DT 29102

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29102

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This puzzle was published on 13^th July 2019

BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **

A Saturday melange of anagrams, insertions and reversals.

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Across

1a    Writer’s employed reworking fictional detective (4,5,6)
LORD PETER WIMSEY – An anagram (reworking) of WRITERS EMPLOYED

9a    It’s futile to economise, apparently (7)
USELESS – If you USE LESS you apparently economise

10a    Sprinters used to run this and roll up on finishing at last (7)
FURLONG – FURL (roll up – a word I associate with umbrellas for some unknown reason), ON (from the clue) G (the last letter of finishing)

11a    Adviser on board initiated changes (9)
DIETITIAN – An anagram (changes) of INITIATED

12a    Match official since turning round taking fewer chances (5)
SAFER – REF (match official) AS (since) reversed (turning round in an Across clue)

13a    It’s a crime — ecstasy smuggled by Welsh comedian, not mafia boss (7)
ROBBERY – Remove the DON (not mafia boss) from ROB BRYDON (the Welsh comedian) and insert E (Ecstasy ‘smuggled’)

15a    Pounds secured by cheat with Scandinavian money (7)
DOLLARS – L (pounds sterling) secured by (or inserted between) DO (cheat) and LARS (Scandinavian)

17a    Laurel given to international player — it might result in a wind-up (7)
CAPSTAN – STAN (Laurel) given to or put after CAP (international player)

19a    Begin to pick different second-class ingredient (7)
POTHERB – P (the beginning letter of pick) OTHER (different) B (second class)

21a    It’s rather cold with central heating not right (5)
CHILL – CH (Central Heating) ILL (not right)

23a & 25a    Played minor part in what fraudulent statistician did? (4,2,3,7)
MADE UP THE NUMBERS – This might describe something done by a fraudulent statistician)

25a    See 23a    

26a    Broadcast of wrongdoer spoils entertainment venues (7)
CINEMAS – Homophones (broadcast) of SINNER (wrongdoer) and MARS (spoils)

27a    Chicken roll featured in song from the 1960s (6,9)
YELLOW SUBMARINE – YELLOW (chicken) SUBMARINE (a long thin bread roll rounded enough to suggest the shape of a submarine)

Down

1d    Clean up American city falling short (7)
LAUNDER – LA (Los Angeles, American city) UNDER (falling short)

2d    English change course overturning old magistrate (5)
REEVE – E (English) VEER (change course) reversed (overturning in a Down clue)

3d    Leader needs trip abroad (9)
PRESIDENT – An anagram (abroad) of NEEDS TRIP

4d    Irritable if brought in to give evidence (7)
TESTIFY – IF (from the clue) brought in to TESTY (irritable)

5d    Upper-class punished again? (7)
REFINED – If you put a hyphen between the RE and FINED, you’d get a word meaning punished again

6d    Birdbrain’s regularly forgotten first name of actor (5)
IDRIS – The odd (regularly forgotten) letters of bIrDbRaInS

7d    Something cold in reptile devouring variety of fowl (9)
SNOWFLAKE – SNAKE (reptile) ‘devouring) an anagram (variety) of FOWL

8d    Dairy products turn up in nomads’ dwellings (7)
YOGURTS – GO (turn) reversed (up) and inserted into YURTS (nomads’ dwellings)

14d    Encapsulated by symbol of Christ rising, a little part is related to religious ceremony (9)
BAPTISMAL – Inserted into (encapsulated by) LAMB (symbol of Christ, A (from the clue) PT (part) and IS (from the clue)

16d    I hail aunt touring European country (9)
LITHUANIA – An anagram (touring) of I HAIL AUNT

17d    Geordie perhaps captivated by brash Londoner (7)
COCKNEY – NE (North East, Geordie perhaps) ‘captivated by’ COCKY (brash)

18d    Watch people on the up eclipsing second greatest rivals (7)
NEMESES – A reversal (on the up) of SEE MEN (watch people) into which is inserted (eclipsing) S (second)

19d    Lacking motor, passengers might take this (7)
PEDICAB – A cryptic definition of a non-motorised form of transport – this one is a tricycle, a rickshaw only has two wheels

20d    Some wombles smell? That’s surprising (5,2)
BLESS ME – Lurking in some of womBLES SMEll

22d    Keep still in boat as attempt to deceive (3,2)
LIE TO – Double definition, the first being a nautical term meaning to be or become nearly stationary with head to the wind

24a    Rates got by casual worker on start of internship (5)
TEMPI – TEMP (casual worker) on I (the ‘start’ of Internship)

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