Irish Times Crossword (Crosaire)

Laurent

Those were the 2 I came up with, but was not sure how they matched the clue. Thanks for the help.

Spike440

8a -

TEETOTUM

9a -

FENDER

10a -

COOPER

?
11a -

IRISHMAN

12a -

STANZA

13a -

USHERING

15a -

RASH

17a -

TOP HATS

?
19a -

OFFENDS

22a -

KEEL

27a -

ABACUS

30a -

FAILED

32a -

ANSWERED

1d -

DEPORT

2d -

AT A PINCH

3d -

STAR PART

?
4d -

IMPIOUS

5d -

OFFISH

6d -

ANCHOR

7d -

REMAINED

14d -

SHOE

16d -

ASKS

20d -

FLATFISH

21d -

EXAMINER

23d -

ETERNAL

25d -

OPERAS

?
28d -

UNEVEN

I'm having real difficulty with the missing 5 in SW. I think maybe 24a is

REFOREST/DEFORIST/ARBORIST

.

hivizman

Spike440 wrote: »

1d -

DEPORT

I think actually

REPORT

.

Spike440 wrote: »

I'm having real difficulty with the missing 5 in SW. I think maybe 24a is

REFOREST/DEFORIST/ARBORIST

.

31A is

RELATE

. But I don't see the others (haven't had time to concentrate on the puzzle today). Could 24A be

AFFOREST

? At least it fits the "by the sound of it" angle.

hivizman

18D is

OFFENDER

, and 26D is

EXILES

. That makes 29A most likely

INTERIOR

.

Why is 10A

COOPER

? Can't think of a better answer, but don't see how the clue works.

Laurent

Perhaps "Copper " i.e copper fastened ??

Laurent

18 D

offender

Spike440

My logic for 10 across was because the image of a

barrel

came to be but the clue says "one's" which usually indicates an individual. I wasn't sure about it but nothing else springs to mind.

Hard one today.

bothyhead

I'm on holidays and spent the day in the garden, so I'm very late at doing the crossword today. Anyway, here's idea for 10a

Hopper

bound = hop, perhaps like a kangaroo
a hopper = device for containing things, e.g. a grain silo

Spike440

9a -

SIRRAH

11a -

SHOUTS

13a -

PLEDGE

17a -

AGO

19a -

AGROUND

20a -

FISSURE

21a -

OUT

23a -

CASSIA

27a -

LIFELINES

28a -

PUBLIC

29a -

SOMEWHERE

30a -

SUNDAY

31a - Maybe

UNDERPART or UNDERPASS

5d -

MOORING

6d -

SIGHTLESS

7d -

GROUNDNUT

8d -

WHOSOEVER

14d -

MARCH PAST

15d -

BRASS BAND

16d -

MUNICIPAL

17d -

ADO

18d -

OFT

22d -

UNICORN

24d -

REVERE

25d -

MISHAP

I'm only missing 26d which I originally thought was SHARES and NW corner.

Spike440

1a -

SMALL ARMS

10a -

ASPERSION

12a -

LIVE IN SIN

2d -

MYSTIC

3d -

LEERED

4d -

ASSENT

Still stuck on 26d.

jhayden

26 down :

Bearer

??

Spike440

Yep that's it

Bearer bonds

.

That makes 31a

UNDERPART

.

hivizman

Well done - I agree the answers, except for 12A, which I think is

LIVE ON AIR

. Groaned at 11A and 21A (basically the same idea - it would have been better if Crosaire had used this only once in a single puzzle). 3D seems to be a cryptic indication only, with no obvious definition.

Yesterday's 10A turned out to be HOPPER. I guess that the clue was a double definition, with "bounds" meaning "jumps". But I see that Bothyhead had the same idea last night.

Didn't 4D and 12A appear in puzzles last week, with similar clues?

Spike440

He repeats some clues with regularity. I'm raging I didn't spot the reworked LIVE ON AIR, especially after getting it last week.

The answer for 23a was CASSIS. Now I had CASSIA which fits the "blooming yellow" definition and is an anagram of ASS and CIA. So what is CIS?

hivizman

Spike440 wrote: »

The answer for 23a was CASSIS. Now I had CASSIA which fits the "blooming yellow" definition and is an anagram of ASS and CIA. So what is CIS?

I had no doubt that 23A was CASSIA, which in both its botanical versions has yellow flowers, and fits the cryptic indication exactly. Perhaps the typesetter hit the "S" key instead of the adjacent "A" key when preparing the solution?

No time to look at the puzzle today until late afternoon, alas.

Spike440

Good luck with today's. I've hit a wall after 11.5 clues.

