Times 26295: PIN number? (4,3) D___ __G
Guardian 26647 (Arachne): Expressing a slight scepticism about old ways of seeing things? (9) G________
Guardian 26632 (Screw): Lead, perhaps, from last 14 letters? (5) __T__
Times 26208: Venturesome sort reaches top of this? (5,7) M____ _______
Times 26096: Fast Spanish fleet runs away — British ships to port and starboard? (7) R______
FT 14998 (Goliath): One might like red mobile phone to be dropped in uncovered toilet (9) O________
Sunday Times 4632 (Dean Mayer): Threw mud? Mud had to be thrown (10) B_________
Guardian 26545 (Nutmeg): Intricate source of visual reception? (5,5) O____ _____
Guardian 26677 (Vlad): To be the boss's squeeze was sheer torture (4,3,8) ____ ___ T_______
FT 15037 (Loroso): Clay, china-like pots (3)
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Times 26208: Venturesome sort reaches top of this? (5,7) Mount Everest(venturesome)*+T(top of This)& LIT
ReplyDeleteSunday Times 4632 (Dean Mayer):Threw mud? Mud had to be thrown (10) BADMOUTHED(MUD HAD TO BE)*
Guardian 26545 (Nutmeg): Intricate source of visual reception? (5,5) OPTIC NERVE(CD)
4 is Mount Everest (venturesome, top of (t)his.
ReplyDelete5 is Ramadan (fast). Armada, R for runs: away, RN either side of it.
7 is Badmouthed (anagram)
10 is Ali. Cassius Clay.
6 is Oenophile, lover of (red) wine
ReplyDeleteUncovered toilet is 'oile' ,with anagram of phone.
2 is gaslights.
ReplyDelete9 is wear the trousers.
ReplyDeleteGuessing from here:
1 is Dead Leg
3 is Actor (C to R is 16 letters, but then..)
8 is Optic Nerve (no clue about the anno)
I've spotted five so far:
ReplyDeleteTimes 26208: MOUNT EVEREST (anag.)
Times 26096: RAMADAN (ARMADA -R with R[oyal] N[avy] at either end)
Sunday Times 4632: BADMOUTHED (anag.)
Guardian 26545: OPTIC NERVE (anag. of V[isual] RECEPTION - my personal favourite!)
FT 15037: ALI (hidden)
Great choices, as ever. Happy New Year!
Guardian 26647 (Arachne): Expressing a slight scepticism about old ways of seeing things? (9) GASLIGHT (T)
ReplyDeleteGuardian 26632 (Screw):Lead, perhaps, from last 14 letters? (5)METAL (M)(ET AL)
Times 26096: Fast Spanish fleet runs away — British ships to port and starboard?(7)
RAMADAN=(ARMADA)*+rN
Guardian 26677 (Vlad): To be the boss's squeeze was sheer torture (4,3,8)
WEAR THE TROUSERS ( WAS SHEER TORTURE)*
FT 14998 (Goliath): One might like red mobile phone to be dropped in uncovered toilet (9) OENOPHILE=(-T)O(ENOPH)*ILE(-T)
ReplyDeleteFT 15037 (Loroso): Clay, china-like pots (3) ALI (T)
Times 26295: PIN number? (4,3) DEAD LEG
All wonderful clues I thought; loved MOUNT EVEREST clue the best.
Times 26295: PIN- LEG number (which makes numb) DEAD LEG (CD)
ReplyDeleteGuardian 26647: ExpressinG A SLIGHT Scepticism GASLIGHTS (T) Defn: old ways of seeing things
Guardian 26632: 1) Lead, perhaps 2) last 14 letters METAL(M et al) (d&cd)
Times 26208: Venturesome*+ T (top of This) (MOUNT EVERES*)(T) (&lit)
Times 26096: ARMADA-R with RN on either side R(A[-r]MADA)N Defn: Fast
FT 14998: PHONE* in [-t]OILE[-t] {[-t]O(ENOPH*)ILE[-t]} Defn: One might like red mobile phone
Sunday Times 4632: (Mud had to be)* BADMOUTHED* Defn: Threw mud?
Guardian 26545: (v+reception)* OPTIC NERVE (&lit)
Guardian 26677: (squeeze was sheer)* WEAR THE TROUSERS* Defn: To be the boss
FT 15037: chinA-LIke ALI (T) Defn: (Cassius) Clay
Posting (slowly) in the order solved
ReplyDeleteTimes 26096
Fast (def): R{AMADA}N
Spanish fleet runs away: A(r)MADA -R
British ships to port and starboard?: RN surrounding
Times 26208: *{MOUNT,EVEREST}
Anagrind: sort, fodder: venturesome, semi-&lit
Trying to find something more clever for Guardian 26545 than a cryptic def for "OPTIC NERVE," but I think that might be all there is to that clients
ReplyDeleteGuardian 26632 must be very clever... The first 13 letters are A TO M, and lead could be an ATOM. I've seen at least one clue like that before. But these are the last 14, M TO Z, and the enumeration wouldn't be correct, so I suppose it must be a riff on that type of clue.
ReplyDeleteTimes 26295, I feel, must be some sort of anesthetic. Although I suppose a needle is different from a pin.
ReplyDeleteGuardian 26632: Lead, perhaps, from the last 14 letters?
