Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 626 / Nutmeg http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/11/14/guardian-quiptic-626-nutmeg/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 23:34:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Blaise http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/11/14/guardian-quiptic-626-nutmeg/#comment-174413 Blaise Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:31:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36785#comment-174413 Big Dave, I love the way you’ve not spelt out the wordplay too explicitly, thus leaving the reader some sense of achievement.
By the way, I read 6d as a charade of an alternative term of endearment (sugar = sweet) with a synonym of dishes, followed by the cryptic definition.

]]> By: Stella Heath http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/11/14/guardian-quiptic-626-nutmeg/#comment-174411 Stella Heath Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:16:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36785#comment-174411 Thanks Big Dave and Nutmeg.

I found this simply enjoyable, though I agree with Andrew re 8d., as I didn’t know the phrase either, and I’m not exactly young :)

Perhaps you’d like to proof-read ;)

]]> By: Andrew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/11/14/guardian-quiptic-626-nutmeg/#comment-174401 Andrew Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:47:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36785#comment-174401 Thanks Big Dave. I thought most this was pretty well placed for a Quiptic, but I wondered about 8d: I think it’s been a long time since “the Gnomes of Zurich” has been a phrase in common use, so younger solvers (who surely must be a large part of the Quiptic’s target audience) might be baffled by the clue.

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