Solving time: 24:46
Would have been quicker if not for the two fours at 13ac and 25ac — especially the former where MANE looked to be on the cards for a while. The key for many solvers will, I suspect, be 14dn which gives a lot of help with an otherwise difficult corner.
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1 | AFFAIR. A (alpha); F,F (females); AIR (give public expression to). |
5 | EIGH(TEE)N. TEE (support) bracketed by an anagram of ‘Hinge’. Surface reference to George Logan and Patrick Fyffe, female impersonators; and potential alpha females. |
9 | ANDROMACHE. AND; MA inside an anagram of ‘chore’. Hector’s wife. Also the name of an Amazon who fought Heracles. Alpha female again? |
10 | Omitted. The answer’s in that general direction. |
11 | H(I,B)ERNIA. In this case, the hernia is assumed to be to the stomach (corporation), though it could be to any organ. |
12 | N(A,D)INE. NINE is our cardinal (number). Not one for those who like any old boys’/girls’ names as answers; but easily solvable. |
13 | HARE. Homophone for ‘hair’ (shock). The form is said animal’s lair. Spent, as noted, far too long trying to justify MANE. |
15 | ASSASSIN. AS (when); SAS (elite troops); SIN (stray from path). The ‘mark’ is the assassin’s target. One of those defs. |
18 | CAST,RATI{on}. |
19 | C,ALL. C (about) — as in ‘it’s your call’ (decision). |
21 | BODEGA. Reverse of AGED, OB (alumnus). ‘Concern [business] for alcohol’ is the def. Cropped up only just the other day. A grocery store; or a wine shop. Always brings to mind the line from Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes. (Love that early key change from Eb to E … and all the bass bits.) |
23 | NERVE G,AS. ‘Bottle’: slang for mettle, grit, guts, nerve. |
25 | AIDE. Move the A from ‘idea’ (thought) to first position: ‘thought to have A first’. |
26 | OPALESCENT. ALE,SC inside OPEN,T. ‘Shot’ as in shot through with several colours. |
27 | LEFT BANK. |
28 | TO(WAR)D. TOD is our legendary fox. Toward: (‘once’=archaic), “going on; in progress: Is something new toward?”. Mac Oxford. |
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2 | FUNGI. F1 containing an anagram of ‘gun’; a biological kingdom. |
3 | AGREEMENT. Triple def. BETROTHAL was an early temptation. |
4 | RE(MIN)D. |
5 | EXCLAMATION MARK. Anagram: a romantic meal, inc X; K{issing}. Def=‘this!’. |
6 | GREENE,ST. Talking of whom and 28ac, the Wik tells us this: Graham Greene thought Potter was suffering some sort of emotional disturbance when the tale [of Mr Tod] was composed, but Potter denied the allegation and observed only that she was suffering the after-effects of the ’flu. She deprecated Greene’s ‘Freudian school of criticism’. Potter 1, Greene 0. |
7 | T,READ. On edit: could equally (nay, better) be: T, RE (on), AD (notice). Thanks to joekobi. |
8 | ESSENTIAL. Anagram: sees,latin. Two indicators, one for each element: ‘new’ and ‘translation’. |
14 | AN(ATOM)ISE. Anise is our plant. |
16 | SACRED COW. Two defs, one using ‘lower’=COW. |
17 | S(AR)AT,OG,A. SAT including RA (reversed); OG (own goal); A. |
20 | Omitted. Chap from Mesopotamia is desperate. (So am I!) |
22 | EJECT. Reverse JE (in Calais, I); ECT. |
24 | ABNER. Hidden reversed. Saul’s cousin. |
Derek
HIBERNIA, ASSASSIN, CASTRATI, our old friend BODEGA and ANATOMISE (where I was obsessed with ‘NE’ for ‘source of nuclear energy’) were all excellent, but my COD goes to SARATOGA for the clear wordplay which enables solvers like me who are unfamiliar with the battle to get it nonetheless. The ‘blunder in field’ for own goal is top notch.
I wasn’t sure Mr ‘Tod’ was entirely fair, but the book is by Beatrix Potter and it celebrates its 100th birthday this year, so no probelm there. Just my ignorance. I managed to invent authors called ‘Grosse’ and ‘Gauche’ at 6dn before the penny finally dropped.
Thanks to McT for helping with the only clue I couldn’t fully parse (‘form’ = lair at 13), after I had worked out that ‘shot’ must have to do with variety of colours.
“Tod” is surely a very common name for a fox? It is probably Saxon, it was the word in ordinary use in Scotland a few years ago, probably is still amongst the country people. In the same way “brock” or “gray” is the country name for a badger. I should call them “brocks” – both names are used in Westmoreland. “Brockholes”, “Graythwaite” are examples of place names; also Broxbourne and Brockhampton […] “Hey quoth the Tod/its a braw bright night!/The wind’s in the west/and the moon shines bright” — Mean to say you never heard that?
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Mr._Tod
Edited at 2012-09-26 04:21 am (UTC)
Copeta for bodega and Nadina for Nadine.
Being picky, is the “of” in the opalescent clue justified? Is opalescent “shot of” or just “shot”? Also I’m not very familiar with sc. Can it stand for “that is”? The list of abbreviations I have just found defines it as “one may know” or “to wit”.
On a more general point, do definitions like “Mark my target” have a common descriptor in crossword parlance? First person narrative, or something like that?
Not sure what the “mark my target” types of def should be called. But there’s another one of them at 18ac: “high scores for them”. “Elaborated pronominals” might work as a descriptor since it’s essentially the pronoun that’s the def.
Edited at 2012-09-26 08:49 am (UTC)
A very satisfying 25 minutes that required close application. The clue to SARATOGA is very good although I solved it from definition – surely one of the best known British defeats in all of history?
Speaking of which, I was led up a very long garden path by the HARE, among other satisfying and clever definitions. 5 ac I thought particularly brilliant, but there were many nice things here as posters have already opined.
Not convinced that bizarre, unsupported remarks above should relate to this neat effort, but each to his own.
Edited at 2012-09-26 11:24 am (UTC)
I believe that the last of the CASTRATI was Alessandro Moreschi, whose recordings, though enjoyed by many, give me an experience akin to trying to solve this puzzle.
Took 34:30 to solve. I put a big star next to 5a, an absolute corker of a clue.
Cap doffed to the setter.
I probably didn’t expect to see such remarks after having solved a puzzle that seems to have gone down rather well in the end, but I probably jumped at you when I should have remained in my box. Yesterday’s puzzle, which I too found enormously tough, may have paved the way for what was said early on.
I’m Chris Gregory by the way, and I’ll get round to providing myself with an ID here in due course. Many thanks for the wisdom as we moved through the thread, and here’s to you all.
Chris G.
All been said. I’ll just add another endorsement to the absurdly clever EIGHTEEN.
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