Mephisto 2695 – Tim Moorey

Author   glhPosted on Categories Mephisto
Hmmm – well since LiveJournal now lets us do posts in advance, let’s try it out. Greetings from the past with the blog of Mephisto 2695. A crossword where I had one massive headsmack moment, as I couldn’t figure out 24 for a long time until I realised it was an Azed competition clue (I entered a clue, but it didn’t get anything). Anyhoo I was pretty well on Tim Moorey’s wavelength here, and a lot of answers went in from wordplay with a little question mark but I think they’re all in place now

Away we go!

Across
1 ABS RE: hidden, reversed
6 DAWNER: RED(refuse) reversed with AWN(verb form of AWNING) inside
11 PARIS,CHAN(c)E
12 ETHIOPS: E then OP in THIS
14 ETHS: Vikram SETH with the S moved to the end
15 GRATIS: GRANT IS without the N
16 MEDIAVEALIST: MEDIA(means) then EVA on a LIST(roll)
19 NET-PLAY: (PENALTY)*
21 ASTERIA: MASTER and CIA without the starts
24 APPLE-KNOCKER: anagram of PEOPE, RANK, C(hurchill), (pluc)K
25 CAR,PAL: HILLMAN as a car is only known to me from Monty Python
28 ORNE: R in ONE(a certain)
29 TITOKIS: OK in TITIS
30 EA,STERN,IS,M
31 NAS,A,RD: NAS is Spenserian for WAS NOT
32 SHAYS: SAYS about H
 
Down
1 ADEEMS: another front removal job, this time to DAD SEEMS
2 BITTER SPAR: BITTERS then PAR(e)
3 RAISIN(g)
4 EROS: SORE reversed
5 RIP,IE,NI
7 ACR,RATE
8 WHO(people),A(accepted)
9 NASTILY: (STALIN)* then Y
20 RE,A,STY: STY for rise (old, hence veteran) is the third definition in Chambers
21 AACHEN: ACHE in AN
22 SCOOSH: S then HOOSH with C instead of H
23 URESIS: anagram of SERIOUS without O(nothing)
26 PITA: A,TIP(upset like TIP something over) reversed
27 UTIS: my last in, last to understand and last to blog – apparently there is more than one island in the Hebrides called UIST, so put the T on the top. Fortunately UTIS is in Bradfords to get my started

3 comments on “Mephisto 2695 – Tim Moorey”

  1. Ah, so you can! .. I hadn’t realised you could post entries in advance in Livejournal now, thanks for mentioning it George. I’ll give it a try
  2. I thought this was reasonably difficult in comparison with recent puzzles with a host of quality clues.

    I was lucky with 24A because I’d also entered a clue for it in the AZED competition and had looked through all the types of apple searching for inspiration and “pick a Baldwin” chimed with me immediately as an apple and from there to the answer was a short route

    I must try this posting in advance – could be useful

    1. I need to update George v The Azed Clueing Competition but I saw that both yours and Tim’s clues got HC mentions (Jim’s got 10 HCs, I have 3 HCs and a VHC), and mine got nothing for APPLE-KNOCKER.

Comments are closed.