Comments on: Everyman 3332

By: Arthur

Arthur — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:48:08 +0000

Typo amended. Thanks, all, for the comments.

By: clearanceclarence

clearanceclarence — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:11:09 +0000

FOREHEAD SLAP…. on my printout that looks most definitely like a lower case ‘L’. No wonder I’ve been puzzling over that all week.

Now I am off to have stern words with my printer.

By: Myrvin

Myrvin — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:59:31 +0000

cc. Is that a joke? Aslan ASIAN??

By: clearanceclarence

clearanceclarence — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:54:50 +0000

Ehm… 9ac: is there a reference I’m not getting here? TIER around G I get, but ‘Aslan animal’? Aslan is Turkish for lion, not tiger, isn’t it? (Hence the character in Narnia).

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:10:45 +0000

Thank you, Arthur. I remember enjoying this as usual, but also – like you – being struck by the comparatively high number of slightly obscure bits of general knowledge. All gettable, though: I was helped with DAHOMEY by the fact that we’ve had it in the Indy/Grauniad recently, and I knew ATELIER from the French.

QUASIMODO I got without understanding why, so thank you for the explanation that it has Pascal connotations and comes from the Latin quasi modo – ‘as if in this manner’. One of those bits of knowledge that for me comes into the ‘how can I have been on the planet for this length of time and not known that?’ category.

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:44:30 +0000

Thanks Arthur

Although for me most of the words you mention as obscure were no problem, my knowledge of Indian culinary terms is seriously deficient, and that includes those invented by the English

By: Davy

Davy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:23:41 +0000

Thanks Arthur,

An enjoyable puzzle with some good clues. I always put a tick against those worthy of mention and this one has three ticks. As above, the last one to go in was ACRONYM but if it was too easy why wasn’t it the first to go in ?. Anyway, I liked the structure of this clue and it had a superb surface. Similarly, OBSERVATION POST and BROWNIE (which I did understand) had me thinking for a while.
Thanks Everyman.

By: Myrvin

Myrvin — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:05:10 +0000

By the way your 12 has a typo.

By: Myrvin

Myrvin — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:27:48 +0000

Thank you Arthur
Last in was ACRONYM – too easy perhaps. Didn’t understand BROWNIE.
Didn’t know LENTIGO. Had heard of ATELIER, but had to check on it – it sounds like a restaurant worker. “I’ll call the atelier sir”.
Knew RURITANIA, but had to look up ‘Hope’ connection.
I took a while to spell ROGAN JOSH properly.
Worked out ERNESTO as the only likely name. Can’t remember hearing Don P.