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The best and toughest Everyman in ages. I really enjoyed the challenge...my favourite clue is 13a, took me a while to work out. Thx setter, more like this please!

I can't agree with your favourite, zenithmelodron. I think it's an awful clue. To start with the lager is only half indicated, and the other part is impossible unless you have seen the film.

2d was my favourite; 22a second.

Well, it appears unanimous then, this Everyman was an absolute treat - more like this please:-)

As I said earlier in the thread, the answer to 1d was involved in a really bizarre plagiarism case. JC composed a piece called "4'33". This requires the various sections of the orchestra not to play anything! (while some think it's just 4'33 of silence, JC wanted the sounds of the environment and those in the audience to be the real composition). Then Mike Batt (he of "Wombles" fame, although he also wrote Art Garfunkel's chart topping hit "Bright Eyes") included a minute's silence on one of albums - this led to the estate of JC suing Batt for breach of copyright. The case went all the way to the High Court at which point.........Batt settled and paid JC's estate a "six figure sum"!!

Avant-garde indeed:-)

Apologies to Zenithmelodron.......it appears I'm the plagiarist:-)

@Post43

For anyone whose interested further in my 'curiously' appropriate post 43, here is a 'performance' of the piece in question....enjoy:-)

https://youtu.be/yoAbXwr3qkg?t=64

I have attended a performance of this piece. It was great fun, as some of the attendees were extremely baffled and started whispering "what's going on?" which in turn led to much suppressed laughter.

But the M Batt court case appears to have been more of a prank/publicity stunt than anything.

Hi Clark,

I would love to have been there, it's such an iconic piece. I'm aware of the claims by Mike Batt that it was a publicity stunt, but he said this after the event and, whether it was or wasn't, it was definitely an expensive minute's silence:-)