Another toughie today
ACROSS
1 Novelist reviewing The Role of the Superego (4-9) SELF-CRITICISM SELF{CRITICISM) Anno for SELF not clear
8 Pulse half missing, getting terribly cool (4) CHIC CHIC
9 Europe cast unfairly as 'place lacking atmosphere' (5,5) OUTER SPACE*
10 French city declared bust (6) BREAST (~brest)
11 What one familiar with Wagner does in audition, offering ornamentation (8) NOSE RING (~knows ring)
12 Dumbly disrespect, ignoring old in favour of oneself (2,7) IN SILENCE INS(-o+i)ILENCE
14 Slight: 'Trust in you? Not entirely' (4) TINY [T]
15 Enthusiast with excellent muscle tone (4) BUFF [DD]
16 Spooner's curious admirer delivers a kitchen utensil (6,3) FRYING PAN (-p+f)FRYING (-f+p)PAN
20 Nightingale in the city? (8) FLORENCE [DD]
21 Writer's voice has sounds of hesitation (6) SAYERS {SAY}{ERS}
23 Drunken harlot embraceth corrupted Zion, even (10) HORIZONTAL {HARLOT}* over {ZION}*
24 I doubt that easy life is without limits (2,2) AS IF {
25 Conservative journalist, grown up with Sun, made restitution (7,6) RIGHTED WRONGS {RIGHT}{ED}{GROWN*}{S}
DOWN
1 Baking has a sickly spread (7) SAHARAN {HAS+A}*{RAN}
2 Unlovely cravat, in part-synthetic fibre (5) LYCRA [T]
3 Time learner's invested in task? It's a laugh (7) CHORTLE {CHOR{T}{L}E}
4 I'll give you that note (credit card's declined) (1,5,9) I STAND CORRECTED*
5 Crowd invasion when area lost by Liverpool striker (6) INRUSH {I
6 That's me off making a contribution (9) IMPARTING {I'M}{PARTING}
7 Monkey around, affectedly impersonating Danny Dyer? (7) MOCKNEY {MO{C}KNEY*} New word for me
13 Doomed to receive porcelain that's leaking (9) INFORMING {IN FOR}{MING}
15 Labour: 'Foot could be PM' (7) BALFOUR {LABOUR+F}*
17 Shunning company around urinals (7) INSULAR*
18 Tentatively ask Iris to show affection (3-4) AIR-KISS*
19 Open, concealing nothing, unusually blunt (6) UNBOLT {UNB{O}LT*}
22 At end of twelvemonth, Norse pine (5) YEARN {YEAR}{N}
Reference List
Old = O, Journalist = ED, Sun = S, Time = T, Learner = L, Area = A, Foot = F, Norse = N
GRID
Special at 10:30 by new setter HalliBilly
ReplyDelete1AC I think the intention is: novel ist=first=I
ReplyDeleteClue number one:indivual/self!
DeleteWhile I will not rule out this, what about novelist?
DeleteIts CD that way. Review is criticism. Novelist reviewing: his own novel. Self criticism
DeleteFrom Fifteen Squared
Delete1 SELF-CRITICISM Novelist reviewing The Role of the Superego (4-9)
SELF (novelist, Will Self) + CRITICISM (reviewing)
This refers to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality in which there are three components:
Id, Ego, Superego.
The role of the Superego is to suppress the Id (‘instincts’), hence ‘self-criticism’.
And more about Will Self here
I took it as a CD with the pun on the word Super ego and reviewing.
DeleteEveryman wouldn't resort to the clue number ploy.
Thanks MB. 4d'ed.
DeleteMe too.
DeleteI too don't hesitate to agree.
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