Independent on Saturday xword 6257

[ulysses100]

I don't see any queries this week about the IoS xword which is an absolute stinker. I've answered it all bar two -- but several of these I have doubts about !!
19dn A girl somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea cried (6) _I_ _ _Y
22ac Religious type in retreats wearing orange layer (6)
_ _ _ I _ T ( but the T may not be correct -- the 4th letter of 19dn is 2nd of 22ac).

And, is 15dn one-booted or one-footed ? Might such a Gunner not exercise the right to shoot ?

[ulysses100]

I've just solved 19d ! It's Cicely (sounds like Sicily)

[Tenter]

Zenist?

[kettledrum]

22a . I had Zenist - 'in' backwards in zest

[ulysses100]

Thanks Tenter.
Two religious types are Vedist and Zenist -- but I can't make either fit the clue -- however I just have !!!

Retreat "in" is "ni" in orange peel = zest

[ulysses100]

.........and thanks to kettledrum as well

[kayakamina]

You were not alone! K

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puz zles/Question316840.html

[kettledrum]

ulysses & / or kayakamina ...if you are still there I haven't been able to get a satisfactory answer to 8d......caster?
I'd put in one-footed assuming it was a footballing reference (Arsenal) to left-footed goal scorers....but lots of my answers are distinctly iffy.

[kayakamina]

kettledrum I have (TAD) Caster - loosing 'touch'

I have also gone with One-footed. He is clearly left-footed and does not exercise his right -- so is one footed!
There is an Arsenal player who is called Gunner something but I can't remenber who.

Cheers K

[kayakamina]

I meant to add kettledrum that I'm happy with my other answers if you want to come back on any of yours.

[kettledrum]

Thank you Kayakamina - that was my reasoning too, but for some reason hadn't thought of 'tad' being a touch.
I don't want to spoil everyone else's fun so I'll e-mail you if that's OK.

[kayakamina]

Thats fine.

[ulysses100]

Thanks for your input guys.
My other doubtfuls are :
10ac Artist
11ac Lap dog (Mitch the Miller being a racing greyhound)
20ac is obviously pinafore but what's the golf connection ?
21ac why is parking zone "BA" ?
23ac acanthus -- such could be thus, and worker ant but not the two together, and what about the ac ?
2d why "normally" ?

Questions. So many questions !

[kettledrum]

ulysses - I've just written you an answer but it seems to have disappeared into cyberspace - please forgive if it reappears and dupicates what I'm writing now.

You made the same mistakes as me with 11a & 2d, but kayakamina put me right...11a is HOT dog, & 2d is narrowly.
NY round ARR (Aus rules rugby) + owl (hooter)

10a A(bsent) + R(ober)t + 1st (top) ...artists draw
20a Fore! is a warning in golf
21a sounds like Bay 6
23a anag such + ant + a (principle of ancients)

[ulysses100]

Thankyou very much kettledrum for the explications.
I must admit that I'm not very keen on this particular compiler !t

[kettledrum]

I can't remember having come across Scorpion before : I dare say we'll get used to him / her!

I wonder if some of the weekend prize puzzles are deliberately being made more difficult, to counteract the advantage of all the internet tools available to us solvers. I think the Times has also been a bit harder of late.

Personally I quite enjoy the challenge as long as I can understand the underlying logic once it's finished.
To digress: I think you do the Spectator - 1789 -Do you understand fully the answer to 33a ?

[ulysses100]

The answer is italic -- which fits in with script, and "a legal" is " a licit" which when turned on itself, i,e, cyclically, becomes italic

[kettledrum]

Thank you - obviously I had italic and understood the script bit of it. How could I have missed a licit = a legal ? !! Old age I suppose.