Comments on: Azed 2050 – 11 September 2011

By: Richard Heald

Richard Heald — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:45:12 +0000

Re the clue to 31Ac, it’s worth pointing out that Azed’s wife is called Alison!

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:58:52 +0000

Thanks Duncan for sorting out the preamble. I do understand the frustrations of a slow internet connection.

By: duncanshiell

duncanshiell — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:42:32 +0000

Thanks for the comments so far and the explanation of SYNOD.

For the second A in ITALIAN, I stick to my interpretation that SO in ALISON is replaced by A where A means ‘it’ (SO going for [replaced by] it)

I apologise for the answers in the preamble initially, but a poor internet connection meant that a preview took too long to load. I have put more spaces in now, but even that took 15 minutes to apply successfully. Comments seem to load more quickly than an update of the blog.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:18:12 +0000

Correction to 3: “took it” not “took at”.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:16:41 +0000

Re 30ac: I took at as a composite anagram UNIAT + IS out of place in TUNISIA.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:11:38 +0000

Thanks Azed for an entertaining crossword and Duncan for the blog, but did you really intend to include seven of the answers in the preamble that can be seen on the home page of this website?

For 27dn I can fill in the gap in NeilW’s explanation @1:
State = SAY
are = A (unit of area)
State are centrally denied = SY
approval = NOD

By: NeilW

NeilW — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:19:32 +0000

Thanks, Duncan.

For 27, how about: S(a)Y “State centrally denied” NOD “approval”? Not entirely sure because I, too, can’t explain the use of “are” instead of “is” in the clue.

I don’t quite understand where the second A in ITALIAN comes from?