Everyman 3612

10 comments on “Everyman 3612”

1. 

   AJK

   #1 - Sun 3rd Jan 16, 06:47

   
   

   I had trouble with 13d and 19d for some reason.
   Wasn’t Brian Eno an ‘ambient’ music pioneer? ‘Music for airports’ or something?

2. 

   Cookie

   #2 - Sun 3rd Jan 16, 10:22

   
   

   Thanks Everyman and Gaufrid.

   I enjoyed solving this – seem to remember BRIDGEHEAD was the last in.
   I particularly liked FACE PACK, PORTRAYAL, FRAUDULENT, PROCEDURE and EPIGRAM.

   All the best for 2016 to everyone.

3. 

   Matt

   #3 - Sun 3rd Jan 16, 10:46

   
   

   Many thanks Gaufrid, for stepping in on solving/blogging duties this week in my absence.

4. 

   jennyk

   #4 - Sun 3rd Jan 16, 12:59

   
   

   There were some tricky clues for an Everyman. I was relieved when 12a turned out to be one of the most obvious jazz pianists. Brian Eno was my route to AMBIENT as I remembered that he uses that term for some of his music. I think DREAMLAND was my favourite clue on the day.

   Thanks, Everyman and Gaufrid.

5. 

   Shirl

   #5 - Sun 3rd Jan 16, 13:46

   
   

   Thanks both. I thought that this was fair for an Everyman. Best wishes to all for the New Year.
   {cookie, muffin et al – there is an IOS picture quiz today by scchua}

6. 

   muffin

   #6 - Sun 3rd Jan 16, 14:05

   
   

   AJK @1
   Yes, definitely. He released 4 albums with various subtitles entitled “Ambient music”; “Music for airports” was the first, and my favourite. Several other things he released around this time could also be regarded as “ambient”.

7. 

   Barrie, Remuera (usually, currently on the Coromandel)

   #7 - Fri 29th Jan 16, 21:10

   
   

   Yippee, back on Kiwi time. Thought I’d done this online but was pleasantly surprised that I hadn’t. Interestingly the local holiday rag (Mercury Bay Informer) has a New World crossword competition which also features an Everyman of unknown vintage. As for this, I couldn’t parse Amigo and have never heard of Ambient referring to anything other than outside or background so I struggled with the music def. Never heard of Ms Duffy but poet laureates (or should that be poets laureate?) don’t have a particularly high profile in nz.

   1d was interesting, I often miss Ground as an anag but this one jumped out as Underground is usually one word. Wonder whether cluing it as a sort of lift-and-separate with Underground as one word would have been deemed unfair?

   Will be a slow day today, sat up all night watching Andy Murray stumble his way into the Australian Open final. Good for him, but if the joker is on song it might not have a happy ending for the great white hope.

   Thanks Everyman and Gaufrid, don’t often see you in this spot.

8. 

   Derek

   #8 - Fri 29th Jan 16, 22:53

   
   

   I think Ambient Lounge is a musical genre.

9. 

   Lindsey & Marion

   #9 - Sat 30th Jan 16, 10:57

   
   

   Also from holday on the Coromandel.
   We hadn’t heard of Carol Duffy either so werw relived to Google her and find she did exist and is a poet.
   Last one in was bridgehead.

10. 

    Audrey A , Orewa

    #10 - Sat 30th Jan 16, 21:04

    
    

    I had to google Carol Ann Duffy too to see if she existed. As usual I found some of these impossible to parse. So have to resort to the Blog to see why. Often can’t do them till Sunday these days as there is too much on, and I, too sat up till after midnight watching a great match between Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber, a rising star, I think.

    Thanks Gaufrid for your explanations, and thanks Everyman.

    Gaufrid

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