Comments on: Guardian 23936/Gordius – Whose teeth are gnashing? http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 13:53:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: <![CDATA[Fletch]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/#comment-210 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:28:28 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=89#comment-210 Before lunch, i.e. in the morning, crony inside am. Seems perfectly straightforward to me.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Dennis MacKinnon]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/#comment-209 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:19:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=89#comment-209 The ACRONYM clue seems wrong – the indication would have to be ‘in in the morning’ to work correctly, I fear.

]]> By: <![CDATA[michod]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/#comment-208 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:20:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=89#comment-208 I don’t have the clue to hand, but I read ENGAGED SIGNAL as a cryptic double meaning, one sense referring to the telephone tone, the other to the ring on one’s finger as a signal that one is engaged.

]]> By: <![CDATA[neildubya]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/#comment-207 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:22:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=89#comment-207 I put OVERCAST DAY in too. Then realised that SYNOPSIS wouldn’t work. I thought 7D seemed a bit lame and I got 3D without really knowing why.

]]> By: <![CDATA[petebiddlecombe]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/#comment-206 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:46:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=89#comment-206 8D: Googling for “Gnash the teeth” suggests that this version does have at least some life. “They hiss and gnash the teeth” is in the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the King James version of the Bible. A similar search found some support for “Bite the tongue”. So maybe we should just watch out for THE as another option with ONE’S and YOUR.

]]> By: <![CDATA[BenIngton]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/#comment-205 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:20:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=89#comment-205 Re 17, the only Tessa I could think of was Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary – a long time thinking led to the connection as her being one of Blair’s ‘cronies’. ACRONYM then came easily enough but then I got the real connection – TESSA is an acronym for Tax Exempt Special Saving Account (a savings scheme) and an example of an acronym!

Re 1ac, first put in ‘Overcast day’ (after looking up Minack) and when 6 dn fitted, thought it must be right – took me ages to work out that it was ‘sky’ and not ‘day’!

]]> By: <![CDATA[loonapick]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/#comment-204 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:27:28 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=89#comment-204 Peter – yes I got that, but it’n not cryptic as far as I can see.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Peter Owen]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/#comment-203 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:22:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=89#comment-203 My comment above refers to 7 down. My apologies for leaving this out.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Peter Owen]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/11/29/guardian-23936gordius-whose-teeth-are-gnashing/#comment-202 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:21:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=89#comment-202 I thought the reference was to making a telephone call. If instead of getting the ring tone you get the engaged signal then you have to try again.

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