Another pleasing Sunday puzzle from Everyman to challenge the beginners, entertain the more experienced and give an adrenalin rush to those who like to keep a record of the paired answers and follow-on clues.
Abbreviation
cd cryptic definition
dd double definition
cad clue as definition
(xxxx)* anagram
anagrind = anagram indicator
[x] letter(s) removed
definitions are underlined
Across
1 Pudding wine’s giving you tremors later on
AFTERSHOCKS
A charade of AFTERS and HOCKS.
9 Arouse a friend from Belfast?
ANIMATE
A charade of A, NI and MATE.
10 Current affecting only part of body
TOPICAL
A dd. The second definition is most often heard in a medical context: a topical medicine is one like a cream or lotion, that is applied locally to a particular part of the body.
11 Reportedly, beams uplift
RAISE
A homophone (‘reportedly’) of RAYS.
12 AI apps with an answer in African country
BOTSWANA
A charade of BOTS, W for ‘with’, AN and A gives you the landlocked African country.
14 I get it: navy mobilised seeing dismal outlook
NEGATIVITY
(I GET IT NAVY)* with ‘mobilised’ as the anagrind.
15 Everyman finally monopolizes chaise longue, that’s clear
I SEE
A charade of I for ‘Everyman’ and the last letters of ‘monopolizes’, ‘chaise’ and ‘longue’. S is also the last letter of ‘monopolises’, which would be the spelling choice of most users of BrEng.
17 Either end of shinbone hurting
SORE
The outside letters of ‘shinbone’ are S OR E.
19 So, pretence collapses – everyone knows it!
OPEN SECRET
(SO PRETENCE)* with ‘collapses’ as the anagrind.
21 Leave unready for battle? Might you serve like this?
UNDERARM
A cd cum dd.
23 Initially Spanish urban centre, relatively elevated?
SUCRE
The initial letters of the last five words of the clue. SUCRE is the capital of Spanish-speaking Bolivia, which makes sense of the surface as a cad.
25 Loudly regret ruffian getting ban
RULE OUT
A homophone (‘loudly’) of RUE LOUT.
26 Acrimony without end unsettled inventor
MARCONI
(ACRIMON[Y])* with ‘unsettled’ as the anagrind. Generally credited as being the inventor of the radio; he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Braun for this achievement, referred to as ‘wireless telegraphy’.
27 German girl harvesting orchids at first takes advantage of nursery’s facilities
GLASSHOUSES
A charade of G, LASS, H and O for the initial letters of ‘harvesting’ and ‘orchids’ and USES.
Down
1 Putting up with immortal
ABIDING
A dd.
2 Burlesque party in back of downright dingy venue
TRAVESTY
An insertion of RAVE in T for the last letter of ‘downright’ and STY. The insertion indicator is ‘in’.
3 Give lecherous look when rising for dance
REEL
A reversal of LEER. Since it’s a down clue, the reversal indicator is ‘when rising’.
4 Moving quickly to hog, if not disturbed
HOTFOOTING
(TO HOG IF NOT)* with ‘disturbed’ as the anagrind.
5 Frolics, runs off in places jutting in to the sea
CAPES
CAPE[R]S
6 First to abandon left-wingers’ parties
SOCIALS
SOCIAL[IST]S
7 Honest, attractive; also unfashionable
FAIR-AND-SQUARE
A charade of FAIR, AND and SQUARE.
8 Ethical reader awkwardly defused tension
CLEARED THE AIR
(ETHICAL READER)* with ‘awkwardly’ as the anagrind.
13 With flag hoisted, gives a speech and disappears
EVAPORATES
A charade of PAVE reversed and ORATES.
16 Some crumble, perhaps and tense up
DESSERTS
AFTERS in the across clues and DESSERTS in the downs. We’re in danger of a sugar rush here. A reversal (‘up’, since it’s a down clue) of STRESSED.
18 Spooner’s hurriedly left disreputable paper, seeing sign of danger
RED FLAG
A Spoonerism of FLED RAG.
20 Calculates – or guesses
RECKONS
A dd.
22 Bottled in Ontario, Japanese wine
RIOJA
Hidden in OntaRIO JApanese.
24 Shells, perhaps, in downstream motion
AMMO
Hidden in downstreAM MOtion.
Many thanks to Everyman as always for this week’s puzzle.
Thank you Pierre.
