Comments on: Azed No 2057

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:57:11 +0000

My turn for a correction to 11: “official” (of course). And I thought I had proof-read it carefully.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:55:59 +0000

RCW @9/10: I had thought that I (@8) was filling in a small gap in the explanation rather than merely repeating it. We shall see how it appears in the offical notes in due course.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:46:59 +0000

Correction:
Repetition encourages a rethink. I am almost convinced now.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:39:48 +0000

Um.
Repetition does not conviction make?

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:02:03 +0000

RCW@7 re 4dn:

“Tallies” with NO TAL = “tallies” without “tal” = “lies”.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:47:19 +0000

I am also not sure about 4d and haven’t seen an explanation which convinces.
My rather dubious parsing was to treat no.as number. Some number tallies would be ‘scores’ which is lies with notal.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:39:09 +0000

Thanks all
As usual a pleasant challenge. My only problem was, as PB found, I couldn’t justify ‘iras’ although the cryptic was obvious. Perhaps that should be ‘Iras’ which is why I failed.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:39:15 +0000

Nice one Azed.

Just the right level of difficulty, which, of course made it very enjoyable.

By: bridgesong

bridgesong — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:42:56 +0000

Thanks for those comments; I’ve edited the post to reflect them. I wrote the blog in a bit of a rush last Sunday evening and didn’t have an opportunity during the week to revisit it.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:14:15 +0000

Thanks Azed for the puzzle – well up to the usual standard – and bridgesong for the blog. I got all but 30dn within my usual solving time, but failed to find IRAS with some web searching, so thanks for filling that gap.

2dn: I do not think this should be labelled as an anagram. Although Azed has been known to use indirect anagrams very occasionally, in this clue we are given a clear instruction to move the letter I.

4dn: I had this the same way as George @1: another device that Azed uses well.