DeanZine - July 2004

 

  Matt's 'Mindbenders'  

 


 

 


SOLUTION
to May's

'Well, Well,' Said the Rocking Chair' - Cryptic Crossword Puzzle

by Matthew Lees

Across

6    * I left Lydia a mess, to become a proper woman (4)

8    * Alive surrounds endlessly well read, like "beautiful bastard boy" (12)

9    * "S and M" contains something gritty (4)

10  * Sirius and Betelgeuse hit the jackpot! Who do they thank (that they're not as smart as they'd like to think they are)? (10)

11   New York time zone holds freight: snails (8)

13   North doric crumbles, becomes Scandinavian (6)

16   * (With 28-Across) 1st line of 1st track, with furniture discussing two holes in the ground (4,4,4,3,7,5)

20   NASA to break up piano piece (6)

23   Unusually edgy, if in educating (8)

26   * Place you can let down your hair...and sing with the quartet (10)

27   * Digging inside "everything from this point on is real" (4)

28   * (See 16-Across)

29   * Iran goes ballistic; I thought all of it would never stop (4) 

Down

1      Alabama and Washington: outside of "yes" forever (6)         

2      Chewed up card in canary's beak: tweet! (8)

3      Get JAL flustered; it might keep you up at night (3,3)

4      Reportedly tap after Farrah, but before Majors (6)

5      Upside-down nail surrounded by Tripoli resident (6)

6      For example, a correspondence (6)

7      Draw oddly; tuna, e.g., is kind of small (8)

12     On fifty, why alone? (4)

14     Sounds like we give approval in Paris (3)

15     Pondered headless and secondhand (4)

17     "I" disease? (8)

18     Western alien is drenched (3)

19     Stallone film is bright and shiny (8)

21     Reddish brown gold combust (6)

22     Chad is here; is reorganized CIA far? (6)

23     North, in principle, becomes cultural (6)

24     Attack as false: inside I'm pug-nosed (6)

25     Confused twit, in nincompoop (6)

 

SOLUTIONS:

ACROSS
6. (anagram "Lydia") - I = LADY
8. al(LITERATE-e)ive = ALLITERATIVE
9. hidden "s and" = SAND
10. double meaning --> LUCKYSTARS
11. E.S.(cargo)T. = ESCARGOT
13. N(orthern) + (anagram "doric") = NORDIC
16. double meaning --> WELL, WELL SAID THE
20. anagram "NASA to" = SONATA
23. anagram "edgy if in" = EDIFYING
26. double meaning --> BARBERSHOP
27. hidden "point on" = INTO
28. see 16 Across --> ROCKING CHAIR
29. anagram "Iran" --> RAIN

DOWN
1. AL + WA + Y(e)S = ALWAYS
2. BI(anagram "card")LL = BIRDCALL
3. anagram "get JAL" = JET LAG
4. homophone "Fawcett" --> FAUCET
5. LI(by)AN = LIBYAN
6. double meaning (for example "a") = LETTER
7. anagram "draw" + fish = DWARFISH
12. ON + L (roman numeral) + Y ("why") = ONLY
14. homophone "we" = OUI
15. M(used) = USED
17. pun --> EGOMANIA
18. W(estern) + E.T. ("alien") = WET
19. double meaning --> DAYLIGHT
21. AU (gold) + burn = AUBURN
22. anagram "CIA far" = AFRICA
23. eth(N)ic - ETHNIC
24. hidden "I'm pug nosed" = IMPUGN
25. anagram "twit in" = NITWIT


Copyright © 2004 Matthew Lees

DeanZine-Current Issue-mainpage

DeanZine-Last Issue-mainpage

 

deanfriedman.com

 

 


SUBSCRIBE TO DeanZine

  • FREE Subscription - quarterly  

 

 


 

 

copyright (C) 2004 Dean Friedman Productions

 

 

 

zine-mainpage

 

 

 

deanfriedman.com