Comments on: Guardian 24179/Gordius http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/11/guardian-24179gordius/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:10:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: linxit http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/11/guardian-24179gordius/#comment-4460 linxit Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:11:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/11/guardian-24179gordius/#comment-4460 16a – suited means ‘matched, fitted’ etc, so I think ‘not suited’ is just about OK as an anagrind.

17a – ‘taken’ helps the surface reading, and ‘could be taken’ is still OK as an anagrind.

18d – it could be interpreted like that, but ‘that never meet’ might be OK on its own as a definition for PARALLEL.

Above all, remember that The Guardian often lets its setters get away with things you certainly wouldn’t see in The Times puzzle.

]]> By: mark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/11/guardian-24179gordius/#comment-4458 mark Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:44:53 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/11/guardian-24179gordius/#comment-4458 24a – I think Jacob, so the story (whatever) goes, was deceived into marrying Leah thinking it was Rachel but got Rachel later. Never understood why Jacob was supposed to be the good guy generally having stitched up his brother and father along the way but maybe that’s why I didn’t last as a Sunday school teacher.

Some strange, to me, pointers for anagrams today. 16a (suited?) and 17a (what purpose does the word ‘taken’ serve?).

18a – the word “sides” then has to be used for both the cryptic part and def. Is that ok? Not common surely?

]]> By: ilancaron http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/11/guardian-24179gordius/#comment-4446 ilancaron Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:39:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/11/guardian-24179gordius/#comment-4446 Too many Britishisms for comfort today in my non-Brit opinion: HOCKTIDE, John Reid HOME OFFICE ref, CHAMPERTY, Jade Goody ref (celeb?), plus I wonder if 24A had an intentional trap, because Jacob married RACHAEL first didn’t he?

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