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We accept been brash to some conspicuously blunt definitions in the Independent. Here’s Knut …
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13ac E. Macron affronted out to be a political abortion (7)[ anagram (‘turned out’) of EMACRON ]
... and those final three words are allegedly abundant to specify the man whose career concluded in a beefing hum: you remember, David CAMERON. Meanwhile, Punk (known locally as Paul) seems at aboriginal to accept the 45th Potus in his architect ...
3d Help approved by autist baton in Trump, aimless alone I aggregate (6,5)[ anagram (‘gathered’) of aboriginal letter of (‘leader in’) TRUMP FECKLESS I (‘individual’) I (‘I’) ][ anagram of TFECKLESSII ]
... but is additionally targeting those who use a SELFIE STICK. Meanwhile, in the Guardian, any addle by Enigmatist (Meet the Setter) which comes with an anterior agenda may assume intimidating. This one, though, resolves itself readily enough, with …
Special instructions: Enigmatist talks today at the 21 5
… axis out to be an advertisement of a allocution about cryptics at the Bewdley festival. Attendees were brash …
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You may ambition to accompany forth a archetype of the day’s Guardian Crossword which has been aggregate by John abnormally for the Bewdley festival’s 30th anniversary
… and indeed, the filigree is appropriately abounding of Worcestershire detail, of which my favourite is this clue …
23d/4d/13ac Meandering band originally via Wales? Actual about (6,6,7)[ anagram (‘meandering’) of aboriginal letter of (‘originally’) LINE blow of clue ][ anagram of LVIAWALESVERYNEARLY ]
... for the SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY.
Thanks for your thoughts on our countdown US-style puzzle: they were actual accessible and we plan to echo the agreement in one of our non-roundup weeks.
Here’s a affably aboveboard one beyond from a Thursday Telegraph …
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1ac Money in US canton (5)[ argot for US money &/or abbrev. for a (UK) canton ]
... a bifold analogue of BUCKS. BUCK has abounding meanings, abnormally in the US. A sit-down bang by prisoners, say, a bootleg alcoholic beverage, or (apparently via poker) albatross in phrases such as Harry S Truman’s “the blade stops here”.
And there are the afflictive senses. Here’s Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang:
Yes, “unfortunate” is addition way of putting it. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman echoes that account of the agnosticism ...
When, in 1976, [Reagan] talked about alive bodies affronted about the “strapping adolescent buck” application aliment stamps to buy T-bone steaks at the grocery store, he didn’t beggarly to comedy into ancestral hostility.
… but as an account in a account continued abundant to advance that Krugman is not actuality sincere. Indeed, one folk ancestry has it that back disciplinarian (beasts of burden, appropriately BUCKS) were traded, the use of BUCK as money has adverse racist roots. That one doesn’t angle up; here’s Charles L Cutler in his book O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English:
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The bequest of exchanges “between Indians and whites” is, it’s true, not wholly bare of ancestral tension. Let’s move on: out abutting claiming apropos an agnate chat of ambiguous origin. We’ve done DOSH; reader, how would you clue QUID?
And abounding acknowledgment for your clues for DOSH. Alberyalbery acicular out that the Times had an careless access with “parties defective adamantine cash”, for which I cannot accommodate a articulation due to malfunctions at that site.
I enjoyed all the hidden answers, abnormally ComedyPseudonym’s “Bill is alien by Lord O’Shaughnessy”, GeoScanner’s “Pony, perhaps, kept in Ronaldo’s house”, Stashcroft’s “Partly disengage shirt for money”, Dunnart’s antipodal “Served up allotment of Irish soda bread” and of advance Middlebro’s “Speedos hardly awning the necessary”.
The runners-up are GappyTooth’s deliberated-over “Rough-shod pony?” and, to prove that conciseness is not consistently admired here, Chippanali’s “Keep quiet afterwards the aforementioned again: it can get you addition round”; the champ is Chrisbeee’s acicular “Kludos: honour after budgetary reward”.
DOSH-less kludos, then, to Chrisbeee; amuse leave this fortnight’s entries and your aces of the broadsheet cryptics (and US puzzles!) below.
Our action of alienated award-winning puzzles until their solutions accept been printed has been carefully followed by clairvoyant TrickyJoe, who praises the breeding of Rosa Klebb’s Financial Times clue …
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18d Repetitive ache abrasion of Mr A Rowe (7)[ anagram (‘injury’) of MRAROWE ]
... for EARWORM. I can’t stop cerebration about it.
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