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Not the dip!
No.42 Spring 2021
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Across 6 Roast explorer’s box opener (7) 7 Henry V’s engagement lacking a spirit for Michèle A’? (5) 9 51 has a bearing on first half of 2 (4) 10 Student staple clues ‘e nabs? (5,5) 11 Archaic thanks me, being accommodated by odd geriatric – why, you say? (8) 13 Drinks from he-men Oscar swapped for a… (6) 15 …learner’s dingy (0.1) (4) 17 Final letter from Margaret filed in office archives initially (5) 18 Can-do type of seaman? (4) 19 Judge her authentic (6) 20 Removed lard from eft (dated, perhaps) (8) 23 A small stove is like some missiles and radios… (5-5) 26 …not often undercooked (4) 27 Mark (“approximately”) appears in ‘Til Death Us Do Part (5) 28 Spring heralds Bill’s companion taking in leaderless nature spirit, then spiritual leader (7) |
Down 1 Weird organisation manoeuvre (10) 2 16 backing Confederate soldier for middleman (6) 3 Pursue headless yak (4) 4 Aim to rise after a dishonourable chap gets point of scholarship (8) 5 One who 24d a domain, such as Wellington (4) 6 Say, Richard the First? (5) 8 Bouncer that might be found on a 7 renouncing rising sin for a game of pool (3-4) 12 Send up the 21 in amateur work … give in? (5) 14 He 3s a lot about madman on 5 (10) 16 Person accompanying hooker, the crook – a 12, we hear? (7) 17 Models appearing in The Sun? Vice versa (8) 21 25 judge? (6) 22 Old form of 5s, also a 7 located in London (5) 24 Russia and the 21 may be used to form a straight 9 (4) 25 Swell with 99 in second half of 9 (4) |
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No.41 Winter 2021
The 4 down made me do it!
NOTE TO SOLVER: the source of all quotations is The 4 down |
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8 Slight gin sling with mineral (6) 9 Female spacewalk? (3) 11 Enter backwards for a “natural measure of respectability” (6) 12 Grace left out infection (4) 13 I go live over to Gordon, author of The Riddle of Richard Pearse (7) 14 Just above organisation bridging river (4) 15 Allocate task to “this noble vertebrate” at half 8 (6) 17 A bed of fire? (4) 18 “Proponent of a new misrule” found amongst the harebells (5) 20 Rodent’s mechanical mind taking in “the rheumatism of a rich patient” (6) 21 Excited to drill the 18s (8) 24 Annoyed cup got chip? (3) 25 Queen perhaps holds Yogi to be weird (8) 26 A tense negotiation for a “body charged with high duties and misdemeanours” (6) 28 Took the scarf (5) 30 Audibly restrained Norse god? (4) 31 Go back inside mobile home to get curdled milk (6) 33 Picture struggle to the west (4) 34 Note unruly mob pursuing Margaret, a writer (7) 36 Thanks to Ned Kelly’s beginnings, “so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a ____ of rosewater” (4) 37 Urchin to see about a horse (3,3) 37/26 Player of King Beryl to run NY? (Joke!) (3,7) 39 Instrument given to alien might be shrinking (6) |
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1 All you’ve got is type displaying “low taste, more interested in himself than me” (7) 2 Smith holds fine rig “used in pointing out two malefactors” (10) 3 Lady’s love for a British Grenadier, perhaps? (4) 4 I discordantly 33, almost 25, for the wit and wisdom of a 10, perhaps (6,10) 5 “Organ to be bilious with” being? (5) 6 A small volume – employ “to affirm another’s guilt [often] as a justification for having wronged him” (6) 7 Cry of pain amidst glowing coal journalist put in leafy shelter (9) 10 I throw help back – liqueur (without a ‘U’) set before former Catholic church official (9,7) 16 Nervous announcing new mineral? (Not mine) (6) 19 Apply heat to yard – “only a 3 will venture to drink it” (6) 22 Cat getting injection: I tag it over “a machine which you go into a pig and come out a sausage” (10) 23 Rating marker for “one who yields to the temptation of denying himself pleasure” (9) 27 See 37 Across 29 Wife wearing coat is “one skilled in circumvention” (6) 32 Era of the commercial supplies “boned wisdom for weak teeth” (5) 35 English navy, without a sort of lashing, gives “emulation adapted to the meanest capacity” (4) |
No.40 Autumn 2021
