Comments on: Independent 7593 / Eimi

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:10:22 +0000

Hi Suz
The message that was displayed when completing the puzzle on-line was:

Congratulations, you have completed the puzzle!
Congratulations too to the Rev 17A, or 1D, who is 15A today!

By: Suz

Suz — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:17:13 +0000

What was the online finishing bonus? Have only just got round to doing this, on paper…

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:25:10 +0000

The Party’s Over.
I only finished this crossword just now, luckily using the dead tree version.
Very nice tribute to the man who fully deserved to be at the centre of attention this week.
I had hoped for a nina too, but that would have been a bit too much – certainly given the fact that all the letters in the first row were [had to be] different.

Belated thanks, eimi, for a fine puzzle.
Not too hard, which I think was good, giving as many people as possible the opportunity to share the fun.

My Clue of the Day was D/11ac (DAMSON).
The use of existing names etc, like a pop song here, is just right up my street. Very clever.

By: Bannsider

Bannsider — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:39:16 +0000

“Bannsider, do you mean the message at the end of Gaufrid’s preamble? It’s a greeting to the person most concerned with the celebration. I can’t help with eimi’s online one, though, as I did the dead tree version.”

No, it was a reference to my initial little joke at the beginning!

By: Tramp

Tramp — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:08:12 +0000

A wonderful tribute to the great man. I’m so glad I bought the paper that day.

By: beermagnet

beermagnet — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:32:16 +0000

Oooh. I wish I’d been tipped the wink to do this as an Alpha-jig in the paper.
I did it online and noticed it was pangrammatic, but didn’t notice the different start letters on each answer.
During the solve I thought it was pitched slightly easier and put that down to Eimi’s desire for solvers to see the tribute rather than not.
Very enjoyable nonetheless.

By: eimi

eimi — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:14:11 +0000

Thanks to all for the kind comments – especially that of envirochris which made my day – and to Gaufrid for the blog.

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:14:27 +0000

Bannsider, do you mean the message at the end of Gaufrid’s preamble? It’s a greeting to the person most concerned with the celebration. I can’t help with eimi’s online one, though, as I did the dead tree version.

By: Bannsider

Bannsider — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:53:09 +0000

A v. fitting tribute.
I;m still looking for the message though

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:40:14 +0000

Thanks, eimi. A long time since I’ve encountered an alphabetical jigsaw. This turned out to be a fairly easy solve since “A” was obviously ARAUCARIA and “B” obviously BAEDEKER RAIDS. The latter had to go in at either 12a or 19a and at 19a would have made 20d start with an A, which clearly it couldn’t. “I” held me up a bit thinking it was something inside IDA (eponymous princess in a G&S opera) but otherwise straightforward enough.