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/
Borodin
batarde
Saboteur
flashling
jonofwales
Cornick
sprouthater
uiytjhgmj
willow1235
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 … š
Serendipity indeed. š
What AndyT said! š
I almost never spot ninas…
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.
The number of times that has helped when I’ve got badly stuck…
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.