Everyman No. 3428 (17th June)
Posted by The Trafites on June 24th, 2012
Lorraine: Good morning to you all,
nice non-taxing puzzle this week, no particular favourites, just a nice well rounded solve.
Thank you Everyman as always.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Excellent English poet capturing hearts (8) | ||
| CHAMPION | H in (thomas)CAMPION | ||
| 5. | Order to strike – caught leaving at top speed (3,3) | ||
| ALL OUT | (c)ALL OUT | ||
| 10. | Left river, in past, slowly (5) | ||
| LARGO | L+(R in AGO) | ||
| 11. | Pleased, having stumped one former PM (9) | ||
| GLADSTONE | GLAD+ST(umped)+ONE | ||
| 12. | Bird article written in pencil, unwisely (7) | ||
| PELICAN | A in (PENCIL*) | ||
| 13. | See crushed ice does (7) | ||
| DIOCESE | (ICE DOES)* | ||
| 14. | Book different course, following Heath, perhaps (8,6) | ||
| ROBINSON CRUSOE | (heath)ROBINSON+(COURSE*) | ||
| 18. | Mixed up metal dealer with war poet (6,2,2,4) | ||
| WALTER DE LA MARE | (METAL DEALER… WAR)* | ||
| 20. | Theatre role about Kit Carson, for example (7) | ||
| TRAPPER | (REP+PART<) | ||
| 23. | Shakespearean actor, one in musical (7) | ||
| OLIVIER | I in OLIVER | ||
| 24. | Mean male, an intermediary (9) | ||
| MIDDLEMAN | MIDDLE+MAN | ||
| 25. | Old-fashioned old man penning note (5) | ||
| DATED | DAD around TE | ||
| 26. | Fish seen round mouth of river? It’s a wonder (6) | ||
| RARITY | RAY around (R+IT) | ||
| 27. | See it run off, hungry (8) | ||
| ESURIENT | (SEE IT RUN)* | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | Check across a border for a religious leader (6) | ||
| CALIPH | CH(check, in chess) around (A LIP) | ||
| 2. | Sadly I fall, poor hoax victim (5,4) | ||
| APRIL FOOL | (I FALL, POOR)* | ||
| 3. | Exile for writer (9) | ||
| PROSCRIBE | PRO+SCRIBE | ||
| 4. | Imagine records involved the Mafia? (9,5) | ||
| ORGANISED CRIME | (IMAGINE RECORDS)* | ||
| 6. | Catch girl with nothing on (5) | ||
| LASSO | LASS+O | ||
| 7. | Ring precinct for gas (5) | ||
| OZONE | O+ZONE | ||
| 8. | Temperate? Not half, before daughter wavered (8) | ||
| TEETERED | TEET(otal)+ERE(before)+D | ||
| 9. | Main directions given by all the bridge players? (8,6) | ||
| CARDINAL POINTS | cd N, S, E, W | ||
| 15. | Jogger grabbing a rest (9) | ||
| REMAINDER | REMINDER around A | ||
| 16. | Struggle in Queer Street? This may give you some protection (9) | ||
| SERVIETTE | VIE in (STREET*) | ||
| 17. | Pair watch for unfaithful type (3-5) | ||
| TWO-TIMER | TWO+TIMER | ||
| 19. | Extremely clever to reword trust (6) | ||
| CREDIT | C(leve)R+EDIT | ||
| 21. | Run to avoid large snake (5) | ||
| ADDER | (l)ADDER | ||
| 22. | Guide the Italian aboard vessel (5) | ||
| PILOT | IL in POT | ||
| … | |||
June 24th, 2012 at 8:52 am
Pleasant solve.
Thanks Lorraine for the nice blog. Good imagine records/ORGANISED CRIME anagram. I liked ROBINSON CRUSOE and TEETERED.
June 24th, 2012 at 9:01 am
Re TEETERED – I bodged it together from the letters TEETER being not half the letters of TEmpERaTE. Your parsing is much nicer.
June 24th, 2012 at 9:15 am
Many thanks, Lorraine, for the blog.
Yes, all good stuff from Everyman. Like Robi, I liked the ORGANISED CRIME and ROBINSON CRUSOE clues. CHAMPION does mean ‘excellent’, but I fancy it’s regional: it’s certainly common in my native North-East, but I’m not sure I’ve heard it much outside there.
And 12ac was very topical, because I went out for a pelican curry with my mates last night. It was delicious, but the bill was enormous.
I’ll get me coat …
June 24th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Thanks Lorraine,
Yes, another very enjoyable puzzle from Everyman. It may be on the easier side but is usually the most entertaining.
As well as previously mentioned, I particularly liked REMAINDER, SERVIETTE (loved Queer Street) and ADDER (wonderful surface).
Thanks KD for letting me know how expensive pelican curries are…
… great joke by the way, it certainly gave me a good laugh.
Thanks Everyman.
June 24th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
I failed on 8d and 20a. I assumed Kit Carson was some of Western character. Unless you google , how does he cross your radar?
Liked the joke KD
June 24th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Thank you, Everyman and Lorraine! I was able to get 8 Down from the crossing letters and straight definition but I couldn’t account for TEET. Like John, I used the letters in “temperate.” At 27 Across, I knew the answer was an anagram of “see it run” which meant “hungry,” but had to check Chambers Crossword Dictionary for the answer. “Esurient” is a new word to me, but I’m now quite sure that Kathryn’s Dad must have been feeling extremely esurient to eat pelican curry! Cute joke!