This secret adjective is found when the first and last letters (totally exposed) are removed from each word of the rest of the clue.ġ3d Fun thing to cut odds for gamble in America (5,5)Ī fun thing or hilarious performance cuts into some odds and ends.ġ7d Erect bar for all to see north of concrete city (8) Take a discourteously brief response and reverse it (brought up) and append a male leader of a monarchy.ĩd Secret totally exposed: best hotel price (8) I am not sure we really need the Americanism indicator here, This synonym of working on the roads has been common parlance here since at least 1981 when a rather rude song by the Not the Nine O’Clock News Comedy Troupe was released. The post from which a flag or sail may be flown, when surrounded by “header” would be a senior teacher.Ĥd American working on roads brought up brief with leader (8) The header of a newspaper in the typographical form in which it normally appears is also the top 4 letters of a male teacher. Osman – PointlessĢ6a Check covering over copy recording (9)Ī check on the financial records of a business covers a cricketty over, followed by an informal copy or imitation.Ģ9a Condiment made from ten bananas dropped in supplementary fluid (5,5)Ī couple of anagram indicators here (bananas, fluid) should lead us to removing the letters of ten from a 13 letter word and anagrammatise what remains for a condiment that Canadians such as Senf and Falcon may be more familiar with.ġd Header seen across such post would be ‘Top Teacher’ (4) Remove the Hebrew priest from relic and put it a weakness or penchant.Ģ2a Criticisms from countries following fraud of French male (13)Ī synonym of fraud, how a French person would say of, The abbreviation for Monsieur, followed “by country we mean a sovereign state that’s a member of the UN in it’s own right” © R. To top or beat handsomely comes from a pirate good that is a poor imitation of the real thing around a synonym of spies.Ģ0a Mighty relic abandoned by priest in weakness (8) The alliances of workers that are currently striking loses the o for old and adds a synonym of great in height.ġ2a Really top spies caught by pirate (5,5,3) I prefer my fries chunky, with fluffy insides and crispy outsides but each to his own.ġ1a Clear system of alliances rejecting old great (9) Some hints follow: Remember the site rules and play nicely.Ī sporting contest and to jam two things together. Another useful page is Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, which features words with meanings that are not always immediately obvious.Ī full review of this puzzle will be published after the closing date for submissions. Most of the terms used in these hints are explained in the Glossary and examples are available by clicking on the entry under “See also” Where the hint describes a construct as “usual” this means that more help can be found in The Usual Suspects, which gives a number of the elements commonly used in the wordplay. You have all been so helpful in sorting out prior parsing failures, and I am sure I will need similar help again. If in doubt, I’ll rub it out! I think that sentence is a bit redundant. I hope I don’t have to redact any comments but I am new at this and don’t want to rock the boat. Don’t forget to follow BD’s instructions in RED at the bottom of the hints! I’ll be back just after the closing date with the full review blog. Some trademark proXimal clues too, extraction anagrams and removal of covering lettersĪs it is a Prize puzzle I can only hint at a few and hope that will give you the checkers and inspiration to go further. A couple of Americanisms and a couple of “Canadianisms” too. No booze today and even the “leaf soup” at 18a is not strong enough to refresh my brain this morning. A bit of a brain mangling last night and the ensuing lie-in have put me a bit behind so I better get on with hinting half of an uneven 14a/16d clues. Sunday Toughie No 50 by proXimal Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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