pages tagged international programmesnoteshttp://christophe.rhodes.io/notes/tag/international_programmes/notesikiwiki2014-02-17T21:44:58Zeye crossword 513http://christophe.rhodes.io/notes/blog/posts/2014/eye_crossword_513/2014-02-17T21:44:58Z2014-02-06T19:00:24Z
<p>More straightforward than usual, perhaps? Certainly I started it on
the plane from Zürich (<em>after</em> finishing my reading of a draft
<a href="http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/">International Programmes</a>
subject guide on <em>Advanced Graphics and Animation</em>), and finished it
on the bus between City and Plaistow, which speaks either to the level
of the crossword or to the relative lack of distractions in those
environments.</p>
<ul>
<li>7ac: <strong>WASHED UP</strong>: Took part in after-dinner activity – knackered:
Double Definition</li>
<li>9ac/10ac: <strong>PARTY ANIMAL</strong>: <u>Good-time Johnny</u>, Labour's ‘Beast
of Bolsover’?: Double Definition</li>
<li>11ac: <strong>NARCOSIS</strong>: In a cross-dressed <u>sort of stupor</u>:
*(INACROSS)</li>
<li>12ac: <strong>GREENFLY</strong>: <u>Rose's downfall</u>, inexpert trouser opening: GREEN
(= inexpert) + FLY (trouser opening)</li>
<li>14ac: <strong>LIB-LAB</strong>: “<u>Past alliance</u> – Balls at the centre!” Cyclops
squeals: (ba)L(ls) + I BLAB (Cyclops squeals)</li>
<li>16ac/27ac: <strong>POLITICAL CLOUT</strong>: <u>What Clegg hopes the coalition
will give him</u>? Iodine-impregnated fancy lilac top and sock
combination: *(I LILAC TOP) + CLOUT (= sock)</li>
<li>20ac: <strong>SPOT ON</strong>: As Page 3 girls would have to make a comeback?
<u>Exactly</u>: NO TOPS reversed</li>
<li>22ac: <strong>SCRUBBER</strong>: Boris's ultimate carbon johnny <u>cleaner</u>:
(bori)S + C(arbon) + RUBBER (= johnny)</li>
<li>23ac: <strong>IN A PADDY</strong>: Rice to be seen here throwing a wobbly: Double
Definition</li>
<li>26ac: <strong>ON SALE</strong>: Noel's pissed about uprising of his band's nos. 2
and 3 – <u>yours for a fee</u>: *(NOEL) around (o)AS(is) reversed
(ref. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Gallagher">Noel Gallagher</a>,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_(band">Oasis</a>))</li>
<li>28ac: <strong>RUNNER UP</strong>: <u>Not the top choice</u>, ‘Bean Out of Bed’:
RUNNER (= bean) + UP (= out of bed)</li>
<li>1dn: <strong>LAUNDRY</strong>: <u>Steamy place</u>, Los Angeles, not banning
alcohol?: L(os) A(ngeles) + UN-DRY</li>
<li>2dn: <strong>CHAMBER POT</strong>: Where parliamentarians may be seen with drug
<u>dumping receptacle</u>: CHAMBER
(ref. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambers_of_parliament">Chambers of parliament</a>)
+ POT (marijuana)</li>
<li>3dn: <strong>SPUN</strong>: Proprietor primarily involved in tabloid <u>cover-up
is put in a good light</u>: P(roprietor) in SUN</li>
<li>4dn: <strong>SPIRAL</strong>: Is lap dancing about right to <u>screw</u>?: *(ISLAP)
around R(ight)</li>
<li>5dn: <strong>BRIO</strong>: Eye rather grandly on the up, absorbs Independent – <u>dash</u>!: ORB
reversed around I(ndependent)</li>
<li>6dn: <strong>CYNICAL</strong>: <u>Disenchanted</u> Clegg not quite squeezing into lacy creation: NIC(k) (ref. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Clegg">Nick Clegg</a>) inside *(LACY)</li>
<li>8dn: <strong>DOLEFUL</strong>: Wretched as an unemployed person's existence?:
Double Definition
(ref. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits">Dole</a>)</li>
<li>13dn: <strong>YETIS</strong>: Old rock band keeping it up – <u>hairy beasts</u>:
YES (ref. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_(band">Yes</a>) around IT
reversed</li>
<li>15dn: <strong>BALL BUSTER</strong>: Bullet bra's elastic is <u>a real demoraliser of
a bloke</u>: *(BULLET BRAS)</li>
<li>17dn: <strong>CARTOON</strong>: <u>Strip, possibly</u> showing oxygen-inflated
‘package’: O(xygen) inside CARTON (= package)</li>
<li>18dn: <strong>SPINACH</strong>: <u>Sailor man's muscle builder</u>: orgasming in
chaps: *(IN CHAPS)
(ref. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye">Popeye</a>)</li>
<li>19dn: <strong>BELLY UP</strong>: Bishop deployed pulley to achieve <u>female
missionary position</u>: B + *(PULLEY)</li>
<li>21dn: <strong>NUDITY</strong>: No cover-up with this state: Complete Definition</li>
<li>24dn: <strong>PLOT</strong>: <u>Plan</u> to apply pressure to lashings:
P(ressure) + LOT (?= lashings)</li>
<li>25dn: <strong>YARN</strong>: <u>Strand</u>: any cruising to include river: *(ANY)
outside R(iver)</li>
</ul>