Comments on: Enigmatic Variations 914: Opus by Hypnos

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:55:47 +0000

Just for clarity, Mike’s comment #6 related to an item of spam that has now been removed.

By: Mike Laws

Mike Laws — Sun, 23 May 2010 03:34:42 +0000

Eh?

By: Mike Laws

Mike Laws — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:19:17 +0000

I suggest that the problems at 1 and 19 across are simply the results of mistranscription from the setter’s original text, which would also explain previous fiddling anomalies which have been bedevilling EV. But it’s beyond me why a setter’s text needs to be retyped, rather than copied and pasted.

1A A word such as “first” or “primarily” seems to have been omitted after “that’s” in the clue.

19A The clue does read a bit oddly, yes. Perhaps the editor was trying to decide whether “I” or “one” looked better, then failed to delete one of them.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:34:27 +0000

I picked up the quote straight away, OPUS looked like an anag for SOUP which meant the penny dropped too soon and spoiled the puzzle for me, which I didn’t complete.

An odd quote I must say, but for the clues I did do they were great but rather hard I agree.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:00:48 +0000

Excellent puzzle, which like the blogger I found hard, taking about 4 hrs with the theme becoming apparent only very near the end.

By: Dave Hennings

Dave Hennings — Sat, 22 May 2010 07:10:14 +0000

Thanks Mike, although I accidentally published the blog before final corrections and edits … honest. (For those of you not up at 4am, I originally had this as Hypnos’s sixth Listener puzzle at fifteensquared!)
Dave.

By: Mike Laws

Mike Laws — Sat, 22 May 2010 03:40:27 +0000

The sixth what puzzle?