![]() Another in a long line of frustrating QCs, as I finished in 27 mins. ![]() Struggled badly with STOCK STILL, THEME, LEAN and AROUND (LOI). PIG – Person Immensely Greedy “primarily”įor a few minutes today I experienced what it must feel like to be a ‘proper’ solver, rather than someone groping in the dark.Īfter drawing a blank with 6 of the first 7 across clues (only got PISTOL), I then got all the rest of the ac clues as I went and, working from the bottom up, got from 21dn to 5dn without stopping – 14 in a row. MOTTO – OTT (over the top = outrageous) in MO (second) What’s outrageous in second phrase on family arms (5) OFFBEAT – cryptic hint, as with police going OFF their BEAT Unusual where patrolling police go after work? (7) POLITICAL -L(eft) I (one) in CAPITOL unusually Left one in Capitol unusually attached to party (9) LINER – LIN gER (stay too long) missing G(ood) Stay too long, missing good cruise ship (5) As in “nary a chance”, say) keeping FIRM (company). ![]() INFIRMARY – I (one) NARY (not, described as dialect or US. SAY – S ( Something “initially”) taking A Y(ear) (court)Įg, something initially taking a year (3) Noble’s headgear, gold one used within court (7)ĬORONET – OR (gold) ONE used within CT. THEME – T(ime) E(uropean) is accepting HEM (border) Time European is accepting border idea (5) “Their going down/relegation came as a shock”, say. RELEGATION – RE (concerned with) LEGATION (diplomatic mission). PRETTY – PETTY (small-minded) about R(omeo)Ĭoncerned with diplomatic mission going down (10) Judge of performance regularly displayed acerbic twitch (6)ĬRITIC – “regularly displayed” a C e R b I c T w I t C h (Railway)įAME – FA (musical note) ME (yours truly). PORTRAIT – RAT (rodent) eating I (one) beyond PORT (harbour)ĪROUND – A, ROUND (piece of bread sliced off) Picture rodent eating one beyond harbour (8) LEAN – LEA (field) ending by N (bar N “finally”) Slope in field, ending by barn, finally (4) I think as in “one of the early/first settlers”, say.įINISH – is “spoken ” the same as FINNISH (language) NEARLY – N (November in the phonetic alphabet) EARLY (first). STOCK STILL – STOCK (goods in shop) STILL (yet)
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