Comments on: Everyman No. 3385 (14th August)

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:36:56 +0000

@ Lorraine,

Thanks, I’m getting into these cryptics, but it’s little things like that make it feel like cheating

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:16:48 +0000

Michael@ 11

OS= outsize.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:59:05 +0000

Question, how in 20d, is OS equal to very large?

By: Mystogre

Mystogre — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:34:23 +0000

Hope you heal fast Lorraine and thanks to Nick for stepping in. I took the window in 16d to be a LIGHT, so the small bit gave it the S.

The rest was a well set exercise. Difficulty about the usual and some lovely clues including those mentioned above. Thanks Everyman for keeping Sunday afternoons short and sweet, as well as keeping the resolve and hurdles in there.

By: thechillyaura

thechillyaura — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:58:09 +0000

Ah, of course it is! A facepalm moment there, I think…

By: Joachim

Joachim — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:48:21 +0000

@thechillyaura Looks like a typo — it’s SLIGHT for ‘small’ I think.

By: thechillyaura

thechillyaura — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:41:31 +0000

Hi all. Apologies if I’m missing something crashingly obvious but where does the ‘L’ come from in 16d…?

By: Robi

Robi — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:18:40 +0000

Good one; thanks to Lorraine and Nick. Hope the bones are mending.

By: Davy

Davy — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:44:15 +0000

Thanks Lorraine,

I hope your hand soon heals. Some great clues and smooth surfaces here. Particular favourites were CAST LOTS, TOSCANINI (very smooth), BRANDY (short and sweet), GHETTO, OBSTACLES (excellent anagram) and KITCHEN (as smooth as silk). Well done Everyman for keeping up such a high standard, week after week.

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:13:34 +0000

Thanks Lorraine, and get well soon.

This was enjoyable, and with three Shakespeare references – unusual for Everyman to give us a mini-theme.

Thanks to him as ever for my usual Sunday morning stroll in the park. Now on to today’s