Mephisto 2875 – Tim Moorey

Author   glhPosted on Categories Mephisto
Hmmm – well my greatest challenge here was the number of names of people, living or dead (and one where if you looked at a recent photograph, you’d be hard pressed to tell) that were used as wordplay elements and as answers – most of them have their own websites.

I see that one of the other regular Mephisto setters has a crossword in Latin in the Times this weekend. I have tried crosswords in French and Spanish but I don’t think I’d fare to well in a Latin crossword unless AMAMUS was clued as “A mother mouse”.

Nice to see Tim Moorey giving a shout out to my adopted state at 23 across!

Away we go…

Across
1 MUM,CHANCE(perhaps)
8 BAC(k): very common term over here, where we say post-bac instead of postgrad
11 ARISTOLOGY: ARISTO and (holida)Y containing LOG(to fine)
12 RAN INTO: anagram of IGNORANT missing the G
14 ILK’A: A(Australian) after (s)ILK
15 SPEWER: PEW in SER(sermon)
16 MINNELLI: Liza MINELLI was the star of the movie “Cabaret”. Clued here as actress and Charles II mistress NELL Gywn in a MINI (which I don’t think would have happened)
19 METI: ITEM reversed
21 BOTULIN: (BUILT,ON)*
23 TAR, HEEL
25 ET AL: LA(v)(ladies) reversed after (cu)E, ‘T
26 RAIL(abuse),HEAD(chief)
27 SIN,BAD
30 OPPO: OPPOSITE(facing) missing SITE
32 EINKORN: anagram of INNER+OK
33 IN,ORDINARY
34 PUG: double def
35 ASPERATED: RAT in A SPEED
 
Down
2 URAL: PLURAL without PL
3 CRIANT: CRIT around A,N
4 HIND: double def
5 ASTILBE: STIL(l) in ABE Lincoln
6 COMP,ITAL
7 ELSE: ELAPSE missing AP
8 BO(man),SWELL
9 CYPRINODONT: cod is the anagram indicator for (PRICY)* then NOT containing DON
10 PRIMATESHIP: or PRIMATES HIP
13 RETINA: RE, TINA Turner
17 ISATIN: or 1 SAT IN
18 EMERALDS: (MALES,RED)*
20 CRANNOG: GONNA, RC all reversed
22 OLIVINE: (OIL)* then Frederick VINE
24 CH,OKRA
28 BORA: A, ROB(pirate) all reversed
29 SNAR(k)
31 PRUE: take PURE and move the R up for the unknown (to me) PRUE Leith

2 comments on “Mephisto 2875 – Tim Moorey”

  1. Not particularly difficult but an enjoyable puzzle I thought

    As to crosswords in Latin – non pro me gratias

  2. This wasn’t too bad but I needed a couple of goes at it, and I had to cheat to get 1ac where I got fixated on ‘dutch’ and struggled with chance = perhaps.
    I will remember the expression at 23ac for the next time I’m in NC, which will be early next month.

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