Comments on: Guardian 25,303 / Orlando

By: Orlando

Orlando — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:28:27 +0000

Belated thanks to Eileen for an excellent blog, and to all who have commented. Your kind remarks are really appreciated. I hope you all enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend.

By: Huw Powell

Huw Powell — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:13:41 +0000

A very nice little puzzle indeed. I was getting nervous near the end, worrying that it might be one of those that is fairly easy all the way to the end but leaves me with 2 to 4 words I simply can’t crack. But then TANG changed to TUNA (being too smart for my own good there), DUENNA popped into my head, and ROGET and NIGER dropped. Yay!

I often don’t pay much attention to surfaces (partly because my entry to this game was Frank Lewis’ Nation puzzles, where the clues often had none to speak of), but with this little gem I was quite impressed, with marvellously answer-related surfaces all over the place – heck, I just noticed the loveliness of the clue for ROGET while writing this!

A bit of a relief after the last couple…

Thanks for the fun, Orlando, and for the blog, Eileen!

By: grandpuzzler

grandpuzzler — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:52:18 +0000

Thanks to all who offered birthday wishes yesterday. Pub crawl successfully completed: one pub, one hour, minimum crawling. Caretman @22 – my contact information is at item @68 in General Discussion. We could have a Bloggers & Setters (Northwest Editon) gathering. Possibly Brendan could drive up from Portland and maybe fly in Kathryn’s Dad to do the organizing. Just a thought.

Cheers…

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:54:28 +0000

Thanks Eileen.

A bit late as I’m having a binge on solving all the crosswords that I didn’t finish during the week. I usually don’t get round to puzzles until last thing at night these days, an then fall asleep 10 minutes into the solve.

I got off to a bad start by writing in gynaecologist rather than laryngologist without reading the letters in anagram properly.

Stella @3, were you being serious or ironic about MgGonnagal? The the understatement me laugh out loud.

By: Carrots

Carrots — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:42:42 +0000

Thanks for the greeting Auntie E: much appreciated. I`ll not spoil your exemplary day by winging off a Super-Injunction!!

Stella: Ditto! Its not the first time my Franglais has got me into trouble. Usually its for ordering a piece of string in a Michelin 3-Star!!

Now I`m off to fuel up for the Easter Jumbo. Thanks Orlando for a cracking puzzle….and Eileen for a masterly (or should that be “mistressly”?)blog.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:21:24 +0000

… and today traditionally that of Shakespeare !

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:31:37 +0000

Thanks for the offer, grandpuzzler, but I seem at 2d to have finally gone west to take “tea” rather than the more interesting stuff.
Have a good crawl, though. (A choice month for birthdays, btw … mine was last week !)

By: Davy

Davy — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:48:08 +0000

Thanks Eileen,

I always enjoy Orlando’s puzzles and this was no exception. I particularly liked TORMENTOR, RED ENSIGN and GET LOST. Yes it was on the easy side but still very entertaining. Now back to Paul and Boatman which remain unfinished.

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:27:12 +0000

Hi Carrots,

I’m coming back late just to say I’m glad some of us, if few, can get together, and bonne chance et joyeux pasques to all.

( Sorry for being pedantic – that’s the way I am, as my sister tells me )

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:10:52 +0000

Hi Carrots

Thanks for coming clean and thereby ending this silly tabloid-style speculation.

Thanks to everyone, as always, for the comments.

I may well be offering one or two hostages to fortune but I really can’t see, at the moment, any adverse comments, which, as far as my blogs are concerned, at least, must be a first! A real tribute, I think, to Orlando – and thanks, again, to him!