Comments on: Guardian 24311/Quantum http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 00:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pasquale http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14512 Pasquale Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:19:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14512 Q is my old Cheltenham friend Eric Burge, a retired lecturer and administrator who has a First in Physics from that great university for physics (Bristol).

]]> By: stan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14441 stan Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:08:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14441 Quantum is also Quark in the F.T – so it’s not strange that his crosswords have have a certain flavour.

]]> By: stan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14438 stan Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:04:28 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14438 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thermion – my full-stop messed up the link.

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14429 muck Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:58:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14429 8dn: Thermion is in Chambers (under ‘therm’) as ‘an electrically charged particle emitted by an incandescent body’. I agree with Stan that the setter being Quantum may be relevant, but his link to wiki ‘did not compute’.

]]> By: Ron http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14427 Ron Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:41:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14427 I agree with what I think Colin is saying, and I found the whole puzzle rather unsatisfactory? Far too many CDs, some not very good (especially weatherman!). As for me expecting to know Rabelais – well…

]]> By: stan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14420 stan Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:47:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14420 Hey Kate – 8d is the following (yet another cryptic definition) – http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thermion. I don’t have any problems with Physics, but I only know about three sorts of plant and two of those come in a BLT. Note the setter’s name is “Quantum” – not much of a leap to suggest he is a fellow science geek.

]]> By: Matthew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14419 Matthew Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:46:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14419 8D is THERMION.

I thought it was funny that the last down clue in today’s puzzle was “Friend for tea (4)” and the last down clue in yesterday’s puzzle was “Mate for tea? (5)”.

]]> By: Kate Wild http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14417 Kate Wild Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:13:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14417 Hi, not posted before, but really enjoy coming here and looking up answers I can’t get. I couldn’t get 8d this time. Anyone like to enlighten me?

]]> By: Amnesiac http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14409 Amnesiac Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:40:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14409 12 Annoying indeed! My first choice was HOLD which I wrote in in pen, only to discover moments later that obvious answer to 7 didn’t fit…

]]> By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14408 Paul B Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:31:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/14/guardian-24311quantum/#comment-14408 Ars magna (*)

Gentle Giant, anyone?

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