Comments on: Guardian 24,187/Paul – Poetic Licence? http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:14:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: petebiddlecombe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4875 petebiddlecombe Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:01:46 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4875 Testy in comment 4: Superscripts can be made – e.g. xy. The HTML to put in your comment is: x<sup>y</sup>

]]> By: Dave T http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4859 Dave T Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:44:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4859 The phrase was POETIC JUSTICE, not POETIC LICENCE.

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4847 muck Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:24:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4847 19dn,1ac was my last and favourite clue. Only 2 words fitted the crossing letters for 19: poetic and aortic. Given the rhyming clue, it had to be poetic.

]]> By: Berny http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4843 Berny Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:10:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4843 Loonapick

explanation of 28 across should be PO(ACE-L)T

Stakes indicates POT with ACE-L reversed inside POT

]]> By: Chris http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4841 Chris Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:26:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4841 Sorry, ignore me, I’m being thick. I see my mistake.

]]> By: Chris http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4840 Chris Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:25:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4840 Can someone explain 28 across? I get the ACE-L reversed bit, but where does the PO…AT come from?

]]> By: Colin Blackburn http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4838 Colin Blackburn Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:39:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4838 Michod, you can stick in the less than sign using the following sequence of characters &lt; like this < (I hope!)

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4835 Testy Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:23:37 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4835 I guess superscripts don’t work here. The above should be read “4 to the power of n” and “26 to the power of n”

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4834 Testy Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:22:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4834 Yeah I don’t like that kind of thing. It seems only a relatively short step from there to being able to clue any word as “a series of letters”. The only difference is that for an n-letter word instead of 4n possibilities there would be 26n.

]]> By: ilancaron http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4833 ilancaron Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:15:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/20/guardian-24187paul-poetic-licence/#comment-4833 I agree re 8D — btw, today’s Times has something very similar (“Makes whole series of points after resistance”).

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