Solving time 15 minutes
I had no problems with this and expect some fast times.
A puzzle with an arts leaning and two reasonably obscure plants. We have "Albert Square", an imaginary place from a TV soap set in the East End of London, used to indicate the dropping on an "h" - not sure what problems, if any, that might cause. At least I'd heard of it!
I had no problems with this and expect some fast times.
A puzzle with an arts leaning and two reasonably obscure plants. We have "Albert Square", an imaginary place from a TV soap set in the East End of London, used to indicate the dropping on an "h" - not sure what problems, if any, that might cause. At least I'd heard of it!
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|---|---|
| 1 | GIVE,UP,THE,GHOST - GIVE UP - THE(G)HOST; a phrase coined in the King James Bible; |
| 9 | OUTRIGGER - OUT-sounds like "rigor" as in mortis; from ghosts to corpses!; |
| 10 | STRIP - two meanings 1=sports wear 2=(tear off a) STRIP; |
| 11 | HUMAN - HUM-A-N; living hopefully; |
| 12 | TATTOOIST - cryptic definition, member hopefully meaning limb; |
| 13 | MENANDER - ME(N)ANDER; N=knight (chess notation); long dead Athenian comic - they're in short supply currently; |
| 15 | ZINNIA - Z-IN-N-I-A; Mexican long-stemmed flower named after dead botonist Johann Zinn; |
| 17 | UNREST - UN(RE)ST; about=RE; "a" in Paris=UN; not a bad prediction given state of French economy and politics; |
| 19 | BIENNIUM - sounds like "buy any"-U(nsettling)-M(aths); US two-yearly budgetting period - fiscal cliff here we come; |
| 22 | ESTABLISH - (shes a bit + l=lake)*; |
| 23 | DEGAS - SAD reversed contains EG=say; sad looking French Impressionist; |
| 24 | LINER - hidden (Istanbu)L-IN-ER(ror); |
| 25 | CRESCENDO - CRESCEN(t)-DO; such as The Royal Crescent in Bath; |
| 26 | LADY,WINDERMERE - virtually straight definition - weak clue; |
| Down | |
| 1 | GOOD-HUMOUREDLY - GOOD(HUMOUR-ED)LY; shades of Robert Maxwell perhaps; |
| 2 | VITAMIN - (Im in a TV)*; pass the Sanatogen; |
| 3 | UNION - (b)UNION; from Sanatogen to Dr Scholl; |
| 4 | TOGETHER - TO-GET-HER; a slightly unpleasant clue; |
| 5 | EGRETS - (h)E-G(R)ETS; resistance=R (physics); the setter has an obsession with propositioning women; |
| 6 | HISTORIAN - HI-S(sounds like Tory)AN; back to the dead people; |
| 7 | SERBIAN - SE-man=BRIAN then move the "R"="rent at first"; Pavle Savic perhaps (got to get a scientist in here somehow); |
| 8 | OPHTHALMOSCOPE - OP-(the school map)*; look into my eyes...; |
| 14 | NASEBERRY - NASEB(E-R-R)Y; fruit tree found for example in Jamaica; |
| 16 | WITHHELD - WIT-H-HELD; |
| 18 | ROTUNDA - (d=daughter ran out)*; Birmingham is perhaps the most well known; |
| 20 | INGENUE - honest=GENUINE then move "IN" to the top; Doris Day; |
| 21 | LITCHI - L-ITCH-I; LI from (p)L(a)I(n); |
| 23 | DECOR - DE(CO)R(by); |