After several weeks without incident the id code for today's Quickie is out of sequence so I am posting the url here in case solvers are having problems findng it: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20141103/307/
This one took me 7 minutes and I'd be surprised if it presents many problems as I can't see that it contains any obscure vocabulary or general knowledge or convoluted wordplay. The opening of 14dn may appear daunting to beginners but it's the sort of phraseology that should scream "Anagram!" and therefore allay fears that one might actually need knowledge of the Rose City in order to solve it. For all its being at the easier end of the spectrum this is a well-constructed puzzle that was pleasing to solve and blog.
Defintions are underlined
Deletions are in curly brackets
This one took me 7 minutes and I'd be surprised if it presents many problems as I can't see that it contains any obscure vocabulary or general knowledge or convoluted wordplay. The opening of 14dn may appear daunting to beginners but it's the sort of phraseology that should scream "Anagram!" and therefore allay fears that one might actually need knowledge of the Rose City in order to solve it. For all its being at the easier end of the spectrum this is a well-constructed puzzle that was pleasing to solve and blog.
Defintions are underlined
Deletions are in curly brackets
Across | |
|---|---|
| 7 | Manage company with power and energy (4) |
| COPE - CO (company), P (power), E (energy) | |
| 8 | I do crack, dancing a style of music associated with drugs (4,4) |
| ACID ROCK - anagram [dancing] of I DO CRACK | |
| 9 | Determine some contents of crude cider (6) |
| DECIDE - hidden in [some contents of] {cru}DE CIDE{r} | |
| 10 | Wrote about large garden tool (6) |
| TROWEL - anagram [about] of WROTE, L (large) | |
| 11 | Arrived in Arthur's court, having lost the lot (4) |
| CAME - CAME{lot} (Arthur's court, loses 'lot') | |
| 12 | Like an empire put in danger, if Attila initially invades it (8) |
| IMPERIAL - A{ttila} [initially] goes inside [invades] IMPERIL (put in danger) | |
| 15 | Put off about tin container for wine or spirits (8) |
| DECANTER - DETER (put off) about CAN (tin) | |
| 17 | Stop me returning to street (4) |
| STEM - ST (street), ME returning | |
| 18 | Small village, one made famous by Shakespeare (6) |
| HAMLET - double definition | |
| 21 | Moggie kept in pig pen is slightly crazy (6) |
| SCATTY - CAT (moggie) in STY (pig pen) | |
| 22 | Ten beams must be replaced for lowest floor (8) |
| BASEMENT - anagram [replaced] of TEN BEAMS | |
| 23 | Ripped to shreds in the middle (4) |
| TORE - TO, {sh}RE{ds} [middle]. Attention to wordplay is needed here in order to rule out 'torn' as another answer that would fit the definition | |
Down | |
| 1 | Hundred - too old for extent of broadcasting attention? (8) |
| COVERAGE - C (hundred - Roman numeral), OVER AGE (too old) | |
| 2 | Iron railway, perhaps of Persians (6) |
| FELINE - FE (iron), LINE (railway). Persian being a breed of cat. | |
| 3 | Look forward to elevator in process of renovation (8) |
| FACELIFT - FACE (look forward), LIFT (elevator) | |
| 4 | Clue that's hard in Times initially (4) |
| HINT - H (hard), IN, T{imes} [initially] | |
| 5 | Hard tour: each heading off, showing great enthusiasm (6) |
| ARDOUR - {h}, ARD, {t} OUR [each heading off] | |
| 8 | For pain, take the contents of sachet (4) |
| ACHE - hidden in [contents of] {s}ACHE{t} | |
| 13 | Hanger-on in airborne soldier's base? (8) |
| PARASITE - PARA (airborne soldier), SITE (base) | |
| 14 | Rue Petra being redeveloped - it's a hole (8) |
| APERTURE - anagram [redeveloped] of RUE PETRA | |
| 16 | Connected everything that is disconnected at first (6) |
| ALLIED - ALL (everything}, IE (that is - id est), D{isconnected} [at first] | |
| 17 | Sheepish about insect song (6) |
| SHANTY - SHY (sheepish) about ANT (insect) | |
| 19 | A mother and boy (4) |
| ADAM - A, DAM (mother) | |
| 20 | Row when big cat has its heart removed (4) |
| TIER - TI{g}ER (big cat) [heart removed] | |