Comments on: Guardian 24,008/Orlando – took longer to blog than to solve

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Owen Jones — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:12:15 +0000

Okay, I get it. More than I can say for that crossword.

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BenIngton — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:27:08 +0000

Just a thought – perhaps all the clues should be answered here but some of the answers given in fiendishly cryptic ways.

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neildubya — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:01:57 +0000

Hi Owen

We have a policy of not revealing all of the answers to a puzzle because both the Guardian and Independent have phone lines (provided by third-party companies) that you can call to get answers to clues and we don’t want to open ourselves up to accusations of depriving these companies (and the papers) of potentially valuable income streams.

Neil

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Owen Jones — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:02:57 +0000

Am I missing something? Where are the rest of the clues? 22D? 25A?14A?15A? 11A?

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ilancaron — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:58:58 +0000

Was just teasing about Mary Baker Eddy and yorkers to point out transatlantic relativism… meaning that “everyone” in the US knows that she founded Christian Science (the religion that believes it’s better to die that use modern medicine which btw, if anyone cares, is why Jim “Sesame Street” Henson died). And I’m sure “everyone” in Britain knows what a yorker is. Well, except for my grandmother.

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BenIngton — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:42:56 +0000

Re 3d, the clue was easy enough to solve with definition and checking letters but I had no idea who Mary Baker Eddy was and had to look her up – for those who are interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Baker_Eddy

Relatively easy puzzle but some nice clues, particularly the two long down clues.

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loonapick — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:13:28 +0000

Sacramento – just going by what it says on Wikipedia, but then that entry may have been written by the only Sacamentan (?) to call it River City.

As for the yorker, over here, I’m fairly confident that there more people who will know what a yorker is than there are who could tell you who Mary Baker Eddy was. I may be wrong, but I’m getting used to that feeling!

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ilancaron — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:16:56 +0000

Mary Baker Eddy is as famous as a yorker.

And I don’t know anyone (in my immediate circle of friends and relatives in the US) who’d recognize Sacramento as The River City. But an easy clue for me because sacra was in a recent Azed.