Mephisto 2801 – Paul McKenna

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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(spana): I thought this was an Aussie word for speedo or bathers
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(R)
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(e), A,S
33 PEP TALKS: (KEPT,PALS)*
34 AGEISM: (IMAGES)*
35 FILED: 1 in FLED
 
Down
1 HAR(m),ASS(tail)
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: (p)LUM,IS all reversed
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(pyri)
25 PEE,(ho)PE
26 RIZAS: Z(2000) in RIAS
28 AGUTI: GUT(empty) in AI

3 comments on “Mephisto 2801 – Paul McKenna”

  1. Thanks George – I needed a couple of these explanations. Small typos in 27 (GAFFE) and 32 (JUDAS).
  2. Thanks George. I got a bit stuck towards the end with this, and at 25dn never managed to find a word meaning ‘confidence’ that would fit PE–. Doh!

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