RENAISSANCE MAN – Biffed from definitions, but it’s survey giving RECONNAISSANCE minus the CON, and the verbal crew for MANĪrab maybe introducing play finally enters a turbulent area (5,9) Person of wide culture avoiding con in survey by crew (11,3) Stick to music for that: fewer choices than on your keyboard. OUTGROW – Flowers that are blooming are OUT, argument is ROW, and the two are surrounding G, a random key. Get too big for blooming argument about key (7) Opposed to what in France is a period piece(7)ĪNTIQUE – Opposed ANTI and “what” in France is QUE That a goosander is a large duck is congenial. GOOSANDER – Look gives you the GANDER in Arthur Daley speak, insert the first (initially this time) of Observing and OS for very large, a standard abbreviation for outsize. Look around initially observing very large duck (9) Alan Day of Birmingham University got there first.ī irds of prey inhabiting remoter nests (5)ĮRNES – Another word for (usually fish-) EAGLES, and today’s hidden in remot ER NESts.Nice that Gouda is actually Dutch cheese. GOUDA – The Indian state is GOA, high class is U according to Nancy Mitford*, and D is the first (primarily) of Dutch. Indian state importing high-class, primarily Dutch, cheese (5) Lost time working with “in case”, and terms to suggest word endings. Case is TRIAL and it’s about ON reversing to give NO and M(otorway). I did wonder if several was a bit too many for three, but let’s not quibble. TRINOMIAL – That’ll be x+y-z for example. Relating to several terms in case about reversing on motorway (9) I’ve included a query for climatologists and geographers concerning what looks like a solecism: I promise I won’t mind if it’s me (and Wiki) that’s mistaken. Otherwise it’s pretty standard fare, with a lot of “first letter” activity and a low anagram count. I’ll be quite surprised if it turns out I’m the only one. I did OK on this one, completing in 22.32, but I should own up straight away to looking up the Trojan priest.
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