Chambers Everyman Crosswords

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Just a short flight from the UK and well-located for exploring Ireland's famous green hills, Cork remains a hugely popular short-haul destination among British holidaymakers. e. TRACK with the end missing and with number meaning a track on a record); `of gripes’ defines TORMINAL; the rest is MINATORY (threatening) with TORY replaced by L for Liberal.

Incidentally, Colin Gumbrell also sets the Antico puzzle in The Oldie, a very enjoyable thematic puzzle that I do every month. I could not understand the symbol in 1a and could barely read it on my small phone screen, so that did not help me. Although Joseph has always been a popular name, it's never had the the same degree of ubiqitty in the English-speaking world as John or William. They’re not as challenging as Azed, but I always like to tackle the Everyman puzzle as a sort of warm-up exercise before doing that one.

I was thinking recently that it’s been a while since I posted anything about crosswords, and today I got a nice surprise that gives me an excuse for a short post. When I came back to cryptic crosswords again recently after a long hiatus, I started doing the daily puzzles in the Guardian. I have been entering this competition for almost 20 years with decidedly modest success, though I did reach the dizzy heights of 15th place in 2010/11. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A trickier than usual Everyman but not so much so that it would cause too many problems, as there are lots of anagrams and primary letters etc.

The phrase is used in legalese to mean 'the reasonable person', and has gone into the language to mean 'the man in the street', a modern Everyman. The puzzle was fairly tricky to solve but, as always with the Azed Competition entrants also have to compose a clue of their own. Didn’t think Lesotho was a monarchy never thought about it tbh just knew it was a land locked enclave. To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. In case you’re wondering the reason it gives Cardiff as my address is that (a) I still have a house there and (b) I’ve had some problems with things being delivered to Ireland from the UK and (c) I recently found a stash of sticky address labels with the Cardiff address on which saves the hassle of writing my address out on each entry.Colin Gumbrell took over as Everyman setter in 2014 or thereabouts, and I think his puzzles are a little bit harder than the previous ones. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I do not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the opinions or statements of any information or other content in the comments on this site and do not in any way guarantee their accuracy or reliability.

I found this difficult – it took me more than double what I normally reckon to take on a more challenging Everyman and twice my time for Boatman’s prize, which I completed straight after! Like flashling, I’m not thrilled by the imprecise use of “hearts” in 4dn — I would expect that to mean the centermost parts of the words, leading to UNHIG. The answer to this is DECAMETRE (defined by `11 yards’) and clearly intended to be a soundalike (homophone) for DECK A METER (Adorn a device for measuring…).Yes, it’s certainly better than last week (which isn’t difficult), but not really up to Colin’s standard. Thanks for the blog, I also thought it was BRAS(s) , two very long complete anagrams for Jay’s list. I resumed in 2017 but have found it difficult to get back into the swing of writing clues (at which I’ve never really been very good anyway). My moan at 6dn about the fact that it’s a CD is a voice crying in the wilderness: lots of people, including some good setters, like them.