Solving time: 35:10
Not a particularly tricky one today. One or two here had me scratching my head for a bit, but there were plenty that went in very quickly to get a good early foothold. There were a few unusual derivatives of common words – WIMPISH, PUBERTAL & SCAMPISH, and PARADIDDLE I’d not come across before, but all were quite clear from the wordplay.
cd = cryptic def., dd = double def., rev = reversal, homophones are written in quotes, anagrams as (–)*, and removals like this
Across | |
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1 | S + PECK(L |
9 | EQUIPAGE = QU (queen) + I (single) + PAGE (attendant) all after |
10 | STAL |
11 | PUBERTAL = PUB (local) + (ALERT)* – Not a word I’ve come across before, but clearly a derivative of puberty |
12 | G |
14 | MALI – hidden |
15 | SEAL + |
17 | WIMPISH = MP (politician) + IS all in WI (women’s group) + |
21 | ALAS = SALA |
22 | DELIGHTS IN = DELI + (THINGS)* |
23 | PACKED UP – dd |
25 | ARMENIAN = MEN in A + (IRAN)* |
26 | SWIZZ + LES – I don’t really see what the word ‘Manhattan’ adds to this clue. Is there a Manhattan Swizzle? If there is, I can’t find any reference to it on the net. |
27 | TEN + D + ER/ER |
Down | |
2 | PETER + LEE – a town in Durham. I didn’t know this meaning of ‘peter’ – a safe, till, or cash box |
3 | COLOSSAL = COLL |
4 | LOAF – dd – ‘to veg’ being slang for lounging about |
5 | DESPAIR = (E + SPA) in DIR |
6 | SUNBATHING = SUN + A + THING about B |
7 | PASTR |
8 | WELL + NIGH |
13 | PARADIDDLE = PADDLE about RADI |
15 | SCAMPI’S + H – like a scamp |
16 | A + NAR(CHI)C |
18 | PITTA + N + C |
19 | S + PILLAGE |
20 | FLY-PAST – The Rev Spooner would have said PLY FAST |
24 | AMEN (final word when saying grace) = (MEAN)* |
Good puzzle though.
*On edit: Thanks to vinyl1 for the clarification below. Actually I did know the required meaning but had parsed the clue incorrectly.
Edited at 2013-03-01 07:08 am (UTC)
If visiting Jerusalem, St James’ Cathedral in the Armenian Quarter is well worth a visit. Since it is a working church rather than a tourist attraction – which makes it something of a jewel among the Christian churches in the city – you need to check when the service is on and attend at that time. A fascinating experience.
Jack, ‘equipage’ is defined as “a horse-drawn carriage with its servants; also : such a carriage alone” in the online dictionary, so ‘carriage’ is the literal.
PARADIDDLE has cropped up once or twice before – eg. Times 25,106.
COD … WELL-NIGH … or SCAMPISH.
Didn’t know the town PETERLEE, but have come across the safe in crossword-land, and hadn’t heard of the drum roll or the US cop, but both gettable from wp.
Lots of these words seem to have cropped up recently: WELL NIGH, ANARCHIC, ALAS, and that seemed to help things along.
Elsewhere, SPILLAGE unaccountably caught my attention as a gigglesome clue, so I suppose, innocuous as it is, it’ll be my CoD.
ST ALBANS particularly easy for me as I was hatched there. If you can, visit its fabulous hotch-potch Cathedral, a veritable compendium of historic architectural styles and what used to be the second longest nave on the planet.
I didn’t know PETERLEE but “peter” for safe is something of a crossword stalwart. One of those words I’ve never seen anywhere else.
I was a bit puzzled by “word” for “command”. Collins has “an autocratic decree or utterance; order” but interestingly this meaning isn’t in Chambers.
Rob
The rest is straightforward enough, even if I don’t think of salad as being particularly healthy
I have the same list of “unknowns” as others apart from paradiddle, which I’m doing on my desk now look. If 1 is right hand and 2 is left hand it goes 1211 2122 1211 2122 etc. I’m not a drummer so I have no idea how that peice of knowledge came to be in there. I think it’s taking up the space that should be filled with the order of England’s kings and queens.
COD to loaf.
A research colleague of mine was called Peter Lee!
While SWIZZ was familiar from my schooldays at Dotheboys, I was rather less sure of LOAF = “veg” (dating from some time later), so was a bit nervous about 4dn as well.
Edited at 2013-03-01 11:58 pm (UTC)
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