1 - Type of music from the South side (5) - {S}{WING}
4 - King in America meeting important stars (4,5) - {U{R}SA} {MAJOR}
10 - Tell untruths about e.g. praise, reportedly for a feudal superior (5,4) - {LI{EG}E} {LORD}(~laud)
11 - Son's term for a weapon (5) - {S}{WORD}
12 - Training out in it abroad (7) - TUITION*
14 - Royal Marines, first-rate, captivated by sea siren (7) - {ME{RM}{AI}D}
16 - One of us behind bars beginning to reform (7) - {INSIDE}{R}
18 - Arrived at film studio to make a musical (7) - {CAME}{LOT}
19 - Tree evident in Colorado ski resort (5) - ASPEN [DD]
22 - Novel's fantastic a poet's said again (1,7,2,5) - A PASSAGE TO INDIA*
23 - Cry, cut biting fruit (4,1,4) - {SHE{D A TE}AR}
24 - Some process engineering in German industrial city (5) - ESSEN [T]
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1 - Italian composer exposed in trial, acts strangely (9) - SCARLATTI*
2 - At the start, leading article's suppressed (2,3,5,5) - IN THE FIRST PLACE
3 - Golfer's opener - Rose possibly in the furze (5) - {G}{ORSE*}
6 - Distinguished conductor describing Latin mass in turmoil (9) - {MAE{L}STRO}{M}
8 - Swift attack round centre of Tripoli (5) - RA{P}ID
13 - Ones imprisoned by one country or another (9) - IND{ONES}IA
18 - Artist in court worried guardian (7) - {CU{RA}TOR*}
19 - Collect a million as head of security (5) - {A}{M}{AS}{S}
21 - Chess player with involved ending in game (5) - {WHIT*}{E}
Hi
ReplyDeleteThe LIEGE LORD Mr SCARLATTI, CURATOR of CAMELOT SHED A TEAR and took A PASSAGE TO INDIA IN THE FIRST PLACE from ESSEN to FORT WORTH to INDONESIA to get RAPID SWORD TUITION on a SWING over a GORSE shrub in a DUTCH BARN under an ASPEN from a MERMAID REFUGEE from URSA MAJOR who had achieved STARDOM riding a WHITE UNICORN in a MAELSTROM, before he created A STORM IN A TEACUP and SHED A TEAR about INSIDER trading by a JACK OF ALL TRADES who had AMASS(ed) wealth.
REFUGEE reminded me of a 1971 war reference in The Illustrated Weekly that our Bengali Bhadralok were not only so polite as to call their own as BANNERJEE, MUKHERJEE and CHATTERJEE, with the honorific suffix ‘Jee’ signifying respect, they also accorded respect to their unfortunate brethren coming in from East Pakistan as REFU-JEE.
Reference to Royal Marines reminded of Per Mare, Per Terram (By Sea, By Land).
Enjoyed SHE-DATE-AR, ME-RM-AI-D, IND-ONES-IA, RA-P-ID, all involving placing one or more in another.
Good morning all
ReplyDeleteA festival of anagrams, word-play, phrases and idioms.
Could solve some long answers by surface reading.
Idiomatic clues are anytime better than idiotic ones. ;-)
The word FURZE I must have come across first in The Village Schoolmaster part of Goldsmith's lovely poem The Deserted Village:
ReplyDeleteBeside yon straggling fence that skirts the way
With blossomed furze unprofitably gay...
"Unprofitably gay" - one can talk for a minute or two about this felicitous phrase.
The lines that I particularly like in that fantastic poem are
Yet he was kind; if severe in aught
The love he bore to learning was at fault
(From memory; excuse any errors)
LNS: Thanks for your msg yesterday.
Idiomatic clues are anytime better than idiotic ones.
ReplyDeleteAs Ma gets out of the way?
@ CV, yes, IDIO-MA-TIC !
ReplyDelete@CV: Also:
ReplyDeleteIn arguing too, the parson own'd his skill,
For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thund'ring sound
Amazed the gazing rustics rang'd around;
And still they gaz'd and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.
But followed by:
But past is all his fame. The very spot
Where many a time he triumph'd is forgot.
eclipses the previous praise.
@ CV: Shades of Ozymandias there?
ReplyDeleteCan someone explain how the anno in 2D "leading article's suppressed" lead to the solution?
ReplyDeleteVikram, If you suppress the article (the) in the answer you get IN FIRST PLACE. rest should be obvious
ReplyDeleteUrsa Major is also known as The Plough. In India it is known as Saptarishi and is a pointer to the Pole Star and a navigational aid.
ReplyDeleteKishore
ReplyDeleteTo respond to your statement, which I saw just now.
Oh yes.
Ozymandias was among the poems my Dad read to us.
Abou Ben Adhem... The Nightingale and the Glow-Worm: Warbling out his approbation... so many!
BTW, re the msg at 3:38 PM. Hope Deepak doesn't fall!
@ CV: Re 3.38, is it for real? Will he fall like a ton of bricks or a ton of cotton? Some days back, I saw a post in Mandarin and wondered where it came from. Probably automated stuff. My Mandarin is very very limited. However, Teresa Teng's "The Moon Represents My Heart" is one of my all time favs. Try listening to it on You Tube. Yue liang dai biao wo de xin.
ReplyDelete@CV & Kishore,
ReplyDeleteFall?? Not likely, but for your comments linking to 3:38, I would have deleted it
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