Sunday, June 20, 2010

Sunday, June 20, 2010 (ST 4381)

This puzzle was originally published in The Sunday London Times on May 16, 2010

Introduction

I certainly found some of the wordplay in today's puzzle to be rather tricky - for example, 6d and 21d. However, I persevered and eventually succeeded in cracking all the clues.

Today's Glossary

Some possibly unfamiliar abbreviations, people, places, words and expressions used in today's puzzle

Appearing in Clues

Chips - nickname for a carpenter.

guy1 - verb ridicule.

make a song and dance about something
- colloq to make an unnecessary fuss about it.

Appearing in Solutions

animadversion - noun criticism or censure

appro - abbreviation Brit. informal approval

cock - noun 3 Brit. informal nonsense.

County Down - one of the six counties forming Northern Ireland

London EC Postcode Area - a group of postcode districts in central London, England which includes almost all of the City of London.

Links to Solutions

A review of today's puzzle by talbinho can be found at Times for the Times [ST 4381].

Signing off for this week - Falcon

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