18d - entresol : anagram (rebuilding) of “lose rent” 24d - beta : homophone of beater (sounds like whisker) 10a - loco : loo (can) “containing” c (one hundred in roman numerals) = bananas 22a - in situ : anagram (funny) of university without very 24a - boer (no I didn’t know this word either) - BOE (bank of England), a cirt institution, + R (right) 22d - indigo : in (fashionable) + dig (like) + o (old)
26a - angstrom : angst (fear) + rom (roma without the a) Slow going so far 15a - inter se : inter (Italian footballers) + ‘se’ (spoke, vacuously, so without the middle letters) 1d - this one gives the theme then. European : anagram (maybe) of ‘a pure one’
13d - the tin drum : film (ET) ‘screened by’ thin (lean) to give the tin. can’t figure out the last word there but that’s a post war story. 12a - semtex : anagram of met+sex (Congress)
Congratulations to Tuna, who I never want to be up against in a crossword competition.
25d I think - sauna : ‘una’ for the Spanish feminine one, dunno what the ‘sa’ is. Sex appeal? They do get Very Hot
This is a team effort chief I’ll come back to this on the train later, hope you will have all finished by then
This Picaroon chappie is a shit compiler. This is a shit crossword.
I just came across this clue in a crossword book, thought it was v good
Angry deejay left after playing Queen briefly (4,4,4)
LADY JANE GREY (Anagram of 'ANGRY DEEJAY L)
that’s the one
today’s puzzle is Qaos’ 100th for the guardian and it’s very nice: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28127
it’s not a particularly hard puzzle but the clues spell out an acrostic and each across clue makes another word if you add a ‘C’ (i.e. 100) to it.
