Still in the sense of pacify or placate – put some vegetables in a monkeyĦd Linking most of fruit dish with fish (8)Īlmost all of a dish used to serve a dessert with fruit and ice cream, followed by a type of fishġ6d Fellow accepting American with Romeo having energy: that’s sweet (8)Ī fellow into which is inserted (accepting) an abbreviation for American, the letter represented by Romeo in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet and an informal term for energy The American spies ‘framing’ or going round a reversal (wanting a raise) of a synonym of staffģd Globule of liquid with tiny amount of food (6,3,6)Ī globule of liquid, a conjunction meaning with and a word meaning a tiny amountĤd Monkey putting vegetables in still (7) The abbreviation for pair ‘invested’ between the letter represented a single number of something and an adjective meaning unusedĢ1a Surprisingly, Sid hints harbour is in old country (7,8)Īn anagram (surprisingly) of SID HINTS HARBOUR produces the former (old) name of BelizeĪ musical note, a story and the letter used to indicate that something is poshĢ8a Shot item about interval before goods are delivered (4,4)Ī metal from which small pellets (shot) can be made followed by an anagram (about) of ITEMġd Pictures spies framing staff wanting a raise? (6)
A followed by a homophone (we hear) of a certain type of letterġ3a People nowadays not taking notes? (8,7)Ī cryptic definition of the term for people who only use electronic means of paymentġ5a Pair invested in single unused stamp (7) There’s quite a bit of “A ” going on today, and here’s another example.
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Another useful page is Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, which features words with meanings that are not always immediately obvious.Ī full review of this puzzle will be published after the closing date for submissions.Ĩa One might be for this athletics event (4,4)Īn informal way of saying about to be reprimanded has the same name as an athletics field eventĩa Acknowledgement of a certain type of letter, we hear (6) Where the hint describes a construct as “usual” this means that more help can be found in The Usual Suspects, which gives a number of the elements commonly used in the wordplay. Most of the terms used in these hints are explained in the Glossary and examples are available by clicking on the entry under “See also”. Īs is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.
Is it the work of Cephas or, as there are couple of lesser-known definitions in the mix, could it be the work of Chalicea? I’m sure one or t’other will turn up in due course to confirm our suspicions. The crossword is a pangram with anagrams but without double unches in the grid. So much so that, as this is the only blog post I have to prepare this weekend (as opposed to last week’s four), Mr CS and I are going out later – only to the garden centre, but it counts as an outing!
The Saturday Crossword Club (hosted by crypticsue)Īfter a slight frost first thing, the sun is now peeping out and someone’s turned the strong northerly wind off making it a nice day for a change here in East Kent.
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