Mephisto 2815 – Tim Moorey

Author   glhPosted on Categories Mephisto
Sorry about the late post – this was one of the more difficult ones I can remember from Tim Moorey, and of course it would happen on the week where by the time it came to write the blog, I hadn’t even started solving.

There’s a couple of very unusual terms in here that made me think that there could be something hidden in the grid but after completion I can’t see anything.

Away we go!

Across
1 CONJUGATION: JUG(prison) with (NO,ACTION)* surrounding it
11 BIENNALE: BILE around ANNE reversed
12 PREE: R(ain) in PEE(wet)
13 UKRAINE: UK, R(ussi)A, IN, E – topical all in one
14 RAW,N: the N comes from the middle of ONE
16 CAN,ST
17 UNDATE: N in U(ruguay),DATE
19 BINGLE: BINGE surrounding L another all-in-one
20 ROTTEN ROW
22 XENOCRYST: NO,CRY in an anagram of TEXAS without A
26 TIFOSI: I think I’ve got this wordplay correct – I have it as an anagram (hot) of IT’S surrounding I(Italy),F(foot) and O (half of SO)
28 TOUCH: T(temperature),COUCH missing a C
31 URSA: hidden
32 AXOLOTL: X(cross),L containing 0,LOT after A
33 ROED: sounds like ROAD
34 LIP LINER: L with LINER containing I,P(urser)
35 DRESSES DOWN: DRESSES, then D(department), (NOW)*
 
Down
2 OIKS: SKIO reversed
3 NERK: KEN reversed around R
4 J,NANA
5 UNI(on),ATE
6 ALEMBROTH: (MATLO,HERB)*
7 TER,CI,O: CI is Cote d’Ivoire
8 ORANGEY: (A,GREY,NO)*
9 NEWSLESS: ITN without IT, then sounds like USE,LESS
10 SENTENTIAL: POTENTIAL with PO(Jerry) replaced by SEN
13 USURPATURE: USU, then RAPTURE with the P moved up
15 NENNIGAIS: (EASING)* surrounding INN
18 NOVGOROD: NOV then R in GOOD
21 TROUSER: sungular of TROUSERS
23 ETHYLS: anagram of (shel)L,THEY then S
24 CIBOLS: 1,BOLS after C – and we all know BOLS from Monty Python’s Flying Circus right?
27 F(lap),ELID(e)
29 MO,NO
30 STEW: double def

7 comments on “Mephisto 2815 – Tim Moorey”

    1. As mohn2 points out, agouti has got away and I’d be grateful to know where the “I” comes from; is it I(ndeed)? Couldn’t find such a meaning for I in Chambers.

      In 10 d, what purpose is the word “powerful” serving in the clue?

      A different q: how do I stop myself being “anon” here? I have a Google email address – can I post from that? And how? Do I need to say it? My IT skills are limited.

      Thanks

      1. Regarding the last q, as you can see, this time after posting I was asked if I wanted to be connected to Live Journal. Ever happened before so I wonder what I did differently this time! Question solved.
      2. Can’t answer your first question, as I’d been wondering the same thing.

        Potential means powerful

          1. I = indeed:

            I(3) in 12th ed of Chambers is “same as aye(1)” and aye(1) is “yes; indeed”. I must have missed this a couple of times, as the “yes; indeed” is pencilled next to I(3) in my copy.

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