i Cryptic Crossword 1360 Raich

June 19, 2015

A nice puzzle to end the week from Raich, with a theme I spotted quickly for once, what with the Fab Four dotted amongst the clues, and 8ac. When LET IT appeared at the top of the grid, and a few checking letters elsewhere, in went BE, HELP, and SHE LOVES YOU without too much thought.

My only real difficulty came on 5d where, as far as I was concerned, even with all the checking letters, the rest really could have gone in any order, so I had to use Google to check.

COD? 22ac – ‘What lady of the night charges salt? (8)’.

Here’s the 2010 blog:

http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/08/24/independent-7443raich/

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6 Responses to “i Cryptic Crossword 1360 Raich”

AndyT said
June 19, 2015 at 6:19 pm
Theme?? Oh crikey, yes … completely passed me by as usual. An enjoyable puzzle even without spotting it anyway, and it just so happened that I had the paper resting on a book of Mediterranean recipes … 😉
- jonofwales said
  June 19, 2015 at 6:22 pm
  Serendipity indeed. 😉
dtw42 said
June 19, 2015 at 7:31 pm
What AndyT said! 🙂
I almost never spot ninas…
Cornick said
June 19, 2015 at 9:15 pm
Having done these i crosswords religiously for the last – ooh 3 years, though not as long as JoW, I’d say if it’s got ‘unches’ round the perimeter and it’s a Thursday or Friday, then it’s probably worth keeping a look out for a Nina.
- jonofwales said
  June 19, 2015 at 9:19 pm
  The number of times that has helped when I’ve got badly stuck…
Loulou said
June 20, 2015 at 7:26 am
A three hour train journey on and off yielded only 8 answers and I don’t think infinite time would have yielded any more . Y level , lockstep and tourney totally unknown, Tartrate and sillitoe almost unknown.