Puzzle at a Glance
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Puzzle number in The Daily Telegraph
DT 29671 | |
Publication date in The Daily Telegraph
Monday, May 10, 2021 | |
Setter
Campbell (Allan Scott) | |
Link to full review
Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 29671]
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Big Dave's Crossword Blog review written by
Falcon | |
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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Introduction
This puzzle proved just about as challenging the second time around.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 | Referring to landlord /in/ Lincoln, say (10) |
A landlord[5] is a man who keeps lodgings, a boarding house, or a pub.
Publican[5] is a British term for a person who owns or manages a pub.
Abraham Lincoln[5] (1809–1865) was an American Republican statesman, 16th president of the US 1861–5. (show more )
His election as president on an anti-slavery platform helped precipitate the American Civil War; he was assassinated shortly after the war ended. Lincoln was noted for his succinct, eloquent speeches, including the Gettysburg Address of 1863.
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His election as president on an anti-slavery platform helped precipitate the American Civil War; he was assassinated shortly after the war ended. Lincoln was noted for his succinct, eloquent speeches, including the Gettysburg Address of 1863.
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| 6a | Singer // opening in Berlin -- when? First of September (4) |
| 9a | Official car /leaving/ property (4,6) |
In the UK, estate[5] is short for estate car[5], the British name for a station wagon[5].
From a British perspective, real estate[5] is a North American term for property consisting of land or buildings.
| 10a | Fine // source of water (4) |
| 12a | Record // temperature and take off (4) |
| 13a | Note nurse translated // in confidence (5,4) |
The phrase entre nous[10] means between ourselves or in confidence.
Origin: French 'between ourselves'
| 15a | Briefly look after certain // valuables (8) |
| 16a | Take part in // a series of motorbike time trials, then stop (6) |
"series of motorbike time trials " = TT [Tourist Trophy (motorcycle time trials)]
The Tourist Trophy[5] (abbreviation TT[5]) is a motorcycle-racing competition held annually on roads in the Isle of Man since 1907.
For many years, the Isle of Man TT[7] was the most prestigious motorcycle race in the world. The race is run in a time-trial format on public roads closed for racing. Since, in a time trial, each competitor races alone against the clock, the event could be described as a "series of races".
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The Tourist Trophy[5] (abbreviation TT[5]) is a motorcycle-racing competition held annually on roads in the Isle of Man since 1907.
For many years, the Isle of Man TT[7] was the most prestigious motorcycle race in the world. The race is run in a time-trial format on public roads closed for racing. Since, in a time trial, each competitor races alone against the clock, the event could be described as a "series of races".
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| 18a | Clamour /as/ game cut short (6) |
Rackets[7] (UK and Canada) or racquets (US) is an indoor racket (or racquet) sport played in the United Kingdom as well as — sparingly it seems — in the United States and Canada*. The sport is infrequently called "hard rackets," possibly to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (formerly called "squash rackets").
* Apart from 28 courts in the UK, courts number 7 in the US and 1 in Canada (in Montreal).
Delving Deeper
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first rackets court in Montreal was built in 1825. The Montreal Rackets
Club (founded in 1889) is reputedly the oldest still in existence.[7] Rackets is not to be confused with either the North American game of racquetball or the British game of racketball*.[7] * Despite having been originally based on racquetball, racketball is considered to be a variant of squash. In 2016, the World Squash Federation announced an international 're-branding' of racketball as Squash 57 (the 57 referring to the diameter of the ball) in order to emphasise both its membership in the 'squash rackets' family, and its distinctiveness from U.S. racquetball. |
| 20a | Appropriate by a rostrum // to acknowledge applause (4,1,3) |
A rostrum[10] is the the prow or beak* of an ancient Roman ship.
* A beak[10] (also called ram[10]) is a pointed projection in the stem [the very forward end of a vessel] of an ancient warship for puncturing the hull of enemy ships.
Delving Deeper
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| The term rostrum[10] came to mean a speaker's platform because the orator's platform in the Roman forum was adorned with the prows of captured ships. |
| 23a | Meeting the required standard, // until put out (2,2,5) |
| 24a | Smooth // golf club (4) |
| 26a | Unfriendly // Conservative, advanced in years (4) |
"Conservative " = C [member of British political party]
The abbreviation for Conservative may be either C.[10] or Con.[10].
The Conservative Party[5] is a major right of centre British political party promoting free enterprise and private ownership that emerged from the old Tory Party* under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830s and 1840s.
