Am off to see and review Sade for Inpress and can’t help but to think something involving SADE might end up being a very great clue indeed.
Any reference to Nigerian marquises in this week’s DA?
Update: Not bad, although some big-time nastiness:
The golden moment: RC asks what BORIS could possibly be a famous dancer; I reply BORIS SPASSKY — but he’s a chess player. We slap our heads: master mover is gold!
We cheated with BOHEA, PLAY HOOKY and LYONNAISE. We were very glad we cheated — we were way off.
No Nigerians so far, but there’s a Frenchman, an Italian, a Russian and a Mongolian, and they all walk into a bar …
Much better crossie this week. Favourites were 20A, 23A, 17D.
Did anyone come up with an explanation of where the first/second S is clued? Because my reading of the wordplay gives BORI SPASSKY, and the idea that the first S doesn’t need to be clued because it is shared with the second word on the grid seems highly dubious.
Couldn’t agree more Rupert. I reckon an explanation from DA would be very welcome indeed.
DA has popped up in the Confusions thread for next week (!) apologising for the error in 24D/28A.
Thanks, DA, for clearing that one up!