Saturday, August 24, 2019

Saturday, August 24, 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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8 comments:

  1. HenryAugust 24, 2019 at 10:05 AM

    Good Saturday morning to all! Thanks for posting, Falcon. Which way shall we go today? Not an easy one by any means. Typically didn't figure out the parsing until I figured out the answer. Had to have a lot of help from the cross letters. Liked 8d (it was one of my favourite tv shows). Well, best of luck to all - I'm off to write a law exam.
    Henry

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  2. Richard McCallumAugust 24, 2019 at 8:30 PM

    Entertaining puzzle, moderately difficult, with some amusing clues.

    As our resident pedant is on vacation, I will point out that it was Ruth, not the other woman in that book, who was David's great grandmother.

    Good luck with the exam, Henry.

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    1. HenryAugust 25, 2019 at 11:58 AM

      Thanks for that, Richard - it was not as difficult as I thought it might have been. I guess everyone is on holiday this weekend (or flummoxed as Sydney says).

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  3. Sydney PrestonAugust 25, 2019 at 9:39 AM

    I had to sleep on this one. The upper right had me flummoxed. As soon as I solved 13a everything fell into place. At least I had another puzzle to work on in the meantime.

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  4. CarolaAugust 25, 2019 at 7:56 PM

    A tougher-than-usual one for me as well, mainly because of the two corner anchors. It took me a long time to crack 1a, my last one in; and after the fact, I had to look up the first of the pair making up 29a, a new name to me. My favorite was the food for "mass" consumption.

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  5. HenryAugust 25, 2019 at 8:17 PM

    Well, no more idylling around for me, here is the solution to this week's puzzle.

    ACROSS
    1a M(ANTLE R)OCK (ANTLER = horn) (MOCK = disdain)
    6a IN+|CA (could also be considered a hidden answer?)
    9a C|(OGNACS)* (C = Combo's leader - first letter of Combo) (anagram of CONGAS)
    10a RO(B LOW)E (ROE = caviar) (BLOW = to buffet)
    12a WITCH˜ (homonym on which = that)
    13a ENNOBLING* (anagram of LEG IN BONN)
    14a _AWFUL (LAWFUL = Legal, with first letter removed)
    16a CHIPPER (double definition)
    19a SHE|A+|RED (SHE = that lady)
    21a POSER (double definition)
    23a IM+|PE|RILED (is the 'Island' not required?)
    25a WA(FE)R (FE = chemical symbol for Iron) (a wafer is what is given out during Mass)
    26a ANTONY|M (M = short form for Married)
    27a I|M(PALE)D (MD = Doctor)
    28a TUN<|A+ (NUT = loon, reversed)
    29a KAIS|ER ROLL (KAI Winding was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer) (ERROLL Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer)

    DOWN
    1d MA|CAWS
    2d NEG(OT|I)ATE (NEGATE = to VOID) (I = idea's start, first letter of idea)
    3d LEA(S)H (LEAH was Jacob's first wife)
    4d RUSSELL˜ (homonym of rustle) (Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, was a British philosopher, among many other things)
    5d CH(RON)IC (RON Howard, born 1954 is an American filmmaker and actor)
    7d NAOM<|I (I have no idea about the genealogy of David) (MOAN = to complain, reversed)
    8d AV(ENG)ERS (AVERS = States, says)
    11d BOB|BINS (BOB = to go up and down)
    15d FORT|RAN (the programming language I used in University - is it still around?)
    17d PORTFOLIO* (anagram on OF PILOT OR)
    18d ASPIRANT* (anagram on PARTISAN)
    20d DIL|EMMA (DILL with last letter removed [mostly]) (EMMA = Austen heroine in the novel Emma)
    21d PAD|DIES (PAD = to Stuff)
    22d BRIDAL˜ (homonym of Bridle = to express resentment)
    24d PIT|ON (PIT = stone of a fruit)
    25d W(IPER)* (W = short form of With) (anagram of RIPE)

    Well I found this one a bit more than 'moderately difficult."

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  6. FalconAugust 29, 2019 at 9:27 AM

    Henry,

    Thank you once again for posting the solution.

    Re 6a: It is not a hidden word as there is no hidden word indicator (the word "in" being part of the fodder). Also, I believe a hidden word would start in the middle of a word in the clue.

    Re 23a: PE is the two-letter postal abbreviation for Prince Edward Island (thus explaining why "Island" might appear to play no part in the wordplay).

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  7. HenryAugust 30, 2019 at 9:02 PM

    Thanks, Falcon - I have to remember the Postal codes for the provinces, it doesn't come naturally to me.

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