Lorraine: Good morning to you all,
I personally found this weeks puzzle slightly harder than usual and needed Nick’s help to finish it.
Some very clever clues and a most enjoyable solve. Thank you Everyman and nice to see yourself included in the crossword.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Precedent in case (7) | ||
| EXAMPLE | dd | ||
| 5. | Hounds from British estate (7) | ||
| BASSETS | B+ASSETS | ||
| 9. | List at home about family (7) | ||
| INCLINE | IN+C[circa, about]+LINE | ||
| 10. | Short argument with the French about superior kitchen tool (7) | ||
| SPATULA | SPAT+(LA after U) | ||
| 11. | Veteran worried about extremely lazy Goldeneye character (9) | ||
| TREVELYAN | (VETERAN*) around L(az)Y | ||
| 12. | Moisten, while cooking, some lamb (a steak) (5) | ||
| BASTE | hidden: lamB (A STEak) | ||
| 14. | Ham-fisted lad may, developing film (3,6,6) | ||
| THE ADDAMS FAMILY | (HAM-FISTED LAD MAY)* | ||
| 16. | What it may do if the weather’s beastly? (4,4,3,4) | ||
| RAIN CATS AND DOGS | cyrptic pun | ||
| 17. | Slowed down when in ebbing river (5) | ||
| EASED | AS[when] in (DEE<) | ||
| 18. | What could make one lie square? (9) | ||
| EQUALISER | (LIE SQUARE*) &lit | ||
| 21. | End up in revolution abroad (4,3) | ||
| TURN OUT | TURN+OUT | ||
| 23. | Religious glibness in meeting Judge disregarded (7) | ||
| UNCTION | (j)UNCTION | ||
| 24. | Sharp reply about accepting one appointment (7) | ||
| RIPOSTE | (I POST) in RE[about) | ||
| 25. | Back trouble in so tempestuous a love affair (7) | ||
| LIAISON | (AIL<)+(IN SO*) | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | See English policeman over court order (5) | ||
| EDICT | E+DI[detective inspector]+CT | ||
| 2. | Chief antagonists cheer as mine explodes (11) | ||
| ARCH-ENEMIES | (CHEER AS MINE)* | ||
| 3. | Chief’s brief (5) | ||
| PRIME | dd | ||
| 4. | Setter barking at three in a Liverpool playhouse (8,7) | ||
| EVERYMAN THEATRE | EVERYMAN+(AT THREE*) | ||
| 5. | Concern when general spells out Asquith’s policy in the early days of World War I? (8,2,5) | ||
| BUSINESS AS USUAL | BUSINESS[concern]+AS[when]+USUAL[general] Business as usual was a policy followed by the British government, under Prime Minister H.H. Asquith. |
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| 6. | Celebrity to get on the right side (9) | ||
| STARBOARD | STAR+BOARD[get on] | ||
| 7. | Bird exhibited in Science Museum (3) | ||
| EMU | hidden: sciencE MUseum | ||
| 8. | Two moccasins, say, either side of gumshoe (5,4) | ||
| SNAKE EYES | SNAKES[moccasin is a type of snake] aroung EYE[private eye, gumshoe] | ||
| 13. | Children’s outfits from Russia – lost, I suspect (6,5) | ||
| SAILOR SUITS | (RUSSIA – LOST, I)* | ||
| 14. | Nonsense written about wise counsellor, a tease (9) | ||
| TORMENTOR | (ROT<)+MENTOR | ||
| 15. | Losing leaves, pair, American, after first of December (9) | ||
| DECIDUOUS | (DUO+US) after DEC 1 | ||
| 19. | Synthetic fabric left Cary uncomfortable (5) | ||
| LYCRA | L+(CARY*) | ||
| 20. | Arrest knight in bankruptcy (3,2) | ||
| RUN IN | N[knight] in RUIN | ||
| 22. | Pounding music (3) | ||
| RAP | cdd | ||
| … | |||
Thanks, Lorraine. I’m afraid I still don’t understand 8d which I had solved from the crossing letters. I got “snakes” (moccasins) round “eye” (gum-shoe), but I still can’t see where the definition is. Can anyone help?
Thanks Lorraine and Everyman; good puzzle.
Crosser, I assume SNAKE EYES is a reference to the ‘gumshoe’ film – see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120832/
The definition to ‘snake eyes’ is TWO, i.e. the nickname for double one’s (. .)thrown in the dice game craps.
Nick
Thank you, Nick. You learn something every day!
Couldn’t get 9a.
Had never heard of goldeneye except as an ointment and used a solver to get trevelyan which meant nothing to me either.
8d as others have noted was as clear as mud.
Thanks Lorraine,
Another enjoyable puzzle from Everyman with SNAKE EYES being the last one in. I too was baffled by it but should have looked it up I suppose.
Particularly liked UNCTION, LIAISON and EDICT which were all excellent surfaces.
I also didn’t know TREVELYAN but LY inside veteran* jump seemed to jump out at me and seemed a likely name for a character (villain maybe ?).
Thanks Everyman for your consistently good puzzles.
Thanks Lorraine and Everyman.
Hi Davy, pardon me if I’m off-course, but TREVELYAN refers to Alec, Agent 006, who went bad and became 007’s adversary in GoldenEye, the first James Bond movie not based on Fleming’s works.
I remember seeing TREVELYAN pop up in an Everyman before and it struck me then as being a pretty obscure answer – fortunately I know the film well!
Thanks, Lorraine.
Enjoyed this one as usual. Put TREVELYAN in without understanding why, but I think that’s okay – that’s why I come here most weeks to see how you and other folk parsed it.
Loved EVERYMAN THEATRE.
Not quite sure why u = superior in 10a?
Any help? We’re still playing catch up on our crosswords!