Time: 16 minutes
Music: Bax, Tintagel, Boult/LPO
Music: Bax, Tintagel, Boult/LPO
Another easy Monday, but I biffed so many I’m going to be spending a lot of time figuring out the cryptics as I write the blog. There are also a number of points I will have to research. So maybe this shouldn’t have been so easy, or maybe we don’t need the cryptics. Well, at least we have a crypt. There were not many actual chestnuts, although experienced solvers will know decaf/faced, the two sailors in Addis Ababa, the goat with no corn, and the upside-down help in India.
Since we had Bax last week, I pulled out the Lyrita LP of his tone poems. These are fine performances by Sir Adrian Boult, highly recommended if you like English-style classical music.
| Across | |
| 1 | Very naughty boy outside a court, having arrived with large beast (8,5) |
| BACTRIAN CAMEL – B(A CT)RIAN + CAME + L, referring to Monty Python’s Life of Brian. | |
| 8 | Bird’s nest is one being very high (4) |
| SOUP – SO + UP. Fortunately, I didn’t biff coop. | |
| 9 | Meat pie, served with coffee, sent back, looking anaemic (5-5) |
| PASTY-FACED – PASTY + DECAF backwards. | |
| 10 | Start to accept fish in sea abroad seem diseased? (8) |
| MALINGER – M(A[ccept] LING)ER. | |
| 11 | Fox should cover conflict once in progress (6) |
| TOWARD – TO(WAR)D, where the “in progress” meaning of toward is obsolescent, although maybe not obsolete. | |
| 13 | Combine with two sailors in an investment producing capital (5,5) |
| ADDIS ABABA – ADD IS(ABAB)A. An ISA is a UK investment; here in the US we have the IRA, but that acronym was already taken over there. | |
| 16 | Data coming back relating to an Ulster region (4) |
| INFO – OF N.I. Northern Ireland is six out of the nine counties in Ulster, so it is properly called an Ulster region. | |
| 17 | Sudden blast son’s taken in belly (4) |
| GUST – GU(S)T. | |
| 18 | Trio snatching at Scots hooligan were menacing (10) |
| THREATENED – THRE(AT)E + NED. | |
| 20 | Snooker break is met with difficulty in the end (6) |
| STYMIE – Anagram of IS MET + [difficult]Y. | |
| 22 | Shoot the breeze with blonde in attempt to manipulate (8) |
| GASLIGHT – GAS + LIGHT, as modern language comes to the Times. We’ll be back to bishops and barristers shortly, however. | |
| 24 | He painted bishop with bad back gulping too much cold water (10) |
| BOTTICELLI – B (OTT ICE) LLI, whichis ill backwards. | |
| 26 | Bottomless river associated with Parana’s source (4) |
| DEEP – DEE + P[arana] – fortunately, you don’t need to know who or what Parana is. | |
| 27 | Direction Strehler originally provided in Aston theatre adaptation? (4-5-4) |
| EAST-NORTH-EAST – Anagram of S[rehler] + ASTON THEATRE – you don’t need to know who Strehler is, either! | |
| Down | |
| 1 | Shilling taken from chest with another in economic cycle (4,3,4) |
| BOOM AND BUST – BO[s]OM AND BUST. Inflation and deflation, or something like that. | |
| 2 | Goat denied grain comes to island (5) |
| CAPRI – CAPRI[corn]. | |
| 3 | Abhorrent ruling to imprison reversed before magistrates (9) |
| REPUGNANT – RE(UP backwards)GNANT. | |
| 4 | Empire once so small and insubstantial to overturn (7) |
| ASSYRIA – AS + S + AIRY upside-down. | |
| 5 | Weep over pint in church cellar (5) |
| CRYPT – CRY + PT. | |
| 6 | Malicious trick takes in hospital for now (9) |
| MEANWHILE – MEAN W(H)ILE. | |
| 7 | Some colliers are buried (3) |
| LIE – Hidden in [col]LIE]rs. | |
| 12 | Royal seen among tree ferns ordered snack (11) |
| REFRESHMENT – Anagram of TREE FERNS containing HM. | |
| 14 | Hints from close friends (9) |
| INTIMATES – Double definition. | |
| 15 | Economist with German husband supporting second president (4,5) |
| ADAM SMITH – ADAMS + MIT H. | |
| 19 | Artillery regiment with gun elevated in routine (7) |
| REGULAR – RA + LUGER upside-down. | |
| 21 | One whose time is done in City, working with cross to bear (2-3) |
| EX-CON – E(X)C + ON. | |
| 23 | Home help sent up country (5) |
| INDIA – IN + AID upside-down. | |
| 25 | Mineral source almost disappeared from Pacific state (3) |
| ORE – ORE[gon[e]], an obvious biff. | |
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