Comments on: Everyman No. 3297 (December 6th)

By: sidey

sidey — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:05:56 +0000

Thanks, that’ll teach me to be more careful scrolling

By: The Trafites

The Trafites — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:28:30 +0000

Sidey,

Read Nick’s comment at the top of our blog re Dickens.

Lorraine.

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:03:24 +0000

I am feeling thick, anyone like to explain Dickens please.

And Bamberger, do persevere.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:43:18 +0000

Bamberger, just to underline what Lorraine has said – stick with this one. It’s how I really got back into cryptics a year or so ago and being able to solve, or mostly solve it every week is a big confidence booster. There’ll be weeks with one or two obscure clues, but usually they are pretty well signposted.

As the saying goes, the more you practise, the better you get. Keep on enjoying it!

By: The Trafites

The Trafites — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:04:45 +0000

Bamberger, stick with Everyman and trust me it will get easier. I find that the cluing is pretty tight and fair. The solutions are easily worked out.

Lorraine.
P.S. I hope I have spelt cluing right?

By: Andrew Kitching

Andrew Kitching — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:41:24 +0000

I thought harder than usual. Since moving to AZED, I have lost my understanding of ‘Everyman’s’ wavelength.

By: bamberger

bamberger — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:08:51 +0000

There is a group of us who occupy (waste?) our lunchtimes doing crytics. We usually do the Telegraph or Guardian with occasional forays into the Indie, FT or Times (whenever we pick the Times, we invariably stumble on the hardest of the week and struggle to get more than 5 or 6 out). Usually we get about 80% out before we give in -so we aren’t the best in the world. . We had been told that Everyman was a good confidence booster so we duly tried it last Monday. Well we found it hard -tremadoc ,extempore, cupola , henin, addison and dickens just wouldn’t come. Maybe we had an off day or maybe it was harder than we had been told.