Everyman No. 3401 (4th December)
Posted by The Trafites on December 11th, 2011
Lorraine: Good morning to you all,
I personally found this weeks puzzle slightly harder than usual and needed Nick’s help to finish it.
Some very clever clues and a most enjoyable solve. Thank you Everyman and nice to see yourself included in the crossword.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Precedent in case (7) | ||
| EXAMPLE | dd | ||
| 5. | Hounds from British estate (7) | ||
| BASSETS | B+ASSETS | ||
| 9. | List at home about family (7) | ||
| INCLINE | IN+C[circa, about]+LINE | ||
| 10. | Short argument with the French about superior kitchen tool (7) | ||
| SPATULA | SPAT+(LA after U) | ||
| 11. | Veteran worried about extremely lazy Goldeneye character (9) | ||
| TREVELYAN | (VETERAN*) around L(az)Y | ||
| 12. | Moisten, while cooking, some lamb (a steak) (5) | ||
| BASTE | hidden: lamB (A STEak) | ||
| 14. | Ham-fisted lad may, developing film (3,6,6) | ||
| THE ADDAMS FAMILY | (HAM-FISTED LAD MAY)* | ||
| 16. | What it may do if the weather’s beastly? (4,4,3,4) | ||
| RAIN CATS AND DOGS | cyrptic pun | ||
| 17. | Slowed down when in ebbing river (5) | ||
| EASED | AS[when] in (DEE<) | ||
| 18. | What could make one lie square? (9) | ||
| EQUALISER | (LIE SQUARE*) &lit | ||
| 21. | End up in revolution abroad (4,3) | ||
| TURN OUT | TURN+OUT | ||
| 23. | Religious glibness in meeting Judge disregarded (7) | ||
| UNCTION | (j)UNCTION | ||
| 24. | Sharp reply about accepting one appointment (7) | ||
| RIPOSTE | (I POST) in RE[about) | ||
| 25. | Back trouble in so tempestuous a love affair (7) | ||
| LIAISON | (AIL<)+(IN SO*) | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | See English policeman over court order (5) | ||
| EDICT | E+DI[detective inspector]+CT | ||
| 2. | Chief antagonists cheer as mine explodes (11) | ||
| ARCH-ENEMIES | (CHEER AS MINE)* | ||
| 3. | Chief’s brief (5) | ||
| PRIME | dd | ||
| 4. | Setter barking at three in a Liverpool playhouse (8,7) | ||
| EVERYMAN THEATRE | EVERYMAN+(AT THREE*) | ||
| 5. | Concern when general spells out Asquith’s policy in the early days of World War I? (8,2,5) | ||
| BUSINESS AS USUAL | BUSINESS[concern]+AS[when]+USUAL[general] Business as usual was a policy followed by the British government, under Prime Minister H.H. Asquith. |
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| 6. | Celebrity to get on the right side (9) | ||
| STARBOARD | STAR+BOARD[get on] | ||
| 7. | Bird exhibited in Science Museum (3) | ||
| EMU | hidden: sciencE MUseum | ||
| 8. | Two moccasins, say, either side of gumshoe (5,4) | ||
| SNAKE EYES | SNAKES[moccasin is a type of snake] aroung EYE[private eye, gumshoe] | ||
| 13. | Children’s outfits from Russia – lost, I suspect (6,5) | ||
| SAILOR SUITS | (RUSSIA – LOST, I)* | ||
| 14. | Nonsense written about wise counsellor, a tease (9) | ||
| TORMENTOR | (ROT<)+MENTOR | ||
| 15. | Losing leaves, pair, American, after first of December (9) | ||
| DECIDUOUS | (DUO+US) after DEC 1 | ||
| 19. | Synthetic fabric left Cary uncomfortable (5) | ||
| LYCRA | L+(CARY*) | ||
| 20. | Arrest knight in bankruptcy (3,2) | ||
| RUN IN | N[knight] in RUIN | ||
| 22. | Pounding music (3) | ||
| RAP | cdd | ||
| … | |||
December 11th, 2011 at 7:26 am
Thanks, Lorraine. I’m afraid I still don’t understand 8d which I had solved from the crossing letters. I got “snakes” (moccasins) round “eye” (gum-shoe), but I still can’t see where the definition is. Can anyone help?
December 11th, 2011 at 7:59 am
Thanks Lorraine and Everyman; good puzzle.
Crosser, I assume SNAKE EYES is a reference to the ‘gumshoe’ film – see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120832/
December 11th, 2011 at 8:08 am
The definition to ‘snake eyes’ is TWO, i.e. the nickname for double one’s (. .)thrown in the dice game craps.
Nick
December 11th, 2011 at 8:26 am
Thank you, Nick. You learn something every day!
December 11th, 2011 at 8:28 am
Couldn’t get 9a.
Had never heard of goldeneye except as an ointment and used a solver to get trevelyan which meant nothing to me either.
8d as others have noted was as clear as mud.
December 11th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Thanks Lorraine,
Another enjoyable puzzle from Everyman with SNAKE EYES being the last one in. I too was baffled by it but should have looked it up I suppose.
Particularly liked UNCTION, LIAISON and EDICT which were all excellent surfaces.
I also didn’t know TREVELYAN but LY inside veteran* jump seemed to jump out at me and seemed a likely name for a character (villain maybe ?).
Thanks Everyman for your consistently good puzzles.
December 11th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Thanks Lorraine and Everyman.
Hi Davy, pardon me if I’m off-course, but TREVELYAN refers to Alec, Agent 006, who went bad and became 007′s adversary in GoldenEye, the first James Bond movie not based on Fleming’s works.
December 11th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
I remember seeing TREVELYAN pop up in an Everyman before and it struck me then as being a pretty obscure answer – fortunately I know the film well!
December 11th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Thanks, Lorraine.
Enjoyed this one as usual. Put TREVELYAN in without understanding why, but I think that’s okay – that’s why I come here most weeks to see how you and other folk parsed it.
Loved EVERYMAN THEATRE.
January 16th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Not quite sure why u = superior in 10a?
Any help? We’re still playing catch up on our crosswords!