Comments on: Guardian 24,549 – Brummie

By: George Foot

George Foot — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:03:26 +0000

What an amazing achievement by Brummie to have such a wonderful theme and so many people, myself included, not notice it’s there. And it wasn’t as though it was a rather obscure theme, nearly everyone must know about Snowhite and the seven Dwarves. And thank you Uncle Yap or I would never have known.

By: ygor

ygor — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:58:02 +0000

I’m sure Sheppey was the eighth Dwarf. The one we don’t like too talk abut.

By: Dave Ellison

Dave Ellison — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:14:33 +0000

I too missed the theme. I had snow and white early on, but all the dwarfs were the last ones I got so the theme wouldn’t have helped, particularly as I had dippy for 28ac (was going to look up dipp as grass when I got home!).

By: John

John — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:43:15 +0000

Washwipe must be one of those fancy London expressions!

By: smutchin

smutchin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:25:13 +0000

Shirley – believe it or not, Leysdown on Sheppey was once a fashionable seaside resort! Yes, “once fashionable” clearly means “an old-fashioned word for fashionable” but I thought the clue was cleverly worded to be almost (but not strictly) &lit. Otherwise the only definition in the clue is “isle” which is less satisfying.

By: JohnR

JohnR — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:26:58 +0000

Sorry to be so late!

24ac – “perhaps oily” baffled me – is this a convention for “[oil] painting of”?

As always, thanks very much for the blog, Uncle Yap. I completely missed the theme, but I expect I’ll get over it. Sigh…

By: don

don — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:12:14 +0000

Nowt wrong with this one, Brummie!

As Fletch said, I too liked ‘Crossword setter’s hen’ as a definition of ‘layer’, which was well disguised by the run on with ‘party’. Also ‘Given to retirement’ as the definition of ‘bashful’.

I don’t think it’s just a question of I ‘often’ being the symbol for electrical current; I is _the_ symbol for current in the Systeme International, which has been adopted internationally for scientific and nearly all technical purposes.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:49:37 +0000

Washwipe defined in Chambers as – (in a motor vehicle)a mechanism for spraying the front or the rear windscreen with washing fluid which is distributed and wiped off by the windscreen wiper.

For some reason I had washpipe in here which held me up a while. I too completed this but failed to spot the Snow White theme.
Very enjoyable, nicely disguised definitions, thanks Brummie.

By: Geoff Moss

Geoff Moss — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:48:43 +0000

John
Washwipe – (in a motor vehicle) a mechanism for spraying the front or the rear windscreen with washing fluid, which is distributed and wiped off by the windscreen wiper (Chambers)

By: John

John — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:29:25 +0000

I enjoyed this very much, but what on earth is a washwipe? OneLook’s never heard of it and neither have I.