Comments on: Private Eye/Cyclops 431 – Pig!

By: Mr Beaver

Mr Beaver — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:53:18 +0000

Beermagnet, I dare say you’re right about little plastic things (don’t bamboozle us with these medical technicalities! ), but in popular imagination, the cord is still knotted by the doctor/midwife, so I’m sure that lay behind 1d.

Finished it, apart from 13d (thought of LYING, but didn’t associate it with novelist Jeffrey – how dumb can you get?) and 27a, which I still can’t see. Oh! light dawns – it’s SKIER as in one that goes skyward, rather than the piste artiste…

Blimey. I’ll get me coat…

By: beermagnet

beermagnet — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:01:17 +0000

Aargh, the curse of copy’n'paste from a previous blog.
This is number 431 and fixed now.

I suppose TIE THE KNOT is about giving birth-type labour, but the cord isn’t so much tied as clipped with those little plastic clothes peg-type things.
(Note to self: Cut out the “-typing” when typing)

By: sidey

sidey — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:01:48 +0000

clowesy, just this one.

By: clowesy

clowesy — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:42:31 +0000

Maybe I’m missing something, but my PE says this is crossword 431. Are these blog posts all off by 1?

By: sidey

sidey — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:00:48 +0000

Umbilical cord? Tied in a knot? Bit more usual than surgical intervention I’d have thought.

By: Rishi

Rishi — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:01:59 +0000

Re 1d, I’ll try.

When labour yields, a woman gives birth to a child. And afterwards the ob-gyn surgeon may have to do some suturing.