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ACROSS
1 Iberian castle wines (6,3,4)
10 Grecian tipple retains a resin flavour (7)
11 I see the harbour around this entrance (7)
12 Quiet help with no more expense (4)
13 After tea on court in the West (5)
15 Meet 'er in verse, I hear (4)
17 The saint has lost it, yet retains his identity (3)
19 Windy's music with 15 across, I hear (6)
21 He is not about to be bothered with his bills (6)
22 Farmer shoots arrows northwards (7)
23 There is a hundred in the set and six legs too (6)
25 The Sultan ate one French rib (6)
27 He is around the Ladies here (3)
29 Typical, no man around (4)
30 Gullible Irishman (5)
31 It is not with tubing you close the hole (4)
34 Bringing four to the altar is hard work (7)
35 I go back for a drink there and stop commerce (7)
36 Turn the e-mail typo around in a begging way (13)
DOWN
2 Greet the abstainer with gin, striking (7)
3 Disarm without the lady with an ambush (4)
4 Longs for a time at the poles (6)
5 The god is back before his family with a bib (6)
6 Sounds like you cut the fruit down bit by bit (4)
7 Fancy dress for me on the train (7)
8 Consumed no amateur helping in a balanced way (13)
9 Quiet or pitch the heavy fish around the Midlands (13)
14 Northern slope at the start (7)
16 The stuffing of comedy (5)
18 Alone in the south-west, with 13a in Wicklow (5)
20 When do you think you will come to tea? (3)
21 No credit without it and she comes of age (3)
24 A Catholic in celebration with scorn (7)
26 No charge here on the fence (7)
27 With fifty in the metal made a hammer (6)
28 Senators not so far back on board (6)
32 Raise the pitch with nothing on ahead (4)
33 Help to do no good with 15 across around (4)
ACROSS
1 SHERRY AND PORT.
Sherry and Port are fortified wines
10 retsina.
RETAINS [anagram]
11 portico.
PORT + I C + O
12 paid.
PAID
13 Ennis.
[T] ENNIS
15 beat.
BEAT
17 san.
San as in San Francisco
19 reggae.
West Indies music = reggae
21 debtor.
BOT [HE] RED deletion anagram
22 rancher.
ARCHER + N [anagram]
23 insect.
IN + SE [C] T
25 Brunei.
UNE + RIB [anagram]
27 mna.
MAN [anagram] = Gaelic for ladies
29 norm.
NO + MR [anagram]
30 patsy.
PATSY
31 bung.
[T] + UB +[I] + NG deletion anagram
34 travail.
IV + ALTAR [anagram]
35 embargo.
ME + BAR + GO [anagram]
36 importunately.
TURN EMAIL TYPO [anagram]
DOWN
2 hitting.
HI + TT +GIN [anagram]
3 raid.
DI [S] AR [M] delete Ms
4 yearns.
YEAR + NS
5 napkin.
NAP + KIN
6 pare.
PARE
7 raiment.
ME + TRAIN [anagram]
8 proportionate.
PRO + PORTION + ATE
9 Portarlington.
P + OR + TAR + LING + TON
14 nascent.
N + ASCENT
16 farce.
FARCE
18 Kerry.
KERRY
20 eat.
ETA [anagram]
21 deb.
DEB [IT] deletion
24 sarcasm.
A + RC + MASS [anagram]
26 neutral.
NEUTRAL
27 mallet.
L + METAL [anagram]
28 astern.
[S] ENAT [O] RS deletion anagram
32 capo.
O + CAP [anagram]
33 abet.
ABET
2 comments:
Hi Tommy,
Great puzzle, Tommy, really, really enjoyable. I admit I tend to look more kindly on puzzles that I finish, but still this was a particularly good one, with lots of "aha" moments. I always enjoy Crosaire's Saturday themed puzzles, so it was lovely to be greeted with his Saturday grid today. Oh, and in terms of time to finish, I reckon I hit the LeaderBoard at just over half-a-mug of Barry's finest (and it was my last tea bag ... will have to make a trip home soon!).
My notes along the way:
SHERRY AND PORT and RETSINA ... an alcoholic opening, so I knew I was in for a good time :)
REGGAE ... I didn't get the "aha" moment till I saw your explanation, but "Windy's" for W. Indies ... gorgeous.
DEBTOR ... clever deletion, again that needed your explanation for the "aha" ... lovely.
MNA ... I love the Irish clues that you can only get with the "secret handshake".
NORM ... I was a tad disappointed when I worked this one out, because I thought MOAN would have been a brilliant answer to this clue!
IMPORTUNATELY ... fabulous anagram that was really well hidden.
YEARNS ... classic, tight.
NAPKIN ... also classic, tight and reads well.
PORTARLINGTON ... very tight as well, and runner up for Clue of the Day.
FARCE ... I vaguely recollected the "stuffing" definition, but I nominate this as the Lookup of the Day.
KERRY ... Clue of the Day, without a doubt. It reads beautifully, and the pairing with ENNIS is superb. One of your best clues ever, in my humble opinion.
ASTERN ... very nicely disguised deletion.
This puzzle had everything ... except your signature "physiclue"! Maybe next week you'll fix that :o) Great fun, Tommy. Thanks for posting.
Hi Tommy,
Fantastic puzzle. Very doable and a full tantara today in just an hour. Your answer's provided alot of "aha" moments for me and thats what makes it all worth while. Some clues may be vague like 1A for an inexperienced solver but for us "experts" its never that too tough. REGGAE was the answer of the day because of the superb clue. Really had me stumped but I use that method alot on my puzzles.
YEARNS was a classic and lovely clue.
The three 13 letter words really stumped me due to a lack of knowledge of very long words or place names but I managed them quite well. Your style is very unique but keeps to the format of our Derek.
Anyway thanks for the contribution each Sunday.
All the best,
Mark
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