Everyman 3,638

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Not much to say other than here’s this week’s Everyman

In a country where upheaval is everywhere, the new Everyman is a haven of sanity.

completed grid

Across

1 Account by copper indecent in precision (8)
ACCURACY
AC(count) & Cu (copper) & RACY (indecent-ish)

5 Fragment ending in fire grate (6)
SCRAPE
SCRAP & (fir)E

9 Strange trio used to be stranger (8)
OUTSIDER
[TRIO USED]* strangely

10 Cross some lengthy bridges (6)
HYBRID
Hidden answer

12 Lawyer beginning to examine new disc and film (5,9)
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
BRIEF (lawyer) & E(xamine) & N(ew) & COUNTER (disc). Great film with a marvellous sound track

14 Minister’s place in corruption probed by a newspaper (8)
VICARAGE
A & RAG (newspaper) both in VICE

15 Rigid back (5)
STERN
Double definition

17 Exhausted, nothing left, diva finally retired (3,2)
ALL IN
NIL & L(eft) & (div)A all reversed (retired)

18 Deal arranged by assistant in state capital (8)
ADELAIDE
DEAL* arranged & AIDE (assistant)

19 Objection about her chat they nastily make up (4,3,7)
BURY THE HATCHET
[HER CHAT THEY]* nastily in BUT (objection)

22 Reduce block and write (6)
DAMPEN
DAM (block a river say) & PEN (write)

24 Ominous sign’s last one received by nun (8)
SINISTER
last of (sig)N & 1 in SISTER

25 Discover sock (6)
STRIKE
Double definition

26 Criminal seen and stopped by river, caught (8)
ENSNARED
R(iver) in [SEEN AND]* criminally

Down

1 Particle in amoeba to monitor (4)
ATOM
Hidden answer

2 Larva from crate wriggling over post (11)
CATERPILLAR
CRATE* wriggling & PILLAR (post)

3 Create trouble and upset expert in dried fruit (5,4)
RAISE CAIN
ACE (expert) reversed (upset) in RAISIN

4 Basket filled by me with stuff including a dessert (5,7)
CREME CARAMEL
ME & A in CRAM (stuff) all in CREEL (basket)

6 Rodent, shy, heads for protection underground (5)
COYPU
COY (shy) & P(rotection) U(nderground)

7 Broadcast just devoid of force (3)
AIR
F(orce) removed from (f)AIR

8 Continuing call to support aim, universal (8)
ENDURING
END (aim) & U(niveral) on top of (supported by) RING (call)

11 Movement involving church developed real increase in speed (12)
ACCELERATION
C.E. (church) & REAL* developed all in ACTION (movement)

13 Time with dog around noon for leader of fashion (11)
TRENDSETTER
T(ime) & N(oon) in RED SETTER (as mad abreed of dog as you’ll come across)

15 Upright icon hasn’t changed (9)
STANCHION
[ICON HASNT]* changed

16 Island‘s obstacle ahead of poor sailor (8)
BARBADOS
BAR (obstacle) & BAD (poor) & O(rdinary) S(eaman)

20 Adjust temperature, lacking energy (5)
TWEAK
T(emperature) & WEAK (no energy)

21 Dry area cleared (4)
ARID
A(rea) & RID (cleared)

23 Ruin force, overthrown (3)
MAR
RAM reversed

11 comments on “Everyman 3,638”

  1. I particularly enjoyed the clue for RAISE CAIN and the word STANCHION is an unusual one.

    Thanks for Everyman and Flashling.

    Paul

  2. Thank you Everyman and flashling.

    I enjoyed this, but entered CREAM at first at 4d, instead of CREME, which led to “something MACGUFFIN” at 12a, the idea that BRIEF = lawyer did not come to my mind – all sorted out in the end.

    The clue for HYBRID was my favourite, followed by that for STANCHION.

  3. I thought this was a little trickier than sometimes, but as enjoyable as usual. Among other very nice surfaces, I particularly liked OUTSIDER, VICARAGE, ALL IN and COYPU.

    Thanks, Everyman and flashling.

  4. On the other hand I found this easier than the past couple of weeks. Perhaps I was just a little more awake than usual. 🙂 LOI 4d, which was new to me.

  6. Thanks flashling, I came unstuck on BARBADOS but can now add ‘os’ to my ever growing list of sailor abbreviations along with tar, ab, salt, rn … and so on!

  7. A lot easier than last week’s imho.

    Brief = lawyer was new to me, thought a brief was what you gave him.

    Stanchion I knew from my yachting encounters, they hold the wire thingies which help prevent premature disembarkation.

    Some rewarding unpicks here, unusually I bothered to parse the lot, must have been less convoluted than some of late.

    Thanks Flashling and EM.

  8. Got off to a quick start for a change this week, but got stuck at the lower left. I put accurate for 1 ac instead of accuracy so couldn’t get 4 d till that was sorted, and then I thought it was Crepe something. Haven’t heard of that dessert but Cream Caramels are sweets.

    All in all I enjoyed it this week. Much more at my level.

  9. Thought for a while I was going to break the world speed record (in my house anyway) with this one, but then I got stuck on stanchion – never heard of it. Probably serves me right for being a landlubber in the City of Sails. Enjoyed it though. Thanks to all.

  10. Lower left corner was the hardest for me too, took ages to finally get any of it…and had never heard of a coypu but I suppose that will come in use one day. good way to spend a wet cold saturday…

  11. Finished this one sitting by a fireside while it rains outside. Quite enjoyable. Last one in was 22a dampen.
    Quite liked 19a Bury the hatchet, 16d Barbados, & 20d Tweak. Knew 15d Stanchion from construction work. Stanchions hold up hand rails.

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