Comments on: Guardian 25,284 / Gordius

By: hoffi

hoffi — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:45:53 +0000

Thanks, but as Graham Taylor might say ‘do I not like that’.

By: grandpuzzler

grandpuzzler — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:10:55 +0000

hoffi: see Martin H @31.

Cheers…

By: hoffi

hoffi — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:34:06 +0000

Unless I missed it no-one commented on ‘farmstead’. What has this to do with ‘cultural centre’? I entered it from the anagram but was, and remain, perplexed.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:23:18 +0000

Robi/Eileen
OK, thanks,I get it.

By: taxi phil

taxi phil — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:57:37 +0000

I thought 7D was appalling, and of all the clues to Emma that I’ve ever seen this one wouldn’t make my top FIFTY FIVE !

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:00:07 +0000

Thanks, slipstream.

I understood the composition of the clue but my computer knowledge is so limited that I didn’t know whether the two terms were interchangeable, hence the question mark. When I was teaching [several years ago now!] they were two separate subjects and I didn’t want to tread on anyone’s toes!]

When I said that the clue didn’t work for me, I meant that I thought the wordplay should be something like ‘article needs computer science on space’.

By: slipstream

slipstream — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:29:45 +0000

6 down, ITEM: IT [computer science?] + EM [space]

IT is an abbreviation for information technology (=computer science).

By: tupu

tupu — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:03:36 +0000

HI Eileen

Thanks – a nice clue from Brendan. The date is before my time on the site so I had not seen it.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:53:40 +0000

I saw it as a kind of shorthand {traffic: light] like ‘visibility: poor.

By: Robi

Robi — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:38:49 +0000

RCWhiting @39 – I took this to mean that when the traffic is light, the road would be clear – see Eileen’s blog comment.