Times 27505 – Schindler’s Missed?

Author   ulacaPosted on Categories Daily Cryptic
For those who were worried that Monday has become the new Friday, this was very much a throwback to the old days (like a fortnight or so ago). With all its recent bells and whistles in place, I don’t think this one has much to scare the digital horses of Starstruck’s creation – even if the dangling participle may have a few pedants up in arms. I got home in a little over 20 minutes, but then I am an official, Snitchified flat-track bully. I wonder how the rest of you got on. Not that it bothers me much, unless the neo-Gallerific one got in in a lower time than me. That would make me very upset…

ACROSS

1 Humorous issue that shakes corporation? (5,5)
BELLY LAUGH – a nice &lit to get us started
6 Chump expected to seize power (4)
DUPE – P in DUE
8 Attempt by government to leak information (2,6)
GO PUBLIC – GO PUBLIC
9 Nation embraces popular French playwright (6)
RACINE – IN in RACE; if Moliere doesn’t fit, it’s probably Racine, and vice-versa
10 Dad abandons Spanish dish for this woman (4)
ELLA – [pa]ELLA
11 Newspaper article by Belgian writer (3,7)
IAN FLEMING – I (newspaper) AN (article) FLEMING (non-Walloon Belgian); if you started to rack your mind to come up with a famous Belgian writer, you’d still be going now. Their only famous literary figure is of course Hercule Poirot.
12 Doing as ordered one’s reaching conclusion (9)
DIAGNOSIS – DOING AS* IS
14 Spiked wheel — gardening tool saving time? (5)
ROWEL – [t]ROWEL
17 Republican in disreputable club shows ambition (5)
DRIVE – R in DIVE
19 Unwind the flexes with plug in (7,2)
LIGHTEN UP – THE PLUG IN*
22 Untouchable carcass not to be moved (10)
SACROSANCT – CARCASS NOT*
23 Tongue forming content of metal container (4)
INCA – [t]IN CA[n]
24 Arab sycophants shunning second one (6)
YEMENI – YE[s]MEN I
25 Mourned day after soldiers brought in dead (8)
LAMENTED – MEN in LATE D
26 Love missing husband, not that she regrets (4)
OTIS – O T[h]IS (this = ‘not that’, minus H for husband); ‘Miss Otis regrets’ is a song made famous by Ella Fitzgerald
27 Junk entering island by river — Hong Kong feature? (10)
SKYSCRAPER – SCRAP in SKYE R

DOWN

1 Conceited editor to support significant source (9)
BIGHEADED – ED after BIG HEAD
2 Monk touring China comes to island (2,5)
LA PALMA – PAL in LAMA
3 Something for sucker picking up ball in game (8)
LOLLIPOP – PILL (ball, as in cricket slang) in POLO all reversed As vefatica points out, the game to be reversed is actually POOL. I blame my posh upbringing and all those years watching Major R.I. Ferguson at Smith’s Lawn, while his wife was watching someone else .
4 International body and state combine without strings (15)
UNCONDITIONALLY – UN CONDITION (state) ALLY (combine)
5 A king in control — in 1066? (6)
HAROLD – A R in HOLD and a nice, if ironic, @lit
6 Green politician in party starts to spout environmental rot (9)
DECOMPOSE – ECO MP in DO initial letters of S[pout] E[nvironmental]
7 Coppers must accept an imposed punishment (7)
PENANCE – AN in PENCE
13 Teacher beginning to grumble about head (9)
GOVERNESS – G[rumble] OVER NESS
15 What falls easily to one as Northerner? (9)
LAPLANDER – I think what we have here is a riff on the phrase ‘it fell into my lap’, such that ‘what falls easily to one’ equates to a ‘lap lander’. Other explanations may be forthcoming.
16 Regular myth, exploded, set in rich ground (8)
RHYTHMIC – a double anagram of MYTH in RICH, with ‘exploded’ and ‘rich’ respectively earning their stripes
18 Chemical substance spy used against sappers? (7)
REAGENT – AGENT on RE; a concatenation of chestnuts
20 New on street, work without break (3-4)
NON-STOP – N ON ST OP
21 Spots food in dining room — no starter provided (6)
ESPIES – PIE in [m]ESS

67 comments on “Times 27505 – Schindler’s Missed?”

  1. The QC blog said that this was not too hard and I managed to finish it in a second session over lunch, and before coffee; that’s my equivalent of 204 seconds.
    ELLA was FOI and I solved the bottom half first until a breakthrough on 4d. I remembered Miss Otis but did not see the exact parsing;thanks for that and a few others. DNK ROWEL.
    A lazy NORMAN at 5d meant that my last three were BELLY LAUGH,HAROLD and IAN FLEMING.
    Until then I had been thinking of Tin Tin and Herge.
    David

  2. We had Miss Otis very recently, when I commented that I would learn it on the guitar. Well I haven’t, so will renew my promise.
    A bit slow on this one, which I will put down to an intense weekend. That’s why Mondays should be easy….
  4. Annoyingly, one short here as well, though in this case it was 26ac, Otis. Not sure I would ever have got that, being totally unfamiliar with the song. Ah well, sometimes the journey is better than the destination. Invariant
  5. 22’30, slowly cantered along. Ulaca I found your previous image or icon a little “off”, the rear end of some creature or other I suppose; the new one is also a bit “off” somehow, why all this “inyerface”? Still, if it gives you and no doubt others enjoyment …

    Edited at 2019-11-11 07:04 pm (UTC)

  6. Hi all. A pleasant trouble-free solve until the end with a bit of a delay at ROWEL. There aren’t too many things that can fit ?O?EL, so it was narrowed down. I forgot the name of the spur doohickey, and I don’t think of a trowel as a gardening tool at all – it’s a mason’s tool to me. So I finally convinced myself that it had to be ROWEL, not DOWEL, which made even less sense. Regards.
  7. 42 minutes or so, with OTIS as my LOI — I didn’t know the song, but I did decipher the wordplay and nothing else would fit anyway. I also had IAN FLEMING correctly (after amending LOLLYPOP to LOLLIPOP) and fortunately forgot to think about why I is a newspaper (as apparently it is, but I haven’t spent much time in Britain recently and I have never seen it). Otherwise, truly a Mondayish puzzle.
    1. The i newspaper (note lower case) started as a sister-paper to The Independent, a sort of cut-down version. Since then The Independent went digital and is available only on-line and the ‘i’ was bought up by another publisher to continue in print.
  8. Thirty-seven minutes, with INCA my LOI. If I’d’ve had to guess, I’d’ve said that the Inca spoke Incan, but nothing else fit. RACINE was an NHO, but easy enough from the wordplay. FLEMING was also an NHO – I knew Flemish, and assumed the people were either the Flemish or possibly the Flems. Still, when it came time to hand out names, they were clearly ahead of the Walloons in the queue. ROWEL was another NHO.
  9. Late home from an evening at the cinema to see the new Terminator film in which a ragtag bunch work together to save humanity from a dystopian future. Sadly I was unable to go back in time to my lunchtime solve in order to save myself from a dystopian future in which my time of 16:21 was rendered void by typing La Pllma instead of La Palma. Oh well. I’ll be back…

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