Sunday Toughie 132 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 132

by Zandio

 

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

 

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Zandio returns with a Sunday Toughie that wasn’t much trickier than his Friday back pager. 13d caused some disturbance in the smooth passage through this crossword but I still managed to slip off to the land of nod before 1am

We have 14a and 14d clues today and I have hinted half, some tricky clues have had to go unhinted so a nudge may be available if required

11a was my favourite clue today – what was yours?

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. Don’t forget the Mine of useful information that Big Dave and his son Richard so meticulously prepared for us.

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           Judge makes a Republican resentful, not every time (7)
A from the clue and R for Republican join a synonym of resentful, but one of the abbreviations for time is omitted

11a        Where Agassi won Steffi originally in this? (9)
The sportsground where Agassi played and won tennis matches, the original letter of Steffi and a synonym of in combine to be how Andre Agassi won the hand of Ms Graf
Nice T-Shirt Andre

12a        Crazy thing fiscally, to divorce from Formula One star’s girl (9)
Divorce an abbreviation of Formula One from fiscally and add an informal term for wives and girlfriends of a star or celebrity

15a        People supported one’s sit-in movement (5)
A somewhat outdated place to sit that was supported by people to facilitate movement

21a        Thanks to West German one had sausages say at home (3,2)
An informal thanks is reversed (to west in an across clue) and a German one, meaning to dine at home – Mama Bee says that butcher’s daughter’s don’t eat sausages and considering Grandma Emm used the same tin bath to bathe the grandkids (my sisters and I) as Grandpa Emm used to make sausages she probably had a point!

22a        Trunks and knickers put by from these? (6,2,7)
Synonyms of trunks, from and knickers, maybe the place to put by your underwear.

24a        What’s tasty in tandoori? Cottage cheese (7)
Another lurker (what’s tasty in) This turophile doesn’t find this particularly tasty but it is found in two words of the clue. Does the penultimate word belong in the definition? And can it do that and still be part of the lurker?

 

Down

1d          Places shown here abbreviated in the end with directions (7)
A phrase for in the end loses its last letter and adds two points of the compass to be the plural of a collection of places

2d          Partners feeling the heat in bank squabble, due to go bust (6,3,6)
An anagram (to go bust) of the preceding three words, mashed potates and cabbage feel the heat together when fried – named for the noises made when cooking

6d          … attempt to crush Romeo’s spirit (5)
The elision… can be ignored, it just emphasises the surface of the Shakespearean lovers. A synonym of attempt contains the radio code letter that Romeo suggests. Make mine a Laphroaig

7d          Delivery on time, here is something nice? (8,7)
A delivery assisted by a midwife, a time period of 24 hours and a synonym of here would be something nice to receive on the anniversary of your delivery – Is Zandio trying to woo our Birthday Girl Jane? Happy Birthday Jane

13d        Fall Out Boy music’s one right racket when turned up, causing disturbance (9)
The genre of music that Fall Out Boy plays (and the plural ‘s), the letter that looks like one and r for right and a synonym of racket are all reversed (when turned up)

14d        Below ruined arch, American outlaw caught coach (9)
Start with an anagram (ruined) of arch, then one of our usual Americans, a synonym of outlaw and a crickety caught and you should have a coach that was formerly, a long open vehicle with rows of transverse seats, but more recently a tourist coach

20d        Revolutionary communist in Paris, the keeper of the flame? (5)
A reversal (revolutionary) of a Parisian definite article and the colour associated with a communist
In ancient times, a keeper of the flame was a person who literally kept a fire burning in memory of someone who was deceased. Today, the meaning has changed a little because we no longer keep a fire burning in someone’s memory. We may continue to keep someone’s memory alive in various ways. Usually, a role taken by the most senior member of the community

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