This was entertaining. I’ll get my adrenalin fix by declaring the rhyming pair, … drum roll ….. FAIR-AND-SQUARE, and CLEAR THE AIR. Self-referential I SEE. I’ve started to look forward to these as they’re humorous at Everyman’s own expense. Will share the joy around and leave the follow-on to Jay, Roz et al. AFTERSHOCKS funny, amongst many. TRAVESTY fav.
1ac and 6d were my favourite clues. But 5d and 6d were my LOI because I had decided early on that the body part at 10ac was TOENAIL.
When I finally twigged 10ac had to be TOPICAL then others came out quickly.
Thanks as usual to Everyman and Pierre
Pleasant Sundy stroll, thx EnP. Pierre, isn’t it ClearED the air for 8d?
Yep, gif@3 and I repeated the same mistake in my comment.
The shinbone clue was clever, as was the traditional self-referential one. Everything went in fine for me except for TRAVESTY, my LOI, which I failed to parse for a long time: I knew it fit, but had to look up burlesque in the dictionary to get the parody meaning—I thought it just meant a sexy, earthy performance. The UNDERARM serve was TOPICAL as the Australian Open kicks off. Thanks Everyman and Pierre.
[Nick@5. When I saw UNDERARM I thought it was a questionable cricket bowling technique, with memories of 1981 Aust v NZ. Trevor Chappell and his brother/captain Greg certainly did get a serve for that.]
paddymelon@6
LOL.
Liked AFTERSHOCKS, RULE OUT and RED FLAG.
Thanks, Everyman and Pierre!
Thanks for the blog, another very good set of clues , TRAVESTY is very neat and SOCIALS was clever , TOPICAL in the “local” sense was used again by Matilda the day after. A few new places for Jay but no long complete anagrams.
I await enlightenment for the follow-on clue(s) .
MARCONI gets all the credit for radio transmission and BRAUN is forgotten. He did make significant contributions to Marconi’s work.
He also developed the first semi-conductor diode and basically invented the cathode-ray tube and then the CRO – see The Outer Limits.
Not sure why but found my last few harder to get than usual
Liked AFTERSHOCKS, RULE OUT, ANIMATE, FAIR AND SQUARE
Thanks Everyman and Pierre
Morning all,
I noted ?these as possible follow-ons…
dessert wine -> pudding wine (in the clues) and desserts (in the grid)
Berners-Lee -> Marconi
Somalia -> Botswana
Thanks to Everyman and Pierre
8dn is now corrected.
Jay beat me to it 🙁 Also another STY in TRAVESTY, after STYE last time.
Thanks E & P. I now know SUCRE is (officially) capital of Bolivia, even though everyone thinks it’s La Paz.
I’m not mentioning the ‘dark L’ in rule.
Fun crossword, though it did seem a bit anagram-heavy.
Thanks Pierre & Everyman.)
[Pdm@6 with any luck a clever Kiwi (not me) will rewrite the clue for you. I once worked with Brian McKechnie who faced Trevor’s infamous delivery. I don’t think he had ever hit a 6 in his life and was otherwise better known as an All Black goal kicker.]
Liked SORE.
I did not parse 10ac TOPICAL.
New for me: SUCRE.
Thanks, both.
Isn’t it the initial letters in 23a, not the final?
French speakers could add SUCRE to the micro-theme of sweets. I thought this was Everyman on top form. TRAVESTY was my favourite.
Agree entirely with your preamble, Pierre, and with Petert – Everyman on top form. Most enjoyable. Thanks, E & P.
Thanks Jay@11 and MrEssexboy@13 , even I have got the follow-on this week, one definite and one indirect .
EB I say ” rewel out , not roo lout ” but others are different.
Shirl@16 it is the initial letters of the FINAL five words.
Anyone tempted by Azed, it is very friendly today, you may surprise yourself.
[Roz @19, exactly, rule rhymes with jewel and Brian Sewell. And if you examine the position of your tongue at the end of ‘rule’, yule find it’s lower in the mouth than at the beginning of a word such as ‘lout’. It’s one of the things that mark out (most) English speakers when they speak French or German, which (in their standard forms) only use a ‘light L’, even at the ends of words (like Chanel). It also marks out Russian speakers, who use a ‘dark L’ (as in jewel) even at the beginnings of words. But, as I said, I’m not mentioning any of that.]
There’s a use of UNDERARM which I discovered this very weekend. Not cricket nor tennis but SNOOKER UNDERARM SHOT. Whether naturally left or right handed, a player attempting a pot, rather near the long cushion, avoids swapping hands and avoids the rest (the rod which extends reach range) by putting a fair length of cue under his body and hence under his arm. Many videos on YouTube but best to search Mark Williams, the main proponent.
