Happy New Year, everyone.
Hard on the heels of 1243, here’s 1244, which was published on the 2 January Bank Holiday Monday. I didn’t think this one was too difficult either, but I did note a slightly political air to it, what with 13ac, 18ac, 47ac, 49ac, 54ac, 26dn, and possibly 1ac and 55ac. Or maybe that’s just me…
As always, * indicates an anagram.
| Across |
| 1 |
VITRIOLIC – (civil)* around TRIO |
| 6 |
REITH LECTURES – (their)* + LECTURES |
| 13 |
LYING – fLYING (the definition is ‘invention’) |
| 14 |
COUNTERPART – COUNTER + PART |
| 15 |
SOLAR – SOAR around L |
| 16 |
A POSTERIORI – A POSTER, + first letters of ‘is only rarely interesting’ |
| 17 |
GUTTA-PERCHA – GUT + TAPER + CHA |
| 18 |
LEFTIST – (f titles)* |
| 20 |
BOTULIN – U, + nil (reversed), after BOT |
| 21 |
ANEMONE – no men (reversed) in AE |
| 23 |
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS – (shifted off tidy earth)* |
| 27 |
FIG – alternate letters of ‘fridge’ |
| 28 |
NICKEL – NICK + E + L |
| 29 |
SESAME – SagE + SAME |
| 31 |
STANDPIPE – STAND + PIPE |
| 34 |
RELAY RACE – RE + LAY + RACE |
| 35 |
YUPPIE – puy (reversed) + PIE |
| 36 |
JUNIOR – J + UNI + OR |
| 39 |
LEE – fLEE |
| 40 |
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC – (famous delicacy mayor)* |
| 42 |
ENTASIS – AS IS, after E + NT |
| 43 |
DRIFTER – DRIER around FT |
| 45 |
PARATHA – RajA, in PATH + A |
| 47 |
SMALL-MINDED – SMALL + M + IN + DEeD |
| 49 |
OPINIONATED – O + PINION + A TED |
| 51 |
AIOLI – rAvIOLI |
| 52 |
PARSON’S NOSE – POSE, around ARSON + SN (Sn is the chemical symbol for tin) |
| 53 |
DINGO – DING + O |
| 54 |
EXAGGERATEDLY – (Greet gay ex-lad)* |
| 55 |
SATIRICAL – (racialist)* |
| Down |
| 1 |
VULGAR LATIN – VULGAR + LATIN |
| 2 |
TAIL OFF – TOFF around AIL |
| 3 |
INGOT – IN + GOT |
| 4 |
LACERATION – LACE + RATION |
| 5 |
COULOMB – COULd + O + MB |
| 6 |
RETAIL THERAPY – (they’re partial in)* |
| 7 |
IRREGULAR – I + RR, around Luger (reversed) |
| 8 |
HEARTEN – HEAR + TENt
|
| 9 |
EXTRAMARITAL – EX + TRAM + A + RITA + L |
| 10 |
TASTELESS – S in TATE, + LESS |
| 11 |
RELIC – ELI in RC |
| 12 |
SPREAD EAGLE – SP + READ + EAGLE |
| 19 |
IMAGERY – I’M + AGE + RY |
| 22 |
OFF LIMITS – OFF + LIMITS |
| 24 |
EXCELLENT – EXTENT, with CELL replacing the first T |
| 25 |
THE BELL – HEBE, in T + LL. THE BELL is a novel by Iris Murdoch |
| 26 |
FASCISM – FA + SChISM |
| 30 |
EXPEDITIOUSLY – (Pity oils exude)* |
| 32 |
DRUMMER – Daiquiri + RUMMER |
| 33 |
LADY’S-SLIPPER – (sadly)* + SLIPPER |
| 34 |
ROLLER-SKATE – ROLLERS (slang for Rolls Royce cars) + K + ATE |
| 37 |
ROCK AND ROLL – ROCK + A + N + DROLL |
| 38 |
COMPLIMENT – COMMENT, around PL + I |
| 40 |
RESULTING – RE + inSULTING |
| 41 |
CHILDHOOD – CHILleD + HOOD |
| 43 |
DIDEROT – DID, + TORE (reversed) |
| 44 |
RUINOUS – ‘drug hit one house’, with the outermost letters removed from each word |
| 46 |
TITANIC – TIT + pANIC |
| 48 |
AROMA – A + ROMA |
| 50 |
NADIR – (rid an), reversed |
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