Spectator 2661 - Spectrum By Doc

[Matakari]

Good morning, my favourite Doc challenges me this week with the following for which I would appreciate  a few hints. Many thanks in advance!

27a Hours away from Shoreditch organising game like Farkle (3,4): ???DI?E
41a They are wrong about tear away, a trencherman (6,5): H?A?????T?R
5d   Germanic spirits showing daring in Greek location (7): K???LD?
14d Drunk, when speeding (4,3,5) : ???R??O???I?
33d Track our late compiler (5): ????T

[teacher1]

... for, not ...fro.

[cashier]

I realised what it was after I saw JJ's answer, which arrived just before my query. 

[johnpiper]

I have two clued left which i am finding quite chewy.

1A Criminal having cheese biscuit thats not bad (4,7)

I have ???? /CRACKER

 

1D

Invassive flowering weel sadly with lots in the Home Counties

??W ?H?S?L?

Help gratefully received. ALso stuck on 11D where i have ?N?O?E

 

And 36D ?AVI?

 

[JJ109]

1a Safe Cracker

1d Sow thistle

[teacher1]

36a. followed by 11a.  4 words .... split as  ?? ??? ?? ????

[quinol]

what does a criminal crack to become a ----cracker?

 

I don't know the late compiler but are we looking at  horse races?

[JJ109]

quinol - yes a very famous race course

Did you manage to finish the Genius? did you manage to work out how to manipulate the answers?

 

[quinol]

Dear jj, No, I didn't really understand about the first 2 words another hint would be great - at least I've finished the spectator with your helpful confirmation

[JJ109]

Quinol the 1st two words are Caesar Cipher

So write the alphabet out

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ and then ABC.... follows on again

Each of the 6 is diferent though as the cipher relates to the clue number

I know you have "Freud" re 23 down

Therefore the first letter F = 23 letters to the right in the alphabet written out = C

R = 23 steps to theright = O

E = 23 steps to the right = B

U  = 23 steps to theright = R

D = 23steps to the right = A

Input is therefore COBRA (not Freud)

Do the same for all the others but the number of steps = the clue number

Incidentally I had never heard of the word for 9d but it does exist!

[Matakari]

Many thanks,all, I’m enjoying the Unclueds with just one pair to work out. But two clues are still outstanding despite the hints. For 33d, I see ASCOT/AFRIT and for 41a, I now have the following, but there may be an error somewhere:

41 They are wrong about tear away, a trencherman (6,5) : H?A?T?E?T?R

[cashier]

41   Heart eater

33    Ascot

[cashier]

Hearty eater - sorry

[johnpiper]

still unclear about 36A unclued ?AVI?

and also 11A ?N?O?E

 

[roslyn251254]

those 2 fit together 2,3,2,4    with the french colour being the last word

[JJ109]

La vie en rose (life in pink - ie seeing life through rose tinted glasses)

[Neveracrossword]

John, that's a four word phrase, two words in each(and in the order you have given).

[Matakari]

Thanks, cashier! I lapsed terribly with 41a. To  close this puzzle, I'm left with the final two Unclueds for which I have the following:

32 MAN?E  ( MANGE )
37 SACR?    ( SACRE )

Thanks again!

 

 

[johnpiper]

Thanks

32 Links with 10D

37 links with 8D

 

[Neveracrossword]

Matakari, how could you? I thought the theme was the most Matakari-friendly in the history of your solving... and I was expecting you to be helping all and sundry!

[Maxxer]

A nice puzzle from Doc again, which gave me a chance to revisit my schoolboy French. BTW did anyone suss the Walsall reference from Mr Magoo's puzzle last week ?