Name Dropping
An average Mephisto distinguished by a considerable smattering of famous people. I make it ten in total ranging from the famous pirate by association Israel Hands to the famous by association, Leo Blair.
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1 | FLOR – (ROLF reversed); our first celeb – Rolf Harris, antipodean all round good chap; a yeasty growth in sherry; |
4 | SAMOYEDS – (some days)*; barking=mad=anagind; Siberian dogs for herding reindeer and pulling sleds; |
10 | REVIE – REVIE(w); report=review; “shot”=removal indicator; here to up the ante, but also Don Revie, celebrity football manager of Leeds and England; |
11 | AMELIA – two meanings 1=legless condition 2=AMELIA Earhart DFC, celebrated aviation pioneer and fighter for equality for women; |
13 | GAMELANS – GAM(ELAN)S; verve=ELAN; schools=GAMS (of whales); a collection of musical instruments from SE Asia; |
14 | JARGONELLE – JAR-GONE-LL-(troubl)E; will=’LL; an early ripening pear; |
16 | BOCHE – B-OCHE; British=B; a line in hockey and darts=OCHE; WW1 derogatory word for German, contraction of a French portmanteau word “Alboche” from Allemand (Germany) and caboche (a cabbage); |
19 | LEWISSON – LEWIS-‘S-ON; TV detective = LEWIS (a much celebrated and deservedly promoted Sergeant Lewis of Morse fame); working=is on; an iron tenon; |
20 | WHIN – WHIM with M=medium changed to N=name; gorse; |
21 | EDAM – (entre)E-(MAD reversed); soapy cheese; |
22 | HANDJARS – HAND(JAR)S; reference Israel Hands celebrated 18th Century colleague of Blackbeard the pirate; conflict=JAR; Persian daggers; |
24 | SAMBO – SAM-BO(ys); together once=SAM; a form of wrestling invented by the Red Army in the 1920s; |
28 | PRATINCOLE – PRAT-IN-COLE; behind=PRAT; home=IN; cabbage=COLE; a quick flying, graceful, wading bird; |
30 | INDIGEST – IN-DIGEST; popular=IN; abstract=DIGEST; lacking shape, disorganised, the Liberal Party perhaps; |
31 | PALTER – RE-T-LAP all reversed; about=RE; tons=T; stage=LAP; to haggle; |
32 | OLEOS – O(LEO)S; either Tony Blair’s father or celebrity son = LEO; outsize=OS; form of margarine=spread; |
33 | STREPYAN – (NAY PERTS all reversed); vote against=NAY; impudent types=PERTS; a Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer culture; |
34 | ESNE – (d)ENSE reversed; day=d; extremely stupid=dense; a domestic Anglo-Saxon slave; |
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1 | FRIJOLES – FRI(JOL)IES; chips=FRIES; party in SA=JOL; beans; |
2 | LET-A-BE – (table)*-E; high=anagram indicator; to refrain from comment in Cowdenbeath; |
3 | OVERSWAM – OVERS-W-AM; with=W; American=AM; deliveries=OVERS (cricket); |
4 | SEGOL – LOGES reversed; boxes in the theatre=LOGES; a vowel point in Hebrew; |
5 | ARAN – ARA(go)N; knitware from the islands in Galway Bay; |
6 | MAMELONS -MA(MELON)S; French farm=MAS; round hills is the definition; |
7 | YELLOW,JACK – YELLOW-JACK; chicken=cowardly=YELLOW; detective=JACK; mosquito borne fever that causes jaundice; |
8 | DINAH – D(IN)AH; experienced=HAD reversed around IN; this time its celeb Dinah Washington, much married and divorced blues and jazz singer – unforgettable; |
9 | SASH – S-ASH; stokes=the unit of kinematic viscosity=S; baldrick=SASH or celeb Tony Robinson; |
12 | IGNIMBRITE – (big miner)* surrounds “it”; hard volcanic rock; |
15 | PSALTERY – (rap styles)*; old string instrument; |
17 | CHAYOTES – CHA(r)-(yes to)*; daily=helper=cha(r); nuts=anagrind; a bland vegetable best eaten after marinating in lemon juice; |
18 | ENS,PER,SE – (sense)* surrounds PER=a; Aristotle’s philosophical accident; |
23 | ROLL-ON – two meanings; |
25 | ANNAT – AN-NAT; a=AN; nationalist=NAT; vicar’s widow’s stipend; |
26 | ANTON – (w)ANTON; playing with love=wanton; reference old celeb Anton Chekhov, doctor and story writer; |
27 | RIPS – RIP-(copiou)S; grave message=RIP=Rest In Peace; |
29 | ISLA – hidden I(n)-S(o)L(w)A(y); presumably Isla St Clair, Scottish singer and actress; |
Presumably 28ac is a reference to Ashley? Or Cheryl? 🙂
Happy Xmas.. 🙂
Congratulations on the prize – that’s two of us that I know of in 2010 for Mephisto
I couldn’t do the 4 NW clues of this one. I hate name-dropping crosswords — one person’s well-known name is another’s “who the *&$??!!”
Harkin Enlgethorpe