Comments on: Everyman N° 3,380 (July 10) http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/17/everyman-n%c2%b0-3380-july-10/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Davy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/17/everyman-n%c2%b0-3380-july-10/#comment-165361 Davy Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:30:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31575#comment-165361 Thanks PeterO for your excellent blog. I thought this was Everyman in top form and I was amused by C+LAMA = Catholic priest in 4d. I have ticked ten clues as being worthy of mention and from those I’ll select REDCAP (a very neat clue indeed), ROMEO AND JULIET (very apposite anagram), PREFER (nice surface) and CRACKS UP (another colourful image). Thanks Everyman.

A quick note to Bamberger. A crossword is about solving clues irrespective of the answer. Just follow the wordplay and arrive at the answer, even if it’s a word you have never heard of.

]]> By: crosser http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/17/everyman-n%c2%b0-3380-july-10/#comment-165334 crosser Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:01:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31575#comment-165334 Thanks, PeterO. I finished it but needed explanations for 10a (I hadn’t thought of Military Police) and 8d (I didn’t know OP as an abbreviation for opposite number). As you say, rather unfortunate since the solution was implicitly in the clue.
But a very enjoyable puzzle, thank you, Everyman.
I liked 2d.

]]> By: Kathryn's Dad http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/17/everyman-n%c2%b0-3380-july-10/#comment-165326 Kathryn's Dad Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:10:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31575#comment-165326 Thanks, Peter. Sound and enjoyable as usual. I liked BACKCHAT because of the surface reading; also CAPRICORN and ACCLAMATION for their clever clueing.

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/17/everyman-n%c2%b0-3380-july-10/#comment-165306 Bamberger Sun, 17 Jul 2011 07:45:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31575#comment-165306 Couldn’t finish this unaided.
15a despite having lots of checking letters and knowing what the angram material was , I just couldn’t spot the answer.
12d Ditto -some days they drop out and some they don’t.
20a A nut being a fruit didn’t come to mind.
21d I have no interest in wine so clues like this are goign to be hard especially as husband =save is not what springs to mind.
Still all prefectly fair.

]]> By: David Travis http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/17/everyman-n%c2%b0-3380-july-10/#comment-165303 David Travis Sun, 17 Jul 2011 07:28:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31575#comment-165303 I found this a bit harder than usual. 2d was especially well clued – I couldn’t see the definition (I couldn’t think beyond ‘sign of growth’). And I didn’t see ‘husband’ in 21d as anything other than an abbreviation. Many thanks for the explanation.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/17/everyman-n%c2%b0-3380-july-10/#comment-165294 Bryan Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:00:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31575#comment-165294 Many thanks PeterO & Everyman

I’d never heard of SKIDOO but I guessed it correctly and, even though I now do recall THE NAKED APE, it eluded me last week.

Is my memory going?

However, very enjoyable.

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