Comments on: Guardian 25,221 / Rufus

By: Carrots

Carrots — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:07:26 +0000

Methinks Rufus is fed up of being a Monday pussy-cat and has grown some seriously sharp claws: I darn nearly didn`t finish this and have the sneaking suspicion that I distinctly heard a tiger growl……

By: MikeC

MikeC — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:56:44 +0000

Martin H @36

Yes!! A good cryptic clue leaves you in no doubt when you’ve got it right. As others have said, sometimes Rufus clues more like a quick compiler, which can be unsatisfying.

By: Martin H

Martin H — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:07:02 +0000

……continued from my comment at 2: hence the confusion about the solution.

By: Jack Aubrey

Jack Aubrey — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:32:16 +0000

Thank you to Eileen and Rufus. Two pleasantly easy and fun puzzles today. Glow-worm saw me through the train ride into town and Rufus fitted sweetly into the coffee and panini break before a lecture on the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age. (So no complaints about archaisms from me!)

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:20:22 +0000

As always — nice one Rufus.

A very nice evening solve, spot on target for my level of thought this puzzle was! 5/5

Cheers!

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:40:23 +0000

Thanks Wolfie; you are right. I was just going on the (dated) Oxford definition that refers to the windows in ships and lamp glasses. Perhaps we better put this light to bed now……..

By: Brian Harris

Brian Harris — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:06:09 +0000

Got everything except BULLSEYE. I think I could have been doing this crossword from now till 2015* and still not got that one. I’ve never come across the window usage, and only very vaguely recall the reference to peppermints. Seems like I wasn’t the only one to struggle with that.

*and that’s two hours from now.

By: Wolfie

Wolfie — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:29:42 +0000

Robi: ‘Bullseye’ is certainly not an archaism. Many suppliers of windows will supply and fit bullseye windows to your home, as a quick inspection of their websites reveals. I suspect that in 1d Rufus is using ‘light’ in the sense of ‘window’ – c.f. ‘skylight’ etc.

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:34:10 +0000

Thanks, Eileen. I see there is an archaic word in the Quick Crossword……… such is life

By: Stella

Stella — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:38:38 +0000

Thanks tupu, I didn’t realise music teaching had become philosophical.

Now I shall have to inform my daughter she’s a peripatetic English teacher. She’ll be chuffed!