"Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey"!
Pangrammatic Plum pickings today from Sunnet. Happy landings in the
wor(l)d of Blandings! Luckily, it has fallen to my lot to blog this
puzzle, for today, I'm the (im)poster at Blandings, which even at the best (or is it worst?) of times has quite a few imposters creeping about in the woodwork!
ACROSS
1 Study following Indian party’s growth (6) SPREAD (SP READ)
4 Boot with metal blade kills a girl (3,5) ICE SKATE (ICES KATE)
10 Doctor, do we provide accommodation to a writer? (9) WODEHOUSE ((DO WE)* HOUSE)
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Shortly before his death, Wodehouse said that "he had no ambitions left, as he had been knighted and created as a wax figure at Madame Tussaud's". I felt somewhat similar after being interviewed by Shuchi ... I don't have a waxwork, but a snowman built a few winters back resembled me. He was eventually liquidated.
11 Japanese poem honouring all internationally known union leaders (5) HAIKU (acrostic)
My friends from Hyderabad may say: Yeh haiku-waiku, kaiku?
12 Rushed vehicle back to editor (5) RACED (CAR< ED)
13 Writing desk from Anchorage, taken to backward state, is unfinished (9) DAVENPORT (NEVADa< PORT)
Horace Davenport: "Nature, stretching Horace Davenport out, had forgotten to stretch him sideways, and one could have pictured Euclid, had they met, nudging a friend and saying: ‘Don’t look now, but this chap coming along illustrates exactly what I was telling you about a straight line having length without breadth." Davenport also being a kind of sofa, one can have Davenport lying on a davenport near a davenport.
14 Chivalrous man ate at the end of festival (7) GALAHAD (GALA HAD)
Hon. Galahad Threepwood: "apparently never went to bed until he was fifty". His reminiscences were the stuff of legend and were consumed by The Empress, or were they?
16 Audible record of ceremony (4) RITE (~WRITE)
19 Run away from navy? Not quite (4) FLEE (FLEEt)
21 Trim dog after dog (7) CURTAIL (TAIL after CUR)
24 Mentioned capital law (9) PRINCIPLE (~PRINCIPAL)
25 Britain’s single stupid mistake in America (5) BONER (ONE in BR)
Ahem! Ahem!
26 Cost’s not in energy (5) OUTGO (OUT GO)
27 End without Romeo’s penance (9) EXPIATION (EXPIrATION)
28 Perhaps Thatcher’s ban on media lacked a bit of public resistance (8) BARONESS (BAR ONprESS)
29 Plan to breathe with difficulty (6) WHEEZE 2
DOWN
1 Darn fad to ingest Ecstasy and refuse liquid (8) SEWERAGE (SEW RAGE ingests E)
2 Law held one retrograde police department in contempt (8) RIDICULE (RULE held 1 CID<)
3 Bled a trace of chromium out of store’s diamonds (5) ACHED (cACHE D)
5 Remove round pieces of veal from chopper (7) CLEAVER (CLEAR round VE)
Reminded me of old Bingley chasing Wooster with a chopper
6 Ring like muscle altering small pert chin (9) SPHINCTER (S PERT CHIN)*
"I do not know if you are familiar with the word ''excesses'' ", but the word Sphincter reminded me once again of the "excesses" committed at the Yugadi feast
7 A fighter with big friends (6) AMIGOS (A MIG OS)
8 Fairness of investment (6) EQUITY 2
9 Underwrote amusement activity that lacked energy (6) FUNDED (FUN DEeD)
15 British coin equivalent to sovereign and two quarters at first (4-5) HALF CROWN (CROWN, with HALF (2 quarters) first)
17 Mishandled Anju’s cut leading to an ailment (8) JAUNDICE (ANJU* DICE)
18 Conservative British officer in Arabia withdrawing west in a horse drawn carriage (8) CLARENCE (C LAwRENCE)
Clarence Threepwood, or Lord Emsworth: A pearl of an Earl: "Once the pig fever has taken him, he is mostly to be found draped bonelessly over the pig pen, looking like an old sock."
20 Measure to squeeze monarch (7) EMPRESS (EM PRESS)
The Empress of Blandings: "requires a daily intake of no less than 57,800 calories, consisting of barley meal, maize meal, linseed meal, potatoes and separated buttermilk." A pig after my own heart!
21 Horrible backward fellow seen in empty urban area (6) CREEPY (PEER< in CitY)
22 Poise of a doctor in pursuit of middle-eastern fighters (6) APLOMB (A MB in pursuit of PLO)
23 Lean beside Queen’s plough (6) LISTER (LIST ER)
Bill "Blister" Lister: "an artist, a large and muscular man (he was once a finalist in an Amateur Boxing championship) with a face like a gorilla". Was my Sam Bahadur quote yesterday night, on the occasion of his centenary, a sort of premonition of things to come today?
