Everyman 3161/slipped on cargoship?
Posted by ilancaron on May 6th, 2007
Solving time: pretty quickly except for one clue
I went through this at a pretty good clip but I’m still befuddled by the wordplay for 5D (CARGOSHIP) : I suspect I’ve completely missed the boat. At it were. (Now corrected thanks to Stilt).
Across
| 4 | BECK,ON=rev(no=small number) – a BECK is a (probably Scots) stream. |
| 9 | SPE(C)TATOR – C in (a protest)*. |
| 10 | F(O)UND – “reverse” is a (financial) FUND in this case, i.e. doesn’t indicate reversal. |
| 11 | RUSSIAN ROULETTE – Clever cryptic def for the game which has exactly “a round”. |
| 14 | HAT(CHE)T – our perennial revolutionary CHE in that*. |
| 16 | BIG DEAL – two meanings |
| 19 | MONTGOMERY C,LIFT – Ref. MONTGOMERY, Alabama. |
| 23 | D,I’S,TEMPER – turns out DISTEMPER is a “viral disease” in cats… |
| 25 | NURSE – bit of a surprise to learn that there’s a NURSE shark. |
Down
| 1 | G,ASTRIC=(scar – it)* - note how the trailing possessive “’s” isn’t used in the fodder which is valid since could be read as “scar it – is ugly” with “is ugly” being the anagrind. |
| 3 | EX,TRIC[k],AT,E – I saw the answer well before I worked out the wordplay: “end of sentencE” is just E. |
| 4 | BAT,ON – rev(tab=check). |
| 5 | CAR(GOSH,I)P – not sure about this: with C?R?O?H?P not much else occurs to me: “Fish around my island for vessel”. I can’t find a dictionary though that supports de-hyphenating CARGO-SHIP. As for wordplay I see: COS the “island”, HIP for “in”, anagram of GAR for “fish”. But I don’t see how to put it all together. Stilt below points out that it’s CAR(GOSH,I)P — where GOSH is exclamatory “my!”. So much for Greek islands and anagrammed fish. |
| 7 | HUNT-THE-SLIPPER – double/cryptic def for what was needed to win Cinderella’s hand. It’s also a children’s party game. |
| 8 | AD,VENT – def is “appearance” and I think that “is good for” is just a link phrase? |
| 15 | TRUNCHEO=(once hurt)*,N – TRUNCHEON is Brit billy-club. |
| 16 | BUMPER – two meanings: “unusually large” as in BUMPER crop e.g. |
| 18 | ASTARTE – hidden in “feAST, ARTEmis”. Good apposite surface: ASTARTE is a fertility goddess (aka Ishtar). |
| 21 | [c]RUSTY |
May 6th, 2007 at 12:21 am
Don’t have the puzzle, but presumably 5D is CARP around GOSH (my) I(sland).
May 27th, 2007 at 3:51 am
I too solved this at some stage from the def. ‘vessel’ but could not work out the full anno. instantly.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:52 am
‘reserve’ gives ‘fund’
There is no reversal in the clue for which the answer is FUND.
May 27th, 2007 at 4:08 am
10D: indeed — silly error on my part — while I was writing my notes up I read ‘reserve’ as ‘reverse’ and thus made the incorrect comment about it not indicating reversal! Anyway, of course: reserve is fund in this context.
thanks!