Comments on: Guardian 24,918 – Logodaedalus

By: mhl

mhl — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:22:42 +0000

Oops, apologies for duplicating three earlier comments on “having a second job” – I must have been very tired yesterday, since I promise I did read over everything above…

By: JimboNWUK

JimboNWUK — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:21:50 +0000

Speaking of late-comers, I often don’t read one day’s comments until the following day and wonder whether it is worth contributing as there is a shiny new puzzle to dissect that everyone will be concentrating on. I didn’t feel the need to comment on this puzzle as I knew everyone would pile in about the (6,3) mistake on 15d but was surprised at no-one complaining about the lack of a hyphen (7-5 rather than 12) in 26a.

My main reason for writing a comment though was morpheus at #24 who got me wondering whether there is a grammatical term for using the name of a person or character as an adjective (“very Rupert the Bear”) and if so what it was…

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:05:13 +0000

Thanks IanN14.

I didn’t think you were ‘having a go’. Rather, the opposite.

Yes, I do realise that. Uncomfortably. Must be more circumspect.

By: IanN14

IanN14 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:36:10 +0000

Neil,
Sorry, I wasn’t having a go…
I just get a bit fed up with people complaining when others point out errors in clues.
They’re very rarely “(mis)identified”.
Just think of it as being like seeing a glaring anachronism in a film or something… You’d want to point it out?
It’s not meant to be taken seriously, it’s partly, in its own way, an encouragement to the setters who always get it right. (Do you ever check the Independent section of this site?)
By the way, erm… you do realise these comments are available for all to see for ages afterwards?

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:09:35 +0000

#28, IanN14: so, though my previous was such a late contribution (about the picking of nits) somebody was still paying attention. Seems my rant may have struck home in a few quarters though. Litres of Bells were on offer locally. Seems I may have already been forgiven. There are few later-comers here than I am, so most of you won’t know what I’m on about. Good!

By: rrc

rrc — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:43:47 +0000

congratulations cholecyst on the poem brilliant, I wish I could do something similar. crossword today very straightword and well clued so absolutely no grumbles

By: sandra

sandra — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:22:38 +0000

slipstream #21 well done – hope it’s the first completion of many.

By: IanN14

IanN14 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:16:59 +0000

Yeah, what Eileen says @ 20.
However, sorry, Ian @ 7, seems like there are quite a few nits (already mentioned).
And how about 2d? Why “catching”?….
Sorry…. sorry, I know nit-picking’s not good (really I do).
…I’ll leave it to the grown-ups.

(But I didn’t mind “vanilla” so much).

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:00:53 +0000

Sorry, ‘tackling’, of course, and ‘cup holder’ was not hyphenated [but it makes no difference! ]

By: mhl

mhl — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:57:56 +0000

Thanks for the post, manehi – I thought this was a fun and quick solve, bar the irritating error with the enumeration of SECOND JOB. (Also, surely “moonlighting” is “working / having a second job” anyway.)

I’m not saying that I’d use it as an anagram indicator myself, but I thought “clothes” was meant to be read as “hides”, i.e. the anagram fodder conceals the word.

slipstream: congratulations, hope there’s many more to come before then :)

cholecyst: very nice :)