Comments on: Guardian 24,092/Quantum

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loonapick — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:12:48 +0000

Paul

I hope you don’t think I was chastising…

Mike M

Thanks – think that’s pushing the envelope a bit…

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Paul B — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:55:20 +0000

I am duly chastised, loonapick.

Someone once advised me not to write more than seven points’ worth of ‘nags per puzz, whereof a full anagram gets 1pt, a partial 1/2. “Also”, he continued in his kindly way before slumping to the sawdust-strewn floor, “don’t anagram obscure or difficult words and phrases in daily puzzles – or I’ll kill you”.

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Mike M. — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:31:02 +0000

DOWERS also means “gifts”, as in the sense of one being gifted, i.e. talented.

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loonapick — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:05:18 +0000

Paul

I mentioned the proliferation of anagram in my notes while solving, but chose not to bring it up when it came to writing the blog.

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Paul B — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:48:50 +0000

I’m worried that there might not have been quite enough anagrams.

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Mick Hodgkin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:39:10 +0000

I’m with you on the insufficiently cryptic definitions – neither Plight One’s Troth nor Proprietorially involved enough of a stretch from the surface reading to give any satisfaction as a clue. I didn’t actually mind company for co in an anagram, the one that bothered me was IN CITY LIFEfor INFELICITY, which involved very little rearrangement of the letters.