Untangling words and yarn

Untangling words and yarn

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

The Age/SMH cryptic by DP #20,724

Not too difficult today and plenty of straightforward cluing. Very light on anagrams, I think there are just two. Lots of double definitions and and cryptic definitions. A few of them I was a big vague about and I needed One Across to help me get 25A and 5D.



22A - State Emergency Service missing hooters (5)

I had all the cross letters in place and took a guess the answer was NOSES with "hooters" as the definition but it is just that with the SES "missing" it's NO SES? Rather Boo Hiss if it is.

24A - Make haste - just like that! (4)

I put in DASH more for the "make haste" side but I don't know what it all means. The exclamation mark makes me think it's an &lit but I'm missing it...oh I'm a moron; there's a frigging  -  in the clue! I always ignore punctuation and didn't pay it any mind. I kept thinking it was a Tommy Cooper thing.

Other than those, I had this one done in time for lunch where Malcolm and I headed into town to grab our free Boost drink. We were the first Malcolm & Julie couple to claim one. I wager we'll be the only.

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