Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 599 Pan

By: flashling

flashling — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:31:59 +0000

Borrowing my idea? Maybe, not sure on that, I think it helps lost solvers though. Will see if I have time to do it tomorrow as it’s a busy day and not sure when I’ll get te chance to blog, but that bit doesn’t take too long. Is it a good thing to do in the blog or too far as a spoiler?

By: Derek Lazenby

Derek Lazenby — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:57:24 +0000

A bit like today’s Rufus. Started off appearing harder than it turned out to be. We seem to agree that a few were perhaps overly convoluted for a Quiptic, but I guess a few are ok.

By: scchua

scchua — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:17:09 +0000

Thank you all for comments.

Robi@1, I’ve added the END and underlined “prolonged”.

Stella@2, in future, if possible, I’ll try to find some suggestive pictures to go with the suggestive imagery! moderator allowing! I copy and paste (Ctl C & Ctl V with PC) pics on to the post in Visual mode. I click on the picture for the “handles” to appear, then drag a corner “handle” to downsize.

Pelham Barton@3, you’re right. I meant to say “state abbrev. to be used WITH the zip code”.

K’sDad@5, you’re probably right about the origin of the concept, though I can’t find mention of Royal Court in the references I’ve looked at, including this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation
which gives more than you’ll probably ever want to know about RP, which expression was first used in 1818.

By: grandpuzzler

grandpuzzler — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:50:53 +0000

Thanks, scchua, for your blog and K’s Dad for the explanation of RP which was new to me.

Cheers…

grandpuzzler @ 98004

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:22:25 +0000

Many thanks, scchua, for a good blog of puzzle that sat nicely as a Quiptic. Nothing too stretched or obscure, and some nice clueing with the hidden answer in ORGANIC and the nice surface in the anagram for CHOCOLATE ECLAIR.

Received Pronunciation originally comes (I think) from the requirement to have a certain standard accent before being received into the Royal Court four hundred or so years ago. Thankfully the status of RP as the ‘preferred accent’ has much diminished these days.

By: stiofain

stiofain — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:15:30 +0000

About right for a quiptic Stella irfanview is a great free program for simple pic resizing.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:11:45 +0000

Thank you for this blog.

Possibly pedantic correction re 13ac: The abbrevations LA and NE are recognised state abbreviations, but not zip codes, which are numerical (for example, a place in Louisiana will have a zip code beginning 70 or 71). I got most of this from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:11:05 +0000

Thanks for a superb blog, scchua, though I’m surprised you don’t mention the suggestive imagery of some of the surface, viz., 14 and 19ac and 18d, to name but a few

I’d like to know how you reduce your photos to such manageable sizes, as it would improve the appearance of my blogs, at least for me on my notepad.

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:53:16 +0000

Enjoyable puzzle, and thanks to scchua for a great, pictorial blog. In 17d, perhaps you forgot to add END? I think the full definition here might be prolonged feud.

I forgot the RP=accent, so thanks for that. I also missed the zip codes in LANE, although it couldn’t be anything else.

Probably about right for a Quiptic, although USURP, EN SUITE and VENDETTA were a bit tricky, I thought.