Listener Crossword 3976: Solution Notes
Hard Rectangle by Harpy
Puzzle explanation
Jumbled extra words are shown in the table below. The letters removed from clues gave “poet can be seen in grid” and “shade cells containing letters not in title”. The bottom row contained “Shelley” and the cells shaded as indicated depicted a map of Venice, identifiable from the words “The Grand Canal” suitably positioned. The relevant Shelley quotation was “Underneath Day’s azure eyes, Ocean’s nursling Venice lies”, requiring “Day’s azure eyes” above the completed grid.
Clue explanations
Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal
| No | Jumble Extra word |
Answer | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Across | |||
| 1 | P + mud ← dump | LAHARS | ASHLAR* |
| 6 | O + Winged ← Widgeon | ALATE | À LA + T(hym)E |
| 11 | E + chore ← re-echo | FAG | Composed of three musical notes |
| 13 | T + globes ← goblets | EDAM | MADE < |
| 14 | C + Ritual ← Curtail | IMMOLATION | I’M MAIN TOOL* |
| 17 | A + Gem ← Game | BIJOU | (BIO about J) + U |
| 20 | N + Roared ← Reardon | WUTHERED | W + UT + HE + RED |
| 22 | B + Sum ← Bums | AGIO | (I’ + O) after AG |
| 23 | E + ram ← mare | TEGG | (Sheepdo)G in GET < |
| 24 | S + another ← Sheraton | PITIES | P(lank) + I + TIE + S(upplier) |
| 25 | E + lards ← alders | SAIMS | (Viru)S + AIMS |
| 27 | E + lady ← delay | SOPHY | Two definitions |
| 29 | N + flower ← fern-owl | QUINSY-WORT | QUINS + Y(e)W + ROT* |
| 30 | I + Sacred ← Sidecar | IBIS | Alternate letters |
| 33 | N + Disaster ← Tardiness | DOOM | (MOO + D) < |
| 34 | G + Borodin ← brooding | OPUS | OP + U(nsettle) + S(ingers) |
| 36 | R + clothes ← chortles | SUBFUSC | (C + BUS) < about (F + US) |
| 38 | I + Cracks ← Car-sick | QUIPS | (é)QUIP(e) + S(uffer) |
| 40 | D + East ← sated | OSSI | (g)OSSI(p) |
| 42 | S + Gandhi ← dashing | BAPUS | (A + P) in BUS |
| 43 | H + idle ← Delhi | FALLOW | FLOW about (A + L) |
| 45 | A + ripped ← prepaid | RENT | Two definitions |
| 46 | D + drain ← Dinard | NALA | Alternate letters |
| 47 | E + service ← receives | TELCO | Hidden |
| 49 | C + coins ← conics | GUINEAS | I in GUN + E + A + S |
| 50 | E + Sport ← Poster | WEAR | (dra)W(ing) + EAR |
| 51 | L + unit ← until | BUSHEL | (Fe)B + US + HEL(l) |
| 52 | L + coated ← located | LEYDEN | ALE – A + DENY* |
| Down | |||
| 2 | S + Pieces ← Species | ADAGIOS | AGIO in SAD* |
| 3 | C + Routine ← Neurotic | HABIT | BI in HAT |
| 4 | O + enemy ← yeomen | AMI | Hidden |
| 5 | N + smoke ← K-meson | SMOGS | (trail)S + MOS about G |
| 7 | T + poor ← troop | LOW-PAID | WILD OAP* |
| 8 | A + dermal ← alarmed | TATU | Hidden reversed |
| 9 | I + effort ← forfeit | ETHE | ETHE(r) |
| 10 | N + Virtue ← Venturi | PIETY | PI(pe) + YET* |
| 11 | I + Seamen ← Meanies | FORETOPS | FOPS about (E in ORT) |
| 12 | N + articles ← clarinets | GADGETS | GADGES about T |
| 15 | G + Lear ← regal | LUMINOUSLY | IN SUM YOU’LL*; reference The Dong with a Luminous Nose |
| 16 | L + slip ← pills | LAPSUS | SUS after PAL < |
| 18 | E + opossum ← espumoso | JOEY | JOE + Y |
| 19 | T + bears ← breast | URSUS | S in URUS |
| 21 | T + rise ← rites | EGER | EIGER – I |
| 26 | E + with ← white | SYMPATHY | MY HAT! SPY* |
| 28 | R + Local ← Collar | PUB | UP < + B(eak) |
| 31 | S + pile ← spiel | BUBKES | (BIKE – I) in BUS |
| 32 | N + Age-old ← Donegal | ISAIAH | (HAS + I) < about (I + AM – M) |
| 35 | O + aliens ← sea-lion | UFO | Alternate letters |
| 37 | T + inroads ← intrados | USE UP | (va)U(lt) + PUS < about E |
| 38 | I + polecat ← poetical | QUAIL | Q + JAIL, with U for J |
| 39 | N + sabre ← Barnes | SWORD | Hidden |
| 40 | T + love-in ← violent | ORGY | (cyb)ORG + (stor)Y; reference Terminator films |
| 41 | I + Sloan ← Alison | SNIB | BINS <, sloan = snub = snib² |
| 43 | T + Atropos ← pot-roast | FATE | F + ATE |
| 44 | L + bear ← baler | LEWD | DWELL < – L |
| 48 | E + wind ← Edwin | LEE | (s)LEE(p) |