Comments on: Guardian 24,980 – Audreus

By: Daniel Miller

Daniel Miller — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:23:08 +0000

3-4 got the better of me today.. Tough set in parts.

By: Paul (not Paul)

Paul (not Paul) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:29:30 +0000

Poor effort for me.

No wit or style and some grumbles to boot.

If you want to play fast or loose then you need style.

Below Par

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:16:13 +0000

Eileen (#5), how right you were about tomorrow [which is today].
“It’s A Mother And Child Reunion”.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:11:59 +0000

Martin (#27), your post says it all.

Your last line is exactly what I think, although, of course, one should at least try to be as correct as possible from a linguistic point of view.
‘Feeling for language’ is what me brought me to Crosswordland, even though, technically speaking, I still have a lot to learn.
Which I do, day in day out.

By: Another Andrew

Another Andrew — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:54:28 +0000

Another late night and another failure to get the last seven. I needed at least five of the explanations to completely understand the solution, so thanks for the blog. For some reason I can never remember that pieces = men.

I’m with Bill @ #16, but still a lot more enjoyable than yesterday’s.

By: Martin H

Martin H — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:50:27 +0000

Didn’t get round to this until 10:30 pm, and I enjoyed it – and nice to see Audreus again. I can’t agree that there was no wit in this; no feeble attempts at it via cryptic definitions, but it’s there in the wordplay, where it should be: ‘shortage of air about’ for IA; (s)auspicious; the surface of 15 ac, etc.

I’ve no problem with epidemic = catching, even though they may not be true synonyms. This was a well-crafted puzzle. Feeling for language is always more important than technical correctness.

By: Radchenko

Radchenko — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:51:16 +0000

@25, Bryan, I know what you mean, sure others have the same, you walk away and when you come back, bingo…

Although, not this time though, the bottom left remained resolutely unresolved.

I also had 14ac STRAWMAN (aunt sally), with “rough-spoken student” RAWMA and just thought I was missing something with STN somehow being smartly and covering it (clips). Well, if path can be an anagrind…

Also I thought of EUGENIC for future stock, but removing first character, then “could be” is the anagrind, and “giving the go ahead” the definition. I could have gone away and come back a thousand times and would never have got that.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:26:17 +0000

Thanks, manehi, I really enjoyed it!

It passed the time nicely on my outward train journey but, after 1 hour, I still had 7 to do.

These quickly fell into place on my return journey.

It’s funny how I usually benefit from a break.

By: walruss

walruss — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:06:30 +0000

Some nice thiungs, but, really, too many devices that people can’t be expected to understand, idiosyncrasies I suppose. These are okay in one’s head, but to ask others to ‘get’ them is another thing really.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:03:22 +0000

I thought POINSETTIA was horrible so lost interest rather. A lot of old cliches I thought:- Lincoln = ABE, Volunteers = TA, pieces = MEN, model = T etc…