Crossword Clues Part 2

[bluehillside Retd.]

Hi Susan,

Think of a synonym for a “do” as in event or happening. Might even be a special...!

[Nearly Sane]

And the N is correct

[SusanDoris]

bluehillside and NS

thank you for your help. I'll have to hav a think …

ETA almost immediately! The word must be OCCASION, but how does it follow from the clue? Do = occasion, but I'm afraid I can't see where  the 'call' comes in?

Actually, looking over the grid, I find I've done more than I thought I had!

[bluehillside Retd.]

Hi Susan,

bluehillside and NS

thank you for your help. I'll have to hav a think …

ETA almost immediately! The word must be OCCASION, but how does it follow from the clue? Do = occasion, but I'm afraid I can't see where  the 'call' comes in?

Actually, looking over the grid, I find I've done more than I thought I had!

Yes to occasion, and it also means a reason or a cause (or call), as in "I've not had the occasion to write to you before" and similar. 

[SusanDoris]

Hi Susan,

Yes to occasion, and it also means a reason or a cause (or call), as in "I've not had the occasion to write to you before" and similar.

Thank you - much appreciated.

[SusanDoris]

With many searches for synonyms, I have finished the Cryptic and have almost worked out why the answers work. However, the answer to this clue:
18 down: RADA graduate loathes piano frames (

is THESPIAN and I can't quite see why. The two halves are: thes(e) and pian(o) but I would be grateful for an explanation. No rush though!

[bluehillside Retd.]

Hey Susan,

wWith many searches for synonyms, I have finished the Cryptic and have almost worked out why the answers work. However, the answer to this clue:
18 down: RADA graduate loathes piano frames (

is THESPIAN and I can't quite see why. The two halves are: thes(e) and pian(o) but I would be grateful for an explanation. No rush though!

It’s a portmanteau clue. The answer is “framed” by “loathes piano”: loaTHES PIANo. 

[Nearly Sane]

wWith many searches for synonyms, I have finished the Cryptic and have almost worked out why the answers work. However, the answer to this clue:
18 down: RADA graduate loathes piano frames (

is THESPIAN and I can't quite see why. The two halves are: thes(e) and pian(o) but I would be grateful for an explanation. No rush though!

loaTHES PIANo - capitals are answer. Thespian is a RADA graduate.

[SusanDoris]

bluehillside and NS

Ah, I see; many thanks for explanations. That is one thing I can of course blame squarely on my inability to see a clue as a whole, and in fact I had wondered why there had not been a clue of that type, as there is usually at least one  in each cryptic.

[SusanDoris]

It's a middling sort of Cryptic this weekend.
15 down is: A feeling of anger going round confused shy figure (
Letters: P - - - I - U -
May I have a yes/no answer, please, for: are the last four letters IOUS?

ETA Funny how, quite often when I've clicked on 'post' I think of the answer to my own question!! It should be IQUE, shouldn't it, from P...IQUE.hmmmm.

PHYSIQUE

[bluehillside Retd.]

Hi Susan,

It's a middling sort of Cryptic this weekend.
15 down is: A feeling of anger going round confused shy figure (
Letters: P - - - I - U -
May I have a yes/no answer, please, for: are the last four letters IOUS?

EA Funny how, quite often when I've clicked on 'post' I think of the answer to my own question!! It should be IQUE, shouldn't it, from P...IQUE.hmmmm.

Yep – you just need an anagram of SHY inside of PIQUE for the answer. 

[SusanDoris]

Hi Susan,

Yep – you just need an anagram of SHY inside of PIQUE for the answer.

Thank you; - and yes, as soon as I wrote in the lastletters I could see what the other three were, so I have just dropped back to put the answer in previous post.

[SusanDoris]

May I have, please, a hint for:

6 down: Congregation race to find grazing land (5,3)
Letters: - - - E - / - - N

I am hoping the second letter is V, but that's probably a vain hope!

[bluehillside Retd.]

Morning Susan,

May I have, please, a hint for:

6 down: Congregation race to find grazing land (5,3)
Letters: - - - E - / - - N

I am hoping the second letter is V, but that's probably a vain hope!

