Introduction
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Solution to Today's Puzzle
Falcon's Experience
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Across
| 1a | French painter’s // entrance (7) |
INGRES|S — INGRES (French Painter; Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres[7]) + S ('s)
| 5a | Made changes, including clean // desktop accessory (4,3) |
{ME(MO P)AD}* — anagram of (changes) MADE containing (including) MOP (clean; verb)
| 9a | Fling // black, sticky stuff (5) |
PITCH — double definition
| 10a | Nurse I introduced to Mussorgsky contemporary (9) |
MODE(RN|I)ST — {RN ([Registered] Nurse) + I (†)} contained in (introduced to) MODEST (Mussorgsky; Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky[7])
| 11a | After a loss, pass // to the side (7) |
LATER|A|L — LATER (after) + A (†) + L(oss)
| 12a | Hide // article penned by nonsense poet (7) |
LEA(THE)R — THE ([definite] article) contained in (penned by) LEAR (nonsense poet; Edward Lear[7])
| 13a | When travelling east, connected with wedding member’s // old group in the Pacific (3,8) |
NEW H*|E|BRIDE|S — anagram of (travelling) WHEN + E(ast) + (connected with) BRIDE (wedding member) + S ('s)
New Hebrides[5] is the former name (until 1980) of Vanuatu.
| 17a | Racket in wedding member’s // eating areas (6,5) |
DIN|IN|G ROOM|S — DIN (racket) + IN (†) + GROOM (wedding member) + S ('s)
| 22a | Hold back // a bit of blue dye (7) |
A|B|STAIN — A (†) + B (bit [initial letter] of Blue) + STAIN (dye)
| 23a | Alamo is changing // country (7) |
SOMALIA* — anagram of (changing) ALAMO IS
| 25a | Bring her a different // sign (9) |
HARBINGER* — anagram of (different) BRING HER A
| 26a | Ran through // stop signal after green light (5) |
GO|RED — RED (stop signal) following (after) GO (green light)
| 27a | Pawn a scrap of material worn by // model (7) |
P|A|RAG|ON — P (pawn; chess piece) + A (†) + RAG (scrap of material) + ON (worn by)
| 28a | Furious in the morning about a cold // road surface (7) |
M(A|C)AD|AM — {MAD (furious) + AM (in the morning)} containing (about) {A (†) + C(old)}
Down
| 1d | Running through // clumsily, gain limp (8) |
IMPALING* — anagram of (clumsily) GAIN LIMP
| 2d | Don’t shrink // wedding dress worn by Dorothy’s best friend (2,2,4) |
GO (TO TO)WN — GOWN (wedding dress) containing (worn by) TOTO (Dorothy's best friend; Dorothy's dog from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz[7])
| 3d | Something that might make you pass out // three bananas (5) |
ETHER* — anagram of (bananas) THREE
| 4d | Like // gentleman holding two notes (7) |
SIMILAR — SIR (gentleman) containing (holding) {MI + LA} (two [musical] notes)
| 5d | Was a busybody // finished with an award for eavesdroppers? (7) |
MEDDLED~ — sounds like (for eavesdroppers) MEDALED (finished with an award)
| 6d | Duck // answer accepted by union (9) |
MERG(ANS)ER — ANS (answer) contained in (accepted by) MERGER (union)
| 7d | Fix // piano lamp (6) |
P|LIGHT) — P (piano; musical direction) + LIGHT (lamp)
| 8d | One in decline // developed odd art (6) |
DOTARD* — anagram of (developed) ODD ART
| 14d | Charming // conclusion about something corny? (9) |
END(EAR)ING — ENDING (conclusion) containing (about) EAR (something corny)
| 15d | Arrested // speaker’s sort of green (8) |
COLLARED~ — sounds like (speaker's) COLLARD (sort of green; variety of kale grown in southern US)
| 16d | Wanda goes inside a small structure on the Nile (5,3) |
A|S(WAN DA)M — WANDA (†) contained in (goes inside) {A (†) + SM (small)}
| 18d | No trouble showing // figure with nine sides (7) |
NO|NAG|ON — NO (†) + NAG (trouble) + ON (showing; on television, etc.)}
Many thanks to Rohit and Henry for bringing to my attention the misspelling of the solution in my original explanation of this clue.
| 19d | Cure // boy, returning temperature with liquor (7) |
NOS<|T|RUM — reversal (returning) SON (boy) + T(emperature) + (with) RUM (liquor)
| 20d | Drive-in employee // hat imprinted with Greek letter (6) |
CA(R-HO)P — CAP (hat) containing (imprinted with) RHO (Greek letter)
| 21d | Part of IOU sure riled // loan shark (6) |
_U|SURE|R_ — hidden in (part of) IOU SURE Riled
| 24d | Fantastic // raincoat wrapped around soldier (5) |
MA(GI)C — MAC ([British] raincoat; mackintosh) containing (wrapped around) GI ([US] soldier)
Epilogue
What an affair! The bride and groom show up to the ceremony only to find a dog wearing the wedding dress and people being gored and impaled all over the place.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)
Plenty of misleading definitions this week to give you the green light on starting a hot and humid week.
ReplyDeleteIs there such a thing as a triple definition?
And June is the month for weddings, even in our pandemic environment.
Last one in was 23a (when I got to the bottom of the page). Favourite - 5a was cute; 12a, 2d, 4d, and a number of others were quite tricky.
Thanks for the post Falcon, glad to see all the technical glitches have been cured.
Best of luck to all!
Enjoy yoursel
Hello Falcon and fellow puzzlers,
ReplyDeleteDefinitely took the cake for me today. I solved the bottom half first and then went back to the top and painfully filled in the rest. Pretty happy that I got 10a without knowing who Mussorgsky was. Last one in was 13a. Lots of cute clues as Henry said.
Thank you for posting Falcon. Have a nice weekend all.
Cheers,
MG
Hi Falcon - thanks for posting. Slight correction: 18d is NONAGON.
ReplyDeleteHi Falcon -
ReplyDeleteRohit beat me to it as I was occupied elsewhere, but here is the definition of nonagon.
In geometry, a nonagon or enneagon is a nine-sided polygon or 9-gon. The name nonagon is a prefix hybrid formation, from Latin (nonus, "ninth" + gonon), used equivalently, attested already in the 16th century in French nonogone and in English from the 17th century.
The answer would then parse as:
NO|NAG|ON — NO (†) + NAG (to trouble) + ON (showing; on television, etc.)}
Thanks go to both of you for bringing this to my attention.
ReplyDeletePut the mistake down to my having spent too much time in the sun and then attempting to compose the review while burning the midnight oil with my eyes propped open with toothpicks.