Mephisto 2855 – Paul McKenna

Author   glhPosted on Categories Mephisto
I have a closing night tonight and won’t get this done until early-afternoon Sunday UK time. Feel free to query below, the hive mind of Mephisto solvers I’m sure will assist.

Hope nobody was seriously inconvenienced by my poor scheduling choices.

Paul McKenna has again taken us on a wild ride through the nether and classical regions of Chambers, since I was solving with an eye to blogging later on I made more notes than usual of wordplay elements I was not familiar with.

Away we go…

Across
1 I SHOULD COCOA: IS, OULD, COCOA containing H
10 STRAW POLLS: SLOP(cassock),W,ARTS containing L all reversed
11 EROTEMES: TEME(old word for TEAM) in EROS
13 CATENA: CAT(heavy tackle for lifting an anchor) then N in EA(river)
14 HOUR,I
16 BANDAR: RAD,NAB all reversed
17 E,GERS
18 SC,A,GLIA: been a while since I saw SC for SCULPSIT
20 ALP,AS TO: a little head-scratching but I guess mountains are referred to as male sometimes
22 SMELT: double definition
23 MI,AS,MS
26 SETAL: T(usk) in SEAL
27 SHIPPO: SHIP then OP reversed
28 GATE-VEIN: (EG,NATIVE)*
29 DOCUDRAMA: DOC and DR containing U, then A(about),MAS(French Farm)
30 A,DAM,’S,FLANNEL
 
Down
1 ICE-CREAM SODA: (AMERICA,DOES)* surrounding C(cloudy)
2 SCRAG(throttle),G(rowl),LIER
3 (p)OTTER
4 URENAS: U, R, then SANE reversed
5 LAMAIST: AM and A(afternoon) in LIST
6 DWEEB: BD(bound) reversed containing WEE
7 O,0,LONG
8 C,LOUD,LET
9 AS,PI,RATIONAL
12 TRAIL A PIKE: AIL,AP in TRIKE
15 HEPATICA: HEP(knowing), then ATTIC(pure) without ‘T, A(acre)
19 COASTAL: COAL(char) with STA inside
21 AS,A,RUM: AS is a Roman unit of weight
22 SCHEMA: (CASH)* conatining ‘EM
24 SCARF: triple definition
25 DIVAN: DIN containing VA(t) – the council met on a sofa?

One comment on “Mephisto 2855 – Paul McKenna”

  1. I took ages to parse AL PASTO as I was convinced that the “He goes high up” was a reference to an alto singer. However once I’d abandoned that train of thought, it turned out that an Alp is a member of the Alpine race as well as a mountain (hence the “He”). It also didn’t help that I’d once been interviewed by a guy called Al Pastro, and that “r” kept intruding into my attempts at parsing.

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