Mephisto 2925 – Don Manley

I think I was 50/50 on having the advantage here – I was very familiar with the name for rivers in the US, particularly in the Dutch-settled areas of Pennsylvania. On the other hand I didn’t feel good about dredging up the name of a protein that also turned out to be a minister from 50 years ago.

Some generous anagrams around the outside made this an exercise from the outside in, though I recall finishing in the upper right corner.

Away we go…

Across
1 FUNAMBULATED: anagram of FAT,UNABLE and MUD
9 PENSIL: ENS(being) inside LIP reversed
12 ROBLE: R(king) then NOBLE missing the first letter
13 DYTICUS: I,C(see) in an anagram of STUDY
14 SOBA: S.O.B. then A
15 MERI,NO
16 EPICARP: anagram of PIE, then CARP
17 NOT-I: IT, ON all reversed
20 KA,CHINA
23 SAHARAN: A,HAS all reversed then RAIN missing I
25 DIV,A
27 SERIATE: anagram of TERESA,I
29 LINT,IE: variation of LINNET
31 BLIN: BLIN(d)
32 LACUNAR: LUNAR(silver) with A,C(astle) inside
33 ABIDE: ID(ea) inside ABE Lincoln
34 KILL,AS: in the Northeast of the US you’ll find a lot of rivers with -KILL at the end of the name, such as the Schuylkill river that runs through Philadelphia
35 RESTRINGENTS: REST IN GENTS containing R
 
Down
1 FORSET-SELLER: FELLER(man) containing an anagram of STORES
2 NEBBISH: NEB(bill) then BISHOP missing OP
3 ANLACE: ANL (Anti Nazi League) then ACE
4 BIDARKA: BIA(s) containing DARK
5 LATENCE: TEN in LACE – unless it is TEN in LACY
6 AMIR: RIMA reversed
7 TACIT: TACT holding I
8 DESOLATENESS: anagram of TO,ENDLESS,SEA
10 SERA: S(ubside),ERA
11 TUNING: TURNING(deviation) missing (conducto)R
18 RADIAN: RADIANT missing T
19 GRAINER: RA in GIN, then ER
21 ANEURIN: a reference to ANEURIN Bevan
22 IDALIAN: of Aphrodite – Princess IDA then NAIL reversed
24 WIBBLE: WILE containing alternative letters in BaBy
26 INCUS: INCURS losing (bur)R
28 REAL: I think this is meant to be (fune)REAL
30 TUFT: hidden reversed in brillianT FUTure

2 comments on “Mephisto 2925 – Don Manley”

  1. George, at 28D I had (memo)RIAL

    Agree LATENCE for 5D

    Experience as yours for anagrams but knew Bevan of course, not so familiar with US rivers

  2. I found this reasonably straightforward. EPICARP helped me a couple of days later when ENDOCARP came up in the daily puzzle.
    I thought it was memoRIAL too. And I think 5dn has to be LATENCE.
    I nearly put BABBLE at 24dn. One of the meanings of BALE in Chambers is ‘mischief’, which seemed quite close to ‘trick’. Not quite close enough, fortunately.

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