ReplyDelete{M, ET AL.}
Guardian 26647 Expression[G A SLIGHT S]cepticism: fodder
ReplyDeleteabout: container indicator
old ways of seeing things?: GASLIGHTS
S Times 4632: Threw mud? (def): BADMOUTHED, as badmouthing is aka "mudslinging" in America and presumably "mudthrowing" in the UK. Or perhaps they thought "thrown" was a better anagrind than "slung" and took some liberties.
ReplyDelete{MUD HAD TO BE*}: anagram fodder
thrown: anagram indicator
*{BADMOUTHED}
Clay: birth name of famous boxer Muhummad Ali
ReplyDeletechin{A-LI}ke: fodder
pots: container indicator
Pin apparently is slang for "leg" and so I'm going to have to say Times 26295 (PIN number?) is DEAD LEG. I don't see much about numbness, but there are a few things about numbness in severe cases.
ReplyDeleteStill one left, hm? Dunno if I'll be able to crack that one...
Ah, two left actually
ReplyDeleteNever heard of this word!
ReplyDeleteFT14998
One might like red: def, wine connoisseur (might like rosé)
mobile: anagrind
{PHONE*}: fodder
to be dropped in: insertion indicator
uncovered: remove the outside letters that "clothe" the word
toilet: (t)OILE(t)
O{*ENOPH}ILE
Well solved, everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe consolidated answers first:
Times 26295: PIN number? (4,3) DEAD LEG
Cryptic definition; a 'dead leg' is an injury that causes a temporary numbness in the leg; 'pin' is slang for leg.
Guardian 26647 (Arachne): Expressing a slight scepticism about old ways of seeing things? (9) GASLIGHTS
Hidden in 'expressinG A SLIGHT Sceptisim'
Guardian 26632 (Screw): Lead, perhaps, from last 14 letters? (5) METAL
The last 14 letters are {M, N, O...Z} i.e. M ET AL; 'lead, perhaps' is a D-by-E.
Times 26208: Venturesome sort reaches top of this? (5,7) MOUNT EVEREST
(VENTURESOME)* T[this] &lit
Times 26096: Fast Spanish fleet runs away — British ships to port and starboard? (7) RAMADAN
ARMADA (Spanish fleet) - R (runs), inside RN (British ships). Definition: fast
FT 14998 (Goliath): One might like red mobile phone to be dropped in uncovered toilet (9) OENOPHILE
(PHONE)* in [t]OILE[t]. Definition: one might like red (as in, red wine). This clue also reminded me of Aakash's winner at CCCWC.
Sunday Times 4632 (Dean Mayer): Threw mud? Mud had to be thrown (10) BADMOUTHED
(MUD HAD TO BE)*. Definition: threw mud
Guardian 26545 (Nutmeg): Intricate source of visual reception? (5,5) OPTIC NERVE
(V[isual] + RECEPTION)* &lit
Guardian 26677 (Vlad): To be the boss's squeeze was sheer torture (4,3,8) WEAR THE TROUSERS
(WAS SHEER TORTURE)*. Definition: to be the boss
FT 15037 (Loroso): Clay, china-like pots (3) ALI
hidden in 'chinA-LIke'. Definition: Clay
@Vasant: I had read OPTIC NERVE as a cryptic definition too at first. Impressive that the wordplay defines the answer so accurately!
ReplyDelete@Lahar: Well-tried with ACTOR :-)
@Chris Philpot: Glad you liked the choice of clues. Happy New Year!
@michael: I enjoyed reading the thought process behind your solving the clues. Thanks for sharing.
BADMOUTHED: 'throw mud at' is standard idiom AFAIK, the dictionaries list both 'sling' and 'throw' versions. Plus of course, the use of threw/thrown has a lovely symmetrical effect on the surface.
OENOPHILE was a new word to me too, but gettable from the wordplay I thought - and one I'm happy to add to my vocabulary!
Fairly gettable, I had to look up "ONEOPHILE" and Google said "did you mean 'oeonphile'?"
DeleteHave been working on setting using Crossword Compiler, or attempting to do so. I have had to edit a lot because apparently I made the clues too complicated :p Currently trying to juggle "column", "order", and "charged" to make a double definition clue for IONIC with a military surface...
Well..well..well!Then for the sheer deviousness Optic Nerve takes the cake..
ReplyDeleteOne other clue that I loved in 2015 was by Mohsin in THCC...Jigarthanda...that was one heck of a clue
Solution submitted. Somehow, appear to have been missed.
ReplyDeleteOnce earlier also, it was found that it had gone to the spam folder.
@vasant: Do you remember the Jigarthanda clue?
ReplyDelete@michael: Making the clues too complicated - that happens :-)
@Nadathur Rajan: Thanks for telling me about it. Found the comment now and published it. All correct answers (except the anno for WEAR THE TROUSERS, which must be an oversight), well cracked.
The Clue appeared in a Clue Writing Contest hosted by CV Sir:
ReplyDeleteSubbaraj's latest – a grand hit released on the 1st of August (11)
The word Play is:J:Subbaraj's latest
(A grand hit)*+A
It is a name of a movie directed by Subbaraj & released on 1st of August making it a perfect & LIT
@vasant: Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteWas looking for "My Top Ten Clues 2016" but can't find it. Hope it will appear soon.
ReplyDeleteSTSahasrabudhe
@STSahasrabudhe: Didn't solve enough in 2016 to make a top ten list. Sorry about that. 2017 has been more regular solving-wise so far, hopefully there will be a top ten by the end of this year...
ReplyDelete