Listener Crossword 4047: Solution Notes
Cut Out by Lato
Puzzle explanation
Unclued thematic entries, by anagram or association, each partially suggested the title of a Dickens “novel” (anagram “snicked” = cut out). These are explained in the table below. The different entry was door (anag) from the unfinished (The Mystery of Edwin) Droo(d).
Clue explanations
Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal
| No | Extra Word |
Answer/ Entry |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Across | |||
| UMLAUT | Anagram: Our Mutual Friend | ||
| ICIEST | Anagram: A Tale of Two Cities | ||
| 9 | SIAM | SIM about A (are) | |
| 10 | PINNACLE | (PLACE IN + N) * | |
| 11 | SIFREI | IS < about (IF + RE); ref poem If | |
| 12 | REGROUP | RE + GO UP about R | |
| 13 | TARAND | TAD about (R + AND) | |
| FLOOR | Association, 19ac: The Old Curiosity Shop [floor] | ||
| 16 | AUTARKY | A + (TURKEY – E) * about A | |
| 18 | CARR | Homophone (CAR) | |
| 19 | workers | HITHE | HE after HIT |
| SAPPER | Anagram: Pickwick Papers | ||
| 22 | GOVERN | Hidden | |
| 24 | Presenter | TEASE | Homophone (TEES) |
| 26 | GOER | (le)G + O’ER | |
| 27 | day | SHRIVEN | SHIV about R(obber) + EN |
| 29 | TRULY | T + RULY | |
| TORRID | Anagram: Little Dorrit | ||
| 32 | SNICKED | Thematic: Dickens novel, ie, anagram | |
| 34 | AMTMAN | T in AMMAN | |
| 35 | CURTALAX | CUR + AT < + LAX | |
| 36 | MUSO | MO about US | |
| EMBODY | Anagram: Dombey and Son | ||
| 37 | GOPHER | G + OP + HER | |
| Down | |||
| 1 | conservative | USER | US(h)ER; user = right |
| 2 | MICELLA | AIM < about CELL | |
| 3 | AMIR | M in AIR | |
| 4 | UP FOR | PROFOUND * – DON * | |
| DIE | Association, 1dn: [die]Hard Times | ||
| 5 | IN IT | (TIN + I) < | |
| 6 | see 20dn | ||
| 7 | SLINK | S + LINK | |
| 8 | TEND | ’T + END | |
| CHARTER | Association, 29dn: Bleak [Charter]House | ||
| BATH | Association, 14dn: [Bath] Oliver Twist | ||
| PARSONS | Association, 24ac: Nicholas [Parsons] Nickleby | ||
| 14 | biscuit | FAST | ’S in FAT |
| 15 | OOPS | (c)OOPS | |
| TARGE | Anagram: Great Expectations | ||
| URGED | Anagram: Barnaby Rudge | ||
| 17 | SPARRER | SPAR + REAR – A | |
| 20,6 | retreat | IVORIAN | IVOR + IAN |
| 21 | ENVY | Homophone (EN + VEE = NV) | |
| 23 | RELEASE | REL + EASE | |
| 25 | EVIL | LIVE < | |
| 28 | HOKUM | OK in HUM | |
| 29 | School | TIMBÓ | B in OMIT < |
| 30 | TACE | TAKE, C for K | |
| 31 | DALY | Homophone (DAILY), ref John Daly | |
| CAMP | Association, 20,6dn: [Camp] David Copperfield | ||
| DOOR | Anagram: The Mystery of Edwin Droo(d) | ||
| 33 | PTO | PT + O’ | |
| MAS | Association, 27ac: Martin[mas] Chuzzlewit | ||