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ACROSS
1 Our truce with me, give some fashionable clothes (9)
9 We cannot go to Virginia, there is nothing there (6)
10 At the ranch with the French, what a con-man (9)
11 Can you gamble here? In Dublin? (6)
12 Two faced, could this be a fetid clue (9)
13 Having eaten with this for a stand-in (6)
17 Drive off from it, or drink it, it seems (3)
19 London and Dublin have one, impolitic has lost it! (7)
20 Hay Tim, is this a grass (7)
21 Was this joint your old family name, I hear (3)
23 Literary conclusion, 3.147, not Id, left around. (6)
27 Robert in bishop, in Dublin North (9)
28 One is in ER, like a horse (6)
29 ET can, be assigned to another (9)
30 From the French core in the States (6)
31 At the front in The War, this is where you would be (2,1,6)
DOWN
2 Earthy chores, these shades (6)
3 Leave nothing out of the torture, high place (6)
4 Dublin meets Venice over the Grand Canal (6)
5 It’s on the cards, you, I and the first lady, have been saved from danger (7)
6 This ruler translates as ”Ocean Teacher” (5,4)
7 Often states the aims of a party (9)
8 These counsels tell a neat story (9)
14 This type of pecan, can give an old craving (9)
15 Transporters for everyone (9)
16 Its a German chorus, of fifty-fifty, right to the orient (9)
17 It is not back, yet it sounds like a wait (3)
18 When I have eaten, I will come around for a cuppa (3)
22 Guevara at Christmas, get back in line (7)
24 We had beans with tea; you missed it (6)
25 Seaboard, not so. Scour it anyway (6)
26 If you have a hundred or fifty, you can play (6)
Full Solution
ACROSS
1 couturier.
OUR + TRUCE + I [anagram]
9 vacant.
VA [Virginia] + CANT
10 charlatan.
AT + RANCH + LA [anagram]
11 MARINO.
The Casino in MARINO.
12 deceitful.
FETID + CLUE [anagram]
13 altern.
ALTERN ate
17 tea.
TEA
19 Pimlico.
IMPOL+ [IT] + IC [less the IT, anagram]
20 timothy.
TIMOTHY = a type of grass grown for hay.
21 née.
NEE sound like KNEE
23 epilog.
PI + EGO +L [anagram]
27 PHIBSBORO.
ROB + BISHOP [anagram]
28 equine.
I + QUEEN [anagram]
29 alienable.
ALIEN + ABLE
30 creole.
LE + CORE [anagram]
31 IN A TRENCH.
IN A TRENCH
DOWN
2 OCHRES.
CHORES [anagram]
3 turret.
T + [O] +RTURE [anagram without the O]
4 Rialto.
RIALTO bridge.
5 evacuee.
U + ACE + EVE [anagram]
6 Dalai Lama.
DALAI LAMA
7 manifesto.
OFTEN + AIMS [anagram]
8 attorneys.
NEAT STORY [anargram]
14 appetency.
TYPE PECAN [anagram]
15 omnibuses.
OMNIBUSES
16 ritornell.
L + L + R + ORIENT [anagram]
17 ton.
TON
18 ate.
ATE
22 echelon.
CHE + NOEL [anagram]
24 absent.
BEANS +T [anagram]
25 abrade.
[S] + EAB +[O] + ARD [anagram after removing SO]
26 frolic.
IF + C + OR + L [anagram]
Solved Grid
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5 comments:
Hi Tommy
Congratulations on getting your own blog set up and I hope you get plenty of visitors and commenters....the very best of luck with it!!
Well I gave SUNWEB 5 a good try today but had to surrender...short solutions to 16d RITORNELL and 29a ALIENABLE....was happy to get as far as I did because there were a good few lucky guesses along the way!
TIMOTHY was a guess; realised APPETENCY and ABRADE were possibly anagrams and went about forming words that sounded like words! the SEABOARD clue was very good and I vaguely recognised ABRADE as a word (though didn't know the meaning!).
Guessed EQUINE immediately...and then worked out that it was an anagram of 'queen' & 'i' - can't say I'm familiar with ER representing Queen?
Took me a while to write in EPILOG....don't like that American spelling at all!
My well-known lack of military knowledge nearly let me down on ÉCHELON; I wasn't aware of it's meaning regarding military formation (Googled it when I finished) - just knew it to mean a 'level' but guessed it had to be right from the anagram of CHE and NOEL!
Had never heard of RITORNELL - maybe should have hazarded a guess.....but have to say I'm disappointed I didn't get ALIEN-ABLE....it was a lovely clue and solution...ah well!
For 11a MARINO....I was initially between two minds as to whether I should put in CASINO or MARINO....both fitted but I went for the place name MARINO rather than the cute building that's located there!
