Everyman 3,689

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We may have the same intro every week I fear.

The new(ish) Everyman continues with well made but approachable crosswords.

Thanks Everyman

 

completed grid

Across

1 Move right ahead, providing support for rider (7)
STIRRUP
STIR (move) & R(ight) & UP (ahead)

5 Influence delay in hearing (6)
WEIGHT
Sounds like WAIT

10 Messy plate, smoothed, left out (11)
DISHEVELLED
DISH (plate) & L(eft) removed from (L)EVELLED – smoothed

11 Try to win without oxygen (3)
WOO
W(ith) O(ut) O(xygen)

12 Limit creep (4)
EDGE
Double definition

13 Some scary, misshapen trees (9)
SYCAMORES
[SOME SCARY]* misshapen

14 Job for five hundred I count involved in phase of film-making (4-10)
POST-PRODUCTION
POST (job) & PRO (for) & D (five hundred) & [I COUNT]* involved.  With some films the credits seem to run to thousands…

17 Nasty taunt sad people adored (3,2,1,8)
PUT ON A PEDESTAL
[TAUNT SAD PEOPLE]* nastily

20 Heroic expression of doubt about endless danger in pursuit of pleasure (9)
EPICURISM
EPIC (heroic) & UM (doubt) around an endless RIS(k)

22 Daring to ignore bishop, talk wildly (4)
RAVE
B(ishop) removed (ignored) in (b)RAVE (daring)

24 Firm time for bed (3)
COT
CO. (company – firm) & T(ime)

25 Planned translation of note in Latin (11)
INTENTIONAL
[NOTE IN LATIN]* translated

26 Work hard in effort to get prize (6)
TROPHY
OP (us) – work & H(ard) inside TRY (effort)

27 Echo followed by answer in open gorge (7)
OVEREAT
E(cho) & A(nswer) in OVERT (open)

Down

1 Froth from south of France, latest from Cannes (4)
SUDS
SUD (French for South) & last letter of (canne)S

2 Home team blossoming thoroughly (6,3)
INSIDE OUT
IN (home) & SIDE (team) & OUT (flowers in bloom say)

3 Return again and stagger European court (2-5)
RE-ELECT
REEL (stagger) & E(uropean) C(our)T

4 Quiet resolution on certain aims in sensitive areas (8,6)
PRESSURE POINTS
P (quiet) & RES(olution) & SURE (certain) & POINTS (aims)

6 Common tip with villainy rising? Run away (7)
ENDEMIC
END (tip of) & R(ight) removed from a reversed – rising C(r)IME

7 Travel west, climbing about in part of Wales (5)
GOWER
GO (travel) & W(est) & RE (about, reversed-climbing in a down clue)

8 Number with you on beach? (8)
THOUSAND
THOU (you arch.) & SAND (beach)

9 Opera singer in mood, idol pacing restlessly (7,7)
PLACIDO DOMINGO
[MOOD IDOL PACING]* restlessly

15 New commercial vehicle restricted by freeze beforehand (2,7)
IN ADVANCE
N(ew) & AD (commercial) & VAN (vehicle) all in ICE (freeze)

16 Punch from senior hack? (8)
UPPERCUT
UPPER (senior) & CUT (to hack)

18 Demeanour I shall partially sustain (7)
NOURISH
It’s partially demeaNOUR I SHall

19 User, not first with bad habit in use (7)
SERVICE
Without its first letter (u)SER & VICE (bad habit)

21 Keen on including rook in opening (5)
INTRO
R(ook) inserted into INTO (keen on)

23 Blemish in book collection (4)
BLOT
B(ook) & LOT (collection)

12 comments on “Everyman 3,689”

  1. Thank you Everyman and flashling.

    Everyman being rather naughty last Sunday – I finally got WOO, but did not parse it, I suppose O is the abbreviation for ‘out’ in cricket, and with PRESSURE POINTS, ‘res’ as an abbreviation for ‘resolution’ was not familiar to me, whereas ‘rez’ is, so I assumed it was RES with ‘o’, zero, ‘lution’.

    I also questioned EPICURISM, I wanted to enter HEDONISM but it would not fit or parse, EPICUREANISM would fit the definition better since EPICURISM nowadays refers more to refined tastes, especially in food and drink.

  2. Another good Everyman – no particular favourites but plenty of very nice clues.

    I parsed WOO differently, with the two Os coming from the fact that we get pure oxygen in the form of the 02 molecule (sorry, I don’t know how to get the 2 as a subscript). Reading flashling’s solution, I realised that mine doesn’t work as it would require “with oxygen”, not “without”. “W/o” is a standard abbreviation for “without”, so we don’t need to invoke the usual cricket reference.

    RES was an unfamiliar abbreviation for me too, and I agree with cookie @1 about EPICURISM.

    Thanks, Everyman and flashling.

  3. jennyk, thanks for the abbreviation w/o for ‘without’, I also tried OO for oxygen gas (out of interest, I see in the COED that w.o is the abbreviation for ‘walkover’) – I thought the clue not cricket before your explanation.

  5. Jennyk @2 and flashling, I saw the first part of WOO as w/o + o, but can ‘out’ in the cricketing sense ever be ‘o’? I can’t check the usual dictionaries right now, but I don’t think it’s in there.
    In cricket, o = over; there’s ‘run out’ and ‘not out’, but I don’t think you can separate the ‘o’ from r.o. and n.o.
    If ‘o’ means out in baseball, it’s in a US context which should probably be indicated in the clue, if it’s used at all. (I think this has come up here in the dim-and-distant, but I can’t remember what the consensus was.)

  6. I wrote this up a few days after solving it, so with respect to WOO I’m not really sure how I saw it. W/O for without came to my mind when writing it up but for some reason decided to split the words, in hindsight Everyman is very unlikely to have done that here.

  7. Jennyk @2 “res” is most commonly used in expressions like high-res (high resolution), low-res, for images, video and audio.

  8. Two easy ones in a row. Enjoyable, though. Might have to download a Guardian crossword though, this was a bit of a case of premature resolvification.

    Not sure what the fuss was all about with woo. W/O = without, O = Oxygen.

    Overeat was good, my LOI.

  9. I never dare call them easy though it is a feeling of personal achievement to finish early enough on a Saturday without using too much help. Lots of discussion about Woo and agree no need for over-analysis but it was my LOI interestingly.
    my favourite clues were inside out, stirrup, edge and uppercut

  10. I agree with Vanessa. It wasn’t that easy and I didn’t get Epicurism. I wouldn’t want them to be any more difficult.

  11. Found this one to be on the tough side of easy; needed to use a wildcard
    dictionary. Could not parse 27 across (“overeat”). Got it from cross letters
    and the literal meaning. Thanks to Flashling for explaining it.

    Made a pact with myself that I had to finish the Everyman (on Sunday morning)
    before I was allowed to check the footy scores on the web. Finished, checked,
    and was overjoyed to find that the Swans had slaughter-cated St. Kilda!

  12. Not overly impressed with this crossie. 5AC had me troubled and I would not say INFLUENCE = WEIGHT. Influence would be to “give weight”.

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