Puzzle at a Glance
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Puzzle number in The Daily Telegraph
DT 29689 | |
Publication date in The Daily Telegraph
Monday, May 31, 2021 | |
Setter
Campbell (Allan Scott) | |
Link to full review
Big Dave's Crossword Blog [DT 29689]
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Big Dave's Crossword Blog review written by
pommers | |
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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This puzzle appears on the Monday Diversions page in the Saturday, August 14, 2021 edition of the National Post. | |
Introduction
We have hit that point in the cycle where the "Monday" puzzle in The Daily Telegraph is also the Monday puzzle in the National Post.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 | Go round a church, /finding/ source of strength? (7) |
| 5a | One who wrote a lot of nonsense about the // tanned skin (7) |
Edward Lear[5] (1812–1888) was an English humorist and illustrator. He wrote A Book of Nonsense (1845) and Laughable Lyrics (1877). He also published illustrations of birds and of his travels around the Mediterranean. His best-known piece is likely "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"[7].
| 9a | Lost for words // as we crashed wagon (3-6) |
Wagon[5] is used in a British sense denoting a railway freight vehicle.
Truck[5] is used in a British sense meaning a railway vehicle for carrying freight, especially a small open one.
What did he say?
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In his review on Big Dave's Crossword Blog, pommers refers to a truck asLorry[5] is the common name in the UK for the vehicle known in North America as a truck[5]; nevertheless, the word truck is also used in the UK*.another word for a wagon or lorry. Thus (according to my understanding) he is saying that, in the UK, a truck can be either a wagon (a railway freight car) or a lorry (a highway freight vehicle). |
| 10a | New // guy on manoeuvres (5) |
| 11a | Bury // artist the old man ignored (5) |
| 12a | Drifter // managed -- is back under canvas? (9) |
| 13a | Girl, // Sheila, wrong about wager (9) |
Elisabeth is a variant of Elizabeth[7], a feminine given name and one of many variants derived from a form of the Hebrew name Elisheva (אֱלִישֶׁבַע), meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance".
| 16a | What's tea passed round in? (5) |
The entire clue is both wordplay and definition. The wordplay is CHA (tea) containing (passed round) IN (from the clue).
Cha (also chai) is a variant spelling of char[5], an informal British name for tea [in the sense of a drink].
| 17a | Mostly ineffective, church // magazine in the past (5) |
Punch, or The London Charivari[7] (commonly known as Punch) was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration. After the 1940s, when its circulation peaked, it went into a long decline, closing in 1992. It was revived in 1996, but closed again in 2002.
| 18a | Recovering /as a result of/ continuously swallowing them (2,3,4) |
| 20a | Becoming popular again, // vital following short break (9) |
| 23a | Jack /and/ king Welshman rejected (5) |
Evan[7] is a Welsh masculine given name, equivalent to the English name John.
| 25a | Anxious, // on edge over Vaslav Nijinsky's last letters (5) |
Nervy[5] is used in a British sense meaning easily agitated or alarmed; in other words, nervous ⇒
he was nervy and on edge.
Scratching the Surface
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| Vaslav (or Vatslav) Nijinsky[7] (1889/1890–1950) was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. Born in Kiev to Polish parents, Nijinsky grew up in Imperial Russia but considered himself to be Polish. |
| 26a | Spotted after a bishop // avoided voting (9) |
| 27a | Parking, about to deliver // lead (7) |
| 28a | US writer, // bod losing face employing me! (7) |
Bod[5] is an informal British term for a person ⇒
some clever bod wrote a song about them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson[5] (1803–1882) was an American philosopher and poet. He evolved the concept of Transcendentalism, which found expression in his essay Nature (1836).
Down
| 1d | Disease spreading /in/ popular resort area? (7) |
| 2d | Awkward /finding/ swan caught up in it (5) |
| 3d | Outcome /of/ a fine spell at hotel (9) |
| 4d | Search round area, // place frequently visited (5) |
| 5d | Instantly // enjoy, when spicy (4,1,4) |
| 6d | Donkey crossing near deep // chasm (5) |
| 7d | Drink in bistro, perhaps, // in centre of Leeds after bingo success (5,4) |
House[5] and housey-housey[5] (also housie-housie) are old-fashioned British terms for bingo. Thus "bingo success" equates to "HOUSE WIN".
Scratching the Surface
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| 8d | Target a rearranged // event on water (7) |
| 14d | Poetic island/'s/ tavern is empty (9) |
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"[7] is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1888. The poem exemplifies the style of the Celtic Revival: it is an attempt to create a form of poetry that was Irish in origin rather than one that adhered to the standards set by English poets and critics. The poem received critical acclaim in the United Kingdom and France and is featured in Irish passports.
Delving Deeper
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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| 15d | Clear // former partner with single charge (9) |
| 16d | Staunch pal/'s/ defeat on board (9) |
The definition works as either a noun or a verb. As a noun, checkmate[5] denotes a position in which a player's king is directly attacked by an opponent's piece or pawn and has no possible move to escape the check. The attacking player thus wins the game. As a verb, checkmate[5] means to put one's opponent into checkmate.
| 17d | Mostly trim, then cut, // root vegetable (7) |
| 19d | Study involving leader of sect in Red // China (7) |
Dresden[5] (also Dresden china) is porcelain ware with elaborate decoration and delicate colourings, made originally at Dresden* and (since 1710) at nearby Meissen.
* Dresden[5] is a city in eastern Germany, the capital of Saxony, on the River Elbe. Famous for its baroque architecture, it was almost totally destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945.
| 21d | Verse /of/ Frost heard? (5) |
Scratching the Surface
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| Robert Frost[5] (1874–1963) was an American poet, noted for his ironic tone and simple language. Much of his poetry reflects his affinity with New England, including the collections North of Boston (1914) and New Hampshire (1923). He won the Pulitzer Prize on three occasions (1924; 1931; 1937). |
| 22d | Having head of security inside gallery /makes/ sense (5) |
"gallery " = TATE
The Tate Gallery[5] (commonly known simply as the Tate) is a national museum of art in London, England founded in 1897 by the sugar manufacturer Sir Henry Tate (1819–1899) to house his collection of modern British paintings, as a nucleus for a permanent national collection of modern art. It was renamed Tate Britain in 2000, when the new Tate Modern gallery opened. [I would surmise that by that time the original collection could no longer be considered "modern".]
In addition to Tate Britain and Tate Modern, the Tate group[7] of galleries also includes Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives.
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The Tate Gallery[5] (commonly known simply as the Tate) is a national museum of art in London, England founded in 1897 by the sugar manufacturer Sir Henry Tate (1819–1899) to house his collection of modern British paintings, as a nucleus for a permanent national collection of modern art. It was renamed Tate Britain in 2000, when the new Tate Modern gallery opened. [I would surmise that by that time the original collection could no longer be considered "modern".]
In addition to Tate Britain and Tate Modern, the Tate group[7] of galleries also includes Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives.
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| 24d | Woman, // part of champagne set (5) |
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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