Following on from Wednesday's ordeal I'm as relieved as Uncle Yap yesterday to have got off quite lightly on my blogging day. This is mostly straightforward stuff with only one unknown but easily gettable answer and a couple of clues that leave something be desired if I have understood them correctly. Otherwise it was quite a lively solve and I'm grateful to the setter for not burying everything in a lot of unnecessary verbiage.
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1 | DINOSAUR - A, SON (boy),I inside RUD |
6 | PROUST - P |
9 | SPAT - S (succeeded), PAT (slick). |
10 | INJUNCTION - IN (batting), JUNCTION (meeting). |
11 | QUEENSWARE - NSW (part of Oz), A (area) inside QUEER (unusual), E (English). I can't say I've heard of this but it seems the most famous examples are in the Wedgwood range which I am familiar with and just didn't know its name. I bunged in 'Queensland' here early on and lived to regret it. I suspect I was not alone in this. |
13 | ALLY - |
14 | RECORDER - RECORD (CD), ER (Queen). This is one of two clues I'm not overly happy with as I can't see that a recorder necessarily has anything to do with charts, but possibly there's a meaning or context I have not thought of. |
16 | ONE-TWO - Anagram of WENT inside 0-0 (game without goals). The definition is 'passing move', a reference that presumably can be applied to many sports. |
18 | STYMIE - ST (way), then I'M reversed inside YE. This can simply mean 'obstruct' now but according to SOED its origin is in golf rather than snooker as mentioned in the clue, although of course that's pefectly valid. |
20 | ULTIMATE - |
22 | AFAR - A, RAF (service) reversed. |
24 | SADDLEBACK - S (second #1), ADDLE (confuse), BACK (second #2). |
26 | FREEBOOTER - BEER (drink) reversed inside FOOTER (game). |
28 | TAIL - TA |
29 | LESSON - Definition: 'example', sounds like 'lessen' (shrink). This is the other clue I'm not happy with as it's surely possible to make a perfectly valid case for LESSEN — or vice versa if applicable. |
30 | PROTRUDE - ROT (more pants!) inside PRUDE (prig). |
Down | |
2 | IMPRUDENT - IMP (whippersnapper) followed by anagram of TURNED. |
3 | ON THE GO - ON (over), T (time), H (husband), E GO (I). |
4 | ARIES - |
5 | RAJ - JAR (clash) reversed. |
6 | PENTECOST - PE (gymnastics) followed by anagram of CONTEST. |
7 | OUTRAGE - A |
8 | SEOUL - Sounds like "soul" (music). The capital of South Korea. |
12 | AGROUND - Anagram of ON A DRUG. |
15 | DRESS DOWN - DRESS (comb), DOWN (floor/on floor). |
17 | WITH CHILD - H (heroin) inside ITCH (long) inside WILD (furious). |
19 | MARVELS - The poet Andrew MARVELL (1621-1678) with his second L changed to S. |
21 | MOBSTER - MO (second), anagram of BEST, R |
23 | FURZE - Sounds like 'firs'. |
25 | LARGO - LARG |
27 | TOP - Double definition. |