Comments on: Guardian Genius 48 – Monk

By: jetdoc

jetdoc — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:45:34 +0000

Thanks, Monk. As ever, once the full solution is revealed, I feel daft for not having spotted it earlier. But that’s the whole point, isn’t it?

I’m still not too happy about 17ac, though.

By: Monk

Monk — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:30:33 +0000

‘In filling the grid, solvers must note down one-dimensional changes to Guardian Genius. Only the original version does not change’.

[1] In clue order, 'down ONE-DIMENSIONAL changes to (across) GUARDIAN GENIUS', thereby imposing misprints in the down answers. The letter N in the 8th position in both strings does not clash ...

[2] ... thereby not introducing a misprint into FIRST EDITION at 11dn, which is a synonym of the `original version' that`does not change.

By: spann

spann — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:12:35 +0000

Duplicating my comments from the previous location of the site:

Gah! Fell foul of a four letter clue for the second month on the trot. I sadly managed to convince myself that 22D was GAGE, being a configuration of notes read (abcdefg), and an american variant of gauge – which is the distance between railyway lines.

Does configuration mean face then? I will have to check Chambers for this one later.

Error apart, I actually found this to be not too tricky a puzzle – I don’t think it caused me as much grief as some of the other genius puzzles recently.

Cheers,
spann

By: Andy Wallace

Andy Wallace — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:41:06 +0000

I agree about the degree of difficulty – clashing letters are hard enough in barred puzzles, let alone blocked ones! I missed the subtlety of the preamble – I read it to mean that the clashes had to be resolved in favour of the letters of GUARDIAN GENIUS, that’s all. I only started solving it on Thursday though, and had only detected 9 clashes with about 3/4 of the puzzle finished. I never got another chance to look at it after that.

NB 27ac – Miranda is one of the moons of Uranus.