Comments on: Guardian 24168 / Gordius – Lock Up Your Dorters http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 09:39:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: radchenko http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4028 radchenko Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:24:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4028 Wasn’t OCTAHEDRA an answer in another Guardian puzzle just a short while ago?

Is this just coincidence, or do the setters sometimes each try to get the same word in a puzzle? Or do they come up with multiple clues to the same word and don’t want to waste them, or what?

]]> By: Stan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4027 Stan Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:01:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4027 Just to confuse matters, definition 38 out of 55 in dictionary.com for wash is “a small stream or shallow pool”.

Could yet be “washroom”

]]> By: Simply_simon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4026 Simply_simon Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:49:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4026 25 across is ‘a scent’, meaning a nose – wine tasters use the term; so it isn’t assent, as that doesn’t mean to go up.

]]> By: Simply_simon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4025 Simply_simon Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:46:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4025 As I used to live in Bath, I assumed that the Assembly Rooms, where one takes the water that rises from the spring, is the reason why it is Bathroom.

]]> By: Barbara http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4019 Barbara Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:02:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4019 re Bathroom: My interpretation of spring assembly is a collection of fixtures that supply runnning water.
(sink, toilet, bathtub, shower), which makes the entire clue a CD.

]]> By: Barbara http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4018 Barbara Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:54:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4018 Decade in the UK is pronounced
de-CAYED, but in the US, it’s pronounced DECK-ade

]]> By: Stan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4016 Stan Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:28:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4016 I accept Ilancaron’s view of the world – I have changed to BATHROOM.

Conradcork : My legendary attention to detail strikes again – yes, Carey was the last guy.

]]> By: conradcork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4014 conradcork Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:49:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4014 sorry Ciaran, wrong puzzle. (Must stop smoking that stuff. It confuses me).

(lies down in darkened room).

]]> By: conradcork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4013 conradcork Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:47:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4013 Ciaran

23 is a hidden word. (h)ave sta (tus). Zoroastrian text.

25 is just a charade. ex e mp t.

HTH

]]> By: conradcork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4012 conradcork Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:45:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/08/29/guardian-24168-gordius-lock-up-your-dorters/#comment-4012 Sorry to be a pedant but Carey was the previous archbishop of C. The current one is Rowan Williams.

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