Comments on: Azed 1917: In a bit of a spot

By: Sidey

Sidey — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:36:54 +0000

Nice blog jetdoc.

22 KOSHER is presumably KO + SHE + R. The apostrophe in lady’s not indicating genitive but lady is. Rereading the clue the apostrophe ess could be replaced with a comma.

By: Richard Heald

Richard Heald — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:39:16 +0000

Bridgesong,

In this week’s puzzle I don’t think any clues have been omitted, but one clue (29 Ac) has been misnumbered, another (30 Ac) has been badly mistyped (although nothing seems to be missing), and there’s one I don’t understand at all and so I’ll have to keep my fingers crossed that I’ve got it right! Otherwise everything seems to be OK.

By: bridgesong

bridgesong — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:52:39 +0000

A very comprehensive blog, as always. OPEN AIR was shown as a 7 letter word in the version printed in the paper.

But what about this week’s puzzle? One clue omitted altogether (this is in the paper version again) and another apparently truncated (I haven’t finished solving it yet).

By: Peter Biddlecombe

Peter Biddlecombe — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:12:25 +0000

I don’t think 3-letter words are that rare. 1918 has a couple. I think you can chalk up another minor error – At 2D, UP TOP didn’t get “(2 words)”.

By: jetdoc

jetdoc — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:27:10 +0000

Doh! Thanks, Richard.

By: Richard Heald

Richard Heald — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:05:07 +0000

In 30 Ac, the ‘from Greek island? Not one’ part is a second piece of wordplay, i.e. DELIAN minus AN.

By: Alan O'Brien

Alan O'Brien — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:52:51 +0000

There were loads of good words, as usual. I think this is the first time I have seen 3-letter words in an Azed, and I’ve been doing them a couple of years. Unfortunately I put in STRUMMEL without really thinking about it.

Thanks for the blog! Very good.