Ringoe is a relatively new setter for the Indy – appearing roughly once a month – here is this month’s offering!
We found this to be a fairly straightforward puzzle to solve with several write-ins to help with the four 15-letter entries.
Is there a theme? Ringoe’s previous puzzles have tended to hint at a theme but we can’t see anything here. Any thoughts out there?
There are some good surfaces and one or two crafty definitions – all good fun!
Thanks Ringoe – here’s to next month’s!
RAN (charged) in A BERTh (dock) missing the last letter (‘endlessly’)
P (pee) in TRAMS (streetcars)
An anagram (‘disrupted’) of AFRICA WHERE CALM
OWN (admit) in (‘severing’) TIE (link)
E (English) RD (road) in (‘taken through’) A BARE (bleak)
An anagram (‘insanely’) of RICH NATION
I (ego) in VAN (goods vehicle)
cABLE (message) missing (‘concealing’) the first letter (‘it’s opening’)
I (one) in SALVATION (safety)
COT (bed) L (left) in SAND (smooth)
TO BAR (‘where drinker heads’) round (‘without’) W (whiskey in the phonetic alphabet)
ROCK (surprise) + an anagram (‘move’) of FOR BIG + ALTAR (‘wedding venue’)
SKATE (fish) R (river)
MIND (object to) SEE (view) round Y (yard)
An anagram (‘new’) of YORK HOBO and CORK BOY
R (recipe) AMEN (‘last word’)
An anagram (‘somehow’) of CANINE + T (first letter or ‘beginning’ of talk)
T (temperature) + L (first or ‘initial’ letter of lowered) in USA (America)
D E (first and last letters or ‘outside’ of drake) ‘drawn’ in TRAIN (coach)
An anagram (‘put out’) of FIFA + DA (District Attorney – ‘stateside lawyer’) V (versus – ‘against’) IT
Cryptic definition – a reference to the novel by Henry James
Another cryptic definition
drILL (practice) ‘dismissing’ ‘dr’ (doctor)
STAFF (post) + a reversal (‘to be recalled’) of RE (about)
VET (animal doctor) + an anagram (‘worked’) of NEAR
Hidden in beatituDE IS Misplaced
WELL (healthy) S (society) – a reference to H G Wells who has been described as a ‘social realist’
Good puzzle though I did not get ‘post’ = STAFF. As nouns, the first seems to be something fixed whilst the second is something carried. As verbs, the first is to put someone into a position whilst the second is to provide with employees. What am I missing?
Think of a staff being a pole which can also be a post.
Some great anagrams, particularly 9a.
Didn’t know that meaning of Corinthian (and failed to guess it from the anagrist).
Can’t say I would class ‘deism’ as ‘reasonable’.
DEISM
Agree with Hovis@3
‘reasonable’ seems to be an opinion.
Does the clue not work without this word?