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AZED CROSSWORD 31

KITCHENDOM

1.  D. F. Manley: It incorporates equipment around woman of the house (kit c hen dom, & lit.).

2.  A. D. Legge: In his sphere Kerr’s capital – a sensation – a demon for cooking! (K + itch + anag.; ref. Graham K., ‘the Galloping Gourmet’).

3.  M. L. Perkins: Freud’s province? Knowledge about desire, Sir (itch in ken + Dom; ref. Clement Freud).

VHC

C. Allen Baker: Where equipment’s around a woman cook before noon (kit c. hen do m).

D. A. Blackledge: Thick men do badly here! (anag. & lit.).

Rev C. M. Broun: Monk (one who’d always got to do the cooking, it seems) itched for a change from this (anag., kitchen Dom, & lit.).

E. J. Bushell: King with desire to put a stop to honour attained by Lambert Simnel (K itch end OM; ref. pretender to throne of Henry VII, later employed as a scullion).

C. O. Butcher: Do men crumble under constant irritation where women rule the roast? (k itch + anag.).

R. S. Caffyn: Where Cooks are in charge, getting Chink to Med isn’t too difficult (anag.; Chink, offensive).

P. M. Coombs: Makes me think cod is the chef’s speciality (anag.).

S. Goldie: Greasy Joan’s province is female, with Tom and Dick kept out, discomfited (hen in anag.).

J. Goldman: Realm wherein wise women do poached eggs and thick men do scrambled (anag.).

B. Greer: Economically maintain’d, the nucleus of a home (kitchen (vb.) + ’d +(h)om(e), & lit.).

Mrs L. F. Hallen: Methink cod is well cooked here; Fanny and Johnnie’s place (anag.; ref. Craddocks).

L. F. Leason: Desire restricted in scope and dead upset Dr Freud’s department (itch in ken + d. + M.O. (rev.); ref. Clement F.).

H. R. Lockhart: Duck disembowelled and hot mince prepared here? (anag. incl. d(uc)k).

Lieut-Col D. Macfie: Where Cook ’as to work for Tom, Dick ’n’ H., ’e’s proper upset! (anag.; upset (n.)).

D. J. Mackay: With equipment chef’s no end a master after finishing herein (kit + che(f), + (herei)n + Dom; D. = master).

F. Moss: Bring vessels here to sink? Wreck them in dock! (anag.).

J. W. Parr: Where Mrs Beeton directs, season with Benedictine (kitchen Dom; kitchen (vb.) = season (O.E.D.)).

Miss M. J. Patrick: Cook’s world tour starts off, with him on deck outside, waving (anag. incl. t).

Mrs E. M. Phair: Where cook’s made sauce thicken, stirred same, added last of cream … (anag. + do. + m; do. = ditto).

Brig R. F. E. Stoney: Tick off girl domestic; it’s for her cooking (anag. + hen dom.).

D. J. Thorpe: A set of instructions about bird. Cook’s got married – and left this ? (kit c. hen do m.).

Rev C. D. Westbrook: Constant seat of King cook before meal begins (k Itchen do + m; Itchen = seat of Horace K., MP).

G. H. Willett: To produce Mrs Beeton’s special ground mince thicken with Benedictine (anag. + Dom; ref. cookery writer).

C. E. Williams: Cook’s responsibility worried him on deck rounding the Western point of Tasmania (T in anag.).

HC

J. C. Barnes, E. A. Beaulah, C. Brown, Mrs M. P. Craine, L. L. Dixon, E. G. Durham, P. D. Gaffey, A. B. Gardner, Dr R. E. Gillson, N. L. Hindley, J. P. H. Hirst, Mrs N. Jarman, Miss H. Jenkins, A. H. Jones, R. E. Kimmons, B. Manvell, L. May, C. G. Millin, W. L. Miron, R. A. Mostyn, F. E. Newlove, F. R. Palmer, Dr R. J. Palmer, T. C. Perks, G. H. Ravenor, J. Revill, Mrs W. I. Riley, D. S. Robertson, T. E. Sanders, A. H. Seville, F. B. Stubbs, L. J. Wayman, A. R. Wheatley, Mrs M. Wilkinson, Dr R. L. Wynne.
 

Comments
About 375 entries. The commonest mistake, which accounted for over half the total entry and included some very distinguished scalps, was BANNOCK for JANNOCK. I dare say the offenders have already kicked themselves soundly so I won’t dwell on it except to say that since – in Chambers at least – there’s nothing ‘north country’ or ‘straightforward’ about a bannock I’m surprised more of you didn’t smell a rat. I don’t like to overdo the ‘two meanings’ type of clue when both meanings are obscure and which the solver has therefore to flip through the dictionary to find, but it is perfectly fair and you should be on the look-out for it.
 
A few of you were puzzled by HATTOCK. This was, I expect, because the new Chambers adds the parenthesis ‘(signal of witches or fairies)’ after the definition of ‘horse and hattock’ and had in mind the witches and warlocks pursuing Tam o’Shanter and his mare in Burns’ poem. One of the difficulties of working with two editions of the same dictionary is that one occasionally overlooks minor references of this kind, so I intend, as from the new year, to work solely with the 1972 edition and not to mention the fact when a word or reference I use appears in it for the first time, though I shall of course indicate when a word in earlier editions has dropped out. One feature of the new C. which I don’t much care for is the inclusion of all foreign words and phrases (previously given an appendix of their own) in the main body of the text, making it even less of an English dictionary than it was before (its superabundance of Scotticisms has always suggested to me that it ought to be called a British dictionary) but this likewise gives me the opportunity to make free use of such words without actually referring to the fact.
 
No more specific points on this puzzle except a certain disappointment at the number of ‘thicken soup’ variations there were after my words on anagram indication last month. You simply can’t say that ‘thicken soup’ is analogous to, say, ‘lentil soup’ (which would be acceptable as an anagram of ‘lentil’). See Mr. Willett’s clue above for a clever example of saying what you mean without necessarily meaning what you say.
 
I’m asked by many Printer’s Devilry fans when I’m going to produce a P.D. Soon, I hope. The thing is I’ve never done one before and it could conceivably be beyond me. I was never one of the most enthusiastic devotees of this type of ‘special’ but it clearly has many so I’ll have a go, probably in March or April. I’m told, incidentally, that Ximenes’ book is out of print in both editions. This is sad, if true, and I’ll see what 1 can do to persuade Methuen to reprint. Perhaps my own employers (O.U.P.) would consider reprinting it if not.
 

 

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