Having written this comment I realise I was lucky to get as far as I did....a lot of juggling and guesswork!
I have just one little quibble Tommy and I hope you don't mind me saying it....anagrams would not be my favourite type of clue...and while many of your anagrams were very clever, I just found there were a few too many in today's puzzle....
Many thanks again for taking the time to post puzzles and solutions for our enjoyment!
Cheers and good luck
Liz
Hi Liz,
thank you for your best wishes. I take your point about the number of anagrams, I was becoming conscious of it as I went on and will work on it. How about the level of difficulty? I feel the puzzles should be solveable within about 40 minutes, but thay is by my own standards. It is only by continuing to compile and with good feedback that I can get it right, I guess.
Thanks again for your time and comments, and I hope you will continue to let me try to keep you guessing!
Tommy
Hi Tommy,
First of all, the best of luck with your blog.
Today's puzzle was a "two-cuppa" for me, taking about 40 minutes, but ... I had two guesses that were wrong. I missed RITORNELL (all Dutch/German to me!) and EVACUEE (too devious for me!).
Clues of note:
9A: VACANT ... I see you've used the VA abbreviation. I've been wondering if the US state abbreviations were "welcome" in a an Irish crossword, and I guess the answer is "yes"! Useful to know ...
17A: TEA ... I wasn't sure whether the answer was TEE or TEA, couldn't tell from the clue, so had to get 18D solved. You must have loved the discussion about the TEA/TEE controversy in the latest Crosaire crossword :o)
21A: NEE ... outside of Ireland, I think this clue would create problems. The French pronunciation rhymes with "neigh", but in Ireland we tend to pronounce it as "knee" probably because of the Irish "ni".
28A: EQUINE ... I had to guess, completely missed the ER/Queen connection. LIZ ... E.R. stands for Elizabeth Regina, I think.
2D: OCHRES ... I am not sure if you intended this, but I liked the clue because I suspected an anagram and was spoiled for choice: earthy, chores & shades!
5D: EVACUEE ... missed this. Where does the "I" come in? The one for the ace perhaps?
7D: MANIFESTO ... lovely clue, reads really well. "Often" and "aims" are woven together beautifully.
8D: ATTORNEYS ... I just learned that the plural of ATTORNEY isn't ATTORNIES! One attorney is enough anyway!
14D: APPETANCY ... lucky guess by me.
25D: ABRADE ... loved the use of "not so" to signal the exact deletion from "seaboard". Very natural, and read very well.
On the subject of anagrams, I agree with Liz, there are probably too many here for my taste too. But, to be fair, I've gotten an email or two from folks that regard anagrams as their favorite type of clue. I guess the answer is balance.
By the way, I like your idea of giving instructions to print out in landscape format. I might try that too.
Keep up the good work, Tommy. I love a crossword with some Irish flair!
Hi Tommy,
I'd agree that 40 minutes is a good timeframe to allow for a puzzle....Crosaire is often 'doable' in well under 30mins even for me, and I'm not one of the speed freaks on Bill's blog....I'm a plodder....
While I didn't time myself doing SUNWEB 5 (I never can because I rarely work through any puzzle without interruptions!) I reckon I'd got yours down to four or five blanks after 25/30mins....and then mulled over it, eventually finishing minus two....so yes, I think you set it at a nice level....gentler than some of your earlier ones, if I recall!
I've just read Bill's comments and he covered a lot of ground....I agree that MANIFESTO was a fabulous clue.....I didn't spot the anagram initially because the clue so aptly described MANIFESTO.... that was lovely.
I know I commented on the amount of anagrams but that doesn't take away from the fact that a lot of them were very creative...the words/letters that made up the anagrams were so well juggled that the solutions they produced were well hidden...
15a - the use of 'has lost it' to get PIMLICO from 'impolitic'
25a - this one took a while to figure out but was well worth it....loved the 'not Id'/EGO connection.....was initially looking for a connection to the 1down clue - but there was no 1down in the puzzle so that kept me puzzled a while!
And Bill...yes, I reckoned on the '1'/ACE connection: U-ACE-EVE = EVACUEE!.....
and thank you for introducing me to Elizabeth Regina!
Thanks again Tommy
Liz
Liz, a plodder? I don't think so :o)
Anagrams are a real quandary for me when I am compiling clues. I like to signal them with a key word, which makes it harder to come up with a clue that is pithy and reads well. And as I said, some people love them, and others hate them. Personally, I like to see them limited to a handful in a crossword, with some of those being anagrams used creatively, like your PIMLICO clue, Tommy, which requires a little bit of work to find out what letters are needed for the angram.
Anagram or no ... looking forward to SunWeb6!
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