i Cryptic Crossword 764 Radian

July 22, 2013

I found this a real slog, perhaps because I know nothing at all about the theme. Perhaps I should go further, and admit my loathing of golf? 🙂

COD? 23ac. ‘Ballesteros dumps lousy stereos for dance (4)’.

Here’s a link to the 2008 blog, and clues missed.

Across

15 IRON OUT
19 STRIPpED
28 ROsemARY – Where the SEM I think is short for Semester. A Rosary is made up of decades.

No it’s not. See comments. It’s ROSemARY

Down

6 P(A US)E
15 INGENIOUS – I + (using one)*
16 Hidden in both EuROPEan and Saint-OmeR OPEns.
24 spARKLE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkle

http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/07/17/independent-6787radian/

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8 Responses to “i Cryptic Crossword 764 Radian”

  1. George Clements said
    July 22, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    In 19a, the ‘space’ is the printing term ’em’, which is removed from Rosemary to give the solution ‘rosary’ as you correctly show.

  2. George Clements said
    July 22, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    Oops, sorry, should be 28a.

  3. Nick said
    July 22, 2013 at 7:29 pm

    I guess it helps if you like golf although 23a is simply BALL. ESTEROS anagram of STEREOS is ignored – nothing to. do with Golf. I guess 1 down is LEADER can anyone see where ‘scores picked up’ comes into it?

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