I wasn’t familiar with this phrase, but I had an answer that fitted the cryptic part so looked that up and it’s a thing apparently. A congregation is sometimes known as a flock (as Christopher Hitchens once noted, that’s ironic given the way clerics can fleece them - or worse), and a flock consists of…

(No V by the way).

[SusanDoris]

Morning Susan,

I wasn’t familiar with this phrase, but I had an answer that fitted the cryptic part so looked that up and it’s a thing apparently. A congregation is sometimes known as a flock (as Christopher Hitchens once noted, that’s ironic given the way clerics can fleece them - or worse), and a flock consists of…

(No V by the way).

Many thanks; so that makes it SHEEP RUN? I certainly wouldn't have got that. I had worked out that RUN was probaby the second word, but it made no sense on its own. 

that gives me T - E - H - for 9 across, which is:

Cut support after finishing early

but I'll try and think of the answer for that … ...

[SusanDoris]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to give up on 9 across. I've been trying every combination of letters but nothing makes sense. I'm sure the E is right, though, because it is the second letter in the down answer which is TEAR-JERKER.  I hope it's not a kick-self!

[bluehillside Retd.]

To be fair Susan it’s quite a tricky one.

TEETHE is the synonym for “cut”. The cryptic is TEE for “support”, the “after” is THEN, but it “finishes early” so it’s just THE.

[SusanDoris]

To be fair Susan it’s quite a tricky one.

TEETHE is the synonym for “cut”. The cryptic is TEE for “support”, the “after” is THEN, but it “finishes early” so it’s just THE.

Many thanks. The only way the first part made sense was in fact TEETH, but I thought the end had to be a Y, as in the Y finishing 'early', but that didn't make sense. I had, though, forgotten that TEE would be the support. I'd tried different .
letters at the end, and found TEETHE but then I couldn't see how it connected to the clue.

Right, that leaves four incomplete answers!

[SusanDoris]

3 down is: Frenzied comedian (
Letters:  - C - - - T - C

ECLECTIC fits, but  could you please say if it is right, and if so, how it fits the clue!

[bluehillside Retd.]

Hi Susan,

3 soqn ia: Frenzied comedian (
Letters:  - C - - - T - C

ECLECTIC fits, but  could you please say if I is right, and if so, how it fits the clue!

Not ECLECTIC I’m afraid. It’s a two-in-one clue: a synonym for frenzied, but also the “frenzied” tells you it’s an anagram of “comedian”.

[SusanDoris]

Hi Susan,

Not ECLECTIC I’m afraid. It’s a two-in-one clue: a synonym for frenzied, but also the “frenzied” tells you it’s an anagram of “comedian”.

Thank you. Oh dear! That means there is only one C and it must be the first one that is wrong. More thinking required!   I was a bit unsure about the first across clue anyway.

(Apologies for typo in previous post- corrected!)

[bluehillside Retd.]

Hi Susan,

Thank you. Oh dear! That means there is only one C and it must be the first one that is wrong. More thinking required!   I was a bit unsure about the first across clue anyway.

(Apologies for typo in previous post- corrected!)

No problem. It must be the anagram of "comedian" I think but I don't like the answer much as a synonym for "frenzied" too. Ah well.   

[SusanDoris]

Hi Susan,

No problem. It must be the anagram of "comedian" I think but I don't like the answer much as a synonym for "frenzied" too. Ah well.

All I could get was DEMONIAC and that's not a word I thought, but on the offchance I googled definition DEMONIAC and find that it is, so I see what you mean about not liking the word.

Down to two incomplete answers now …

7 across: Lighting-up time? ((
Letters now: - A - B - E - E

I thought it was BARBECUE

ETA the ? mark, and to say that I think the A might be wrong

[bluehillside Retd.]

Susan,

All I could get was DEMONIAC and that's not a word I thought, but on the offchance I googled definition DEMONIAC and find that it is, so I see what you mean about not liking the word.

Down to two incomplete answers now …

7 across: Lighting-up time ((
Letters now: - A - B - E - E

I thought it was BARBECUE

That last E is wrong think - think sunshine.

[SusanDoris]

Susan,

That last E is wrong think - think sunshine.

ah, looks as if posts crossed. Thank you for your help. I'm glad the A is right and the ;
last E is from a four-word answer so it is only the first part wrong!

I'll see what my subconscious comes up with overnight.