* Historically, a Tory[10] was a member of the English political party that opposed the exclusion of James, Duke of York from the royal succession (1679–80). Tory remained the label for subsequent major conservative interests until they gave birth to the Conservative Party in the 1830s.
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The abbreviation for Conservative may be either C.[10] or Con.[10].
The Conservative Party[5] is a major right of centre British political party promoting free enterprise and private ownership that emerged from the old Tory Party* under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830s and 1840s.
* Historically, a Tory[10] was a member of the English political party that opposed the exclusion of James, Duke of York from the royal succession (1679–80). Tory remained the label for subsequent major conservative interests until they gave birth to the Conservative Party in the 1830s.
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| 27a | Prudence // to furnish new church (10) |
Providence[10] is used in the sense of the foresight or care exercised by a person in the management of his or her affairs or resources.
| 28a | Father beginning to eat // fish (4) |
Pope[10] is another name for the ruffe[10], a European freshwater teleost fish of the perch family having a single spiny dorsal fin.
* Teleost[10] denotes any bony fish of the subclass Teleostei, having rayed fins and a swim bladder; the group contains most of the bony fishes, including the herrings, carps, eels, cod, perches, etc.
| 29a | Film // guys on strike in billowing tent (10) |
Entrapment[7] is a 1999 caper film starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Down
| 1d | Seldom seen // in disaster areas (4) |
| 2d | A superintendent finally in position // to calm down (7) |
| 3d | A rye 'Webster's' set out /as/ a source of vitamin B (7,5) |
Brewer's yeast[5] is a yeast which is used in the brewing of top-fermenting beer and is also eaten as a source of vitamin B.
| 4d | At work, that man's enthralled by right-winger // on paper (2,6) |
| 5d | Shrewd // moving statue (6) |
| 7d | Sign erected in an English // plant (7) |
The anemone[5] is a plant of the buttercup family which typically has brightly coloured flowers and deeply divided leaves.
| 8d | Dash along // landing (10) |
As a preposition, down[2] means:
- along, at a further position on, by or through ⇒
down the road
- along in the direction of the current of a river
| 11d | Understand leg-pull about article /may make one/ feel anxious (3,3,4,2) |
Wind-up[5] is an informal British term for an attempt to tease or irritate (someone) ⇒
But with Grady, it's hard to know what's true and what's a wind-up.
The phrase have the wind up[5,10] (or get the wind up[10]) is an informal British expression meaning to be (or become) alarmed or frightened.
| 14d | Huntsman's parting shot? (7,3) |
A stirrup cup[2] is an alcoholic drink that is given to someone, originally a rider, who is about to leave, especially someone who is going on a hunt.
| 17d | Comic play // that may bring tears to your eyes? (3,5) |
Hay Fever[7] is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924 and first produced in 1925.
Delving Deeper
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| A cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, the play is set in
an English country house in the 1920s, and deals with the four eccentric
members of the Bliss family and their outlandish behaviour when they
each invite a guest to spend the weekend. The self-centred behaviour of
the hosts finally drives their guests to flee while the Blisses are so
engaged in a family row that they do not notice their guests' furtive
departure. |
| 19d | Way in which ginger's used? (7) |
The clue is a cryptic definition of an entry way ("way in") which is used by a ginger-coloured feline.
While my dictionary search turned up no reference to ginger being used as a noun to mean a ginger-coloured cat (as found in the clue), I can well imagine the word being used that way ⇒
I have two cats—a ginger and a tortoiseshell.
Ginger[5] is an adjective used to describe a cat with ginger* fur ⇒
a ginger tom.
| 21d | Have in cheese /and/ chocolate cake (7) |
Brie[5] is a kind of soft, mild, creamy cheese with a firm white skin.
| 22d | With pleasure, organise // charitable event (3,3) |
Fun run[5,14] is an informal British and Australian term for an uncompetitive run, especially for sponsored runners in support of a charity.
| 25d | High temperature, /and/ hard to swallow? (4) |
Key to Reference Sources:
[1] - The Chambers Dictionary, 11th Edition
[2] - Search Chambers - (Chambers 21st Century Dictionary)
[3] - TheFreeDictionary.com (American Heritage Dictionary)
[4] - TheFreeDictionarycom (Collins English Dictionary)
[5] - Lexico (formerly Oxford Dictionaries Online) (Oxford Dictionary of English)
[6] - Lexico (formerly Oxford Dictionaries Online) (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)
[15] - CollinsDictionary.com (Penguin Random House LLC/HarperCollins Publishers Ltd )
Signing off for today — Falcon
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