With BREECHES – had it as just the riding clothing of any horseman these days and a cavalier as a particular horseman without it needing to be one of Charles 1’s lot – excellent surface reading with it as one of his though !Īussie ‘crook’ for ill or AILING was pretty much a gimme, as you’d expect. Took 71 minutes across four different sittings to get it out and happy to complete it and unravel all of the word play. I was puzzled about this at first because the clue could work exactly the opposite way round to indicate SEVER!Ī week later doing this puzzle and there was a lot going on in it. I thought ‘bulge’ for BAG was a bit loose too but it’s literally one of the definitions in Collins! Having a nose/feeling for something I suppose but they’re not quite equivalent in my book. I’m not sure how ‘feeling’ is supposed to equate to NOSE. Unindicated definition by example.īulge after feeling one needed to eat like a horse I’m not very keen on ‘permed’ as an anagram indicator. I didn’t know this term for a telephone operator but it became obvious once I had enough checkers.ĭEADBOLTS – (A DEBS TOLD)*. One connected people in exchange for a living POTATO SALAD – POT(A, TOSA), LAD where POT is a reversal of TOP. I had a terrible biology teacher at school who made the subject miserable.Ī dog entering overturned head boy’s side dish TEST BAN – BEST TAN with the first letters swapped. Nuclear accord chief whip initially switched What might irritate some smaller gentlemenĪLLERGEN – contained in ‘sm aller gentlemen’. NEAT is a word for cattle I’ve only encountered in crosswords, but not for a long time. I think I thought it meant something close to the opposite.Ĭlothing of a Cavalier king hiding in trees I realised from this clue that I didn’t know what ‘venial’ meant. Golf, easy to excuse, but not very sociable SEDATE – SEATED with the D (daughter) moved over. Relaxed on a chair after daughter moved over Shaky performers leaving corporations exposedĪussie crook on prairies makes easy progress Hearts captured by author convulse in pain ‘Top’ is a verb disguised as an adjective. Neat!īETTER – a Yankee is a type of bet on a horse race.
PUPA – or, if you look at it the other way, A PUP.
Nasty girl not right about a single complaintĪ creature that’s immature in more ways than one This one managed to be tough without any resort to obscurity, which is generally a mark of quality in my book.ĭefinitions are underlined, anagrams indicated like (TIHS)*, anagram indicators are in italics. There were a few things in here I thought a little loose, but in most cases further inspection revealed that I was just missing something. A really tricky one from Robert this week.
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