Everyman 3,570

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Sunday rolls by and my turn at the Everyman

A couple held me up but otherwise a reasonably quick romp today.

completed grid
Thanks Everyman

Across

1 Recalled interior of cast iron strongbox (4)
SAFE

(c)SA(t) interior, recalled reversed & FE (iron)

3 They’ll raise the issue at breakfast, perhaps (10)
HIGHCHAIRS

Cryptic definition and not immediately obvious either

10 A bracket holding right light source (3,4)
ARC LAMP

R(ight) inserted into A CLAMP

11 Madman in a cult, deranged (7)
LUNATIC

[IN A CULT]* is deranged

12 Act firmly to gain momentum (3,4,4,4)
PUT ONES FOOT DOWN

Sort of double def second via accelerator/gas pedal

13 Cleanser put off squire (9)
DETERGENT

DETER put off & GENT

15 Former PM, last in Office, by study (4)
EDEN

last in (offic)E & DEN study

17 Cliff‘s Academy Award: no disc involved (4)
SCAR

No O “disc” in (o)SCAR

18 Church altar desecrated by an impostor (9)
CHARLATAN

CH(urch) & ALTAR* desecrated & AN

21 US artist capturing original outpost, depicted as part of a political campaign? (7-4,4)
WHISTLE-STOP TOUR

OUTPOST* originally in WHISTLER (US artist)

23 Most conceited adult wearing singlet outside (7)
VAINEST

A(dult) & IN (wearing) all inside VEST

24 Spotted entertaining male, bachelor, in unlicensed joint (7)
SHEBEEN

HE & B(achelor) all in SEEN

25 Helps left, concludes a deal (5,1,4)
LENDS A HAND

L(eft) & ENDS & A & HAND (deal)

26 Fish in jar with no lid (4)
HAKE

A lid-less (s)HAKE

Down

1 Impressed by eastern flight (8)
STAMPEDE

STAMPED (impressed) & E

2 Newspaper carrying excellent feature (5)
FACET

ACE in the F.T.

4 One motorway, outdated, brings you to a standstill (7)
IMPASSE

1 & M(otorway) & PASSÉ (outdated)

5 Last offer (4,3)
HOLD OUT

Double def and last in for me, dunno why but took me a while to spot this.

6 Chasseur admitting odd tips help to locate game (4,3,7)
HUNT THE SLIPPER

[TIPS HELP]* oddly in HUNTER (chasseur)

7 Turn inwards in car during Manx race (9)
INTROVERT

IN & ROVER (a defunct car maker) in T.T. (Manx race)

8 Back runner-up? (6)
SECOND

Double definition, POINS had a different DD for the same word in the Indy on Sunday.

9 Film studio unsettled Warren Beatty initially, then Rex et al? (6,8)
WARNER BROTHERS

WARREN* unsettled & B(eatty) initally & R(ex) & OTHERS (et al)

14 Course artist announced for planner (9)
TACTICIAN

Sounds like TACK (course) & TITIAN artist

16 Way in for transport (8)
ENTRANCE

Double def

18 Teach incorrectly about male cat (7)
CHEETAH

HE (male) in TEACH* incorrectly

19 Smith supporter losing capital? (7)
ARTISAN

(p)ARTISAN

20 Spin altered views before ending of poll (6)
SWIVEL

VIEWS* altered & (pol)L. Nice surface

22 Part of home game, last in series (5)
OMEGA

Hidden in hOME GAme

*anagram

18 comments on “Everyman 3,570”

  1. Thanks flashling.
    Could someone please explain why “shake” = “jar” in 26a?
    Also, I wouldn’t have thought that “stampede” was a synonym of “flight” (1d).

  2. I couldn’t solve 26a with only ?a?e.
    Crosser- to jar something is to shake it -so take the lid (ie first letter) of shake off and you get hake.

  4. I don’t have a problem at all with “flight” as a synonym of “stampede”. HIGHCHAIRS held me up until I had all the checkers, although that’s possibly because I’ve always thought of it as two words.

