Sunday Toughie 145 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 145

by Robyn

 

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

 

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Seeing Robyn as the setter today was a bit of a surprise but proXimal has been busy setting EV’s so maybe next week. This was a bit of a breeze with plenty of anagrams, reversals and removal of tops, but I did have to check 3d with google maps. It is an ideal introduction to those dipping their toes into Toughies

We have 14a and 14d clues and I have hinted half – I don’t think you will need it but a bonus hint is available if you ask

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           Accessory for jumper committee members put on well (11)
The water source that fills a well and the committee members who manage an organisation becomes a useful accessory for someone who wants to jump into the water

10a        Critical of item in a 9 maybe bearing tons (5)
Critically important, a storage container used in a 9d containing the abbreviation for tons

Listen to the rest of Moving Pictures for the hint

12a        Around lake, opening bar European makes far from light! (9)
One of our usual abouts and an opening bar E for European. Far from light in terms of fuel

20a        Struggle for inspiration in clever plan (6)
A double definition, how an asthmatic may struggle for inspiration is also a clever plan often employed by Roger the Dodger or Jennings and Darbyshire

24a        Dismiss comic ultimately reluctant to provide coarse material (9)
To dismiss from employment, the ultimate letter of comic and a synonym of reluctant provides us with a coarse material often worn with ashes

26a        Maybe retired proofreader picked up funds (9)
A prefix for retired or former and a homophone (picked up) of what a proofreader does becomes the budget topical management of funds

28a        Starting post in Aintree’s displaced with it (11)
A cool with it follows an anagram (displaced) of AINTREE’S for the starting post where you first learn a lot about employment

 

Down

 

2d          Thus problem begins, with others making a bit of a bloomer (5)
A starting letter and a Latin abbreviation for with others

3d          I’m going to breezy, northerly Balkan region (7)
A contraction of I’m going to and a reversal (northerly in a down clue) of a word meaning breezy

6d          Teacher turning up loves to eat dry rice dish (7)
A reversal (turning up) of how you may address a teacher, two letters that loves represent around an abbreviation for one who is abstaining from alcohol

7d          Direction over needing to move? (8,5)
I suppose needing to move is an anagram indicator but it is also what you need to do if served with these papers so I am calling this as an &lit or all-in-one

9d          Florentine family home broken into by left-winger, one full of drugs? (8,5)
A Florentine family of the Renaissance, and a home for baby birds which contains a left-winger known to Eva Peron

15d        A flipping tiresome activity is overwhelming Charlie, or a tiring activity (8)
Lots of Lego™ A from the clue, a reversal (flipping) of a tiresome activity, Is from the clue that contains an abbreviation of Charlie – a tiring activity where oxygen is burned quicker than it can be replaced

21d        Possible sign one’s drunk from lidless, stylish vessels (7)
A synonym of stylish goes without its lid and adds the vessels you are supposed to drink out of the reverse of to cure this ailment caused by drinking too much

 

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