Comments on: Guardian 24,596/Quantum http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 00:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: noel http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63561 noel Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:54:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63561 TwoPies: yes, very good, but that took almost as long to solve as this morning’s crossword – I must have missed the announcement.

]]> By: John http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63530 John Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:40:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63530 As an ex dartist I always thought an inner WAS a bullseye, an outer being the 25 score.

]]> By: smutchin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63528 smutchin Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:52:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63528 TwoPies – arf! (as they used to say in the Beano)

]]> By: jimbod http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63525 jimbod Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:01:37 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63525 Niggles aplenty for me today. Cursed translucent! But still, it’s nice to be able to solve the majority of clues for once.

Nice work TwoPies :-)

]]> By: PBE http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63524 PBE Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:59:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63524 Good to be seeing more of Steve Bell again isn’t it, TwoPies?

]]> By: TwoPies http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63513 TwoPies Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:09:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63513 Yes, the original for today had Poodle made model offer corruptly (5,2,7)

]]> By: smutchin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63507 smutchin Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:36:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63507 What I suspect often happens is that a puzzle that’s pencilled in for a particular day has to be pulled for some reason (maybe because a clue fortuitously refers to a topical event in a way that could appear insensitive), so Prof Stephenson replaces it with one from his reserve stock of unused puzzles.

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63506 Testy Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:03:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63506 I wondered that too. Every time I see Quantum/Quark I think, surely this must be his last, but they seem to keep coming. I was beginning to wonder if he was somehow submitting them from beyond the grave or whether someone else had assumed his mantle.

]]> By: Ian Stark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63505 Ian Stark Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:49:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63505 All previously expressed niggles and compliments agreed with. Another quick ‘n’ easy one. Should we expect a real blinder later in the week?

Enjoyed 9a, but not being a darts player (or an archer) I had to work hard to get the word UPPER out of my head.

Is that common, a lead time of (at least, presumably) eight months from puzzle submission to publishing?

]]> By: don http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/14/guardian-24596quantum/#comment-63504 don Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:12:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5008#comment-63504 As with Two Pies, ‘trasparent’ and ‘fix the pace’ held me up a bit, but this seemed a fairly simple crossword.

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