Solving time 15 minutes
My thanks to Tim for swapping with me two weeks ago and fielding the DBE puzzle.
This one was kind to me being relatively straightforward but with some good wordplays to unravel. I can’t see anything in it to get too worked up about.
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1 | ATLANTIS – AT LAST = finally then change direction S to N + I’S = one’s; Plato’s imaginary place in the Atlantic; |
5 | TROPIC – T(R)OPIC; Cancer and Capricorn; |
9 | NEWSREEL – NEWS=all points + REEL sounds like “real”; created by Pathé Frères, they preceeded the main film; |
10 | VERIFY – REV reversed – IF – Y(outh); what one did after punching cards before reading them into Flossie; |
12 | FOR,PETE’S,SAKE – reference Disney character Peg-Leg Pete; an old phrase replaced today by shorter epithets; |
15 | ALIBI – hidden (beng)ALI-BI(stro); does Chris Patten have one?; |
16 | ROUNDHEAD – Spooner’s “hound read”; Cromwellian Tommy; |
18 | BAKSHEESH – (b+he+she+ask)*; almost a way of life in say Egypt; |
19 | FRILL – F(lowing)-RILL; |
20 | UNOFFICIALLY – UN-OFF-ICI-ALLY; a French=UN; friend=ALLY; going=OFF; here in Paris=ICI; officieusement; |
24 | INKPOT – (to pink)*; when I was at school each desk had an INKPOT in it for use with steel knib pens – biros were banned; |
25 | STRANDED – two meanings; 1=like rope; 2=George Entwistle; |
26 | ENTITY – E-N(TIT)Y; singer=bird; |
27 | EDITRESS – TIDE reversed – RE=on – SS=ship; Rebekah Brooks no doubt; |
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1 | ANNA – Karenina; weak clue; |
2 | LAWN – two meanings; 1=linen fabric; 2=well maintained piece of grass; |
3 | NARROWISH – N-ARROW-IS-H; new=N; husband=H; back to the Roundheads; |
4 | INEXPERIENCE – IN-EX-P(IRE reversed)ENCE; |
6 | REEDS – sounds like “reads”; stops as in organ pipes; |
7 | PHILATELIC – PHI-LATE-L-IC; strange hobby shared by FDR and John Lennon; |
8 | CLYDESDALE – CLYDE-(leads)*; huge horses that used to pull the brewers drays; |
11 | STOUT-HEARTED – ST(OUT-HE)ARTED; HE=High Explosive; ten such men will produce ten thousand more; |
13 | TAMBOURINE – (but in a more)*; Morris Dancers are virtuosos; |
14 | PICKPOCKET – PICK-POCK-E-(coas)T; “a dip” is old London slang for a type of tealeaf; |
17 | DEFOLIANT – (fined a lot)*; elders are trees; Agent Orange; |
21 | FLOAT – two meanings; 1=aimlessly move; 2=an obscure trowel; |
22 | EDGE – “on edge” is ill at ease; |
23 | ODDS – ODD-S; saint=S; betters are punters; |
Annoyed at not breaking the 10 today with perhaps the easiest puzzle of the year … now duly assigned to the /Nursery_Slopes directory.
The only vocab problems might be the organ stops (6dn) and the trowel (21dn). But with the checkers, that would merely turn them into a vocab lesson. Nice anagram at 17dn (NOT DEFLATION!)
I was a bit puzzled by “fatigue” but got the boat song without any problems. The one that raised far fewer hackles than I thought it might was the tripe about “get them in singles”
I remember inkpots at school as described by Jim. We had to make up the ink using powder and water.
The rest pretty easy, and a CoD Spoonerism to raise a smile as well.
Didn’t know a jingle was especially one of those discs on a tambourine. Now I do.
Welcome back, Jim – as ever, esoteric, entertaining and evocative additions to the mechanics of explanation. Où sont les encriers d’hier?
11 down. I share Jim’s recollection of the song from New Moon but, I’m ashamed to say, mainly because Morecambe and Wise famously murdered it in their 1973 Christmas show. (5’ 40’’ in).
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Edited at 2012-11-13 10:36 pm (UTC)
Spent quite a while struggling with various spellings of ‘philately’, trying to find a plausible tenth letter to stick in it, before finally rereading the clue.
Didnae know the Disney, paused over the LAWN, and (for the umpteenth time) had to work out CLYDESDALE the hard way.
I liked STRANDED and the Spoonerism.
I was familiar with a plasterer’s float and knew of Peg Leg Pete but wasn’t aware he was a Disney character. The pickpocket started out as ????market, that dip you have with Cromer crab.
I am still doing the back puzzles, I’m up to November 3. So far, the best one has been 25309.
A steady solve in fits and starts this morning with no major hold ups but no instances where I solved several clues one after another. FOI Anna and LOI Narrowish where the “slightly intolerant” meaning puzzled me a little. I thought Atlantis was a city not a land – must read about it on wiki.
Liked the Roundhead and Inkpot. Inkpot brought to mind the ritual in my first few years at secondary school of filling my fountain pen each night from a Quink inkpot after I’d done my homework.
Quink inkpots bring back memories from far too long ago.
I don’t recall coming across Peg-Leg Pete either, but he seemed plausible enough not to worry about.
Held up too by trying to figure out 9ac beginning with a V (must write more clearly)
Overall, enjoyably quick but Friday’s 3hr wrestle (and all correct) was much more satisfying
Variety is the key
JB
“May be cut in trips” = lawn? Trips in what sense?
Rob
“May be cut in trips” = lawn? Trips in what sense?
Rob
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