Comments on: Guardian 23961/Enigmatist – quite h-h-hard.

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BenIngton — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:30:37 +0000

It’s not so much a question of confidence as of understanding the cryptic part. You can often be confident that a clue’s solution is correct from just the definition part and checking letters but still not understand the cryptic bit. That’s the whole point of this blog – to explain clues where they may be obscure!

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Mike Wilson — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:25:56 +0000

A lot of ‘is this right?’ going on here!

I think solvers ought to be able to have confidence in their answers once they’ve solved a clue.

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ilancaron — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:59:49 +0000

GOSS+AMER[ican] where GOSS turns out to be “white china vessels and trinkets…” named after WH Goss [ref. Chambers]. No, didn’t know this — but the other cryptic part and the def were pretty clear so… used The Big Red Book.

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BenIngton — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:09:31 +0000

A nice puzzle. I struggled with 2d (OGEE) which I had not heard of and 6d (GOSSAMER) and I still do not understand the cryptic part of it – any explanation?

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Fletch — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:40:29 +0000

Oh you mean Seraph, scrub that!

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Fletch — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:39:08 +0000

10 How did you get Paresh? Wouldn’t that have messed up your 6 and 8 down?

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petebiddlecombe — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:28:30 +0000

The other 16 (in left and right grid-cols) helped me with my last couple of across clues. Just to clarify: “pron” = pronunciation

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JohnHenderson — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:01:02 +0000

1ac BR=bedroom HOME=in; 26ac just cryptic def; 5dn what about the other 16?!; 4dn ref EVENLY; 19 drunk pron of cress.

Hope that helps!