Colgan's Cryptic Crossword
Across
1. Ignoring borders, musician returned to peninsula (5)
4. 8 capably learned bottling here in Bordeaux (7)
8. Local resource has for example admitted liability (8,5)
9. Victorian grew this flower (8)
10. 13 turning ring (4)
12. Dish carried in to sovereign with utmost care (13)
13. Put 10 back (4)
14. Complaint of lawlessness (8)
17. Control and follow about, helping adjustment back into
society (13)
18. Withdraw from a course after retiring (3,4)
19. Eccentric hairstyle excluded
by castle in Clare (5)
Down
1. Start of light lunch includes pieces of bun (3-2)
2. New head of gym is absorbed in fitness. This has almost no
significance (13)
3. Pursuit of monetary gain (8)
4. A tank-top kept up with pins and needles, with terrible
results (13)
5. Sluggish unit (4)
6. Abandoning selection of
actors has a meaningful implication (7,6)
7. To agree en masse (7)
11. Bumbling around is one old and unwieldy (8)
12. Star has nothing left in
capital (7)
15. Giuliani has managed to do it with high liquidity (5)
16. Agonise at rise of social liberalists (4)
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Solution
EXPLANATIONS (C = cryptic part of clue + S = straight
part of clue; or S + S = clue holding answer twice with two
different straight meanings; or POW = play on words.)
Note that joining words may or may not be an integral part of the
clue.
Punctuation and capital letters are irrelevant.
The art of the setter is to make it non-obvious how and where to
split the clue, and to mislead the solver along an irrelevant path.
Across
1. C: ignoring borders, musician returned
(pianist, without p & t, reversed)
S: peninsula = Sinai
4. C: capably learned (deft) bottling here in
Bordeaux (containing “ici”)
S: 8 (negative asset) = deficit
8. C: local (native) resource (asset) has for
example admitted (contains “eg”)
S: liability = negative asset
9 . C: Victorian (prim) grew (rose)
S: flower = primrose
10. C: 13 (laid) turning (reverse “laid”)
S: ring = dial
12. C: dish (pasta) carried in (contained “in”) sovereign
(kingly)
S: with utmost care = painstakingly
13. C: 10 (dial) back (reverse “dial”)
S: put = laid
14. S: complaint = disorder
S: lawlessness = disorder
17. C: control (rein) follow about (“get”, reversed) helping
(ration)
S: adjustment back into society =
reintegration
18. C: a course (a way) after retiring (after “shy”)
S: withdraw = shy away
19. C: hairstyle excluded by castle in Clare (“bun” removed
from Bunratty)
S: eccentric = ratty
Down
1. C: lunch (sup) includes pieces of bun (includes
“u,n”)
S: start of light = sun-up
2. C: new (n) head of gym is absorbed in fitness
(“g” in eligibility)
S: this has almost no significance =
negligibility
3. S: pursuit = interest
S: monetary = interest
4. C: a tank-top kept up (“a t saved” all upwards) with pins and
needles (tingly)
S: with terrible results = devastatingly
5. S: sluggish = flat
S: unit = flat
6. C: selection of actors (casting) a (a)
meaningful implication (drift)
S: abandoning = casting adrift
7. C: to (to) agree (tally)
S: en masse = totally
11. C: bumbling around is (anagram of “around is”)
S: one old and unwieldy = dinosaur
12. C: nothing left (o,l) in capital (inside Paris)
S: star = Polaris
15. C: Giuliani has managed to do it (run NY)
S: with high liquidity = runny
16. C: rise of social liberalists (“wets”, upwards)
S: agonise = stew