I did this one pretty early on in the week so I’m trying to remember the solving process. I seem to recall having two pretty short sessions, one with Chambers and not being too held up along the way.
In the end I think I have all the wordplay sorted out (with Tim Moorey I can usually figure out answers better from wordplay than from definition so that’s par for the course). There was one very tricky clue where two unusual words were used as a container for a third unusual word with three unchecked letters, so that may have held a few up.
Away we go!
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | PEA SOUP: PEP surrounding A SOU |
| 7 | O,RR,A |
| 10 | SUB(loan),VERSION(account) |
| 11 | ROTH: take F from FROTH. Probably intended to be Philip ROTH but one of my co-workers is obsessed with Veronica Roth who writes for teens |
| 13 | RAMATE: RATE(standard) containing A,M |
| 14 | TROADE: ROAD in T |
| 16 | MAAS: A(about) in MAS(house) |
| 18 | NAVAHO: 0, HAVAN |
| 20 | ERGATANERS: (RATES,ANGER)* |
| 21 | AT UNAWARES: or A TUNA WARES |
| 24 | TO(for),LING |
| 25 | MESE: take the N out of MENSE(grace) |
| 28 | HERALD: HER and then the last half of RIBALD. The Daily Herald in the UK ended in 1964, and the Melbourne Herald in 1990 (merged with the Sun). The one in Miami is still going |
| 30 | RE,PUT,E |
| 31 | WIEL: W then LIE with the L at the end |
| 32 | DEINOTHERE: D, then IE reversed and NOT HERE |
| 33 | SNAG: double definition |
| 34 | AGRAFFE: take 1 out of A GIRAFFE |
| Down | |
| 1 | PARAMENT: AMEN(say yes to) in PART(some) |
| 2 | EYOT: Y in E,OT |
| 3 | ASTRA |
| 4 | OB,LAST |
| 5 | PER(a),EN(space),NATES(behind) |
| 6 | GR,AE,AE: AE meaning both aged and one |
| 7 | OS,MO |
| 8 | ROTCHIES: ROT then CHINES(ravines) without the N |
| 9 | ANEW: WEN(cyst),A reversed |
| 12 | NDRANGHETA: RANG in (AND,THE)* |
| 15 | BAS-RELIEF: (BRIEF,SALE)* for those of you new to Mephisto, hyphenated words are not indicated as such |
| 17 | ARMOZEEN: ARM,EEN containing OZ |
| 19 | ORSEILLE: ORLE(heraldic border) containing SEIL(strain) |
| 22 | UNSTOW: U then (TOWNS)* |
| 23 | WARDER(prison guard): RED and RAW revsered |
| 26 | ORDS: WORDS without W |
| 27 | TUN,G |
| 29 | DELF: FLED reversed |
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