Comments on: Independent 7424 by Morph

By: Morph

Morph — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:50:25 +0000

LOL – I think from texting rather than letters – can mean laughs out loud or lots of love, showing our ability even in relatively new forms of language to introduce ambiguity, the crossword compiler’s stock in trade.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:58:50 +0000

Re: Lolita
I’ve always found LOL to be computerese for Laughing Out Loud.
Also, we tournament bridge players also use LOL to mean Little Old Lady or Ladies.
So, that’s three different meanings for LOL.
Barbara

By: Scarpia

Scarpia — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:28:48 +0000

Thanks Neal.
Super puzzle from Morph – very inventive and with a few laughs along the way.
So many lovely clues it is difficult to pick out favourites but 1 and 15 across and 7 down particularly stand out.

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:04:38 +0000

I should say “manageable” rather than “straightforward”. The latter perhaps suggests a lack of invention, which would wouldn’t be a fair comment at all.

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:02:17 +0000

Quite straightforward, I thought. Enjoyable though, with a few chuckles along the way.

I must admit a double take on seeing LOL clued as “lots of love”, but a bit of research shows that to be perfectly fine, dating from a time when people actually wrote letters!

By: Morph

Morph — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:46:14 +0000

Thanks Neal for the blog and all of you for your comments. I try to avoid SA=IT as being too far from normal usage – ‘it’ as in ‘doing it’ seems much more in tune with ordinary parlance to me.
Interestingly, two clues that went down well – 15A AND 13D – were late adds after our esteeemed editor rightly nixed an obscure clue to an abstruse word. Anyway, time for an udder pint – cheers!

By: flashling

flashling — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:17:51 +0000

Lovely little crossword, thought the surface for 13dn excellent as I was finishing my pint. Certainly brought a smile and the marvellous misdirection in places eg Whittington which brought forth a minor curse when it twigged, I didn’t spot the or=aka although the answer was fairly obvious. Well done Morph.

By: dram

dram — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:05:47 +0000

Thanks Morph and Neal, I rarely manage to finish, GK not being my strong spot, but I did today and was thrilled.

Particularly enjoyed 15 and (after reading Colin’s helpful explanation) 7

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:18:40 +0000

Enjoyable puzzle, about average Indy difficulty, favourite clue INSOLVENT.

By: Myrvin

Myrvin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:38:47 +0000

Nice to know the setter found something to do after Tony Hart.