Times 24755 Rooster Cogburn Rides Again

Solving time 25 minutes

A reasonable enough puzzle that entertained without over taxing the grey matter.

Across
1 ACROBAT – A-CRO(B)AT; Split (the city) personality=CROAT;
5 FARRAGO – FAR(RA)GO; Royal Artillery=RA;
9 LOVELIEST – (to Seville)*; which is indeed a most beautiful city;
10 SAPID – SA(PI)D;
11 DITCH – D(rain)-ITCH; I like “water from drain”;
12 SITUATION – two definitions; my favourite sitcom was Yes, Minister;
14 FROZEN,SHOULDER – think Puccini and La Boheme;
17 EMPIRE-BUILDING – Parkinson in practice;
21 BELOW,ZERO – BE-LOW-ZERO;
23 FRUMP – F-RUMP;
24 RATTY – two definitions; think Wind in the Willows;
25 CISALPINE – (in special)*; “ground” is anagrind;
26 SUSPEND – S(US)PEND;
27 YIDDISH – SID-DIY reversed + H=husband; shalom;
 
Down
1 ALLUDE – A-sounds like lewd; advert?;
2 RIVETER – R-I(VET)E-R; R=rook (chess); that’s=IE;
3 BALTHAZAR – BALT-HAZAR(d); supposed bearer of gift as one of three wise men – alternative spelling of king Belshazzar, last king of Babylon;
4 TREASONABLE – T(REASON)ABLE; Guy Fawkes, Hanoi Jane, et al;
5 FIT – F-IT; that wine that only exists in crosswordland;
6 RASTA – A-TSAR reversed; Rastafarians worship emperor Haile Selassie;
7 APPLIED – another two meanings; the mathematics associated with Newton’s Laws of motion;
8 ORDINARY – (O + dry + rain)*; falling is anagrind;
13 TCHAIKOVSKY – T(CH-AI-KO)V-SKY; box=TV; central heating=CH; fine=AI; floor=KO; he wrote scores!;
15 UNDEFILED – (need fluid)*;
16 BERBERIS – BERBER-IS; big family of hardy shrubs;
18 PILATES – SET-A-LIP all reversed; Joseph’s core strength;
19 NAUTILI – hidden (tu)NA-UTILI(se);
20 SPEECH – S(P)EE-CH;
22 WAYNE – sounds like wane; Marion Morrison 1907-1979 who walked tall and shot from the hip;
25 COD – DOC reversed (one of Snow White’s seven);

50 comments on “Times 24755 Rooster Cogburn Rides Again”

  1. I’m still learning how to solve this cryptic and I love this blog – so helpful! 5d still makes no sense to me – could someone please tell me where this ‘wine’ comes from? Thank you.
    1. It comes from the it as in “Gin & It” which means gin & italian vermouth.. it is one of those little abbreviations, similar to sa = sex appeal and u/non u, which survive here in The Times crossword and nowhere else on earth..

      Found this easy to start and hard to finish.. the rasta/sapid crosser last to go in.
      But it was a very fine effort by the setter, well done you & don’t listen to Jimbo 😉

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