Frosty look back to the first day of the last month (4)
Two from LAT:
Mammon's love causes chaotic volatile floor (4,2,3,4)
Boatswain whistles up quantum particle (5)
Two from ST:
Half of pools sound like they were made to be wet (4,4)
Poll is a fixture in a church (3)
 LAT |  Seattle Times 8/13/14 NYT |
Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
What dogs do | in front of the entrance (3)
[DOO {doo-doo}] = [DOOr]
Mother of | high-impact sound | has | animal sex (6)
[MA] [TING {high impact-sound}] [=] [MATING]
Iron-Man's alter-ego | is | luminary | with | potassium (5)
[{Tony} STARK] [=] [STAR] [+] [K]
Prying | brown dog (6)
[SNOOPY] = [{Charlie Brown's dog} SNOOPY]
Man-cave | was | Ned|'s retreat (3)
[DEN] [=] [NED] [reversed]
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Had a busy day - just got to them.
ReplyDeleteLAT1: Frosty look back to the first day of the last month (4)
Very good. I kept looking at IGUA and IPES, then got it.
LAT2: Mammon's love causes chaotic volatile floor (4,2,3,4)
Very good anagram, but the grid does not offer many options.
LAT3: Boatswain whistles up quantum particle (5)
Bit of a dubious homophone, and the answer is shortened form of the definition. Why “up” ?
ST1: Half of pools sound like they were made to be wet (4,4)
There seemed to be only one answer in the grid, but I could not parse the cryptic until I Googled “Depends”. Now I get it. Never heard of them before; hope I never have to use them.
ST2: Poll is a fixture in a church (3)
Well, it’s a research group/think tank that does things including conducting polls. Hardly a synonym. Pollster, maybe.
Here are yesterday's that you did not get:
ReplyDeleteLAT2: Set up part of the U.K. facility (5)
The answer is TRAIN. Definition is SET, as in "a train=set of events".
Cryptic is: UP (N.I. (Northern Ireland) = part of U.K. + ART = facility, as in "ability") = TRA - IN.
ST1: Sport lacks Eastern purity (5)
I thought this was going to be too easy.
The answer is KARAT = purity. Cryptic is sport (=KARATE) lacking E.
Playing catch-up here:
ReplyDeleteFrom Monday:
ST1: Personal success faces a question of bondage, perhaps (1,4,2)
Critique: Wouldn't this be DEITIMA? Or on a word-by-word basis, MAIDEIT? At least all the parts are there.
Response: Definition is "Personal success" = I MADE IT. Cryptic; when read backward (faced), and reparsed => TIED, AM I (?).
From Sunday:
ReplyDeleteLAT5: The foreign craft landed Paris’s increasing selection of the contemptible.
Critique: I want a flying SAUCEr and the golden APPLE that started Paris's trouble, but AENEAS was also a Trojan, and anyhow I don't see how they would fit. Numeration might have helped.
Response: this followed the "CHINA" acrostic. I thought I would push the acrostic technique one step further. "Rising selection" starts with the first letter of the first word, the second letter of the second word, etc. so:
The fOreign crAft lanDed PariS’s increasing selection of the contemptible. => TOADS
LAT6: Incompetent, but stand to express regret and thank Mum (7)
Critique: I think I see the direct, and RUE "standing", and MA, but think you're using a British meaning of TA that I'm not familiar with.
Response TA = thanks; Mum points to British usage.
LAT7: Light source returns with a perfect additional safety measure (6)
LASER I see, the T I don't see.
"a perfect" was meant to point to "to a T", but does not quite work.
LAT8: Is a patriotic sentiment another way to tout the start of western anarchy? (4,1,7)
TOUT W. ANARCHY nice anagram. Do you have a stand-alone program or use a website to find anagrams? I have a couple programs, but keeping an eye out for better sites.
I use http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/ in the "advanced" mode and "English with obscure words".