Sunday, August 10, 2014

Sunday, Aug.10 LAT


Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:

Not | at the | northeast | entrance (6)
[NEGATE] [=] [NE] [GATE]

See | mental powers | applied to a | fork (4)
[ESPY] = [ESP] [+] [Y]

Slowdown | occurred when | Limbaugh resigned (2,4)
[NO RUSH] [=] [NO RUSH]

Present in the audience | at | X|D (8)
[ATTENDEE] = [AT] [TEN] [DEE]
Some misdirection for experienced solvers, because "in the audience" is usually an indicator for a homophone.

Not going hither, | speech | will be | a boring illustration (4)
[YON] [homophone] [=] [YAWN]



LAT


A handful of clues, all from today's LAT, with an anagram, charade, double definition, subtraction, and one other:

Intertwining with briefly stated complaint had nothing leading nowhere (5)

Riot act thrown at Italian cheese (7)

Thomas Hart was either senator or artist, it was determined (4,2)

Lab animal's ins and outs were compared mathematically (5)

Running noose incorporated in design of cafeteria tables (5)

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  1. Nice CuppaAugust 10, 2014 at 7:49 AM

    Owen

    Owen

    First your mystery clue to "YAWN". I tried to put on my best American accent, but still could not equate YON and YAWN - they are very different vowels in Brit-speak. Still, this is the US, so it's my failure.

    NC

    Now to my clues from yesterday:

    1. Your best bet, DIAL is correct. A little risqué, as the reverse is LAID, hence the sex.

    2. GLENDA. The 2 valleys are GLEN and DALE; lacks the French = lacks LE. GLEN-DALE lacks "LE" => GLENDA = woman

    3. ORWELL is an example of an ALIAS (for (Eric Blair)). Turns up - SAILA - with A => SAIL = propeller (in its general sense) of a sail-ship.

    4. Brother is GIBB [all dead now]; a musical note, E, and the end of GAelic = (I)RISH => GIBBERISH = tripe.

    (5). I though hard about prone, since it seemed to flow. For a down clue it's OK since its meanings of "LYING DOWN" or "FACE DOWNWARD" would be a reversal. Doesn't work so well for an across clue, I agree.

    NC

    My clues will follow much later - must go play golf now.

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  2. OwenKLAugust 10, 2014 at 8:37 AM

    NC: RE your clues

    2 Your clue didn't just say 2 valleys, it said twin valleys. I tried both GLEN-GLEN and DALE-DALE, but didn't imagine one of each.

    3 I knew the nom de plume, so considered GEORGE, ERIC, & BLAIR. ALIAS? That would be a meta-clue, second (or in this case more like 3rd) level. Then you reverse it, bringing it incontrovertibly to third level, then do a subtraction bringing it to fourth level!

    4 I've searched for GIBB with no luck, so I'm left assuming it's your own personal brother who was named GIBB. That is so egregiously unfair it's, well, TRIPE!

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    1. Nice CuppaAugust 10, 2014 at 2:15 PM

      2. Well, "twin" in the looser sense of "counterpart", GLEN being of Gaelic origin, DALE of Germanic origin. I agree TWO would have been better, but I was obviously influenced by TWIN PEAKS as a misdirection.

      3. I did day ORWELL, "for example", so I considered ALIAS as a first level clue. Reversing and removing "A" were pretty obvious once you had the first level answer, so I would consider it second level. As a "fresh" clue I agree this would be pushing things, but given a limited word list to pick from, I think it is acceptable.

      4. Barry, Robin and Maurice GIBB comprised the BEE GEES (=The Brothers Gibb), an internationally famous pop group ("Saturday Night Fever", etc) I thought (formed in 1958), and in the news recently since the second of them just died, sadly. When I just googled GIBB, the Bee Gees was pretty much all I got.

      NC

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  3. OwenKLAugust 10, 2014 at 8:59 AM

    Orwell, for example, turns up without a propeller (4)

    1) Orwell -!> Blair. 2) Blair is a mail-order store whose catalogs turn up in the MAILS. 3) "A" is the first letter, so MAILS without its first letter is AILS. 4) You can anagram that or turn it by rotating the last letter to the front to get SAIL.

    Sorry for the sophism. Just showing -T how, if levels of embedded clues are allowed to go beyond the second, anything can be shown to lead to anything else!

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  4. Nice CuppaAugust 10, 2014 at 7:00 PM

    Answers:

    1. STUMPED!!
    2. Nice simple anagram. Time for a photo.
    3. Did not know Thomas Hart... so googled to make sure. Nice clue, although there is only one 4,2 in the grid.
    4. Straightforward. Not sure about the 's in the clue though.
    5. Nice hidden clue

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  5. Nice CuppaAugust 10, 2014 at 8:07 PM

    Here are my clues:


    Freedom for sun gods in the seventh heaven (6)

    Scales the distance from China to Britain and American Samoa (6).

    Constellations discovered by free radioactive orbital telescope (6)

    Return of the southern trader begins with short metal signs (6)

    A Senate majority for supporters of Roman weights (6)


    NC

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