Mephisto 2913 – Don Manley

Author   glhPosted on Categories Mephisto
Took me a little longer to get into this puzzle, and kind of worked my way from the bottom up. There was one entry that struck me on the right hand side as looking very familiar, and I thought it might have been an Azed clue-writing competition word (the next one comes out tomorrow!), but it appears I knew it because it appeared twice in a couple of months in Mephisto puzzles last year; Tim Moorey used it in Mephisto 2839 and Paul McKenna in Mephisto 2852.

Away we go…

Across
1 BRATTISH,ED
10 PANDEMIA: AIMED and NAP all reversed
11 BRAE: BARE with the middle two characters switched
12 CHARR: CHAR(cleaner),R. Found under CHAR in Chambers
13 OURARI: odd clue this one – the definition is “tree” and it’s HOUR(part of day),ARID(very dry) losing the outside letters of the two together
15 TOEA: TEA containing O
17 NATS: STAN(d) reversed
19 DYNAMO: MANY revesed in OO
20 METAPELET: MET surrounding (hote)L after ETAPE(day’s march)
21 TAMARINDS: IN, D(arknes)S after the river TAMAR
25 ATTRIT: TA reversed, and RIT(musically slowing down) surrounding (deser)T
27 PATE: PATER missing R
29 O,URN
31 ITERUM: IT(Italian vermouth) and RUM with E inside
32 SWALE: WALES with the S moved to the front
33 VISE: archaic form of VISA (with an accent on the E), and look
34 SCIENCED: anagram of DISCONNECTED less DON’T
35 PETRARCHAN: PET(cat, possibly),RAN surrounding ARCH
 
Down
2 RAHU: RU(rugby union) restricting A,H
3 ANATTA: A,N,then half of ATTAcked
4 TERETE: anagram of TREE with ET(little space monster) inside
5 IMPACTITE: not P,ACT inside I,MITE but the other way round
6 HAUD: HAD surrounding U – a version of HOLD which can mean property
7 DRAMA: A,MARD(spoilt) all reversed
8 WARIMENT: WAR then IT containing MEN
9 DEINOTHERE: anagram of THE,DEER surrounding IN(home),O
12 CONSTATIVE: CONS, TAT, I’VE
14 RINE: hidden in paupeR IN Emergency
16 ADANSONIA: SON in A,NI in ADA
18 APATETIC: APATHETIC missing H
22 ARAR: RA(Royal Aacdemy) in RA(Republic of Argentina) reversed in
23 DO,USER
24 TANACH: TANA(Indian police station),CH
26 THESP: HE’S in PT reversed(rising)
28 MUST: sounds like MUSSED
30 ILEA: I, then LEA(n) – when I hear LEAN to describe meat I think of the Jack Sprat rhyme

5 comments on “Mephisto 2913 – Don Manley”

  2. No problem with this one which was a steady left to right solve. Agreed with Vinyl about BRATTISH-ED at 1A.
  3. Whooops – I was in a rush yesterday. Ta for the corrections and apologies for the misattribution
  4. Just finished this today, after a week that was too busy for blogging and Mephisto solving. Nothing too hard. I didn’t understand 6dn, but that was because in spite of understanding the wordplay perfectly I somehow thought I was looking for a programming language called AIA,

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