Sunday Toughie 46 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 46 by Robyn

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

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We really need a 1a here as our boiler has just broken down, I need a 22a to keep me going. I have hinted about half of an evenly balanced 14a/14d clues and a few bonus pics as well. If there are any problems with the remainder please ask and I will try and guide you to the right solution between bouts of shivering. I hope the shivering is due to being overcaffeinated, I have swapped from a Kenyan Wanjegi to a Brazilian Single origin but wonder if the capital city we need for 24d produces coffee.

Here we go…

As it is a Prize puzzle I can only hint at a few and hope that will give you the checkers and inspiration to go further. I’ll be back just after the closing date with the full blog. Don’t forget to follow BD’s instructions in RED at the bottom of the hints!

I hope I don’t have to redact any comments but I am new at this and don’t want to rock the boat. If in doubt, I’ll rub it out! I think that sentence is a bit redundant. You have all been so helpful in sorting out prior parsing failures, and I am sure I will need similar help again.

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” 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. Another useful page is Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, which features words with meanings that are not always immediately obvious.

A full review of this puzzle will be published after the closing date for submissions. Some hints follow: Remember the site rules and play nicely.

Across

1a One’s incandescent with rage after kind of blue film’s opening (8,4)
The opening letter of film and a synonym of rage follow a vivid shade of blue.


10a Help figure out cryptic instruction for player (9)
A call for help, a figure between nine and eleven, and an anagram (cryptic) of out. An instruction to a musician to play in a prolonged manner.

13a Blue fruit around one’s drink (9)
The fruit  of a palm tree that are unaccountably popular at this time of year, go around the letters that look like one’s, and a small drink, to be a synonym of blue in the sense of fritter away or squander.

Two hints for the price of one. 10a and 18a

19a Article with advice concerning European food (9)
The indefinite article that precedes a vowel sound, a small bit of advice and two little words that mean concerning, combine to give us an Italian appetizer.

22a One offers drive in car, maintaining current duty (9)
The physics symbol for current and the duty or levy on purchases, go in an informal term for a car.

You probably have to be British and of a certain age to remember him.

25a Maybe Egyptian head’s fine conditions (9)
A Scottish headland follows the Muslim sect that is the predominant religion of Egypt.

27a Much less entertaining setters are going to avoid interfering (3,4,5)
How Robyn our setter would promise to do something on behalf of himself and other setters is contracted to **‘**, which is inserted into a two-word phrase that means much less.

Down

1d Lamb etc? It’s cooked in more than one attempt (9)
A brother and sister writing team, known for Tales from Shakespeare are a definition by example, of the writers we need here. It is an anagram of it’s, in a synonym of several tries or attempts.

6d Corruption keeps cruciverbalists in stir (5)
How we as cruciverbalists may collectively refer to our fellow devotees goes in a 3 letter synonym of corruption.

7d Christian pens old record, a follower of the Way (13)
I am fairly sure that Brian would hate this clue but I don’t think he appears in the Toughie blogs. I got in a bit of a muddle with religious sects here. I thought first of followers of Mary Baker Eddy and stuck the wordplay in, to get to a follower of L. Ron Hubbard, but I was completely wrong and it slowed me up until checkers revealed the errors of my thinking. The religious movement we seek here is a follower of the teachings of John and Charles Wesley, penning O for old and a record.

8d Host welcomes different period we live in, a dramatic figure (6,7)
A host or Master of Ceremonies contains a synonym of different,  followed by two words that indicate the period we live in. A leading character in a Berthold Brecht play.

14d Team contend with quiz (9)
An abbreviation of a Milanese Football team and a synonym of contend with, is an inquisition about one’s suitability for a job perhaps.

17d Model realistic tours fit for tourists (9)
To model or pose goes in a synonym of realistic.

23d

24d Record of Latin American’s capital cut by 50% (5)
The second half of a Latin American capital city.

 

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Lots of contenders for my musical choice today but I have plumped for this.