Solving time: not recorded.
Couldn’t record a time. Done in various places including a panel-beater’s shop and on the bus home. But I felt this could have been a good half-hour puzzle under STP. Most trouble in the NW corner where (horror!) I was fooled by the anagram (4dn) and made other silly errors.
Only 28 clues today; so you need a few long answers to get started. And note what may be a record number of ER/RE-constructions without a queen to be seen.
Apologies to Tim for missing yesterday’s blog. I was caught up in a tense game of Scopa when the blog came up.
Across | |
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1 | DOSS{i}ER. |
5 | DOGBERRY. DO G{ood} and ERR inside BY. The night constable from Much Ado. |
9 | BELITTLE. Take the A from BATTLE and replace with our favourite (and first) priestly person, ELI. |
10 | AWEIGH. Homophonic for ‘away’. |
11 | GOTCHA. GOTH with C (ca, about) inside and A. (Not what I was saying much during the Scopa round.) |
12 | MU,SQUASH. Our first (reversed) hesitation-marker (UM). |
14 | BINARY SYSTEM. Anagram: ‘mess by in-tray’. |
17 | INCAN,DESCENT. |
20 | MAN,DRAKE. |
22 | PASS {i} ON. |
23 | AGHA,ST. I take it that the ‘goes down’ bit is a case of redundancy meaning ‘goes down in the little white squares’. |
25 | REV,E(ILL)E. Our second priestly person. ILL (bad) in the middle letters of {w}EE{k}. |
26 | PROP(O,S)ER. PROPER (right) inc. O (ring) and S{peech}. |
27 | RI(DIN)G. Odd letters of DeIgN inside RIG. |
Down | |
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2 | ORE,GON{e}. |
3 | SWITCH,BOARD. First tempted by NOTICEboard, with the implied ‘give NOTICE to’ for ‘change’. |
4 | RETRAINED. The anagram I couldn’t see for toffee: ‘and retire’. Y’all know what I was looking for. |
5 | DREAMER. Cryptic def. and perhaps the weakest clue of the day. |
6 | G,LASS. Last letter of ‘self-regardinG’ and &lit. |
7 | Omitted. I’ll never find another one. |
8 | REGISTER. Our second hesitation-marker (ER) and before that (=‘given pride of place’) RE (about), GIST (heart, as in ‘kernel’, ‘crux’). And there was me thinking ‘given pride of place’ had something to do with LION-ISED. |
13 | UNSATISFIED. Anagram: ‘I ain’t fussed’. |
15 | SLEEP OVER. What you’re having if you’re (the clue to) 10ac. The bugle sounding 25ac tells you this too. |
16 | END,ANGER. Variation on a well-tried theme. |
18 | S,HEARER. Also an –ER. |
19 | GO,BLIN{d}. |
21 | Omitted. The abominable sloat. |
24 | ASP. It hisses and is venomous. And it’s A, S{ibilance}, P{oison}. My COD for the elegant &lit. |
Tough, but enjoyable, puzzle, with the NE providing the most resistance. A technical DNF, as I had to concult Chambers for the rat at 7ac – disappointing, as I had the reversed ‘um’ but forgot the golden ‘if a u, then a q’ rule.
COD to RETRAINED.
Quite difficult I felt even though my concentration was broken. I solved it NW, SW, SE, NE usually a sign that I’m making hard work of it. I couldn’t remember who SHEARER was and couldn’t get the footballer out of my mind. Good puzzle.
I whipped through the bottom half pretty quickly, but the top was tough. I did have ‘tripper’ instead of ‘dreamer’ for a while, slowing me down until I saw ‘Dogberry’. The clues were nearly all of high quality, and I agree with Jim this was a fine puzzle.
Some interesting cluing which, if I were in the wrong mood, I would have probably got annoyed with. However, INCANDESCENT and GOBLIN were laugh out loud moments, SHEARER unknown but highly probable, and PROPOSER and ASP particularly well crafted. The snake gets my CoD.
Credit to the setter for the well-disguised anagram and nice surface in 4. I agree with the blogger that the clue to DREAMER was weak. I didn’t like the otiose “goes down” in 23, but the explanation in the blog does give it some validity. still not keen on that sort of trickery. “Yes and no” in 7 also threw me. “Yes” is unnecessary even if explainable on the surface.
Despite the few niggles above, it was a very good puzzle, made tough by some indirect definitions and devious wordplay.
Clue of the Day: 24dn (ASP).
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I emailed 7dPenguin yesterday to ask if he was swotting up on Shakespearean characters ready for 22nd Oct. Going by today I think I’ll add them to the US state capitals and labours of Heracles I’ve decided to try and learn.
The “yes and no” bit of 7 seems superfluous and threw me a bit. I think Incan descent has become a bit of a chestnut.
Whenever I see their name it brings to mind Spike Milligan’s euphemism “Swonnicles.”
(revisiting old puzzles… finished it this time, didn’t 5 years ago. Am I getting better, or is there residual memory of the more unusual answers?)
Rob
Like Penfold, I also was put off by what I also assume was the unnecessary use of “Yes and No” in the ewe clue….or am I missing something?
Ewe-tipping
I found this extremely tough. Like others the bottom half went in easily but I went 20 minutes in the top half without solving a clue. This was largely because I put GEMMA in at 6dn. I was partly prompted by “self-regarding girl” for “Emma”, which I thought was neat, until I eventually had a proper look at the clue and realised it didn’t work.
Tons of unknowns today: too many to mention. At least I remembered AWEIGH from another appearance where it prompted some discussion I believe.
I still don’t understand “yes and no” in 7dn. Isn’t it completely superfluous?
I also don’t understand how a SLEEP OVER can be a result of a REVEILLE. Can anyone explain?
Sleep is over when REVEILLE sounds!!
Thanks.
In 15dn, the result of a REVEILLE is not a SLEEP OVER but simply SLEEP OVER (cf. “game over”).
SHEARER, DOGBERRY, MUSQUASH from wordplay.
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