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ACROSS
8 I am hailed by the seaside north of Dublin (8)
9 Ah, your old father's about and you don't care (6)
10 Rein in the orange-brown horse (6)
11 Sent it back around the north-east with feeling (8)
12 With fifty and the lady's crown you might be caught in the loop (6)
13 The gall of that outside the city (8)
15 Sounds like you might cry this after a row (4)
17 A grand mistake before the charge in the square in Dublin (7)
19 A garland, cut in the county (7)
22 Stop the flow with the saint when I come back (4)
24 Sounds like a hair-do he has eaten passes through (8)
27 This miss has not run over and out (6)
29 A clean bin to hold the compass on board (8)
30 Scotsman back for the crude metal (2,4)
31 Sounds like you agree to sow it (6)
32 Pass away north after this honour before tea and be compliant (8)
DOWN
1 This layer is no animal (6)
2 The French boar gave us a song and sounded untruthful (8)
3 After 51 and A, the river mammal came back in this musical script (8)
4 It's a wise bet that you'll find it online (7)
5 The Cardinal has lost his identity and become of the flesh (6)
6 The captain has lost his head on the surface of the metal (6)
7 Kidnap on board, in this Eastern city (8)
14 Grain cereal in by this Cheltenham district (4)
16 Not out on the street this month (4)
18 Sounds like I'll look through it to put it together (3-5)
20 God with us, I am around by hand and back with the French (8)
21 The part of the wheel in the rut with six and the three in charge of old Rome (8)
23 The Queen dotes on shipworm (7)
25 Where to get a stable diet with 1000 cross (6)
26 Bowed to reach hundreds (6)
28 Unpredictable ranter (6)
Full Solution
8 Malahide.
AM HAILED [anagram]
9 apathy.
A + PA + THY
10 ginger.
REIN + GG [anagram]
11 sentient.
SENT IT NE [anagram]
12 lariat.
L + TIARA [anagram]
13 Tallaght.
GALL + THAT [anagram]
15 tier.
TIER
17 Merrion.
M + ERR + ION
19 Leitrim.
LEI + TRIM
22 stem.
ST + EM
24 permeate.
PERM + E + ATE
27 maiden.
MAIDEN [over as in cricket]
29 binnacle.
CLEAN + BIN [anagram]
30 no more.
NO M + ORE
31 accede.
ACCEDE [ sounds like 'a seed']
32 obedient.
OBE + DIE + N + T
DOWN
1 lamina.
ANIMAL [anagram]
2 sanglier.
SANG + LIER
3 libretto.
LI + B + RETTO
4 website.
WISE + BET [anagram]
5 carnal.
CAR [DI] NAL deletion
6 patina.
[C] APTAIN [deletion anagram]
7 shanghai.
SHANGHAI
14 arle.
[B] ARLE [Y]
16 INST.
IN + ST
18 eye-piece.
EYE + PIECE
20 Emmanuel.
EM + MANU + EL
21 triumvir.
RIM + RUT + VI [anagram]
23 teredos.
ER + DOTES [anagram]
25 manger.
M + ANGER
26 arched.
REACH + D [anagram]
28 errant.
RANTER [anagram]
Solved Grid
11 comments:
Hi Tommy,
Martina here having found you via Bill's blog. I'm having trouble printing your latest crossword. I click but nothing happens. Printed Mark's out no problem and you both seem to use the same process. Any ideas?
Hi Again. Managed to print by clicking on the grid itself and then selecting the windows 'print' option. Enjoyed your crossword but was looking for sangliar in the dictionary! Also not sure about your 'no more' clue. Mon is usually scot's man I thought? Am I missing something?
I'm not sure how well you're tallaght clue would travel if you had an international audience without narrowing it to irish city. if it had been a suburb of shanghai i'd be really stuck:)
my "look up" triumvir and I really liked manger and obedient. Must look at some of your earlier crosswords some other time but for now I better go and do some work! Well done.
I have to report a very satisfactory tantara today. I had a lucky guess with TEREDOS to finish off, managing to get the whole thing completed while sitting in a garage waiting for my car to be serviced. A great puzzle that managed to keep me absorbed the whole time. I should note that I had the same problem as Martina when it came to printing. I thought it was a Google Chrome issue (my browser) though. The .pdf wouldn't open for me, but it downloaded no problem. By clicking on the download I was able to open it in Adobe Reader and print.
My notes along the way:
11A: I was fixated on SENTIMENT here, which wouldn't fit, so took a while to get to SENTIENT ... my bad!
13A: I lived in TALLAGHT for much of my teen years, so this one brought back memories!
24A: PERMEATE ... nice and tight!
2D: When we lived in Provence, we'd have SANGLIERS sorting around the house at night. More memories!
4D: WEBSITE: also nice and tight!
5D: CARNAL: a nice deletion, and my choice for Clue of the Day.
14D: ARLE: vying for Lookup of the Day ...
23D: TEREDOS: winner of Lookup of the Day!
Great puzzle, but I missed your trademark "physiclue"!
Thanks, Tommy.
Hi Martina,
welcome to SunWeb and I am glad you enjoyed the puzzle.
You are quite right my mistake on the Scot's man/mon, I will amend the clue accordingly.
Check out the comments on SunWeb15 to see if this helps with printing pdf problems, I will recompile the pdf and post it again, please let me know if this resolves the problem. Thank you.
Tommy
Hi Martina,
I have reposted now and adapted both the SANGLIER and NO MORE clues.
On reflection my structure had the 'SOUNDS' too far away from the untruthful in the original clue, I wanted two 'SOUNDS likes' to apply, one for the BORE/BOAR and another for the LIAR/LIER.
I am much happier with this outcome, I hope you are too and thank you for doing the puzzle and then taking even more time to comment.
Tommy
p.s. let me know if the pdf printing issue has been resolved, please.
Tommy and Martina,
I just fixed my .pdf problem. I had the same issue opening .pdf files from the Crosaire Blog. The problem seems to have been that the Adobe Reader installation seems to have gotten corrupted somehow. Taking advice from Adobe, I opened up Adobe Reader and then went to Help/Repair Adobe Reader Installation. It took 20 secs or so to make the repair (I think it uninstalled and reinstalled). Right after that I was able to open up .pdf files in my browser.
Hope that helps!
Hi Tommy,
Sorry to say I'm still having pdf print problem. I selected adobe reader 8.1 default as you suggested and also repaired adobe reader as Bill suggested but no joy. it's as if it's unable to open, as a blank grey screen is what's displayed. I'm using Windows Vista which might explain it as that's caused much grief!! Mozilla is my browser.
Off now to try no 15.
Martina
Martina (and Tommy),
I read online that "the fix" for the .pdf problem in Mozilla is to disable pdf dispaly in the browser. If you open Adobe Reader, click on Edit/Preferences and UNcheck "display pdf in browser", then the pdf file opens in Adobe Reader and doesn't hang up in Mozilla. I've actually done the same thing now for Google Chrome, and it seems to be working much more reliably. It seems that Adobe don't support the use of Adobe Reader with Chrome nor Mozilla.
Works for me!
Hi Tommy/Bill
Set Adobe default as suggested and pdf now comes up as a download with the option to open with adobe reader.
Martina
Martina,
That's good ... that should help. That's how I handle things in Chrome and it seems to work reliably now.
Hi Bill and Martina,
well done both and thank you for sharing. Tommy
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