Comments on: Guardian 25,381 / Bonxie

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:38:10 +0000

Thanks RCWhiting for suggestion to buy paper – unfortunately not an option as we live in Cape Town!

By: Daniel Miller

Daniel Miller — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:41:18 +0000

Some extremely well conceived clues in this lot – a couple short which are kind of obvious now – to be very fair to Bonxie I really liked a lot of the clues which were a little bit different from the usual fare and managed to combine a theme with some quite original wordplay.

By: stiofain

stiofain — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:42:17 +0000

oh ive spotted the theme it is not Duke Ellington
sneaky

['And a little child shall lead them...']

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:53:21 +0000

Good thinking, Martin H!

Failing to spot themes is a blogger’s nightmare [for this blogger, at least!] and it’s just that I’ve blogged enough of Bonxie’s puzzles to know that there usually is one! ONE TWO, THREE FOUR, 7 8 must mean something – surely??

Oh, Carrots @ 28 – what memories!

As a student, I spent my first Summer vac earnings as a waitress on a Dansette and heard, every night, on Great Yarmouth seafront, juke boxes spewing out ‘Diana’ et al.

My grandchildren [!] this afternoon installed my new television, offering untold new channels [I don't have time to watch the five I already had] and introduced me to Skype, so that I can see their cousin, my 10-day old new grandson in Copenhagen.

['And a little child shall lead them...']

By: Giovanna

Giovanna — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:43:04 +0000

Thanks Bonxie and mhl. This took a bit of getting in to but then all fell in to place. Setters seem to expect a decent knowledge of French so I always look out for it.

Jennie@13, try folding a thick old envelope over that part of the screen. It works wonders!

Giovanna

By: Carrots

Carrots — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:33:52 +0000

Bonxie usually involves brain damage…this and LIVER ROT should (and probably will) see me off.

I bought an i-phone today and complete bewilderment followed plugging it in to i-tunes. Unlike the first `78 I ever bought (Diana by Paul Anker (?)) my new RECORD PLAYER can record eighty-seven years of continuous music…but cannot seduce Maureen Lord into my parent`s front parlour to play it ad nausiem on my “Dansette”.

By: stiofain

stiofain — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:01:01 +0000

Great puzzle Im another sent round the bend looking for the (non-existant?) theme

By: Martin H

Martin H — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:38:23 +0000

Trebor and Eileen – not being a theme-searcher, I wondered at first what you were looking for. 7 8′s are 56 – is that any good?

By: Trebor

Trebor — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:37:31 +0000

@ 23

I’ll be returning later to see if anyone’s dropped in with an answer

By: Derek Lazenby

Derek Lazenby — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:25:24 +0000

I dunno. Robi, didn’t I just say you’d have to go a bit to wrest the class dummy title? And then you blow it by clearly demonstrating a seriously rare knowledge!