Comments on: Guardian Genius 71 by Enigmatist

By: mhl

mhl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:37:11 +0000

Thanks for the post, duncanshiell, and it was good to meet you last week (two weeks ago?)

Frustratingly, I had everything except HERR (FLICK) in this puzzle, despite being able to remember those characters in “‘Allo ‘Allo”. Presumably it’s meant to be read as an &lit? I’m not sure I can read it in a way that suggests that the answer might be a person.

Otherwise, this was a lot of fun – getting the “knives” link was very satisfying, as were all the anagrams in the across clues…

By: bridgesong

bridgesong — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:00:15 +0000

It is indeed THE THE: I apologise. Sheer ignorance on my part.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:39:39 +0000

I really don’t think 26dn is &lit.
I think the anagrind is “out” and throw=UNSEAT in the sense of a horse throwing its rider.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:43:56 +0000

Put me down as another one who had TUN insted of KEG for too long.

I didn’t solve 11ac but that didn’t stop me from guessing that the unchecked letter in the entry should be H.

I wondered if the “central character” referred to in the clues to ROCK and ROLL was the N in the centre of the grid.

By: Ralph G

Ralph G — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:36:04 +0000

24d Thanks Ian, THE THE it is. Should have Googled it.

By: IanN14

IanN14 — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:52:05 +0000

Try this:

http://www.thethe.com/sections/jukebox/jukebox.html

By: IanN14

IanN14 — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:48:21 +0000

bridgesong,

How can “who” be described as an article.
It’s definitely “The The”. I have one of their (his?) albums, Soul Mining from the eighties.
Their music also features in a current ad on TV (can’t remember what for).

By: liz

liz — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:00:26 +0000

Thanks, Duncan. I enjoyed this a lot. My first answer was BALLPOINT but I didn’t see the significance of leaving out the PEN until later. I also had TUN for KEG for awhile.

I did get THE THE and I have heard of them, but I hesitated to put it in because it seemed so obscure, even for a Genius crossword! Similarly, but possibly a little less so, with HERR!

After all that, the one I got wrong was ROT. I put RUT and can’t remember why.

By: Ralph G

Ralph G — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:57:45 +0000

Duncan, great blog!
Thanks for 11a. Kicking myself for not getting HERR F/LICK.
24D: I had THE WHO as well but didn’t understand how WHO arose from ‘aticle’.

By: bridgesong

bridgesong — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:39:26 +0000

Duncan, thanks for the blog. At 24 down, I think you’ll find that the pop band is the rather better known The Who.

I made the same mistake of putting TUN for KEG.