Spike440

This is a mess:

1a -

UNSAFE

9a -

CURARE

12a -

SPOIL

15a -

ILL

16a -

LYING

24a -

PLACE

28a -

INNOCENCE

31a -

NEVER

32a -

LEAVENED

33a -

FIANCE

34a -

THE ASHES

35a -

LESSOR

1d -

UNCOSTLY

2d -

SARDONIC

3d -

FIRE LIGHT

18d -

ANSWER

19d -

EXPENSIVE

20d -

CARVINGS

21d -

DEAR DEAR

25d -

FILLET

26d -

IN CASE

29d -

CHESS

30d -

NIECE

hivizman

4A -

AFFRIGHT

10A - don't know
13A -

EXTREMELY

17A -

LEADER

22A -

STATES

I think
27A - don't know

5D -

FLEET

6D -

RIFLE

7D -

GRATES

8D -

THE EYE

11D -

PELLET

14D -

RED

23D - don't know

Spike440

23d -

ARE

10a -

SELFSAME

??

27a -

WEE

hivizman

Yes, I can see that 23D is defined by "more than one is". And I've finally worked out how the rest of the clue also give this - I'd started by looking for something sounding like the letter "e" ("end of the queue"), but it's really "after the queue"!

I agree 10A. Still no inspiration on 27A.

jhayden

I was thinking "r" was after the "q" but the answer is a bit obscure for me anyway. There can't be to many options for 27 a "a" "e" "o" or "y" are the obvious ones but again can't really fit the answer to the clue.

Spike440

Type "soldiers are we" into google.

hivizman

Spike440 wrote: »

Type "soldiers are we" into google.

**Striking forehead with fist and saying "d'oh"**

WEE

was the first answer to come into my mind, but I just didn't make the connection with the song. But it's quite a typical Crosaire indirect punning definition once you look at it.

And another one bites the dust.

Spike440

1a -

OUT OF PRINT

6a -

ACME

10a -

CHEWA

11a -

CAUGHT OUT

13a -

NADIR

15a -

PANTING

17a -

SKILFUL

21a -

LEGATEE

22a -

BORES

27a -

UNDRESSED

28a -

ELUDE

29a -

DARK

30a -

ADDRESSEES

1d -

ONCE

3d -

FEAST

4d -

ROCKING

5d -

NOUGHTS

7d -

CLOUD

8d -

ENTHRALLED

9d -

THINKING

14d -

SPELLBOUND

18d -

FIT FOR USE

20d -

GROUSED

21d -

LEANDER

23d -

RIDER

25d -

PRESS

26d -

SEAS

hivizman

I think 10A is actually

CHINA - "jaw a" = "chin a"

. Then 2D is

THICKENED

and 12A is

SKITTISH

.

16D is

IN ISSUES

, and 19A is

LADLING - what you do with a ladle = lad + ling

. Finally, 24A is

ON A SPOON - "so up" should be read as "soup"

.

Spike440

I hate when he uses the "beast" element of clues because it's such a broad category.

hivizman

Too busy today to do more than glance at the puzzle, but here are a few answers:

9A -

MALLOW

11A -

COTTON

12A -

DELETE

14A -

ERIN

15A -

RARER

16A -

REFILL

21A -

HEATHER

24A -

FATHER

30A -

VEST - I liked this clue, which plays on two meanings of "warm": "in vest" helps to make you warm in a physical sense, and "invest" helps to make you "warm" in a financial sense

34A -

CHEATS

6D -

MALONE

7D -

FLATFISH

8D -

SWINDLERS

11D -

CIRCE

13D -

TARA

19D -

SATIATED

20D -

GORES

22D -

ANNA

23D -

PATIENT

25D -

EVENTS

Now I'm off home for the weekend.

frecklier

I normally print off the crossaire from the website. On the bus this morning, all ready to settle into Friday's, only to realise I had Thursdays...again. It seems that from time to time they forget to update the online one, and you still get the one from the day before. This is the second time this has happened me.
And now that I think of it, I've always been able to access it online through work, but it's only since it became free for everyone that this has started happening.
Just wondering if it's me doing something wrong, or if anyone else has noticed this.
(only good thing was that being forced to look at Thursday's again for the whole bus journey, I got a good few more answers!)

Laurent

Hello, anybody out there? I know that some of the "regular" experts are having to work hard for the next couple of weeks. So just to let you all know that you are missed.

bothyhead

1a -

(way?) better

11a -

cohere

15a -

sidle. I like the verb / noun word play here

18a -

fingers

21a -

stagger

24a -

cut-out. tout = solicitor. The length should really have been indicated as (3-3)

26a -

earls

31a -

esteem

32a -

unused

34a -

supper

3d -

brutes

8d -

dysentery. I love his definition for this one

11d -

carot

17d -

off course

19d -

no trumps. trump = top = not the bottom = bottom+less?

20d -

rated

22d -

awls

25d -

uneven

27d -

regime

29d -

lenten