Posted by The Trafites on June 28th, 2009
Our first blog (as the The Trafites), and we look forward to doing this.
A fairly straight forward Everyman this week.
25ac is unusual as we have seen RED RUM used for the reversal of MURDER, but never seen it used the other way around.
13dn is an obvious anagram, but at the time we did not have a clue who or which ‘Alonso’s brother’ was/is, but have since discovered that Alonso is the King of Naples in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and SEBASTIAN is his brother.
Legend to solution comments:
* = anagram.
< = word reversed.
|1. ABSENT||AB + SENT|
|4. OGRESS||Therefore=ERGO< + SS|
|8. SOURSOP||OURS in SOP (SOP=bribe ref. Chambers…
from the drugged sop the Sibyl gave to Cerberus)
|10. PARSNIP||cut=PAR(e) which is cut (i.e. last letter removed), and
the third cut=SNIP
|11. PORCELAIN||other ranks=OR in (PLACE)* + IN|
|12. LATER||behind=LATE + close to mother=R|
|13. SET A GOOD EXAMPLE
||group=SET + A + suitable=GOOD + warning=EXAMPLE|
|15. BREACH OF PROMISE||Cryptic def. reference bride groom (suit’s).|
|18. SHARP||S + HARP|
|20. THE LIZARD||article (THE) + reptile ref. Land’s End|
|22. IN TEARS||(SIT NEAR)*|
|23. SWINDON||WIND in SON|
|24. NADINE||AD in NINE|
|25. RED RUM||Take out = MURDER<|
|1. AESOP||A + (POSE<)|
|2. SOUBRETTE||(BERETS OUT)*|
|3. NEST EGG||(GETS GEN)*|
|5. GORILLA||O in GRILL + A|
|6. ERNST||Hidden: southERN STate|
|7. SUPERSEDE||SUPER + (D in SEE)|
|9. PIANOFORTES||(PAIR OF NOTES)*|
|10. PONY EXPRESS||Cryptic def. £25 = pony (English slang)|
|13. SEBASTIAN||(A BASSINET)*|
|14. PHILANDER||(RALPH ENID)*|
|16. CAPTAIN||CAP + TA + IN|
|17. ORIFICE||OR (gold) + IF (poem) + ICE|
|19. ACTED||Hidden: fACT EDith|