Everyman 3606

21 comments on “Everyman 3606”

1. A miserable moped. Works for me – OED has “Pitiably small or inadequate”

2. Yes, nice puzzle, easier than the previous week. Nice smooth surfaces. Liked CORKSCREW

3. Thanks Everyman and flashling.

   There’s a slight mis-parse in 17, it’s A (article) C (about) then CUPOLA*.

4. Thanks to Everyman and flashling.

   This was a pleasant solve. I guess a MOPED appears a miserable vehicle to a young lad, seem to remember it was mostly girls who used them when I was young.

   DOG, DALMATION, CORKSCREW and PEDDLE were fun.

5. That should be DALMATIAN of course. Now for this week’s Everyman…

6. Thanks simon serves me right for not writing this up at the time rather than days later without the crossword infront of me. Wil fix when i get home.

7. I usually struggle with the last two or three in any crossword, no matter what the difficulty level but in this case, no problems whatsoever. Like Halley’s comet, it probably won’t happen again for a few years.

   There were some great surfaces of which I liked UPPER, RECAP, IMPARTIAL and CORKSCREW (favourite).

   Very enjoyable puzzle as ever. Many thanks to flashling and Everyman.

8. This is my first comment here, though I’ve been lurking on the site for quite a few months now. I found this to be a nice, easy but satisfying Everyman. Thanks to Everyman and flashling.

   There is one minor problem with the blog, though. The answer to 9D should be MARTIN SCORSESE, not SCORCESE. (I have to confess that I initially made the same mistake. It was only when I double-checked the anagram fodder that I discovered my misspelling.)

9. [zim @8, just checked and found that I also entered SCORCESE last Sunday, strange, perhaps because it is a rather hard S?]

10. This seems a good level for an Everyman, with no particular problems. The “miserable” MOPED didn’t bother me. Cookie remembers them as mostly belonging to young girls, whereas I remember them as ridden mostly by elderly men who were past pedalling a pushbike uphill.

    Favourites were CHARLATAN, MARTIN SCORCESE and DALMATIAN.

    Thanks to Everyman and flashling.

11. Oops, I missed zim’s correction @8. Obviously, I fell into the same trap!

12. @zim et al, mea culpa. Same excuse of trying to do by memory and failing. Had a bad week trying to do crosswords on line and doing it manually I’ve made a few mistakes
    ?

13. Thanks for the blog flashling, tiny errors ignored 😉

14. A better puzzle than last week although the first solves all seemed to be anagrams. Got Charleston for 10a which I then couldn’t parse. Some nice clues, corkscrew, Dalmatian, impartial, moped. Never heard of a marimba but it was either that or a miramba. Some of the surfaces were a bit strange but you seem to get that with this chap. To all fellow kiwis, merry Christmas. Bugger, does that mean no paper next saturday?

15. And here’s me thinking I was clever and smart to solve this one without electronic aids! It was an easier puzzle but no less enjoyable. Thanks to all and Merry Xmas from Howick

16. Got this all done by end of Saturday unusually for me, tho admit to some use of the safety blanket of elec aids.I did like these clues… some were quite clever. -…some were very clever, partic liked Dressing Down it was a top clue –
    Had never heard of narked meaning annoyed. Now I have.
    i must be getting used to this setter
    yes i think no paper next sat. It would be the perfect distraction after all the over-consuming is said and done…. so will have to prep some other way

17. One of the more straight forward ones from this setter I thought. Love it when the long ones come early; feel like you’re half way there with only a couple of clues in. Reckon I would have had Scorsese with a ‘c’ too if I hadn’t ticked the letters in the anagram off. Thanks to all.

18. A good puzzle, which I enjoyed. Much better clues than recently. I liked dressing down, relief map, Martin Scorsese, which I also spelled wrongly, among others. Barrie, a marimba is a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone. I expect you have heard it.
    Merry Christmas everyone. Does that mean two weeks with no Herald or is there one on New Years Day?
    Thanks Flashling and the setter.

19. Yay Audrey, thought you’d given up and left us. Nope never heard of it.

    Funniest thing I ever saw was the school concert for the young brother of my girlfriend of the day. There was a little kid at the front of the stage playing a xylophone. He mist have been all of six. Playing his heart out when the round knob fell off one of his xylophone sticks, dropped on the floor and rolled slowly down the stage and into the audience. He stopped playing and just stared at the end of the stick where the knob was no longer. The look on his face of sheer puzzlement will be forever etched in my memory. We of course nearly wet ourselves whilst trying to suppress our laughter.

    Who knows, that could even have been a marimba. I will never know.

    I googled Boxing Day papers and there is hope.

20. hi all I thought saturday was christmas day, but got that wrong, I think there is definitely a paper on 26th altho it is thin as thin. Think only two days they dont publish good fri and xmas day. Am sure we will get our fix

21. Barrie It wouldn’t have been a marimba I don’t think at that age. Could even have been a glockenspiel. Xylophones and marimbas have wooden keys.
    No I haven’t given up but still settling in at my new abode and didn’t have time last week.

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