Times 25781 – anything you can do I can do 7ly

Author   glhPosted on Categories Daily Cryptic
Solving time : 19:49, but with two errors. One I can see immediately as a typo, the other may take a little more finding. This is a tough one, there’s an opera clued by an anagram with mostly unhelpful crossing letters, it appears to be a few letters short of a pangram (unless they’re in my incorrect entry, I can’t find a J,V, or Y).

Commence the bloggers nightmare, writing up a puzzle where he has no idea what he has done wrong.

Away we go!

Across
1 THE DAM BUSTERS: H,EDAM,BUST(that has broken) in an anagram of REST
9 LOGOS: O in LOGS for the word of god incarnate
10 I PURITANI: anagram of (AIR,PUT,IN,1) for the Bellini opera
11 PERFECT(absolute),GAS(hoot): I don’t think I’ve called it anything other than “ideal gas”… anyway it obeys the laws of Boyle, Charles and Avogadro, usually combined into PV=nRT. I for some reason decided it was better spelled as PERCECT GAS
12 ABET: hidden reversed in staTE BAnk
14 OFF-PLAN: OFF(temporarily against), then PLAN(e)
16 ECHELON: EC(city), H(hospital) then L(large) in EON
17 ERRATIC: RAT in ERIC
19 PRE-ECHO: (b)EECH in PRO
20 ITCH: PITCH without the P
21 CUSTARD PIE: (SAD,PICTURE)*
24 SNOW UNDER: NOW in SUNDER
25 BOOTS: T in BOOS(barracks)
26 SUPERPOSITION: (PITEOUS,PRISON)*
 
Down
1 TELEPHONE KIOSK: anagram of KEEP,SILENT and HOOK
2 E,(w)AGER
3 AUSTER(e),LIT,Z: at this point I was sure we were heading for a pangram
4 BRITTEN: AHA! There it is – an O had slipped into the name of the composer… I think this is meant to be BRIT(British), then T(o),EN(o) – both endlessly
5 SOUTANE: OUT in SANE – got this from wordplay
6 EPIC: or E-PIC
7 SHAMBOLIC: SHAM(fake) then CARBOLIC soap without the CAR
8 LISTEN TO REASON: got this from the definition, the wordplay is LIE AS ON around STENTOR(loudmouth)
13 CHIEF RABBI: 1 in CHEF, then RABBI(t) – “bun” being a short form of bunny
15 FEROCIOUS: reverse CORE,F then IOUS
18 CH,UNDER: a word probably best known in Men At Work’s song “Down Under”
19 POTOROO: another bit of Australiana – take the middle letters of sPOTs mORe fOOd
22 POORI: POORISH without the S or H
23 (e)QUIP

60 comments on “Times 25781 – anything you can do I can do 7ly”

  1. First time posting in here so here goes.. A DNF for me thanks to Austerlitz and Britten. Couple of easy Aussie ones for me with Potoroo and chunder. Not that people really use the term chunder down here in the Antipodes. 5d probably my COD.. Though shambolic at 7d was pretty good too..

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