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I Newspaper Cryptic #2366 - Explain Answers?

stringph | 01:42 Mon 31st Dec 2018 | Crosswords

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Doing the 'i' cryptic crossword no 2366 by Tyrus, 16 across 'Match drawn saved season (4)' must be TIDE - but why? A drawn match is 'TIED', however 'saved' as an instruction doesn't seem to get us to the answer.

19 across 'Force half-back on trial to play' is THE TEMPEST. But why?
Thanks!

The Week 1138 Saturday December 22Nd 2018

Yours Magazine

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JJ109

Match = Tie
saved means insert
Drawn = D
Ti D e
Tide = season
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tide
scroll down to number 7

JimF

Match = tie. If something matches, it ties.
D = drawn, as in sports results, saved (included) in TIE.
Season = tide, as in time and tide.

JimF

LOL! Beat me to it!

JJ109

:))

JimF

Struggling with the second one, though. Obviously TEST = TRIAL and The Tempest is a Shakespeare play, but I can't really get the rest.

Lie-in King

The Tempest - 'the MET' (force, half [is] back) + 'pest' (trial)

JimF

Pest = trial?

Lie-in King

Chambers Thesaurus -

pest
n
nuisance, bother, annoyance, irritation, irritant, vexation, trial, curse, scourge, bane, blight, bug colloq. pain, pain in the neck, thorn in the flesh

JimF

Fair enough!

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