Times 27712 – git along

Author   glhPosted on Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 8:49. I made a pretty steady solve through this, but I was surprised to be in fifth place with this time after the puzzle has been out for about two hours, I didn’t think it was that easy.

Very nice puzzle, excellent wordplay throughout, which is my favorite part of contributing to this blog. There are a couple of USA-centric terms, which puts me at an advantage.

I hope everyone is staying safe and sane! Maybe there will be cricket tomorrow…

Away we go

Across
1 Lake bird ultimately happier on home ground (7)
MOORHEN – anagram of the last letter of happieR,ON,HOME
5 Thorny shrub that can be cut by a lively person? (5)
CAPER – double definition, the second based on the phrase “cut a caper”
9 German poet’s idyll finally digested by Republican president (5)
RILKE – last letter of idylL inside R(Republican), IKE(President Eisenhower, who was also a Republican)
10 Tinny tone upset nobody (9)
NONENTITY – anagram of TINNY,TONE
11 Palm-greasing bachelor tucking into cheese by railway (7)
BRIBERY – B(Bachelor) inside BRIE(cheese) then RY(railway)
12 Policemen get older? It’s a measure of things! (7)
YARDAGE – YARD(policemen), AGE(get older). Things being cloth and golf holes
13 One who circumvents hurdles when discussing terms? (10)
NEGOTIATOR – double definition
15 Bucket down, causing hunt assembly to retreat (4)
TEEM – MEET(hunt assembly) reversed
18 Expression of amusement having left lounge (4)
LOLL – LOL(laugh out loud, expression of amusement), L(left)
20 Amateur work protecting calmer place where drinks are made (10)
DISTILLERY – DIY(do it yourself, amateur work) containing STILLER(calmer)
23 Study racehorse’s record and fit in (7)
CONFORM – CON(study), and the racing FORM
24 Podgier member, one held in proper regard initially (7)
DUMPIER – MP(member), I(one) inside DUE(proper) and the first letter of Regard
25 Sadness quiet girl displays about old soldier going west (9)
POIGNANCY – P(quiet), NANCY(girl) surrounding O(old) and GI(soldier) reversed
26 Sign of tooth decay? Not the first (5)
ARIES – CARIES(tooth decay) missing the first letter
27 Motherless calf in US that is faced with canine (5)
DOGIE –  IE(that is), with DOG(canine)
28 Line up again for compensation (7)
REDRESS – to line up again you could RE-DRESS
Down
1 Type in China working on dairy farm? (7)
MILKING – ILK(type) inside MING china
2 Choose to applaud at first before interrupting stage work (8)
OPERETTA – OPT(choose) then the first letters of To Apploaud containing ERE(before)
3 Practical characters at borders of Hungary? (5)
HANDY – the outside letters of Hungary are H AND Y
4 Governess has shot at making butter, possibly (5,4)
NANNY GOAT – NANNY(governess), GO(shot), AT
5 Quirky person swallowing an unfounded rumour (6)
CANARD – CARD(quirky person) containing AN
6 Formal note about a church dignitary (7)
PRIMATE – PRIM(formal), and TE(note) surrounding A
7 Product of poet — Frost, by the sound of it (5)
RHYME – sounds like RIME(frost)
8 Organisation keeping peace in family court (8)
TRIBUNAL – UN(United Nations, organization keeping peace) inside TRIBAL(family)
14 Soldiers propping up a former country in old Anatolia (4,5)
ASIA MINOR – OR(soldiers) underneath A, SIAM(former country), IN
16 Civic dignitary from Irish county on seagoing vessel (8)
MAYORESS – county MAYO, RE(on), SS(seagoing vessel)
17 Brownie possibly eating meat? It’s Uncle Sam’s picnic (8)
CLAMBAKE – CAKE(brownie) containing LAMB(meat)
19 Urge of significant duration in capital of Greece (7)
LONGING – LONG(of significant duration), IN, then the first letter of Greece
21 Priest given right to plug team’s sovereign remedies (7)
ELIXIRS – ELI(priest) then R(right) inside XI’S(team’s)
22 Power employed by snow leopard to strike (6)
POUNCE –  P(power), OUNCE(snow leapoard)
23 Girl turning up with award — a winged figure (5)
CUPID – DI(girl) reversed with CUP(award)
24 Tree-dweller featuring in sundry advertisements (5)
DRYAD – hidden in sunDRY ADvertisements

69 comments on “Times 27712 – git along”

  1. This was a top to bottom solve today, with no holdups until having to skip over the Poignancy / Pounce crossing until all the checkers were in place. Nice blog, george
  2. 18 minutes for me, so fast but not insanely so. A couple I didn’t bother trying to parse at the time (ASIA MINOR, OPERETTA, POIGNANCY) since I had so many checkers there was no need. And all correct, unlike yesterday when I knew I was all correct and turned out to have two pink squares (putting MAISON for family tree). Luckily I knew there was a cowboy song “get along little dogies” so even though I had no idea what a DOGIE was, I assumed correctly it was a motherless calf.

