Poker Token Crossword Clue
Everyman 3,865
Posted by Quirister on November 15th, 2020
Another fun puzzle from Everyman, with most of the usual features we’ve come to expect.
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The clues range from pretty straightforward to quite complex, which I think is what Everyman intends (to give beginners a way in, while still challenging more seasoned solvers). We have some homophones, a handful of anagrams (with only one debatable anagram indicator this time), and one unrecognisable word in a clue which I’m going to assume is a Guardian typo. Three linked entries this time rather than two: 1a, 25a and 4d, each of which is two words both starting with C. As usual the surfaces are occasionally a bit rough, but there are some good ones – I laughed at 20a and 23a. Thanks Everyman as always.
Gambling Token Crossword Clue
Definitions are underlined; BOLD UPPERCASE indicates letters used in the wordplay; square brackets [ ] indicate omitted letters.
| ACROSS | ||
| 1 | CRUISE CONTROL | Stunt-performing actor given key for automotive device (6,7) |
| CRUISE (actor Tom Cruise, who is known for doing his own stunts in action films) + CONTROL (key). | ||
| 8 | OBOE | Endlessly booed scordato member of orchestra (4) |
| Anagram of BOOE[d] without its last letter (endlessly). Everyman is known for somewhat eccentric anagram indicators; scordato is a musical term describing a stringed instrument where one or more strings are tuned higher or lower than their normal pitches. Whether that corresponds to “anagram” is a matter of opinion. | ||
| 9 | DUE PROCESS | Course sped around with appropriate safeguards (3,7) |
| Anagram (around) of COURSE SPED. Following due process = doing something properly according to the rules. | ||
| 10 | HANDEL | Composer‘s name called out (6) |
| Homophone (called out) of HANDLE (a pseudonym or radio call-sign, or just slang for a name). | ||
| 11 | UNAFRAID | Intoxicated faun to make incursion, being fearless (8) |
| Anagram (intoxicated) of FAUN, then RAID (incursion). | ||
| 12 | HANDIWORK | Doing borders of Hawaii, then either border of Woodstock (9) |
| Two variations on an old trick: the borders (end letters) of Hawaii are H AND I, and either border of Woodstock is W OR K. Doing = handiwork = what someone has done. Psalm 118:23 – “This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.” | ||
| 14 | AIRS | Eldest of children usually expressed pretentiousness (4) |
| Homophone (expressed) of HEIRS (eldest of children usually; this confused me for a while until I remembered that “eldest” could be plural). As in “putting on airs” = being pretentious. | ||
| 15 | ICES | Big cheese regularly chills (4) |
| Alternate letters (regularly) of [b]I[g] C[h]E[e]S[e]. Ice, as a verb = to cool something down using ice. | ||
| 16 | ADORINGLY | Kerfuffle before token of love offered on vacation lovingly, lovingly (9) |
| ADO (kerfuffle = disruption) + RING (token of love offered) + L[ovingl]Y (on vacation = when emptied = middle letters removed). | ||
| 20 | TIA MARIA | Dry in the morning; before start of afternoon, Italian’s knocked back liqueur (3,5) |
| AIR (as a verb = hang up clothes to dry) + AM (in the morning) + start of A[fternoon] + IT (Italian), all reversed (knocked back). The liqueur was a fairly easy guess from the letter counts, but the parsing took a while. | ||
| 21 | MOUTHY | Someone with a lisp’s shy, becoming talkative (6) |
| Shy = MOUSY, which someone with a lisp may pronounce as MOUTHY. Slang for talkative, especially describing someone who isn’t afraid to say exactly what they think. | ||
| 23 | STRING VEST | Vet’s confused after duck escapes holding underwear (6,4) |
| Anagram (confused) of VET’S, after ST[o]RING (holding) without the O (zero = duck in cricket scoring). | ||
| 24 | DIVA | Singer‘s keen on retiring (4) |
| AVID (keen), reversed (on retiring). | ||
| 25 | CHEDDAR CHEESE | Cheered and chased off something from Somerset (7,6) |
| Anagram (off) of CHEERED + CHASED. The classic UK cheese, originally from the village of Cheddar in Somerset, but now copied everywhere. | ||
| DOWN | ||
| 1 | CABBALA | Primarily ‘correspondence’: arcane Biblical beliefs; Abrahamic literature absorbed? (7) |
| Everyman’s usual “primarily” clue, using the initial letters of the clue words. Belief system based on mystical interpretation of Hebrew Biblical texts, with various spellings including Kabbalah. | ||
| 2 | U-BEND | Whereby unpleasant burden is exclusing reek, primarily? (1-4) |
| Anagram (unpleasant) of BU[r]DEN, without the initial letter (primarily) of R[eek]. I assume “exclusing” is a misprint for “excluding”; the “s” form is used in words such as exclusion / exclusive, but not as a verb in its own right, as far as I can see. Extended definition: U-bend = a bend in a waste-water outlet pipe, which acts as a trap to block unpleasant-smelling sewer gases. | ||
| 3 | SOD’S LAW | So Dad’s starter comes on a salad? Something bad will inevitably occur (4,3) |
| SO + starting letter of D[ad] + SLAW (salad of shredded cabbage or similar vegetables). Alternative name for Murphy’s Law = “anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. | ||
| 4 | CHEQUERED CAREER | Wildly cheered queer car that’s had good and bad times (9,6) |
| Anagram (wildly) of CHEERED QUEER CAR. Chequered career (chequered past, chequered history, etc) = a mixture of success and failure. | ||
| 5 | NORWAY | Some forsaken or waylaid in the country (6) |
| Hidden answer (some) in [forsake]N OR WAY[laid]. | ||
| 6 | RECURSION | Going back to find suspicious Puerto Ricans denied tap dancing (9) |
| Anagram (suspicious) of [p]UER[t]O RIC[a]NS, with the letters TAP removed. I think “dancing” is just telling us that these three letters don’t appear together in order, but I’m not sure it’s strictly necessary, except to make sense of the surface. | ||
| 7 | LASSIES | Fool with slander, perhaps, about young women (7) |
| ASS (fool), with LIES (slander perhaps) around (about) it. Lassie = Scottish word for a girl or young woman. | ||
| 13 | DREAMLIKE | ‘Milk a deer’? That’s freakish, surreal (9) |
| Anagram (freakish) of MILK A DEER. | ||
| 15 | IDIOTIC | Unwise to assemble 3rd, 7th, 9th, 20th, 22nd, 27th & 28th pieces from Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (7) |
| The 3rd, 7th, 9th . . . letters in the specified composer‘s full name. Rather an obvious trick, but Everyman does like to provide a few easy clues to get beginners started. | ||
| 17 | REMATCH | Mum’s overcome by strain when game’s played again (7) |
| MA (mother = mum), contained in RETCH (strain, as a verb). | ||
| 18 | LE HAVRE | Corrupt chevalier’s heading off, abandoning one French city (2,5) |
| Anagram (corrupt) of [c]HEVAL[i]ER, without the heading (first letter) and the I (one in Roman numerals). | ||
| 19 | FRIGID | Run into tree? Everyman would, becoming unresponsive (6) |
| R (abbreviation for run in cricket scoring) inserted into FIG (a type of tree), then I’D (Everyman, the crossword setter, would). | ||
| 22 | UNDUE | Fun duet; ‘side splitting’? … a bit much (5) |
| [f]UN DUE[t], splitting away the outer letters (side splitting). Undue (as in undue haste) = more than necessary. | ||