When appended to the solution, Violet produces the title of a 1945 satirical novel by Christopher Isherwood describing the making of a film of the same name, a melodrama set in nineteenth-century Vienna (home of the park sharing its name with the chatterbox). ‘Up’ makes its first appearance, being reversed (‘turned’) and followed by the four-letter name of ‘a small but very troublesome Brazilian biting fly’ which contains the usual two-letter abbreviation for ‘Arabia’. As stated in the footnotes, the paper version of Chambers lists the (6-6) solution under the entry for its second half.ġ2a Durable skin turned up on annoying fly found round Arabia (8) Job’s a good ‘un!ġa System aiding ships, one tar’s deployed after direction-finder showing south not mobile (12)Ī single-letter word for ‘one’ and an anagram (‘deployed’) of TARS follow a seven-letter word for a direction-finder in which the usual abbreviation for ‘mobile’ has been replaced by the standard abbreviation for ‘south’. But you can rely on Azed to find an answer, and he has used ‘perfect’ in its grammatical sense of ‘ denoting completed action’ to indicate that “isn’t” should be interpreted in its perfect form, ie ‘was not’. ![]() How do you define a (Spenserian) phrase meaning ‘was not’ that itself contains the word ‘was’? ‘With difficulty’ is the answer. Nothing very interesting about the wordplay, a single-letter word for ‘one’ inside a four-letter word for information on recent events producing the (2,3) solution, but the definition poses a problem for the setter. Setters’ Corner: This week I’m going to take a look at clue 16a, “Spenserian isn’t perfect (one featured in bulletin)? (5, 2 words)”. Anyway, this was an enjoyable puzzle, even if it did suggest a preoccupation with the word UP. I’m drying it out, but I suspect it may be beyond conservation. ![]() I would preserve this potentially unique specimen (a ‘Cheeri’?) for posterity, but unfortunately I’d already put the milk on before I spotted it. This struck me as being a little above average difficulty, although I was somewhat distracted by having discovered during breakfast an ‘unfastened’ Cheerio – I’ve eaten a lot of Cheerios but never before have I encountered a straight one. Please feel free to add your own questions or observations on any aspect of the puzzle (including clues not listed below) either by using the comment form at the bottom of the page or, if would prefer that your question/comment is not publicly visible, by email. There are usually one or two points of interest in an Azed puzzle, and here we pick them out for comment.
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