Comments on: Inquisitor 124 — Tots by Nitsy

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:34:55 +0000

Thanks for the comments. I typed this blog up late at night in a hotel room in Paris during a very busy two-day meeting out there. I solved 13a fine on paper (as my parsing shows, I hope). I then seem to have typed the wrong word into my pro forma blog due to only partly reading it backwards from the grid. I then compounded this mistake by forgetting my parsing and looking for a definition to the word I’d entered in the blog rather than reading the clue properly again.

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:16:50 +0000

OK, so I reconciled clue and entry for 13a as LO+B+T with the B going backwards i.e. earlier in the letter sequence.

And having realised that the letters in redundant words spelt WERCS, I knew that BOUNDS was a superfluous extra word and my search for the R led me to RING, in the clue before.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:56:04 +0000

HolyGhost
13a was ‘Behold book going backwards Time’s Arrow‘ so LO B reversed T.

32a ‘bounds’ was indeed superfluous but it was not one of the ‘extra words’. With this type of ‘extra word’ puzzle there is often a red herring or two (deliberate or otherwise).

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:28:05 +0000

5a GYP is Cambridge, not Oxford
31a I had the same problem as Colin …
32a … and here the word BOUNDS (?) is superfluous

Can’t remember the clue for 13a, but have a vague recall that the parsing was that LO went after the B, and before T.

And only after completion + highlighting did the significance of the title strike me.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:52:08 +0000

Hi Colin
13a Your parsing (LO B)< T is correct but this gives BOLT (arrow) not BLOT.