  5. Could someone explain how ‘offer’ is a definition for ‘hold out’ please? (I get how it works for ‘last’).

  8. I also was held up by HIGHCHAIRS until I had the crossers, it was a great clue, and last in was HOLD OUT. I remember hearing a word like SHEBEEN before, it must have been it since I cannot find anything similar.

    Thanks Everyman and flashling.

  9. Crosser @1 (and anyone else): I once read a book by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, who together co-write some of the U.S.’s best cryptic crosswords. (The book was really more like about 50 of their crosswords plus a couple essays–one at the beginning on how to solve, and another at the end on how to construct.) Anyway, one of the things they said was that the art of setting crosswords depends on making the nouns in your clues look like verbs, and making the verbs look like nouns.

    So with that advice, if you’re stuck on a clue–always think of as many definitions (both noun AND verb) as you can for each prominent word in the clue. Usually, the one you need is of the “wrong” part of speech.

    ~~~

    Separately, I’d never heard of hunt the slipper, Rover as a car, or T.T. (which, now I look it up, seems to be motorcycles). So those two (hunt the slipper and introvert) were my last ones in.

  10. I missed highchairs, hunt the slipper, shebeen and hake today. Otherwise a good puzzle, loved 12 and 13 across. Off to Tairua for the night, hope the weather holds.

  11. All good for me today, quite pleased to have parsed 1a and got 14d. Only grumbles were male = he repeated and I hope never to see Entrance in a crossword again, at least for a long time. It’s older and cornier than my feet.

  12. If you nz folks need any more help just ask, I’ll be here, I realise some stuff doesn’t translate to well into English!

  13. 10:30 a.m.
    Loved this today. Exercised my brain for over an hour. Even remembered shebeen from somewhere. Got stuck on the right hand corner for a while as I had put Hunt the Thimble, but once I corrected it, the rest came. That game is reminiscent of Sardines, isn’t it Barrie?
    Favourites were highchairs, detergent, and 21 ac.

    Thanks Everyman and Flashling.

  14. Ha! I thought of sardines too, Audrey! Never actually played hunt the slipper. Tried hunt the thimble once (and for a brief while thought that might be the answer here) but that was too hard.

    Thanks Flashling, I actually have English roots but I know not all the kiwis here do.

    And for all my gripes there were no stupid Geography clues, hurrah.

  15. Eventually I realised that 6d was hunt (not find!!) the slipper and highchairs came into view my loi and a lovely clue along with many other neat clues in an entertaining puzzle. As I read 16d I could hear Barrie whingeing-perhaps Everyman could set a puzzle with entrance used several times with different clues and really wind him up!

    For mrpenney@9 The IOM (Isle of Man) TT races (Tourist Trophy) are amongst the most famous (and dangerous) motor cycle road races in the world and annually attract huge crowds amongst afficionadoes they have even made gramophone records of the exhaust notes throughout the circuit.

    Thanks Everyman, Flashling et al.

  16. THANKS FLASHLING, SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO THINK LIKE YOU POMS TO SOLVE THE CLUES, BUT WE APPRECIATE THE OFFER.

  17. I’m fairly certain Rod didn’t mean the ALL CAPS. Can’t help but feel he might be a little inebriated this fine autumn evening in Auckland. 😉 I know I am!

    A good puzzle all round. I screwed up 7d and went for FIND THE SLIPPER instead of HUNT. Given I studied French for five years I should really have done better with this one.

    I had an inkling 3a had something to do with bringing up young ‘uns. I had something to do with an alarm in my head all along and couldn’t shake it off. Also having 7d wrong didn’t help.

    Also didn’t get SHEBEEN but had parsed the clue, just couldn’t figure HE and B for male bachelor.

    Thanks to Everyman and Flashling. Till next weekend!

  18. Thank you Everyman and Flashling.

    I needed help to parse 6d, and new word for me was SHEBEEN – the clue was good and I only needed to check in dictionary if the word existed!

    My favourites were 3a, 23a, 9d, 14d.

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