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Crossword No 7/8

Wednesday, 06 August 2008 00:00 Martin Hills
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STAYING IN PLACE

Asterisked answers, not necessarily fully clued, relate directly or indirectly to the title.  Answers may be in English or French, often the choice being suggested in the clues.  All accents are ignored.
 
ACROSS
 
1          Iron railway may get you to it (5)
4          Dismal eastern policeman has such letters (9)
9          Triumphs when core moves erratically (9)
10         Capital in parts of 1 across (5)
11         Kind of recording, this is a stimulant! (7)
13         Department with a scale problem? (6)
*15       Any good one should be able to offer this in clement evening openings (3)
*16       With 4 across might be described as exulted hole! (5,2,4)
*18       In which one might live in France (5,6)
19         You French object to our initiatives for a start! (3)
20         Looms for tractors (6)
22         Esteem ghost doubly first to last (7)
25         It takes enthusiasm and some asparagus to garnish sole adequately (5)
*26       Under canvas, taking one on purpose (9)
28         Diners set out but one disagrees (9)
29         Hop plenty with a bun! (5)
 
DOWN
 
1          Lo, dog filth obscures what might be illuminating (10)
2          Mediterranean shrub found in French street (3)
3          Vessel initially youthful as couple having twins! (5)
*4         One mixed in time to with make cheese (9)
5          Band a Russian chap might show (5)
6          Endure row before curtain (4,5)
*7         Bar on bedcover (4-7)
8          Cart makes the distance back (4)
*12       Thus goes Sue, staggering (5,6)
14         It pays such a man to stay away (10)
16         Flower of inferno ‘e carried (9)
17         Blair tore apart his dream of being this of Iraq (9)
21         Jonathan Speedbird? (5)
23         Gathering found in greasy nodule(5)
24         Four notes getting on (4)
*27       In which one might have dinner (3)

 

AMB 's different kind of puzzle

Crossword puzzles seem to be popular with English speakers in France to judge by the fact that many anglophone publications here include them.  Interestingly, the majority of these are of the cryptic, rather than definition, type.  We guess that there may be many readers of this website who would like this kind of puzzles and have asked Martin Hills, one of our regular contributors, who has pioneered his own variety of bilingual puzzle, first in Var Village Voice and currently in The Connexion to let us publish some of his in AMB Cote d'Azur.
 
Martin writes:  ‘Like many other crossword puzzle setters, I graduated through years of solving other people’s in the UK papers.  I have always enjoyed puzzles that are a bit different, like the many original forms that Araucaria has created for The Guardian.  The puzzles that appear here will all be cryptic and will all have answers in both English and French, because most of us can do with practising our French and developing our vocabulary.  The French words are to be found in a good dictionary.  On top of that, each time I plan to add another twist of one sort or another.  Nothing too difficult  –  the level will be roughly similar to that of  The Times or The Guardian  –  but enough to get the little grey cells to work.  Remember, this is the sort of mental exercise that is supposed to help ward off Alzheimer’s!’