Comments on: Guardian 24185/Araucaria – out of character http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 18 May 2013 22:29:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ilancaron http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4763 ilancaron Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:53:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4763 yes sorry about the “life interrupting” thing — can’t promise it won’t happen again. Life has a nasty habit of knocking on the door. insistently (often, at the risk of being sexist, in a female voice).

Next time I’ll have the courage of my convictions and assert more firmly that I don’t believe Araucaria wrote this etc.

]]> By: Ali http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4759 Ali Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:23:46 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4759 I raced through most of this in a 10-minute Tube journey and it all seemed very non-Araucarian. It wasn’t until I checked the paper version in Tesco on my way home that I realised that there are issues with the website. Still, nice to see we’re in for fun and games tomorrow.

Al

]]> By: Fletch http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4757 Fletch Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:41:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4757 Ah I see, confusing then because it says the blog was posted at 2.37 but I presume that was the time of the explanation it was going to be late. Anyway, thank you Simon, amusing you and Testy were straight in with appropriate comments!

]]> By: Simply_simon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4755 Simply_simon Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:11:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4755 Fletch, Now that Ilancaron has removed his explanation that he was posting late because something had come up – “life’s like that”, or similar, my comment becomes impenetrable. But that’s what I was referring to.

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4754 muck Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:49:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4754 Ilancaron: are sure this was an Araucaria? I have emailed the Guardian Reader’s editor saying I’m not sure. Perhaps more likely to be the online attribution was wrong.

]]> By: Fletch http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4753 Fletch Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:46:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4753 Am I missing something? Where does Ilan say anything about real life having taken priority over the blog?

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4751 muck Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:07:55 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4751 Never guessed this was an Araucaria, the paper version attributing it to Quantum!

]]> By: Fred Dowson http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4750 Fred Dowson Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:42 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4750 Am I the only one to notice that the newspaper version has 5) across given as 4-4 when there are only seven letters? (4-3)
Fred

]]> By: beermagnet http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4745 beermagnet Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:48:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4745 Very out of character for Araucaria – despite being attributed to him by the online service, the paper has this crossword set by Quantum.
Yesterday’s Rufus was attributed to Quantum online.
I suspect tomorrow we will be treated to an A.

]]> By: Jim http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4744 Jim Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:53:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4744 I think 20D is solved thus: MELODIOUS (ie:”sweet”)- MEL (honey) = ODIOUS.

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