That went down pretty well, thanks Rupert. Nice interprandial interlude.
Liked 10A, 18D for multiple misdirections, 24D and 19A. Never heard of 3D but very fair wordplay. Tricky but fun defs in 5D, 13A, 25A, and 14A.
Don’t get 23A and 24D. And not sure about my reading of 14A. I’m missing 2 letters?
23A: Definition is at the end. The broadcaster is in the UK, and misusing is one of those direction/fodder combos I like so much.
24D: New York has two major league baseball teams. Everyone knows (and hates) the Yankees. The other team are perennial losers. Reverse their name to get a word for stop.
14A: go is part of the fodder for “nuts”, not part of the directive “go nuts”.
20D is a tricky one. “Bin” is another fodder/directive combo (I need to find a word for those). “unreactive” is from chemistry. And it’s a very obscure meaning of “cabbage” that makes the definition.
That went down pretty well, thanks Rupert. Nice interprandial interlude.
Liked 10A, 18D for multiple misdirections, 24D and 19A. Never heard of 3D but very fair wordplay. Tricky but fun defs in 5D, 13A, 25A, and 14A.
Don’t get 23A and 24D. And not sure about my reading of 14A. I’m missing 2 letters?
23A: Definition is at the end. The broadcaster is in the UK, and misusing is one of those direction/fodder combos I like so much.
24D: New York has two major league baseball teams. Everyone knows (and hates) the Yankees. The other team are perennial losers. Reverse their name to get a word for stop.
14A: go is part of the fodder for “nuts”, not part of the directive “go nuts”.
Ah, 23’s good! I had 24D. I meant 20D.
14A Still stuck, had ‘go’ as part of the fodder. Could you give me a hint about ‘when there’s no tea’?
20D is a tricky one. “Bin” is another fodder/directive combo (I need to find a word for those). “unreactive” is from chemistry. And it’s a very obscure meaning of “cabbage” that makes the definition.
14A: “when there’s no tea” = remove a T
Got them now, thanks Rupert.
Like the ‘bin’ in 20D. That meaning of ‘cabbage’ is a newy for me but Wordnik helped me out.