Introduction
We are back to a fairly standard level of difficulty today after the very taxing effort yesterday. I'm sure that today's puzzle was a bit more challenging for me than it was for the Brits due to a few Briticisms that took some time to track down.
Today's Glossary
Some possibly unfamiliar abbreviations, people, places, words and expressions used in today's puzzle
advert - noun Brit. informal an advertisement [Note: in North American usage, one would almost certainly say "ad" rather than "advert"]
Anfield - a football (soccer) stadium in Liverpool, England, home to the Liverpool F.C. football club
local - noun 2 Brit. informal a pub convenient to a person’s home
pit - noun 9 (the pit) literary hell
scruff - noun Brit. informal a scruffy person
slate - verb 2 Brit. informal criticize severely
snib -
Mark Thompson - Director-General (DG) of the British Broadcasting Corporation ("BBC boss")
Today's Links
Libellule's review of today's puzzle may be found at Big Dave's Telegraph Crossword Blog [DT 26001].
Commentary on Today's Puzzle
7a Fuel Norm needs to get a couple of females home (8)
I'm afraid that I was a bit sloppy in solving this clue. I got it into my head that the wordplay was PARA, which sounds like "pair of" (couple of), FF (females) IN (home). Having got that far, I was at a loss to explain how the remainder of the wordplay constituted a homophone (sounds like) indicator. Perhaps if I had exercised the discipline to rigourously parse out the clue, I would have discovered the proper wordplay. However, sometimes (as with this clue) I just seem to find the solution through intuition - with less than stellar results in this case.
6d I con lass so wickedly in a holy letter (10)
Before arriving in the New Testament, I test drove a number of possibilities for "holy letter"including encyclical, bull, and epistle.
Signing off for today - Falcon
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