T[ators]) “to enter” GREE. |
| Down | |
| 1 | VEXILLATION – VEX + ILLATION. |
| 2 | PULSE – PULE “stuffed with” S. |
| 3 | UPTOWNERS – PUT* + OWNERS. |
| 4 | DHOLES – D + HOLES. |
| 5 | IN CAMERA – INCA “going round” AMER. |
| 6 | GLUON – GLU[t] + ON. |
| 7 | TASSET – SAT< + SET. |
| 8 | MIRAGES – MIR + AGES. |
| 11 | OSELTAMIVIR – (SOME VITAL)* + I + R. The flu drug that is in the news as Tamiflu. |
| 15 | SCLEREIDE – (CEL[l] in IS RED)* + E, I think. |
| 17 | WARATAHS – ((TAR + A) in SHAW)<. |
| 18 | ALBANIA – BAN in ALIA . |
| 21 | BETHEL – THE in BEL[t]. |
| 22 | POPLAR – POP[u]LAR. |
| 23 | PIERO – PIERO[gi]. |
| 25 | ATONE – A TONE. It took me a moment to see how this is a change in pitch, but I guess it’s an interval, and thus the difference between two notes. |
Simon
10a is I in LAZO – lazo is a variant spelling of lasso.
12a ME OCCLUSORS is an anagram of CO-OR[dinating] MUSCLE. The ‘these’ in the clue is referring to the answer.