Comments on: FT 12,923/Gozo

By: smiffy

smiffy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:28:43 +0000

Thanks for the history lesson Octofem. With hindsight, that should have struck me as a plausible line of inquiry – and one that I could have pursued with a modicum of web-trawling.

I’m only a sporadic Listener xwd solver, but I do vaguely recall there being a puzzle entitled “Acro’s Sword” a couple of years ago, which toyed around with the same kind of deconstruction theme.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:03:16 +0000

Good gags in this puzzle I reckon. Good on yer, Gozo.

Back in the day, when The Anagruid was a bit more consistent (or when I was sufficiently stupid crossword-wise to think it so) there was one from Enigmatist involving two lights with

GENERA + LABILITY.

Of course the answer numbering was (7,8) despite how the phrase appeared in the grid. It went something like

Classes ‘Tendency to Fluctuate’ with ‘Intelligence’.

By: Octofem

Octofem — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:48:09 +0000

Good morning, Smiffy. Good to have such an early blog – a pity it wasn’t a more difficult puzzle to entertain you, but at least it would not have kept you up for long. Pope Leo IX was followed by Victor II, by the way.