Comments on: Guardian 25,203 / Brendan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 02:30:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Davy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144781 Davy Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:13:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144781 Yes I agree, Shane is definitely my favourite western FILM too. However, The Dakotas was a TV series and so falls into a different catagory. Best western music just has to be The Big Country. Music on a grand scale, no pun intended.

]]> By: tupu http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144764 tupu Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:51:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144764 Hi Carrots
Yes. Shane it is! And in love with Jean Arthur – me too! And Alan Ladd and Jack Palance and van Heflin! :) The most depressing thing about young people is that they don’t know what I’m talking about when I mention it.

]]> By: Carrots http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144762 Carrots Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:09:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144762 Davy….sure do, pardner, but The Rifleman was a “b” budget soap, although a relatively O.K. one. Mention of “Stagecoach” allows me to throw a three-pennyworth into this arena, but my favourite western of all time has to be “Shane”….which caused me to fall madly in love with Jean Arthur. “The Searchers” comes a close second.

]]> By: Robert Clarida http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144756 Robert Clarida Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:46:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144756 I too was impressed with myself for doing this so quickly on Saturday but now see it was just an inadvertent Christmas gift. Kathryn’s Dad, if you are still reading posts, I was given your pseudonym as a possible lead in obtaining an autograph from Rufus (for a birthday gift for one of my Rufus-loving colleagues here in New York). If you are able to assist or steer me to someone who can I would be most grateful. And I won’t trouble you fine people again.

Regards,

Robert W. Clarida
http://www.cll.com/our-attorneys/robert-w-clarida

]]> By: Davy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144753 Davy Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:20:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144753 Thanks mhl,

I just couldn’t see STAGES for some reason but I do remember Chuck Connors as the Rifleman. I’m sure Carrots will remember too. My favourite western however was The Dakotas with Larry Ward and Jack Elam. Very gritty.
Thanks Brendan for a very entertaining puzzle.

]]> By: rrc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144751 rrc Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:24:05 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144751 enter 25204 in the search box on the guardian website and chifonie emerges – really very easy – some great clues in this Brendans pity I didnt discover it until today. Guardian way off beam on crosswords this week end, I suspect tomorrow will now be another fallow day

]]> By: stiofain http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144750 stiofain Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:21:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144750 This what the xword editor said in the comments when the Brendan puzzle was up on xmas day

For some reason that, as it is Christmas, I have not yet been able to discover, the crossword computer has got ahead of itself today. There is no Guardian today, Christmas Day, nor tomorrow (26 December); but normal service should be resumed on Monday 27 December.
However, we have somehow managed to print Monday’s Cryptic by Brendan (No 25,203) today and, as today is a Saturday, have presented it as a Saturday prize puzzle, which it is not. And we have also given you Monday’s Quick (No 12,676) 48 hours early. This is why neither of the puzzles wrongly published online today came with a PDF option, for that was still firmly coded for Monday.
I hope that things can be sorted out by Monday. Meanwhile please accept my apologies, meanwhile, that you are not getting an extra unexpected puzzle for Christmas.
HUGH

So I think the ridiculously easy Chifonie that is now available is actually Tuesdays puzzle

]]> By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144748 Robi Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:58:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144748 Thanks Brendan and mhl. Yes, JohnR, I’m slightly confused because the website says Prize Crossword, Saturday 25th December. Can’t seem to get any result from 25204, though.

Maybe too many seasonal festivities at the Guardian!

Thanks for the explanation of rifleman, which was beyond me. Leman doesn’t seem to be a very current word!

]]> By: JohnR http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144746 JohnR Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:48:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144746 The Monday cryptic is No. 25204, by Chifonie. For some reason it hasn’t been added to the “Cryptic” list, but you can get to it by typing its number into the Find box to the right.

The Brendan does seem to be a weekly Prize – that’s why it has no Check button!

So I’ll stop reading the blog this minute…

]]> By: tupu http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/27/guardian-25203-brendan/#comment-144745 tupu Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:15:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24384#comment-144745 Hi grandpuzzler
The answer re the theatre is yes. It is in Coventry Street. Cf.
http://www.answers.com/topic/prince-of-wales-theatre

Re motoring and golf – either reading seems OK. OED gives trap = sand-trap as chiefly American. The use of the term in England for a police speed trap apparently goes back over a century!

“1906 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 4/2 The fear of the traps and the consequent fines is?an inducement to avoid tours in England.? Car owners do not care to take the risks of the traps”.

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