Monday, November 29, 2010 (DT 26329)

Daily Telegraph Puzzle Number DT 26329
Publication Date in The Daily Telegraph Thursday, August 26, 2010
Setter Unknown
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Difficulty - **	Enjoyment - ***

Introduction

I got off to a roaring start today and, for a time, thought I might not need to open my Tool Chest. However, I was to discover that there are enough Briticisms in the puzzle to make it challenging to complete. I am sure that the Brits would have found it considerably less difficult.

Today's Glossary

Selected abbreviations, people, places, words and expressions appearing in today's puzzle

on - noun Cricket

• a.  (modifier) relating to or denoting the leg side of a cricket field or pitch: the on side; an on drive [see definition of leg in Appearing in Solutions below]

Appearing in Solutions:

at a stroke - phrase by a single action having immediate effect: attitudes cannot be changed at a stroke

black - verb 2 British dated refuse to handle (goods), undertake (work ), or have dealings with (a person or business) as a way of taking industrial action: the printers blacked firms trying to employ women

black spot - 1 British a place or area marked by a particular trouble or concern: an unemployment black spot; an accident black spot

bull's-eye - noun [American Heritage Dictionary] 6. A piece of round hard candy; [Collins English Dictionary] 8. a peppermint-flavoured, usually striped, boiled sweet

The online dictionaries provide various spellings for this word, with the American Heritage Dictionary showing it as either bull's-eye or bulls eye, Chambers as bull's-eye, Collins as bull's-eye, and Oxford as bullseye.

ch - abbreviation 3 chess check

cob ¹ - noun 4 a powerfully built, short- legged horse

end ¹ - [Collins English Dictionary] noun 11. Sport either of the two defended areas of a playing field, rink, [court,] etc.

Hyde Park Corner - a major intersection in London, England, located at the south-east corner of Hyde Park where Park Lane, Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Grosvenor Place and Constitution Hill converge

leg - noun 13. Cricket

• a.  the side of the field to the left of a right-handed batsman as he faces the bowler
• b.  (as modifier) a leg slip; leg stump

Perseus ¹ - noun Greek myth a son of Zeus and Danaë, who with Athena's help slew the Gorgon Medusa and rescued Andromeda from a sea monster

snook ¹ - [Collins English Dictionary] noun

1. any of several large game fishes of the genus Centropomus, especially C. undecimalis of tropical American marine and fresh waters: family Centropomidae (robalos) 
2. Australian the sea pike Australuzza novaehollandiae

tea - noun 3 chiefly British a light afternoon meal consisting typically of tea to drink, sandwiches, and cakes; British a cooked evening meal.  See also high tea.

Signing off for today - Falcon