Sunday Times 4436 (5 Jun 2011)

Author   daveperryPosted on Categories Weekend Cryptic
I can’t give a solving time as I solved this in bits and pieces over the whole day as I’m holidaying in Wales this week. It wasn’t a quick one though – well over an hour.

Apologies for the late blog – I’ve not been back long, so I’m still trying to get organised!

cd = cryptic def., dd = double def., rev = reversal, homophones are written in quotes, anagrams as (–)*, and removals like this

Across
1 SHOPLIFT = (POLISH)* + FT
5 I + MP + ART
9 ROT + ARIA + N
10 CU + RING
12 NEED + L + E
13 WA(TerriblE)R + RAT
15 RISE AND SHINE = IS + (SEDAN)* in RHINE
18 ATOMIC THEORY = (TRACHEOTOMY + I)*
23 TONSURED – cd
24 M(USE)UM
26 A + MOUNT
27 P(AG)ANINI
28 D(U)RESS
29 TENERIFE = TEN + (FREE)* about I
Down
1 S(A + R)ONG
2 OU + Thermodynamics + SET
3 LORE + LEI – A German siren that lured seamen to their deaths
4 FLAGon
6 MOUSERS = (OUR MESS)*
7 ACID RAIN – cd
8 TO GET HER
11 P(A)INT + ER
14 KE(STR)EL
16 MAITLAND = (LATIN + MAD)* – Frederic is generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history.
17 DOWNPOUR = DOWN + “POOR”
19 IGUANAS – (TEN IGUANAS)* = NAUSEATING – a peculiar clue which required a weird sort of reverse logic
20 ROULADE = (A LOUDER)* – I’d heard of a roulade as a dish, but hadn’t realised that it also had a musical meaning.
21 G(EMIN)I – Tracey Emin being the offensive artist
22 U + M(Premier)IRE
25 Brewer + ALE

9 comments on “Sunday Times 4436 (5 Jun 2011)”

  1. This took me a long time, too; 74 minutes in several sessions. A good deal of time wasted on 16d (never heard of him), 11d (I could only think of the philosophers Francis and Roger), and 21d (I knew it had to be GEMINI, but hadn’t a clue as to who Emin was). I also wasted bags of time on 19d, under the mistaken belief that numerals in clues refer to other clues, so I tried to incorporate CURING into the solution. Trust me: it won’t work. Can I take it that this is another convention, like not referring to living persons, that the ST ignores?
  2. Are you holidaying anywhere near Fishguard? wink wink nudge nudge

    Had to resort to aids for a couple but not LORELEI which I got right off. My next-door
    neighbour bears that alluring name…attractive, yes but certainly not dangerous. At least I think not. I think that’s the third or fourth time recently that Lorelei has cropped up.

    Aids used for MAITLAND for verification after solving and ROULADE which I knew as a dish but not a musical expression. Rather liked TONSURED, SHOPLIFT and ROTARIAN.
    About 40 minutes on and off….baseball’s on.

  3. Can anyone remember when we last saw ______ to indicate an omitted word in a Times or ST cryptic? I thought that practice had died out and was pleased that it had.
    1. I’m puzzled by this question. The uses of _____ for omitted words I remember most clearly are the ones in quotation clues – e.g. “I wandered _____ as a cloud, (Wordsworth)” for LONELY. Those have certainly died out, but the usage here was different.

      Peter Biddlecombe, Sunday Times Puzzles Editor

      1. That was rather my point. It’s so long since I’ve seen one and it obviously wasn’t an old-style missing word from quotation clue that I didn’t realise what it was. Another on-line printing error perhaps? I’m not suggesting it was invalid or unfair in any way.

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