guardian cryptic crossword 28,124


You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Could not find nuisance in thesaurus as offensive..

Liked 14a and 23a but spotted the lurker immediately ; disliked 12a and 2d . So late to comment on this one that even our esteemed setter has beaten me to it today!

(By the way I couldn’t do yesterday’s Suguru either – very strange.) I venture to say that money might have something to do with it.
And the goddess was a no no. If all multiletter abbreviations can be broken up and used piecemeal in this way, there are just too many possibilities. 1d           Unemotional sex turns up in novel (8)

A friend of 19 in Lincoln, New Zealand prayed for by 22 down 22, Epitome of elegance is certainly not turgid prose, Finally, who's got the whole world in his hands? I agree with the comment that it’s just an exercise in using a Thesaurus.

Life is just too short. I think she makes a guest appearance in Macbeth, not a very nice Goddess, this one. Got caught our with GATE and KENT (where I live). If you would like to find the answer then kindly click on any of the questions below. Evening sir, I wasn’t on your wavelength today – don’t know why. Had the some trouble as many others spotting the lurker in 23a. Amusing Ray T puzzle today with some very clever clues…not too tricky but very enjoyable . Big D’OH when the lurker suddenly de-lurked itself.

The family of the man credited with the invention of the Italian crossword live in a palazzo a stone’s throw from me here in Sassari. I’d noted your suggestion earlier and it had earned a mental tick. Not sure how I would star rate this one.
Question-marks are traditionally used to indicate made-up words or made-up meanings or some kind of pun going beyond the normal cryptic devices. It still seems daft that you can win the league after 22 games but have to prove yourself all over again in knockout playoffs. muffin @12 and scchua @18 Thanks for that.

Ah well, there’s always tomorrow …, (Modification/addition coloured red to distinguish if from the original explanation cited by William F P.  For what it’s worth, as a general comment I think it’s just not my blog but others as well that don’t get read by commenters.). Thanks to Scchua and Chifonie.

The top half fell into place fairly smoothly but the bottom half put up quite a fight with my last one in, the lurker in 23a, eluding me for some time. A pleasant and fairly gentle Friday puzzle.

Thanks to Chifonie and scchua. A tad too much information on ‘it’ there pommers. Brilliant.

A gentle start to he week from Vulcan. Eventually completed it although I needed the hints for 1d and the goddess. LADDIES : D(abbrev. (8) Around this put a word for ocean, or at least part of an ocean, without its last letter (unending). It’s nice and red, sadly (10) Posted by loonapick on May 4th, 2020. SEPARATE:  Start with a three letter sailor and the usual word for parrot or copy and reverse the lot (capsized). I think you have been doing these too long to assess their difficulty. Good job, as they say across the pond.

Well, I made it but not without a great deal of confirming with the hints. Support The Guardian Available for everyone, funded by readers Contribute Subscribe Contribute Search jobs I enjoyed STRANGLER, ENHANCE and TOSCANINI (wouldn’t it be lovely if his choice of career was influenced by his having an opera in his name??) I thought the Premiership was to do with football! Thanks RayT and pommers.

I thought that 23a was one of the best clues I’ve seen in a long time – loved it. Laurel's immersed in internat­ional books for a moment. The preponderance of vowels do make them very challenging and an encyclopaedic knowledge of obscure Tuscan castles seems to be a sine qua non. Favourites were ENHANCE, KENT (my county) and LISSOME such a lovely word  Many thanks Chifonie and scchua. Maybe we deserve one puzzle a week we can tackle – after all our £2.10 for the Guardian is as good as yours. You can also add your assessment by selecting from one to five stars at the bottom of the post. 24a         A behind’s endless expanse (4) He was an erect gentleman etc. ), VAGUE, VEND and GATE took far far longer than they probably should. 19 Her sins revealed in such hallowed places (7). Like Pommers and Kitty, I went the same way on 23a, but that does not stop it being my favourite. RETICENT:  A two letter term for sex is reversed (turns up in a down clue) and inserted (in) into a word meaning novel as in new or lately.

Like illustration, something set on dining table, Never to return wearing dress in theatrical space for visitors.

NATIVE:  Start with T (Tribe’s leader) and put around it (has . Evening all. GATE as pass was new to me too. Favourites were 23a and 6d.

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