Mephisto 2995 – Don Manley

Author   glhPosted on Categories Mephisto
Apologies for going back to the old-school blog format, but the script doesn’t seem to be working for me right now – the puzzle just keeps reloading and I get errors in the console panel. Not sure if this is specific to Mephisto, hopefully it will be back in action next time.

This wasn’t too difficult though I had a hard time finding 1 across in Chambers, and I made a mess of spelling both 9 down and 31 in my grid so there is a lot of scribble on my page.

Away we go…

Across
1 SPURRY: two definitions, though the plant is found in Chambers under SPURREY
5 SITREP: SIT(post) next to REP(agent)
10 SODA ASH: SO DASH(thus hurry) surrounding A
12 ITCHES: CHES(s) next to IT(technology)
13 ANKLE: remove the top from RANKLE(poison)
14 HEADBANGER: HE(high explosive), then an anagram of BAD,
and ANGER(wrath)
15 HERRY: sounds like one might say Prince HARRY
17 LIDE: hidden in fatefuL IDEs
18 TAPADERO: anagram of TO,PARADE
22 ADESPOTA: A DESPOT(very powerful person) containing A
24 REAR: shorten REARM(give more weapons to)
26 PHIAL: sounds like FILE(body of soldiers)
28 CHITTAGONG: HIT(knock) in CT(court) then A GONG(sounding disc)
30 STOUR: double definition
31 SABKHA: anagram of BANK,HAS missing N
32 EROSIVE: EROS(love god), I’VE(this person)
33 DOTAGE: DOGE(magistrate) surrounding TA(thanks)
34 SHARNY: RN(royal navy) inside SHAY(carriage)
 
Down
1 SMIGHT: S(oldiers) and MIGHT(power)
2 PITHEAD: PI(holy) then an anagram of DEATH
3 ULCER: hidden in joyfUL CERemony
4 DEER: reversal of REED(found under REE in Chambers)
5 SOWARREE: SOREE(rail, bird) surrounding WAR
6 IDANT: IT(the thing) surrounding DAN Dare
7 RAKE IN: RAKE(dissolute fellow) IN
8 PHESES: HE’S in PES(t) – found in Chambers under FAZE
9 CHARADRIUS: anagram of HARD,ICARUS
11 ANGLOPHOBE: OP,H in A, N, GLOBE(world)
16 SEDATIVE: S(om)E, then DATIVE(case)
19 ATAGHAN: AGHA(Turkish officer) inside A and TIN missing I
20 PRISED: anagram of SPIDER
21 CAHOOT: COT(bed) outside A, HO(house)
23 ALMANY: MANY(lots) after AL Capone – an old term for Germany
25 STRIG: STRING(something ropy) missing N
27 INKER: TINKER(mess about) missing T
29 GASH: G, ASH(wood)

4 comments on “Mephisto 2995 – Don Manley”

  1. If you could send me a screenshot (or upload it to a blog in your LJ account) of the errors then I can maybe hazard a guess as to what’s gone wrong – I just tried the script in Chrome on OS X and it seems to work fine for this puzzle.
    1. I think something was funny with the site on Sunday when I was trying to do this – I tried it with today’s daily puzzle and it worked just fine.
  2. This may be the second, but probably is the first, Mephisto I’ve done completely. 9d and 31ac left me too many possibilities, and I had to go to SOED. I think my LOI was HERRY; I had no idea until the very end who William was.
  3. I found this reasonably straightforward for a top to bottom solve. I live near the Dorset Stour so that was a write in

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