Sunday 14 June 2009

No 2537, Sunday, 14 Jun 09

Had to google for some answers and annotation of 21D eludes me

ACROSS
1 - Dish cut into pieces, the old American recalled (4,4) - {CHOP} {SU<-}{EY<-}
5 - Large rug packed initially into battered crate (6) - CAR{P}ET*
10 - Water creature scoundrel beheaded (5) - (-r){OTTER}
11 - Game - card game with daughter leading diamonds (5,4) - {POKER} {D}{ICE}
12 - Reportedly catch a contagious disease (7) - (~collar)CHOLER{A}
13 - Clergyman sacrificing second one in church (7) - MIN(-i)STER
14 - Scan draft star prepared for a movement inspired by Ruskin (4,3,6) - ARTS AND CRAFTS*
18 - Where Monopoly players have had to start ever since its creation? (4,3,4,2) - FROM THE WORD GO [DD]
20 - Admires astonishing weapon (7) - SIDEARM*
22 - Nobleman pinning one on trailblazer (7) - P{I}{ON}EER
24 - Girl fronting group getting ribbon for hair (5,4) - ALICE BAND [CD]
25 - Prime piece of fillet steak for dowdy woman (5) - {F}{RUMP}
26 - Time for morning coffee in the Spanish square? (6) - {EL}{EVEN}
27 - Witty remark about eastern passenger ship (3-5) - {ON}{E}-LINER
DOWN
1 - Select sweet with no centre (6) - CHO(-c)ICE
2 - One may be this, on and after a wayzgoose! (3,3,1,4,4) - OUT FOR A GOOD TIME [CD] Guessed this answer without knowing what wayzgoose was.
3 - Frenchman's material (5) - SERGE [CD]
4 - Prom in Naples crumbling, notice, close to landing-stage (9) - ESPLAN*{AD}{E}
6 - A novel type of mullein (6,3) - AARONS ROD [DD] Had to do a google search to get this one
7 - Critical part of flight, up front, in one to Russia's capital, possibly (5,2,2,6) - POINT OF NO RETURN*
8 - Kojak to be promoted? That's conjecture (8) - {THEO}{RISE}
9 - Quickly read through second Kipling novel (4) - {S}{KIM}
15 - A private conversation first of all between two Parisian heads (4-1-4) - TETE-A-TETE
16 - Left flat with one before noon and called round (7,2) - DROPPED {I}{N}
17 - In the wings, adjust to gaffes (8) - OFF STAGE*
19 - Right in favour of exercises before runs (6) - {PRO}{PE}{R}
21 - Despicable fellow injecting drug (4) - M{E}AN ?
23 - Waste matter spoilt a lake (5) - {OFF}{A}{L}

4 comments:

  1. 21d: E is for Ecstasy, which is a drug.
    Pl. google for its long medical name.
    'Injecting' is an apt c/c ind here.

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  2. On 2dn this was my comment in my blog:
    I had ‘… FOR A GOOD TIME’ from the crossings (had to look up what that w word meant, though!) and I put in OUT only after I got T from 10ac.

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  3. On 6dn my comment was: Two definitions - As I knew the title of D.H. Lawrence’s novel, I solved this. Subsequently, on looking up the word ‘mullein’ in Chambers, I learnt that that plant is known also as Aaron’s rod.

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  4. On 8dn: THEO (Lt. Kojak, movie character), RISE (to be promoted) – I solved it from def and the latter part of wordplay. Later I did an Internet search to understand the earlier part.

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