Everyman 3,546

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A lot of cryptic defs I thought this week

Reasonable puzzle but I kept expecting to find a bit more to some of the clues,

 

completed grid

Across
1 SABOT Stocked by Manitoba store, revolutionary shoe (5)
Hidden reversed in clue
4 RESILIENT Listener baffled about one quick to bounce back (9)
1 in LISTENER*
9 VALUERS Appraisers in Virginia – new rules required (7)
V(irgini)A & RULES*
10 ORCHARD In which one may pick apples, or a variety of beet? (7)
OR & CHARD (type of beet)
11 LANGOUSTE Crayfish in sea – no glut, unfortunately (9)
[SEA NO GLUT]*
12 NIPPY Quick and inclined to bite? (5)
Like Jack Russells, they’re nippy ok
13 ROYAL AND ANCIENT Descriptive of King James VI Golf Club in Scotland? (5,3,7)
Cryptic def
15 WHIRLING DERVISH Revolutionary Muslim? (8,7)
Cryptic def
20 ROVER Right and left, a rambler (5)
R(ight) & OVER (what’s left)
21 ST VINCENT Smell around television at home in part of the Windward Islands (2,7)
TV & IN both in SCENT
22 MATILDA Children’s book laid out on rug (7)
MAT & LAID*
23 LA SCALA Finale of Maria Callas performing in opera house (2,5)
[(mari)A CALLAS]*
24 SIDE ISSUE Diverting feature in fringe publication (4,5)
SIDE (fringy) & ISSUE (publication)
25 PRESS Iron in cupboard (5)
Double def I guess
Down
1 SAVILE ROW Ending in fisticuffs, a very bad argument in a Mayfair street (6,3)
(fisticuff)S & A & VILE & ROW. Yes I know the grid above is wrong, mea culpa
2 BALONEY Only taken in by foolish talk! (7)
ALONE in BY
3 TREFOIL Loftier spreading plant (7)
LOFTIER*
4 RESTS ON ONES OARS Stops rowing and relaxes (5,2,4,4)
Cryptic def
5 STOKE MANDEVILLE Poorly in Devon, Keats, with me, treated in famous hospital (5,10)
ILL inserted into [DEVON KEATS ME]*
6 LACONIC Terse, cheat in secular surroundings (7)
CON cheat in LAIC secular
7 EXAMPLE Former partner, big enough for a model (7)
EX & AMPLE
8 TODDY Drink rum in Torquay, empty (5)
ODD in T(orqua)Y
14 TAHITIANS Has Titian drawn islanders? (9)
[HAS TITIAN]* rather apt perhaps
16 INVITED Welcomed in, strove to keep close to host (7)
IN & (hos)T inserted to VIED
17 LORELEI Legendary German rock singer? (7)
Cryptic def for siren
18 RINGS UP Phones circles at university (5,2)
RINGS circles & UP at university
19 ITERATE Repeat? Learned start’s missing (7)
(L)ITERATE
20 REMUS Famous twin in rock band (American) (5)
REM & US, see ROMULUS

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17 comments on “Everyman 3,546”

  2. The usual good stuff from Everyman.

    Thanks for blogging, flashling. In 1dn it’s actually SAVILE ROW and it parses as S, A VILE and ROW.

  3. Yes, nice crossword and blog.

    I, too, had it down as Savile Row but never having purchased a suit there and not being a Mayfair habitué, I thought I must have got it wrong.

    Favourite clue was REMUS – last in, as is often the case with favourites.

  5. A pleasant enough puzzle. WHIRLING DERVISH and LORELEI were write-ins because I had the required GK, but I feel sorry for those solvers who didn’t because the clues were crossers and there wasn’t another way into the answers. For some reason I needed all the checkers for my LOI, RESTS ON ONES OARS.

  6. Thanks flashling, and all the best for Tuesday.

    After making a sow’s ear of last week’s Everyman, I sailed through this one. I did initially raise an eyebrow over 11A, as I knew ‘crayfish’ – or crawfish – as a kind of freshwater mini-lobster, whereas a LANGOUSTE is a spiny lobster, near full-size, but without the giant claws. However, Wikipedia assures me that the latter is sometimes known as the former.

  7. Thanks Flashling and Everyman. Another enjoyable start to the weekend, fortunately no problems with some solutions that seemed almost to obvious to be correct-we appear to be getting on the same wavelength as the setter. Must go, we have family staying over for the weekend-looking forward to reading the opinions of you all.

  8. Happy Labour Weekend from a very sunny Coromandel. Well done Ian, I needed a bit of help from my pal Google as I’m not good on hospitals, shoes, opera houses or German sirens. Also thought the lobster thing was a langoustine, hadn’t heard of the shorter version. And got 16d without knowing why it was right, completely missed the ‘close to’ bit which will annoy me sufficiently not to miss it again. I hope. Liked 1 and 2 down. But since when was a press a cupboard?

  9. Haven’t had much to do with sirens lately, but know about keys kept in a cupboard – called a key press. Sunny in Auckland finally.

  10. Didn’t start till I got home from bowls this afternoon. Beautiful day for playing bowls in Auckland today. Enjoyed this puzzle, especially 16 ac and 17 d. Have seen the Lorelei Rock, or what’s left of it, on the Rhine.
    Barrie, I gather from reading books set in the UK, that a cupboard is sometimes called a press there e.g. A laundry press.

  11. Come to think of it Barrie, it would have been a good place for you to hide, when you played Sardines.

  12. We did use the laundry cupboard for Sardines, Audrey! It just wasn’t called a press. I’ve honestly never heard the expression, either with laundry or keys or anything. Must be my sheltered upbringing.

  13. As always it takes me till sunday to finish this, thanks to feverish gardening on saturday

    thought the sabot clue was quite tricky but clever in hindsight, two uses to the word revolutionary?
    and thougth the revolutionary muslim was very clever
    LOI was resilient as i had eases on ones oars and then realised it could not have been right

  14. Some purists might grumble about a word doing double duty in a clue. Arguably ‘revolutionary’ wasn’t an essential part of the definition. But it was used twice overall which is unusual.

    Looks like the sun has left us for the weekend. Pity.

  15. Nice to see fellow NZers picking up the Saturday Herald is actually the Everyman. 🙂

    I struggled with:

    1) WHIRLING DERVISH – thought it was WHIRRING something but couldn’t for the life of me figure out what it had to do with Muslims
    2) STOKE MANDEVILLE – I knew it was STOKE something but couldn’t figure out the rest
    3) LA SCALA – I thought it was AL something which kinda screwed up my MANDEVILLE as well
    4) PRESS – would have guessed it if I had enough time
    5) ITERATE – ditto

    Overall good puzzle. REMUS clue was great.

  16. Very late in this weekend, spent time on the Awhitu Peninsula. I struggled with the south west corner until everything fell into place this morning (no Herald out there today). Once again I’m himbled by what I don’t know!

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