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9 Officer playing on cello (7) 10 See 19. 11 Close church with my following hesitation… (6) 12 See 4 down. 14 …possibility of French milk-catcher’s work being overturned (9) 15 See 23 down. 17 One ear-splitting commotion – they seep in everywhere (11,4) 19/10 Epiphany follows reception of 12 partridges, 22 doves, 30 hens etc (3,6,4,2,9) 24 Conducted serenade almost with 16ness (7) 26 Heading west, American purchaser and upholder of trousers (9) 27 Ma is known to provide an example (9) 29 Bridge players house where I shot a man in song in the past (3,3) 31 Scottish vocalist tells girl what he does for mica (9) 32 Go near the naked intensifier? What __ ____ could it be? (2,5) |
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1 Space 101 is rocketing from the poles (7) 2 Old German woman holds out, taking drug for a lark in France (8) 3/30 No holding end of prayer up over new motto, with a chap left to cut the grass (3,3,4,2,3) 4/12 Apple of yesteryear and duck for farmer (3,9) 5 Detailed record (with weight) drawn up for shopkeeper (6) 6 See large exchange of capital (4) 7 Laurie Lee, Pam Melroy and I hold back Avenger (4,4) 8 What is purpose of Freud? So confused (4,3) 10 Copper brought up nose (essential in faces) – 2, 3 30, 4 12 and 19 10 across, for example (10,5) 13 Raging fire destroyed church (6) 16 Unfeeling to deny Earth’s problem (12) 18 Book wot I did about havin’ no duds (6) 20 What a 26 does, cruelly lain on your fingertip (8) 21 Gold coin? Yes, that’s completely normal (8) 22 “Star…” 10 and Kirk’s new novelty single (and singular 10 down) (7) 23/15 “Green…” Singular 10 down, wax love around unedited footage (4,3,6,1!) 25 Cuban dances graduate out of desserts (6) 28 Jokers’ bunks (4) 30 See 3. |
No.39 Summer 2020
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Across 1 Johnny’s back, covered in gold. Grape? (7) 5 Outraged crowd shoot cap off time traveller (6,3) 8/10/8 “Wit will woo wicked without weave” – a work from 4 by 1 across and 33 (6,3-6) 11 Dark circles are heartily backing fanatic (7) 12 Drug powder returned? Good show (5) 13 Backing us against 2-40? Informally, I’d be stiffish (8) 14 “Absolute zero,” the French pigeon’s heard to state (8) 16 Female help within – 4 has three little ones (5) 18 At bridges that noble French made into a conduit (8) 22 Mulled wine spotted during Hurricane Gustav (5) 23 Yes, a constant giraffe (5) 25/3 President ain’t a problem I record over (5,5) 26 Church with rector gone west left by 4’s wand’ring son (8) 28 Quiet Hulk leaving W.C. is green and like an onion, he claims (5) 31 One blotter could be 1 across’s contribution to 4 (8) 33 Verbally smear camper Harry, a 5 across appeared in 5 across (8) 36 Back once more, without direction? She never became the time-traveller’s wife (5) 37 Evaporate under tree (7) 38 Everyone may occasionally fall ill (3) 39 My rents (or rent) for acoustic guitar, analogue watch, etc (9) 40 See 2 Down |
Down 1 Garden gets me and a hen worried (10) 2/40 Alistair Gordon, 5 across’s friend, left the running game with Rod (10-7) 3 See 25 Across 4 Had OK time travelling in time, he shall achieve his 30 38 37 (3,6) 5 “Finish off an enemy of 5 across, Agent Cooper!” (4) 6 Looked to see if the King’s in trouble (7) 7 Agent Cooper, a contributor to musical theatre? (5) 8 See 10 Across 9 Otago University returning Disney’s “Robin Hood”, for example (6) 15 Sanskrit treatise accepts Morocco’s home to Holmes’ giant rat (7) 17 Japanese dish – square, posh, second hand one (5) 19 Mentions municipalities one of me has left (5) 20 Nigel admits Indian to a 7 (2,8) 21 Mean Biblical ruler replaced Paradise, according to Mitchell (7,3) 24 Graves product I-I clothing – clothed – clothing u-us? (1, 8) 27 Say, ’tis loud inside – that’s meet (7) 29 A river found in a bed?… (6) 30 …The Thing may disagree! (6) 32 Overweight love for Muse (5) 34 Fake news about, for example, King (5) 35 Bird’s one twice (4) |
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No.38 October 2020
