Independent 6313/Dac - Mr Wednesday
Posted by neildubya on January 10th, 2007
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | C,ROT,ON - I’d not heard of this before and “heralds” had me puzzled for a while but once I’d got C?O?O? the wordplay became more obvious. |
| 9 | (LIVE)*,ED - cleverly worded. I spent time thinking the definition was “live” and the wordplay involved a word for “broadcast” inside (covered by)”journalist”. |
| 13 | A in LEVE(l) |
| 14 | THOU in GUESSES |
| 18 | RABBI,T PUNCH - another one that had me going for a while as “teacher” is not the most obvious definition of RABBI, not to me anyway. |
| 22 | EVERGREEN - I’d never heard of this particular song but luckily my wife (sitting next to me on the train) had. |
| 24 | TOD in MASON - does TOD come from the Disney film, “The Fox and the Hound“? I didn’t know about this at the time of solving but with some checking letters in place and a straightforward definition I knew the answer had to be right. |
| 25 | (MOB)*,VIE - the enumeration (1-5) is probably the biggest clue in this clue, if you see what I mean. |
| 26 | (EINSTEIN)* |
| Down | |
| 1 | COVE,RAGE |
| 2 | (IMPOUND,E)* |
| 5 | (SUCH A ROLE IN)* |
| 7 | I in TAP,AN - luckily this word came up in another puzzle fairly recently so I already knew it. Nevertheless, the wordplay is quite straightforward and gives you a good chance even if the word was new to you. |
| 8 | hidden in “usING REStored” - smooth surface reading. |
| 12 | ROUBLES in TOME |
| 16 | C in ONE,OVER |
| 20 | (SCOUT)*,N |
| 23 | G,EMMA - the book being the one by Jane Austen. |
January 10th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Bit tougher than usual from Dac - two eye-catching (for me) homophones - AZURE for Asia and CARM for calm (in CARMEN).
January 10th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
“tod” is just Scots/Northern dialect according to Collins. I think I’ve seen it used as a name like “Brock the Badger”, but can’t remember where. This seems to be the source for the Disney name.
January 10th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Origin unknown in Chambers.
January 10th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
AZURE
Azure … Asia? Eye-catching, yes, but for the wrong reason. Seems hopelessly stretched.
Wil Ransome
January 10th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Re: Azure, it’s not how I pronounce it, but Collins confirms that they can be pronounced the same way.
Re: Tod, Webster http://www.webster-dictionary.net/d.aspx?w=tod suggests ‘probably’ from its bushy tail, tod also being a word for a bush.
Sorry, don’t know how to do hypertext links on here.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Re: Tod When verifying today, I found it in Chambers, though designated there as Scottish. Very little doubt about the answer, though.
January 11th, 2007 at 12:10 am
AZURE
Oh, OK then I suppose. It had never even occurred to me that the first syllable could rhyme with “hay”.
Wil Ransome