Comments on: Azed 1981: Marmite and curry

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:24:53 +0000

Didn’t like gender-bender = bisexual, not the same really. Redeemed by the silly marmite clue.

The answer to 1ac is misprinted online, that’ll confuse.

By: Bob Sharkey

Bob Sharkey — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:51:16 +0000

Thank you, Gaufrid – you remind me that I did,in fact, follow this line (I’m using a 1988 edition this morning) but I sided with the name explanation after having misgivings about ‘limits’ that I now see were unfounded. I had doubts also about ‘so’ and ‘without limits’ being synonymous. Problems with short-term memory – I often find that I can solve a clue, and then, if I don’t record both def. and subsidiary, I have to do it all again, often much later in the overall process.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sun, 23 May 2010 08:48:14 +0000

Bob
From Chambers – sen. (music) abbrev: Senza (Ital), without

By: Bob Sharkey

Bob Sharkey — Sun, 23 May 2010 08:04:21 +0000

Re 26D ‘sen’ as meaning ‘without’ is completely new to me. My reading is SO + KEN(NETH) (= ‘handsome) – see the names section in C.

By: Bob Sharkey

Bob Sharkey — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:58:38 +0000

Re 14A I initially took this to be a misprint, but clearly ‘unusual’ would render the surface reading even less convincing. No, it’s in the reading of ‘regarded as usual’ taken to mean the default definition, a person.

By: liz

liz — Sat, 22 May 2010 23:30:43 +0000

Thanks, Bridgesong. Not entirely completed without aids, but slightly less reliance on them than usual. So it must have been easier! Still managed to miss BINT. I had MINT, and I can’t explain why!

re Gender-bender. ‘Batting for both sides’ is a common expression meaning someone who is bisexual. Not that obscure, I would have thought!