DT Vintage 12

Daily Telegraph Vintage No 12
Hints and Tips by Rossophile

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BD Rating – Difficulty *** ½    Enjoyment ***

The volunteering team (me) happy to keep vintage hinting, but would love company. The definitions are not as clear as nowadays. Lots of anagrams to get you started. V-Day was actually 8^th May 1945 when the Allies accepted unconditional surrender from Nazi Germany.

Across

1a One chop is enough to construct this kind of cage (3-4)

HEN-COOP: Anagram of one chop

8a Famous author of the past with a head for modern progress (7)

CARLYLE: Scottish author and essayist, 1795 to 1881, strongly influenced Victorian culture. The “sage of Chelsea”

9a A real soldier, this one! (7)

REGULAR: Regular means real, and is a type of soldier

10a Not a generous use of rag and pins (7)

SPARING: Anagram of rags pins

11a Warning of something wrong with a drum? (7)

EARACHE: Medical condition of ear causing pain

14a He needed horse sense, this fellow (6)

OSTLER: Person who tends to horse welfare

18a May be the cause of a rise in food (5)

YEAST: Causes dough to swell

20a Leave this unfavourable place in the lurch (6)

DESERT: Something no soldier should ever do.

22a Nice toy for the piper’s son (6)

TOMTOM:  *** ***, the piper’s son, stole a pig and away did run. Well known nursery rhyme

23a This way lies progress (5)

AHEAD: The way ***** means progress

25a Suspend more than fish (6)

DANGLE: One letter D added to the word for fish (the verb)

28a The looker-on gives a low-brow greeting! (7)

WATCHER: Homonyms , using an informal slang greeting Wotcha

29a Van near to Italian town (7)

RAVENNA: Anagram of van near. Actually a City near Bologna famous for its mosaics.

32a Bid rust to break the peace (7)

DISTURB: Anagram of bid rust

33a A comedian is rather apt to put it on (7)

COSTUME: This performer will often don a recognisable outfit on stage

34a To do so is a put-up job (7)

ELEVATE: Verb involving moving to a higher level

Down

1d Shrewd (4-6)

HARD-HEADED:  hyphenated word describing the bargaining position of a shrewd individual

2d Incomplete darkness is at hand (4)

NIGH: Time between dusk and dawn minus the last letter.

3d May often describe the waste in engineering works (4)

OILY: Description of the greasy substance used to lubricate machines.

4d Remove the heart of this plant for argument (7)

PARSLEY: Remove the S from this curly leaf salad item to engage in conversation, from the French P*****-vous Francais?

5d V-day may see it light-headed in the street (8)

LAMPPOST: Lights coming from the top of these will provide illumination for the V day celebrations (now VE) long into the night

6d Another colour from most of scarlet (6)

CLARET: Anagram of Scarlet minus the S which can always also be imbibed

7d Get plenty of air in the inside of it before you take it! (6)

PLUNGE: Four letter word for the organ of breathing surrounded by P and E

12d Yielded to us by gum? (5)

RESIN: A viscous sticky exudate from certain plants or synthetic equivalent. Yielded to us refers to it being an exudate

13d Take a reef, and you may get more than you want (5)

CORAL: Noun is a brightly coloured living marine structure. The homophone with an extra R means gathering people things up, (verb) or a formation by doing so (noun)

15d Not one of those thin refreshers (5)

STOUT: The opposite of thin is also a dark coloured alcoholic beer, supposedly “Good for you”

16d The lifting of it may remove a barrier to further progress (5)

LATCH: By lifting this you enable the opening of a door, allowing one to progress through it

17d Make barrel in astonishing fashion (10)

REMARKABLE: Anagram (fashion) of make barrel (r***rk**le)

19d This goes up in 6 down (3)

ERA: Middle three letters of solution 6d ARE spelt backwards

21d Without this there would be no war (3,5)

THE ENEMY: A description of those people who are not your friends

24d The wind is always with it, but you will see it lessen (7)

DWINDLE: The four letter word “wind” in the clue enclosed in three letters DLE

26d Take a man, including little to weigh up, and get a strong woman (6)

AMAZON: An anagram of “a man “ and the abbreviation for an ounce inserted backwards

27d It requires hosts to entertain them (6)

GUESTS: You couldn’t host a party without these people turning up

30d Describes 31 down (4)

ISLE: Geographical description of an area of land surrounded by water

31d This was an early discovery in the new world (4)

CUBA: Four letter island discovered by navigators and mariners travelling west across the Atlantic many centuries ago.

 

Thought this might be a pangram, but four letters missing. Enjoy.