Comments on: Guardian 25,181 Paul for Autumnal Treat

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:33:30 +0000

Andrew – thank you too! Glad you enjoyed it. All the best,

Paul

By: Gwhite

Gwhite — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:43:51 +0000

I had tittie for 22down. Same reasoning as Uncle Yap.

By: Colin Greenland

Colin Greenland — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:35:23 +0000

Thanks, Uncle, for an excellent post. I finished easily enough but until I read this blog didn’t appreciate how many I’d failed to understand.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:12:26 +0000

Sorry about your transport problems, Uncle Yap – we missed you! Better luck tonight…

Paul – thanks for dropping by: we had a very enjoyable evening and it was a pleasure to meet you.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:25:10 +0000

Uncle Yap, I am so sad to have missed you, as I was really looking forward to saying hello. Thank you so much for the extraordinary effort you made to be here tonight. Thank you, and do take care. There will be another time soon. And do drop me a line and say hello via my website at cryptica.co.uk

Thank you also to all those who were there.

By: Carrots

Carrots — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:41:49 +0000

So sorry that you didn`t make it to the Grauniad Crossword Fest. It had sold out by the time I heard of it, but a 7,000 mile pilgrimage on your part will probably prompt another one at some point in the future!

Paul`s puzzle today took a whole snow-bound afternoon to complete, so no time in which for cabin-fever to develop. He`s a very clever and wily lad and I too would like to meet him one day.

By: otter

otter — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:37:50 +0000

Haven’t posted here for some time for health reasons. Really enjoyed this puzzle today. Came back to it a few times, and have just squeezed in TRAP at 25d, having been TRICKed by it for some time. Thanks, Paul, for a lot of fun, and thanks to Uncle Yap for the blog. And UY, so sorry to hear your plans have been frustrated, To have come 6993 miles and have your journey end 7 miles from its destination is cruel indeed.

By: tupu

tupu — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:30:54 +0000

ps Freud is at it again. For ‘solver’ please read ‘setter’ in 26!

By: tupu

tupu — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:27:32 +0000

Hi Dynamic

Many thanks. We crossed. It’s kind of you to take so much trouble. I’m not sure if our analyses exhaust the possibilities or simply us analysts!

We still seem left with some small problems, but at this stage I suspect we just have to leave it at that and deem it a very witty and enjoyable puzzle!

By: tupu

tupu — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:15:51 +0000

Many thanks as usual Martin H. I have been genuinely puzzled and have looked again in vain. It does not matter much to me as far as the puzzle is concerned, but it was UY’s ref. to ‘precise’ that raised it for me.

Of course it is not an auspicious day to raise such issues when people have been busy enjoying the wit and imagination of the solver – if unlike poor UY they got there!

Incidentally I wonder if this device was the innovation we heard about before Paul’s previous puzzle. It is quite clever but seems a little hard to handle. I don’t remember one emerging from the last one.