Comments on: Enigmatic Variations No. 997: Sol by Kruger

By: mc_rapper67

mc_rapper67 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:07:32 +0000

Thanks DT – yes, that makes more sense – duly updated. As I said, I had lost my notes by the time I blogged – hope I got it right in my submitted version!…

By: Deep Threat

Deep Threat — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:46:07 +0000

I think that at 19a the star is ‘V(e)ga’, giving ‘AVGAS’ as the full answer and ‘AVGS’ as the grid entry.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:55:20 +0000

Sol means sun in Italian and Spanish.

By: mc_rapper67

mc_rapper67 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:32:52 +0000

Thanks for the feedback:
- Ernie at #2, I have corrected that
- nmsindy at #1 – good spot on the title, or should that be tile?! – I had assumed ‘sol’ was Spanish or Italian for only/alone or similar – I had a note on my working copy, but lost that over Xmas, so was working from scratch and long-distance memory here…

By: Ernie

Ernie — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:53:25 +0000

Thanks for your blog.

I just want to point out that you have used ‘repeating’ letters in your preamble whereas you obviously meant ‘repeated’ letters.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:03:16 +0000

Thanks, mc_rapper67 and Kruger. My solving experience was quite similar to yours, except that it was very much more than 10 mins before I spotted the theme. As you say, hard but totally fair and most enjoyable. Thanks for explaining Seth – I did not understand that but it had to be right. BTW – and this only came to me quite a bit after I solved the puzzle – I think the title means SOLO (ie just one letter appearing) treated in the same way as the grid entries were.