Puzzle at a Glance
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Puzzle Number in The Daily Telegraph
DT 29195 | |
Publication Date in The Daily Telegraph
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | |
Setter
Jay (Jeremy Mutch) | |
Link to Full Review
Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 29195] | |
Big Dave's Crossword Blog Review Written By
2Kiwis | |
BD Rating
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| Difficulty - ★★ | Enjoyment - ★★★★ |
Falcon's Experience
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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
█ - solved but without fully parsing the clue
█ - unsolved or incorrect prior to visiting Big Dave's Crossword Blog
█ - solved with aid of checking letters provided by solutions from Big Dave's Crossword Blog
█ - reviewed by Falcon for Big Dave's Crossword Blog
█ - yet to be solved
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Introduction
It seems that Jay never fails to deliver a very entertaining offering.I invite you to leave a comment to let us know how you fared with the puzzle.
Notes on Today's Puzzle
This commentary is intended to serve as a supplement to the review of this puzzle found at Big Dave's Crossword Blog, to which a link is provided in the table above.
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Across
| 1a | Thrashing // bridge supremo (8) |
Supremo[5] is an informal British term meaning:
- a person in overall charge of an organization or activity ⇒
the Channel Four supremo
- a person with great authority or skill in a certain area ⇒
an interior by design supremo Kelly
| 5a | Weight carried by this // argument after pub (6) |
| 9a | Modification applied to former // telecommunications facility (8) |
| 10a | May is able to // dance (6) |
| 12a | A sound quality -- people with time /for/ reparation (9) |
| 13a | Forger's equipment /may see/ 3 regularly in trouble (5) |
This forger is a smithy — not a counterfeiter.
The
numeral "3" is a cross
reference indicator to clue 3d (show more ).
To complete the clue, a solver must replace the cross reference indicator with the solution to the clue starting in the light* identified by the cross reference indicator.
The cross reference indicator may include a directional indicator but this is customarily done only in situations where there are both Across and Down clues originating in the light that is being referenced.
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To complete the clue, a solver must replace the cross reference indicator with the solution to the clue starting in the light* identified by the cross reference indicator.
The cross reference indicator may include a directional indicator but this is customarily done only in situations where there are both Across and Down clues originating in the light that is being referenced.
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| 14a | Material /that may be/ left out (4) |
| 16a | Profits /from/ rail tickets (7) |
Return[5] is a British term for a return ticket, a ticket which allows someone to travel to a place and back again ⇒
Commuter fares from the city centre to Raheny, for example, now € 1.50 for a single, will increase to € 1.55, while a €2.70 return will cost €2.80.
| 19a | Environment // partially contained within Panama? (7) |
| 21a | Rows /generated by/ unprotected husky (4) |
| 24a | Part of engine // restricted by zero torque (5) |
| 25a | Copper/'s/ revolutionary cab stolen (9) |
| 27a | Personal item /providing/ a tax credit up front (6) |
A value added tax[5] (abbreviation VAT)
is a tax on the amount by which the value of an article has been
increased at each stage of its production or distribution. (show more )
The European Union value added tax[7] (or EU VAT) is a value added tax on goods and services within the European Union (EU). The EU's institutions do not collect the tax, but EU member states (including the UK) are each required to adopt a value added tax that complies with the EU VAT code. Different rates of VAT apply in different EU member states, ranging from 17% in Luxembourg to 27% in Hungary. In the UK, the rate is 20%.
Canada's Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) are each instances of a value added tax.[7]
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The European Union value added tax[7] (or EU VAT) is a value added tax on goods and services within the European Union (EU). The EU's institutions do not collect the tax, but EU member states (including the UK) are each required to adopt a value added tax that complies with the EU VAT code. Different rates of VAT apply in different EU member states, ranging from 17% in Luxembourg to 27% in Hungary. In the UK, the rate is 20%.
Canada's Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) are each instances of a value added tax.[7]
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| 28a | Following instructions, // debit one at random (8) |
| 29a | Stressful // hearing (6) |
| 30a | One thus delayed daughter /getting/ cut off (8) |
Down
| 1d | Understand saying // 'swing both ways' (6) |
| 2d | A task mostly employing northern // TV presenter (6) |
Presenter[5] is a British* term for a person who introduces and appears in a television or radio programme.
