Comments on: Guardian 24,401 – Brendan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 06:48:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: stan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-29007 stan Thu, 29 May 2008 23:35:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-29007 SENDER … there’s presumably someone paid to check this of thing, right ? We should burn tyres and blockade Farringdon Street until apologies are made.

I have no excuse for thinking EPARCH – the voices told me if it was right.

]]> By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-29005 Paul B Thu, 29 May 2008 23:23:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-29005 Arr. Me and the Tiverton Ladies stumped by TOSSING & EXARCH. Think perhaps the cryptic def here may lead to TOSSING THE COIN rather than what we were given. EXARCH was simply hard, and the ‘to’ didn’t help much!

Those are our excuses.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-28994 Eileen Thu, 29 May 2008 21:56:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-28994 Thanks, Manehi, yes, and perhaps it’s a case of ‘Return to SENDER’.

]]> By: manehi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-28990 manehi Thu, 29 May 2008 21:40:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-28990 Eileen, AXE = dismiss in the sense of cutting jobs. And I for one have no explanation for SENDER.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-28989 Eileen Thu, 29 May 2008 21:22:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-28989 Sorry,everyone, yet another PS. Stan: I know I’m not supposed to do this but Tuesday is a long time ago and there hasn’t been a ‘correction or clarification’ for SENDER as a solution to 26ac so presumably your challenge to come up with an explanation still stands? Not that I have one!

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-28985 Eileen Thu, 29 May 2008 20:59:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-28985 PPS: Yes, I suppose axe = behead – and that’s pretty dismissive…

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-28984 Eileen Thu, 29 May 2008 20:56:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-28984 PS: Sorry, THOUGHT 6dn…

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-28983 Eileen Thu, 29 May 2008 20:54:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-28983 Stan: nice to know I was not out on a lonely limb wuth ‘eparch’ but how did you justify ‘RAPE’? [I struggled!] Actually, I’m not too keen on ‘axe’ for ‘dismiss’ but I’m sure EXARCH must be right.

Tought 6dn [RHEUMATIC] was clever, &lit?

]]> By: stan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-28978 stan Thu, 29 May 2008 20:10:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-28978 Missed the wordplay for 1d (but slammed it in anyway because of the circumstantial evidence of it sounding like RIGHTING), and I went with EPARCH for 5d after self-delusion that it was (RAPE) reversed + CH.

In 8d LET is a legal term used in the tautology “without let or hindrance”. In tennis a let is actually a help – interesting …

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/29/guardian-24401-brendan/#comment-28957 muck Thu, 29 May 2008 15:08:55 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1596#comment-28957 Good to see another ‘Dubya’ clue (at 4, 25ac)!

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