Favourite was 12 ac BOTSWANA, particularly being a ex I.T. ( but not BOTS ) person who has put many I.T. solutions into BOTSWANA.
Thank you Everyman and Pierre.
Memo to my future self: this is the first of two Everymans I have done from a hospital bed.
Pierre, how is the surface of SUCRE a cad?
Roz@19 and eb@20 Got the dark L, but I for one pronounce “rule” with one syllable and “jewel” with two. I thought everybody did.
Thanks to Everyman and Pierre. Too bad no birds.
Hi Valentine. I would describe SUCRE as a clue-as-definition because the whole clue points towards the answer: it’s a Spanish-speaking city at a height of 2,800m which is also a capital. I describe all of Everyman’s ‘initially’ clues as cads.
Valentine@23 not really two syllables but not just one either, MrEssexboy knows the technical terms.
EB your pointless Azed clue today is 12D
It’s subtle, Valentine @23, but yes jewel is definitely not jule.
[Valentine/Roz/ginf –
Wiktionary helpfully gives three (at least!) pronunciations for jewel:
With a monophthong /dʒu:l/
With a diphthong – “long U” plus schwa – /dʒu:əl/
With a diphthong – “lax U” plus schwa – /dʒʊəl/
I’m in the monophthong camp, so for me jewel is a homophone of joule (and also dual and duel, if I’m speaking quickly). I was going to add ‘just like pasta e fagioli’, but Dino, along with the Neapolitans presumably, is missing a /d/ 😉
Roz @25: thanks, I’ll take a look at Azed (when I’m feeling brave)
John E @22: greetings and get well wishes; hope the Everymen (and 15²) are providing a welcome distraction.]
Ta immensely for that link, eb. Aged about 10, I remember Jerry Lewis absolutely splitting my sides. Even now at 75 the re-living makes me gleam.
[ginf @28, my pleasure. The film version of the song is so much better than what they usually play on the radio.
If you still kiss your goil after garlic and oil…
If you call her your pet though she’s shaped like spaghett’, that’s amore? 🙂 ]
As for which phthong, I’m a ‘j + short U + schwa’ kind of bloke. (Not sure how lax that makes my U 🙂 )
[I’ve always visualised you as a pretty laid back kinda dude, so I’m hearing it laxissimo]
[Slong as it’s not laxette 😉 ]
It is refreshing to read an erudite discussion of pronunciation (starting @13 from essexboy, Roz, Valentine and grantinfreo ) without any objections to the clue at 25a RULE OUT. And eb reminded me of a lovely word I learned from 15squared – paralipsis.
My favourite piece on the sound of words was Spike Milligan’s sketch on “word pronounation”.
Thanks all for the Sunday fun.
essexboy@27 Man thanks for the get well wishes. I have been lying in bed trying to devise a decent anagram of “nil by mouth”.
Many thanks, even!
As befits a reluctant diabetic, DESSERTS was my LOI. SUCRE was new to me, and I enjoyed EVAPORATES, ANIMATE and BOTSWANA.
[O Lin, thy bum is out of shape – no munchies for thee! (3,2,5)]
[ Hush-hush bimonthly university reunion (3,2,5) ]
Keep ’em coming! I have got a long treatment path ahead of me, but I have been told that I can go home tomorrow, having been admitted via A&E on January 3rd. Full of admiration for brilliant NHS staff.
I liked 1ac 15ac, 27ac; 1d,8d, &16d
Greetings from a wet NZ
Rob
Didn’t understand “sucre”, although I got the answer.
Likewise “travesty”. Never knew “travesty” to be a synonym of “burlesque.
Thanks to Everyman and Pierre.
No issues at all, enjoyable. SorE was fun.
I just wish the bloggers (not just you Pierre, a few others do this as well) would drop the ‘beginners’ reference when referring to Everyman. It’s tiresome. If you find a particular crossword hard or easy, by all means say so, that will be useful information for the setter, but to label all these as “beginners’ crosswords” is condescending.
AFTERS, DESSERT, all put together with SUCRE. Well in lingua franca….
Loved this. At last I got most of them. I expect 21 across made all of us kiwis cringe at the memory Trevor Chappell’ s infamous delivery as mentioned by others here.
25 across would never sound like Rue Lout if a New Zealander was saying it.
My favourite was Sore.
Thanks Everyman
Ok puzzle.
Botswana was a weak clue – very poor really.
Finally finished after a very wet Saturday playing bowls. A great crossword thanks all