Posted by diagacht on 2nd April 2008
Having recently blogged a SHED puzzle from the Guardian, this DOGBERRY was also very enjoyable.
| Across |
| 1 |
MUSTER: ER after MUST |
| 4 |
CHAMPION: H in CAMPION |
| 9 |
HERNIA: IN reversed in HERA |
| 10 |
PART-SONG: PARTS + ON (broadcast) + G |
| 12 |
GRIDLOCK: GRID (framework) + LOCK (secure) |
| 13 |
SPRITE: R in SPITE |
| 16 |
BULLDOG: BULL (herbivore) + DOG (carnivore) |
| 21 |
PAGE: double definition |
| 25 |
CLOUDY: LOUD in CY (city limits) |
| 26 |
HEAT RASH: HE + A TRASH |
| 28 |
UPSTAIRS: anagram of A PURISTS |
| 29 |
SCHISM: MS (manuscript, reversed) around CHIS (plural of Greek letter Chi) |
| 30 |
FALSETTO: FAL (river in Cornwall) + SET TO |
| 31 |
POMMEL: double definition (part of a saddle; part of a gymnastics horse) |
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| Down |
| 1 |
MAHOGANY: A HOG in MANY |
| 2 |
SURBITON: anagram of IRON BUST |
| 6 |
METAPHOR: PA (reversed) in anagram of MOTHER |
| 7 |
ICONIC: C in IONIC |
| 8 |
NUGGET: GUN (reversed) + GET |
| 11 |
SCOURGE: CO (commanding officer) in SURGE |
| 14 |
BLOATER: L in BOATER |
| 17 |
MANDRAKE: MAN + DRAKE (both male bipeds) |
| 18 |
PARADIGM: A DIG in PARM(a) (Italian city lacking a) |
| 19 |
BECHAMEL: BE (live) and H (hogshead) in CAMEL |
| 23 |
MORSEL: MORSE (from Colin Dexter) + L |
| 24 |
STUCCO: anagram of CUT COS(t) (no end) |
| 27 |
TROT: double defintion (brief form of Trotsky) |
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Posted by ilancaron on 2nd April 2008
Not as hard as the last Orlando I had to blog though had to guess at a couple of defs. Please enlighten. Seemed more than average anagram count which probably explains why I found this relatively easy.
Across
| 1 |
MUM’S THE WORD=(who strummed)* |
| 9 |
HESSIAN - two meanings (I recognized the cloth from somewhere) |
| 10 |
DU(CHESS)ES - our game’s just CHESS. |
| 12 |
MUN,GO - I don’t fully understand this — I did manage to guess the answer given M?N?O and GO is a great definition of “leave”, Saint MUNGO is a fully paid-up sponsor of Glasgow but I don’t understand the dialect part and MUN: “Scottish saint using dialect has to leave”. |
| 13 |
WOOD=”would” — nice clue. A grove of limes being a WOOD though the Ximenean rule of misleading capitalization being violated. |
| 14 |
MAI(SON)ETTE - SON in teatime* |
| 19 |
WA,I,F - would this have won last month’s Times crossword clue competition? |
| 22 |
PROGESTIN=(top singer)* |
| 24 |
ARAL SEA=(alas! - are)* |
| 25 |
IN FO,C,US - “dope” is our INFO. |
| 26 |
SMALL CHANGE - two meanings |
Down
| 1 |
MUSIC TO ONE’S EARS - (assure economist)* — another anagram. Auditor not indicating a homophone for a change but part of the definition. |
| 2 |
MAIN,[constabl]E |
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| 3 |
TUN(IS,I)A - well-constructed clue with a sensible surface. |
| 4 |
EPHES=sheep*,US - it’s an ancient Illiyrian city but I don’t see how US is produced from “no good” (other than an expression of universal anti-Americanism). “Stray sheep no good in ancient city”. (OK — I looked up US in Chambers and, yes, as a couple of commenters have noted, it’s U/S meaning “unserviceable”). |
| 5 |
ON, RE(MAN)D - “bloke” is our MAN and “working” is ON (not sure why I blogged IN REMAND initially… see notes). |
| 6 |
DEFINITE ARTICLE - nice CD |
| 7 |
SH(AD)OW |
| 15 |
CLAR(IS)SA - IS in rascal* — ref. the novel by Samuel Richardson. |
| 16 |
F(ULM)AR - ULM must be in Germany. And FULMAR’s a seabird I think. |
| 17 |
T(OP,S)AIL - To TAIL is to SHADOW (7D) and a TOPSAIL’s part of a boat’s rig. |
| 18 |
GOO,DISH |
| 20 |
FINISH=”Finnish” |
| 23 |
ELFIN - hidden in “AriEL FINally”. |
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