| Across 1 Improvised plug joint, they say (2,3) 4 Bottled by Elmo and Big Bird (3) 6/29D Essential worker – we’ve been told on good authority – who rewards early losers (5,5) 9 Unauthorised export specialist overeats with Roman household god (7) 10/27D Director is at various times 20, 1 down and 15 across (7,5) 11/14 Blunt (say) composer – the 1 down one’s the third of the “Materials” (8) 13 Mention Sun is to the east (5) 14 See 11 15/18 36! Stern thrashing is best for the 28? (8) 17 15 fruit used as a measure in the US (4) 19 Rally football team dropping behind (4) 21 See 3 Down 22 Didn’t eat one hand? (4) 24 I made an offer from the same source as before (4) 26 Hardwood’s e-emaciated (5) 27 Composer of 15 across 27 down’s older work (5) 29 Get enraged over a cappuccino? (5) 31 Price of fame left 36 needing no introduction (3) 33 Target’s about 6 runs – pass it on! (2,5) 34 See? Objects without hesitation to lags (7) 35 Light from church on hill (5) 36 The Halfhorse of M(aurice)? (3) 37 Affirmations of selenium replacing titanium in snowmen (5) |
Down 1 See 23 2 See 20 3/21 15 down candidate rolling around with bachelors by haystack (5,9) 4 Spoils the 20 one (the next one out from 28) (4) 5 Affected Queen departing vessel (4) 6 Pluck 13 insect without weight (5) 7 No energy in proposal for current slip road (3-4) 8 Gains unauthorised access, sheds leaderless (5) 12 Religious leader embracing resistance leaders by person with faulty vision (9) 15 Without right, ogle skin (5) 16 Loud “no means yes!” (5) 17 Limb 13-d – put on head? (3) 18 See 15 Across 19 Participate in a sport that’s going downhill (3) 20/2 Type of tape fish could be a distraction (3,7) 23/1 Faulty 10 27 down? That’s novel (7,5) 25 (Possibly supersonic?) people of a certain age 3 21’s okay with (7) 27 See 10 Across 28 Courage? Henry dropped to the ground (5) 29 See 6 Across 30 Garments worn on the legs – shoes, perhaps? (5) 31 Gandalf dropping and rising? The 22 may sing about the 20 one (4) 32 If not Chris or Barbara, who? (4) |
No.37 September 2020
| The answers that are split in two (e.g. 9/20) all had firsts in NZ law, on occasions dating from 1897 (twice), 1936, 1950, 1993 and 2016. These clues have their definition parts omitted. | |
| Across 1 See 23 Down 4 Vehicle is sturdy with rot removed (3) 6 Park in Porirua for Norman McLeod, for example (5) 9/20 All one with alphabet soup (7,5) 10/29 A pain at a place outside Islamic Republic (7,5) 11/13 Vision taking in lazy twirl going about by way of vehicle (6,10) 12 See 27 14 Metal bar entered the other way around (5) 16 Room where one might read about gold and methane? (9) 18 Perhaps pets bird before march (5,4) 20 See 9 21 Without endless tweaks, ours lasts longer (8) 22 See 21 Down 25 Flattening soldier who’s backed around Japanese fighter (7) 26 Somewhat happy in her accidents (7) 27/12 Janet’s upset with Blenheim (5,8) 28 Explosive causes ranger’s companion to drop glasses (3) 29 See 10 |
Down 1 Digger gets hurt abusing (9) 2 Sally Lunn concealing radical group (5) 3 Answer given to the earliest disbeliever (7) 4 Quantity of hay, say, put on stumps? (4) 5 Enterprises, for example, step into savings banks and fruits (10) 6 Venture during a month on the Ivory Coast (7) 7 With some minority leaders, climate change is most dank (9) 8 Transport by coach? (5) 13 See 11 Across 15 Welcoming host, mother, traps insect (5,4) 17 I’m with 1 across, taking routes to archipelago (9) 19 Sound profit may have “Zee”-like shape (7) 20 Persons who keep moving? (5,2) 21/22 None survive Whakatu (5,6) 23/1A Ocean so in the style of Spooner’s (5,5) 24 Skip love with German (4)
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No.36 August 2020
Set by Mâyâ
| Across 8 7 with unfamiliar mass? (6) 9 Came to a peak with calcium, oddly, removed (8) 10 Mary Herald, bursting with 7! (4,6) 11 I try for a contract in the same place (4) 12 Vehicle reversing schedule for 7 with a useful projection (8) 14 Vehicle reversing – is Frenchman showing bias? (6) 15/19 Tread on a layer? Richard, case dismissed, dipped in mercury? 7! (7,7) 17/23 Singe the French sketchin’ a jumped-up 7 (7,6) 20 Oxymoronic test? (3,3) 22 Vehicle maker from ‘ere, they hear (8) 24 Berry supplying electricity to SkyNet? (4) 25 Find shelter for Maori tax judge (‘ardly tiny) (4,6) 27 A South American for each, by way of being in mid-June (8) 28 Chant, by the sound of it (6) |
