Tim Moorey has taken a break from the Sunday Times rotation (I guess we will find out next week who the replacement is), but I was relieved to find out he was going to continue with the Mephisto. There were some tricky bits in the bottom left corner, but this was a fun romp through some of the more intriguing parts of Chambers.
I’m out of town so I’m chancing the scheduler here, I hope it works…
Away we go
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | PACHAK: anagram (batting) of CHAP with alternating letters in mArK |
| 7 | SEMI: TIMES returned missing the first letter |
| 10 | OLFACTION: LO reversed followed by FACTION |
| 11 | SECT: INSECT(insignificant person) missing IN |
| 13 |
PAIDLE: PAID(was punished) then L |
| 14 | GORGIA: GEORGIA missing the E |
| 16 | ARDS: YARDS missing Y |
| 18 | TAVERT: TAVERN missing the last letter, T |
| 20 | BEE-EATERS: BEEFEATERS (a brand of gin that protects the monarchy, I think) missing F |
| 21 | ISRAELITE: anagram of EARLIEST containing I |
| 24 | DUETTI: DUE(as in “due west”),T,TI |
| 25 | OSSA: take F away from FOSSA |
| 28 |
NOVATE: NOE |
| 30 | SARONG: remove both W’s from SAW WRONG |
| 31 | JOSH: double def, one a biblical book |
| 32 | STAGNATES: STAG(spectulator on the stock market),NATES |
| 33 | TEDY: TEDDY missing a D |
| 34 | ARREAR: RE in ARAR(sandarac) |
| Down | |
| 1 | PISS-A-BED: PISSED(weed) around AB(Alberta) |
| 2 | AREG: GER,A all reversed |
| 3 | COCO-DE-MER: COMER(one who is promising) containing CODE – in Chambers volume is given as one of the meanings for CODE but I don’t think I can figure out how they go together |
| 4 | ALOGIA: A(about),LOG,I,A(afternoon) |
| 5 | ZA,PATE,A,DO,S |
| 6 | SC,ALAR: lacking direction mathematically |
| 7 | STIR: double def |
| 8 | MOLE RATS: harbour is the fifth definition of MOLE in Chambers, then RATS(damn) |
| 9 | INES: remove the exterior letters from FINEST |
| 12 | DISTRINGAS: SAID reversed around STRING |
| 15 | PENIS,TONE: a cloth you should keep away from a cock paddle or else you might piss-a-bed |
| 17 | REGULATE: RATE(rebuke) around LUGE reversed |
| 19 | TREACHER: TEACHER containing R |
| 22 | S,TONNE |
| 23 |
ENVIER: EN, then VIE |
| 26 | PSST: hidden in striP’S STarkers |
| 27 | DOGY: take a G out of DOGGY, which apparently canmean |
| 29 | ESDA: hidden in tuESDAy |
I thought perhaps CODE as in say Building CODE to mean a volume – that is to say a book detailing a set of standards
I had forgotten hyphenated words aren’t indicated so in hunting through Chambers might have seen but discounted Piss-A-Bed and Coco-De-Mer.
On “code”, my library card OED access finds:
†4. A collection of writings forming a book, such as the Old or the New Testament. Also, a recognized division of such forming a volume. Obs.
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra iv. i. §13 Then having learned the Hebrew Tongue, and procured a Copy of the Hebrew Code.
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dict. Britannicum (ed. 2) Code, a Volume or Book.
1794 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity I. i. ix. §3 The Christian scriptures were divided into two codes or volumes.
1794 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity I. i. ix. 288 Intending by the one a code or collection of Christian sacred writings, as the other expressed the code or collection of Jewish sacred writings.