All five today from LAT:
Getting in the soup, slurping willfully (6)
The Delaware captured an Iranian speaker in a weird panel vehicle (3,3,4)
The Clampett patriarch nearly trailed the rest to Canada? (3)
Dorothy's love, when speaking, was tastelessly affected (4)
Wet-nurse a tributary (6)
Solutions to these clues are in the grids below.
I'm still working on today's ST, but when I've finally finished it later I'll add its grid to this page, even though I won't use it for any Cryptic clues today.
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Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
Op. cit. | below opposite (5)
[ABOVE] = [ABOVE]
Boosters | are | pigs (7)
[ROOTERS] [=] [ROOTERS]
Swore a | curse | at | the party (6)
[SWORE A] [homophone] [=] [SOIREE]
I had heard it and read it before, but it wasn't until I saw it in the closed captioning of a Star Trek episode I had the sound on for that I realized they were the same word!
Farm machine | sounds like | it got off the freeway to avoid a jam (5)
[BALER] = [homophone] [BAILER]
Found collage | on | Junior's | soap-box derby entry (4,3)
[JUNK ART] [=] [JUN.] [KART]
Two homophones and two double definitions today. I usually try to make each clue a different type, but if I did it every day, it would become a predictable pattern.
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LAT1: Getting in the soup, slurping willfully (6)
ReplyDeleteI see WANTON, which when slurped becomes WANTIN’ = willfully. But WONTONs get in soup; WANTONs don’t (very often).
LAT2: The Delaware captured an Iranian speaker in a weird panel vehicle (3,3,4)
Straightforward charade; although it is the language, not the speaker, that is captured.
LAT3: The Clampett patriarch nearly trailed the rest to Canada? (3)
The Clampett patriarch is JED. The nearest word in the grid is ZED. Some Canadians use ZED in place of ZEE, which would make a connection to REST (a few ZEEs). But I cannot see a link from JED to ZED.
LAT4: Dorothy's love, when speaking, was tastelessly affected (4)
I would guess the answer is TOTO, which in American might sound like TOAD-O, with TOAD meaning tastelessly affected. Not sure where the last O comes from.
LAT5: Wet-nurse a tributary (6)
DD. I was expecting something a little more titillating, but a respectable answer is in the grid; an interesting word as it can mean both the provider and the receiver.
Here's a few, all from LAT
ReplyDeleteProfessor of Ecclesiastic Music (5)
Order to end lovemaking? (4,5)
Does sub-continental Runabout lack a desperate Californian solution? (4,5)
Half of the capital eggs on dancer (7)
Cost of the German machine supplier (6)
It's almost Monday, and I've just posted my response to Saturday's comments!
ReplyDeleteDon't see your problem with the first couple. Wanton and willful are synonyms. I might have fudged adjective for adverb form, but I don't think that's your objection. And Farsi is a term for a speaker of the language, as well as the language itself.
"Nearly" and the ? were signals that a pun was being made, a very loose homophone, and "trailed the rest" refered to Z's place in a any list.
Toto you got, even though it's based on a slang term you're apparently not familiar with. More on that tomorrow.
Professor of Ecclesiastic Music (5)
ReplyDeleteChurch + lilting tune, a nice charade.
Order to end lovemaking? (4,5)
A bit vulgar and premature.
Does sub-continental Runabout lack a desperate Californian solution? (4,5)
Seems it's i it needs, not a, but maybe you're using both as numeral 1. Also needs a container indicator.
Half of the capital eggs on dancer (7)
As they say in baseball, Bator up!
Cost of the German machine supplier (6)
This one took me a while, but was obvious once I saw it! Good charade!