Saturday, December 26, 2009

SunWeb31 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb31

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ACROSS
1 Steeplechases, no tea and tonguetied (10)
6 Short high tone or insect waste (4)
10 Albert has left the amalgam behind for hot rocks (5)
11 The lingo then is nobly illuminated (4,5)
12 Sounds like a hesitation after a short time, gives an impulse (8)
13 Its hard to have a meal around tea (5)
15 A shy trio for the record (7)
17 Needle before the strike of ten (4-3)
19 Cyprus would be bloody, I hear (7)
21 Underwater breeder, I hear a noise at night around 10:00 before fifty (7)
22 Avoid the fence? (5)
24 Sublime opera is five (8)
27 This band is not on the long acre (9)
28 Sounds like he didn't go sober (5)
29 It is usual for him to be around before noon (4)
30 Edward is back around before the race goes off (10)
DOWN
1 'es not unchanged in the seed (4)
2 Dons the serge while wrapped in thought (9)
3 Clear county to the west (5)
4 Your valley drawn out in verse (7)
5 At present mother is poles apart with coal eyes (7)
7 Eaten before nine, I hear (5)
8 Testily put neatly before fifty (10)
9 Fire north before the firm for a dance (8)
14 Make tea and butter around the black tongued dog in this Dublin village (10)
16 Do remote measurement of distance travelled (8)
18 I ask him for paint in Asia (9)
20 This groupie has a ballot in the river (7)
21 The rector comes around to sing llike this (7)
23 Hundreds at the heart of the ornamentation (5)
25 A red dwarf around the Jamaican 20 down (5)
26 Oh what a noise, my god (4)
Full Solution
ACROSS
1 speechless.
S [TE] EPLECH[A]SES [deletion anagram]
6 beep.
BEE P
10 magma.
AM [AL]GAM [deletion anagram]
11 neon light.
LINGO THEN [anagram]
12 momentum.
MOMENT + UM
13 metal.
ME + T + AL
15 history.
SHY TRIO [anagram]
17 nine-pin.
NINE-PIN
19 redwood.
RED WOOD
21 snorkel.
SNOR [K] E + L
22 hedge.
HEDGE
24 vaporise.
OPERA IS V [anagram]
27 orchestra.
SHORT ACRE [anagram]
28 staid.
STAID [phononym]
29 norm.
MORN [anagram]
30 detonation.
DET O NATION
DOWN
1 same.
S [ES] AME deletion
2 engrossed.
DONS SERGE [anagram]
3 Clare.
CLEAR [anagram]
4 lengthy.
THY GLEN [anagram]
5 snowman.
S + NOW + MA + N
7 eight.
EIGHT phononym
8 petulantly.
PUT NEATLY L [anagram]
9 flamenco.
FLAME N CO
14 CHURCHTOWN.
CHUR + CH [T]OW + N
16 odometer.
DO REMOTE [anagram]
18 Pakistani.
I ASK PAINT [anagram]
20 devotee.
DE + VOTE + E
21 soprano.
PARSON + O [anagram]
23 decor.
CO + D + RE [anagram]
25 Rasta.
A STAR [anagram]
26 Odin.
O DIN

Solved Grid

1 comment:

Bill Butler said...

Hi Tommy,

I was very pleased to see that you posted a puzzle for us. I was suffering from withdrawal symptoms during the IT's Xmas break.

I earned myself a Xmas tantara on today's SunWeb, in about half an hour. I fairly raced through the top half of the puzzle, but stalled badly at the end on SNORKEL and PAKISTANI.

Notes along the way:
BEE-P: Laugh of the Day. Bee pee ... hilarious!
NEON LIGHT: loved the "nobly" reference. Very clever indeed.
MOMENT-UM: Another clever clue. Liked the "hesitation".
VAPORISE: Brilliant use of "sublime". I love those physiclues!
STAID: Clue of the Day! This one reads so well. very nice.
DET-O-NATION: Classic clue structure.
S(NOW-MA)N: Runner up for Clue of the Day. Nice use of "poles apart".

Thanks, Tommy. And best wishes for the New Year.