Y One plaything or two playthings sent back without their lids (2-2)Ģ3a YO-YO – ]OY OY (two playthings…without their lids) backwards (sent back) X Half a dozen with king in ancient Rome turned up for Darius’ successor (6)ħd XERXES – SEX (half a dozen in ancient Rome) + REX (king in ancient Rome) all backwards (turned up) W Songbird or bat next to wide broken barrel (6,7)ģ5a WILLOW WARBLER – WILLOW (bat) + W (wide) + anagram (broken) of BARREL V Victor in rocky ravine finding medicinal plant (7)ģ1d VERVAIN – V (victor) in (in) anagram (rocky) of RAVINE U Trimble, say, in overcoat, supported by TU member (6,8)Ħ6a,43d ULSTER UNIONIST – ULSTER (overcoat) + UNIONIST (TU member) T French head drinking English wine wavered (8)ġ6a TEETERED – E (English) in (drinking) TETE (French head) + RED (wine) O Ten lovely nuts for sailor’s girl-friend (5,3)ģ6d OLIVE OYL – anagram (nuts) of IO (ten) LOVELYĥ4d QUINQUE – cryptic definition, quinque being the Latin word for five N Material from Indian gown regularly removed (5) M Space not affected after planetary battle (7,4)ġ4a MARSTON MOOR – MARS (planetary) + anagram (affected) of NOT + MOOR (space) L Lecturer would somehow get drunk in Shropshire town (6)ĩa LUDLOW – L (lecturer) + anagram (somehow get drunk) of WOULD I Calligraphy requisite in kind, in a novel (6,3)Ĥ0a INDIAN INK – anagram (novel) of IN KIND IN Aģ0a JEJUNE -J,June (stammerer’s thirty days)ĥ5d KIT KAT – KITKAT (could be a club, referring to the nightclub of this name in Berlin) H This chap will sink his putt in the pit (8)ġ3d HELLHOLE – HE’LL (this chap will) + HOLE (sink his putt) G Bogart, shaking with rage, with lonesome US actress (5,5)Ģ8a GRETA GARBO – anagram (shaking) of BOGART RAGE Here are the solutions to the alphabetic clues along with their locations in the grid:ġa,1d ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG – ALEXANDER (bandmaster, as in Alexander’s Rag Time Band) + ARMSTRONG (Louis)ġ8a BLUEBELL – double definition, the second referring to a train lineĬ Transport taking fifty people up? (5,3)Ĥ8d CABLE CAR – CAB (transport) + L (fifty) + RACE (people) backwards (up)Į Segregate bubbly and chocolate gift (6,3)Ĥ6d EASTER EGG – anagram (bubbly) of SEGREGATEĦd FOREFOOT – homophone (we hear) of “four foot” Many thanks to Gozo for the huge amount for work it must have taken to put this together. The answers to the alphabetic clues are highlighted in aqua. For our second course, we have, as is usual for Christmas, a special puzzle by Gozo, this one a 23-squared grid with half standard clues and half alphabetical.
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