Comments on: Guardian 24907 / Chifonie

By: Pwlw

Pwlw — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:19:21 +0000

Re #28. Reno & Gambling. The Godfather trilogy. Is the casino that Mo Green runs in Reno? Oh, you’re not that Michael are you?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:16:57 +0000

Michael @ 28

Getting a divorce in Reno is a big gamble: she hopes to get everything; he hopes that she doesn’t.

Whatever the result, it’s usually quick.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:06:48 +0000

My first sally onto this entertaining and useful board..so deep breath!

But I thought Reno, Nevada, was famous for quickie divorces and not gambling?

By: mc

mc — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:40:19 +0000

Re 16, the definition is “outsider”.

By: Mr Beaver

Mr Beaver — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:24:04 +0000

Carolyn – yes RE=Royal Engineers is not uncommon, as is RA=Royal artillery (eg ‘gunners’), or of course Royal Academician, not forgetting TA for volunteers etc, which made an appearance on Tuesday.

By the way, wasn’t Sunglasses yesterday ? And you can’t be that immature if you remember Layla!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:47:32 +0000

They are all so obvious with the answers in front of me! The learning curve continues.

I assume RE=engineer is for Royal Engineer? I didn’t get that.

I managed to get d for penny, but missed the L for sovereign. I really liked the sunglasses clue and I might have stood a chance of getting it if the names were Layla and Roxanne instead. Curse my youth.

Science brain defeated me with the conductor clue – I was thinking about the transfer of heat or electricity. Probably because I’ve spent the afternoon heating metal rods and will be investigating series and parallel circuits tomorrow.

By: Brian Harris

Brian Harris — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:40:17 +0000

Yes, quite nice stuff today from Chifonie. Like Colin at #2, 9ac was also the last clue I solved. It just never occurred to me that “parent” could be something other than “pa”, “ma” or “da” or that Peru was “pe” and not an anagram. So good work Chifonie, stirring me out of my complacency.

The rest I found reasonably straightforward, although “Reno” doesn’t immediately leap out as a gambling city. I was thinking of “Vegas”.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:55:57 +0000

Thanks for the explanation of 12a. I had the answer but had no idea why. Enjoyed today’s puzzle very much.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:22:48 +0000

I had 13d as ‘reclaiming’ since ‘claiming’ can mean ‘drawing’ (benefits for example) so that held me back for a time.

By: Davy

Davy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:18:08 +0000

Thanks mhl, quite an enjoyable puzzle with lots of misdirection. I failed on “kilt” and whilst I got “Long shot”, I wouldn’t say that hot is a synonym for contraband. It’s very loose.