Lorraine: Good morning peeps,
I have to admit I did not do much of this weeks crossword due to fracturing two bones in my hand Saturday afternoon and was in too much pain to concentrate so Nick stepped in and saved the day.
O, I thought 9ac was very clever indeed!
Big thank you to Everyman for an enjoyable puzzle as usual.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Industrial action does for capital invested in good western (2-4) | ||
| GO-SLOW | OSLO in G[ood] W[estern] | ||
| 4. | Albumen, for example, having surprising weight (3,5) | ||
| EGG WHITE | E.G.+(WEIGHT*) | ||
| 9. | Nevertheless quits? Indeed (4,2) | ||
| EVEN SO | EVENS[quits, as in ‘double or quits’]+O[indeed!] | ||
| 10. | Choose at random from actors, a great many (4,4) | ||
| CAST LOTS | CAST[actors]+LOTS | ||
| 12. | Conductor of opera, popular in Northern Ireland (9) | ||
| TOSCANINI | TOSCA+IN+NI | ||
| 13. | Power in early golf club (5) | ||
| SPOON | P in SOON | ||
| 14. | Period of violent ups and downs as large wave hits vessel (6,7) | ||
| ROLLER COASTER | ROLLER+COASTER | ||
| 17. | Objects loudly as I pick skunk off crossing opening in trees (5,2,1,5) | ||
| KICKS UP A STINK | (AS I PICK SKUNK*)+T[rees] | ||
| 21. | Discover legendary king’s name (5) | ||
| LEARN | LEAR+N | ||
| 23. | Mountain range is old – to me, anyway (9) | ||
| DOLOMITES | (IS OLD TO ME)* | ||
| 24. | Very large carriage ahead of worker in charge (8) | ||
| GIGANTIC | GIG[carriage]+ANT+IC | ||
| 25. | An endless job for TV presenter? (6) | ||
| ANCHOR | AN+CHOR(e) | ||
| 26. | Hearing about a king staying longer than intended (8) | ||
| TARRYING | TRYING around A+R | ||
| 27. | Spirit, make unknown (6) | ||
| BRANDY | BRAND+Y as opposed to BRAND X |
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| Down | |||
| 1. | Slum area has hospital within reach (6) | ||
| GHETTO | H in GET TO | ||
| 2. | English poet and writers in short series (7) | ||
| SPENSER | PENS in SER(ies) | ||
| 3. | Class to be trained in hurdles (9) | ||
| OBSTACLES | (CLASS TO BE)* | ||
| 5. | Given an unsuitable role probing legal mix-up in old royal residence (6,6) | ||
| GLAMIS CASTLE | MIS-CAST in (LEGAL*) | ||
| 6. | Victorian painter was keeping on the wagon (5) | ||
| WATTS | TT in WAS See -> George Frederic Watts |
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| 7. | Resolve shown by press elsewhere (4,3) | ||
| IRON OUT | IRON+OUT | ||
| 8. | Gertrude finally learning about wrongdoing in Hamlet’s castle (8) | ||
| ELSINORE | (gertrud)E+(SIN in LORE) | ||
| 11. | Meat and dessert left by Scotsman and Scouser (12) | ||
| LIVERPUDLIAN | LIVER+PUD+L+IAN | ||
| 15. | Historic region one must enter before being able to vote? (4,5) | ||
| ASIA MINOR | I in (AS A MINOR) | ||
| 16. | See heartless Yank climbing through small window (8) | ||
| SKYLIGHT | (Y(an)K<) in SLIGHT | ||
| 18. | Conservative golfer making a stupid mistake (7) | ||
| CLANGER | C+[bernard]LANGER | ||
| 19. | Thicken soup in galley (7) | ||
| KITCHEN | (THICKEN)* | ||
| 20. | Large bird coming from very large quarry (6) | ||
| OSPREY | OS+PREY | ||
| 22. | Girl’s article on clubs in New York (5) | ||
| NANCY | (AN+C[lubs]) in NY | ||
| … | |||
Many thanks Lorraine & Everyman, this was so perfectly straightforward that I didn’t save my notes.
Very sorry to hear of your accident. I hope that you are soon 100% again.
Managed this one without any aids. Flanks castle last one in.
Thanks, Lorraine – get well soon! (And thanks to Nick too.)
Like Bryan, found this perfectly straightforward – and if that sounds like damning with faint praise, it’s exactly the opposite. This was a well-constructed entry-level puzzle with a good variety of clue types that both a beginner and a more experienced solver could equally enjoy.
Thanks to Everyman.
Thanks Lorraine, and get well soon.
This was enjoyable, and with three Shakespeare references – unusual for Everyman to give us a mini-theme.
Thanks to him as ever for my usual Sunday morning stroll in the park. Now on to today’s
Thanks Lorraine,
I hope your hand soon heals. Some great clues and smooth surfaces here. Particular favourites were CAST LOTS, TOSCANINI (very smooth), BRANDY (short and sweet), GHETTO, OBSTACLES (excellent anagram) and KITCHEN (as smooth as silk). Well done Everyman for keeping up such a high standard, week after week.
Good one; thanks to Lorraine and Nick. Hope the bones are mending.
Hi all. Apologies if I’m missing something crashingly obvious but where does the ‘L’ come from in 16d…?
@thechillyaura Looks like a typo — it’s SLIGHT for ‘small’ I think.
Ah, of course it is! A facepalm moment there, I think…
Hope you heal fast Lorraine and thanks to Nick for stepping in. I took the window in 16d to be a LIGHT, so the small bit gave it the S.
The rest was a well set exercise. Difficulty about the usual and some lovely clues including those mentioned above. Thanks Everyman for keeping Sunday afternoons short and sweet, as well as keeping the resolve and hurdles in there.
Question, how in 20d, is OS equal to very large?
Michael@ 11
OS= outsize.
@ Lorraine,
Thanks, I’m getting into these cryptics, but it’s little things like that make it feel like cheating