Solving time : 26:06 on the club timer with my typical typo (in this case a Y that strayed to the end of 27 across). I made pretty heavy weather of this one, and there’s a few pretty obscure bits of knowledge, so I might not be the only one struggling. On the other hand, once I’ve finished, everything does seem to make sense, so maybe I was just not quite on the wavelength.
Congrats to mctext on 100 postings (see next post where he gives the solution to the championship qualifier), and far far fewer errors than mine.
Away we go…
Across | |
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1 | TABBY CAT: anagram of BABY then C in TAT |
9 | RETAILER: one giving the bathroom a makeover is a RETILER, put an A inside that |
10 | VINDALOO: DAL(pulse) in VINOS(wine) with the S changed to a 0 |
11 | LAB |
12 | CUMBERSOME: take the first two letters from CUCUMBER, then SOME(a bit) |
14 | MALI: Sounds like Jacob MARLEY |
15 | C,HIDING |
17 | MACBETH: MAC(since 23 is RAINCOAT),BETH(girl) – great definition |
21 | SNUG: GUNS reversed |
22 | HEISENBERG: (HERE,BEGINS)* |
23 | RAINCOAT: A1(road) by NCO(officer) in RAT |
25 | IMPLICIT: take the edges off of SIMPLICITY |
26 | TWO-EDGED: TWO is some runs, and if they’re not off the middle they are EDGED |
27 | EULOGIST: EU is the union, then GIS in LOT |
Down | |
2 | A BIT(slightly),MUCH(considerably) |
3 | BEDAUBED: A U(turn) in BED,BED(a twin room would have two beds) |
4 | COL(pass),T |
5 | TROLLOP: ROLL(bread) in TOP(best) |
6 | STABLEMATE: B(bachelor) in STALEMATE |
7 | ELONGATE: something like this came up a few weeks ago – the scandal could be MELON-GATE (think Watergate, Monicagate…) |
8 | FRUMPISH: RUMP in FISH |
13 | RUN-THROUGH: or RUNT, H, ROUGH |
15 | CASTRATO: anagram of ART, A, COST |
16 | IN UNISON: or “IN UNI, SON” |
18 | BOB(boy),BLING(conspicuous wealth) |
19 | TIRES,1,AS: now there’s a word I haven’t seen a while – a blind prophet of Thebes |
20 | RIP TIDE: (TIP)* in RIDE |
24 | OPAL: that enemy would be 0 PAL |
Interesting solve today, going SW – NW – NE, then stuck a bit in the SE with IMPLICIT (thanks for the parsing) and TIRESIAS (known from T.S. Eliot only).
CASTRATO: talk about suffering for your art!
10ac: George, I think this is just DAL in VINO, then O (second letter of ‘nOne’).
Edited at 2013-05-23 02:52 am (UTC)
Laughed at 15dn where it occurred to me that it was high art that came with a cost.
Edited at 2013-05-23 05:09 am (UTC)
Had a bit of a hold-up at 15ac with CHIDDEN on the basis that “From lecture…” pointed to a past participle.
I first came across Tiresias in the Genesis song The Cinema Show which is on the Selling England By The Pound album. My last in was COLT because I was trying to think of an alternative to ‘shooting the breeze’ before the penny dropped.
Even though it was a write-in IN UNISON made me smile, and I thought the clue for CASTRATO was excellent.
In our household, any mention of Mali, usually in a quiz programme, gets an immediate “…was dead”, so that was easy. And two plants I have heard of (11, 12) must be some kind of record.
Most amusing set of clues for a long, long time.
Held up by a couple of things: couldn’t decide between BOBBLING (which I’ve never heard of) and BUBBLING (“bub” is certainly “boy”, and a bouncy person might be bubbling) and couldn’t parse IMPLICIT; I was convinced that the “being extremely short” was an imp.
There is a recording somewhere on You Tube of Alessandro Moreschi, “the last castrato”, singing Ave Maria. I don’t recommend it; brings tears to the eyes for all the wrong reasons.
Edited at 2013-05-23 07:43 pm (UTC)
I wasted a lot of time trying to use ‘trip’ instead of ‘ride’ to construct ‘rip-tide’.
My interpretation of ‘vindaloo’ was ‘vin’ + ‘dal’ + [t]O + 0, which is as good as any of the others.
Thanks to dereklam for reminding me where I knew TIRESIAS from.
I notice we have the formulation, “wordplay from definition” again in 15 (in inverted form), which gave rise to some adverse comment a few weeks ago.
COD to 15d, natch.
I hesitated at 10 as I thought dal had an H in it somewhere (but that must be Roald).
Thanks G for explaining implicit.
Straightforward puzzle really. Didn’t know the soothsayer but easy to guess. Good to see HEISENBERG. Had a laugh at 15D.
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