Comments on: Everyman N° 3,421 (29 April)

By: Robi

Robi — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:14:36 +0000

madman @5; I think ‘T’ can be used for both singular and plural (see Collins) in the same way that ‘M’ for metre(s) is used, e.g. 100m etc.

By: madman

madman — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:56:23 +0000

Hope you are feeling better. A minor quibble on my part regarding 21A (Annatto – new one for me): surely ‘T’ should be ton, not tons? Googling NAO shos no credible candidate for an international organisation, unless this could be taken to include meteorological systems.

By: Robi

Robi — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:35:08 +0000

Smooth as ever.

Thanks PeterO; hope you are feeling better now. Davy @3 MOPED clued by Orlando in a Quiptic: ‘Was blue bike seen here?’

ANNATTO was new to me. Thanks K’s D as I was also wondering about the sense of ran. A MADEIRA (or other wine) joke:

An old woman was sipping on a glass of wine, while sitting on the patio with her husband, and she says, “I love you so much, I don’t know how I could ever live without you.”

Her husband asks, “Is that you talking or the wine?”

She replies, “It’s me … talking to the wine.”

By: Davy

Davy — Sun, 06 May 2012 08:33:13 +0000

Thanks PeterO,

Another excellent puzzle from Everyman providing lots of entertainment. So many good clues of which I’ll
select the following as favourites : MADEIRA, COUNTERTENORS, CHESSPIECE, DECAMP (took me ages to get),
MOPED (I’m sure it must have been used before), HORIZONTAL BARS and COBWEB. Thanks Everyman.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Sun, 06 May 2012 07:14:25 +0000

Thanks, Peter, and get well soon! Some nice surfaces here; I thought those for TAMAR and ACROSTIC were particularly good.

Crosser, I think Everyman was looking at RAN in the sense of ‘The Observer ran a story about the French presidential election last week’.

By: crosser

crosser — Sun, 06 May 2012 05:34:00 +0000

Thanks, PeterO, hope you’re feeling better. Just one thing I don’t understand: in 5d, how does “put out” = RAN?