Nick: Me again folks, Lorraine has been laid up with flu for 5 days.
Fairly tough for an Everyman, I thought, but some great anagram work going on.
I have a slight query with 7dn – not sure what is going on there.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Dance with former copper and seem clumsy (6-2) | ||
| EXCUSE-ME | EX+CU+(SEEM*) | ||
| 5. | Material‘s marvellous, very amusing once abridged (6) | ||
| FABRIC | FAB+RIC(h) | ||
| 10. | Very little fly found in tin (7) | ||
| SMIDGEN | MIDGE in SN | ||
| 11. | Understanding of current things in variety (7) | ||
| INSIGHT | I(i = electric current)+(THINGS*) | ||
| 12. | Show deficit after end of trading (5) | ||
| GLOSS | LOSS after (tradin)G | ||
| 13. | Active at night? No? Go in around beginning of Lent (9) | ||
| NOCTURNAL | NO+((TURN in (CA+L)) | ||
| 14. | Film makers run into trouble blocking those advising caution? (6,8) | ||
| WARNER BROTHERS i | (R in BOTHER) in WARNERS | ||
| 17. | Crony, architect, organised benefit show (7,7) | ||
| CHARITY CONCERT | (CRONY ARCHITECT)* | ||
| 21. | We do, after a struggle, accommodate writer (9) | ||
| WODEHOUSE i | (WE DO*)+HOUSE | ||
| 23. | Trouble after advertising Madrid gallery (5) | ||
| PRADO i | PR+ADO | ||
| 24. | Stylish defence saving one heading towards trouble (2,3,2) | ||
| IN FOR IT | IN[stylish]+(I in FORT) | ||
| 25. | English PM suppressing ambassador’s nickname (7) | ||
| EPITHET i | E+(HE in PITT) | ||
| 26. | Go round Ayr and get lost (6) | ||
| GYRATE | (AYR+GET)* | ||
| 27. | Ratings cooked unknown fish (8) | ||
| STRINGRAY | (RATINGS*)+Y[unknown] | ||
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| 1. | Soldier who carries the Colours in? Gen’s misleading (6) | ||
| ENSIGN | (IN? GEN’S)* | ||
| 2. | Fried potato – a lot cooked, served with a sausage (9) | ||
| CHIPOLATA | CHIP+(A LOT*) | ||
| 3. | Hires Mark, disciple (5,2) | ||
| SIGNS ON | SIGN+SON | ||
| 4. | Unseen establishment figures, good inside foreign ministry? (Unseen mostly) (3,2,4,5) | ||
| MEN IN GREY SUITS | G in (MINISTRY+UNSEE(n)*) | ||
| 6. | Offensive, a sailor reportedly (7) | ||
| ASSAULT | homophone: A SALT (i.e. a sailor) | ||
| 7. | Possessed girl, a daughter of King Lear (5) | ||
| REGAN | #2 – ref ‘The Exorcist’ |
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| 8. | Spurn girl initially, girl with a refined accent? (3-5) | ||
| CUT GLASS i | CUT+G(irl)+LASS | ||
| 9. | Military manoeuvre – could it be the making of prince? (6,8) | ||
| PINCER MOVEMENT i | pun that movement of PINCER = PRINCE | ||
| 15. | Attention given to female in pub, incessant talker (9) | ||
| EARBASHER | EAR+(SHE in BAR) | ||
| 16. | Heather following barge, glowering (8) | ||
| SCOWLING | LING after SCOW | ||
| 18. | Be left at home with that girl, Italian (7) | ||
| INHERIT | IN+HER+IT | ||
| 19. | Legend, suitable, I displayed in study (7) | ||
| CAPTION | (APT+I) in CON | ||
| 20. | Somebody deserving (6) | ||
| WORTHY | cdd | ||
| 22. | Give way in Grande ferry (5) | ||
| DEFER | hidden: granDE FERry | ||
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Thanks Nick and Everyman,
I agree that this was on the tough side for an Everyman.
7dn is a double definition/reference: The other half is Regan MacNeil, from The Exorcist.
Nick thanks for the blog. 7dn that was Regan MacNeil, possessed girl in The Exorcist.
sorry muffyword, we crossed.
Thanks Nick and Everyman. Found this rather easy. Had out-class in 8d which made 5a difficult. 4d and 9d came very quickly for such long clues. I think the enumeration helped. 21a was quite nice.
P.S. Thanks to Everyman too, of course.
Many thanks Nick & Everyman.
I was sorry to hear about Lorraine. Please tell her to get well soon. We do miss her.
The only daughter of King Lear I could remember was Regan – which was fortunate because the allusion to ‘The Exorcist’ was way above my head.
Thanks for comments #1 & #2 – I have corrected the entry @ 7dn.
Now, having never seen The Exorcist, I could have stared at that clue for days without ever getting it.
Thanks,
Nick
Count me as another who only got 7dn from the daughter of King Lear. I liked the clue for PINCER MOVEMENT. CHARITY CONCERT was my LOI after SCOWLING.
(From Everyman 3501)
After solving the above-mentioned Everyman in its local appearance, a solver wrote the following in the Comment section of an India-based blog
http://thehinducrosswordcorner.blogspot.in/
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From today’s TH Sunday CW:
26 Extracting pounds from sport (8) WREST(-L)ING
Is extracting doing double duty?
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I would think that the observation is right.
Yet I find that in the blog on this site PeterO wrote (in the main blog itself): “The subtraction is indicated by ‘from’, so that ‘extracted’ does not have to do double duty.”
My question is: Is “pounds from sport” enough as an instruction to delete L from ‘wrestling’ (sport)?
Rishi,
To me just ‘from’ doesn’t indicate a removal, ‘removed from’, or ‘taken from’ yes.
But having said that, Chambers first entry for ‘From’ is ‘out of’ – so transpose the clue:
‘pounds out of sport’ works.
Nick
I found this crossword rather hard and didn’t get too far with it. Too cryptic for just my brain and needed someone else to ‘spa off’. It doesn’t help having 2 grand-daughters living here at the moment. Not getting a couple of the longer answers is always a hindrance, too.
I’ve never heard of ‘cut-glass’ as meaning a refined accent. An English term?
So saying, looking at the answers there were a few I should have got easily.
Oh well, next week….