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Thursday, 10 September 2020

Weekend Quick Cryptic 7 - by Phil Jordan

This time it is Phil's turn to provide the fortnightly amateur weekend quick cryptic crossword. You can try and solve it interactively here or download a PDF to print here. Alternatively you can copy and print the image below. Comments and queries welcome here or with the solution post (see below) or alternatively by email to 1147philjordan@gmail.com


 You can find the solution here.
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6 comments:

  1. alsanch111 September 2020 at 09:24

    Dear Phil,
    Thank you for this much needed weekend QC fix. Crisp and witty surfaces with accurate clueing. Delightful! Please keep up the good work. Many thanks to John for hosting this excellent content.
    Warm Regards,
    Alejandro

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  2. Cedric Statherby12 September 2020 at 12:03

    Thank you Phil for a very enjoyable crossword, which took me 11 minutes so bang in line with most QCs - I marvel at how you get the level of difficulty spot on like this!

    Main holdup was on 9A Bigfoot, which I am not familiar with, but the cluing was very helpful and the checkers helped me to the answer.

    Many clues to enjoy but 20A Bridge is my pick as COD.

    Thanks again and best wishes
    Cedric

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  3. Anonymous14 September 2020 at 09:03

    Coming to this on Monday morning after polishing off Hurley's gentle offering fairly quickly, I was startled by the change of pace - this was a toughie, with 12 clues resisting the first pass! NHO MODEST Mussorgsky; DNK GREASE was a musical before it was a film; and had to work hard to break some of them down (eg KERNEL, where I didn't think of RN for the sailors, and SERIOUS). Lots of great clues/surfaces - BRIDGE, ORBITS, GARDEN and LEAD all get a mention in despatches.

    In the end sadly it was DNF after 20 minutes because I failed to see that the crossing RESIGNED and SPRAY were double definitions, and kept trying to break them up. So well played Phil, you very definitely win today.

    FOI ATHLETIC, LOI (of those that I finished) GREASE, COD ENGULFED.

    Templar

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  4. Anonymous14 September 2020 at 17:33

    I was given XX for the AI in AFRAID and told it was spelt AFRIAD. Also, UNREST was marked wrong and supposed to be INREST??

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    1. John18 September 2020 at 06:45

      Ooops. Sorry. AFRAID and UNREST are right. I transcribed the solution incorrectly. Will fox it for other solvers.

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    2. Anonymous29 October 2020 at 16:39

      How very drill!

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