Comments on: Guardian Cryptic No. 25,315 by Chifonie

By: ernie

ernie — Fri, 13 May 2011 09:53:23 +0000

Thank you PeterO and Chifonie. Very nice. Like otter @11 I found it unusually easy.

Internet was off so this is very late. Son said unplug and replug: worked!

MISSMUFFET’s a lovely girl but too much reliant on dairy products.

JEST was last in for reasons already given.

By: Huw Powell

Huw Powell — Sun, 08 May 2011 22:52:59 +0000

I struggled to find a definition of “ton” as “people of fashion”, so SHACKLETON remained in pencil. Generally agree that this was a nice breeze of a puzzle, and that MISS MUFFET was inspired.

Thanks for the blog, PeterO, and the fun puzzle, Chifonie!

By: Robi

Robi — Sat, 07 May 2011 08:31:13 +0000

Chris @15; if you mean arachnophobe, it is in Chambers: ‘a person suffering from an extreme fear of spiders.’

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 06 May 2011 22:44:28 +0000

Breezed through most of this today at work, but then got bogged down in the SW corner – so much so that I eventually gave up and checked here staring at the last 4 or 5 clues. All in all, a very enjoyable puzzle though, and like many others I appreciated MISS MUFFET…

By: chris weeks

chris weeks — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:35:33 +0000

Well, it was OK but can anybody point me to a dictionary that contains the definition ? My 50 year old son says it is common knowledge (Hmm!)

By: Daniel Miller

Daniel Miller — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:37:38 +0000

Miss Muffet – clue of the day!

By: Brian Harris

Brian Harris — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:26:59 +0000

Good, simple fare today.

By: chas

chas — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:11:32 +0000

Thanks to PeterO for the blog.

I struggled for some time with 8d because I was reading ‘cooked’ as an anagram indicator! I got there eventually.
Equally, 21d took me some time because I was stuck on wound as the past tense of wind. Again I was eventually able to throw off the bad interpretation.

I liked Miss Muffet!

By: otter

otter — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:56:35 +0000

Coo, that was easy. I think that’s the quickest I’ve solved a crossword in some time – answers were going in straight away, held up for a few minutes at the end by 8 and 10, before I saw what was going on there. Quite welcome, because my brain hurts at the mo, so that was nice gentle exercise.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:33:55 +0000

Thanks all
Very (too) straightforward,so much so that I solved it waiting for an X-ray in a walk-in centre. An ironic title since most customers couldn’t.