Comments on: Guardian Quiptic No 589 by Orlando

By: Derek Lazenby

Derek Lazenby — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:12:36 +0000

Ah I see, didn’t think AMADEUS was made in Australia, but it fitted!

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:14:53 +0000

Thanks, PeterO; yes, the wordplay in GENDER was good, although I missed it. I was playing with using the German DER, but couldn’t really parse the clue properly.

By: PeterO

PeterO — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:00:40 +0000

Stella

Thanks for the note; corrected now. K’s D: at that stage in the proceedings, I was not as careful to get my meaning across as I might have been. I hope the revision to the preamble makes it clearer. Robi : indeed, in 19D, TOUCH as in ‘a touch of the yaws’. It took me a while for that one to drop, but the one that really held me up was 11A. The answer had to be GENDER, but it was not until I was about to hit the ‘publish’ button that the MANY bit of the wordplay hit me.

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:34:38 +0000

Thanks PeterO, and well done on your double shift.

Just one quibble: the points missing from ‘Walton’ are W and N, not S.

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:22:21 +0000

Sorry, ‘is’ should be ‘as’ above.

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:21:30 +0000

Well done PeterO for a double blog. Fairly easy puzzle just right for Quiptic.

I assume TOUCH=BIT is in ‘a touch of,’ didn’t get the sense at the beginning. I thought 22 was a nice clue.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:36:24 +0000

Thank you, Peter

Enjoyable puzzle, with just about the right level of difficulty, although I took some time to tease out the NW corner for some reason. TASMANIA and ODDS ON were clever clues, I thought.

I think you mean Orlando and not Rufus! That’s what you get for blogging two puzzles on the same day.