Monday, September 9, 2013

Wienerschnitzel (Solution No. 3,293)

No, we weren't wearing lederhosen and
dirndls at the table.
How about another picture of Bad Reichenhall.  Since Tobi cooked wienerschnitzel last night, let’s enjoy some food!


Themework:  None that I found, though I was wondering if “Chariots of Fire” had a scene set in Constantinople.

Difficulty (by standards of this weekly puzzle): easy to moderate all the way through (that’s really hard to accomplish without having to resort to crosswordese or really obvious clues.


Political content: Were you looking for “Biden” in 4d?  I was for a little while. 

Solution and annotation to The Nation puzzle No. 3,288 below the fold.

 
Legend: "*" anagram; "~" sounds like; "<" letters reversed; "( )" letters inserted; "_" or lower case: letters deleted; "†" explicit in the clue, “^” first or last letter or letters, “{“ relocated letter or letters; “§” heteronym, “¶“ letter bank


Across
1a
CHA | RIOTS | OF F | IRE
CHA (“tea”) + RIOTS (“demonstrations”) + OFF (“crazy”) + IRE (“rage”)
Good clue.  It’s got misdirection (“crazy” suggests an anagram) and a little humor (“cha-riots”)
10a
*EN (MAS)SE
*SEEN (anagram indicated by “scattered”) containing (“outside”) MAS (“mothers”)
11a
TINTY | PE
TINTY (“colorful”) + PE (“gym class”)
12a
PAR | AG | *RAPH
PAR (“norm”) + AG (“silver”) + *HARP (anagram indicated by “destroyed”)
13a
T | *HETA
T (“time”) + *HEAT (anagram indicated by “destroyed”)
14a
TANK
Double definition
16a
MOO | N(L)IGHT
MOO (“low”) + ^L^uminescence (first letter indicated by “primarily”) contained in (“found in”) NIGHT (“darkness”)
Exclamation point because “low” and “luminescence” are used in both definition and wordplay.  Well-earned.
18a
LAW | *N PARTY
LAW (“police”) + *PANTRY (anagram indicated by “ransacked”)
19a
WEE | P
WEE (“small”) + P (“soft,” musical notation)
22a
P O W E R
^P^lanets ^O^r ^W^orlds ^E^mitting ^R^adiation (first letters indicated by “initially”)
26a
YAMMERS
Pun on yams (“sweet potatoes”)
27a
<NIAG< A | RA
<GAIN< (“to win,” reversal indicated by “returning”) + A (†) + _RA_ce (first two letters indicated by “halfway”)
28a
CONS | TAN | TIN *OPLE
CONS (“takes in”) + TAN (“sun-baked”) + TIN (“metal”) + *POLE (anagram indicated by “in disrepair”)

Down
2d
*HUMOR
*OH RUM (anagram indicated by “stirred up”)
3d
*RESIGN
*SINGER (anagram indicated by “transposition”)
4d
<_OP ERA_<
<delaw_AER PO_litician< (reversal indicated by “retrograde,” hidden word indicated by “presents”)
5d
*SET THEORY
*THE OYSTER (anagram indicated by “shaking”)
“Shaking the oyster” would have made a great line for one of those risqué blues records from the 1930s.
6d
F(IN | *ITE)LY
FLY (“zipper”) containing (“catches”) IN (“fashionable”) + *TIE (anagram indicated by “ugly”)
7d
*IV(Y) LE | AGUE
*VILE (anagram indicated by “terribly”) + AGUE (“fever”) containing (“taking”) man^Y^ (last letter indicated by “ultimately”)
8d
*ELEGANT
*EEL + *GANT (anagram indicated by “hash”)
9d
S(EXPO)T
EXPO (“display”) contained in (“in middle of”) ST (“street”)
15d
NEW(SW O)MAN
NEWMAN (“actor”) containing (“capturing”) SW (“southwestern”) + O (“ring”)
16d
*MORTAL SIN
*ITS NORMAL (anagram indicated by “viewed in a different way”)
17d
*SPARSEST
*TRESPASS (anagram indicated by “corrected”)
Another form of misdirection is to make the definition look like another indicator.
18d
*LIP <SYN<C
<NY’S< (“New York’s,” reversal indicated by “getting higher”) contained in (“in”) *CLIP (anagram indicated by “amateurish”)
20d
P(*REFA)B
PB (“lead”) containing (“around”) *FARE (anagram indicated by “unsavory”)
21d
TOM | AT | O
TOM (“turkey”) + AT (“beside”) + ^O^nion (first letter indicated by “slice of”)
24d
H(A | NO)I
HI (“Hawaii”) containing (“maintaining”) A (“answer”) + NO (†)
This misdirection had me for a while: “capital” made me think of “H” for Hawaii, not “HI.”
25d
IN }ALL}
}ALL} IN (“very tired,” transposition indicated by “exchanging words”)

2 comments:

  1. What about 23a? Not mentioned. Sorry, don't get it.

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  2. 23A: aphrodite, anagram of ipod earth, Greek analog for Roman goddess Venus,.

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