Three from LAT:
Corpse's place in recombinant labs (4)
A piece thematically arranged to hum like a well-tuned car (4)
Young adults are divided about altitude in Crimean location (5)
Two from ST:
Swami should harbor anachronists (5)
To keep the apartment longer or let it go? (7)
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Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
Malaproped | skyscraper | for | referee? (6)
[pun] [EMPIRE {state building}] [=] [UMPIRE]
What a hotel maid does | to | excel, for example (7,5)
[BALANCE {bed} SHEET {on her cart}] [=] [BALANCE SHEET {software}]
Ringing in the ears at | swimming match | may be | important to understand (4)
[homophone] [MEET] [=] [MEAT]
Disney princess | is | drug | eastward (7)
[HEROINE] [=] [HEROIN] [E.]
Corruption | right | in | America? | No, the other way around (4)
[RUST] = [RT.] [inside] [US] [inside-out]
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LAT1: Corpse's place in recombinant labs (4)
ReplyDeleteGot it. Nice anagram pointer.
LAT2: A piece thematically arranged to hum like a well-tuned car (4)
Got it. A linguistics use of thematically, I guess.
LAT3: Young adults are divided about altitude in Crimean location (5)
Got it. Worked back from the answer. There are no indicators for abbreviation or first letters
ST1: Swami should harbor anachronists (5)
Got it. Hidden clue. I don’t have the definition word in my dictionary. Anachronisms? Luddites?
To keep the apartment longer or let it go? (7)
Got it. Nice double definition.
You did not try my clues posted yesterday. So I'll wait before posting more.
ReplyDeleteWell OK here are 3, all from LAT
ReplyDeleteThe kind of person to make ones nuts ache? (8)
Prime Minister’s U-turn on T.V. doctor leads to decisive defeat (5)
Boil up acrid mixture for faceless medium (6,5)
And 3 STs
ReplyDeleteST3: Does this State have an elegant south-west?
ST4: Expect two calls (7)
ST5: Take a hard wood and something an Englishman might grasp; remove the head to yield an indispensable English gadget (3,6).
NC
And a final one from ST:
ReplyDeleteBohemian, perhaps, arranged Oprah’s dynamic start (8)
Got them all for once, but questions about parts of a couple.
ReplyDeleteLAT: The kind of person to make ones nuts ache? (8)
Anagram, the direct is rather vague, or irrelevant to the cryptic if you were trying for an &Lit!.
LAT: Prime Minister’s U-turn on T.V. doctor leads to decisive defeat (5)
Nice charade, with initialism and BBC series.
LAT: Boil up acrid mixture for faceless medium (6,5)
Straightforward anagram.
ST3: Does this State have an elegant south-west?
Airy is elegant? Okay, if you say so. You left off (5).
ST4: Expect two calls (7)
Not sure why the second one is a 'call', simple enough charade.
ST5: Take a hard wood and something an Englishman might grasp; remove the head to yield an indispensable English gadget (3,6).
Don't understand why a nettle is specifically something an Englishman might grasp, but otherwise a serviceable charade/dismemberment.
ST: Bohemian, perhaps, arranged Oprah’s dynamic start (8)
Another charade/anagram, and used the head instead of throwing it away.