Comments on: Guardian 24,133/Araucaria – well content to finish this one! http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 12:20:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3139 muck Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:03:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3139 Thanks AlanR – Just woke from a deep sleep and thought ATOM but you got there before me

]]> By: AlanR http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3133 AlanR Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:23:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3133 6 down: I was confused too by the fact that ‘atam’ is in catamount – but I think a bit of catamount is a cat – i.e. a tom.

Tough puzzle – after being impressed at finishing yesterday’s by the time I reached work (20 minute walk) for the first time, today’s took me till 10pm!

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3131 muck Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:52:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3131 6dn: is ATAM a bit?

21,19,1: I had ALLEGRO CON BRIO also, but fortunately 9ac and 11ac told me it wasn’t the answer. Where does MOTO come from?

]]> By: radchenko http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3130 radchenko Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:18:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3130 22ac is about as difficult as you’re likely to get, what with the pun, the obscure reference, and the definition in the middle of of the clue. Very clever all the same. Just didn’t get it.

Not convinced by the explanations offered for WATERFALL, although I guessed it.

I had “ALLEGRO CON BRIO” for 21,19,1 which meant I go nowhere near 9ac (OTHERWISE) even though I took ‘vanquished’ for the anagrind. Annoyingly it was the first clue I got (or didn’t get).

I didn’t get 22dn either, although I remember thinking con-sultant would have made for an interesting clue.

Second one to really hammer me this week after Taupi’s brute on Tuesday.

]]> By: Ali http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3129 Ali Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:46:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3129 Well, after the ‘Boy’ puzzle and the far-from-straightforward prize crossword last Saturday (which I couldn’t finish and am looking forward to seeing blogged later in the week!), all I can say is that Araucaria is certainly making us work for our dues this month.

I tackled this one on the bus and managed to crack 19A and its related answers without too much trouble, but I’m fairly fairly sure I would be as old as the setter before I ever solved SACRA, SEGRAVE and CHOTA PEG.

Ali

]]> By: Mick Hodgkin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3127 Mick Hodgkin Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:21:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3127 A force is certainly a waterfall in the lake District. And I believe there is talk of a well of treacle at the mad hatter’s tea party in Alice in Wonderland, as you say.
SACRA was clever – I was trying to work out how SA could be followed by a three-letter word with its middle taken out, but of course it’s S(outh), with African capital for Accra.
I could have tried for a long time without getting SEGRAVE.

]]> By: linxit http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3123 linxit Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:59:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/19/guardian-24133araucaria-well-content-to-finish-this-one/#comment-3123 24ac – ‘force’ is a Scottish or northern English word for a waterfall, I think.

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