Comments on: Everyman No. 3383 (31st July)

By: Tom Willis

Tom Willis — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:33:11 +0000

Surprised everyone found this fairly straightforward – it was the toughest I could remember! Really struggled with 50% of it. And not finding today’s much easier either

By: scchua

scchua — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:33:29 +0000

Thanks Bryan for the touch. The whole thing was a touch elusive to me!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:15:30 +0000

Scchua @ 6

I think your daughter’s got it right.

You might give something a ‘touch’ to make it ‘better’.

Just as I’ve contributed a touch to this solution and I’ve now made it better.

(I hope)

By: scchua

scchua — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:33:40 +0000

Hi Stella, thank you very much…but, pardon me, I’m not sure I’ve got it…a punter is the “better”, in which case a touch would be the “bettee” .

Since posting, I asked my daughter and her take is “touch” as in “touch up” or “finishing touches”. I’m not totally convinced, as that use would require a preposition.

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:21:59 +0000

Hi scchua, a better is a TOUCH, ie, someone who is ‘touched on’ by a punter.

By: scchua

scchua — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:17:21 +0000

Thanks Lorraine and Everyman.

All quite straightforward, except for one query, which I’m hoping someone will answer. Re 19D TOUCH, I get = “feel”, but I can’t touch the other definition = “better”. Closest I can think of is “touch”=”equal”, but that doesn’t equal “better”.

By: Davy

Davy — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:44:02 +0000

…and not forgetting KD, that Tony Benn was famously MP for Chesterfield for many years.

Thanks Lorraine,

Another excellent puzzle from Everyman. I especially liked CHESTERFIELD (great anagram), IT (deceptively difficult to get) and GONDOLIER (nice word play). I had to use ‘Find and Fit’ to get CHEONGSAM as I’d never heard of it. Thanks Everyman.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:49:06 +0000

Thanks, Lorraine. Needed you today for explanations of TAHITIANS and HOROSCOPE. Could no doubt have found out for myself, but when you know someone’s blogging the puzzle it makes you lazy, doesn’t it? OLIVE DRAB was new to me as well, as was ROCKING-HORSE-FLY – another couple to file away.

Nice to see my adopted county getting a mention at 1dn. CHESTERFIELD is most noted for its church with the crooked spire:

http://www.visitchesterfield.info/dms-derbyshire.asp?dms=13&venue=6012303

Derbyshire legend has it that when a maid who was not chaste got married in the church, God expended his wrath by twisting the spire; further legend has it that the next time a woman who is chaste gets married there, he’ll untwist it.

Enjoyable Sunday puzzle as always.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:47:31 +0000

Many thanks Lorraine this was a breeze except for OLIVE DRAB which I’d never heard of before but very guessable.

So sorry that you missed the Quiche last week (it was yummy) but, luckily, we had gallons of Stella to drown our sorrows.