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DT 30701 (Full Review)

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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30701

A full review by crypticsue

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This puzzle was published on 24th August 2024

BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***

On the trickier side of an average Saturday Prize Puzzle – given some of the solutions, one could wonder whether NY Doorknob was taking to alcoholic drink in order to ignore the effects of 17d/8a

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Across

 

4a           Juice in enormous quantity? (8)
GIGAWATT – An enormous quantity of electrical power (juice)

8a           See 17 Down

9a           Clever sort a mug in Munich? (8)
EINSTEIN German (as used in Munich) for EIN (a) STEIN (mug)

10a         Primitive individual breaking leg (5-3)
STONE-AGE – ONE (individual) ‘breaking’ STAGE (leg)

11a         Crowd by sea in France drink … (6)
MERLOT – LOT (crowd) goes by or after MER (French word for sea)

12a         … very shortly opening wine (8)
VERMOUTH – VER (very ‘shortly’) MOUTH (opening)

13a         Furious: incorrect grade to be revised (8)
OUTRAGED – OUT (incorrect) and an anagram (to be revised) of GRADE

16a         Hold instrument used in salon (8)
SCISSORS – A wrestling hold or an instrument used in a hair salon

19a         English about to tuck into lean meat slice (8)
ESCALOPE – E (English) and CA (about), the latter tucked into SLOPE (lean)

21a         Not totally excellent beer, but close (6)
FINALE – Almost all (not totally) of FINe (excellent) ALE (beer)

23a         Glen that’s tainted eventually (2,6)
AT LENGTH – An anagram (tainted) of GLEN THAT

24a         Keep pace? (8)
FASTNESS – A keep, fort or stronghold or a measurement of speed (pace)

25a         See 15 Down

26a         Labour candidate: he controls boxing clubs (8)
HERCULES – HE (from the clue) RULES (controls) ‘boxing’ C (clubs)

Down

1d           Greatly upset southern tile maker? (7)
SHATTER – S (Southern) HATTER (‘tile’ being slang for a hat)

2d           UN article needs Finnish backing in agreement (9)
UNANIMOUS – UN (from the clue) AN (indefinite article) and a reversal (backing) of SUOMI (Finland or the Finnish language or people)

3d           Victor in Judea corrupt – familiar sensation! (4,2)
DÉJÀ VU – V (the letter represented by Victor in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet) inserted into an anagram (corrupt) of JUDEA

4d           Sees enough: rages about emissions (10,5)
GREENHOUSE GASES – An anagram (about) of SEES ENOUGH RAGES

5d           Cosy up with German husband, arms dealer (8)
GUNSMITH – A reversal (up) of SNUG (cosy) followed by MIT (the German word for with) and H (husband)

6d           See 15 Down

7d           Performing in dull musical interval (7)
TRITONE – ON (performing) inserted in TRITE (dull)

14d         Slip on Everest that may prove disastrous? (9)
AVALANCHE – A nice cryptic definition

15d, 25a and 6d    Should extreme effects of 17 8 appear no matter what? (4,4,2,4,5)
COME HELL OR HIGH WATER – A reference to the extreme effects of the solution to 17d/8a

17d and 8a     Spilled chemical agent an environmental concern (7,6)
CLIMATE CHANGE – An anagram (spilled) of CHEMICAL AGENT

18d         Trump and Stone interrupting cheerful time? (7)
UPSTAGE – ST (stone) ‘interrupting’ UP (cheerful) AGE (time)

20d         Everything eaten by ruminant is green (6)
CALLOW – ALL (everything) ‘eaten’ by COW (ruminant)

22d         Prank not for Conservative (5)
ANTIC – ANTI (not for) C (Conservative)

 

3 comments on “DT 30701 (Full Review)”

  1. I still don’t understand 17a, which kept me worried all week, although I knew the answer was correct. I get the ‘E’, ‘Slope’ and the ‘C’ – but where does the ‘A’ come from?

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