Everyman No. 3446 (21st October)
Posted by The Trafites on October 28th, 2012
Lorraine: Good morning crossword solvers,
I enjoyed this weeks offering tremendously, wizzed through it with no problems.
Favourites this week were, 1, 3, 9, 14 and 17ac, 1, 6, 10(first in the grid) and 19dn. I hope you all enjoyed this weeks crossword as much as I did, you should not have
had to many problems solving this one!
| Across | |||
| 1. | The Parisian on Northern Ireland river (4) | ||
| NILE | LE after NI | ||
| 3. | What may show twenty with chap bagging a run? (10) | ||
| SCOREBOARD | SCORE+(A+R in BOD) &lit | ||
| 9. | Writer may have question after dance (9) | ||
| BALLPOINT | POINT after BALL | ||
| 11. | Invigorating air round region (5) | ||
| OZONE | O+ZONE | ||
| 12. | Where lots go to join game (7,6) | ||
| AUCTION BRIDGE | AUCTION+BRIDGE | ||
| 14. | Garden centre in northern Surrey, flourishing (7) | ||
| NURSERY | (N SURREY)* | ||
| 16. | Nobleman, one meeting the Queen beforehand (7) | ||
| EARLIER | EARL+I+ER | ||
| 17. | Flinches, with reference to snakes (7) | ||
| RECOILS | RE+COILS | ||
| 19. | Sharp end (7) | ||
| EXTREME | dd | ||
| 20. | How to handle unwanted photo opportunity? (4,3,4,2) | ||
| GRIN AND BEAR IT | cd | ||
| 23. | Engaged in a contest (5) | ||
| ABOUT | A+BOUT | ||
| 24. | Caution shown as gift horse put out (9) | ||
| FORESIGHT | (GIFT HORSE)* | ||
| 25. | Takes over from leading exporter, initially in casual dresses (10) | ||
| SUPERSEDES | (UP(leading)+E(xporter) in (DRESSES*) | ||
| 26. | Study prepared? Almost (4) | ||
| READ | READ(y) | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | In bar, señor prepared questions that are very easy to answer (2-8) | ||
| NO-BRAINERS | (IN BAR SEÑOR)* | ||
| 2. | Ring up about first of images in colour (5) | ||
| LILAC | (CALL<) around I(mages) | ||
| 4. | Ring about name on top of yellow funnel (7) | ||
| CHIMNEY | (CHIME around N)+Y | ||
| 5. | One no longer working on Hebridean island (7) | ||
| RETIREE | RE(on)+TIREE | ||
| 6. | Family is concerned about Pinter’s last play (5,8) | ||
| BLOOD BROTHERS | BLOOD+((pinte)R in BOTHERS) | ||
| 7. | Together in the past (2,3,4) | ||
| AT ONE TIME | sort of cdd | ||
| 8. | Fight scheduled – end of April (4) | ||
| DUEL | DUE+(apri)L | ||
| 10. | Brief man about elected premier (5,8) | ||
| PRIME MINISTER | PRIME+(MISTER around IN) | ||
| 13. | Determined one’s position with an editor, upset having received note (10) | ||
| ORIENTATED | (AN EDITOR*) around TE(a note) | ||
| 15. | Musicians, perhaps, sway Greek publisher (4,5) | ||
| ROCK GROUP | ROCK+GR+OUP | ||
| 18. | Appropriate bit (7) | ||
| SNAFFLE | dd (appropriate=steal, bit=part of a harness=snaffle) | ||
| 19. | Favour daughter entering English and another language (7) | ||
| ENDORSE | D in (E+NORSE) | ||
| 21. | Profligate nicking grand, the villain (5) | ||
| ROGUE | G in ROUE(a profligate) | ||
| 22. | Transfer to be approved (4) | ||
| PASS | dd | ||
| … | |||
October 28th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Yes, pretty straightforward but still enjoyable.
Thanks Lorraine; I toyed with AUCTION houses at first, but was soon disabused.
I liked GRIN AND BEAR IT.
October 28th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Thanks Lorraine. No real problems here except that I entered ABOUT at 23a without knowing why. I understood A+BOUT of course, but why engaged? Can someone please explain?
October 28th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
‘Engaged in’ rather than ‘engaged’ is the definition.
October 28th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Thanks Paul B. Just shows how precise you have to be!
October 28th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
“Just shows how precise you are!”
October 29th, 2012 at 10:06 am
I don’t like ‘caution’ as a definition of FORESIGHT. But my argument is with the dictionaries, not the setter I suppose.
November 2nd, 2012 at 8:16 am
Hi first time posting, I love this blog and try really hard not to peek before I have finished, but please as a person who still after quite some time regards herself as a cryptic beginner, don’t assume that people should have had no problems with a particular puzzle. It is really disheartening and makes me feel inadequate when I have had!!