Showing posts with label Bombadil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bombadil. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 September 2015

Special, Sunday 06 Sep 2015, Bombadil


Three answers per commenter (annotations compulsory) till 6 PM.
Please provide all your answers in one comment as far as possible.

DOUBLE TROUBLE


ACROSS
7   Details that go well with good suits? (8)
9   Perfect way to be sincere (6)
10 Leave droppings (4)
11 Beers and foods all over the place? Life isn’t this (3,2,5)
12 He provided an attractive explanation for why earth sucks (6)
14 A grandmaster’s work? A spar over pieces (8)
15 Surface with extremely dirty humour (6)
16 Filed I.T. returns, was late (6)
19 Spooner’s opening space to cover the present (4-4)
21 City is too good, but lacks railway (6)
23 Anti-scrota operation? (10)
24 So, coming back as a troll? (4)
25 Go over dancing routine (6)
26 Double-crosses? (3-5)

DOWN
1   Fellowship of the ring (6)
2   Succeeding means getting ten in ten possibly (4)
3   Leg-breaks teased and got torn to shreds (8)
4   They can be worthless guys (6)
5   Pub cheers new measure (10)
6   A chemical compound for a heavenly body (8)
8   Kudos! You ultimately solved the puzzle (6)
13 This Satan employs to test Man at pain! (10)
15 Nobility of church to lead away from struggle (8)
17 Designer home with passage for air and a gate (8)
18 A device to set middle of bones in fracture (6)
20 Visionary’s head chopped off with cutting tool (6)
22 Speed Post? (6)
24 If love had no boundaries, I would be a poet (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at BOMBADIL 2

Enjoy.

Sunday, 26 July 2015

Special, Sunday 26 Jul 2015, Bombadil


Welcome to our new setter Bombadil.
Brickbats and bouquets welcome.
Three answers per commenter as usual (annotations compulsory) till 6PM.
Please try and give all your answers in one comment.

MEA CULPA


ACROSS 
8   Take out without opening gift (4)
9   International organization—one mostly behind real problem that is one-sided (10)
10 Big private parts vibrated (6)
11 It is done in rebellion (8)
12 He constructed a grid that required a clue for getting 1 Across (8)
14 You ultimately will get absorbed in a book and manage to escape (6)
16 Smack or crack is smuggled across borders (4)
17 “A Passage to India” at last meets “A Call from the East” (5)
18 Points of no return? (4)
19 When it gets dark, we hear the Lord (6)
21 Essay on Arabian prisoners-- so long (8)
23 Dirty leering would result if I were removed! (8)
26 "Of Mice and Men" possibly outlined origins of urban-rural interdependence (6)
27 Property of most genuine tea, perhaps? (4,6)
28 Suited for upwardly mobile Italian town (4)
 
DOWN 
1   India totally in disarray—Leaders of your locality need to be ousted for widening gap (10)
2   A group of hot, middle-aged, B-type stars? (8)
3   Bat over a score of zero almost, facing leg break (6)
4   Ram’s abode? (4)
5   A policeman overwhelmed by English novelist’s printed work (8)
6   Group of seven stars, mainly on record, sought in the end by someone from outer space (6)
7   Pithy extract from an unfinished story receives love (4)
13 Lonely lost souls (5)
15 Without making any mistakes, rune decoded by circle - extremely lovely (10)
17 Star from East possibly takes chance (8)
18 Strange criminal follows a second-grade Christie novel (8)
20 Without a bit of insensitivity laugh about a group of people (6)
22 Post 4th of July, some Americans get married, and lament (6)
24 Alpine butter? (4)
25 Style of lean management (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at BOMBADIL - MEA CULPA.

Enjoy.