Listener Crossword 4094: Solution Notes
Wet Wet Wet by Lato
Puzzle explanation
The group was the Lake Poets, anagrammed as “stake” and “pole”. Associations using parts of their names are shown in the table below. Their respective subjects were represented by: lent lilies (daffodils), old salt (Ancient Mariner), La Pucelle (Joan of Arc). The location was Dove (10ac) Cottage.
Clue explanations
Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal
| No | Correction/ Extra word |
Answer | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Across | |||
| 1 | Fe(E)l | PLATES | I out of PILATES |
| 5 | ALLURE | ALL + (p)URE | |
| 8 | s(C)ar | ULOSIS | Homophone (YOU LOW) + SIMON’S (Cowell) − (M + ON) |
| 9 | beam | GUENON | GUN about (macaqu)E + ON |
| 10 | DOVE | Two definitions, one Scottish [Dr Finlay], one Ecstasy | |
| EXCHANGE | (Ans) + WORDS = Row (27dn) | ||
| 12 | braid | EPAULET | EP + AU + LET |
| STAKE | Part of anagram of LAKE POETS | ||
| 15 | LIGN-ALOES | GALLEON IS * | |
| 19 | song | AREDD | A + REDD [Scottish, Lulu] |
| 20 | INRO | IN + OR < | |
| 21 | PAX | PA + X | |
| 22 | ENGRAIL | (GARDEN − ’D) * + I’ + L(awn) | |
| TAM | (Ans) + WORTH = (Tamworth) pig (18dn) | ||
| 24 | UTES | (SET UP − P) < | |
| PIECE | RIDGE + (Ans) = beam (9ac) | ||
| 28 | STEEPENED | (E + PEN) in STEED | |
| 29 | Ju(G)s | EWERS | SEWER, S to end |
| OLD SALT | Ancient Mariner | ||
| 31 | st(O)p | GIVE OVER | I’VE [I (setter) HAVE] in GOVER(n) |
| ACHE | SOUT + (Ans) = braid (12ac) | ||
| 34 | LINEAL | LI(t) + NEAL | |
| PORTER | COLE + (Ans) = songwriter (33dn) | ||
| 35 | EMERGE | EME + REG * | |
| 36 | LATEST | TEST after LA | |
| Down | |||
| JUDE | HEY + (Ans) = song (Beatles) (19ac) | ||
| 1 | PLO | Alternate letters; spurious reference to a member of Wet Wet Wet | |
| 2 | plan(T) | LOVAGE | AV < in LOGE |
| 3 | W(A)sh | TIE | Two definitions |
| 4 | SECTOR | SECT + OR | |
| 5 | AGHA | A + GHAT − T | |
| LENT LILIES | Daffodils | ||
| 6 | UNGAG | (G + A + GNU) < | |
| 7 | ENVENOMED | DEMO < after (EVEN about N) | |
| 11 | ASSAI | ASS (goop) + AI | |
| 13 | UNDESERVER | UNDER about SERVE | |
| 14 | ELEGIT | (cas)E + LEG IT | |
| LA PUCELLE | Joan of Arc; there is no “La” in The Chambers Dictionary | ||
| 16 | IRATE | PIRATE − P | |
| 17 | ENAMEL | EL about NAME | |
| 18 | pig | TRACE | T’ + RACE; forgotten = obsolete |
| 23 | NISSE | NISSE(n); reference Nissen hut | |
| 25 | YEOVIL | LIVY < about E O | |
| 26 | ENACTS | TEN ACTS − T; Shakespeare’s plays have five acts | |
| 27 | Row | SEINE | Hidden |
| POLE | Part of anagram of LAKE POETS | ||
| 30 | TERN | RENT * | |
| 32 | Ban(T)er | ROT | TOR < |
| 33 | songwriter | HET | HE + T(heatrical) |