Three from LAT:
Eunuchs talked about operating programs (4)
Faulty seam geographically located in Arizona (4)
Credit a tree to die (5)
Two from ST:
It's a dark world when people let unknowns take over primacy (5)
In late June, the last name isn't as certain (6)
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Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
I | was in with | Cheneys (père et fils) | playing | menaces in Oz (5)
[I] [inside] [LONS] [=] [LIONS {and tigers and bears, oh my!}]
Moan | after | half of salad-bar | came back up (4)
[alas] [=] [SALAdbar] [reversed]
Brain power | sees premonitions | revealed (3)
[E.S.P.] = [seES Premonitions] [hidden]
Troy | is | hip (5)
[ILIUM] [=] [ILIUM]
Gardner | did | a reeling | reel (4)
[ERLE {Stanley Gardner}] [=] [anagram] [REEL]
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I struggled with the first clue from yesterday and never posted. Figured LIONS was the most likely answer, but could not link LON and CHENEY (Dick Cheney had 2 daughters). Now I know why. YOU MIS-SPELLED CHANEY (!!!!) .
ReplyDeleteEunuchs talked about operating programs (4)
ReplyDeleteAha, another one of your dubious homophones; although in its defense the homophone is not clued but given directly. Strictly, the answer is an “Operating System”, which I suppose you might consider as comprising a set of “operating programs” - although I never heard the latter phrase before, and there is much more to a modern OS than primary code.
Faulty seam geographically located in Arizona (4)
And California too… It’s déjà vu all over again. Which reminds me, I forgot to mention another point from your first clue from yesterday. Donc dites, pourquois le français? Vous avez me dit que votre “langue des grenouilles**” n’étant pas jugé valable. Je ne suis pas d’accord!
**=Language of the frogs. "The frogs" is a jocular [Brit] term for the French.
Credit a tree to die (5)
La charade facile. Mais encore on peut entendre les grenouilles….avant la mort?
It's a dark world when people let unknowns take over primacy (5)
C’est l’acrostique supérieure! Ah oui, autrefois la planète fière, mais maintentant juste une autre pauvre petite roche, perdue en espace. Cherchez le chien!
In late June, the last name isn't as certain (6)
C’est la charade plus compliquée. Mais n’oubliez pas, “the last name”, c’est “Big” en Californie.
OK, that’s enough Frog-speak. Nice job.
NC
My set:
ReplyDeleteLAT4: Southern witches are English mates (5).
ST3: Dial M for Mystery to obtain the rhyme for Hand or Eye (8).
ST4: Magnet pair loses Eastern grouse (9)
ST5: Many a flower bed favors Eastern U.S. gardens (5)
Back to Thursday:
ReplyDeleteST4: Precise volume is repeated, in short (7)
Literal sort of fits precise, but I can't see it nor any other word cryptically fitting the other half.
You score 0.5. Precise = LITERAL. Volume = LITER, repeated in short = A L. => LITER-AL
ST5: A womanly shape lacks Cassiopeia’s rarity (7)
Several words fit womanly shape: Delilah, scenery, obesity, but I can't see the cryptic in any of them. Cassie always told the truth or could see the future, but was cursed that no one would believe her. Don't see how that can be twisted into a cryptic.
You score 0. "Shape" is the pointer to an anagram of ["A WOMANLY" - lacks Cassiopeia’s (constellation) = - W] => ANOMALY = rarity.
NC
LAT4: Southern witches are English mates (5).
ReplyDeleteEasy charade and British slang.
ST3: Dial M for Mystery to obtain the rhyme for Hand or Eye (8).
Only one 8-letter word in the puzzle, and it's an anagram for M+MYSTERY, so that's easy enough despite dial being an odd indicator. But except for hands & eyes being symmetrical, I don't see what rhyme has to do with it.
ST4: Magnet pair loses Eastern grouse (9)
A nice subtraction/anagram.
ST5: Many a flower bed favors Eastern U.S. gardens (5)
Nope, got me on this one.
Re:Thursday, I see I missed LITER, which was dumb of me, but that A seems conjured out of tin air. Likewise I should have seen shape as an anagram indicator, but how does Cassiopeia give W? It had better not be that the constellation is shaped like a W, because damned near all of them have or could have a W in them!