Saturday, August 17, 2019

Saturday, August 17, 2019 — Cox & Rathvon (Preliminary Post)

Introduction

Here is today's puzzle from Cox & Rathvon. I will return later with the solution.

I invite you to leave a comment to let us know how you fared with the puzzle.

Signing off for the moment — Falcon
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11 comments:

  1. Chris CudmoreAugust 17, 2019 at 10:16 AM

    Another classic from c&r. Had trouble due to the theme, and used a lot off reference material. Did anyone get 28a without googling?

    21a is Canadian. Can't parse 23d at all, although the answer is obvious to a Toronto Football fan. (Even this year... you've got to believe!)

    12a was a lucky guess and Google to verify.

    Favourite was 9a.

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  2. PeterAugust 17, 2019 at 10:27 AM

    Good morning,

    Quite liked this one. I had did have to look up 28a. Not only is 21a Canadian but 1a is Belgian. Re 23d: think of a load of freight without the first letter (behind the bow). Is "ton" French style? Have a good weekend!

    Peter

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  3. Chris CudmoreAugust 17, 2019 at 10:35 AM

    Was stuck on more obscure loads - TARE and LADING for example. TON is French for TONE which can mean style.

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  4. HenryAugust 17, 2019 at 10:49 AM

    Well, I'll be frank. This one was a mindbender. Need to Google? I practically never left the site.
    Had the wrong word for 20d, that threw me off for the longest time. Also 14d took too long to figure out. Favourite was 17d.
    Thanks for posting, Falcon. Hope your vacay is going well.
    Bon chance to all. And no, I don't know how 'ton' gets in there.
    Henry

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  5. Sydney PrestonAugust 17, 2019 at 11:13 AM

    Played well until I had to put on my thinking cap. But it was fun in the end. Laughed at 18d.

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  6. AnonymousAugust 17, 2019 at 10:43 PM

    Hello Falcon and friends,

    I guess you need to be sharp to handel this puzzle! Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Also had to use my friend google for 28a, but only for that clue. Thought 19a and 14d were excellent clues, also liked how 23 was worded. Well folks, Stephen Foster is the great American songwriter and he has written many classics that I can play on my ukulele. And yes there is a famous phrase "bon ton", meaning great style.

    Thank you for posting Falcon. Have a nice weekend everybody.

    Cheers,
    MG

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  7. HenryAugust 18, 2019 at 10:13 PM

    Here is the solution to this week's puzzle.

    ACROSS
    1a FRAN(C)K (C = Key of C major)
    4a BRAHM(AN)S
    9a WAG(O)NER
    11a COP|LAND (Cop Land is a 1997 Sylvester Stallone film)
    12a BRITTEN˜ (homonym of Britain)
    13a REGAL* (anagram on ELGAR)
    15a _ENAMEL_ (hidden in _E NAME L_)
    16a NE(ARNE)SS (Thomas Arne, English composer, composed the patriotic song Rule Britannia)
    19a BACH|ELOR< (ROLE = a part in a performance reversed)
    21a FOSTER (double definition) (Stephen Foster, American composer 1826-1864, wrote a lot of minstrel music)
    24a LISTS˜ (homonym of LISZT'S)
    26a PU<|R|CELL (UP+ reversed, R = first letter in RAVEL)
    28a SMETANA* (anagram on AT NAMES)
    29a O(VERDI)D (OD = short form for OLD DUTCH)
    30a SESSIONS (Roger Sessions 1896-1985, created the opera Montezuma ca. 1940–1962)
    31a ATONAL* (anagram on AN ALTO)

    DOWN
    1d FOWL˜ (homonym of FOUL)
    2d ALGEBRA* (anagram of BAG REAL)
    3d CENTIPEDE* (anagram of TEN-PIECED)
    5d RE|CANT|ED
    6d HYPER (double definition)
    7d AT+|ANGLE (ANGLE = to fish)
    8d SADDLE-SORE* (anagram on SLEDS RODE A)
    10d RITE˜ (homonym of RIGHT)
    14d HER(BALI|ST)S (HERS = the woman's)
    17d ROOS(EVE|L)T (ROOST = resting place, EVE = first lady)
    18d CO|M|PLAIN
    20d CASTERS (double definition)
    22d TO(LEDA)N (LEDA was an Aetolian princess who became a Spartan queen) (TON = French for style)
    23d _ARGO (CARGO with the first letter removed)
    25d SWAM|I
    27d IDYL˜ (homonym of IDLE, Daniel Diongoli, popularly called Idyl, 22 year old Nigerian)

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    1. AnonymousAugust 19, 2019 at 12:47 AM

      My dear Henry,

      Nice job on the solution, however, I think you missed 27d - unless you are pulling our collective legs. The pop star is an idol.

      Cheers,
      MG

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  8. PuzzlerAugust 19, 2019 at 9:45 AM

    Actually the pop star is Billy Idol

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  9. HenryAugust 19, 2019 at 2:10 PM

    See - it just goes to show what looking at Google can do - I was thinking of Idol as a homonym but spelled it as Idyl and up came this person. Seeing as it was a match, I went with it. But Billy Idol is much better.

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