Comments on: Guardian 24,821/Brummie – Ars est celare artem

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:46:03 +0000

liz, the OED gives munch as a noun. Colloquially though.

By: liz

liz — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:50:20 +0000

Or in the case of ‘munch’ a verb!

By: liz

liz — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:45:32 +0000

Thanks, Rightback. I got this out without too much trouble, except for a bit of sloppiness — I put ‘theorum’ instead of ‘theorem’. Twigged the theme once I got ‘Turner’. At first I thought all the artists were going to be British, but then I saw that all the names were all common nouns.

Turner was a considerable showman himself and would have certainly understood the publicity surrounding the Turner prize — see Matthew Collings’ article ‘Master in the Making’ in the Guardian 19.09.09.

By: sidey

sidey — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:37:03 +0000

Thank you Gaufrid.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:19:07 +0000

sidey
#24,791 29th August

By: sidey

sidey — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:53:19 +0000

I missed reading the rubric so didn’t spot a theme, silly me!

“following Araucaria’s epic jumbo last month.” I also seem to have missed this, anyone know the number or date please?

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:17:50 +0000

Thank you, Rightback, for the excellent blog.
Your quibbles are my quibbles, so there’s not much to add.
Regarding 21dn:
In the pdf-version it says (4-4), so hyphenated – which takes away one of your quibbles.
Somehow we thought the HALE-BOPP clue was a missed opportunity.
As HALE is a part of Bill Haley, and his band were the Comets, Brummie might have done something with that.

Looking back at it, an OK crossword, but lacking humour and therefore a bit “clinical”.

By: Ozzu

Ozzu — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:50:54 +0000

Thanks Nick

By: Chunter

Chunter — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:49:35 +0000

Bryan, For what it’s worth I’d heard of Knight and Millet (as artists) but not of Grey or Curry.

21dn: I’m sure Hale-Bopp should be hyphenated.

By: The trafites

The trafites — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:30:19 +0000

Actually, this is a better link: Dis Nick