Comments on: Guardian 24,586/Boatman http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/ Never knowingly undersolved. Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: fgbp http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-62067 fgbp Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:44:09 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-62067 I had huge difficulties with many of the clues on this puzzle. I agree TROLLEY is lovely, and I don’t want to seem churlish, but I thought the inaccuracies in the clueing added unfairly to the difficulty overall. A good example being the clue to “IN LAMB” by which I felt I was unfairly defeated. – “Unconvincing” as an anagrind in 1ac didn’t get me off on the right foot.
IMHO a few nice clues in a puzzle is no excuse for peppering the rest of it with dodgy ones.
Anyway, it’s well after the event now and no one cares :-)

]]> By: Tom Johnson http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-61928 Tom Johnson Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:45:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-61928 Boatman has long been a compiler for Araucaria’s “1 Across” magazine, now in its 25th year. As editor of the magazine I have championed Boatman’s work for nearly ten years and I am delighted that he is now on the Guardian team, and elsewhere.

]]> By: stiofain_x http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-61797 stiofain_x Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:40:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-61797 OK great Gaufrid thanks for the prompt answer.

]]> By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-61796 Gaufrid Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:31:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-61796 stiofain_x

Please be patient. One will be along in the next day or two, either by the scheduled blogger or a substitute. The same applies for last Saturday’s puzzle.

]]> By: stiofain_x http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-61794 stiofain_x Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:22:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-61794 No Araucaria xmas prize xword blog?

]]> By: David http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-61788 David Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:19:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-61788 Derek, according to Wiki:
“A shoal is a loosely organised group where each fish swims and forages independently but is attracted to other members of the group and adjusts its behaviour, such as swimming speed, so that it remains close to the other members of the group. Schools of fish are much more tightly organised, synchronising their swimming so that all fish move at the same speed and in the same direction.”
and they do cite the source.

Hope the leg’s more comfortable today.

]]> By: Derek Lazenby http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-61699 Derek Lazenby Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:16:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-61699 Ian we should have collaborated, I was missing the nw corner, LOL

]]> By: stiofain_x http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-61695 stiofain_x Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:49:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-61695 From what we have seen of Boatman so far he is up there with the top dogs.
I especially liked the “thespians” clue and like Boatmans self-referential clues that are so much more subtle than the usual me and my.
Stiofain

]]> By: Ian http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-61692 Ian Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:07:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-61692 I found this particularly challenging.

Only managed to complete 75/80 percent with SE corner a problem.
Need more from this setter soon!

]]> By: Derek Lazenby http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/guardian-24586boatman/#comment-61690 Derek Lazenby Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:10:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4793#comment-61690 Oh,and I forgot to say I really appreciated 12ac. On a blank grid, and a word I didn’t know, the clue was accurate enough for me to be happy I had the answer. Oh that one could always be tha happy.

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