Comments on: Guardian 23977/Brummie

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Neill — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:42:09 +0000

I Liked ‘men in suits’ = kings

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linxit — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:10:38 +0000

And of course you’re right, Charybdis! I think I’d better go and fix that. Anagrams usually have the same set of letters as the anagram fodder…

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Charybdis — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:04:07 +0000

I read 17A as MY + O (= round) + SO + ‘TIS rather than MY + (SOITIS)*

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linxit — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:25:30 +0000

Thanks to Ilan and Mick for explaining DEFOE – I knew I was missing something! TIP OFF works for me too now – I just couldn’t see how off = high before.

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michod — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:56:00 +0000

Oops, crossed with you there, Ilan. NB ‘high’ = ‘off’ is not about drugs, it’s about meat which is past its sell-by date.

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michod — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:46 +0000

DEFOE works if you take ‘back to front’ literally – put the last letter first, so OED becomes DOE, not DEO.
I liked BELLY FLOP too. Agree this was tough, and I probably didn’t have time to drink as much as you last night! I couldn’t get SADDUCCEES at all.

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ilancaron — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:50:20 +0000

Did the paper version today being in London, which is a nice change. And in fact probably here longer than planned due to Heathrow weather.

Great time last night.. thanks Peter!

I agree about TIP OFF i don’t the 2nd way to get OFF (no pun intended).

As for DEFOE — it’s EF,OED with D moved from “back to front”

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BenIngton — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:45:54 +0000

You are right about 21d – the wordplay should give ‘DEFEO’ as the answer.

26a – I read this as TIP (= crown) + OFF (= high as in ‘he is off his head’)