Comments on: Everyman No 3,376

By: Robi

Robi — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:35:55 +0000

Thanks Everyman and to Stella for an excellent, pictorial blog.

Didn’t get the v=see in VINDICATION. OWEN GLENDOWER had to be Googled and I didn’t know ESURIENT, although thanks to sidey for the excellent link, which hopefully will enable me to remember it. Bandy was an unusual anagrind, but it is in my list so must have been used before and provided a good surface. I particularly liked LEVERET.

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:51:35 +0000

Thanks for the link, Sidey , and to the rest of you for your comments. I’m now glad I’d never heard of the cocktail.

Sorry you found it tough, Bamberger. Do persevere, and remember that crossing letters are an integral part of the fun. If we could get the whole puzzle without them, it would quite detract from the exercise.

Personally, I’m more familiar with the exclamation “What the Dickens..?!” expleted by my mother on more than one occasion, usually when one – or even all eight – of us had been up to something

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:06:25 +0000

I don’t think was as easy for the less able such as myself as comments above would indicate.
17a Got Owen ok but never heard of Glendower and without crossing letters, I couldn’t get it.
27a Again without crossing letters this was nigh on impossible. Ok could have used a solver -but not really the point.
9d Not an expression I’m familiar with -though my mother says she is.
As 17a & 9d were long answers,not getting them made the answers to other clues harder than they might have been.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:08:27 +0000

Thanks for the colourful blog, Stella.

A gentle puzzle for a lazy Sunday morning. OWEN GLENDOWER and LEVERET I specially liked. I had vaguely heard of ESURIENT – probably through crosswords.

By: AJK

AJK — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:36:37 +0000

Finished without aids, but some nice clues. I liked RYDE becoming RYE (which is an interesting historical town- one of the ‘cinque’ ports).

By: scchua

scchua — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:20:50 +0000

Thanks Stella, and the setter (Everyman’s his pseudonym?) for a straightforward puzzle.

Your photo of the Singapore sling scares me more than that of the Hell’s Angel! That’s a glass from the Raffles Hotel, where the drink(?) was supposedly invented, for the colonials, in the Long Bar, which in the renovated hotel is still serving it, with the glass thrown in at a special price, to entice tourists(?). Definitely not what I’d like to see as a Singapore icon. Tastes of course differ, but my advice would be don’t – tried it once and I recall it reminded me of a mix of mouthwash and toothpaste! Never taken it since and never recommend it to any visitor – you were fortunate, Bryan.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:42:06 +0000

Many thanks Stella for an excellent analysis, as always, but you really scared me with your image of the Hell’s Angel.

Everything straightforward except for SINGAPORE SLING which I’d never heard of – not even when I visited Singapore – but I guessed it correctly anyway. Moreover, I am certainly not tempted.

However, I bet that Eileen, Sil and several others have rushed out to get a swig while Uncle Yap probably keeps all the ingredients in his cocktail cabinet.

By: Mystogre

Mystogre — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:30:25 +0000

Thank you Stella for the blog of a gentle ramble of a crossword. I found it pretty straightforward although I did have to look up Welsh heroes. We didn’t learn about such people over here. But I did like that clue and 23ac. The new word, for me, was SAMEY. Had to look it up to see if it existed. But, like the rest of the crossword, the clue worked fine.

This one was more accessible than the current one.

By: sidey

sidey — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:21:48 +0000

Esurient explained http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0