The clues in which definitions moved were 23dn (LUSTRE) whose definition a cut-glass pendant was at 3dn (TILED, not come across this meaning before) where bound to secrecy was at 8dn, some African countries (for MAGHREB) having moved to 1dn which had lost groove (for SCROBE) to 23dn. The ten clues with letters to be omitted spelt out intervening distance. I was flummoxed for a few minutes as I read it as More horny!Īnd so to the endgame. 11ac was More homy contestant weaving material (6) with contestant becoming contest. 20dn Ineptly maul most of short piece reconciling vocal changes (7) was UMLAUTS. SDEIGN and THEREIN finally came to the rescue to enable RANGLERS to appear.įavourite two-letter-drops were in 20dn and 11ac. In fact, the grid came together in marginally less than an inordinately long time! I wasn’t helped by initially entering 21ac as STRANERS which made 6dn and 14dn impossible to unravel. It would turn out that most of the two letters to be dropped would not be so forgiving. Not that helped me get SMIT straightaway. I thought I was off to a good start with 1ac Emotionally influenced by poet, finally makes me intense (4) where the intense looked like it could reduce to tense. And four clues needed to pass their definition to one of the others. First of all, the clues, and ten of them needed two letters to be removed before solving and then one answer in each row and column needed moving to the external cell around the grid.
Lots of thematic words, an a, b, c, d and e which came together as abaaaaaaacdee, and an endgame that had ‘daunting’ written all over it.
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