Saturday, February 27, 2010 - Literary Convention

Introduction

Today's puzzle by Cox and Rathvon takes us to a literary gathering where a multitude of writers make an appearance.

Today's Bookshelf

Writer's appearing in today's puzzle

Martin Amis - British novelist

Aristotle - Greek philosopher

Albert Camus - French author, philosopher and journalist

Italo Calvino - Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Lewis Carroll - English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

E. M. Forster - English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist

Kenneth Grahame - British writer

Primo Levi - Jewish-Italian chemist and writer

Molière - French playwright and actor

Salman Rushdie - Indo-British novelist and essayist

Sam Shepard - American playwright, actor, and television and film director

Oscar Wilde - Irish writer and poet

Tom Wolfe - American author and journalist

Solution to Today's Puzzle

Legend:	"CD" Cryptic Definition; "DD" Double Definition
	"*" anagram; "~" sounds like; "<" letters reversed
	"( )" letters inserted; "_" letters deleted

Across

1a {OSCAR WILDE}* - anagram (roughed up) of AISLE CROWD

6a _A|TOM - A (end of novella; i.e., last letter of the word "novella") + (before) TOM (Wolfe)

9a FORSTER* - anagram (agitated) of FOR REST

10a CARROLL~ - sounds like (heard) CAROL

12a CAM_US - school grounds (CAMPUS) without P (having no piano; where piano, abbreviation p, is musical notation for softly)

13a ARISTOTLE* - anagram (changed) of TO REALIST

14a RESUMES - double definition ("starts in again" and "career write-ups" or resumés)

16a G(RAH)AME - RAH (cheer) contained in (amid) GAME

18a RUSH|DIE - RUSH (hurry) + (and) DIE (stop)

20a SHE(PAR)D - SHED (simple structure) containing (houses) PAR (average)

22a PRIM|O LE|VI - PRIM (proper) + OLE (cheer) + VI (#6; i.e., Roman numeral for 6)

24a _LO|CAL_ - hidden in (covered by) ItaLO CALvino

25a ANAPEST* - anagram (altered) of PEASANT

26a O|INKING - O (love; a score of 0 in tennis) + INKING (writing)

27a S(A)ID - A (article) contained in (penned by) SID (Caesar; American comedian Sid Caesar)

28a MARTIN (AM)IS - MARTINIS (cocktails) containing (around) AM (morning)

Down

1d OFF|ICER - OFF (not working) + (with) ICER (cake decorator)

2d CERAMISTS* - anagram (improved) of CRASS ITEM

3d RITES~ - sounds like (on tape) WRITES

4d INROADS* - anagram (arranged) of DORIANS

5d DOC|KING - DOC (medic) + KING (ruler)

7d TRO(U)T - TROT (run) containing (around) U (university)

8d MO(LIE)RE - LIE (fiction) contained in (collected by) MORE

11d RA|T RACE - RA (chemical symbol for radium) + TRACE (residue)

15d M(IDS)OLE - MOLE (spy) containing (keeps) IDS

17d ANARCHISM* - anagram (mistaken) of CHAIRMANS

18d REPEALS - double definition; "cancels"and "tolls again" (cryptic)

19d ELECT|RA - ELECT (choose) + RA (Egyptian sun god); Electra - a figure in Greek mythology and the main character in plays by that name written by Sophocles and Euripedes

20d S(HI)P OUT - HI (greeting) contained in (in) SPOUT (jet)

21d DE(LUGE)S - LUGE (sled) contained in (caught inside) DES (of French; i.e., French word meaning "of")

23d {IRA|Q|I}< - reversal (backing up) of {I Q (question) ARI}

24d LINEN* - anagram (changed) of LENIN (Vladimir Lenin, Communist Russian revolutionary)

Signing off for today - Falcon