Comments on: Guardian 25,160 / Orlando

By: tupu

tupu — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:33:46 +0000

HI Ernie

For Brill = brill see 12.

You are right about Yonkers and Hello Dolly. I didn’t know it was a city in its own right. Wikipedia has a good article. Residents are apparently known as Yonkersonians or Yonkersites! The song I quote at 18 only involves a mention. It was in the musical ‘Big |Boy’ (1925).

By: ernie

ernie — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:05:29 +0000

liz #7 – BRILL is brill : I was another TROUT.

I think YONKERS crops up in Hello Dolly.

By: ernie

ernie — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:16:01 +0000

Get Rich Quick by Robin Banks

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:40:10 +0000

Sorry, Roger, I was out yesterday evening when your comment 20 was posted and it was overlooked. I have been out all day today so have only just seen your further comment.

Thanks for the link.

By: Hertsgnome

Hertsgnome — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:58:27 +0000

Cheer up Roger! (20 & 36)

Many thanks for the names link. Most entertaining!

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:15:26 +0000

So, no takers for the link @20 then. Don’t know why I bother

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:31:25 +0000

Thanks, scarpia – I’d forgotten that one! [How could I?}

By: scarpia

scarpia — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:01:26 +0000

Thanks Eileen.
Nice puzzle from Orlando.I liked the authoresses(or should that be authors,as this is a Guardian puzzle) of the “batty books” across the middle of the grid.Disappointed not to see my favourite – Lucy Lastic!

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:55:13 +0000

Dear 15 [which is 14 in the blog], very nice of you to put Mr Michael Curl in the spotlight @ #30.
I share the “soft spot” with you.

As to YONKERS, I’m glad we all agree on the parsing.
Yet, the blog doesn’t reflect that (which was my point).
The fact that punctuation does not play a major role in Crypticland is, of course, clear to me (and I have no problems with that at all) – but, even knowing that, “British going crazy” does not feel entirely comfortable to me as part of the clue as a whole [I know the combination going+crazy is good, probably even the reason Orlando formulated the clue like this]. It’s not really important, but it just feels like <100% to me.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:29:28 +0000

Thanks, otter!