Mephisto 2847 – Don Manley

Author   glhPosted on Categories Mephisto
Found this one a bit trickier than the last few, particularly the top right hand corner which was the last one to fall. In the end everything makes perfect sense with tricky and clear wordplay.

And perfect timing, I should be able to get this written up just in time for box office open of tonight’s Carolina sketchfest, and then hopefully Australia winning the World Cup.

Away we go…

Across
1 ATACAMITE: sounds like ATTACK, A MITE
10 BEROB: B then BORE reversed
11 CROWD,ER
12 ALSTROEMERIA: (RARE,LOAMIEST)*
14 YAFF: F,FAY all reversed
15 GENU: GENUS without the beginning of S(et)
16 DUALIN: DIN across USUAL without US
17 (l)IZARD
19 ALCIDES: ALES with CID(hero) in the middle
21 LACERTA: LACE then T in RA
26 P,LENA
27 LOONIE: sounds like LOONY. The LOONIE was already in place in Canada when I worked there from 1995-1999, but when the two-dollar coin came in the idea was the name “bear” would catch on, but LOONIE was so well loved as a coin name, the two-dollar coin automatically became TOONIE, which is also in Chamber
28 OLLA: hidden in schoOL LAboratory
30 HAME: double def with the bar being in a horse collar
31 DILACERATION: (RADICAL,NOTE,I)*
32 DEERLET: sounds like DEAR,LET
33 TETRA: RT reversed in TEA
34 DESMOSOME: (MOOD,SEEMS)*
 
Down
1 A,BAND,S
2 TELL,URAL
3 COTYLAE: (ACOLYTE)*
4 A,BR,AID
5 IREFUL: 1 then REFUEL without an E
6 TOM,BIC: BIC being a pen-producing company
7 ADREADING: A READING(university) containing D
8 VEIN: sounds like VAIN
9 FRAUD: misspell the middle letter of FREUD
13 CANCELLER: CALLER outside N,CE
18 RENIFORM: anagram of (p)ERFORMIN(g)
20 ISOETES: IS, OS around ETE
22 RAUCLE: (edito)R then (A,CLUE)*
23 TEHEES: HE in TEES
24 POMATO: POO(r) containing MAT
25 PENNAE: ANNE reversed in PE (Prince Edward Island)
26 P,ODD(l)Y
29 LIER: LIVER less V

2 comments on “Mephisto 2847 – Don Manley”

  1. …. for the single piece of feedback. I have been accused of being too easy, but I want to encourage at least some new solvers in transition to harder puzzles and I am delighted to record that I wasn’t too easy for one solver in one puzzle at least! DM
    1. No worries DM. I’m the one who doesn’t says “too” before easy, though I compare to my usual solving experience. Like several here, I learned to do barred cryptics by reading, and then contributing to the blogs. I try to be explanatory, occasionally entertaining, and poke a little fun, and prefer to think it was someone else to whom you were referring in your book, of which I have a copy. Cheers!

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