    Edited at 2020-07-09 02:52 am (UTC)

  3. I was running late for a doctor’s appointment, so I have no notes, but I know I biffed ASIA MINOR, TRIBUNAL, and RILKE. I was surprised to see DOGIE (and to see the def stand out so).
  5. 38 minutes, but at least I finished it. I did have to look up “bucket down”.
  6. 37 minutes, so not quite as easy for me as for others. Lost time over 15ac where having carefully worked out the word for reversal I then wrote in the other one! The clue vinyl1 found too easy to believe (13ac NEGOTIATOR) was my last one in. I was slightly puzzled by ‘sovereign’ in 21dn, not a usage I’m familiar with, but I note now that ‘sovereign remedy’ is in the dictionaries as an expression in its own right.

    Edited at 2020-07-09 04:15 am (UTC)

    1. Hotspur complaining about the king’s representative:
      And telling me ‘the sovereignest thing on earth
      Was parmaceti for an inward bruise,
      I Henry IV
      1. Not one of his snappiest lines!

        Forgot to add I knew CLAMBAKE from the song in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ‘Carousel’ and DOGIE from the theme to ‘Rawhide’ – Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’, keep them dogies rollin’.

        Edited at 2020-07-09 06:19 am (UTC)

        1. Actually, it’s a pretty good speech; Hotspur is much more attractive than Hal. Here’s a bit more:

          he made me mad
          To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
          And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
          Of guns, and drums, and wounds—God save the mark!—
          And telling me the sovereignest thing on earth
          Was parmacety for an inward bruise,
          And that it was great pity, so it was,
          This villanous saltpeter should be digged
          Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
          Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed
          So cowardly, and but for these vile guns
          He would himself have been a soldier.

  7. 1hr 6 mins. Took my time.
    Last 2 were rhyme and caper.

    Caper, clambake, and aries were in the not sure bucket, so pleased to see all green, only 13 Verlaines !

    COD handy.

  8. 38 minutes for moi, slowed down partly by the unknowns of “cut a caper”, CLAMBAKE and DOGIE, partly by the wordplay being a bit cleverer than me this morning. All good fun. I enjoyed 3d H-AND-Y most, I think. FOI 1d MILKING LOI 13a NEGOTIATOR.
  9. Pretty speedy going, slight delay with CAPER as wasn’t sure of the phrase cut a caper or that a caper is thorny. The ‘berry’ one eats is actually a flower bud, apparently. NHO DOGIE but sounded right.

    COD: OPERETTA for the surface

    Yesterday’s answer: the Rembrandt painting was nicknamed the Night Watch, but apparently when cleaned it was realised it wasn’t at night after all. First denoted by z8b8d8k, the Pratchett version.

    Today’s question: there are five protected areas for Scotch whisky distilling – Highland, Lowland, Speyside, Islay and where?

  10. A fun and fast solve achieving my 6V target at 26m. Held up at the end in the NE corner by the CAPER/CANARD intersection. I dislike the former and had no idea where they come from, and associated the latter only with ducks.

    I played for years in a Blues Brothers tribute band called the Rawhides, so DOGIE was a write in from the wonderful Bob’s Country Bunker (“What kind of music do you usually have here?” “Oh we got both kinds, country AND western.”)

    Edited at 2020-07-09 07:44 am (UTC)

  11. I wasn’t familiar with “cut a caper” and DOGIE was new, though shouldn’t have been given I’ve seen the “Blues Brothers” so often. Don’t know why, but I liked POIGNANCY.

    47 minutes with a bit of a snooze to refresh the synapses.

