Everyman No. 3371 (8th May)
Posted by The Trafites on May 15th, 2011
Lorraine: Good morning all, some nice clues here this week.
I thoroughly enjoyed this weeks offering. Big thank you Everyman.
There are two hyperlinks in this weeks blog, namely 2dn and 16dn.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Dominate on show (8) | ||
| OVERBEAR | OVER(on)+BEAR(show?) can ‘bear’ = show? |
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| 5. | Pen note about one in block (6) | ||
| STYMIE | STY(pen)+(ME(musical note) around I) | ||
| 9. | This animal could make worker run away (8) | ||
| ANTELOPE | ANT+ELOPE | ||
| 10. | Reportedly vulgar passage (6) | ||
| COURSE | homophone of ‘coarse’ | ||
| 11. | Prepared to risk everything, so no other joint will do (4,2,7) | ||
| NECK OR NOTHING | cd | ||
| 14. | Not included in special edition (5) | ||
| EXTRA | dd | ||
| 15. | Touching, calling for forgiveness (9) | ||
| REMISSION | dd | ||
| 17. | Spoil old lady and boy with English jam (9) | ||
| MARMALADE | MAR+MA+LAD+E | ||
| 19. | Slip in left part of church (5) | ||
| LAPSE | L+APSE | ||
| 21. | Make an unwarranted fuss, and duly rub mercer the wrong way (3,4,6) | ||
| CRY BLUE MURDER | (DULY RUB MERCER*) | ||
| 24. | Slowly locking a shed (4-2) | ||
| LEAN TO | LENTO(in music, slowly) around A | ||
| 25. | Appear suddenly, blooming after holiday (5,3) | ||
| BREAK OUT | BREAK+OUT(flowers when in bloom) | ||
| 26. | I eat after one – duck? (6) | ||
| IODINE | DINE after I+O I (chemical symbol of IODINE) is the definition here! |
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| 27. | Bird studied, we hear, at dawn (8) | ||
| REDSTART | homophone of READ+START(dawn) | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | An examination in morality (4) | ||
| ORAL | hidden: mORALity are oral exams still used? |
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| 2. | Formerly caught basking in shade, like the dodo? (7) | ||
| EXTINCT | EX+(C in TINT) have a read of this BOOK |
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| 3. | Hood in Virginia following a cab, all agitated (9) | ||
| BALACLAVA | (A CAB ALL*) before VA(Virginia) | ||
| 4. | Suitable nick (11) | ||
| APPROPRIATE | dd | ||
| 6. | Fish off Turkey, seawards (5) | ||
| TROUT | TR+OUT(seawards) | ||
| 7. | Swallow one gin and vermouth (7) | ||
| MARTINI | MARTIN(the bird)+I | ||
| 8. | In Greece, men’s deceptive appearances (10) | ||
| EMERGENCES | (GREECE MENS*) | ||
| 12. | Assumed name of rogue mender, criminal (3,2,6) | ||
| NOM DE GUERRE | (ROGUE MENDER*) | ||
| 13. | Evil crime involved importing Latin pasta (10) | ||
| VERMICELLI | (EVIL CRIME*) around L(atin) | ||
| 16. | Speaks about a son and daughter making a musical (5,4) | ||
| SALAD DAYS | SAYS around (A LAD+D) this musical -> HERE |
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| 18. | Fox pelt said to be on a road? (7) | ||
| REYNARD | homophone of ‘RAIN’(i.e. pelt(down))+A RD | ||
| 20. | Trellis made from a bulky piece of wood agent erected (7) | ||
| PERGOLA | A LOG+REP all reversed | ||
| 22. | Divulge information got from head of language college (3,2) | ||
| LET ON | L+ETON | ||
| 23. | A flighty creature up to some criminal activity (2,2) | ||
| AT IT | A TIT(the bird) | ||
| … | |||
May 15th, 2011 at 6:44 am
Many thanks for the explanations. Although I solved it, I was not sure why some of the clues worked.
I agree with your questioning in 1a. Bear does not mean show to me although I guess it could be from bear out.
11a was a new expression to me and I am guessing TR is the abbreviation for Turkey in the EU.
All in all a pleasant way to spend a little time.
May 15th, 2011 at 7:40 am
Good morning Lorraine and many thanks.
Re 1a: Bear is, of course, a homophone of Bare which can mean ‘to show’ as in ‘Bare All’.
May 15th, 2011 at 8:44 am
Many thanks, Lorraine.
Another good puzzle from Everyman, with some clever surface readings. My favourite, though last to go in, was IODINE, very deceptive.
I think ‘bear’ for ‘show’ works without the need for a homophone. It’s the sense of bearing a name or bearing a rank: ‘he bore the rank of commander’.
And yes, orals do still exist – Kathryn’s sister had one the other week! But these days they are just for those studying languages.
May 15th, 2011 at 8:52 am
Thanks Trafites for the very clear blog.
Bryan – I’m not convinced that Everyman intended BEAR as a homophone of BARE. There is no homophone indicator in the clue. The OED gives one of the meanings of BEAR as ‘To display on a heraldic shield’. There is also the sense of how one bears oneself – one’s deportment (hence, ‘bearing’).
May 15th, 2011 at 9:19 am
I thought the iodine clue was very good. A bit more difficult than the previous week’s puzzle. ‘Neck or Nothing’ was a new phrase for me.
May 15th, 2011 at 9:34 am
Thanks Lorraine,
Another very entertaining puzzle from Everyman with favourite clues being STYMIE, LAPSE, LEAN-TO and ORAL.
Just finished reading your link to “A Dodo at Oxford: The Unreliable Account of a Student and His Pet Dodo” and its fascinating stuff. Thanks for that and thanks Everyman.
May 15th, 2011 at 10:22 am
Thanks to Everyman and to Lorraine for a good blog. Very entertaining link to the dodo story.
I thought the clue for IODINE was very clever; I got caught by the I DINE=I eat trick before I sussed out the chemical symbol.
May 15th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Thanks Lorraine for another excellent blog. I thought this was a particularly entertaining Everyman, with some clever constructions and no obscurities. Many enjoyable clues but I think Iodine was my favourite too.
I took 15ac to be a charade, rather than a dd, with RE = ‘touching’, MISSION = ‘calling’ and ‘forgiveness’ as the definition.
June 17th, 2011 at 11:51 pm
I did like the I-O-DINE
Rob.