Comments on: Guardian, 24317 (Gordius) http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 26 May 2013 03:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Shed http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15237 Shed Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:00:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15237 I also got stuck for a long time by putting PINTAIL instead of PINTADO for 23ac. – as far as I can see it’s an equally valid answer. And I had to give up on 21dn, though I’m pretty sure I’d have got it if Branwell had been spelled right.

]]> By: beermagnet http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15220 beermagnet Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:50:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15220 The paper version had BraMwell too.

]]> By: owenjonesuk http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15217 owenjonesuk Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:34:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15217 Shirley: the online version has “Bramwell” and wikipedia confirms that he was called Branwell.

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15183 muck Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:00:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15183 3dn: STIRPS is an new word for me. Well, it’s a bad day when you don’t learn something new.

]]> By: hillclimber http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15166 hillclimber Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:46:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15166 Should be STIRPS, by exchanging the I & R (change of heart)in strips (undresses)

STIRPS= family, race, pedigree

hope this helps :-)

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15165 muck Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:35:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15165 8ac is ITCHIER, so 3dn (Family undresses with change of heart) is S-I-P-. How do you fit in STRIPS, and where does family come into it?

]]> By: Shirley http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15163 Shirley Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:54:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15163 What confused us about 21D – apart from the fact we’d never heard of a ronte- was that the Bronte’s brother was called BraNwell not BraMwell!
We spent ages trying to find out who Bramwell was.
Is this a typo in the online version or has the editor let it slip through?

]]> By: tuck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15160 tuck Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:18:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15160 Laic also means lay “upset some members of the church”

]]> By: hillclimber http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15159 hillclimber Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:54:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15159 Yes I think LAIty is correct, ECCLESIA is an assembly, and ECCLESIAL is the adjective pertaining to that; hence the definition “of church assembly” which neatly overlaps with “upset some members of church” for IAL.

Ecclesiast or Ecclesiarch would be a preacher or governor I suspect, just in case we get Goon/Church references in the future :-)

]]> By: diagacht http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15156 diagacht Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:29:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/21/guardian-24317-gordius/#comment-15156 Thank you Hillclimber for Eccles. Some members of church must be LAIty. Still, I think an ECCLESIAL is a church governor of some kind; an assembly (church or otherwise) is surely an ECCLESIA? Not sure.

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