Comments on: Azed 1994

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:14:37 +0000

PS Of course the Guardian has had the last week in which to correct the interactive version if the discrepancies with the paper have been noticed and/or reported. I don’t suppose anyone will remember what was actually in the interactive version when it first appeared last Sunday.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:10:38 +0000

I have just checked and the on-line interactive version has the correct clue for 12dn, as well as 11ac. The pdf version still has both errors.

Previously my impression had been that, on-line, the pdf version was the more accurate, matching that appearing in the paper, and that any errors were more likely to occur in the interactive version. It seems that this is no longer the case.

By: Bob Sharkey

Bob Sharkey — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:17:58 +0000

Re 12D I had for this LOST in ALE + RIC(H)

By: Bullfrog

Bullfrog — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:16:24 +0000

There was apparently a discrepancy between the paper and online versions at 12d. In my paper, the clue read ‘Relating to enzymes not found in beer, full-flavoured mostly’, which I solved as LOST in ALE + RIC(H), while the online print version replaced ‘full-flavoured mostly’ with ‘fine’. As Gaufrid points out ‘ERIC’ for fine gives a superfluous ‘E’.

By: Brian (with an eye)

Brian (with an eye) — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:28:21 +0000

Very unusually, Azed made me laugh with the double entendre in 16A. (I’m just a smuthound.)

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:27:19 +0000

The confusion about 11ac has arisen because the on-line version of the clue has ‘This is peg one’s ….’ whereas the pdf version only has ‘This peg one’s ….’. In the latter case it would be necessary to expand the ‘s to is to form the anagram.

There also seems to be an error in 12dn where the wordplay gives an extra E.

By: The Trafites

The Trafites — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:16:40 +0000

I to was confused with 11ac and reading the explanations above, surely this is an indirect composite anagram?

Nick

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:05:18 +0000

11: RURP is an anagram of ‘upper regions’ minus ‘is peg one’. The apostrophe ‘s together with hammered is the anagram indicator.

By: Bob Sharkey

Bob Sharkey — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:04:28 +0000

Correction – 21D SER(A) in EINE

By: Bob Sharkey

Bob Sharkey — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:01:54 +0000

Re 11A comp. anag. of UPPER REGIONS less IS PEG ONE
Re 21D SER(I) in EINE