Monday, April 22, 2013 — DT 27097

Puzzle at a Glance

Puzzle Number in The Daily Telegraph DT 27097
Publication Date in The Daily Telegraph Saturday, February 9, 2013
Setter Cephas (Peter Chamberlain)
Link to Full Review Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 27097 - hints] Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 27097 - review]
Big Dave's Review Written By Big Dave (hints) crypticsue (review)
BD Rating
Difficulty - ★★	Enjoyment - ★★★
Falcon's Experience ┌────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┐ ███████████████████████████████████ └────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┘ Legend: █ - solved without assistance █ - incorrect prior to use of puzzle solving tools █ - solved with assistance from puzzle solving tools █ - solved with aid of checking letters provided by puzzle solving tools █ - unsolved or incorrect prior to visiting Big Dave's blog █ - reviewed by Falcon for Big Dave's blog

Introduction

It has been a very busy day and unfortunately I have yet to find time to even look at today's puzzle. A link to the review of this puzzle on Big Dave's Crossword Blog is provided above. Given that this puzzle was published by The Daily Telegraph on a Saturday, it was a prize puzzle and thus there are two postings related to the puzzle on Big Dave's site — a day of publication posting containing hints for selected clues and a full review posted following the contest submission date. Most — if not all — of the comments from readers of Big Dave's blog will be found on the hints posting.

Key to Reference Sources: 

^[1]   - The Chambers Dictionary, 11th Edition
^[2]   - Search Chambers - (Chambers 21st Century Dictionary)
^[3]   - TheFreeDictionary.com (American Heritage Dictionary)
^[4]   - TheFreeDictionary.com (Collins English Dictionary)
^[5]   - Oxford Dictionaries (Oxford Dictionary of English)
^[6]   - Oxford Dictionaries (Oxford American Dictionary)
^[7]   - Wikipedia
^[8]   - Reverso Online Dictionary (Collins French-English Dictionary)
^[9]   - Infoplease (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)
^[10] - CollinsDictionary.com (Collins English Dictionary)
^[11] - TheFreeDictionary.com (Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary)

Signing off for today — Falcon