  12. 25 mins with yoghurt, granola, etc.
    The last several spent on Caper/Canard.
    NHO Dogie.
    Thanks setter and G.
  14. For once, no queries and no difficulties.
    I think snow leopards are the most beautiful animals on the planet and red pandas the cutest, although the latter have competition from the likes of meerkats and quokkas for that title.
    My photo shows another candidate for the title of cutest.
    1. Agree with your avatar being high on the list, I’d prefer a snowy owl to an ounce for cuteness though.
  15. Blues Brothers, an awesomely good film. Aretha, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway… and Twiggy!
  16. I thought NEGOTIATOR was weak. Other than that no comment really. Relatively easy puzzle.
  18. As with others, wasn’t sure of CAPER or DOGIE, but the cluing made the latter obvious and the former couldn’t be anything else with the checkers. Otherwise there was nothing particularly tricky.

    FOI Nonentity
    LOI Caper
    COD Moorhen/Asia Minor

  19. Spoilt for choice at 24. I originally plumped for RUMPIER, which probably should be a word, then LUMPIER, before I finally got DUMPIER. Otherwise no sizeable problems.

    Edited at 2020-07-09 08:22 am (UTC)

  20. 18 minutes. As with Jack, I knew DOGIE from the instruction in Rawhide to keep them rolling, and CLAMBAKE from Carousel. CAPER was LOI, with the expression at best vaguely familiar. We seem to live in a world where hurdles are just knocked over regardless by NEGOTIATORS. COD to POIGNANCY, mainly because it’s a word I like. Thank you George and setter.
    1. I’m not sure one can say that about negotiators in the Brexit process!
  21. 9.31, so a good time for me, spoilt by one pink square. I wrote LOLL in the paper copy, and typed LULL online. All my wife’s fault, for coming in as I was checking, and rumbling on about what we’re eating tonight.
  23. 13:09. NHO DOGIE and held up a little at the end with the 5s. FOI NONENTITY, LOI CAPER. COD to OPERETTA for the same reason as Angus.
  25. Right up my street; deft work by the setter, I thought. I also knew dogies from various musical settings, evidently without ever bothering to find out exactly what sort of cattle they were, so I’ve learned something today, as well. Doubtless in the future, etymologists will analyse the appearance of LOL in the Times crossword as evidence of it becoming permanently embedded in the language.

    CAPER is inextricably linked in my mind with Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man. “Cut some capers, man! Use your bladder!”

    1. Oh my, yes, one of the greatest/worst lines uttered by the immortal Christopher Lee to the unfortunate Ewar Woowar.
  26. At first I thought this was going to be tricky, because I didn’t see how easy the 1s were. An obscure lake? Something with PAL for China in it?
    Soon settled down and rattled through in 13.39, Carousel and Rawhide/Blues Brothers providing the American connections, which was swell.
    NEGOTIATOR the clue that confirmed for me this was the easiest of the week.
  27. Finished in 24:08 , so one of my quickest times. LOI OPERETTA after an unparsed CAPER. Rawhide or maybe James Taylor helped on DOGIES.
    Quite a tough QC today for those with time. David
  28. Perhaps one for the misheard and misprinted song lyrics section (Purple Haze etc):”And closing his eyes as the doggies retire.”
    He sings Dogies.
    And:”His horse and his cattle are his only companions.”
    Not a dog in sight.
  29. I can’t understand this clue. Is there any wordplay? None that I can see. How even is it a DD? OK ‘One who circumvents hurdles’ is one of them, but ‘when discussing terms’ doesn’t look to me like the other one. It just seems to be an incredibly weak cryptic definition; almost appropriate for the Concise Crossword.
    1. I read it that one can negotiate an obstacle / hurdle / hairpin bend etc. as well as the terms of a contract, say. Jeffrey
  30. Must have been on the right wavelength today as everything fell into place very quickly. DOGIE was kind of familiar though I couldn’t say where from. COD POIGNANCY. I don’t see the necessity for the LAKE in 1 ac – it sounds clumsy and moorhens are familiar enough not to need an epithet; anyway moorhens are just as common on rivers and muddy ponds as they are on lakes. Just saying…
  31. 16’52”, with CAPER LOI.

    After 65 years, I finally know what a DOGIE is. I knew it as a word, like others, from the original TV series.

    Thanks george and setter.

  32. The useful 3d got me off to a quick start and the water bird followed it. Apart from TRIBUNAL, which sat later, the NW filled rapidly, and I moved on in a clockwise direction finishing with The aforementioned court just after POIGNANCY. Knew DOGIE from Sweet Baby James, Rawhide and Git Along Little Dogies (by Nickel Creek, apparently). Not a difficult puzzle, but enjoyable. 19:17. Thanks setter and George.

    Edited at 2020-07-09 11:00 am (UTC)

  33. A bit slower than most mainly held up inexplicably in the NW. MILKING was obvious but not to me for ages. Having got that, everything else fell into place.

