Comments on: Guardian 23,932 by Shed

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ilancaron — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:37:35 +0000

Yes re 2D and I guess 1D as well… since AN(…)TIC is a container.

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petebiddlecombe — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:02:37 +0000

Those indirect anags: Don Manley’s book has an example something like “Garbled language on the beach” for SHINGLE – language = English, anagrammed to get the answer – that’s the kind of thing usually meant by ‘indirect anag.’ . 1D is a bit indirect as you need to convert hard to H before anagramming, but such things are done a few times a week in the Times puzzle. I can’t see that 2D is indirect – ‘griever’ is used as a container, not anagrammed.

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beermagnet — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:28:59 +0000

I reckon 15A Van Dyke should’ve been letter-numbered (3,4).
Mind you it was the first I got after scanning half the clues.

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ilancaron — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:46:24 +0000

Two indirect anagrams (frowned upon in “certain circles”): 1D and 2D. I got both of them from the def and crossing letters but never managed the caper->antic and mourner->griever leaps.

With some perserverance I could have reverse engineered them I suppose — but there was quite a bit of other stuff going on, at least in ANTHROPOCENTRIC, e.g. model T, abbrev(Hard) to make that a Leap Too Far. For me.

and i guess sex qualifies as the them with Wham, bam…, eros and porn

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petebiddlecombe — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:25:56 +0000

Grids and 50% unching: your’re right about the Times. The Indie in the past had some grids with “2 of 5″ checking, but the current norm seems to be that checking under 50% is reserved for puzzles with some theme which mitigates the effect.

I guess “bust nice” in the 1D comment is a Freudian slip after typing stuff about hard-core porn!