Quantcast
Channel: Times for the Times
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 7092

Phew too!

$
0
0
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.

Across
1DINOSAUR - A, SON (boy),I inside RUDe (not completely disrespectful) all reversed.
6PROUST - PapeR, OUST (get rid of).
9SPAT - S (succeeded), PAT (slick).
10INJUNCTION - IN (batting), JUNCTION (meeting).
11QUEENSWARE - 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.
13ALLY - pALLY
14RECORDER - 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.
16ONE-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.
18STYMIE - 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.
20ULTIMATE - gUiLtTrIp, MATE
22AFAR - A, RAF (service) reversed.
24SADDLEBACK - S (second #1), ADDLE (confuse), BACK (second #2).
26FREEBOOTER - BEER (drink) reversed inside FOOTER (game).
28TAIL - TAmIL
29LESSON - 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.
30PROTRUDE - ROT (more pants!) inside PRUDE (prig).
Down
2IMPRUDENT - IMP (whippersnapper) followed by anagram of TURNED.
3ON THE GO - ON (over), T (time), H (husband), E GO (I).
4ARIES - cARIES (tooth decay not caught at first).
5RAJ - JAR (clash) reversed.
6PENTECOST - PE (gymnastics) followed by anagram of CONTEST.
7OUTRAGE - AmusinG, inside OUTRE (bizarre).
8SEOUL - Sounds like "soul" (music). The capital of South Korea.
12AGROUND - Anagram of ON A DRUG.
15DRESS DOWN - DRESS (comb), DOWN (floor/on floor).
17WITH CHILD - H (heroin) inside ITCH (long) inside WILD (furious).
19MARVELS -  The poet Andrew MARVELL (1621-1678) with his second L changed to S.
21MOBSTER - MO (second), anagram of BEST, Robin.
23FURZE - Sounds like 'firs'.
25LARGO - LARGe (mostly great), O (over). Handel's famous Largo is taken from "Ombra mai fu" the opening aria in "Serse" or "Xerxes".
27TOP - Double definition.

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 7092

Trending Articles