Comments on: Guardian 25,428 / Orlando http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Huw Powell http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169844 Huw Powell Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:25:05 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169844 Thanks for the explanations, Eileen, I missed a couple and brute-forced a couple more with onelook. Nice puzzle, Orlando, I wish I could have worked out those last few clues.

]]> By: djm http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169781 djm Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:55:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169781 Mr Whiting,

You did however say that “I do not see any reason for ‘one knocker’”. The reason is that “one” = “unity”.

Anyway, no matter ……….

]]> By: tupu http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169745 tupu Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:57:42 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169745 ps re 14a As sidey suggests

]]> By: tupu http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169744 tupu Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:55:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169744 Thanks Eileen and Orlando

I found this quite testing in parts when I solved it earlier today.

Re 14a, I agree with Eileen’s parsing (unity = one) but there is a well-known expression that ‘opportunity (unlike RCW’s postman) only knocks once’ which seems possibly to involve a double duty for ‘one’.

Can those with sharper memories than mine help? I had a sense of deja vu with several clues and began to feel I might have solved a similar puzzle some time ago. Pier as support(er), line on a map, and possibly chartreuse and antonym seemed oddly familiar. Perhaps they are simply common crossword fodder – no criticism implied here of this super setter btw.

Overall very enjoyable.

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169742 RCWhiting Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:32:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169742 Fair comment – just a little quirk (at least I think that’s what she said).

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169737 Eileen Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:28:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169737 RCW @20

Just when I thought I understood what you meant by ‘allusive’, as in Chambers: ‘hinting, referring indirectly’, [eg Gordius' 'on the farm' for 'heifer', to which I took exception], you cite ‘pension’ [= GUEST HOUSE], which, for me was the most splendidly precise definition!

At least we agree that it was an excellent clue. ;-)

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169727 RCWhiting Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:14:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169727 Eileen@12
I agree 13d is different to the other two but I thought the misdirection of ‘state’ pension was so good that the pension became allusive (or at least not too straightforward, which is what I seek in a puzzle).

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169726 RCWhiting Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:09:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169726 djm @15
That was precisely the point I was making to sidey@10.
Perhaps you didn’t read his contribution.

]]> By: chas http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169711 chas Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:26:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169711 Thanks for the blog Eileen. You explained something I had missed – TROPPO=too much – as you said one normally meets in in ‘non troppo’ :)

It took me an age to get 15d but I laughed out loud when the penny finally dropped.

I have (at last) spotted that Antony is a lover in a play rather than somebody who loves drama!

As you say it is good to see EVE as ‘the evening before’.

]]> By: grandpuzzler http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/guardian-25428-orlando/#comment-169709 grandpuzzler Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:19:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34343#comment-169709 Well done Orlando and Eileen! NEARCTIC was new word for me also. Tried unsuccessfully to make an anagram out of SEE JUST SO in 15d. 5ac was my COD.

Cheers…

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