Comments on: Guardian 24,418 – Taupi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 03:41:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31503 mark Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:19:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31503 thanks anyway

I like that you say it’s not a great definition. Some of the bloggers are a little too deferential to the setters IMHO.

cheers

]]> By: manehi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31499 manehi Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:56:42 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31499 As I said, I put stalactite in only thanks to checking letters – I assumed “dependency” has a meaning similar to “something that hangs down from something else”.

“orchestration” isn’t a great definition.

I was really hoping that someone would come along with a better explanation of 3dn..

]]> By: mark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31495 mark Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:33:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31495 So can anyone better explain (defend the setter on!)3D please.

Also why is STALACTITE = dependency?

Finally as someone who’s worked in music and theatre how does STAGE MANAGEMENT = orchestration?

Thanks as ever

]]> By: Colin Blackburn http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31324 Colin Blackburn Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:17:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31324 STINT and STILT are both types of wading bird. Add in SWIFT and S-I-T gives quite a choice of birds.

I think STINT as in a stint in prison would have needed a fuller definition since it’s not as colloquial as stretch, time, etc.

]]> By: smutchin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31246 smutchin Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:58:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31246 Mhl, I assumed stint=bird as in a stint in prison! I’d not heard of the wading bird.

]]> By: Garry http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31226 Garry Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:57:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31226 Yes 11ac – wonderful!

]]> By: John Ridge http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31210 John Ridge Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:20:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31210 29ac TURNTABLE – I agree, brilliant. I was completely fooled by the surface “vessel’s”, so overlooking the record player.

Similarly with 11ac – “east” hid the verb “wind”. Well, it did for me!

]]> By: Dave Ellison http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31207 Dave Ellison Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:45:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31207 13d I took this to be SAL + IS. Giving up = yielding

We have had sisal as an answer often recently

]]> By: Andrew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31202 Andrew Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:31:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31202 “Bill” = “Peninsula” as in Portland Bill, though I must admit I’d never made the connection before now. It’s apparently the same as bill=beak, from the shape.

]]> By: mhl http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/06/18/guardian-24418-taupi/#comment-31192 mhl Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:15:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1658#comment-31192 TURNTABLE is marvellous, and MOSQUITO made me laugh too.

I spent a while trying to work out how “Be spare” could be SWIFT, unfortunately, having never heard of the “wading bird” sense of STINT :(

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