Comments on: Everyman No. 3381 (17th July)

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:01:37 +0000

Hi Stephen

As I mentioned previously, I struggled to parse this clue, but now Lorraine’s explained it, I think it works like this: the definition is ‘part of NI’, in other words County Derry; then it’s a substitution of R for ‘right’ for B for ‘bishop’ in Derby, the English city.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:57:18 +0000

11across: I understood this as NI city = Londonderry, part of = Derry, and this is right (correct) when talking of the Bishop of Derry.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:07:08 +0000

Re: no. 6

I put in inebriate instead of inebriant, but have amended my typo.

Lorraine

By: crosser

crosser — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:57:02 +0000

Sorry, scchua, could you explain the problem with inebriant?
Nice relaxing puzzle, many thanks to Everyman and Lorraine.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:59:25 +0000

Many thanks, Lorraine.

Sunday morning and Everyman seem to go together – relaxing day, relaxing and enjoyable puzzle. Hard to pick a favourite in this one – it all seemed to come together nicely. My main piece of muppetry was not understanding how DERRY worked, despite living only a short distance outside DERBY …

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 07:16:46 +0000

Many thanks Lorraine & Everyman this was a breeze.

And very enjoyable.

By: David Travis

David Travis — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:43:11 +0000

I found this one quite a bit harder than usual. I especially hate clues like 16d, where you first need to find the word (“SEA”) before you can ‘capsize’ it (I was stuck thinking this was “MED”, as in the Mediterranean). Similarly 11a where you first need to find a city with a ‘B’ in it and then replace it with ‘R’. Phew.

By: scchua

scchua — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:21:10 +0000

Oops, sorry. I withdraw my comment about “butler” – there’s another meaning that’s connected with wines and liquors.

By: scchua

scchua — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:18:48 +0000

Thanks Lorraine, and Everyman.

Smooth even solving. Liked 14A GENERALISSIMO, 4D PERESTROIKA, and 14D GATHERING, a nice dd which makes sense of “a gathering gathering”.

BTW, there’s a typo for 19A INEBRIANT: something “responsible for causing drunkenness”, an intoxicant. And I’m not sure of “sommelier” (a wine steward or waiter in a restaurant) = “butler”.