Down 1 Always raised tariff with the greatest respect (8) 2 Turn head in Utter Dally (4) 3 Actually, child got cold for 8 (2,4) 4 Cream puffs in City of London hideouts (7) 5 Her chair may show she’s an Archpriest (8) 6 Raised a sheep – that is, a dog – that is, a 7 (5,5) 7 “I got into a taxon” – Oscar Wilde’s declaration, supposedly (6) 13 A 7 reported policeman’s underwear? (10) 16 Stumped a German, being on either side of a 7 (8) 18 Confining calcium in motor – endless midnight results? (8) 19 See 15 Across 21 Ms Carson’s vehicle reversed over a Norse goddess (6) 23 See 17 Across 26 Cruel fate, but not hard cheese (4) |
No.35 July 2020
| Across 1 Food source is so long (8) 5 Key in “Phil” for him (5) 9 Send stopwatch back (5) 10 Oprah moved after present found amidst 2,000 mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, voles, etc (9) 11 Elvis all shook up by sound of electroplating (9) 12 Left with playful conifer (5) 13 Mock combat after start of fire (4) 14 Place where trials are held for mountaintop tennis? (4,5) 18 He’s killed motor race without the French hen (9) 19 Knocking back one little drink could lead to having a campanile pendente (4) 21 Contractual requirements during the school year (5) 22 His war was on TV, red h-hearted astrophysicist (9) 23 This year? Mad, ill, or a bit of danger makes it roll up (9) 24 Spy boss had approximately one religious leader (5) 25/20 Chief 14 Judge reportedly litigates against an Apostle (5,6) 26 Attacks like TV tables? (8) |
Down 1 I stay in shape for violent altercation (9) 2 Founders of city almost argue – almost cross with us, and rare birds (7,3,5) 3 Shrivel up? Where, did you say? (6) 4 Politician I entered lavishly or awkwardly (9) 5 Best wishes from gunge left in bend (8) 6 Youth points prop obtained from thrift store, or vice versa (11,4) 7 Gordon’s inspiration? (5) 8 A medal for announcing dinner? (4) 15 Shakespearean theatre left out – PM detailed to enter historical store room (9) 16 One of Stoppard’s players-within-a-play shot in trainwreck (9) 17 Approached leader of Company to drop the Big Noise (6,2) 20 See 25 Across 21 Gins from ancient city knocked back without a… (5) 22 …material being touched (4) |
No.34 June 2020
| Across 1 Article by Vermont 9 described one possible winner from the 4 (3,11) 11 Medical examiner heard a 4? (7) 12 Viv gets gold in remade USSR drama about the aftermath of a 4 (9) 13 The attraction of justice? (8) 14 Ere Covid struck, she’s left (8) 16 Traditions first heard of in this publication (4) 17 Enemy of 31 22 ends Kildare boy from the East (5) 19 Responsibility to sow yonks in the US? (6) 22 An agency with the Home Office (3) 24 Chaney’s manor can strike from a distance (4-5) 25 Before then, illuminated from behind? (3) 27 Clean windows, say, then come down, say (6) 28 Follower of 34, say, pansexual? That’s my excuse (5) 29 Snappy footwear? (4) 33 Another right gobfull into the hopper (8) 34 Prophet method-acted badly (Anglicised spelling) (8) 37 Lye, lye and tin, laxly, laxly (9) 38 Sweet dress for Native American (7) 39 Position genuine seekers of light around the north for periods of 27.322 days (8,6) |
Down 2 Hound hounder? (7) 3 Programmed online oscillation (2,4) 4 6 “R” Us? Not if 31s 15 and 20 can prevent it (5) 5 Showing healthy optimism? (4) 6 Minor dictator losing headless parrot from Scandinavia (6) 7 Typified lack of cure for gourmet cat (is of French descent) (10) 8 Haul hauled up by its container – where you’ll find bits, files, and perhaps strippers (4,5) 9 Off to be hugged by son, nipper who laughs at rules (8) 10 Backwards and birdlike? (6) 15 Meat left around car for a follower of 31 A. (7) 18 Mock topless kinswoman (4) 20 Fool Lib-Dem constituents for a follower of 31 A. (10) 21 Handle a knock-back? (4) 23 Trumps 18’s folk 27 downs (9) 26 Hair on your floor? Maybe, during this (8) 27 Squeak’s predecessor, Michael, holding a follower (6) 30 Gag fastened around Master for a game (again) (7) 31 Make court entrance clasping fudge (6) 32 Animal’s corona infection? (6) 35 Razor wielder with zero volume before morning (5) 36 Vegans home in on family ranch? (4) |
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