Everyman 3,584

14 comments on “Everyman 3,584”

1. Thank you Everyman and Matt

   I enjoyed this puzzle a lot, especially as I could solve and parse everything – a rare occurrence for me.

   My favourites were 3d, 15a, 23a, 16d.

2. Thanks Everyman and Matt

   BET as OPINION? My bet is it’s something you believe 😉

3. Yes, managed to do this over breakfast, and all done before ‘The Archers’ omnibus. Nice puzzle.

4. I enjoyed this. It has a lot of nice surfaces. My only query was about BET/opinion. I came to the same conclusion as Simon S @2, but I’m still not entirely convinced that it works.

   Thanks, Everyman and Matt.

5. Thanks Everyman and Matt.

   I must admit I parsed some of these post solve, especially where one had to think of a word, then subtract a letter, e.g. 9a CADEt, 15a TOTaL, 17a tAUNTS. I rather question this in a beginner’s crossword.

   Once I parsed an answer by thinking of a word, then applying the given anagram indicator to it, but was told a two step process like that was not allowed

6. Thanks Everyman; somewhat easier than the first few weeks, I thought.

   Thanks Matt; I ticked ARISTOTLE, WROUGHT, TONGUE-LASHING (my favourite) & ALLIGATOR.

7. re @5, looking through the Cryptic section, I see that the process is quite common, but not in the Quiptic section nor in the old Everyman puzzles. Perhaps this is one of the reasons the new Everyman seems relatively hard.

   I did like TONGUE LASHING, ORIEL, DISTINGUISHED, ALLIGATOR and FAR AND AWAY.

8. I really enjoyed this puzzle from the new Everyman and have warmed to his style now.
   Among many excellent surfaces, I must choose the superb TONGUE-LASHING as my favourite.
   Big thanks to Matt and Everyman.

9. Yes, all of the above. The best one so far from our new setter. More like this, please.

   Thanks to Matt and to Everyman.

10. On a wet Saturday morning, what else is there to do but puzzle over our new setters puzzle? Like some of our British bloggers I think of a word and try to justify its placement. This guy is way too clever for me, but I do obtain a sense of real achievement when I put in a correct answer. I managed 2/3rds without electronic aid this morning, so we’ll done me!

11. After managing a quick start I thought the new guy may have gone on holiday but then having slowed down for the last couple made me realise that he hadn’t – his style was very much apparent in those. I too found that in many of the clues the holes were easier to fill than figuring out the logic but hey who cares; the things finished for another week. Thanks to Matt for enlightening me on the “whys”

12. Good on “the new guy” for stretching folk beyond their comfort/familiar zone. Isn’t that why we accept the challenge of the cryptic? We must be getting more familiar with him/her. Got most of these today with one or two guesses.

13. Got all but two eventually. In most cases I still think of the word, then parse it later, but I actually liked one or two of these clues this time, which is new for me. Didn’t get Aristotle and find the parsing a bit obscure. Oh well, I’ll probably still keep trying.

14. I had all bar two left in the end. Didn’t get BROADSHEET or VESPER.

    I can’t really say I am a big fan of this setter. I don’t mind a tough puzzle but would like to see better surfaces from him. Some of the surfaces in his latest effort were appalling e.g. 19c. It’s just a bunch of synonyms whacked together and the overall clue makes no sense. If you read it out loud it sounds like Borat speaking! LOL!

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