Posted by nmsindy on 10th October 2007
Solving time: 26 mins
* = anagram < = reversed
ACROSS
1 TRI FACIAL “Try” Trifacial nerve
11 YORK Hidden
12 FELT TIP PEN
14/15 SMOKEY ROBINSON (Bono risks money)*
18/19 INTERNAL ORGANS (A ring o’ lanterns)* Has to be right, I think, but do not quite understand what seems a cryptic definition (lights) to go with the anagram.
23 BEA M (millions)
27 I (womaN) CHING
28 DOLLY Basil D’Oliveira
DOWN
3 A LAS(s)
4 ILKLEY (likely)*
6 CENT (1 LIT) RE
7 CHIMP Hidden
8 A PENNI (N)ES
13 F (EARLESS) LY
14 SAINTHOOD
16 STATES ID E
17 W (AR L) ORDS RA< = artillery l = length
20 (MINI-M)E From Austin Powers
22 (o)NE PAL pal = mate = china
24 MO GUL(f)
25 SCAD Dac’s<
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Posted by John on 10th October 2007
Solving time : 54 minutes, with one or two not understood and a little bit of reference book and electronic nudging towards the end. I’m not very familiar with Paul, since I avoid his Punk crosswords in the Indy, but I had expected this to be both unsatisfactorily dodgy and very difficult. In the event it was neither. A very nice crossword with apparently good sound clues, although 29A and 8D might still disabuse me.
| Across |
| 1 |
AGE on SEW, def. waste |
| 4 |
2 defs. |
| 9 |
HELL (TERRIBL)E BORE |
| 10 |
D(WE)EB; refers to the “royal we”. |
| 11 |
(S)LAYER; I wasted time perusing a list of films. |
| 12 |
OVERT RICK; refers to bridge. |
| 13 |
Spooner would say “Fled rag” |
| 15 |
(NIB BOD)< |
| 17 |
(CAL(O)RIE)*; a lovely &lit. |
| 19 |
(I DO SEE C)* |
| 26 |
It always seems to me that to refer to the palindromic property of an answer is a bit of a cop-out. |
| 27 |
(AMUSING OR)*, and “One’s stupid” is the def. |
| 29 |
I think this is THRONE, since it fits, is a seat, and contains “one”; but I can’t understand the first bit, the “thr”. |
| |
| Down |
| 1 |
SC(HOL(E))AR |
| 2 |
2 defs; “as in “give it some welly”, and ref. wellington boot. I don’t like defs. like “on foot” - a phrase like this doesn’t seem to be enough to define a noun. |
| 3 |
GU(ERR I)LL A |
| 4 |
I think this is about the hairdresser’s “Something for the weekend, sir?”. If one uses a condom then there is, one hopes, no baby. WEE KEN D. |
| 6 |
F L(EXIT)IME. Very hard, I thought, but perfectly sound. I couldn’t even get it when I had all the checking letters, and had to use my electronic thing. |
| 8 |
Looks like OOLONG. Is it OO LONG, and the “long” refers to a long drink that perhaps contains fruit juice? |
| 16 |
BLOW then hidden; def. “might one … cheesecake”. |
| 18 |
Probably Reining. I expect there was a Kaiser Reining, just as there was a Kaiser Wilhelm. Unfortunately Google thinks of Reining” as “reining” as in using one’s reins on a horse. |
| 19 |
DU(GO)NG. A bit lavatorial. |
| 20 |
(MEN)* ASSE(NT) |
| 21 |
F(AIR)LY |
| 23 |
P in LIRA< |
| 25 |
Hidden, requiring the solver to have the answer to 24. |
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