I had to admit defeat on this one with two clues unsolved (2 and 21). Speak up if you have the right answers (and possibly the right answers for clues I got wrong elsewhere – a possible cause of being unable to finish). before that, I got about 20 answers before calling for the Chambers cavalry.
| Across |
| 6 |
STENGAH = stinger = strong drink. STEN=dart of pain, G=”beginning to go” I guess, and H = hard, but can’t see where the A comes from. |
| 12 |
A,L(ANNA)H – Alannah = Irish “my child”, Ann/Anna etc = “God has favoured me” – list of First Names. |
| 13 |
M,EASE |
| 14 |
LOR(1K)E,E,T |
| 15 |
CHI(C)LE – chicle = the main ingredient of chewing gum |
| 16 |
F,E,ART=agency |
| 17 |
ESCARGOT – GO = success in reacts* |
| 19 |
OMLAH – M in rev. of halo |
| 20 |
RE(C.E.)NT |
| 22 |
W,(st)UNNER |
| 25 |
KOPPA – rev. of app., OK |
| 28 |
CLODPATE = (placed to)* |
| 30 |
KNOSP = a flower bud (German) – rev. of Son=Benjamin in K=kitchen,P=Police |
| 31 |
APNOEA = lack of breathing = choke. open* in AA |
| 32 |
ALL,O.T.T.,ED. |
| 33 |
TREEN – hidden word |
| 34 |
IMP.,RES.,A |
| 35 |
HERE,ROS = rev. of SOR=Sale or Return |
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| Down |
| 1 |
SALC=rev. of clas(s),HOW=who* – maybe! This would involve an indirect anagram of who=that, which isn’t Ximenean. But if there isn’t an indirect anagram, I can’t see how to get the HOW. |
| 2 |
?LOH?M – I was tempted to put Elohim, but couldn’t justify it. For the justification, see below.
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| 3 |
GAR,(d)IAL – g(h)arial=river dragon=an Asian croc |
| 4 |
SNICK AND SNEE = (cane, knidness)* – I vageult remembered “snickersnee” from “The Mikado”, and this turns out to be the same thing – a fighting knife or the fighting done with it |
| 5 |
INKLE – two definitions |
| 7 |
THE,O,C,RAT=hunt |
| 8 |
NEVER COUNTRY = (current envoy)* |
| 9 |
GAL,A,GE=(earth) goddess – galage is an old form of galosh |
| 10 |
A.S,TRON=torn* – an abbreviation for astronomy |
| 11 |
HEN (vb.)=balk,T |
| 18 |
SERAGLIO = (Elgar*,1) in SO=”very good” |
| 21 |
TA?ADA? – searching Chambers several times for TA?A words turned up nothing – stupidly omitting to read the entries for TA?A as well as TA?A???, I missed TANADAR – see Bill’s comment for full wordplay.
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| 23 |
ULNARE = (Fraulein – if)* |
| 24 |
NO-ONE,R – commerce=sexual intercourse, a “nooner” being a (US) brief & usu. illicit sexual encounter at lunchtime |
| 26 |
POOTER – 3 defs – a petit bourgeois, after the character in Diary of a Nobody, an entomologicaql collecting bottle, and shooter of grouse from poot = to shoot at grouse |
| 27 |
PHEESE = a rub (obs.) – S replaces R in pheere=companion=mate |
| 29 |
E,POP,T – someone initiated in to the “Eleusinian mysteries”. I don’t know what these are, so I’m not one. |
| 30 |
KITH = it inside rev. of HK – kith = knowledge, as well as your fiends and relations |
Ihave ELOHIM at 2dn on the strength of “that man” but can’t justify the rest.
Can’t help on the missing “a” at 6ac. I had TWAN(g)+ KAY (=quay=hard (n)) for a while until it became untenable.
Glad to see Mike Laws redressing the difficulty balance yesterday.
I too had elohim. I justified it by saying OLE (object linking & embedding, a computer term) is a way of putting something separate into an application… going over, ie elo. Even at the time it looked tortuous, more so now.
Eleusinian mysteries.. all from magic mushrooms, apparently 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
2D ELO(in),HIM; ELOIN = separate, subtraction of IN clued by “..in going…”
21D TANA,DAR(d); TANA = shrew (second defn in Chambers), and a DARD is a person belonging to any of the peoples who speak DARDIC languages, which (according to Chambers) are spoken in North India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Bill
1D Rev. of CLAS(s)+HOW; where THAT is given as one of the first definitions of HOW in Chambers
Bill