Puzzle at a Glance |
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Daily Telegraph Puzzle Number DT 26495 | |
Publication Date in The Daily Telegraph Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | |
Setter Jay | |
Link to Full Review Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 26495] | |
Big Dave's Review Written By Pommers | |
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
This puzzle will surely whet your appetite - not to mention, satisfy your sweet tooth. Although I have dim recollections of it having been served in a previous puzzle, I am not so familiar with the Victorian breakfast dish at 19a which was introduced to England by British colonials returning from India. However, I was able to decipher it correctly from the wordplay.
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.]
[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.
presenter - noun British a person who introduces and appears in a television or radio programme.
sweet - noun 1 British a small shaped piece of confectionery made with sugar: a bag of sweets 2 British a sweet dish forming a course of a meal; a pudding or dessert.
Appearing in Solutions:
anchor - noun 4 chiefly North American an anchorman or anchorwoman, a person who presents and coordinates a live television or radio programme involving other contributors.
de - preposition French of
Edam2 - noun a round Dutch cheese, typically pale yellow with a red wax coating.
French loaf - noun a loaf of French bread.
*it1 - pronoun 8 (usually ‘it’) informal sexual intercourse or sex appeal
kedgeree - noun cookery 1 a European, but especially British, dish, now usually a mixture of rice, fish and eggs. 2 a dish, originally from India, consisting of rice cooked with butter and dal, flavoured with spice and shredded onion, etc.
lemon - noun 4 informal an unsatisfactory or feeble person or thing: car-makers cannot afford to create lemons
Plymouth Hoe - (referred to locally as the Hoe) a large south facing open public space in the English coastal city of Plymouth. The Hoe is adjacent to and above the low limestone cliffs that form the seafront and it commands views of Plymouth Sound, Drake's Island, and across the Hamoaze to Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon word Hoe, a sloping ridge shaped like an inverted foot and heel.
pudding - noun 2 [3rd entry] Chiefly British, informal a fat or stupid person: away with you, you big pudding!
ring2 - verb 2 British call by telephone: [with object] I rang her this morning; Harriet rang Dorothy up next day; [no object] she rang to tell him the good news
steak Diane - noun a dish consisting of thin slices of steak fried with seasonings, especially Worcestershire sauce.
summer pudding - noun British a pudding of soft summer fruit encased in bread or sponge.
Signing off for today - Falcon
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