The world’s first radio disc jockey was one Ray Newby of Stockton, California who made his debut broadcast in 1909, would you believe? When he was 16 years old and a student, Newby started to play his records on a primitive radio located in the Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless in San Jose. The first of the volumes is called “Swann’s Way”. It is divided into seven volumes and was first published in 1913-1927. “In Search of Lost Time” is a very, very long novel. Somerset Maugham dubbed “In Search of Lost Time” as the “greatest fiction to date”. Graham Greene called Proust “the greatest novelist of the twentieth century”, and W. Marcel Proust was a French writer, noted for his enormous and much respected novel “In Search of Lost Time”. Hitchens was a controversial figure who regularly expressed his contrarian views on issues ranging from politics to religion. Christopher Hitchens and Marcel Proust, for two : ESSAYISTSĬhristopher Hitchens was a British author and journalist who lived and worked in the US from the early 1980s. Clip off the A and N.A hookah is a waterpipe, a device for smoking tobacco in which the smoke is passed through a water basin before it is inhaled.Ģ2. VIA - AVIAN = bird, or bird related, as in avian 'flu. Particular Greek character breaking cover when set up (6)ĭETAIL - ETA goes inside LID reversed particular as a noun. GREY AREA - cryptic definition not the usual meaning of ' where the sun doesn't shine', which is rude. Neither one thing nor the other where the sun doesn't shine? (4,4) ON THE NOSE - double definition bridge of the nose, and to bet on the nose is to bet on a horse to win only, with no place bet. Location of bridge where stake may be placed? (2,3,4)
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a 1950 movie of which I had vaguely heard but have not seen, nor am likely to watch. Old picture indicated in A-level, by inference? (3,5,3)ĪLL ABOUT EVE - well, if you put All about EVE, you get A L(EVE)L. of anger.Ĭouple raised in great comfort and luxury, it's suggested, become gloomy (5,4)ĬLOUD OVER - if you're in CLOVER you're in comfort and luxury insert DUO reversed (couple raised). I never quite knew who Svengali was, real or fictional, but now I've looked him up in Wikipedia I do.īuilding eclipsing cars: no safe place for pedestrians (7,8)ĭECAMP - PM (leader ACED (sportingly beaten) up = reversed.įIT - double definition, fit = burst e.g. SVENGALI - S (cap of Schoolboy) (LEAVING)*. EDIT see first comment below.Ĭharmer leaving snakes under schoolboy's cap (8) SWINGOMETER - I see the definition but not the reason why please elucidate and I'll credit when I amend the blog.
Might this illustrate when left or right in a little trouble initially? I'm not sure (11)
Outrage in a writer of letters to the auditor? (5)ĪPPAL - A, PALL sounds like PAUL as in Saint Paul who wrote a few letters to various city dwellers. GRAVY has (F)ELL = plunged, without its 'lead', inserted. GRAVELLY - not the dog, a husky voice could be gravelly. Husky, shaking off lead, plunged into meat sauce (8)
REEFER - REFER = mention, insert the E of peoplE.ĭERAIL - The lower house of the Irish Parliament is called the Dáil insert ER for the Queen. People finally mention jackets - such as this one? (6) SOUVLAKI - insert U (end of menu) into (SLOVAKI)*. Skewered dish last seen on menu in Slovakia, not entirely cooked (8) URDU - today's hidden word, reversed as above. Presumably picking up nothing in fishing lure with plenty of grit? (10)įEARLESSLY - IF you're EARLESS you'd presumably hear nothing insert this concoction into FLY a fishing lure. RARE BIRD - RARE as in a rare steak, BIRD meaning prison time. Not well done, what convicts do: that’s most unusual! (4,4) STET - initial letters of Said That Europa Turned. Let it be said that Europa turned heads (4) Formalin is a preservative solution of formaldehyde and methanol in water. GO COMMANDO - self explanatory, I hope origin North America in the 70s.įORMALIN - if you FORM A LINE, you queue. Soldier's possible cue to neglect briefs (2,8) LOCUTION - LOON = another word for fool insert CUT I = redacted one. Whenever I see 'voting system' in a clue, I think PR, which few democratic countries seem to have. SPRITE - PR (voting system) inside SITE = place. Mythological entity has brought voting system into place (6) PASSES UP - PUP = youngster, insert ASSES which presumably equals knuckleheads Collins has 'fools' as a synonym.ĭEFECT - double definition, different pronunciations. Punched by knuckleheads, youngster declines (6,2) Some evoked a mild eyebrow raise, such as 14a one - 3d - at the time of writing I don't fully understand, although I'll amend the blog when someone explains it to us.ĮDIT Lou weed gets the hats-off for explaining 3d, before others see below, I don't know why I didn't see it myself. Not as tough as last Wednesday's, I thought, but still quite chewy in places.
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