Three from LAT:
Urinate in South Dakota with dispatch (5)
Sticky stuff can be pinned up (5)
Tie 5/8ths of acrostic to agitation (5)
Two from ST:
Wood nymph loses right to be twins (4)
From the first, emigrants learned language is something US immigrants once needed to to pass (5)
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Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
Major holidays | should, | in hindsight, be | left alone (4)
[TETS] [=] [reverse] [STET]
A rental | commode? | I'm out of here! (2,3)
[TO LET] = [TOiLET] [minus I]
Fold | is | first choice | poker leaves everyone at times (5)
[PLEAT] [=] [initials] [Poker Leaves Everyone At Times]
Greek woman | caused | confusion with | a raid NE (7)[ARIADNE] [=] [anagram] [A RAID NE]
Houri, a harem | inhabitant, | was | victim of a royal murder (5)
[hoURI A Harem] [hidden] [=] [URIAH]
If you didn't read the original puzzle clues, Bathsheba's husband URIAH was murdered by King David in the Old Testament.
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Sorry I was busy yesterday, but I read your notes from Friday. To today:
ReplyDeleteLAT1: Urinate in South Dakota with dispatch (5)
Toiletish charade, but fine. Brits don’t xxx, they xyyy or zxx.
LAT2: Sticky stuff can be pinned up (5)
Straightforward double definition. "Stuff" is a bit awkward, as it points to a noun when an adjective is needed.
LAT2: Tie 5/8ths of acrostic to agitation (5)
Tricky anagram. Picking “any 5 from 8” would have been difficult without the grid.
ST1: Wood nymph loses right to be twins (4)
Straightforward subtraction, but I don’t like your definition much (although in crystallography, xxxx is a 2-fold symmetry axis).
ST2: From the first, emigrants learned language is something US immigrants once needed to [to] pass (5)
Nice acrostic. Seems to need an apostrophe at the end of emigrants’ (thus). Other minor typo ignored.
My ‘umble set:
ReplyDeleteLAT4: Try to observe fliers sleeping? (4)
LAT5: Urinated up and down (4)
LAT6: Unaligned Louisiana freeway takes a turn to the east, to the north, and then one final turn (7)
ST3: Like radical group's return to Umbrian town? (6)
ST4: Move slowly before rising up at eleven (4)
ST5: Standing up, I object to work on a single British Railroad that is surrounded by 150 personal lines (5,4)
NC
Apologies - Correction to LAT6:
ReplyDeleteLAT6: Unaligned Louisiana freeway takes a turn to the north, and then one final turn (7)
Here are my responses to your critiques of my “FIRST BASE” clues from Friday
ReplyDeleteNC1: Make Brit safe with a little southern comfort (5,4)
Critique: don't know that there's anything particularly "southern" to it.
Response: The anagram is “Brit + safe + s(outhern)”
Does it lead to fast rise around second? (5,4)
Critique: Looks like just a straight clue (though very tricky) with no cryptic, or a slightly clunky anagram. Were you trying for an &Lit! ?
Response: It was intended as a [clunky] anagram of “fast rise + b(=second)”, but the proper definition is “Does it lead to ……second?”, which mixes cryptic with definition. But then it took on a life of its own, as it could also be read as a whole clue, as you note, so I left it.
NC3 If breasts are taken care of, French kissing may ensue (5,4)
Critique: I looked for the particulars on this, and surprisingly couldn't find it even mentioned on any of my regular dictionaries, and even the Urban Dictionary really wasn't at all specific.
Response: This is what I got from the Urban Dictionary and Wiki:
Urban Dictionary: First Base: “The first step in a sexual relationship involving making out or french kissing”.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_metaphors_for_sex: First base – mouth-to-mouth kissing, especially French kissing.
NC4 Brief ass and tit create early intimacy (5,4).
Critique: How are you getting rid of "it"?
Response: Here, I am guilty of using the cryptic to try to point to “brief tit” = t, which I agree is inappropriate. I should have written something like “Brief ass and a bit of tit create early intimacy (5,4)..
Got 5 out of 6, but one stumped me.
ReplyDeleteLAT4: Try to observe fliers sleeping? (4)
Try ?=? STAB, observe ?=? SEE(K)? You got me.
LAT5: Urinated up and down (4)
Reversal, good.
LAT6: Unaligned Louisiana freeway takes a turn to the north, and then one final turn (7)
Seems like you need one before north to get the order right, but the parts are all there.
ST3: Like radical group's return to Umbrian town? (6)
Didn't recognize Umbria, was wondering how a British region was involved, but looked it up and see it has no connection to Northumbria. You sure do like partial reversals!
ST4: Move slowly before rising up at eleven (4)
Just "move, rising up at eleven" was sufficient.
ST5: Standing up, I object to work on a single British Railroad that is surrounded by 150 personal lines (5,4)
[ME][?OP?][1][railway][C^L] ; I don't get where "object to work on" fits in. Railway isn't just Brit, it's common enough in the US even though RR is more often used. AAAND another reversal!