Comments on: Enigmatic Variations No. 909 – Three Graces by Rustic

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:00:05 +0000

mc_rapper67.

Although I’ve only been using this site for a year or so, I’ve found everybody here to be very welcoming and kind, and very helpful with clues I’ve managed to not solve. As with your own
blog, very informative.

Nice one.

By: mc_rapper67

mc_rapper67 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:04:57 +0000

nmsindy/jake – thanks for making me feel welcome – it was a bit nerve wracking – didn’t want to make an @ss of myself, especially given the theme of the puzzle!

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:30:20 +0000

I looked up -callipygian |?kal??p?d???n| (also callipygean)
having well-shaped buttocks.

but variations of telephone call etc…. I instantly thought ‘thats not going to be it’ even though the 3 Graces being women an all.

I feel an idiot.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:20:39 +0000

Cheers for the blog.

This puzzle seemed ‘to nice and easy’ 30ac ENG I didn’t put in because it looked too simple – §the first three letters of the cluing? I managed 90-92% of this puzzle but 1dn as TELEPHONE and 20ac as PURR ? I’m kicking myself now looking back at the answers I didn’t bother to put in because I was looking too hard for more obscure solutions.

So I’ve learned that ‘looking too hard for something usually means you find nothing’!

Nice to meet you mc rapper67, thanks for debut.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:44:08 +0000

Great début blog, mc_rapper67.

Rustic is a male, who would have had no trouble getting the puzzle past the EV crossword editor…