Everyman 3602

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Another Sunday and another day for the Northern hemisphere Rugby to lick its wounds.

 

Not a long solve and nothing particularly tricky to parse this week, hope you enjoyed it.

 

 

Across

1 One who’s accepting large tip, holding ace (8)
FATALIST

FAT (large) & A(ce) & LIST (to tip over)

5 State in middle of daft business (6)
AFFIRM

Middle of (d)AF(t) & FIRM (business)

10 Standard silver working model (7)
PARAGON

PAR & AG & ON

11 Sadly alter in becoming dependent (7)
RELIANT

[ALTER IN]* sadly

12 Bear forlorn hope within one (6-3-4)
WINNIE-THE-POOH

[HOPE WITHIN ONE]* forlornly

14 Time connected with particular urban area (4)
TOWN

T(ime) & OWN (particular)

15 Go with fellows and start to toil in field (10)
DEPARTMENT

DEPART (go) & MEN & start of T(oil)

18 Financial officers in a mess, party in disarray (10)
PAYMASTERS

[A MESS PARTY]* disarrayed

19 Elegant greeting in duplicate (4)
CHIC

HI in C(arbon) C(opy)

21 What’s in bulletin about passion and heart of powerful All Blacks? (3,10)
NEW ZEALANDERS

ZEAL (passion) & AND & heart of (pow)ER(ful) all in NEWS. One for our NZ friends in a few weeks time

24 Revealed stake in remote settlement (7)
OUTPOST

OUT (revealed) & POST (stake)

25 Sign attached to your back room full of books (7)
LIBRARY

LIBRA (zodiac sign) & Y(ou)R reversed

26 Bound stem (6)
SPRING

Double def

27 One name for each child actually present (2,6)
IN PERSON

1 & N(ame) & PER (for each) & SON (child)

Down

1 Vain men? Failures, left out (4)
FOPS

Left removed from F(l)OPS

2 Worth working on a style that’s casual (9)
THROWAWAY

WORTH* worked & A & WAY (style)

3 Support objective story (6)
LEGEND

LEG & END

4 Slush and ice initially in projected outlook (14)
SENTIMENTALITY

SENT (projected) & I(ce) in MENTALITY (one’s outlook) Nicely misleading refering to the weather

6 Drop unfinished argument in high voice (8)
FALSETTO

FAL(l) unfinished & SET-TO (argument)

7 Adult insect I found on fruit without core (5)
IMAGO

I & MA(n)GO

8 Game with glue and thin piece of wood (10)
MATCHSTICK

MATCH (game) & STICK (glue)

9 Singer in broadcast finer than a lark (6,8)
ARETHA FRANKLIN

[FINER THAN A LARK]* broadcast

13 Sensational exercises in street destroy our team (10)
STUPENDOUS

ST(reet) & P.E. in UNDO (destroy) & US (our team)

16 Wreckage of a ship seen in New Testament book (9)
EPHESIANS

[A SHIP SEEN]* wrecked

17 Vehicle owner terribly stressed (8)
CAREWORN

CAR & OWNER* terribly

20 Poor bloke, not all right after charge (6)
FEEBLE

OK removed from BL(ok)E after FEE (charge)

22 Liquid consumed in wide river (5)
WATER

ATE in W(ide) & R(iver)

23 Colour that’s integral to juicy anecdote (4)
CYAN

Hidden answer

completed grid

17 comments on “Everyman 3602”

  1. As usual with me, slow start, then a steady solve, and then 2 at the end which took longer than they should- CAREWORN and MATCHSTICK I think.

  2. Thanks Everyman and flashling.

    Same as for AJK, but with THROWAWAY and MATCHSTICK the last in if I remember rightly. I did like WINNIE-THE-POOH and PAYMASTERS

  3. A slow start and a slow finish for me too. There didn’t seem to many obvious clues to get me started. The last two were EPHESIANS (never ‘eard of ’em) and SPRING. I think I fathomed it last week but I can’t rememember now, in what sense does spring=stem ?.

    Favourites : FATALIST, WINNIE-THE-POOH, DEPARTMENT, SENTIMENTALITY (very misleading) and what a great surface/anagram for EPHESIANS.

    Thanks to Everyman and flashling.

  4. Davy @3
    Spring = stem. I would say in the sense of ‘to spring from’ = ‘to stem from’ I.E. to originate or arise from.

    Thanks to Everyman & flashling.

    After taking some time getting used to the new setter’s style I am now enjoying his crosswords – very different to the ‘easier’ versions (which I liked very much) but very well clued and makes you work more I think.

  5. I’m liking this setter’s style too. Favourites this time include WINNIE-THE-POOH, PAYMASTERS, NEW ZEALANDERS, SENTIMENTALITY and IMAGO.

    Thanks to Everyman and flashling.

  6. Heading home after a weekend of drinking crosswords quizzes and other debauchery courtesy of nimrod. Perhaps you might come and join us next time. ?

  7. Slow start also although we kiwis did get a leg up with NewZealanders. Finding some of clues quite vague (for my mind anyway) eg stupendous and sentimentality but “the only letters that fit” theory comes in handy. However, felt a sense of achievement upon completion so all good. Thanks.

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  10. Once I realised 24 A wasn’t Outback (which parsed perfectly well) and there’s no such game as Pitchstick the rest was fine. Thought us = our team was a bit feeble in 13D but obviously 21A was a highlight, thank you Everyman! Especially with Jonah having just passed away at the riduculously early age of 40.

    Thanks for the blogging and the invite Flashling, but a bit far to travel.

    As long as four + 8 = 12 I should be fine.

  11. I enjoyed the NZ Herald weekday cryptics, but I could not solve any of the clues in this one. It was a complete failure for me.
    Here is one from Thursday I quite liked: Famous seaman who walked with a waddle? (5) Drake

  12. Last ones in, imago (which we had only vaguely heard of) and sentimentalitg. Also had outback instead of outpost for a while. Wonder how mamy other Kiwis had that problem V those in UK.

  13. I had a bit of a struggle this week with the North West corner. I also beggared up the North East by erroneously putting in Africa for 5a and Antarctica for 8d which didn’t help the anagram for poor old Winnie! So it was one of those days…. Really liked the huge nod in our direction in 21a. Thanks Everyman and Flashling.

  14. Well, OK I suppose. But I’m not sure I entirely approve of stipulating that a letter (N or T for instance) symbolises a word (name (27a) or time (14a) for instance). I got those clues but by inference to the best explanation given other clues. Shouldn’t the setter refer to accepted representations?

  15. I thought i wasnt going to get any and I even overthought the all blacks trying to find something to do with champions, thought the first word was the. Then penny dropped.
    I dont actually see spring = stem is it supposed to mean fountain? what have I missed? I had written in sprung but I wasnt happy with that either.

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