Puzzle at a Glance
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Puzzle Number in The Daily Telegraph
DT 29216 | |
Publication Date in The Daily Telegraph
Saturday, November 23, 2019 | |
Setter
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Link to Full Review
Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 29216 – Hints]Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 29216 – Review] | |
Big Dave's Crossword Blog Review Written By
Big Dave (Hints)crypticsue (Review) | |
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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Notes
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As this was a Saturday "Prize Puzzle" in Britain, there are two entries related to it on Big Dave's Crossword Blog — the first, posted on the date of publication, contains hints for selected clues while the second is a full review issued following the entry deadline for the contest. The vast majority of reader comments will generally be found attached to the "hints" posting with a minimal number — if any — accompanying the full review.
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Introduction
I filled the grid but could not parse 24d as I had never heard of the cowardly European frog.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 | Standard raised across the Channel? (9) |
As this is a British puzzle, the "Channel" is the English Channel.
A tricolour[5] is a flag with three bands or blocks of different colours, especially the French national flag with equal upright bands of blue, white, and red.
| 9a | Go off /and/ walk in river (7) |
The River Exe[7] rises on Exmoor in Somerset, 8.4 kilometres (5 mi) from the Bristol Channel coast, but flows more or less directly due south*, so that most of its length lies in Devon. It reaches the sea at a substantial ria, the Exe Estuary, on the south (English Channel) coast of Devon.
* and, thus, away from the Bristol Channel coast
| 10a | One flying // from Barcelona via Torremolinos (7) |
Scratching the Surface
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| Barcelona[5]
is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain, capital of Catalonia. Torremolinos[7] is a municipality in Andalusia, southern Spain, west of Málaga. A poor fishing village before the growth in tourism began in the late 1950s, Torremolinos was the first of the Costa del Sol resorts to be developed and is still the most popular in the region. |
| 11a | Rising of industrious workers (3-4) |
"workers " = ants
The terms "worker" and "social worker" are commonly used in cryptic crossword puzzles to clue ANT or BEE.
A worker[5] is a neuter or undeveloped female bee, wasp, ant, or other social insect, large numbers of which do the basic work of the colony.
In crossword puzzles, "worker" will most frequently be used to clue ANT and occasionally BEE but I have yet to see it used to clue WASP. Of course, "worker" is sometimes also used to clue HAND or MAN.
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The terms "worker" and "social worker" are commonly used in cryptic crossword puzzles to clue ANT or BEE.
A worker[5] is a neuter or undeveloped female bee, wasp, ant, or other social insect, large numbers of which do the basic work of the colony.
In crossword puzzles, "worker" will most frequently be used to clue ANT and occasionally BEE but I have yet to see it used to clue WASP. Of course, "worker" is sometimes also used to clue HAND or MAN.
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| 12a | The best instrument // filled pastry (5,4) |
A cream horn[5] is a pastry shaped like a horn and filled with cream and jam.
| 14a | Something put on // caught out of harmful habit (8) |
"caught " = C [cricket notation]
In cricket, one way for a batsman to be dismissed is to be caught out[5], that is for a player on the opposing team to catch a ball that has been hit by the batsman before it touches the ground.
On cricket scorecards, the abbreviation c[5] or c.[2,10] denotes caught (by).
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In cricket, one way for a batsman to be dismissed is to be caught out[5], that is for a player on the opposing team to catch a ball that has been hit by the batsman before it touches the ground.
On cricket scorecards, the abbreviation c[5] or c.[2,10] denotes caught (by).
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| 15a | Wives talked about // 'Like a Virgin' (6) |
Vestal[5] is a literary term meaning chaste or pure.
Scratching the Surface
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| Like a Virgin[7] is the second studio album by American singer and songwriter Madonna, released in 1984. |
| 17a | Revival of interest /in/ second delivery? (7) |
A double definition, the second being whimsical.
| 20a | Fasten // case? Not quite (6) |
| 23a | Get off one's high horse? (8) |
The horse is high because it is a 'mount'.
| 25a | [Mainly it separates Greece from Turkey (6,3) |
The main[5] is an archaic or literary term for the open ocean.
| 26a | Needlework /of/ note, first time out (7) |
Crotchet[5] is a British name for a quarter note, a note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve* or half a minim**, represented by a large solid dot with a plain stem.
