Monday, January 19, 2015

Solution and Annotation (Solution No. 3,351)

Below the fold is the solution and annotation to this week’s The Nation cryptic.




Solution to The Nation puzzle no. 3,351



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, “‡” Spoonerism

Across
1a
NORMAN MAILER
Pun.
9a
VEST_IGE_
VEST (“garment”) + t^IGE^r (middle letters indicated by “inside of”)
10a
ADAM ANT
ADAM (“first male”) + ANT (“insect”)
11a
*LENG TH_
*GLEN (cross-ref to 24d, anagram indicated by “traveling”) + TH_e_ (omission of last letter indicated by “most of”)
12a
SPI(*TFI)RE
*FIT (anagram indicated by “to be thrown”) contained in (“in”) SPIRE (“steeple”)
14a
AL(BAT)ROSS
AL (†) + ROSS (“Betsy”) containing (“seen outside”) BAT (“club”)
16a
B LOCK
LOCK (“bolt”) following (“after”) B (“second-rate)
17a
S TORE
outrageous^S^ (last letter indicated by “termination of”) + TORE (“rent”)
18a
L*ATITUDES
tria^L^L (last letter indicated by “ultimately”) + *SITUATED (anagram indicated by “poorly”)
20a
*PLAYM ATE
*MY PAL (anagram indicated by “manipulated”) + ATE (“put away”)
22a
RE(E)FER
REFER (“point”) containing (“around”) juk^E^ (last letter indicated by “back”)
25a
<NO C<AN D O
<CON< (“prisoner,” reversal indicated by “turning west”) + AND (†) + ^O^regon (first letter indicated by “heading”)
26a
LEI SURE
LEI (“something associated with an island vacation”) + SURE (“yes”)
27a
*SOYLENT GREEN
*STERNLY GEE NO (anagram indicated by “snarled”)

Down
1d
N(OV)ELLA
NELLA (“woody building”) containing (“encircles”) gr^OVes (middle letters indicated by “center of”)
2d
_RISEN_
comforte_R IS EN_tirely (hidden word indicated by “part of”)
3d
*ARIS(TO)TLE
*REALIST (anagram indicated by “confused”) containing (“taking”) TO (†)
4d
M EEK
^M^ickey (anagram indicated by “originator”) + EEK (“a mouse!”)
5d
*INAPPOSITE
*OPIE PAINTS (anagram indicated by “badly”)
6d
ENAC T

7d
MA RIG OLD
MA (“mother”) + RIG (“to arrange”) + OLD (“gray”)
8s
ST(R)EAK
butche^R^ (last letter indicated by “finally”) contained in (“cuts”) STEAK (“piece of meat”)
13d
<TOILE<T ROLL
<ELIOT< (“poet,” reversal indicated by “getting up”) + TROLL (“to fish”)
15d
B(ROMAN)C E
ROMAN (“Italian”) contained in (“in”) BC (“British Columbia”) + ^E^xplained (first letter indicated by “originally”)
16d
¶BUTTERING
¶BUTTE RING
17d
S(U)PINE
SPINE (“resolve”) containing (“to imprison”) ^U^kraine (first letter indicated by “leader”)
19d
S_URGEON
S_t_URGEON (“fish,” omission of ^T^ail (first letter indicated by “part of”) indicated by “removing”)
21d
*MANGO
*AMONG (anagram indicated by “nuts”)
23d
F LUTE
F (“loud”) + LUTE (“musical instrument”)
24d
GLEN
lon_G LEN_s (hidden word indicated by “reveals”)


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