Comments on: Guardian 24115/Gordius – Twins and tarring the bush http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/06/28/guardian-24115twins-and-tarring-the-bush/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:46:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ilancaron http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/06/28/guardian-24115twins-and-tarring-the-bush/#comment-2843 ilancaron Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:48:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=598#comment-2843 10A: my lack of anteater knowledge coming back to bite me – in my defense I will note that TATOU is a common (mis)spelling of her surname.
14D: once I saw ENTREAT I didn’t think too hard about the part of speech of “begging” not matching. Thanks!
14A: agree not a great clue — though I did learn a new word.

]]> By: AP http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/06/28/guardian-24115twins-and-tarring-the-bush/#comment-2849 AP Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:45:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=598#comment-2849 I thought 14ac, EPACT, was a terrible clue. An imprecise secondary indicator to an obscure definition doesn’t make a good clue.

]]> By: Terry Levitt http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/06/28/guardian-24115twins-and-tarring-the-bush/#comment-2848 Terry Levitt Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:11:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=598#comment-2848 Re; 10Across – After a quick Google the actress’ name appears to be TAUTOU which would explain the wordplay.

]]> By: Peter Owen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/06/28/guardian-24115twins-and-tarring-the-bush/#comment-2847 Peter Owen Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:10:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=598#comment-2847 Sorry, that should have been 10A and not 14A.

]]> By: Peter Owen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/06/28/guardian-24115twins-and-tarring-the-bush/#comment-2846 Peter Owen Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:09:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=598#comment-2846 Re: 14A – The actress is TAUTOU and the edentate is TATOU

Re: 14D – In the word play begging is ENTREATY, so you need “not unknown” to get rid of the Y.

]]> By: Mick Hodgkin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/06/28/guardian-24115twins-and-tarring-the-bush/#comment-2845 Mick Hodgkin Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:59:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=598#comment-2845 I didn’t get the TATOU wordplay either.
As for ‘respect’ as a buzzword, it’s a UK political allusion -’the respect agenda’ is how the Blair government refers to things like anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) designed to stop people disrespecting authority/each other.
I didn’t quite get the point of the Dum and Dee clues, particularly 3d, which was not very cryptic. And what happened to Tweedle anyway?

]]> By: Terry Levitt http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/06/28/guardian-24115twins-and-tarring-the-bush/#comment-2844 Terry Levitt Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:44:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=598#comment-2844 Re: 14Down – I think the “not unknown” refers to ENTREAT(Y).

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