Comments on: Independent on Sunday 1,120 by Anax

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:28:13 +0000

Thanks for dropping in, Anax.

YOUR was my last one in but I was perfectly happy when I saw it. [So often it's the four-letter words!]

“I wanted to keep it gentle and modest…. I held back as much as I could.” .. doesn’t sound like you! but I know you’re talking about themes here and, as I implied above, I thought the balance was perfect. Thanks again – I loved it!

By: caretman

caretman — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:27:22 +0000

I echo the thanks to all here for elucidating YOUR which I got only from the message in the center columns (and the crossing letters, of course). And thanks to Anax for some excellent clues. I particularly liked the cd for PRICE WAR and the &lit for SIBERIAN TIGER was excellent. A very enjoyable solve!

By: anax

anax — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:38:23 +0000

Evening all
Just watching the MUFC/MCFC highlights and decided 225 is an infinitely nicer place to be. Thanks to Simon for an excellent blog and to all for your kind comments. Glad there wasn’t excessive confusion over YOUR – it was questioned at editing stage and I concocted a justification (good job really; it’s not one of those words with lots of clue/def possibilities).
The thematic content is no more than has been identified so far. I wanted to keep it gentle and modest. General themes are fine, but personal ones are likely to be lost on the great majority solvers, so I held back as much as I could.

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:19:16 +0000

Eileen mentioned 5d, but if you read the central two columns, you get YOUR MARRIAGE, RICHMOND PARK

Thanks for the blog, Simon, and to Anax for an enjoyable puzzle

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:15:01 +0000

Thanks Simon and Anax, and to all who cleared up YOUR which I got without understanding.

I enjoyed this as always, nothing to add to other comments but I just wanted to register my admiration for the remarkable SIBERIAN TIGER.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:39:22 +0000

Re ‘your’: I remember when I did ‘Hamlet’ for A Level it being stressed that, in the well-known quotation,

‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’

Hamlet was not referring to Horatio’s personal brand of philosophy.

By: Tees

Tees — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:22:41 +0000

It is indeed in Chambers as ‘the typical’ so we can have no problem with it. I suppose it tends to be used with one or other of the qualifiers ‘usual’, ‘normal’ etc (as in, ‘money in spades to bomb Libya, but nothing for Public Services – that’s your typical Tory government’), but ‘that’s your Tories’ would seem to be perfectly as good, or better as a substitute.

Your typical good puzzle from Anax I would say, with foot off cryptic gas as befits the IoS mode.

By: superkiwigirl

superkiwigirl — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:08:02 +0000

Hi Gaufrid,

Thanks for this (I’d better not say “your” in the circumstances) explanation – I suppose we are into the realms of the (Cockney?) “your actual” or something similar. In any event, it’s there in black and white, so the clue is unimpeachable.

And I really must now get myself a Chambers …

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:51:19 +0000

Hi superkiwigirl

I justified the definition ‘the typical’ in 11dn from one of the definitions for ‘your’ in Chambers, namely: “Used to denote a person or thing of a particular well-known class or type, the typical or ordinary (usu implying some contempt; informal)”.

By: superkiwigirl

superkiwigirl — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:36:42 +0000

A second bite of the cherry (if that’s allowed?)

I have spent the past couple of hours pondering over the YOUR clue (I know, someone tell this woman to get a life). Whilst I have no problem whatsoever with the ‘old = yore’ homophone, and assumed that was intended when eventually I arrived at the solution, I have to admit to being puzzled by the apparent definition here. Can someone explain to me the context in which the phrase ‘the typical’ could be substituted for YOUR? The more that I’ve thought about this, the odder it seems to me, so what am I missing, please?