Times Cryptic 26798

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1. I print from the crossword club site to tackle a 15×15 whereas I use the online (and on iPad) version for the QC. Paper based solving is so much easier – resulting in a very surprising (given other times) 32 minutes today. Struggled really hard to get out of step (which was cod) and polenta. Didn’t quite ‘get’ dead march which seemed to be indicated and had a guess at lippi (maybe heard from another context) so it was pleasing to see them confirmed in the blog. Thanks,
   1. Dead March is a piece by Chopin often played at funerals..
      1. I think the Chopin piece is more usually referred to as his ‘Funeral March’; the only piece I know that’s officially entitled ‘Dead March’ is by Handel, from his oratorio ‘Saul’. Nevertheless, ‘dead march’ appears in all the usual sources.

         Edited at 2017-08-08 05:04 pm (UTC)

         1. It got me to the answer 🙂
            1. Indeed, that’s the main thing!
2. About 20 minutes, in the average range. I had to biff BETEL because I wouldn’t pronounce it that way if I ever needed to pronounce it, and also PLEA BARGAIN, since my eyesight read ‘having’ instead of ‘halving’; thus the way into the PLEA part was mysterious. So I ignored the wordplay rather than strain my brain, or, as may have been more fruitful, squinting at the actual wording of the clue. LOI was TAD, after CONSTRICT. Regards.
3. Managed to finish this and some of the clues seemed of a Monday nature.
   I knew Lippi but not Betel and put Betal; it sounds the same.
   Liked 4d very much and fun overall. LOI was the guess at Betel. David
4. 25 mins 39 secs. A few nice touches but fairly gentle fare. Held up a bit by the parsing of Lippi where at first I could only see the “L” to account for “student”. I liked the “serious strains” of 14dn and the interchangeable sheep and lamb in 17ac.
   1. I also started with L for ‘student’ and then spent ages consulting various sources trying find out how PPI or IPP could mean ‘not acceptable’. When I started writing the blog I still hadn’t explained it so I enjoyed the ‘doh’ moment when it eventually arrived.
      1. Yes, Lippi is not the first artist that springs to mind and the wordplay was a little tricky so it was satisfying to work it out in the end. I work in the Courts and IPP only ever means one thing to me so I did for one brief moment wonder how imprisonment for public protection might fit in but I guess that’s probably too specialised to make its way into a Times cryptic.
5. Late to the party as didn’t get to it yesterday. Easy enough, I thought. Held up by BETEL, since it couldn’t have been anything else, but you chew the nut, not the leaves. That kind of error irritates. As for the crossword club, count your blessings. You could be trying to use the android tablet app. It’s dreadful.
   1. Hi anon, I don’t think it’s an error. When I went to India 20 years ago there was a paan-wallah on every street corner and chewing paan was a national sport. I seem to remember that paan was largely a mixture of the betel leaves, although maybe the odd but was thrown in for good measure. Either way I’m sure the leaves definitely got chewed.
6. Back from hols so catching up.
   35 mins with Gavi di Gavi. But couldn’t get the Lippi.
   Thanks setter and Jack.
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