Phi Crosswords

phionline.net.nz

  • About me
  • Types of cryptic crossword
    • Solving crosswords
    • Outlets
  • APEX Crosswords
  • My other puzzles
    • BBC Music Magazine crosswords
    • Beelzebub Crosswords
    • Church Times puzzles
    • Enigmatic Variations
    • The European crossword
    • Independent Inquisitor
    • Independent: newspaper
    • Jumbos
    • Magpie
    • Other puzzles
  • Setter’s blogs
  • Book Reviews
  • Cats

Apex 2017 solution

Letters not used in the pairings spelled CONCERTS.  The options for clue-writers were: CONCEITS, CONCENTS, CONCEPTS, CONCERNS, CONCERTI, CONCERTO, and CONVERTS.

ACROSS

1              SKIT; ski(R)t

4              REVISION (RECISION); noisier (rev.)

10           CARREL; r in care L

11           APOLLO; po in all o

12           APRIL; pr in ail

13           ALMUCES; LM U in aces

15           PRECESSES (PROCESSES); c in presses

17           MEANE; mean(I)e

18           LOESSIC; 0 in less ic(e)

22           CAUDLES (CANDLES); l in cades

23           OMBRE; mb in ore

27           INVENTIVE (INCENTIVE); anag. in I + even (rev.)

28           ONE-SHOT; nesh in too (rev.)

29           TANGS; cf. stang

30           RENTAL; (t)rental

31           TI TREE; tit ree

32           ADNATION; ad nation

33           EYOT; y in toe (rev.)

DOWN

1              SCAPI; ap in sci

2              IRREMEABLE; REM in anag.

3              TRICK (ERICK); hidden

4              RELEASE; leas in ree

5              ELASTIC; sale (rev.) + tic(k)

6              VALSE; S in vale

7              SOUSED (SOURED); so + anag.

8              OLEANDER; n in o leader

9              NOSHERS; nos. hers

14           CHAPLAINRY; plain in chary

16           COMMUNED (COMMUTED); o MM in cue D

18           LEONORA; on in anag.

19           CAVETTO; cave + OTT (rev.)

20           QUENTIN; que(I)nt in

21           CRISTA (CRISSA); is in cra(g)

24           OVOLI; o Vol. 1

25           STATE; t in eats (rev.)

26           BESET; s(om)e in bet

In terms of the clues submitted, some options were more popular than others: CONCEITS (2), CONCENTS (0), CONCEPTS (4), CONCERNS (14), CONCERTI (2), CONCERTO (0), and CONVERTS (11).

The winning clues were:

1st        Smokers perhaps start to complain as soon as taverns bar interior fumes                                                              Richard Heald

2nd        Persuades unions nuclear sector must be reformed                                                                                                 Mick Hodgkin

3rd        £100 matters to unions                                                                                                                                               Mark Goodliffe

More than one gig is about £100                                                                                                                                Noel Jones

Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Share
Tweet
Pin

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Phi RSS feed

  • RSS - Posts

About me

This is the website of Paul Henderson, who sets crosswords for The Independent (London) under the pseudonyms Phi, for the Daily Telegraph (London) under the pseudonym Kcit, and anonymously for The Times (London) amongst many other outlets. For a more detailed biography see the About Me page.

Blogroll

  • Alberich Crosswords
  • Alchemi's puzzles
  • Anax Crosswords
  • Azed slip
  • Big Dave's Crossword Blog
  • Boatman Cryptics
  • Crossword centenary
  • Crossword Centre
  • Crossword Club
  • Crossword Unclued
  • CrosswordMan: Crossword construction software
  • Crosswords by Chameleon
  • Crosswords by Hasslethymi
  • Fifteensquared
  • George vs The Listener crossword
  • Guardian Crosswords
  • Hoskins Crossword
  • Hubble Crosswords
  • idothei
  • Independent Crosswords
  • Listen with Others
  • Listener Crossword
  • Magpie Crossword Magazine
  • One Across
  • Peter's Cryptic Crossword Corner
  • Telegraph Crosswords
  • The Stickler Weekly
  • Times Crossword Club
  • Times for the Times
  • Undisclosed Enumeration

Comments

  • A return to some puzzles | Phi Crosswords on Lost and found
  • MARK WATSON on Getting old
  • Erin on The perils of abbreviations
  • William F P on Covid strikes
  • Phixwd on A forthcoming loss

Copyright © 2023 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in