25 Say, a tree in sand (5) BEACH (~BEECH)
Sebastian Beach: the Head Butler at Blandings, "a dignified procession of one"
Note: All quotations are from PG Wodehouse books
ACROSS
1 Study following Indian party’s growth (6) SPREAD (SP READ)
4 Boot with metal blade kills a girl (3,5) ICE SKATE (ICES KATE)
10 Doctor, do we provide accommodation to a writer? (9) WODEHOUSE ((DO WE)* HOUSE)
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Shortly before his death, Wodehouse said that "he had no ambitions left, as he had been knighted and created as a wax figure at Madame Tussaud's". I felt somewhat similar after being interviewed by Shuchi ... I don't have a waxwork, but a snowman built a few winters back resembled me. He was eventually liquidated.
11 Japanese poem honouring all internationally known union leaders (5) HAIKU (acrostic)
My friends from Hyderabad may say: Yeh haiku-waiku, kaiku?
12 Rushed vehicle back to editor (5) RACED (CAR< ED)
13 Writing desk from Anchorage, taken to backward state, is unfinished (9) DAVENPORT (NEVADa< PORT)
Horace Davenport: "Nature, stretching Horace Davenport out, had forgotten to stretch him sideways, and one could have pictured Euclid, had they met, nudging a friend and saying: ‘Don’t look now, but this chap coming along illustrates exactly what I was telling you about a straight line having length without breadth." Davenport also being a kind of sofa, one can have Davenport lying on a davenport near a davenport.
14 Chivalrous man ate at the end of festival (7) GALAHAD (GALA HAD)
Hon. Galahad Threepwood: "apparently never went to bed until he was fifty". His reminiscences were the stuff of legend and were consumed by The Empress, or were they?
16 Audible record of ceremony (4) RITE (~WRITE)
19 Run away from navy? Not quite (4) FLEE (FLEE
21 Trim dog after dog (7) CURTAIL (TAIL after CUR)
24 Mentioned capital law (9) PRINCIPLE (~PRINCIPAL)
25 Britain’s single stupid mistake in America (5) BONER (ONE in BR)
Ahem! Ahem!
26 Cost’s not in energy (5) OUTGO (OUT GO)
27 End without Romeo’s penance (9) EXPIATION (EXPI
28 Perhaps Thatcher’s ban on media lacked a bit of public resistance (8) BARONESS (BAR ON
29 Plan to breathe with difficulty (6) WHEEZE 2
DOWN
1 Darn fad to ingest Ecstasy and refuse liquid (8) SEWERAGE (SEW RAGE ingests E)
2 Law held one retrograde police department in contempt (8) RIDICULE (RULE held 1 CID<)
3 Bled a trace of chromium out of store’s diamonds (5) ACHED (
5 Remove round pieces of veal from chopper (7) CLEAVER (CLEAR round VE)
Reminded me of old Bingley chasing Wooster with a chopper
6 Ring like muscle altering small pert chin (9) SPHINCTER (S PERT CHIN)*
"I do not know if you are familiar with the word ''excesses'' ", but the word Sphincter reminded me once again of the "excesses" committed at the Yugadi feast
7 A fighter with big friends (6) AMIGOS (A MIG OS)
8 Fairness of investment (6) EQUITY 2
9 Underwrote amusement activity that lacked energy (6) FUNDED (FUN DE
15 British coin equivalent to sovereign and two quarters at first (4-5) HALF CROWN (CROWN, with HALF (2 quarters) first)
17 Mishandled Anju’s cut leading to an ailment (8) JAUNDICE (ANJU* DICE)
18 Conservative British officer in Arabia withdrawing west in a horse drawn carriage (8) CLARENCE (C LA
Clarence Threepwood, or Lord Emsworth: A pearl of an Earl: "Once the pig fever has taken him, he is mostly to be found draped bonelessly over the pig pen, looking like an old sock."
20 Measure to squeeze monarch (7) EMPRESS (EM PRESS)
The Empress of Blandings: "requires a daily intake of no less than 57,800 calories, consisting of barley meal, maize meal, linseed meal, potatoes and separated buttermilk." A pig after my own heart!
21 Horrible backward fellow seen in empty urban area (6) CREEPY (PEER< in C
22 Poise of a doctor in pursuit of middle-eastern fighters (6) APLOMB (A MB in pursuit of PLO)
23 Lean beside Queen’s plough (6) LISTER (LIST ER)
Bill "Blister" Lister: "an artist, a large and muscular man (he was once a finalist in an Amateur Boxing championship) with a face like a gorilla". Was my Sam Bahadur quote yesterday night, on the occasion of his centenary, a sort of premonition of things to come today?
25 Say, a tree in sand (5) BEACH (~BEECH)
Sebastian Beach: the Head Butler at Blandings, "a dignified procession of one"
Note: All quotations are from PG Wodehouse books
