Independent on Sunday 1032 by Quixote – 22 Nov 2009
Posted by nmsindy on November 26th, 2009
Enjoyable puzzle as always, solving time, 25 mins
* = anagram
6 BEDSORE Said bore (Spoonerism)
7 OUT POST
10 ROLLNECK SWEATER (Let cleaners work)*
11 S(second) ENTRY
12 RE BUFFS
14 SO USE
15 PIE Once a coin in India
16 A CHES(s)
17 A LA (RM E) D RM = Royal Marines – This refers to the saying ‘Tell that to the Marines” ie regarded as being gullible
18 CH E’ER Sundays
20 EPISTEMOLOGICAL (College post I aim)*
22 (ex)TENSION
23 PIN(t) HEAD
DOWN
1 ADUL (T ED U C) ATION Ed = Ted University = u College = c
2 DOWNSTREAM (Most wander)*
3 DES CRY
4 CON SERVE
5 STYE “sty”
6 Robert BURN(s) less s = sun
8 OUT OF CHARACTER Cryptic definition
9 T (H) RUSTS
13 BEAM ENGINE e (energy) in (Mine began)*
14 SPA REST spare = excessive ie more than is needed
15 (I’m) PEDIMENT
18 CA (L 1) PH (chap)*
19 C (L) OD
21 T(H) IN
November 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Thanks for the blog. Just adding a comment to make you feel it was worth it nmsindy as I stuck with 5 clues to go.
i’ve only just started to get the Independent on Sundays; not sure that I can remember a Quixote before. A nice balance of diffficulty in clues and 2 nice long anagrams, but i couldn’t get the marines in 17 ac having never heard the expression. Not sure that “serve” in 4 dn was particularly synonymous with “additional help” so I discounted it.
Oh yes I enjoyed yesterday’s Quixote (29th Nov) too. Thankyou
November 30th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Thanks, pennes, blog on 29 Nov puzzle scheduled for 1 00 AM 3 Dec. In CONSERVE, which was tricky, I think ’serve’ was ‘help’ with ‘additional’ being a link ie ’serve’ was ‘additional’ to ‘con’. A puzzle always worth tackling, on the easy side in the Indy spectrum (and indeed otherwise) and everything adds up nicely.