Monthly Prize Puzzle 095 – Review
April 2020
Where From? by Alchemi
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Congratulations to Roberta Coffer for winning this month’s prize competition. Many of you may remember Roberta, who used to post comments as Tilly many years ago.
The instructions were as follows:
Half the clues have misprints in the definition. The correct letters, read in clue order, give the title of a song and the original recording artists. That song mentions an itinerary of four American cities. Three of those appear in the grid, clued by wordplay only. What is the fourth city?
This led to Willin’ by Little Feat.
“I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah”
The sixteen corrections are shown below [inside brackets] with the misprinted letter in red. Three of the four cities are shown below in blue leaving the fourth city, TUCSON, as the answer.
Across |
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W |
1a Finished off tearing clothes [Wearing clothes] (7) |
5a Heavyweight Winfrey maybe disheartened (7) |
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9a Physically escort amphibian protest (9) |
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I |
10a Malt [MalI] possibly in bad taste (5) |
L |
11a Feat [fLat] the day before November (4) |
12a Again familiarise oneself with charmingly old-fashioned race organised earlier (10) |
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L |
14a Put back pictures of French dears (sort of) [deaLs (sort of)] (5) |
16a Broken water tap enthrals Yankee law enforcement officer (5,4) |
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17a Workers’ organisation let me see around Rhode Island (9) |
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I |
18a Remove lad [remove lId]winning round new chief accountant (5) |
20a They soften some lentil soup (10) |
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N |
22a Stakes [sNakes] small in backward resort (4) |
L |
25a Come out on top, replacing centre of the coin [coiL] (5) |
26a Explain bad clue I see (9) |
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27a Summaries of electronic way to open accommodation (7) |
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I |
28a Rams set to become little ravers [rIvers] (7) |
Down |
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T |
1d Burn away [Turn away] line crossed by fault (7) |
T |
2d Bring our [bring ouT] second person to embrace agreement (5) |
3d Reservoir upset American politician (4) |
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4d Sad song climbing electronic network (5) |
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5d The odd bloke in artificial intelligence (9) |
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L |
6d Cruelly ruin a mutt’s edible heaves [edible Leaves] (10) |
7d A chap Iris made out to be hypocritical (9) |
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E |
8d Man the Spanish eavesdrop on finds part of shot [part of shoE] (7) |
F |
13d Lefty thinks about alien dishes [Fishes] (3,7) |
15d Securely fixing in branch or in gallery (9) |
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16d They make feeble knees wear out (9) |
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E |
17d Sent massage [sent mEssage] with note in cloth (7) |
A |
19d Hive [hAve] missing parts of dresses so patched up (7) |
21d Trump primarily embraces violent people (5) |
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23d Flow in Scotland starts to surprisingly cause awful panic attacks (5) |
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T |
24d Row of seals [row of seaTs] that’s in Turkey (4) |
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love the pictures!
Thanks to Alchemi for a very enjoyable puzzle and to BD for the explanations. Congratulations to Tilly (I hope that your victory will spur you into regular commenting once more!).
Many thanks, Gazza. Lots of water gone under lots of bridges since I last posted, but I have always stayed around as a lurker, so it feels like I have never been away! Take care and stay safe everyone.
Welcome back Tilly. Lovely to hear from you again. Your e-mail address has changed to the comment when into the in-tray to be approved.
Never did get to the bottom of this
Thanks for the enlightenment BD
Congratulations Tilly.
As the song, the group and the three places that are answers in the grid were all new to me Mr Google had to work quite hard on my behalf but I did get it all sorted and enjoyed the ride.
Thanks again Alchemi and Prolixic.
That was me, not Prolixic – I must change the css so that my name appears on posts!
Done!
Heartiest congratulations to Roberta Coffer on winning the Monthly Prize Puzzle – 095. Once again thanks to Alchemi for the brilliant puzzle which was novel of its kind and which I heartily cherished. Thanks also to BD for the wonderful review. Last, but not the least, I owe my gratitude to Google for getting me that I was looking for. Incidentally, the name of Milvus, the last month’s winner, is now missing from the Roll of Honour of January 2019. Milvus won in April 2014 and January 2019, too. To all, please stay safe in the best possible way.
Lovely puzzle, thanks Alchemi. The weird unlikely places were fun to unearth, but in particular I enjoyed the misprints which were so seamlessly incorporated.