Comments on: Guardian 24,358/Araucaria – Roma and Firenza http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:34:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: beermagnet http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19971 beermagnet Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:15:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19971 Stuart, we don’t discuss live prize puzzles until after the deadline here.
I’m sure Rightback will be along with a blog for yesterday’s puzzle on Friday of next week. In the meantime YHM

]]> By: Stuart http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19913 Stuart Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:41:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19913 In Araucaria’s 0f 19th April (24367), I have the answer to 11 across but can anyone explain it to me please?

]]> By: beermagnet http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19070 beermagnet Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:56:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19070 OK. You clearly can’t put that html tag in a comment even for it to appear in the clear. To see what it looks like in the code, using square brackets instead of the angle brackets, it looks like [!--more--]

]]> By: beermagnet http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19069 beermagnet Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:52:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19069 At the very start of the blog I must of accidentally clicked that “more” button that puts in an html tag that looks like this:
Crikey, I wonder if that’s going to do something odd to this comment.

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19040 neildubya Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:39:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19040 How did you make your post appear as a link? It’s never happened before but as you say it might be a useful feature.

]]> By: beermagnet http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19015 beermagnet Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:53:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-19015 Wah! 1D is BABY. Obvious now I see it. I didn’t even check it in the published answers. So that’s another I didn’t get.
As for Firenza – It’s the way I tell ‘em ;^)
[ And I've now understood why this appeared only as a link on the home page - but maybe that would be a good thing - so you don't see the answers unless you choose to go down to the detailed page. These days, if I can, I have a go at the Indie after tackling the G at lunchtime, but sometimes inadvertantly see some answers on this blog's homepage when I check it to see if the G's blog has arrived. Is it worth airing this subject? ]

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-18979 muck Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:04:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-18979 The Italian name for Florence is Firenze, not Firenza

]]> By: Geoff http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-18898 Geoff Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:57:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-18898 Agree with BABY for 1d and Eileen’s explanation of EAU MARIS for 9a.

27d: DOME (as in Brunelleschi’s in Florence’s Duomo and Michelangelo’s in St Peter’s in Rome) is the ‘vault’, and “my’…’ will be no problem’, ie ‘will be no problem for me’ = it will DO ME (fine).

Lovely crossword.

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-18896 muck Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:24:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-18896 For anyone who couldn’t find my blog, on talk.guardian.co.uk, here is a copy so that you can see just how much of beermagnet’s blog is a verbatim copy. No problem – he acknowledged that he ‘shamelessly raided’ from it!

++ muck on talk.guardian.co.uk ++

Araucaria 24358 April 9th hasn’t been blogged still on fifteensquared.net.

A good puzzle with an Italian Renaissance theme.

ACROSS

1. Birdsong. A great war novel by Sebastian Faulks. SON=issue & DR< in BIG=great

5. 12 inches is IFT, in SHY

9. Beaumaris is a Welsh castle. Eau Maris, for sea water, isn’t in Chambers

11. GROW+L

12. Our first renaissance hero (Challenge+M+10)*

16. Sixer is a brownie or cub scout leader of six.

18. The spice is mace. The monster is a whale.

21. Brunel is our engineer + (chisel)* for our second renaissance hero.

24. Where was 12′s dome? A Roma (in Rome).

25. b(rainstorm)

26. Initial letters

27. Greek hero – (yo+sussed)*

DOWN

3. SU(MM)IT

4,2. (Lunatic car horror)* + d(ied). A London route not as far from the centre as the M25.

6. A film. Rank=high. 12 isn’t 12 ac.

7. Where is 21′s 22? In a city in Italy.

8. Yell+ow+root

10. (fifties AD less)*

13. Hess+Boar in CD

14. Obsequies= funeral rites. Replace E= drug by OU= dark blues, for obsequious.

17. am+per+age

20. the+sis

22. DOME ???

23. double def ??

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-18894 Eileen Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:16:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/10/guardian-24358araucaria-roma-and-firenza/#comment-18894 Thank you Muck [although I couldn't find your website] and Beermat [you should try Florentine biscuits!]for your contributions. I really did think this one should not go unremarked. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
9ac: EAU [French,''water' + MARIS [Latin. 'of the sea'] – ‘variously rendered’: I thought this was great.
1dn I had ‘baby’ too.

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