Wednesday 10 January 2018

Globe and Mail Cryptic 20180109

Tuesday January 9, 2018

Difficulty: medium-hard

DNF. Missed 8A, 5D, 18D



Skipping obvious ones; definitions underlined.

Across

8. Inventor's fate is to produce one thing after another!
Train of events [anagram]: I'm not too familiar with this phrase. And I missed the anagram.

11. A household word in France
Menage [cryptic]: menage mean household in French

19. A word of questionable value
Interrogative [cryptic]: Had interrogation for this, which threw me off for 18D

21. They should be allowed to be themselves, we're told
Bygones [cryptic]: Missed it, but I like it. Let bygones be bygones.

Down

18. Unused grounds
Dregs [double def?]: This was not clear to me. I guess dregs can mean remnants (unused?), but to me it's not usual to call (coffee) grounds "dregs", unless it might mean the bits left in the bottom of a poured cup of coffee.

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