Times Quick Cryptic 1971 by Tracy

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A pleasant romp through QC land with Tracy today finished just inside 9 minutes.

Definitions are underlined.

Across
1 Rescue brute, grabbing end of tail (7)
SALVAGE – brute (SAVAGE) holding tai(L).
5 Band‘s mega hit Motown initially put out (4)
SASH – mega hit (S)m(ASH) without (M)otown.
7 Villain‘s accent, not British (5)
ROGUE – accent b(ROGUE) without British (B).
8 Resentment of private picked up (7)
RANCOUR – homophone of ranker.
10 Down the back of one’s neck, mostly (3)
NAP – back of one’s neck mostly (NAP)e. Nap of the cloth as in a snooker table.
11 Restrains labourers holding strike (9)
HANDCUFFS – labourers (HANDS) holding strike (CUFF). The noun seems more usual but the verb works here.
13 To expel almost all of gang is hard (6)
BANISH – almost all of gang (BAN)d, is (IS), hard (H).
14 Quite right for salesperson to come back (6)
PROPER – for (PRO), salesperson – rep – to come back (PER).
17 A daughter calling for recognition (9)
ADMISSION – a (A), daughter (D), calling (MISSION). On a mission to save the World.
19 Extremely palatable, a vegetable (3)
PEA – (P)alatabl(E), a (A).
20 Not all stand by doctor, a radical (7)
DRASTIC – not all of stand (STIC)k beside doctor (DR) and a (A).
22 Dog belonging to Alec, or Giles (5)
CORGI – belonging to Ale(C OR GI)les.
23 Finish second best (4)
STOP – second (S), best (TOP).
24 Complicated tests on hat (7)
STETSON – anagram (complicated) of TESTS ON.
Down
1 Bound to get on diving platform (11)
SPRINGBOARD – bound (SPRING), get on (BOARD).
2 Type of delivery members nail (3,4)
LEG SPIN – members (LEGS), nail (PIN). A delivery in cricket.
3 Gemstones my hat! Set’s fake! (9)
AMETHYSTS – anagram (fake) of MY HAT SETS.
4 English bishop with task to perform (6)
ERRAND – English (E), bishop (RR – Right Reverend).
5 Son at home gives offence (3)
SIN – son (S), at home (IN).
6 Mock small company very loudly (5)
SCOFF – small (S), company (CO), very loudly (FF).
9 Advance booking condition (11)
RESERVATION – double definition. Could a triple have been worked in here e.g.  ‘Booking condition concern’?
12 Appalling, the French record (9)
CHRONICLE – appalling (CHRONIC), the French (LE).
15 Ancient document with syrup spread across a page (7)
PAPYRUS – anagram (spread) of SYRUP across a page (A P). I thought it was just the paper but Colins also has a document written on papyrus which doesn’t surprise.
16 Endless talk about throwing event (6)
DISCUS – endless talk (DISCUS)s.
18 Had in mind low temperature (5)
MEANT – low (MEAN), temperature (T).
21 Gratuity — mine sent over (3)
TIP – mine – pit – over/upwards (TIP).

56 comments on “Times Quick Cryptic 1971 by Tracy”

  1. We got to this very late in the day and solved it, without pen and paper for the anagrams, in the lounge of a very nice hotel. We agree that some of the clues were a bit obtuse but we completed it in 14 minutes so we must have been on Tracy’s wavelength.

    FOI: SIN
    LOI: STOP
    COD: NAP (we didn’t think the clue was controversial at all)

    Thanks Tracy and Chris.

  4. …held me up for more than 40 minutes at the end. I thought of RANCOUR very quickly, but couldn’t convince myself that it meant resentment and I DNK ranker = private. Also, I DNK bishop = RR, and never saw with = AND. My total time was 68 minutes — awful!

    Mrs Random couldn’t parse these clues either, but with her better vocabulary she finished in 39 minutes.

    Thanks to Tracy and Chris

  5. Did this in 11:57 on the laptop which is why I can be precise! Can’t remember the details as I did it this morning before going out for the day – we’re on hols in very wet Wales! The Mumbles, rather than mombles 😅
  6. All seemed easy enough until the last 2 whereupon I ground to a halt after 20 minutes. Rancour eventually fell but was left with ebrand simply to give the B from Bishop a home. Obvious with hindsight but that’s 2 DNFs in a row.
  7. Chronic simlply means over a long period of time, from chronos Gr.

    Naps— babies!?I I spy strangers!

    FOI 21dn TIP

    LOI 4dn ERRAND

    COD NONE

    WOD 15dn PAPYRUS

    Dreary.

    Edited at 2021-09-28 08:03 pm (UTC)

  8. 17 minutes but POI Rancour was without understanding why and Errand LOI not knowing that RR was a bishop, so biffing I suppose.

    Nap went over my head (and down my nape) — I thought it would be Pan (down = reversal command) until FOI Springboard made me change it without revisiting the clue,

    Thanks all
    John George

  9. Too many 15×15 level clues here
    Guessed rancour — never heard of ranker for private and didn’t get the homophone clue
    Never heard of RR for Bishop
    Chronic is not appalling- it is surely to do with time.
    Missed out on three.
    Thought this a bit unfair
    Nick
    1. Down does mean nap – see 2.

      1.
      a. the raised fibres of velvet or similar cloth
      b. the direction in which these fibres lie when smoothed down
      2. any similar downy coating
      3. Australian informal
      blankets, bedding
      VERB
      Word forms: naps, napping or napped
      4. (transitive)
      to raise the nap of (cloth, esp velvet) by brushing or similar treatment

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