Comments on: Inquisitor 1179 – Five Characters in Search of an Author by Samuel http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/08/inquisitor-1179-five-characters-in-search-of-an-author-by-samuel/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 17:43:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Hi of hihoba http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/08/inquisitor-1179-five-characters-in-search-of-an-author-by-samuel/#comment-160806 Hi of hihoba Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:23:25 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30448#comment-160806 I though I had the second N in 31A, but on attempting to explain it again I have forgotten where it came from (or I made it up!)

I had (b)EER(s) like HolyGhost in 21D but thought it a weak(!) clue.
Thanks HG for the explanation of 10A which utterly defeated me.

A fun puzzle though, and the shape of the five for Enid Blyton was a nice conceit.
The title was probably too much of a give-away though. Those of us who have read (some of) the books to both children and grandchildren know far too much about the characters in that series!

]]> By: HolyGhost http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/08/inquisitor-1179-five-characters-in-search-of-an-author-by-samuel/#comment-160743 HolyGhost Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:38:28 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30448#comment-160743 And at 11d (which I missed because Ken just used “!”, not an emoticon), Ch. has “pulse” as noun singular or plural, so I guess the clue’s OK.

]]> By: HolyGhost http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/08/inquisitor-1179-five-characters-in-search-of-an-author-by-samuel/#comment-160739 HolyGhost Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:32:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30448#comment-160739 I too failed to find the other N in FANNY. (When I blogged Samuel’s previous puzzle, 1176, I remarked that I couldn’t find the final A in ATALAYA – but no-one bothered to respond to that.)

10a: ANODYNE (=innocent) – (part)Y (ca)N + (bu)S.

21d: I finally decided that the remaining EER is (b)EER(s), i.e. “drinks endlessly” means both ends missing.

And Colin B. is right: the mathematician at 3d is EULER; the extra L comes from L(atin).

]]> By: Colin Blackburn http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/08/inquisitor-1179-five-characters-in-search-of-an-author-by-samuel/#comment-160734 Colin Blackburn Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:46:37 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30448#comment-160734 I didn’t do this puzzle so may be missing part of the theme but isn’t the mathematician EULER rather than EULLER?

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