http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/05/guardian-24121quantum-hoist/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 00:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/05/guardian-24121quantum-hoist/#comment-2922 ilancaron Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:36:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/05/guardian-24121quantum-hoist/#comment-2922 beg to differ re METRONOME — there’s a pretty convincing and deceptive cardiac surface to “Ticker with regular beat”. Of course, cryptic defs can seem weak if you immediately see the answer.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/05/guardian-24121quantum-hoist/#comment-2921 Mick Hodgkin Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:50:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/05/guardian-24121quantum-hoist/#comment-2921 Thanks for the explanation of Lewis – very obscure. I liked LAITY, but agree about METRONOME and UNANIMOUS – I searched in vain for wordplay in the latter, but I guess it is just a weak CD.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/05/guardian-24121quantum-hoist/#comment-2920 Kevin Ward Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:09:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/05/guardian-24121quantum-hoist/#comment-2920 I’d got ‘hoist’ too but didn’t understand the ‘Lewis’ connection. As any fule kno(having checked Chambers) a lewis is ‘a dovetail iron tenon, made in three pieces, for lifting blocks of stone’. A tad obscure reference in an otherwise straightforward crossword.

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