As a link word, of[10] is a preposition denoting constituted by, containing, or characterized by ⇒ (i)
a family of idiots; (ii)
a rod of iron; (iii)
a man of some depth.
| 27a | Cook // travelling first by railway (4-3) |
| 28a | No agent ordered // as much as can be carried (7) |
| 29a | About 100 before end of day stick /to/ processing waste (9) |
As a link word, to[10] is a preposition used to indicate equality ⇒
16 ounces to the pound.
Down
| 2d | Back // the other side (7) |
In the first definition back is a verb* and reverse[5] is used in what I would deem to be a chiefly British sense meaning to move backwards ⇒
the lorry [truck] reversed into the back of a bus.
* it can't be a noun as it would then be used in the sense as the second definition
| 3d | Pretender ignores one // calling aloud (7) |
Clamant[2] means calling out aloud or earnestly.
| 4d | See work difficulty /as/ means of escape (8) |
"work " = OP [opus]
In music, an opus[5] (Latin 'work', plural opuses or opera) is a separate composition or set of compositions.
The abbreviation Op.[5] (also op.), denoting opus, is used before a number given to each work of a particular composer, usually indicating the order of publication. The plural form of Op. is Opp..
Opus[5] can also be used in other contexts to denote an artistic work, especially one on a large scale ⇒
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In music, an opus[5] (Latin 'work', plural opuses or opera) is a separate composition or set of compositions.
The abbreviation Op.[5] (also op.), denoting opus, is used before a number given to each work of a particular composer, usually indicating the order of publication. The plural form of Op. is Opp..
Opus[5] can also be used in other contexts to denote an artistic work, especially one on a large scale ⇒
he was writing an opus on Mexico.
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| 5d | Send back to prison // the chap overdrawn, apparently (6) |
"chap " = MAN
Chap[3,4,11] is an informal British[5] or chiefly British[3] term for a man or boy — although a term that is certainly not uncommon in Canada. It is a shortened form of chapman[3,4,11], an archaic term for a trader, especially an itinerant pedlar[a,b].
[a] Pedlar is the modern British spelling of peddler[14] which, in most senses, is considered by the Brits to be a US or old-fashioned British spelling. The exception is in the sense of a dealer in illegal drugs which the Brits spell as drug peddler.
[b] The current meaning of chap[2] dates from the 18th century. In the 16th century, chap meant 'a customer'. The dictionaries do not explain how a shortened form of 'chapman' (pedlar) came to mean 'customer'.
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Chap[3,4,11] is an informal British[5] or chiefly British[3] term for a man or boy — although a term that is certainly not uncommon in Canada. It is a shortened form of chapman[3,4,11], an archaic term for a trader, especially an itinerant pedlar[a,b].
[a] Pedlar is the modern British spelling of peddler[14] which, in most senses, is considered by the Brits to be a US or old-fashioned British spelling. The exception is in the sense of a dealer in illegal drugs which the Brits spell as drug peddler.
[b] The current meaning of chap[2] dates from the 18th century. In the 16th century, chap meant 'a customer'. The dictionaries do not explain how a shortened form of 'chapman' (pedlar) came to mean 'customer'.
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An informal term for overdrawn being in the red[10].
| 6d | Notice illumination /giving/ full public attention (9) |
| 7d | Sagacious, // well-mannered for the most part and in charge (7) |
| 8d | Top up // helpers in cast (9) |
As an anagram indicator, cast[5] is used in the sense of to shape (metal or other material) by pouring it into a mould while molten ⇒
when hammered or cast, bronze could be made into tools.
| 13d | Shine /as a result of/ help turning up in class (7) |
| 15d | Five show // support (9) |
| 16d | Point of attack // a rower had changed (9) |
| 18d | Picture // pretty as could be (8) |
| 19d | Shock -- // divas to underwhelm in part (7) |
| 21d | Growing attachment? (7) |
| 22d | Band // opposing Ronald in support of revolutionary (7) |
"revolutionary " = CHE [Guevara]
Che Guevara[7]
(1928–1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author,
guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the
Cuban
Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural
symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.
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Che Guevara[7]
(1928–1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author,
guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the
Cuban
Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural
symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.hide
| 24d | Talk /as/ sailor leaves one who croaks (6) |
The natterjack[5] (also natterjack toad) is a small European toad which has a bright yellow stripe down its back and runs in short bursts.
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)
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