Thursday, June 9, 2011 - DT 26502

Puzzle at a Glance

Daily Telegraph Puzzle Number DT 26502
Publication Date in The Daily Telegraph Thursday, March 17, 2011
Setter Unknown
Link to Full Review Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 26502]
Big Dave's Review Written By Big Dave
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 █ - reviewed by Falcon for Big Dave's blog

Introduction

Although Big Dave awarded this puzzle only two stars for difficulty, there are enough British references in it to make it a bit more difficult for solvers on this side of the Atlantic. However, having seen most of them in previous puzzles, they did not present me with a significant impediment.

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.]

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.

clump - verb 2  another term for clomp, [no object, with adverbial of direction] walk with a heavy tread: she clomped down the steps

L. S. Lowry - (1887 – 1976), English artist famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of Northern England during the early 20th century. He had a distinctive style of painting and is best known for urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as "matchstick men".

Appearing in Solutions:

des res - noun British informal a desirable residence (used as a humorous allusion to the language used in housing advertisements).

River Exe - an English river that rises near the village of Simonsbath, on Exmoor in Somerset, near the Bristol Channel coast, but flows more or less directly due south, so that most of its length lies in Devon. It reaches the sea at a substantial ria, the Exe Estuary, on the south (English Channel) coast of Devon.

R² - abbreviation Regina [Queen] or Rex [King]: Elizabeth R

ripped - [American Heritage Dictionary] adjective slang 2. Intoxicated by alcohol or a drug.

trouser - verb [with object] British informal receive or take (something, especially money) for oneself; pocket: they claimed that he had trousered a £2 million advance

winkle - noun 1 a small herbivorous shore-dwelling mollusc with a spiral shell.  Also called periwinkle. Family Littorinidae, class Gastropoda: many genera and species, including the common and edible Littorina littorea

Signing off for today - Falcon