Comments on: Guardian 24,003/Auracaria (sic) (Sat Feb 10) – G whizz http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/24/guardian-24003auracaria-sic-sat-feb-10-g-whizz/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 18 May 2013 23:21:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: <![CDATA[X]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/24/guardian-24003auracaria-sic-sat-feb-10-g-whizz/#comment-1307 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:33:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=294#comment-1307 Bet they do – sorry I missed your ‘sic’.

]]> By: <![CDATA[rightback]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/24/guardian-24003auracaria-sic-sat-feb-10-g-whizz/#comment-1306 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:37:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=294#comment-1306 Interestingly this error has been corrected since I downloaded the puzzle little more than 24 hours ago. I wonder if someone at the Guardian website reads this blog?

]]> By: <![CDATA[ilancaron]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/24/guardian-24003auracaria-sic-sat-feb-10-g-whizz/#comment-1305 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:37:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=294#comment-1305 That’s why rightback added (sic).

]]> By: <![CDATA[X]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/24/guardian-24003auracaria-sic-sat-feb-10-g-whizz/#comment-1304 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:16:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=294#comment-1304 It’s Araucaria rather than Auracaria, chaps.

However, you are not the first to have made the error: a fairly recent Guardian crossword carried the header, ‘Set by Auracaria’.

‘Blimey! New setter?’, we all shouted.

]]> By: <![CDATA[ilancaron]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/24/guardian-24003auracaria-sic-sat-feb-10-g-whizz/#comment-1303 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:51:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=294#comment-1303 14 minutes… wow. Took me about 45′ I think. Anyway, on Saturday he had 106 as (C, OVER) and Thursday 101 as (C, ONE) — I’m sure now that we’ve understood this he’ll switch to something else equally inventive.

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