Comments on: Guardian 25,041 (Sat 19 Jun)/Araucaria – Suit you Sir

By: Malcolm P

Malcolm P — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:40:12 +0000

Sorry Martin, just reread and realise I misunderstood your comment. CEP TANC in ACE it had to be

By: Malcolm P

Malcolm P — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:35:05 +0000

# Martin H says:
June 26th, 2010 at 10:22 am

” ..the homophone SEP TAN (although no native English speaker would make that last syllable rhyme with ‘dance’)..”

I think most native English speakers would make that rhyme – everyone in Britain north of a line between the Wash and the Severn, pretty well all everyone in NZ, Australia, Canada, USA …

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:09:24 +0000

Did anyone hear the result of the England-German game?

I fell asleep watching it.

By: Martin H

Martin H — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:18:44 +0000

MP@9 – right ….

By: Daniel Miller

Daniel Miller — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:47:20 +0000

Particularly enjoyable fair – more so for a Bridge player like myself.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:12:15 +0000

Cholecyst @ 12

I suspect that you are probably right about BISQUE but maybe it’s a card game that’s only played by the clergy when they’re not compiling Crossword Puzzles?

By: cholecyst

cholecyst — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:36:57 +0000

Thanks Rightback. I’ve only just realised that 3dn is a DD. Soup and unglazed porcelain. Bryan: I don’t believe BISQUE is a card game (see Annotated Solution TREY) it’s surely another Grauniadism.

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:28:43 +0000

I usually find Araucaria enjoyable and doable, if occasionally a struggle to get into. On this occasion, however I gave up trying to decide between the two alternative themes – perhaps because both bridge and dogs have played important roles in my life – and decided to wait till I could cheat on 24d.

So this morning things fell nicely into place, but unfortunately I couldn’t enjoy the puzzle all I’d have like to, as I had a medical appointment

Thanks, anyway, Araucaria and RB

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:45:23 +0000

Thanks MP, I have corrected the title.

By: MarcoPolo

MarcoPolo — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:35:26 +0000

This is Guardian 25,041 not 25,035

Martin @8 re 13d: the ‘C’ in ACE has to go either second or second-last, leaving CEPTANC or CCEPTAN respectively. Obviously it was meant to be the former.

Missed 19d, 21d and 20ac (I had SPADES for 21d which threw that corner out completely), and only guessed DIAMONDS and BROCADE from the checks.

Loved 23a and the &lit 22a

Thanks to Auracaria and RB for the blog