Sunday, September 27, 2009

SunWeb19 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 Put the flowers underground in London (10)
6 Thanks for the rustling in Ulster, of old (4)
10 Up there in 6 across a clumsy favourite (5)
11 Change oar and we'll moor here (9)
12 River rodent, we art twice around (5,3)
13 Praise from ten to fifty back East (5)
15 Fifty-one pig calls about to keep one dry (7)
17 I was not a little upset about work, in a manner of speaking (7)
19 Splash out in these pools, whether you've won them or not (7)
21 The crazy liar is in charge on board (7)
22 Once had fifty inside, that is before he left home (5)
24 His own girl, by the Scots reasoning (8)
27 Its about napkins when running before the wind (9)
28 Inverse of a low dove's lovesong from the Orient, I hear (5)
29 You should eat this fruit when you meet the lady (4)
30 Beat it a hundred times on a road back from Bertie's place (10)

DOWN
1 Neither an A or a C rig on board (4)
2 Protected worker above everyone Edward (9)
3 No finish, he's on the dry after mother in the Orient (5)
4 This African War brought sad images from a far bin (7)
5 The performance, make it real about a hundred (7)
7 Fat sailor in retrospect (5)
8 Fifty eyes and fifty ends, to no avail (10)
9 Zorba gave his twelfth letter back with force, after an instant (8)
14 Flattened by her rule about in the fish (10)
16 I've seen your ilk Kenneth in the Southeast (8)
18 Afraid, if retired (9)
20 Speaks about hunting (7)
21 An arm and a leg without the French, is what this is (7)
23 501 nothing in it fool (5)
25 A brute encountered on swift journeys (5)
26 Ancient childminder in the West Indies (4)


Full Solution
ACROSS
1 Bloomsbury.
BLOOMS + BURY
6 Tain.
TA + IN
10 inept.
IN + PET [anagram]
11 anchorage.
CHANGE + OAR [anagram]
12 water rat.
WE +ART+ ART [anagram]
13 extol.
E + X + TO + L
15 oilskin.
LI+ OINKS [anagram]
17 litotes.
SET + TOIL [anagram]
19 puddles.
PUDDLES
21 admiral.
MAD + LIAR [anagram]
22 exile.
EX + I + L + E
24 analysis.
AIN + LASSY [anagram]
27 spinnaker.
RE + NAPKINS [anagram]
28 haiku.
HIGH COO sounds like HAIKU
29 date.
DATE
30 Drumcondra.
DRUM + C + ON + DR + A

DOWN
1 brig.
B + RIG
2 overalled.
OVER ALL ED
3 matte.
MA + TT + E
4 Biafran.
A FAR BIN [anagram]
5 recital.
IT + REAL + C [anagram]
7 abaft.
FAT + AB [anagram]
8 needlessly.
L + EYES + L + ENDS [anagram]
9 momentum.
MOMENT + MU[back]
14 compressed.
COD + EMPRESS [anagram]
16 Kilkenny.
K [ILK] ENNY
18 terrified.
IF + RETIRED [anagram]
20 stalker.
TALKS + RE
21 anagram.
AN + ARM +A + [LE]G [anagram]
23 idiot.
I [ DI + O ] T
25 yahoo.
YAHOO [ from Gulliver's Travels by J. Swift]
26 Cuba.
CUBA


Solved Grid


4 comments:

Bill Butler said...

Hi Tommy,

Great puzzle today ... very challenging! I missed five answers:

LITOTES (Lookup of the Day!)
ANALYSIS
HAIKU (nice clue)
YAHOO (kicking myself ... a Crosaire Blog Lookup of the Day not so long ago, and the clue had a great use of "swift")
CUBA (but I don't get the ancient child-minder reference?)

My notes along the way:

BLOOMSBURY: An unexpected use of "flowers", and Clue of the Day for me.
WATER RAT: nice use of "two rats".
DRUMCONDRA: Irish Clue of the Day!
BRIG: Excellent clue for a short answer.
BIAFRAN: poignant clue.
ABAFT: nice use of "retrospect". A lovely clue/answer combo.
NEEDLESSLY: very clever anagram and wording.
MOMENTUM: your signature "physiclue"!

This was a 2-cuppa puzzle for me, Tommy. Maybe if I'd gone for that third cup of tea I would have finished!

Keep 'em coming!

Unknown said...

Hi Tommy and Bill

A serious puzzler today...and yesterday!! Made a few return trips but to no avail...

Strangely the ones I misssed were all the same as Bill's...bar CUBA...which I put in because it was the only 4 lettered place name I could think of in the West Indies...and saw some possible link between a child/A-CUB? But still don't 'get' the clue.

Ran into trouble at first with BLOOMSBURY...although it came right in the end. Kept thinking there was a TUBE/TUBER connection/part anagram in there...but once I got MATTE it was sorted.

I got the swift/Gulliver's Travels connection....but not the solution...maybe if I'd had the Y from ANALYSIS the penny MIGHT have dropped...

Thanks for putting in LITOTES...an interesting look-up for me as well.

Loved the clues for ANCHORAGE, OILSKIN, DRUMCONDRA, WATER RAT, SPINNAKER, BIAFRAN (which Bill rightly said was a poignant clue)....and all the ones I missed! Particularly like the way you used up-SET in the anagram for LITOTES...although it proved completely beyond me!

Thanks again Tommy

Liz

Tommy Moran said...

Hi Bill and Liz,

Thank you for doing my puzzle and for the words of praise.

As for CUBA:
The Roman goddess who protects the infants in their cribs and sends them to sleep, I believe the word cubicle is derived from this source.

Tommy

Unknown said...

Hi Tommy

Thanks for explaining CUBA...and of course now I can see it's a great clue!

Liz