Everyman 3,713

21 comments on “Everyman 3,713”

1. Thank you Everyman and Gaufrid.

   I found this puzzle a little more varied than usual, the two double definitions, and the triple, were appreciated by me – plenty of multi-part clues to confirm the identify of the setter (I am still waiting for a six-part one).

   I rushed in with ADULATOR at 4d, but it would not fully parse…

2. Grrr! identity, not identify, looking forward to the return of “Preview Comment”.

3. and 4a, not 4d, apologies…

4. Just a note, perhaps of interest, the printed letters of the Preview Comment strike the eye in a different way to those of the ones typed in, these take on the ‘character’ of hand writing; I did read through my contribution several times before posting.

5. Cookie
   There will be a change to the comment editor later on this afternoon which may help. Initially the font will be the same as that which appears in the comment when it is posted, but this can be changed if need be. There will be buttons for bold, italics and adding a link and it will be WYSIWYG. I hope this will make up for some of the facilities lost by not having a comment preview option.

6. I thought the clue for DETHRONE was an excellent surface and also my last one in. Thanks.

7. This is too pale and tiny, I need a magnifying glass…

8. Cookie @7

   I will reply in the ‘Comment Editor’ post.

    

9. As always a gentle Sunday lunchtime meander. This is one of those crosswords where I go until I get a clue then work out from there on the crossers. Quite different to my usual across, then down and back to fill in.

   When I got to 17a I was convinced it was the other one – EX, not IM – and that held me up for a while as the fish became something convoluted. The rest was gentle although I had not necessarily associated RENEGADE with traitor. It had always struck me as being an internal struggle like a civil war and not an external alignment which is, to me, traitor. Of course the dictionary does not back me up so my horizons have been broadened there.

   Thanks to both for the time and effort. I always enjoy them.

10. Gaufrid, I agree with your preamble.
    Today’s Everyman [which we should not discuss here now] had a different feel to me, too.
    Some underwhelming surfaces, for example, somewhat less finesse and your view made me wonder whether there’s indeed a ‘different setter’.
    However, I just saw on Colin Gumbrell’s Twitter feed that he’s still the one.
    We all have lesser days, haven’t we?

11. Not quite as straightforward perhaps as the preceding weeks, but still well within Everyman’s range of difficulty. 9d I thought was nicely done.

12. Re 10: To suggest that Colin Gumbrell is having one of his ‘lesser days’ because he uses the odd double definition  is (I am sorry to say) patrionising nonsense. CG’s clues and puzzles are of the highest standard and long may they continue to be so.

13. Don Manley @12, I will be the last one to suggest that Colin Gumbrell is – as far as I am familiar with his output – not a top setter.
    But I think, I am entitled to find his latest puzzle [to be reviewed next week] less satisfying.
    That’s mainly because I found the style somewhat ‘different’, surely catalysed by Gaufrid’s preamble – whether that’s right or wrong.
    I also wrote this comment to provide Gaufrid with an answer to his ‘question’.

    I didn’t mean to be patronising in any way and I am sorry if it comes across like that.
    Long may, indeed, he continue to produce the Observer puzzles.

14. I found this one easy and wondered if it was a new setter too. However I found some of the above comments patronising to say the least. I do crosswords because I enjoy doing them, but I have plenty of other things to do as well.
    Well done Setter, whoever you are.

15. I really enjoyed this one, but maybe that’s because I found it easier than normal. The triple def took me by surprise. Agree some of the surfaces were not up to the usual standard, but there were also a few tremendous ones.

16. I found this different only on the basis that there were a number that I solved from the def and couldn’t honestly be bothered figuring out some rather convoluted parsing. I do prefer clues that are short and concise without vast amounts of verbal Hokey Cokey (left foot in, right arm out, this in that out shake it all about). Cookie politely calls them multipart clues. I just find them rather wearing.

    Et tu, Rufus? Why quit now?

    Gaufrid, you’ve got a wee typo in woebegone.

    Thanks

17. I could not parse dethrone otherwise a relatively easy crossword. Far superior to the regular nz herald daily offering with about 50 percent of the clues being anagrams. Whoever is setting everyman, very well done

18. Barrie @16

    Thanks, typo corrected.

19. I blasted through most in no time but then found I was stuck with 5d, 13ac and 25ac to go. These took some solving but I got there in the end.

    Re: comments on dd, I’m not really bothered one way or another although this is the first time I’ve seen a triple definition. The only other similar clue from memory is one where three anagrams of a word were given and the answer was <b>anagram.</b>

20. Crud, forgot tags don’t work here.

21. Enjoyed this today.  Thought though that run down was two words but as it fitted with everything else went ahead with it.

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