STILETTO HEELS: Insert an anagram (moulded) of HOT and STEEL into some steps you may see in a fieldĬODEWORDS: An agent perhaps would need these to gain access to or identify something that is classified or secretġ7d State four areas in which large black mass must be broken up (7)ĪLABAMA: Four Abbreviations for Area have inserted abbreviations for Large, Black and Mass alternatelyġ8d Drug den creating depression in the street (7) The first three words of the clue could be three stages of something of which verbs and nouns (or adjectives and adverbs etc for that matter) areĨd Steps with hot steel moulded into these? (8,5) PARTS OF SPEECH: Difficult to hint without giving it away. VILLAGE: Insert a (time) delay into a synonym of rotten or nastyĦd Something infiltrating democracy, an ideology that’s poisonous (7)ĬYANIDE: Hidden (something infiltrating) in the clueħd Start, lecture, end - are they nouns or verbs? (5,2,6)
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LONGEVITY: The clue is telling us to place a (lovely) synonym of fun around (to carry) ON from the clue and the abbreviation for GolfĤd Magical folk singer taking in Spain instead of Italy (5)ĮLVES: Take a singer, a very famous one, and replace the IVR code for Italy that lies within his name with that of Spainĥd Hamlet exhibits delay in rotten setting (7) MADEMOISELLE: Miss here is not as the setter would like you to think a verb, but a title, a French one.ġd Drug users may get trapped by these habits (7)ĬUSTOMS: Double definition both nouns, one concrete, one abstractģd Fun to carry on with golf in old age (9) REFUSAL: Anagram (should be disturbed) of the preceding two words
A beam of light is inserted into an informal word for some rip offs. WARLIKE: Anagram (flexing)WALKER placed around the letter that represents oneĢ4a Writes colourfully of some light-entertaining rip-offs (7)ĬRAYONS: Colourfully here is in the literal rather than metaphorical sense. SHARP EYED: Cryptic definition, think what something pointed is.ġ9a Hound, quite old for a dog - antique! (5)ĬURIO: A 3-letter synonym of a hound or mongrel and two letters that look like a number which is quite old in dog yearsĢ1a Demanded to get fifty rather than 100 grand (7)ĮXALTED: Replace the Roman numeral for 100 with that for 50 in a synonym of demanded.Ģ3a Round one, Walker flexing, ready for a dust-up (7) INCLEMENT: Anagram (spilled) of CLIENT placed around (mopped up) some guysġ6a Having the vision to make pointed observations? (5-4) I’ll spare you a clipġ4a Bitter client spilled - guys mopped up (9) Incidentally the solution is also the name of a pop group involving two dysfunctional relatives of a different gender. OASIS: The chemical symbol of Oxygen, A from the clue and fifty percent of a relative. SPANIEL Hidden and reversed (partly cut back) in the clueġ3a Oxygen a half-cut relative needed in watering-hole (5) TWOSOME: A large book is placed around (about) a reversal (running over) of a swine in the animal senseġ2a Barker‘s role in a psychodrama partly cut back (7) VALIANT: Insert a reversal of a synonym of secure as a verb into an abbreviation of a ubiquitous duty or tax.ġ1a Book about swine running over couple (7) So many illustrations I could use here!ġ0a Fearless in duty, keeping revolutionary secure (7) Please leave a comment telling us what you thought.ġa Gay marriage maybe for bureaucrats (5,7)ĬIVIL SERVICE: Double definition, the bureaucrats being employees of the crown.ĪLSO RAN: We need synonyms of both too and organised or managed to give this loser. I was feeling a little hungover after the jubilee celebrations ?? but a sea swim has cleared it and the setter (Zandio?) has given us a very fine puzzle, no obscurities just clever wordplay, I enjoyed it a lot.
My turn to stand in for Deep Threat today. Good morning everyone from a sunny South Devon.
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****