Welcome to the blog that may go up at a random time, but is being written during a break between performances in a thunderstorm. Wheeee! I can seem to get internet on my phone here but not on my laptop, so I can check the cricket score (promising), the weather report (it’s raining) and muck around on faceybook, but my little phone doesn’t play so well with LiveJournal.
Not too difficult a puzzle here, though I have a few head-scratching moments with some wordplay.
Away we go…
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 2 | DI,S,POSITION |
| 10 | AWNS: SAWN with the S moved to the back |
| 11 | GO(give way),DOT |
| 13 | L |
| 14 | TEGMINA: anagram of the inner letters of lIGAMENTs |
| 15 | LAETARE: TEA reversed in LARE |
| 17 | PSEPHITES: P(Phosphorus) in (STEEPISH)* |
| 18 | NETTED: Put T and T in ONE BED missing O,B |
| 20 | OR ELSE: ORE(tangle of seaweed) surrounding (LES)* |
| 22 | G,ROOMS |
| 24 | BEDELL: DELL after B, E |
| 25 | CORNACRED: this was my last in – COR, N, AC, RED – this usage of RED is found under REDD in Chambers |
| 29 | RAPPING: sounds like WRAPPING |
| 30 | ALBEDOS: (ABLE)*, DOS |
| 31 |
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| 32 | BIELD: last letters of thE and walL in BID |
| 33 | AIRN: I think this is NAIRN as in Nairn Dunbar golf course missing one N |
| 34 | CALLIPYGEAN: liked this clue – anagram of NIGELLA and the first letters of Pout And You’re Captivated |
| Down | |
| 1 | CALLING-CRAB: CALLING(career) then BAR(baritone),C(contralto) reversed |
| 2 | DWAAL: DAAL(pulse) containing W |
| 3 | IN PETTO: INTO containing PET |
| 4 | PLEASEMAN: LEASE in P,MAN |
| 5 | OUTRED: anagram of DUE,TO,R |
| 6 | SHEEPO: SO containing a homophone of HEAP(Shakespearean company) |
| 7 | TOMMIED: O,M,M in TIED – you’ll find it in Chambers under “Truck system” |
| 8 | IDIST: ID(Idaho), IS, T |
| 9 | OONS: the GOONS missing the first letter, needle nardle noo |
| 12 | TASSELLGENT: TELL GENT surrounding ASS(gull) |
| 16 | THREEPING: PEER reversed in THING |
| 19 | TONNE,L,L |
| 21 | LEWISIA: anagram of (LIAISE,W) |
| 23 | SCROOP: SCOOP(newspaper exclusive) surrounding R |
| 24 | BR,ASH,Y |
| 26 | REBEL: B(bastard) in REEL – interesting clue, I don’t think I’ve seen B alone meaning “bastard”. Maybe as part of SOB |
| 27 | INURN: IN TURN missing T |
| 28 | GLIA: got this from the definition, had to look it up to get the wordplay. Apparently ITV was originally ANGLIA Television, which loses A,N |
I still don’t understand how CORNACRED (an adjective) equates to ‘sublet farmland’ (a noun). What am I missing?And at the very instant of posting I realise they are both verbs – DOH!Edited at 2015-07-19 09:28 am (UTC)