Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 624/Moley http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/31/guardian-quiptic-624moley/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 11:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: andy smith http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/31/guardian-quiptic-624moley/#comment-173298 andy smith Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:36:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36175#comment-173298 Eileen – Re 9ac I think that ‘cartridge’ and ‘shell’ are not synonymous – a shell is contained in (carried by) a cartridge, which might make it a better clue?

]]> By: Derek Lazenby http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/31/guardian-quiptic-624moley/#comment-173133 Derek Lazenby Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:48:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36175#comment-173133 Almost a good Quiptic but let down as noted above.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/31/guardian-quiptic-624moley/#comment-173080 Eileen Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:08:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36175#comment-173080 Thanks, Pierre – and Moley for the puzzle.

I too was surprised at the ‘bloodthirsty’ meaning of ‘sanguine’ – the SOED was the only place I could find it.

I didn’t have any problems with ‘mon’ for ‘Scottish man’, having been married to one – but I was surprised to see it wasn’t in Chambers.

I can’t think of an instance where ‘fly’ = ‘spring’ but I bet that, if I could be bothered to look, the answer’s buried in the nth definition of each in Chambers.

‘Tide of affairs’: hmm – I didn’t think too deeply about this one. The ‘Julius Caesar’ quotation sprang immediately to mind but, you’re right, I haven’t come across that exact expression in everyday usage.

8dn misled me for a few minutes: I thought I wanted a word for ‘disparage’, made up of P[eople] + an anagram [breaking] of FANCY CODE, so that was nice misdirection.

I wasn’t so thrilled with 9ac, where ‘carried by’ seemed to indicate an insertion.

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