1 - Little time to copy record (4) – {T}{APE}
3 - Fix a hotpot (4) – STEW [DD]
6 - Talk by consortium exposing early method of psychoanalysis (4,11) – {WORD} {ASSOCIATION}Take the test at the link provided
10 - In an artless way, of course (9) – NATURALLY [DD]
11 - Speed shown in running heats (5) – HASTE*
12 - Questions about English politician causes furore (7) – {T{E}{MP}EST}
14 - Newsworthy subject? Capone? (7) – {TOPIC}{AL}
15 - Hang South American writer with daughter (7) – {S}{US}{PEN}{D}
18 - Difficulty learner found in examination - marks? (7) – {PROB{L}E}{M}
20 - Lacking sense batting, an Englishman at first (5) – {IN}{AN}{E}
21 - Item of night attire, jet black, Ed left out for a change (3,6) – BED JACKET
24 - Large or small container in which odds and ends are kept (4) – TIDY [E]
25 - Song of praise suggested by that man on the radio (4) – HYMN (~him)
DOWN
1 - See Oscar on board cutting a card (5) – TAROT Anno pending (Addendum - {TAR{O}T} - Thanks to dkay, see comments)
2 - Couple bagging last of flour that is plain (7) – {P{R}AIR}{IE}
4 - Poet has crackers in restaurant (3,4) – TEA SHOP*
5 - Wish claim would fail, being fanciful (9) – WHIMSICAL*
6 - Went in with Asti, possibly good for this? (4,7) – {WINE T{ASTI}N*}{G}
7 - Leave resort on the Adriatic (5) – SPLIT [DD]
8 - Keen on pint in vault (5) – {CRY}{PT}
9 - Hence, met lad injured in grudge game (6,5) – NEEDLE MATCH*
13 - Potter around canteen before a contest (4,5) – {MESS} {A}{BOUT}
16 - Came from the East and joined forces (7) – {E}{MERGED}
17 - Payment owed one in arrears (5) – {DEB{I}T}
18 - Chaplain in rooms overlooking outskirts of Rome (5) – {PAD}{R
19 - Speaker, last in very small chapel (7) – {ORATOR}{Y}
22 - Girl's in black - are nuns? (5) – KAREN [T]
Hi all
ReplyDeleteMissed many. HASTE, TOPICAL, SUSPEND, PRAIRIE, TEA SHOP,WHIMSICAL, WINE TASTING were easy. Put down TAROT by way of guess. Anno,dunno.
Oscar can point to TAR, couldn't figure out the rest.
ReplyDeleteTAR (O) T : O for Oscar & TART is cutting..in the sense of acerbic!
ReplyDeleteThanks & Nice Day!....dk
Thanks dkay2
ReplyDeleteI did not know TIDY could also mean receptacle. I got all the others without much problem.
ReplyDeleteHello Maithreyi,
ReplyDeleteDD means Double Definition.
The explanations for the 'annotations' are shown on the panel on the left hand side.
Maithreyi, further to Colonel's advice, I suggest you click SHUCHI'S BLOG, which is a great fund of information for novices.
ReplyDeletethank you..:)could you please explain the following ......
ReplyDeletehow did you get
*Tempest
* is the al of topical from Al Capone
*Problem how did you get it
*for wine tasting is there any other clue than it being anagram
*Crypt??
*Karen
*
@ Richard & Deepak .. many thanks
ReplyDeleteMaithreyi,
ReplyDeleteHere are the answers to yourqueries
12 - Questions about English politician causes furore (7) – {T{E}{MP}EST}
Questions = TEST
about = inclusion indicator
English = E
You are right about AL being from Al Capone
18 - Difficulty learner found in examination - marks? (7) – {PROB{L}E}{M}
Difficulty = Defintion = {PROB{L}E}{M}
learner = L
found in = Inclusion indicator
examination = PROBE
marks = M
politician = MP
causes = connector
furore = Definition = {T{E}{MP}EST}
For Wine tasting the whole clue is to be read as the definition.
8 - Keen on pint in vault (5) – {CRY}{PT}
Keen = CRY
on = connector
pint = P
in = connector
vault (= Definition = {CRY}{PT}
22 - Girl's in black - are nuns? (5) – KAREN [T]
Girl's = Definition = KAREN
in = Inclusion indicator
blac[k - are n]uns?
SMILE
ReplyDeleteHow to Tell the Sex of a Fly
This is the cleanest E-mail joke
I've come across in a long while!
A woman walked into the kitchen to find her
husband stalking around with a fly swatter
"What are you doing?"
She asked.
"Hunting Flies"
He responded.
"Oh. ! Killing any?"
She asked.
"Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied.
Intrigued, she asked.
"How can you tell them apart?"
He responded,
"3 were on a beer can,
2 were on the phone.
No offence please. I had heard this one long ago.
ReplyDeleteOnce there was a brilliant S****r from Punjab.
?????
And that is a joke.
Has anybody seen 'Madrasapattinam'? We want to go today but we're slightly apprehensive that it's a bit long.
ReplyDelete2107: The same person also told the world's shortest joke: 'I am thinking'
ReplyDeleteYesterday I watched 'The Spy who loved me' and the word Oratory (19d) appears as a part of a seal, which turns out to be Laboratory.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed cracking the clue that led to SPLIT. Very unusual. Again, WORD ASSOCIATION went into my Norman Pulsford's Book of Phrases as an entry, amongst hundreds of others. That Book, I reckon, was printed last in 1983 and no updating and revised editions so far. Any way we can have all my entries sent to them for a newer and latest reprint?
ReplyDeleteRaju Umamaheswar