Apologies for the brevity. Rushed for time. Thanks Bradman for a pleasant challenge.
FF: 8 DD: 7
| Across | ||
| 1 | MINUTEST |
Smallest periods of time, time being limited (8)
MINUTES (periods of time) T (Time, being limited – i.e. first character) |
| 5 | ERASED |
Times editor removed from paper? (6)
ERAS (times) ED (editor) |
| 9 | PAMPERED |
Pad with extended interior is spoilt (8)
PAD with the A extended to AMPERE |
| 10 | SCHOOL |
Where kids may be taken by bus – or train or coach (6)
cryptic clue; triple def. |
| 12 | NASTY |
Good person in refusal to be horrible (5)
ST (good person, saint) in NAY (refusal) |
| 13 | REICHSTAG |
He with gastric upsets? It could be this diet (9)
Anagram of HE GASTRIC |
| 14 | HAMPER |
Meat for each in picnic box (6)
HAM (meat) PER (for each) |
| 16 | SERVANT |
Sharp-eyed old boy sacked employee (7)
obSERVANT (sharp-eyed, losing OB – old boy) |
| 18 | ADORING |
Like fans in a group holding party (7)
[A RING (group) ] holding DO (party) |
| 20 | PSEUDO |
Pretentious dopes mingling around university (6)
Anagram of DOPES around U (university) |
| 22 | GOOD TURNS |
We may applaud these unselfish acts (4,5)
cryptic clue |
| 23 | KAYAK |
Reversible canoe (5)
cryptic clue; reversible = palindrome |
| 24 | THISBE |
The person here is ungrammatical lover in Bard’s play (6)
My parsing is “The person here is ” .. should translate to “He be…” . If this was ungrammatical, it could be “THIS BE….”. |
| 25 | SALARIED |
Earl said to be broke should be in job getting money (8)
Anagram of EARL SAID |
| 26 | RATHER |
Pretty nasty person, loveless demigod (6)
RAT (nasty person) HERo (loveless demigod)
|
| 27 | FALSETTO |
Fight by Cornish river – voice here is raised (8)
FAL (Cornish river) SET TO (fight) |
| Down | ||
| 1 | MOPING |
Brooding cat has eaten something sharp (6)
MOG (cat) containing PIN (something sharp) |
| 2 | NUMISMATOLOGIST |
Sou, limit man’s got for splashing around as one who looks after his coins? (15)
Anagram of SOU LIMIT MAN’S GOT; I was generally used to Numismatist being the terminology. |
| 3 | TEENY |
Small like an adolescent, you may surmise? (5)
Cryptic clue – like an adolescent can be read as TEEN-Y |
| 4 | SHEARER |
Moira maybe as one handling sheep (7)
cryptic clue; reference to MOIRA SHEARER, British ballet dancer. |
| 6 | RACEHORSE |
Chaser o’er ground? (9)
Semi &lit; anagram of CHASER OER |
| 7 | SHORTHAND TYPIST |
Old-fashioned secretary must be quiet, having dirty hot pants inappropriately (9,6)
SH (quiet) followed by anagram of DIRTY HOT PANTS |
| 8 | DELEGATE |
Agent escorted the wrong way, coming to eastern entrance (8)
DEL (escorted = LED, reversed) E (eastern) GATE (entrance) |
| 11 | GIGS |
Carriages for performances (4)
double def.
|
| 15 | PAINTABLE |
Dad at home having food – that may be possible for artist to portray? (9)
PA (dad) IN (home) TABLE (food) |
| 17 | DAUGHTER |
Lock up this relation and such like? The guard must be arranged (8)
cryptic def; anagram of THE GUARD |
| 19 | GORE |
Blood – it emerges from enlarged gland (4)
GOitRE (enlarged gland) without IT |
| 20 | PASSATA |
Sauce: it is put into flour dough (7)
SA (it) in PASTA (flour dough) |
| 21 | SKIDOO |
Sledge to slide out of control over moor with edges falling off (6)
SKID (slide out of control) OO (mOOr, edges falling off) |
| 23 | KEATS |
Poet and king needing food (5)
K (king) EATS (food) |
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
I think 24A is even simpler: “The person here is (eg Smith)” = “This is Smith”, ungrammatically = “This be Smith”.
Could you please help me understand how SA is IT in 20 down?
Hi FTltrr
SA is an abbreviation for Sex Appeal. IT is also defined as sex appeal. This interchange is very common in cryptic crosswords.
Why no Saturday crossword on line?
Karen@4: Both Saturday crosswords have now appeared
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs.
Needed your help to parse GORE and the MPERE in Pampered (the second of these being very clever).
Otherwise all pretty straightforward though some might say that KAYAK is precisely not a canoe.
I thought that RACEHORSE was very elegant.
Favourite – for its misdirection – was REICHSTAG.
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
A backlog puzzle and quite a pleasant one from Bradman. Was able to get off to a good start by guessing (and then checking) the long 2d as my first one. which opened up the top left hand side. The harder SW was where I finished up with PASSATA (a word I didn’t know but the paste that I have used before), THISBE (which took some getting my head around with the THIS BE … my eventual logic was the same as Simon@1) and RATHER (where I initially had an unparsed ROTTER and thankfully changed it on my final parsing run through).
Thought that a couple of the &lit clues – DAUGHTER and RACEHORSE were excellent !!!