Quick Cryptic No 351 by Izetti

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1. Seemed easier than most of late but I still just failed to break through the 10-minute barrier (11). Never heard of the typeface which is not offered on the long list of those available to me as standard.
2. 8 minutes for my first quickie in a while. Didn’t know the font, and like Chris dabbled with ‘elect’.

   Paganini is best known today for the variations written on his 24th Caprice by Brahms and Lloyd-Webber.

   Back to the puzzle, and I thought that the acrosses were particularly strong, notably 1, 10, 15 and, my favourite, 5.

   1. There is also the well-known Rachmaninov variations.
      1. Unspammed
      2. Thanks for that – will listen to it at the office tomorrow.
3. COD definitely 10A. I will now spend the rest of the day chuckling at the idea of someone somewhere thinking of themselves as the Pea King. I bet someone does, too.

   Re Genesis – is it not described as an Old Book because it’s a book of the Old Testament?

   1. ..but you can’t get much older than Genesis!

      Considerably faster than yesterday where the word “Quick” in “Quick Cryptic” certainly did not seem to apply.

4. I found this a lot easier too… held up only by thinking ‘stupid’ rather than ‘studies’ was the definition for 19d. The champion vegetable grower was my favourite too.

   Edited at 2015-07-14 08:33 am (UTC)

5. Another DNF, although it was easier than yesterdays. Got undone by 5a and 7d for which I couldn’t get ‘infidel’ out of my head, even though it didn’t fit and matched none of the checkers. 18d went in unparsed.
   Like others my clear COD was 10a.
6. Thanks Chris for the explanation of Elite – never heard of that as a type font but bunged it in anyway. I suspect 10a lives in Norfolk – there are lots of peas here.
7. I did get Elite as the typeface. I just remembered that when we used those things called ‘typewriters’, the type was either Elite (12 characters to the inch) or Pica (10 to the inch). I always remember that the word ‘typewriter’ sometimes comes up in quizzes as being “what 10 letter word can you spell using only the keys on the top row of a qwerty keyboard?”
8. Izetti’s puzzles are always pleasingly precise so I was encouraged when I saw his name today.
   I solved it fairly quickly as the clueing helped whenever there was a doubt (e.g. 7d).
   My LOI was 18d; I thought it had to be Elite but couldn’t parse it. Now I know.
   David

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