Guardian 24,355 (Sat 5 Apr)/Araucaria - Mixed bag
Posted by rightback on 12th April 2008
Solving time: 13:05
A definition/letter-mixture puzzle from Araucaria this week. Please say in the comments if you found this a welcome change or a bit of a chore.
Some definitions are given in brackets.
Music (10dn): The Trout by Schubert, which spawned the famous ‘Trout Quintet’. I have no idea if this is any good, because my Internet connection is too slow today to play the video!
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | MARTINMAS - I think the definition here is ‘Day celebration’. |
| 10 | TROUT |
| 11 | FRAGONARD - if I’d known this artist my solving time would have been much quicker. |
| 12 | NATURAL (normal) - should have got both this and 10ac faster than I did. |
| 14 | UNDERGRADUATE |
| 17 | ENTERTAINMENT (diversion) |
| 21 | SWEETEN (pacify) |
| 22 | OVERACT (ham) |
| 24 | ANIMOSTIY |
| 26 | LEST (in case) |
| 27 | GLENGARRY (cap) |
| Down | |
|---|---|
| 1 | MUTINOUS (rising) - my last entry. |
| 3 | INTERPRETATION (rendering) - I found this the hardest of the long answers. |
| 4 | MUFFLER - looking back, I should have got this faster; it’s pretty obvious that ‘Wonderful female’ has to contain the anagram fodder. |
| 5 | STARVED (cold) - apparently ‘to starve’ can mean ‘to die of cold’ in northern and Scottish dialects. |
| 7 | BRASSIERE (cups) - one of the few disguised definitions. |
| 8 | SIDING (not the main line) |
| 9 | MOUNTAINEERING |
| 15 | DIETETICS (science relating to food) - I actually got this wrong initially, writing in ‘dietarily’, which is a word according to Merriam-Webster, but (I now notice) doesn’t quite fit the letters in the clue. |
| 16 | STATUARY (figures) - didn’t know this was a noun. |
| 18 | RUNNING (competition) |
| 19 | ANODYNE (bland) - the surface refers to this Beatrix Potter book. |
| 20 | ASSAIL |
| 23 | ALDER |
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