Irish Times Crossword (Crosaire)

bothyhead

Ditto with Wagner


better do some work - good luck with it today!

Spike440

Not going well for me today.

1a -

LOHENGRIN

12a -

FRIEND

14a -

EROS

15a -

NOSES

31a -

ERASED

2d -

ODOURS

3d -

ELEVEN

4d -

GRINDS

5d -

INGRESS

11d -

TOSCA

Maybes:

6d -

DIVEST

??
16a -

STORM

??
29d -

REALTY

??

bothyhead

9a

appeal

Which may of help for NE

bothyhead

19d

drilling or variation of

?

bothyhead

24a -

enigma

bothyhead

11a

tall + ow

just got the Puccini one as well

Spike440

10a -

LOWERING

8d -

GLOWERING

bothyhead

7d -

bellowed

16a -

shower

?

Spike440

6d -

SPLASH

21a -

PALADIN

25d -

MANTEL

22d -

LEER

20d -

STAID

32a -

ISLAND

??
18a -

UNDRESS

??

Spike440

17d -

SUBEDITOR

24a -

OUNCES

13d -

NONE

??

Spike440

35a -

LAUNDRESS

bothyhead

I would say your 32a is correct

25d looks like

mantel

ah, just saw you had that already

Spike440

29d -

REALMS

hivizman

31A -

ERASED

33A -

INITIALS (It = initials of Irish Times)

22D -

LEER

23D -

MESSINA ("straight" sounds like "strait")

28D -

RAPIER

Just 26A and 27D to go!

hivizman

26A -

ELDER ("senior" sounds like "seen your")

27D -

DESIGN

Several dodgy clues this time: 10A (no definition that I can see, unless "towards the ring" is supposed to hint at the floor of a boxing ring), 15A (no definition), 26A (no definition), 7d (very weak definition).

Spike440

26a -

ELDER - seen your = senior

27d -

DESIGN

What did people put for 13d and 30a?

EDIT: Hivizman beat me to it!

stepinnman

26a

elder

27d

design

I just wasn't quick enough off the mark!!

hivizman

13D -

NONE (sounds like "nun", hinted at by "conventional"

30A -

AIMS ("I'm" in "as")

Spike440

hivizman wrote: »

13D -

NONE (sounds like "nun", hinted at by "conventional"

30A -

AIMS ("I'm" in "as")

OK I guessed both of them correctly but am I right in saying that "conventional" was supposed to point to "convent" to give us the answer? And "objects" was supposed to point to "objectives". If so I think they are two poor clues.

hivizman

Spike440 wrote: »

OK I guessed both of them correctly but am I right in saying that "conventional" was supposed to point to "convent" to give us the answer? And "objects" was supposed to point to "objectives". If so I think they are two poor clues.

I'd agree on 13D (had to read the clue very carefully to get what the setter was after - the correct adjective from "convent" is "conventual", but maybe "conventional" is just about acceptable for a crossword clue, particularly as setter has used the word "perhaps" to indicate something unusual), but "objects" is to my mind OK as a definition in 30A - Chambers Dictionary includes following definition under "object" - "that towards which action or desire is directed, an end". The clue's a nice play on the different meanings (and pronounciations) of "objects".

Spike440

I suppose we could do the Simplex now.

bothyhead

Yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk!

I've managed about half of it. The common word for the boundary clues this week was:

stand

I started to read Sandy Balfour's Pretty girl in crimson rose (8) over the weekend. It's an interesting little memoir of how the author left South Africa in the early 80's, in order to escape from apartheid, and emigrated to England. It was here that he discovered, and fell in love with, crosswords - specifically, the Guardian.

Roll on # 13,623!

bothyhead

Not exactly sprinting out of the blocks today:

5d

minnow

14d

eels

25d

tigers

26d

intact

13a

new broom

31a

picric (a type of acid)

stepinnman

I can't add much to the party yet except:

9a.

isobar

16d.

iron

30a.

tallow

24a.

abetting

18d.

hibernia

29a

frighten

- maybe

Spike440

9a -

ISOBAR

17a -

CHEDDAR

24a -

ABETTING

29a -

FRIGHTEN

32a -

ALBACORE

7d -

BALLOONS

16d -

IRON

18d -

HIBERNIA

23d -

AGENDAS

Spike440

6d -

TOTTER

11a -

ORNATELY

20d -

something to do with the tide? AT XXX EBB

?

Spike440

3d -

HIAWATHA

4d -

AGROUND

10a -

SEESAW

15a -

HIDE

Spike440

28d -

AMEERS

20d -

AT LOW EBB

?

27a -

LARVAE

?

I don't think 30a is

TALLOW

stepinnman

My mistake - 30a is

Wicked

not tallow - sorry!
21d

turncock

Spike440

OK get this:

19a -

LACTOSE - relating to milk (Milky Way) and the Edward LEar poem "The Pobble who has no toes" - the Pobble lacked toes

:eek:

1d -

SPHERE

8a -

APPYLING

12a -

SESTET

That's it for today!