Lorraine: Good morning to you all,
I was working on Sunday so had to wait until Tuesday before I could do my much loved Everyman.
Fairly straight forward this week, favourites are too numerous to mention, but needless to say I enjoyed this immensely, even though I had withdrawal symptoms having to wait until Tuesday.
Big thank you to Everyman as always.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Way to pay for course (8) | ||
| FOOTPATH | FOOT[pay, i.e. foot the bill]+PATH | ||
| 5. | Sickness in China? Use antibiotics (6) | ||
| NAUSEA | hidden: chiNA? USE Antibiotics | ||
| 10. | Leading elected group of people with a common goal (2,5) | ||
| IN FRONT | IN[elected]+FRONT[people’s front of Judea etc.] | ||
| 11. | Check on a dazzling display in carriage (7) | ||
| CHARIOT | CH+A+RIOT | ||
| 12. | Own about fifty in Split? (5) | ||
| HALVE | HAVE around L | ||
| 13. | Who lacquers long hair, brushed back? Bank employee, heading off (9) | ||
| ENAMELLER | (MANE<)+(t)ELLER | ||
| 14. | In a procession classes notice? (8,6) | ||
| MARCHING ORDERS | MARCHING+ORDERS | ||
| 18. | Girl with apple shortly to make dessert (9,5) | ||
| CHARLOTTE RUSSE | CHARLOTTE+RUSSE(t)[apple] | ||
| 20. | Powerful older woman seen in troika, briefly, during parade (9) | ||
| MATRIARCH | TRIA(d)[troika, group of three] in MARCH | ||
| 22. | Funny turn after onset of dizziness (5) | ||
| DROLL | ROLL after D(izziness) | ||
| 24. | A crime such as this may give one little time to think rationally (7) | ||
| TREASON | T+REASON | ||
| 25. | Vase containing ornate icon showing fabulous creature (7) | ||
| UNICORN | (ICON*) in URN | ||
| 26. | An ordinary seaman, sailor capsized in front of gondola (6) | ||
| RATING | (TAR<)+IN+G(ondola) | ||
| 27. | Person supporting that woman through a depression (8) | ||
| ADHERENT | HER in (A DENT) | ||
| … | |||
| Down | |||
| 1. | King entering fray causes a shock (6) | ||
| FRIGHT | R in FIGHT | ||
| 2. | Waste year away from Irish county (5) | ||
| OFFAL | OFFAL(y) | ||
| 3. | Show clan misinterpreted a form of Langue d’oc (9) | ||
| PROVENCAL | PROVE[show]+(CLAN*) | ||
| 4. | For as long as it takes, he’d better not, if worried about it (2,3,6,3) | ||
| TO THE BITTER END | (HE’D BETTER NOT*) around IT | ||
| 6. | Mindful of a conflict over Ecstasy (5) | ||
| AWARE | pun on A WAR+E | ||
| 7. | Tranquil silence, in spite of that on Scottish loch (9) | ||
| STILLNESS | STILL(in spite of that)+NESS[ref. Loch Ness, not the ‘headland’] | ||
| 8. | Star in East, twinkling, seen by chance (8) | ||
| ASTERISK | (EAST*)+RISK | ||
| 9. | Sea dog’s steamer (5-9) | ||
| OCEAN-GREYHOUND | OCEAN+GREYHOUND | ||
| 15. | Set of rooms beside Thames originally housing soldiers (9) | ||
| APARTMENT | MEN in (APART[beside]+T(hames)) | ||
| 16. | Circular and folder in wastepaper basket (5,4) | ||
| ROUND FILE | ROUND+FILE | ||
| 17. | Sign of wound across one hand cut by this? (8) | ||
| SCIMITAR | (I MIT[hand]) in SCAR; semi & lit. | ||
| 19. | Earth flat? Most original of theories (6) | ||
| PLANET | PLANE+T(heories) | ||
| 21. | Children’s author almost upset dramatist (5) | ||
| IBSEN | NESBI(t)< ref. E. Nesbit | ||
| 23. | Invigorating air in heart of blowy region (5) | ||
| OZONE | (bl)O(wy)+ZONE | ||
| … | |||
This was a very enjoyable puzzle by Everyman. My favourites were 12a, 3d, 4d, 7d, 8d, 17d.
New word for me was ‘ocean-greyhound’.
Thanks for the blog, Lorraine.
Enjoyable, smooth as ever.
Thanks Lorraine; I think 8d is (EAST*) + RISK. I also didn’t know OCEAN GREYHOUND or OFFALY.
Thanks Lorraine,
Another excellent puzzle from Everyman with two clues being particularly problematic.
Just couldn’t see MARCHING ORDERS or ASTERISK, for quite a while. Both were very
misleading especially ASTERISK where I was trying to make an anagram of star and east.
Thanks Everyman.
Thanks, Lorraine. I was away at the w/e and have only now got round to reading your explanations. Could you (or someone) please explain the connection between “round file” and a wastepapar basket?
Hello Crosser,
Round as are waste paper baskets, and file, put it away. File it in the bin.
Lorraine.
Hum, thank you! Not perhaps the best clue in the puzzle!