Comments on: Inquisitor 1202 – Old Mates (Plus One) by Lato

By: Lato

Lato — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:16:17 +0000

Many thanks to Hihoba for a most gracious blog and to others for their comments.

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:50:40 +0000

Not quite so much trouble as 1200 & 1201, and the white squares on the diagonal made it easier.

Similar to Ken, 20d and 23d were the last two I resolved, being helped by knowing to look for a V and an F.

Some have suggested that “wiv” (as textspeak for “with”) originated from phones with predictive text, since “8tuv” are all on the same button on the keypad – not sure I buy this tho’ as there are far more words “wit…” than “wiv…”.

Hi – how do you get your Grid-nnnn.jpg to look so pretty? (Mine generally come out rather scruffy.)

By: kenmac

kenmac — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:32:52 +0000

Thanks Hi, great blog. Thanks for the explanation of 20d and 23d, I just didn’t get the extra letters there, though I knew that a V and an F were required somewhere between 9 and 23. I can’t remember the clue for 20d but I thought I managed to justify the T from SET, somehow. In 23d I had PA as “old boy.”

And 45a misled me for ages as I had it as (S)PIN+E, committing the number one sin of crosswords by entering the answer without full justification, tsk, tsk!

By: Tramp

Tramp — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:25:53 +0000

A wonderful puzzle. Excellent clues and I loved how the anagram of the extra letters spells out the theme. Apparently, the white squares in the grid was a printing mistake; it didn’t detract from the enjoyment though.