Forgot to put a placeholder up earlier, I wasn’t able to get round to the blog yesterday.
I seem to recall this one being pretty straightforward, I have about seven question marks on my grid, so hopefully they will shake out as I write this up.
I have to write another line of text or else this won’t line up flush against the left hand side of the page. Silly LiveJournal
Away we go…
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | HI,JAB |
| 6 | ‘COS,S(sun),I,E |
| 11 | AD,OPTION |
| 13 | REMIT: TIMER reversed |
| 14 | UNARMED: U(university) then R in NAMED |
| 15 | ‘ARD,ENC,Y |
| 16 | REUSE: E in RUSE |
| 17 | S,TANG |
| 19 | INFATUATION: I rather liked this wordplay – IN FACT(indeed), U(acceptable), and ACTION without the C’s |
| 22 | DAIL EIREANN: EA(a channel) in an anagram of (IN,IRELAND)* |
| 27 | GAFFE |
| 29 | O,ZEK,I: ZEK as a Russian prisoner was new to me |
| 30 | NARGILE: ARGIL(clay) in NET(conclusive) missing the end |
| 31 | PHEAZAR: PAR around (HAzE)* |
| 32 | JUDAS: JUD |
| 33 | PEP TALKS: (KEPT,PALS)* |
| 34 | AGEISM: (IMAGES)* |
| 35 | FILED: 1 in FLED |
| Down | |
| 1 | HAR |
| 2 | INERTIAL: T in (AIRLINE)* |
| 3 | JAM,DAN(tub),I |
| 4 | A,LIEN |
| 5 | EDUCATIONAL: (ODE,LACUNA,IT)* |
| 7 | OP ART: I think this is meant to be O(of),PART(interest) |
| 8 | STR,ETTA |
| 9 | SIMUL: |
| 10 | ENDEW: ENDED,W and take one of the D’s away |
| 12 | ON(in advance) YOUR(one’s) MARKS |
| 18 | CON(show),FLAT,E |
| 20 | FLOKATI: (I,TALK,OF) |
| 21 | IN,FIDEL(Castro) |
| 23 | NEESED: first letter of NOSE then sounds like EASED |
| 24 | KOPPA: sounds like COP and then PA |
| 25 | PEE, |
| 26 | RIZAS: Z(2000) in RIAS |
| 28 | AGUTI: GUT(empty) in AI |
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