Everyman N° 3,445 (14 October)
Posted by PeterO on October 21st, 2012
The odd less common reference, the inevitable bit of geography, notably coherent surfaces – what more can one say? Everyman continues to produce crosswords which are not pitched too high for most beginners, but have enough spice to satisfy more experienced solvers.
| Across | ||
| 1 | AUGUST | Inspiring respect and admiration, Pinochet docked (6) |
| AUGUST[o] cut short (‘docked’). Augusto Pinochet, former Chilean dictator. | ||
| 4 | STANDARD | Usual colours (8) |
| Double definition. | ||
| 9 | CHABLIS | Wine, British – left one to be collected by Charles (7) |
| An envelope (‘to be collected by’) of B (‘British’) plus L (‘left’) plus I (‘one’) in CHAS (‘Charles’). | ||
| 11 | ENDORSE | Support back, terribly sore (7) |
| A charade of END (‘back’) plus ORSE, an anagram (‘terribly’) of ‘sore’. | ||
| 12 | SOLID | Weighty Roman coin American lost (5) |
| SOLID[us] (‘Roman coin’) withour US (‘American lost’). | ||
| 13 | ELEVENSES | Cricket team’s grabbing extremely sensible coffee break (9) |
| An envelope (‘grabbing’) of SE (‘extremely SensiblE‘) in ELEVEN’S (‘cricket team’s'). | ||
| 14 | BACKBREAKING | Stop working in finance, it’s exhausting (12) |
| An envelope (‘in’) of BREAK (‘stop working’) in BACKING (‘finance’). | ||
| 18 | CLUB SANDWICH | Double-decker driver, say, coming to Channel port (4,8) |
| A charade of CLUB (golf, ‘driver, say’) plus SANDWICH (‘Channel port’). | ||
| 21 | BABY-FACED | Like George Nelson confronted by sweetheart? (4-5) |
| A charade of BABY (‘sweetheart’) plus FACED (‘confronted’). George “Baby-face” Nelson, real name Lester Joseph Gillis, was a bank robber in ’30s Chicago. | ||
| 23 | RATEL | Animal later let loose (5) |
| An anagram (‘let loose’) of ‘later’. | ||
The Ratel, or Honey Badger
| 24 | AURELIO | Spanish boy in a university (Oriel), revised (7) |
| An anagram of ‘a’ plus U (‘university’) plus ‘Oriel’. | ||
| 25 | WHIPPET | Dog and cat, cherished (7) |
| A charade of WHIP (‘cat’) plus PET (‘cherished’. as in a pet/cherished project). | ||
| 26 | DRY DOCKS | Uninteresting, plants where ships may get repaired (3,5) |
| A charade of DRY (‘uninteresting’) plus DOCKS (‘plants’). | ||
| 27 | INMATE | Prisoner‘s popular partner (6) |
| A charade of IN (‘popular’) plus MATE (‘partner’). | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | ACCUSE | Point the finger at copper in dodgy case (6) |
| An envelope (‘in’) of CU (chemical symbol, ‘copper’) in ACSE, an anagram (‘dodgy’) of ‘case’. | ||
| 2 | GLADLY | Good woman accepting lead in Lolita with pleasure (6) |
| An envelope (‘accepting’) of L (‘lead in Lolita’) in G(‘good’) plus LADY (‘woman’). | ||
| 3 | SALAD DAYS | Youth speaks about contemporary of J. Wayne? (5,4) |
| An enveolpe (‘about’) of A LADD (‘contemporary of J Wayne’; Alan Ladd, star of Shane and many other films) in SAYS (‘speaks’). | ||
| 5 | THE MERRY WIDOW | Operetta article foolishly worried my wife (3,5,5) |
| A charade of THE (‘article’) plus MERRY WIDO, an anagram (‘foolishly’) of ‘worried my’ plus W (‘wife’). | ||
| 6 | NUDGE | Approach groupies’ leader, stark naked outside (5) |
| An envelope (‘outside’) of G (‘Groupies leader’) in NUDE (‘stark naked’). | ||
| 7 | ACROSTIC | Word puzzle, possibly Socratic (8) |
| An anagram (‘possibly’) of ‘Socratic’. | ||
| 8 | DRESSAGE | Groom gaining silver, second in leading equestrian event (8) |
| A charade of DRESS (‘groom’) plus AG (chemical symbol, ‘silver’) plus E (‘second in lEading’). | ||
| 10 | SPEAKING CLOCK | This will tell you when it becomes one (8,5) |
| Cryptic definition. | ||
| 15 | ACCORDION | Correspond with head of institute concerning a musical instrument (9) |
| A charade of ACCORD (‘correspond’) plus I (‘head of Institute’) plus ON (‘concerning’). | ||
| 16 | SCABBARD | One who won’t strike poet as a sword-carrier (8) |
| A charade of SCAB (‘one who wont strike’) plus BARD (‘poet’). | ||
| 17 | MULBERRY | Causing laughter about limitless bulbs for tree (8) |
| An envelope (‘about’) of ULB (‘limitless bULBs’) in MERRY (‘causing laughter’). | ||
| 19 | UTOPIA | More work in best one in outskirts of Uppsala (6) |
| An envelope (‘in’, the second one; the first just links definition and wordplay) of TOP (‘best’) plus I (‘one’) in UA (‘outskirts of UppsalA‘). Utopia was written by Sir Thomas More. | ||
| 20 | BLITHE | Gay bishop, supple (6) |
| A charade of B (‘bishop’ in chess notation) plus LITHE (‘supple’). | ||
| 22 | FOLIO | Fine miscellany in large book (5) |
| A charade of F (‘fine’, of pencils, for example) plus OLIO (‘miscellany’). | ||
October 21st, 2012 at 11:12 am
Thanks Peter,
I found this a little tougher than usual and have a question for you concerning aurelio which was my last answer
and just sounded right. I could’t find any applicable reference to aurelio on Google and if one translates boy into
Spanish, it returns ‘el niño’. The Spanish dictionary also doesn’t recognise aurelio as a valid word so where does
this word come from ?.
As to the puzzle, I particularly liked CLUB SANDWICH and WHIPPPET. Thanks Everyman.
October 21st, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Davy, what about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelio ?
Thanks Peter, and of course Everyman for some enjoyable Sunday (late) morning pastime. As ever, I would say.
October 21st, 2012 at 12:56 pm
A/ U/ RELIO* shurely?
As to the definition, which is presumably what irks Davy, there is certainly a tradition of defining names, particularly in subsidiary indication, as ‘boys’, though normally this is used for shortened forms (like BOB or PETE).
But what you can’t argue with, I suppose, is that out there right now are many thousands of Spanish boys (and men) called Aurelio.
October 21st, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Davy,
Forgive me if I am stating what you already know, but your difficulty with Aurelio might be that you did not recall that there is a crossword convention – albeit a tired one – that any male given name may be clued as ‘boy’ (or ‘girl’ on the other side). Curiously, another Google hit on the name gives Oriel as a variant on Aurelio, although it seems that this has nothing to do with the origin of the Oxford College name.
October 21st, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Thanks all…now who says that ?. I’ve never heard of the name Aurelio and was looking for it as a part of speech.
I obviously need to get out more.
October 21st, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Thanks, Peter.
I enjoyed solving this one as always, and will simply echo the words in your preamble.
That ratel has got a bit of a ‘don’t mess with me’ look about him, though.
October 21st, 2012 at 7:00 pm
You wouldn’t want one to swim up, as the saying goes.