Three from LAT:
Spliced screen outtakes are often vented (6)
Dissembling sly fool will wing it unassisted (3,4)
Tattler's threat to an ailing bowman (3,4)
Two from ST:
Almost sounds like an effort to bring together instead of a way of splitting apart (4)
A protozoan stooge replaced one member of a Swedish pop music group (6)
 LAT |  Seattle Times 8/26/14 NYT |
Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
Sound | created by | a virgin (4)
[homophone] [MADE] = [MAID]
Frozen food | and | ale | found in | backwards eras (4,3)
[SARA LEE] [=] [ALE] [contained in] [SAR^E]
During the | hoopla, I'd | detected | a pattern (5)
[hidden] [hooPLA I'D] [=] [PLAID]
Some lack of balance seems, | at the beginning, | as if | they were neglectful (5)
[Some Lack Of Balance Seems] [initials] [=] [SLOBS]
A saint for sailors has | sensitive effigies (5)
[{st. ELMO'S] = [{tickle-me-}ELMO {muppet doll}[S]]
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I left you some clues yesterday for your amusement.
ReplyDeleteHere are my comments on your clues for today.
LAT1: Spliced screen outtakes are often vented (6)
Nice construction, Was not sure what to splice at first. The definition perhaps should have been “is often vented” unless the word can serve as the plural also.
LAT2: Dissembling sly fool will wing it unassisted (3,4)
OK. Straightforward anag. “Wing it” is a nice def.
LAT3: Tattler's threat to an ailing bowman (3,4)
OK. Another (3,4), although strictly (1’2,4). Odd that contractions are ignored in word counts. Data’s fault, no doubt…
I like it that you ignore the contraction in the cryptic part 1, as well as capitalization for cryptic part 2 – both fair play.
ST1: Almost sounds like an effort to bring together instead of a way of splitting apart (4)
OK. I assume you are thinking of that acronymic back-formed verb, which is often used for cutting, but rarely for splitting apart. An exact Sounds like of bringing together could give you LAYS; but you chose the non-risqué route which involves a different kind of insertion – this time the letter “I”, for an “almost” sounds like.
ST2: A protozoan stooge replaced one member of a Swedish pop music group (6)
OK. “Protozoan” kind of gives the answer away, and then you have to work back with an exotic cryptic. As far as I know there IS only one Swedish Pop music group, and given your self-acclaimed ignorance of music, I am sure you agree. Then ABBA, mixed with “one member” almost seemed to solve the cryptic; and “stooge” has one meaning meaning of “drift around aimlessly”, which could have been an anagram/mixer pointer. But then I FINALLY checked back at the names of the THREE STOOGES to recall the man in question, and the cryptic fell into place. Just thought I would bore you with my thought processes.
Etymological note. I was about to chastise you for using Ailing as a definition of Ill, assuming they had the same origin. But it seems not. Although the original meanings of Ill (wicked, evil, malevolent) and Ail (troublesome, disgraceful) are quite similar, their routes appear to be distinct: Ill comes from Old Norse (Illr), while Ail is ultimately from Germanic/Gothic (Agls).
ReplyDeleteNot a lot of people know that. Even fewer care, one suspects.
NC
And 4 for today
ReplyDeleteST3: Little volume as penny drops for David’s favorite (5).
ST4: I find myself at the center of virus attacks (6)
LAT4: Plays the role of croupier in ones dreams (5)
LAT5: Find an orbital vehicle (6)
NC
I got two entirely, one partially, and one I'm unsure of.
ReplyDeleteST3: Little volume as penny drops for David’s favorite (5).
Bathsheba and Solomon aren't in this puzzle, so I guess it must mean his favorite type of poem. And P for quiet is obvious. But what does a penny dropping have to do with slam? I have a feeling there's some Brit idiom involved here.
ST4: I find myself at the center of virus attacks (6)
Took me a while to identify SARS for this container.
LAT4: Plays the role of croupier in ones dreams (5)
I was thrown off by the red herring of DEALT, so close and yet so far, only one letter off.
LAT5: Find an orbital vehicle (6)
Only 2 6-letter words in LAT, and neither spleen nor oilers fits any of that. But there is one in ST that might, as to strike oil or a gold mine, with trike as a vehicle, but I don't get S as an orbital.