Puzzle at a Glance |
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Daily Telegraph Puzzle Number DT 26455 | |
Publication Date in The Daily Telegraph Friday, January 21, 2011 | |
Setter Giovanni | |
Link to Full Review Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 26455] | |
Big Dave's Review Written By Gazza | |
Big Dave's Rating | |
| Difficulty - ★★★ | Enjoyment - ★★★ |
Falcon's Performance ┌────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┐ ███████████████████████████████████ └────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┘ Legend: █ - solved without assistance █ - incorrect prior to use of puzzle solving tools █ - solved with assistance from puzzle solving tools █ - unsolved or incorrect prior to visiting Big Dave's blog | |
Introduction
I came close to completing today's puzzle without assistance, but did need to activate my research tools to discover the name of the hitherto unknown plants growing at 11d.
Today's Glossary
Selected abbreviations, people, places, words and expressions appearing in today's puzzle.
[An asterisk beside an entry merely indicates that it has been taken it from a Cumulative Glossary of entries which have previously appeared, in either this blog or its companion blog, the Ottawa Citizen Cryptic Crossword Forum.]
[An asterisk beside an entry merely indicates that it has been taken it from a Cumulative Glossary of entries which have previously appeared, in either this blog or its companion blog, the Ottawa Citizen Cryptic Crossword Forum.]
Appearing in Clues:
Meanings listed in this section may reflect how the word is used in the surface reading of the clue. Of course, that meaning may be contributing to the misdirection that the setter is attempting to create.
Appearing in Solutions:
*AA - abbreviation [3rd entry] (in the UK and South Africa) Automobile Association [a counterpart to the CAA (in Canada) or AAA (in the U.S.)]
*AB2 - abbreviation [1st entry] able seaman, noun a rank of sailor in the Royal Navy above ordinary seaman and below leading seaman
Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic The Dandy.
The character first appeared in the first issue of The Dandy, dated 4 December 1937. He is apparently the world's strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. Even his beard is so tough he has to shave with a blowtorch.O2 - symbol the chemical element oxygen
*RE - abbreviation (in the UK) Royal Engineers, the field engineering and construction corps of the British army
time - enemy, as in "The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time." - William Butler Yeats
W - [The Chambers Dictionary, 11th Edition] abbreviation Physics weak
In particle physics a W particle or W boson is a hypothetical positively or negatively charged subatomic particle of large mass, responsible in theory for weak interaction between particles.Appearing on Big Dave's Blog
valve - noun 1 [2nd entry] British short for thermionic valve, noun Electronics a device giving a flow of thermionic electrons in one direction, used especially in the rectification of a current and in radio reception [North American tube or thermionic tube]
Signing off for today - Falcon
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