Comments on: Guardian 23983/Araucaria – Notes from the Underground http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/25/guardian-23983araucaria-%e2%80%93-notes-from-the-underground/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 18 May 2013 13:16:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: <![CDATA[BenIngton]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/25/guardian-23983araucaria-%e2%80%93-notes-from-the-underground/#comment-794 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:22:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=221#comment-794 Re 23d – once again, I wonder if online and paper versions of the clue are different.

Paper version is “Hot Ibsenian type” giving a double definition of BRAND (“Brand” is a play about a priest by Henrik Ibsen)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_%28play%29

Enjoyed this puzzle hugely but my definition of Northern Line would have been:

“A hell not even Dante could have imagined”.
:)

]]> By: <![CDATA[loonapick]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/25/guardian-23983araucaria-%e2%80%93-notes-from-the-underground/#comment-793 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:38:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=221#comment-793 Enjoyed the puzzle, BUT

1 ac – agree that I is being asked to too much, and you can’t use JE for “my translation”.

4dn – don’t like homophones that depend on the “er” at the end of the words being pronounced as if there is no “r”. As a Scot, I always pronounce the “r”, therefore eider and Ida do not sound alike.

Explanations:

20ac – dictionary.com has HORNER as “one who winds or blows the horn” (obsolete)

1,2dn – end of 27 is “loo”, another word for JOHN or toilet, followed by BULL=blunder (force, shove?)

23dn – haven’t a clue!

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