A more straightforward Wednesday this week, which took me about fifteen minutes with no hold-ups. My LOI LYNX needed both crossers and a little thought, as hunter was a rather vague definition. I liked the Eskimo home.
Definitions underlined in bold, (ABC)* indicating anagram of ABC, anagrinds in italics, DD = double definition, [deleted letters in square brackets].
| Across | |
| 1 | Casino is accountable to some degree over incident (8) |
| OCCASION – hidden reversed. | |
| 6 | Reflect in silence, taking in one small wrong (6) |
| MISUSE – insert I S into MUSE. | |
| 9 | Mischievous girl missing home match (4) |
| GAME – remove IN (home) from GAMINE. | |
| 10 | Couple perhaps finally renovate large part of church (4,6) |
| LADY CHAPEL – LADY + CHAP = a couple perhaps, [renovat]E, L. | |
| 11 | Behold to-do when running wild (3-7) |
| HOT-BLOODED – (BEHOLD TO DO)*. | |
| 13 | Hunter relates to the audience (4) |
| LYNX – sounds like links = relates to. | |
| 14 | Separated daughter is coming to Greek island (8) |
| DISCRETE – D, IS, CRETE. | |
| 16 | A single desire, but not old, somewhat recent (6) |
| NEWISH – ONE WISH loses the O for old. | |
| 18 | Tricky question when the time of Christian festival has moved (6) |
| TEASER – the T of EASTER moves. | |
| 20 | Second phaeton ordered for another carriage (8) |
| STANHOPE – S, (PHAETON)*. I knew my carriages from re-reading the Barchester Chronicles recently. | |
| 22 | Blue-eyed boy in swimming pool, length behind (4) |
| IDOL – LIDO has the L moved to the end. | |
| 24 | Bequeathed present journal containing tons (10) |
| HEREDITARY – present = HERE, journal = DIARY, insert T. | |
| 26 | Man keeping deep affection back, heartless not spiteful (10) |
| MALEVOLENT – MALE = man, LOVE reversed = EVOL, insert that into MALE > MALEVOLE, add N[o]T. | |
| 28 | Possibly tire of work on house (4) |
| HOOP – HO[use], OP = work. Collins give TIRE as “the US spelling of TYRE”, and I’d never use tire here, but I have seen it used in UK. | |
| 29 | One fighting to censor The Scotsman’s coverage (6) |
| BANTAM – BAN = censor, TAM (o’shanter) a Scotsman’s hat. As in bantamweight boxer I presume. | |
| 30 | One getting something done about pit boss (8) |
| DOMINEER – A DOER gets something done, insert MINE = pit. | |
| Down | |
| 2 | Tea second, milk mostly first for English tea maker (9) |
| CHAMOMILE – CHA (tea) MO (second) MIL[k], E[nglish]. | |
| 3 | Lab mice breaking scientific equipment (7) |
| ALEMBIC – (LAB MICE)*. One of those old retort things now obselete. | |
| 4 | Home originally included guest facilities (5) |
| IGLOO – I[ncluded] G[uest] LOO = facilities. | |
| 5 | Sleep regularly enfolds (3) |
| NOD – alternate letters. As in The LAND of NOD. | |
| 6 | Former kingdom’s obsession involving Conservative European party (9) |
| MACEDONIA – MANIA has C, E, DO inserted. | |
| 7 | Bird down (7) |
| SWALLOW – DD. | |
| 8 | Group of geese hide around rear of farmhouse (5) |
| SKEIN – E (rear of farmhouse) inserted into SKIN. We had this the other other day, was it the Sunday before last? | |
| 12 | Furniture one found in theatre (7) |
| DRESSER -DD. | |
| 15 | Underground traveller initially travels hours absorbed in catchy music (9) |
| EARTHWORM – T[ravels] H[ours] inserted into EARWORM. | |
| 17 | Put over with great attitude (9) |
| SUPERPOSE – SUPER = great, POSE = attitude. Collins gives “a rare word for superimpose”. | |
| 19 | Evolving entails forward projection (7) |
| SALIENT – (ENTAILS)*. | |
| 21 | Hertfordshire town’s success in protecting church (7) |
| HITCHIN – HIT (success) IN, insert CH. My trainline to London passes through this station but I’ve never alighted there. | |
| 23 | Drink before a show? (5) |
| DRAMA – DRAM, A. | |
| 25 | Hold back when accepting odd bits of true fact (5) |
| DATUM – DAM (hold back) has T[r]U[e] inserted. Datum being the singular of data, which all too often is treated as a singular word by the media. | |
| 27 | Finish repair to remove marks (3) |
| END – MEND loses its M. | |
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