![]() I'd love to say that I knew this off the top of my head, but it was another educated guess, subsequently confirmed by Google. *INSTANCES is another Shakespearian one - in the speech which begins "All the world's a stage.", the 5th age of man is The Justice, who is "full of wise saws and modern instances". I'd never heard of her before Googling post-solve she appears to be the female version of the dreaded Beerbohm Tree, massively famous in her day (and still known to some extent in 1964, presumably) but nearly forgotten now. *I think the actress must be Dame Marie Tempest. * Endgame was a Samuel Beckett play and, as I assumed must be the case, not his last one. I think I can add a little to the explanations: A lot that I wasn't sure of, but in terms of lacking what we demand as a fair challenge these days, I think this is far from the worst puzzle of its era that I've come across. Just under 17 minutes before I crossed my fingers and submitted what turned out to be an all correct version. MEARE - literally, as MEARE is a village in Somerset. No idea what the gumption to make a French dish, almost is for.ĬOPES - double definition, if you accept COPES as the same thing as coping stones I suppose. Not sure how that makes him a victim.ĮNTRE-NOUS - (tureen, son)*, unindicated. I think Puck was supposed to give him a love potion, but gave it to Lysander instead by mistake. ISSUANCES also fits the gap, so maybe that's it.ĭEMETRIUS - character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. I can't see either definition or wordplay to justify it though. INSTANCES - got this one from crossing letters. INERT - (Nitre)*, again no anagrind to speak of. ![]() PEN-NAME - cryptic definition, liked this one. PAMPERS - PA (father) + MP (getting into parliament?) + ERS (no wordplay). ISSUE - 1S (one shilling) + SUE (go to law). ![]() SUSPENDER - yet another cryptic definition. TEMPE - add the answer to RATE to get a word meaning "equable in climate". What that's got to do with it I have no idea. The rest of it is the name of a 13th century song. Was there a well-known actress of that name back in the 60's? I couldn't find one.ĬEASE-FIRE - got this from the definition, i.e. TEMPEST - Miranda's a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest. HUSTLES - (slut she)*, but without an anagram indicator. DREADNOUGHT, a type of warship.ĮNDGAME - the final moves in a game of chess, so this is another cryptic definition, I guess. ULSTERMAN - an ulster is a type of overcoat, but I thought the man would be orange-handed rather than red!ĮLLEN - E'EN (poetic even) around LL (fifties).ĭREAD - ref. POP-SINGER - not sure about the old Saturday concert bit. You can see the clues by hovering the mouse pointer over the clue numbers. I was just over a year old when this puzzle was first published. Maybe three or four of the clues could have been used in today's puzzles. None of the anagrams were indicated in wordplay either. Very loose by today's standards, with loads of weak cryptic definitions and a couple of bits of Shakespeare (but nothing too obscure). Took about half an hour, with a few going in on a wing and a prayer.
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