Everyman 3,662

16 comments on “Everyman 3,662”

1. Thanks both. Good stuff. I was going to whinge about “yr” in 18a but I see it dates back to the 1950’s!

2. A very enjoyable crossword, but some tricky clues. Favourites included CHOW MEIN, INDONESIA and FLEETWOOD MAC.

   Thanks to Everyman, and to Gaufrid for stepping into the breach.

3. A little trickier than usual for Everyman, but this was an excellent puzzle, the best we’ve seen for a while, so I’ll forgive him.

4. Thank you Everyman and Gaufrid;

   An enjoyable puzzle, last in, if I remember rightly, was BRAISE, I cannot think why, and it took me a while to get SIDE = minor at 14a, “a side/minor issue”.

5. On the first pass I whizzed confidently through half the clues and thought I’d clear up the other half easily now that I had enough crossers in place. My confidence was misplaced, however, and the rest of the puzzle was a real challenge! I didn’t bother to parse CHARIOTS OF FIRE, having guessed it from crossers and the enumeration – and I see now I would probably have struggled if I’d tried – I didn’t know CHAFF in that sense. AWRY was my last in. I did raise an eyebrow at the use of txt spelling so thank you, Shirl, for clarifying this point!

   Thanks to Gaufrid and Everyman.

6. Add me to those who griped at Yr with no indication. Bah humbug.

   I also don’t get Key. I got it through the wordplay but is there an isle of Key? Or am I missing something else?

   Everything else good, thanks all.

7. Isle = key as in the Florida keys. Key Largo etc. is my guess.

8. Really? Key Largo?

   Never’eardofit..

9. Oh dear, found a couple of these really hard to solve. In fact I had to sleep on “isle” and “settlement” overnight until they finally came to me after hours of staring and contemplation – mainly staring I must say.

   Can’t really complain about anything though – apart from the dullness of my brain. Thanks to all

10. Could not think of “petite” for “dainty” and had to use a wildcard dictionary
    to get 4 across. Then smacked myself on the forhead.

    Barrie@8 — never heard of “Key Largo”??? The film starred Humphrey Bogart,
    Lauren Bacall, and Edward G. Robinson. Hard to get a more famous set of film
    stars. Also the Florida Keys are a well-known geographical feature.

11. Not an easy solve for me. Got ‘key’ as it has been used in one of these before and I remember someone telling me then that is a name for an island e.g. Florida Keys.

12. Thought some very clever clues here, faves were 13d and 1d
    like others stumbled on 18ac and didnt even get it and then thought the explanation a bit weird. Am sure even I could have come up with a cleverer clue than that.
    Have enjoyed these over the holidays having less access to traditional resources…makes it more of a challenge and oddly ended up with a better result.

13. Okay, Everyman, if you are out there, concensus is your crosswords are cool but yr for your doesn’t cut it.

    Harsh words, but these things have to be said.

    You do of course have the right of reply?

14. Barrie, Remuera @13

    Are you saying that all three of the usual references are wrong? They all give the abbreviation so it is quite fair for Everyman to use it.

    Chambers
    yr
    abbrev
    1. Year
    2. Younger
    3. Your

    Collins
    yr
    abbreviation for
    1. year
    2. younger
    3. your

    Oxford
    yr
    1 Year or years.
    2 Younger.
    3 Your.

15. Gaufrid, I stand rebuked (and corrected). I just assumed it was txt speak, which it probably now is, but as you point out it does have more historical authority than that.

16. Clearly our ancestors were into txt speak way ahead of all the millenials…what did they know back then…

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