Comments on: Private Eye/Cyclops 386 – “For Hesse a jolly good fellow”

By: beermagnet

beermagnet — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:58:11 +0000

There was a BBC4 documentary about Tom Driberg last week who was the first to set the crossword in the Eye as Tiresias, and set the standard that has been so nobly followed since.
Here’s the “Watch again” page but this will timeout after a few days I think :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00j8cpp/Tom_Driberg_and_Me_A_Personal_Portrait_by_William_G_Stewart/
Mention of crossword compiling is after about 45mins of the hour.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:51:17 +0000

Horses for courses. I usually take about 2 hours on and off but I was inside 90 mins which means it wasn’t as tough as some.2d was also my last in.

By: John King

John King — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:16:43 +0000

Not a bad one. I didn’t get Hesse though, I put ‘haste’ instead. ‘E’ is not an amphetamine, as any fule kno.

By: Colin H

Colin H — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:01:40 +0000

I’m surprised you had problems with this – I thought it was one of the most starightforward one Cyclops has thrown at us in a while. Took me about an hour, all told, which is pretty good for me.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:57:40 +0000

2 down was a play on Brenda’s penchant for referring to herself as “one” – so [Prince] Andrew is “one’s offspring”.