Whoops, sorry I’m late. Had it in my head that my day was next week. Luckily this is a very straightforward offering from Corelli which I managed in just under 6 minutes. Nice surfaces on the whole, hard to pick a favourite, probably 8a. Overall a good example of what the quickie should be. I would have posted quicker if there was internet in this tunnel.
1 | Rugby player’s support for part of hospital (4,7) |
PROP FORWARD – PROP is support, + FOR WARD | |
8 | Covered in snow, he really is impossible to find! (7) |
NOWHERE – hidden word sNOW HE REally | |
9 | Little bird, just beat it! (5) |
PIPIT – To just beat someone is to PIP them, + IT | |
10 | Unorthodox letters from Aethelric (9) |
HERETICAL – anagram (‘letters from’) of AETHELRIC | |
12 | Off and on, Natasha gives exclamation of pleasure (3) |
AAH – alternate letters or nAtAsHa | |
13 | About to retweet sharp response (6) |
RETORT – RE (about) + TO + RT (Retweet, which I gather is a term used on this new-fangled electric inter-net by the young people) | |
15 | Punches landed also, we hear (3-3) |
ONE-TWO – sounds like WON TOO | |
17 | Peg is to pour, missing out Mark (3) |
TEE – TEEM (pour) missing M for mark. Notice the capital M is superfluous. Capitalisation and punctuation are legitimately used to throw the solver. | |
18 | Hawk and wren Margo trained (9) |
WARMONGER – anagram (‘trained’) of WREN MARGO | |
20 | Swede delivered around start of January (5) |
BJORN – BORN around J | |
22 | Excited, maybe, preparing to answer quiz question? (7) |
BUZZING – crypric definition | |
23 | Former board member, Yankee, not in the book (2-9) |
EX-DIRECTORY -EX (former) + DIRECTOR (board member) + Y (Yankee, NATO alphabet) |
Down | |
1 | Colditz prisoner, perhaps, with little hesitation, might (5) |
POWER – POW (prisoner of war) + ER | |
2 | Get rid of deliveries on Thursday before argument (9) |
OVERTHROW – OVER (6 legal cricket deliveries) + TH (thursday) + ROW | |
3 | Run from church in warm coat (6) |
FLEECE – FLEE + CE (Church of England) | |
4 | Sort of theatre for traveller (3) |
REP – Double definition. The first is short for repertory | |
5 | Protective coating putting stop to poisoner (7) |
ASPHALT – stop is HALT, poisoner is ASP | |
6 | Wife, roughly as old as us, taking heart from the bottle? (5,7) |
DUTCH COURAGE -Wife is DUTCH (no idea why) + C (roughly) + OUR AGE | |
7 | A lubricant he’s given out, not very generous (12) |
UNCHARITABLE – anagram (‘given out’) of A LUBRICANT HE | |
11 | Capital place to see the animals here! (6,3) |
LONDON ZOO – cryptic definition | |
14 | Hotel do breaks: it’s what the climber needs (7) |
TOEHOLD – anagram (‘breaks’) of HOTEL DO | |
16 | Sara, bickering, holds tongue (6) |
ARABIC – hidden word: sARA BICkering | |
19 | Goes round yelling at first, claiming I’m filthy … (5) |
GRIMY – first letters of Goes Round Yelling placed around IM | |
21 | … and not what’s expected, not quite (3) |
NOR – NORM, truncated. |
A little sticky in places.
Last few: warmonger, grimy, asphalt, pipit.
Csod: buzzing, nowhere, Dutch courage and grimy.
Like the new glossary and I also discovered the snitch which looks useful for finding easier puzzles to practice on.
Thanks.
Edited at 2019-06-14 08:04 am (UTC)
Please feel free to chip in with suggested additions, (in reasonably common use) or amendments. I’m also on the lookout for really good example clues to illustrate entries.
Since I was coming here I did do today’s quickie and found it rather harder than I expected .. mainly because 9ac and 5dn took longer to arrive than they should have done!
Btw I find this blog so helpful – I am a very slowly improving novice!
Edited at 2019-06-14 09:25 am (UTC)
An enjoyable solve, completed in 13.57 with LOI 6d and my favourite being ASPHALT.
Thanks to curarist
Cockney rhyming slang
andyf
NeilC
Still enjoyable.
Thanks
SRT
[CRS = Cockney rhyming slang – suggested addition to glossary]
About 8 min – when I try to be quicker I usually submit with a typo 🙁
Edited at 2019-06-14 02:55 pm (UTC)