Three from LAT:
If questions take effort, sometimes they're leaders to an evaluation of your understanding (2,4)
Ex-Pres takes train to collect a basketful (6)
I put in a call to raise a stink. But nicely. (5)
Two from ST:
An ambivalent animus regarding a grade (1-5)
It's like looking in a tittle for a hairstack (3)
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Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
Unending | palm sap | flows | and | courses through the veins (6)
[drop last letter] [PALM SAp] [anagram] [=] [{blood} PLASMA]
Disparages | kitchenware (4)
[PANS] = [PANS]
Only so much, | otherwise | I'm lit | like a firecracker (5)
[LIMIT] [=] [I'M LIT] [anagram]
A firecracker is an odd indicator, but it scatters pieces of itself.
Union Station | changes | sound (5)
[ALTAR] = [ALTER] [homophone]
Union station (lowercase s) was the clue in ST, and I thought it was tricky enough for the direct part of a Cryptic clue just as it was.
Unadorned, | mast | was a | neutral color (7)
[SPARTAN] = [SPAR] [+] [TAN]
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With regards yesterday's ST1, my answer (TAMPA) seems to fit the bill just as well. Neither ALTAR nor TAMPA fits the cryptic clue perfectly, as discussed yesterday.
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ReplyDeleteNice acrostic. Your culturo-centric understanding, I’m told.
LAT2: Ex-Pres takes train to collect a basketful (6)
Nice Charade. “Train” generally points to the elevated variety in your clues, and you did not disappoint. I thought “Ex-Pres” might point to a nickname or shortened name of a president, but in fact we get 2, full length. Oh, for the volumes of yesteryear!
LAT3: I put in a call to raise a stink. But nicely. (5)
A rose by any other name would raise so well….? I understood that “stink” flows well with “raise”, but a bit harsh on the poor bloomin’ beauty in question.
ST1:An ambivalent animus regarding a grade (1-5)
Crikes, a minimal ambivalence - just 2 little letters and a tittle of re-parsing.
ST2: It's like looking in a tittle for a hairstack (3)
Looks like you got me here. Tittle used to mean the dot on an i or j, or maybe an umlaut in German, but more generally a small amount. So it’s a nice play on needle in a haystack. But looking IN a tittle, one finds ITT, but I do not see how that relates to hairstack. There are AIR and IRA, from HAIR, but they don’t make sense either. NOPE, YOU STUMPED ME.
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Apparently you are unacquainted with The Addams Family. Cousin Itt is all hair. Nothing but hair. A stack of hair with a hat and sunglasses.
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