Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27367
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
To assist the easily confused, I will start by explaining that this crossword appeared on Saturday 21 December (the day of the big Centenary Celebration) but the extended Christmas closing date means that I can only post the review today.
A splendid 16a/20a from the Saturday Mysteron, with a very nice Nina round the outside which none of us could miss given that the instructions under the puzzle number were so clear ‘Look for a message if you get round to it’ (See the end of the review, if you didn’t notice it at the time).
Please leave a comment telling us what you thought. You can also add your assessment by selecting from one to five stars at the bottom of the post.
Across
7a Boy attending to a composition (6)
SONATA – SON (boy) AT (attending) and A (from the clue).
8a King Henry’s lead in unusual role of Robin Hood perhaps (4,4)
FOLK HERO – An anagram (unusual) of ROLE OF with the initial letters (lead) of King and Henry inserted.
9a Live accommodated by one encouraging soft drink (4,4)
ROOT BEER – Insert BE (live) into a ROOTER (an informal term for someone providing loud encouragement)
11a Occasion for people to enter test (6)
MOMENT – Insert MEN (people) into an MOT test.
12a Fashion designer — politician ’Arriet needs one (6)
ARMANI – The apostrophe at the start of ‘Arriet tells you that you need to remove the H from the surname of the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party – HARMAN and then add an I (needs one).
15a Cat left tree (4)
LASH – A cat-o’nine-tails – L (left)and ASH (tree).
16a Make dramatic entrance year after special occasion (9)
CENTENARY – An anagram (make dramatic) of ENTRANCE followed by (after) Y for Year.
17a Some scoffed dodgy exotic vegetable (4)
EDDO is hidden in some of scoffED DOdgy.
18a Handle fellow turning to drug (4)
NAME – A reversal (turning) of MAN followed by E (the drug, Ecstasy).
20a Puzzle requires ticking off (9)
CROSSWORD – Split 5, 4, it might well be part of a ticking off.
23a City in either end of yearbook (4)
YORK – I love this type of clue – either ends of Yearbook are, of course, Y OR K.
25a Cause senora to be upset (6)
REASON – An anagram (to be upset) of SENORA.
26a Soft cryptic clue in Daily Telegraph initially (6)
DULCET – Insert a cryptic anagram of CLUE between the initial letters of Daily and Telegraph.
28a Bird dressed to suit me (8)
TITMOUSE – And another anagram. This time dressed tell us to rearrange TO SUIT ME.
31a Titles constituting me as lord (8)
EARLDOM – An anagram (constituting) of ME AS LORD.
32a Get the better of remote American media company (6)
OUTFOX – OUT (remote) and FOX (American media company).
Down
1d Hospital supported by boss of our paper given recognition (8)
HONOURED – H (hospital) ON (supported by) OUR ED (the boss of our paper).
2d Card player to scoff, taking in his opponent (4)
EAST – Insert S (South being one of East’s opponents in a game of bridge) into EAT (scoff).
3d Fashion from right period (4)
RAGE – R (right) and AGE (period).
4d Heat making airmen toil (10)
ELIMINATOR – Heat here meaning a division of a contest – an anagram (making) of AIRMEN TOIL.
5d Second bad actor in charade (4)
SHAM – S (second) and HAM (bad actor).
6d Swimwear revealing torsos (6)
TRUNKS – Pants worn for swimming or parts of the body apart from the head and limbs.
8d Pelt with mineral causing uproar (6)
FURORE – FUR (pelt, skin) and ORE (mineral).
10d Bar’s given European harmful stuff (4)
BANE – A cause of evil or poison – BAN (bar) and E (European).
13d A familiar chap’s stuck up (5)
ACOCK – in a stuck up manner or defiantly – A (from the clue) and COCK (a slang familiar address to a man).
14d Novelty pub gets applause (10)
INNOVATION – INN (pub) and OVATION (applause).
15d Name possessed by lady possibly (5)
LYNDA – An anagram (possibly) of LADY with N (name) inserted or possessed.
19d Space flight is rather aimless, creating news (8)
MOONSHOT – MOONS (wanders aimlessly) and HOT (currently newsworthy).
21d Rank university beset by figures (6)
STATUS – Insert U (university) into STATS (figures).
22d Rock band keeping a stock of paper (4)
REAM – Insert A (from the clue) into the rock band REM.
24d Dashing valour could become seedy (6)
OVULAR – An anagram (dashing) of VALOUR.
27d Fish around lake — it’s bleak (4)
COLD – Insert L for lake into a COD (fish).
29d Second person in the Bible gets short measure (4)
THOU – An archaic or Biblical way of saying you is an abbreviation for a thousandth of an inch (short measure).
30d One’s sworn in supremo at Hogwarts (4)
OATH is hidden in supremO AT Hogwarts.
And the Nina – Starting at the top and running right round the edge of the puzzle, it says “Here’s to the next hundred years”. I’ll second that.
Speaking on behalf of the easily confused I can’t seem to get this crossword. Can you tell me how to access it on-line. Also will you be doing todays
Right CS, I’ve got todays’, thanks. Do you know how I can access Saturdays’
I can quite see why you have trouble solving crosswords. If you read the introduction to my review, you will see that my hard work on your behalf relates to a puzzle which appeared before Christmas which I would imagine you both solved and commented on on the day . Saturday’s puzzle will appear on Saturday as normal.
No.
1. I don’t have trouble solving most crosswords
2. I did read your introduction
3. I would like to know how I can access this puzzle, 27367, as I am experiencing trouble doing so
4. Are you writing this review whilst at work or have you go the rest of the week off?
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2 Really?
3 If you kept your puzzles from before Christmas, you should have a piece of paper with this puzzle on – as at 12.25 on 21 Dec, you were going for a siesta before coming back to finish the last five you hadn’t got.
4 I typed the Word document of review on Sun 22 Dec as I like to type the weekend puzzle blogs while I can still remember what I thought of the puzzle.
5 I am not back at work until next Monday.
Yes really!
1.I do not keep old ones
2. You are right – I did not finish it
3. That is why I want a copy now so that I can see the clues I did not complete and view your answers
4. So can you tell me how I can download a copy from the website because I am having difficulty doing it
If you had said please just once in your series of rants I might have tried to help.
OK Dave. I apologise. Please can you help
Hands up who loves crypticsue for all the work she does on this blog and also for the work she does reviewing the number of up and coming setters whose puzzles she has time to review.
Shame on you Collywobbles!.
My hands are way up ! If I knew how to connect others to a You Tube clip , I’d write the url for “mountain high valley low”.
Gawd Bless ya both!
My hand is up for CS. Now, Dave, can you help, I am keen to finish that puzzle?
It was sent at 11:17
Thank you
Looking forward to the Hints for DT Cryptic 27,376. I see these are for 27367.. you had me for a moment there CS. My breath is baited…
They were published, as usual, at 11:00 am.
..and even bated…