Waking from bibulous revelry having lost head (7)ĪROUSAL – CAROUSAL loses its first letter. Go off east, following retired policeman? (7)ĮXPLODE – EX PLOD being slang for a retired policeman, then E for east. Somewhat oa fish? Far more breeding’s expected here (4,4) Performer of rap act with end going wrong (3,6) It’s allowed in Collins with and without a hyphen. Green cornfield cultivated in Kenya periodically (11)ĮCOFRIENDLY – E Y being periodic letters of K en ya, insert (CORNFIELD)*. Velocity in both directions somewhere far from earth (4,5)ĭEEP SPACE – SPEED reversed then PACE not reversed.
OAT – OATH loses its H which in capital form looks like rugby goalposts. Woman’s family member given lidless serving bowl (7) EDIT it seems from below comments exotic dancing is a common euphemism for striptease in this context and is in Collins as such. Is striptease exotic? Seems an odd definition to choose, unless the setter also was thinking about clueing EROTIC which doesn’t parse. the three words are “undressed” as above. I nvolving striptease that’s s exy, g ot s tick for undressing (6)ĮXOTIC – go to the naughty step if you put in EROTIC (as I did at first). ITCHIEST – IT (that thing) then I inside CHEST = box. That thing I stored in box is most irritating (8)
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Impatient Republican and I see TV broadcast (7) HINDQUARTER – N in HID then QUARTER = lodge, give quarters to. Large piece of meat concealed around northern lodge (11) OMEGA – “series finale” as it’s the last letter of the Greek alphabet.
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What Columbo ends with: great series finale (5) HIMALAYAS – HIS (that man’s) around MALAYA, an Asian area as not a country any more, it is an area of Malaysia. That man’s touring Asian area, these being the high points of his trip? (9) I can see HARRY might mean “ride”, be on top of, annoy, at a stretch and G could be a grand, £1000, and a ridge could (at another stretch) be a bank, but it’s weak. RIDGE – I’m not sure I understand either the definition or the parsing here, so perhaps someone can improve on this. Note fate’s spared nothing in place of iniquity (5) On a visit, he at once concocted a trifle (1,4,2,3,5)Ī DROP IN THE OCEAN – A DROP IN being a visit, (HE AT ONCE)*.īusiness groups organise return of capital after fraud (9)ĬONSORTIA -CON (fraud), SORT (organise) then AI (A1, capital) reversed. POTTER – P (soft, in piano music), OTTER presumably the fur of an otter when worn.ĭip into awful magazine at last and take issue (8)ĭISAGREE – SAG (dip) inside DIRE (awful) then E from end of magazine. Soft fur for boy in school for spells (6)
Silky material in the country changing hands (6) TRAVERSE – TR = RT reversed, AVERSE to = loth to. I wanted to spell this with a Z not an S but it would give me a red square. Mrs P and I think that croquettes are usually rolled in egg and breadcrumbs before frying, not battered, but maybe the setter does his differently.Ĭase of academic curiosity, but not in materialism (15)ĪCQUISITIVENESS – AC = case of academic, QUISITIVENESS i.e. One that’s battered in sport tussle, completely gutted (9)ĬROQUETTE – CROQUET (sport) TE. County town of Clare, a pleasant if unexciting place. Was a criminal almost sent west in Irish town? (5)ĮNNIS – SINNE reversed. Produced a low, sullen feeling, we hear (5) OTHERWISE – O (old) then R (king), inside THE WISE (judicious people). If not old, king must be protected by judicious people (9) Wednesdays seem to be one of the “fun puzzle” days of the week lately we haven’t had a hard one for ages but I enjoyed knocking this off in less than 15 minutes.ĭefinitions underlined in bold, ( ABC)* indicating anagram of ABC, anagrinds in italics.
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