Comments on: Guardian 25055 – Orlando

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:06:00 +0000

Hi Sylvia,
that is really BN …. [Bad News]

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:39:15 +0000

Gave up on this after getting only seven solutions (10, 22 and 24A, 22, 20, 14, 6 and 15D). Brain obviously not in gear today! Only unsolved puzzle for months

By: tupu

tupu — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:16:32 +0000

Still no news about BN?

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:44:54 +0000

Hi Tony

I’ve certainly heard ‘He [but perhaps not 'this'] is bats’ – and it’s in Collins, under its own entry: ‘bats: mad or eccentric’, making it a perfect anagram indicator. In fact, I think we’ve seen it as such a few times lately.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:27:16 +0000

Yes, I’ve heard someone being described as having bats in the belfry if he’s mad, but I’ve never heard anyone say: “This is bats”, or “He is bats”. Far from being a very good clue with not a wasted word, I would say it doesn’t have enough words.

By: crosser

crosser — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:26:27 +0000

Tony @52, “bats in the belfry”?

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:25:57 +0000

I’m not so sure about 5 down. “Bats” is an indicator of an anagram then or am I missing something? I’ve heard of situations or people being described as batty when they are confused or unusual but never as bats.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:21:13 +0000

FumbleFingers@47

Ouch!

By: FumbleFingers

FumbleFingers — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:35:11 +0000

Hi Gerry
I also thought the standard form was GRAECO-ROMAN (plus I’d never heard of Buddy Greco), so that was another one I didn’t put in until there were enough checking letters to convince me.

But seeing your post I just Googled with/without the A, and can report that the world at large doesn’t have a big preference either way.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:12:42 +0000

Toyed with HART/HERT also before hitting on the ‘neat’ solution.