Everyman 3,550

A quite enjoyable Everyman this week

Nothing too hard here filling the easyish requirements for the job except 15d which was a bit of a jolt.

 

completed grid

Across

1 Bad blood shown by heartless opponent about it (6)
ENMITY
IT in EN(e)MY. Sorry this is a bit naff to me, enemy and enmity are just too close in meaning for my liking
4 Smart to disconnect after energy conserved by family (5-3)
CLEAN CUT
E(nergy) in CLAN family & CUT (disconnect)
10 Arms race participant? (9)
GUNRUNNER
Cryptic def alluding to guns and runners
11 Agricultural machine the Parisian kept in farm building, briefly (5)
BALER
LE in BAR(n)
12 Graceful Ragdoll is so meek inside (7)
LISSOME
Hidden answer.
13 Special phone link may cause heated row (7)
HOTLINE
HOT heated LINE row
14 I consume poison – terrible illness results (14)
PNEUMOCONIOSIS
[I CONSUME POISON]* is terrible
18 Complaint in sheikdom, unease spreading (10,4)
HOUSEMAIDS KNEE
[SHEIKDOM UNEASE]*
20 Dismiss teller (7)
CASHIER
Double definition, to cashier is relatively rare for sacking
22 Robot in Dr No novel brought in to help (7)
ANDROID
[DR NO]* novel inside AID help
24 I must sit in cleaner seat (5)
CHAIR
I inside CHAR
25 Smart having line deleted in travel document? The other way round (4,5)
VICE VERSA
L removed from C(l)EVER and inserted into VISA
26 At Naples? That may be nice (8)
PLEASANT
[AT NAPLES]* maybe
27 Popular act? Certainly (6)
INDEED
IN popular & DEED act

Down

1 For example, loses one’s composure after last of strong drinks (3,5)
EGG FLIPS
E.G. & (stron)G & FLIPS
2 Clergyman, old fellow, to tell government member (8,2,5)
MINISTER OF STATE
MINISTER (clergyman) & O(ld) & F(ellow) & STATE (to tell)
3 Organised tour taking in centre of early market town (5)
TRURO
R middle of eaRly in TOUR*
5 Feature of spectacular Christmas tree (5)
LARCH
Another hidden answer
6 Bird in brass – a lot manufactured (9)
ALBATROSS
[BRASS A LOT]* is manufactured
7 Cornelius is cool about opposing philosophies leading to conflict (9,6)
COLLISION COURSE
[CORNELIUS IS COOL]*
8 Aim at goal (6)
TARGET
Double def
9 Telephone system popular company installed in Trinity, for example (8)
INTERCOM
IN & CO(mpany) in TERM (trinity is the third term of the year at Oxford)
15 Joker, male, is seen on Baghdad river (9)
MISTIGRIS
Well this unlike Everyman, I got the answer from the wordplay and had to look it up to be sure. See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Mistigris
M(ale) & IS & TIGRIS the river through Baghdad
16 Canine with us, barking – a pest (8)
NUISANCE
[CANINE US]*  barking
17 Leader to go ashore in cape (8)
HEADLAND
HEAD leader LAND go ashore
19 I, about to step over frozen summit (6)
ICECAP
I & C(irca) & PACE reversed
21 Heading off, yellow and black bird (5)
RAVEN
(c)RAVEN is beheaded
23 Dove flying over northern county (5)
DEVON
DOVE* & N(orthern)
*anagram

11 comments on “Everyman 3,550”

  1. I couldn’t spell 14a and couldn’t get 15d . The others I got fairly quickly though I doubt if I’d have got 20a if I hadn’t seen it before.

  2. PNEUMOCONIOSIS seemed the most likely arrangement of the anagram fodder and I only got MISTIGRIS from the wordplay. Both clues seemed to have jumped ship from a Pasquale puzzle, and the fact that they were crossers made them seem even less like Everyman clues.

  3. Thanks Everyman and flashling, enjoyed the puzzle and found blog very helpful.

    Same problems as Bamberger @1. ICECAP is two words in the OECD (online get International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project), guess it is one word in Chambers. For that matter, GUNRUNNER is also two words in the OCED.

    Hope you all are having a good time in York.

  4. In common with several others above I solved 15d through the word play-it was certainly a new word to me but a straightforward clue and 14a was an anagram so again reasonably easy to solve. I enjoyed 20a, (eventually the penny dropped with cashier being a military term for dismissal!) and 4a were my loi.
    Another welcome start to the weekend-I wonder if we’ll hear the crowd in full voice tomorrow morning?
    Thanks Everyman and flashling.
    Cheers all.

  5. Enjoyed this week’s puzzle and learned two new words. Like most people I solved 15d from the wordplay and had to look it up. 14 ac was also new to me and needed to check once I’d solved it. Sounds like another name for Phthisis, (coal miner’s disease).
    I expect you’ll hear the crowd at full volume tomorrow , Ian. Wouldn’t be Wales without it.

  6. A pretty straightforward crossie this one. Overall took me about an hour. Learnt a couple of new words in LARCH and MISTIGRIS.

  7. Aside from my usual grizzles about unnecessary repetition (smart) this was another nice workout. Echo the above comments about one or two words, and I must have gone to the wrong schools and unis as I never came across a Trinity term.

    Having Bubble and Leek for breakfast tomorrow in front of the telly.

  8. Barrie, I seem to remember a clue about a name for one of the Oxford terms coming up a few months ago, and someone enlightened those of us Kiwis who weren’t familiar with the names. I think Trinity is the name for Oxford’s third term. There’s another term at Oxford called Hilary, so just keep that in the back of your mind in case it comes up another time.

  9. Hurrah finished it by end of Saturday this time….extremely rare for me.
    lots of new words. Always wonder when I will ever use them again like the pnemocon….one.
    Still one day it will come into use in some obscure way. Doubt I will ever use ‘cashier’ in that alternate meaning.That term thing is very useful to keep in mind i recall it turning up months ago the other one is Michaelmas (tku Google)

  10. I really enjoyed this puzzle. My favourites were 25a, 1a, 17d, 4a, 10a, 13a.

    New words were pneumoconiosis and mistigris.

    I needed help to parse 20a.

    thanks flashling and Everyman.

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