Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 584/Moley http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 04:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148279 Robi Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:25:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148279 Thanks el stano, sorry I have repeated it!

]]> By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148278 Robi Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:23:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148278 Hugh Stephenson’s reply in case you didn’t see it:

‘My apologies for the initial lack of a clue for 23 dn in this puzzle. The fact is that, with the crosswords online being free and costing the paper an arm and a leg, there is as yet no system in place for me or anyone else to check the content of the Quiptic puzzles before they are put up on screen.

I was away on Monday and Tuesday (for I am a poor freelance and not a Guardian staff member) and did not discover until Tuesday evening that an uncorrected version of this Quiptic had been uploaded instead of a corrected one. The mistake was then corrected today.

Forgive this brief “explanation” but I am now off to top myself.

HUGH’

]]> By: el stano http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148267 el stano Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:51:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148267 From the grauniad at 5:37

My apologies for the initial lack of a clue for 23 dn in this puzzle. The fact is that, with the crosswords online being free and costing the paper an arm and a leg, there is as yet no system in place for me or anyone else to check the content of the Quiptic puzzles before they are put up on screen.

I was away on Monday and Tuesday (for I am a poor freelance and not a Guardian staff member) and did not discover until Tuesday evening that an uncorrected version of this Quiptic had been uploaded instead of a corrected one. The mistake was then corrected today.

Forgive this brief “explanation” but I am now off to top myself.

HUGH

]]> By: sidey http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148265 sidey Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:39:25 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148265 I very much doubt Hugh will have the grace to apologise. The man really should go. I had a truncated conversation with him about the wrongly published puzzles over the Christmas period and the failure of the search facility at the same time. He flatly denied it. Did I say he should go?

]]> By: Pierre http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148263 Pierre Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:12:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148263 el stano

Thanks, we crossed!

]]> By: Pierre http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148261 Pierre Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:10:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148261 For those like Derek still listening, the clue for 23 down has been amended on the Grauniad website. It’s:

Conflict with quiet pervert (4)

Which makes perfect sense.

The square brackets have disappeared from 17 down but the enumeration of 16 across is still wrong.

]]> By: el stano http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148260 el stano Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:05:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148260 P.S.

It’s also correct on the interactive version – must have been an editor around before I printed it, about 16:15.

]]> By: el stano http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148259 el stano Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:03:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148259 Hi all,
The clue for 23d on the print version is

Conflict with quiet pervert (4)

HTH

]]> By: crosser http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148256 crosser Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:45:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148256 I had exactly the same reaction as JohnR @8 about 14ac and Dynamic @ 13 about 19ac. I managed to get 16ac in spite of the error but not 23d!!

]]> By: Derek Lazenby http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/24/guardian-quiptic-584moley/#comment-148145 Derek Lazenby Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:45:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=25560#comment-148145 Some of us use the RSS feed so we are always listening!

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