Everyman 3,648

13 comments on “Everyman 3,648”

1. I enjoyed this, as usual. Favourites were RENEGADES, EMILY DICKINSON and UNDOMESTICATED, though perhaps that last one was a bit tricky for an Everyman?

   Thanks, Everyman and Gaufrid.

   BTW, Gaufrid, in the rush, you mis-parsed UNDOMESTICATED. It is UNDO (“ruin”) + (TEST A MEDIC)*

2. Thanks for stepping in with the blog. Another good puzzle from Everyman, perhaps on the easier side. Lots to like, only unknowns for me were 4d and 22ac. Or rather I remembered the latter’s name only after I had all the checking letters…

3. jennyk @1
   Thanks for the correction. That’s how I parsed it a week ago but there have been a lot of other solves since then and, as you say, I was in a rush to get something posted before the server move and didn’t check/proofread thoroughly enough. I will correct the error forthwith.

4. I find myself using the same words but another entertaining puzzle from Everyman who maintains the high standard that we’ve come to expect. He always has good surfaces which helps and my faves here were EMILY DICKINSON (superb surface), RECESS (simple but effective), DEMURE(misleading), MILLIONS and SEVER (once again simple but effective).

   Thanks to Gaufrid and Everyman.

5. Out of interest, I think “Lords and ladies” probably holds the record for the greatest number of common names in Britain – cuckoo-pint, parson-in-the-pulpit etc. etc. I was intending to check in Richard Mabey’s “Flora Britannica”, but I can’t seem to lay my hands on the book!

6. Thank you Everyman and Gaufrid.

   A most enjoyable puzzle with some lovely surfaces – in particular the clues for DEMURE, EMILY DICKINSON, ENIGMATIC, MILLIONS, LORDS AND LADIES, RENEGADES and I could go on…

7. Fine puzzle; blog the same. Thanks both.

8. Thank you Gaufrid,
   This was a ‘goldilocks’ puzzle for me – exactly at my comfort level. I wasn’t familiar with the plant before but the clueing was obvious enough. It also took me awhile to solve UNDOMESTICATED as I was convinced ‘ruin’ was an anagram indicator.

9. A simple enough outing. After last week’s one that took me several days to “complete”, I decided to start early on this week’s one. Didn’t get DEMURE though.

10. After a slow start, once I got “lords and ladies” ( which I had never heard of but a good clue nevertheless) the tricklegates opened and I managed to work through it. Hadn’t heard of the poet either but solved the anagram and now having looked her up, I guess I should have. Enjoyed “triviality” as well – although it was one of the last so it was probably more a sense of relief rather than achievement.
    Good puzzle all round, thanks to all

11. All good, some nice clues although I failed to parse Amen and Modulator. Doh.

    Thanks Gaufrid and Everyman.

12. Relatively straight forward but we’d never heard of lords and ladies or Emily Dickinson before. Managed to parse everything (for once).
    Nice misleading clues. End of prayer is “r” – till the penny dropped. (We’ll have to explain to the net generation in NZ what a penny was!)

13. Very late start to the paper for me this weekend, thank goodness for the lists, I was convinced lords and ladies was lyres and pearls, which is not a plant…. but righted myself in time.
    Out came the list sites again for the poets, I would never have got the poet without a list. I sometimes wonder if I actually do ever retain these little snippets…one day I will get the moment.

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