  34. Like many above, I knew that dogies were some form of cattle, but was unaware of the specifics.

    Held up at the end by OPERETTA but came through in 39.40.

    I’m sure there must be some other 5-letter German poets but HEINE and RILKE are always worth a try.

    Thank you to setter and blogger.

    Dave.

  35. ….DOGIE !” was a catchphrase of a character in a black and white American TV show when I was a kid. Possibly Granny Clampett in “The Beverley Hillbillies” ?

    CLAMBAKE was one of Elvis’s many movies (1967).

    I only know CAPERS from Sauce Tartare and had no idea that their source was a prickly shrub.

    I wonder if we could refer to POTUS as Donald Canard. It would be quite apposite, especially as it translates in French as “duck”.

    FOI NONENTITY
    LOI LOLL
    COD ARIES
    TIME 8:08

  36. Done and dusted in a DD ride from Rainbow Bridge to centre of town, Pu Si 28 minutes in lightish traffic.

    FOI 10ac NONENTITY

    LOI 5ac CAPER

    COD 1ac MOORHEN bless!

    WOD 27ac DOGIE like robrolfe I too have taken 65 years to realise the words of ‘Rawhide’.

    I note that POTUS missed his education, what a surprise!
    POTUS IGNORAMUS

  37. Like Davidivad and John-Dun I thought of James Taylor and his cattle. I often drove the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston when our younger daughter was in college there. 11.04, much faster than which it rarely gets for me.

    Edited at 2020-07-09 11:15 am (UTC)

      1. Actually it really was Sawbill. It was my husband’s family’s 1962 Buick Electra, now sadly in retirement.
        1. A beautiful big car. It does have the advantage of being halfway there before you start.
  38. Around twenty minutes for this, with CAPER my LOI put in on basis of a word that fitted, not thinking of caper as a shrub. I guess capers have to grow on something.
  39. Straightforward in 16’30”. Dispensed with proofreading for a faster time, and got away with it. Have learnt that capers grow on thorny bushes. Do Americans actually bake clams at outdoor barbeques?
    1. You put them in a big pot with some ears of corn, some new potatoes, a couple of lobsters, garlic, seasoning & white wine and in theory boil it over an open fire outside on the beach but it works just fine on a stove inside. We have a Nantucket friend who barbecues his clams directly on the grill but they come out like clam-flavoured chewing gum.
  40. 11:57. No real problems. I’ve seen The Blues Brothers many times but had never registered the existence of DOGIE never mind knowing what it meant.
    I did cause myself a slight delay by deriving HEN from part of the anagrist in 1ac and then inserting the obvious word from the rest to get ROOMHEN. Fortunately MILKMAID was sufficiently obvious to force me to engage my brain.
  41. Dogies was in the theme song to Rawhide – ‘Keep ’em dogies movin’ Rawhide!
    1. Have you read the earlier comments? You only have to go back two to see mention of ‘Rawhide’ which was first referred to by me some 8 hours ago!

      Edited at 2020-07-09 12:48 pm (UTC)

  42. Finally I understand the James Taylor lyric. Thank you for that, as well as a great crossword. 15 and a bit. (Mind you some online lyric sites have erroneously the ‘doggies’ retiring, but that would be ridiculous.)
  44. Seemed very easy at first but slowed a little, still coming in at 16’45. I can’t help feeling there’s more to the negotiator clue than we’re seeing. Or meant to be more. Is there a link between hurdles and terms?
  45. Well I liked this apart from caper. My LOI at least 2 minutes after all the other clues. A complete guess on my part though I suppose in hindsight the cluing does work.

    19.10 including the moany bit.

  46. Came in at 50mins today held up by PRIMATE (why?) CAPER and LOI OPERETTA. Just couldn’t see them. Liked the French duck though. Bunged in RILKE and DOGIES without having any idea what or who they were. Thank you glheard and setter. Some great times posted.
  47. I only do the 15 x 15 infrequently these days, and usually on the days I blog the QC, as today. I found this accessible and amusing, despite the DNK RILKE and DOGIE, which were fairly clued. I don’t have an accurate time, but I suspect about 40 minutes. Thanks G and Setter.
  48. 14:04. An enjoyable canter. Slight delay at caper where I was trying to insert ‘a’ into a thorny shrub to get a lively person and at primate where I went barking up a similarly wrong tree. I’m in the ‘heard of dogies from the Rawhide theme (as sung by the Blues Brothers) without knowing exactly what they were’ camp.
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