Everyman 3,823

18 comments on “Everyman 3,823”

1. Surely, redcurrant jelly with lamb and cranberry sauce with turkey. Or, in my house, cranberry, orange and mint jelly.

2. My favourites were MISERY, CAPE FEAR & DAY-LEWIS.
   New phrase for me was ‘give it some welly’.
   Thanks Everyman and Sil

3. Thanks both. Didn’t Ethelred get his nickname because he was “un-reedy” meaning he had no advisors?

4. Thanks Sil. 1A: Last time I looked the CofE book of common prayer still said “In quires and places where they sing, here follows the anthem”.

5. I found some of this nice ‘n easy but overall I thought it was a bit difficult for a Sunday.

   I wasn’t used to lat for toilet; I tried to make loo or can work but of course they didn’t.

   I think ‘deposed’ is a bit iffy for an anagrind – something like dissolute would be more straightforward. I would also have put something like: ‘Many dogs wanting a pee’ because ‘taking’ in that context is not very clear, at least to me.

   Thanks Everyman and Sil.

6. Easy enough although an awful lot of GK required. Today’s is a bit odd. Are missing anagrinds a thing now?

7. I found this puzzle hard to get into but finally got there with CAPTCHA being my last. I looked up this word and interestingly it’s an acronym of sorts standing for
   Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Well I never !. It also took me a while to see lat as an abbreviation for latrine which
   is from the Latin lavatrina.

   I liked the clues for KNOW-ALLS and CLAWED, the latter reminding me of Claude Balls – maybe Ed’s brother. Thanks to Sil and E.

8. I took a little while to get into this but, as the answers started to appear out of the fog, it became increasingly enjoyable.
   I have no problem with CHOIRS as I’ve always understood that’s also the name of the part of a church where the choir sits/stands, and yes, “quires” is an older spelling of both. I enjoyed the neatness of PRAVDA, CLAWED and LUCKY DIP, giggled at OODLES and was really impressed that the wordplay in the clue to ETHELRED could also be interpreted as using the older sense of “wanting” (lacking): in having no advisors Ethelred the Unready was seen as an inadequate, or un-reedy, leader. And I’ve just taken far, far longer to get across that which Everyman communicated in just five words – what a masterful cruciverbalist he/she is!!! All praise to Everyman, and to Sil for the classy blog.

9. My favourites coincided with those of michelle @2 – all three film-related.  HEAT (5d) was a film too.  Is this enough to make a theme?

   Sil, at 20d I don’t think the phrase “got hic” is supposed to mean “baffled by drunken noise”.  “Got” means baffled, as in “You’ve got me there”.  The “hic” is a separate element.

   I didn’t think the definition was quite right at 2d.  Certainly if something is handed to you ON A PLATE you’ve got it by making no effort, but I don’t see how ON A PLATE and “making no effort” are equivalent.  But I liked the surface with the old earl!

   Thanks to Everyman and Sil.

10. I found this to be a very enjoyable puzzle. I like where the (no longer so very) new Everyman has settled. Favorites were MISERY and GOTHIC, for the nice surfaces and in the latter case for the cleverly hidden definition.

    Unlike Sil, I don’t see a problem with 22a (KNOW-ALLS). Trump wants to build a wall, and those who are opposed want to build no walls. The wordplay is then asking us to think of a homophone for NO WALLS. The homophone certainly seems close enough for me.

     

11. Thanks Everyman and Sil!

    Lord Jim @9: For 2d the definition was okay for me: For example, “I was handed the job making no effort” and “I was handed the job on a plate” seem to be valid sentences expressing the same meaning.

12. I disagree with EYES UP. The \”S\” is pronounced as a \”Z\” and so it cannot be homophonically (since Sil invented a word, so will I…) read as \”sup\”. You would have to read half of the clue aloud, and take the remaining letters literally — a violation of interpretive consistency that is never done. So the setter got that wrong, I believe. Anyone else have thoughts on this?

13. Late again, because in New Zealand we only got this today. But LAT for latrine? For crying out load, get rid of this bloke.

14. Too many expressions that I’ve never heard of. I’m not on this setter’s wavelength I’m afraid.

15. Tony @13, while for me ‘get rid of this bloke’ is over-the-top, I’ll have to say LAT = ‘latrine’ really is in Collins and the SOED (although with the addition of ‘informal’ or ‘slang’).

    And therefore that Everyman has ‘the dictionaries’ on his side.

16. Another enjoyable crossword though I missed 24a & 20d and wrote Art’s full name into 15a without parsing which held me up a bit. For 2d I think “making” = “here’s the definition” & on a plate just means no effort (required). Thanks Sil & Everyman

17. 7D, surely ‘taking’ is an additive indicator not a deletion? If I take tea I drink it, I don’t spit the stuff out. Ditto if I take The Times.

    Put me firmly in the camp of redcurrant jelly with lamb and cranberry sauce with turkey.

    This EM is certainly quirky, which is fine, but still a bit loose.

     

18. Barrie, I think 17d is in the sense of taking away.

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