* In North America, more specific terms such as host, emcee, announcer or anchor might be used for such a person. Some — or perhaps all — of these terms are also used in the UK but presenter is a general term that covers all the bases.
According to a couple of British dictionaries, anchor is a North American[5] or mainly US[14] term for an anchorman or anchorwoman* ⇒
he signed off after nineteen years as CBS news anchor.
| 3d | Jack // from luggage van keeps turning up (5) |
| 4d | Forget // name and choose to drink gallons (7) |
| 6d | Stone /and/ basalt are different (9) |
| 7d | Vagrants will accept European Commission // gets better (8) |
The European Commission[5] (abbreviation EC[5]) is a group, appointed by agreement among the governments of the European Union, which initiates Union action and safeguards its treaties. It meets in Brussels.
| 8d | This may lift 2 // lads going mad during conquests (8) |
The
numeral "2" is a cross
reference indicator to clue 2d (show more ).
To complete the clue, a solver must replace the cross reference indicator with the solution to the clue starting in the light* identified by the cross reference indicator.
The cross reference indicator may include a directional indicator but this is customarily done only in situations where there are both Across and Down clues originating in the light that is being referenced.
* light-coloured cell in the grid
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To complete the clue, a solver must replace the cross reference indicator with the solution to the clue starting in the light* identified by the cross reference indicator.
The cross reference indicator may include a directional indicator but this is customarily done only in situations where there are both Across and Down clues originating in the light that is being referenced.
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| 11d | Wake up // cooler? (4) |
The cooler[5] is an informal term for a prison or a prison cell ⇒
the cooler was a dark, claustrophobic room.
Stir[5] is an informal term for prison [on both sides of the Atlantic] ⇒
I’ve spent twenty-eight years in stir.
What did they say?
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In their review on Big Dave's Crossword Blog, the 2Kiwis hintHM Prison Dartmoor[7] is a men's prison operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service, located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor* in the English county of Devon.Dartmoor is an example of this type of cooler. * Dartmoor[5] is a moorland district in Devon that was a royal forest in Saxon times, now a national park. |
| 15d | Area in internet designed // to amuse (9) |
| 17d | Yell about critic oddly /finding/ a quicker route (5,3) |
| 18d | Late news notice? (8) |
| 20d | There's not one in unstated // consideration (4) |
| 21d | This may be long /for/ a passenger vehicle (7) |
Omnibus is a dated[5] or less common[10] name for a bus* ⇒
a horse-drawn omnibus.
* Historically, an omnibus[3] was a large horse-drawn public conveyance, especially of the late 1800s.
| 22d | Missing // son taken in by a criminal (6) |
In Britain, the word bent[5] has the same connotation (dishonest or corrupt) as does the word crooked[5] in North America.
* It would appear that Brits use crooked as well as bent in this sense.
| 23d | Angry // boss must accept vacant type (6) |
| 26d | Tons laid out // like the river Severn, for example (5) |
The River Severn[7] is the longest river in Great Britain at a length of 220 miles (354 km). It also has by far the greatest water flow in England and Wales. The river becomes tidal below Gloucester.
Key to Reference Sources:Signing off for today — Falcon
[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 Advanced 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)
[12] - CollinsDictionary.com (Webster’s New World College Dictionary)
[13] - MacmillanDictionary.com (Macmillan Dictionary)
[14] - CollinsDictionary.com (COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary)
I thought 21d was a cryptic definition, omnibus being a long word for bus.
ReplyDeleteIt is not unusual for there to be more than one way to interpret a clue. Often this is, in fact, the intent of the setter.
DeleteIn general, clues will either consist of a definition and wordplay or be a double definition. The clue will also have a surface reading.
This clue could be considered to be a double definition where the first part of the clue alludes to a long literary work that is a compilation of previously published works and the second part is a public transit vehicle. The surface reading is (as you have identified) a cryptic definition of the passenger vehicle.
This actually gives the solver two ways to arrive at the solution -- through breaking the clue down into a double definition or from the overall cryptic definition.