Lorraine: Good morning to you all,
yet again another fine example of a lovely Everyman crossword.
No problems this week, particular favourites were, 1, 20 and 23ac and 5, 7, 9 and 13dn.
Thank you to Everyman as always.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Sexual urge of one bachelor in pool (6) | ||
| LIBIDO | I+B in LIDO | ||
| 4. | Bishop, surrounded by staff, arrives back in capital down under (8) | ||
| CANBERRA | (B in CANE)+(ARR<) | ||
| 10. | Direct and forceful, boy in refurbished flat (7) | ||
| FRONTAL | RON in (FLAT*) | ||
| 11. | Reportedly speak highly of exercise book (4,3) | ||
| LORD JIM | homophone: LAUD and GYM can ‘exercise’=GYM? |
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| 12. | Devious, a villain, Cheam criminal (13) | ||
| MACHIAVELLIAN | (A VILLAIN CHEAM)* | ||
| 14. | Herald hour to take on board new bearing (9) | ||
| HARBINGER | HR around (BEARING*) | ||
| 15. | Zones in Far East (5) | ||
| AREAS | hidden: fAR EASt | ||
| 16. | French river certain to cover miles (5) | ||
| SOMME | SOME around M | ||
| 18. | Sticking together once cheer distributed (9) | ||
| COHERENCE | (ONCE CHEER)* | ||
| 20. | Article’s about group covering a popular song (3,6,4) | ||
| THE PARTYS OVER | THE+PARTY’S+OVER | ||
| 23. | First letters from a pal, first of many (7) | ||
| ACRONYM | A+CRONY+M(any) | ||
| 24. | Performing animal kept in one (2,5) | ||
| ON STAGE | STAG in ONE | ||
| 25. | Call Heather annoying? (8) | ||
| NEEDLING | NEED(call?)+LING | ||
| 26. | Live it up, taking in a show (6) | ||
| REVEAL | REVEL around A | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | Take elevator (4) | ||
| LIFT | dd | ||
| 2. | Something from the baker in error (7) | ||
| BLOOMER | cd | ||
| 3. | Out of order having little time for female police officer (9) | ||
| DETECTIVE | DEFECTIVE with T(ime) for F(emale) | ||
| 5. | Goods for sale may be in disarray (3,4,3,4) | ||
| ALL OVER THE SHOP | cd | ||
| 6. | A gem of a girl? (5) | ||
| BERYL | cd | ||
| 7. | Be happy about Irish writer, we hear (7) | ||
| REJOICE | RE+homophone: JOYCE | ||
| 8. | Notice one in church has to give (10) | ||
| ADMINISTER | AD+(I in MINSTER) | ||
| 9. | Train Glaswegian pilot? (6,8) | ||
| FLYING SCOTSMAN | cd | ||
| 13. | Sort hating scary funfair ride (5,5) | ||
| GHOST TRAIN | (SORT HATING*) | ||
| 15. | Social climber making rare visit abroad (9) | ||
| ARRIVISTE | (RARE VISIT)* | ||
| 17. | Tennis star, in short ceremony, misbehaved (7) | ||
| McENROE | (CEREMON(y))* | ||
| 19. | Raced over to judge to tell the story (7) | ||
| NARRATE | (RAN<)+RATE | ||
| 21. | Girl left a record (5) | ||
| ANNAL | ANNA+L | ||
| 22. | Timber trade (4) | ||
| DEAL | dd a DEAL is usually a plank on scaffolding |
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Thanks, Lorraine.
Just to answer a couple of your points. ‘Call’ for ‘need’ works in a phrase like ‘There’s no call/no need for it’. And ‘gym’ for ‘exercise’ is a bit of a stretch, but I was okay with it in the end. Another pleasing puzzle from Everyman.
Got one wrong.
I was stuck on 16a and 17d.
For 16a with s????e, I was convinced that certain =sure and hence the answer was either surme or sumre river.
Getting 17d confirmed to me that it was the sumre.
Thanks Lorraine,
Just a minor point : I would say that 2d and 6d were dds rather than cds, as each clue has two parts meaning the same thing.
Yes Bamberger, I had the same thoughts on 16a but finally realised the answer was SOMME. However, I took ‘miles’ to be MM and
was left with SOE which I couldn’t explain. So ‘miles’ in this case was a single M leaving some=certain.
Particularly liked ACRONYM and DETECTIVE. Thanks Everyman.
Thanks Everyman, especially for the description of LIBIDO.
Thanks Lorraine; I had to resort to the web for the parsing of DETECTIVE. Gym is in my Chambers crossword dictionary as a synonym for exercise, so I guess that is OK.
I particularly liked ACRONYM.
2 Down. Something from the baker in error (7)
BLOOMER
What has baker got to do with it? Something from the florist in error (7) I can understand.
A bloomer is a type of loaf:
Bloomer
Nick