Friday quiz: the cryptic round

[Rorthron]

A short cryptic quiz, this time with a grid (of sorts):



ACROSS
1. Hidden knights had escaped to the third dimension with a scroll. [10]
4. ‎Tantra, a goth, belched awfully in a demon's feline adventure. [3, 6, 3, 3, 3]

DOWN
1. Certainly not crazy - a wanderer! [5]
2. ‎I heard breezes, playing a boardgame. [8]
3. ‎Short Alfred stood in a river leading to Arthur's resting place.[6]

By way of a reminder, my cryptic Spectrum quiz guide is here:

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=230

[R-Tape]

4. ‎Tantra, a goth, belched awfully in a demon's feline adventure. [3, 6, 3, 3, 3]

The Balrog and the Cat.

(anagram of "‎Tantra, a goth, belched ", + straight clue)

[Rorthron]

4. ‎Tantra, a goth, belched awfully in a demon's feline adventure. [3, 6, 3, 3, 3]

The Balrog and the Cat.

(anagram of "‎Tantra, a goth, belched ", + straight clue)

Correct.

[bob_fossil]

2 Down - Draughts

[Rorthron]

2 Down - Draughts

Also right.

[Morkin]

1 down - Nomad

[Rorthron]

1 down - Nomad

Yes.

[Alessandro]

3 down - Have no clue about that "short Alfred", but "Arthur's resting place" could be a reference to Hewson's Avalon.
1 across - "knights had escaped" - Nightshade, which is a 4-way scrolling isometric 3D game too.

EDIT - Seems that kweepa guessed it while I was busy editing my answer... :-/

[Kweepa]

1 across - NIGHTSHADE (hidden in kNIGHTS HAD Escaped). Not sure about the third dimension or the scroll...

[Explanation of Alessandro's answer]
River AVON
Short Alfred = AL
AV AL ON

[Rorthron]

Nightshade and Avalon are both correct.

Well done.



ACROSS
1. Hidden knights had escaped to the third dimension with a scroll. [10]
2. ‎Tantra, a goth, belched awfully in a demon's feline adventure. [3, 6, 3, 3, 3]

DOWN
1. Certainly not crazy - a wanderer! [5]
2. ‎I heard breezes, playing a boardgame. [8]
3. ‎Short Alfred stood in a river leading to Arthur's resting place.[6]

[R-Tape]

I heard a carnival exceeded a camouflaged bovine (4,4,6)

[Morkin]

Raid over Khakicow?

[MatGubbins]

Fete more hidcow

[Rorthron]

More cows masked?

[MatGubbins]

Fair plus heifer

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Great quiz, again. Love the newspaper style.

I know it's hard to make it, but next time more games included would be cool