Comments on: Observer Azed 1834: Overlaps

By: jetdoc

jetdoc — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:05:29 +0000

I just checked Peter’s blog of the previous week’s Azed, and I see why I thought orles were somehow familiar. This is one of those Chambers definitions that somehow raises more questions than it answers.

By: jetdoc

jetdoc — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:50:11 +0000

Thanks.

Silly (lazy, anyway) of me not to get SHEVAT.

Now I remember the full wordplay for 24A — I got it when I first solved it, but couldn’t remember when I came to blog it.

By: linxit

linxit — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:26:51 +0000

Yes, nice puzzle. When I read the preamble I thought it would turn out trickier than was the case.

Thanks for explaining the wordplay for TEATIME and ROUNDLE, I didn’t manage to work them out. I can explain 24A though – it’s wordplay in between the two definitions, which is a strange way of constructing a clue…ALA = “expansion section” + S(mall).

4D – I had SHEVAT, which is an alternative spelling for SHEBAT, and explains the “large vessel”.

By: petebiddlecombe

petebiddlecombe — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:37:47 +0000

Also thought this was a good puzzle. As STATIST was my first answer, it was handy to get a definite ST in the middle of the top row. For some reason, the puzzle got filled in very much from top to bottom. I wonder whether it’s significant that the outside down entries are both “horsey”.