Three from LAT:
Fish with a complaint (4)
Prophet of rhythmic Rock (5)
Holds on to top of respirator while having trouble breathing (6)
Two from ST:
Have to fork over dusty old books (5)
Smiled and ate assorted sandwich stuffings (4,5)
Solutions to these clues are in the grids below.
 LAT |  Seattle Times (NYT 9/1/14) |
Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
Getting in the soup, | slurping | willfully (6)
[WON TON] [homophone] = [WANTON]
The | Delaware | captured | an Iranian speaker | in | a weird panel vehicle (3,3,4)
[THE] [DE] [contains] [FARSI] [=] [THE FAR SIDE {single-panel cartoon series}]
The Clampett patriarch | nearly | trailed the rest | to Canada? (3)
[JED] [pun] = [ZED] [the pronunciation of Z throughout the Commonwealth]
Dorothy's love, | when speaking, was | tastelessly affected (4)
[TOTO] = [homophone] [TOO-TOO]
More technically, it's a homograph of a non-standard homophone of TOO-TOO, but you won't find TO-TO in a dictionary.
Wet-nurse | a tributary (6)
[FEEDER] = [FEEDER]
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A simple set today. Monday-level?
ReplyDeleteLAT1: Fish with a complaint (4)
DD. Similar to the original clue. Probably you should end with a question mark, since it is a pun, as did today’s constructor.
LAT2: Prophet of rhythmic Rock (5)
Homophone. Similar to the original clue. Not sure how “rhythmic” points to homophone.
LAT3: Holds on to top of respirator while having trouble breathing (6)
CH. Top or bottom or somewhere in the middle. Not strictly the same part of speech for breathing.
ST1: Have to fork over dusty old books (5)
CH. Nice cryptic construction but definition is very close to clue-word, and not really a definition.
ST2: Smiled and ate assorted sandwich stuffings (4,5)
Anag. Nice organization. No complaints.
In regards my clue from yesterday:
ReplyDeleteDoes sub-continental Runabout lack a desperate Californian solution? (4,5)
Your comment Seems it's i it needs, not a, but maybe you're using both as numeral 1. Also needs a container indicator.
My response: The "container indicator" is "about", with "run" sufficing for "race". I agree that "...lacks one desperate…" would have been better than "..lacks a desperate".