Comments on: Independent 7806 by Morph (Saturday Prize Puzzle 22 October 2011)

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:59:47 +0000

You certainly weren’t ambiguous.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:32:30 +0000

… and ‘ambiguity’, of course.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:31:27 +0000

Well, okay then. Pot-valiance rather than gallantry it may have been at that hour of the night, but people (including me) possibly ought to be a bit careful lest, ahem, amibiguity creep in.

By: mc_rapper67

mc_rapper67 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:00:43 +0000

All – thanks for the feedback – and I didn’t mean to spark off too much of a debate by comparing this to an Araucaria…I was just trying to show that I thought it was a bit special. In fact, ‘Araucarian’ is a hard adjective to pin down, as he does often do themed puzzles and long intricately linked clues – but in between, he often just puts out a plain self-contained classic – like this one.

Paul B @ #5 – thanks for defending my honour, but I’m certainly not offended at my opinion, and it is just an opinion, after all, being called ‘eccentric’ – so no offence taken from sidey @ #4.

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:05:37 +0000

mc_rapper67 @ 3; the Telegraph has an additional cryptic (The Toughie) on Tuesdays to Fridays, which does name the setter. As well as Morph, other Indy setters turn up there, including Nimrod and Quixote (under differsnt pseudonyms). A full list can be found at http://bestforpuzzles.com/people/the-daily-telegraph.html

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:17:13 +0000

Excuse me. I was not slagging off anyone. My point was simply that Morph’s style is as far removed from Araucaria’s as Anax’s is from Azed’s.

mc_rapper67′s blog is exemplary. Perhaps I should have said that before commenting.

I am actually rather upset that you lowered yourself to make a childish corruption of my username and managed to misinterpret my intention so radically.

If mc_rapper67 or any of the setters I mentioned feel that I insulted them I apologise sincerely.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:42:11 +0000

That’s nothing more than Snidey. As a rule your remarks are quite useful, correcting some of the very few blogging errors we get at 15/2, but here you’ve slipped out of character, managing to slag off not only the blogger but two really excellent compilers. I’m sure you didn’t really mean to do that.

By: sidey

sidey — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:06:32 +0000

drop it on the (inside) back page of the Grauniad and stick ‘Araucaria’ under it…

One of the more eccentric opinions I’ve read on these boards. A bit like comparing Anax and Azed.

By: mc_rapper67

mc_rapper67 — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:06:21 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Allan_C and crypticsue.

I do the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph prize cryptics, but I have never seen them ascribed to a named/psuedonymed setter – they just have numbers…as do the Saturday Times cryptics, although the Sunday Times cryptics are now named, so maybe it is just a matter of time…

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:46:46 +0000

Morph sets equally stunning Telegraph Crosswords under the name of Micawber. ALways a pleasure to solve one of his puzzles and this one was no exception. Thanks to mc_rapper67 fr the review too.