Comments on: Guardian 25,528 – Gordius

By: vynbos

vynbos — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:40:04 +0000

Thanks pangapilot, now I get it.
I don’t like 10, why give us two clues to the answer? I’ve never seen that before. I thought my correct answer must be wrong. Perhaps Gordius liked them both equally? In which case,IMHO, flip a coin, pick one. (mind you, i only dabble in CC so MO is indeed H.)

By: pangapilot

pangapilot — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:10:13 +0000

No-one seems to have said it specifically: 7d: Kate was not just any character in The Taming of the Shrew – she was the “Shrew” (very-non-PC, I know!) who was “tamed”(ditto).

I also share others’ objections to the placing of the apostrophe in 21d. Other clues fine by me.

For those who didn’t rate 18a, doesn’t the surface sort-of admit that it’s “not the way to do it”?

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:03:21 +0000

Stan @ 32, yeah sorry, I misread that: Logic would have to be

GI BED = BED for GIs = soldiers’ plot. That one I thought tolerable.

Flash @ 33 it looked a bit grumpy didn’t it, or dismissive I suppose. But I just didn’t want to re-blog the puzzle with a list of 75% of the clues together with my gripes.

By: beermagnet

beermagnet — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:40:48 +0000

So now we know what Simon Hoggart does while waiting on uncomfortable chairs for invariably late politicians: Ed Miliband and the curse of the Guardian crossword

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:58:40 +0000

morpheus
Not to worry, I am sure my great uncle from near Bristol always pronounced ‘babies’ exactly like ‘bathwater’.

By: Davy

Davy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:54:03 +0000

Thanks UY,

I’m with you on this one and thought the puzzle was pretty good. I’ve ticked nine clues which isn’t bad at all so thanks Gordius.

By: morpheus

morpheus — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:31:34 +0000

harry @18 fair observation but it would rather knock the homophone device on the head wouldn’t it if we were to exclude all pairings which had a slightly different pronunciation amongst some English speakers. Babies and bathwaters come to mind.

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:08:15 +0000

Got one wrong 26a. Faced with p?n?o? , I assumed the definition was “wing” and so I now had p?n?ol. Love? Pangs of ther heart? Put in pangol hoping that it was word for a type of wing. Alas not.

By: JoannaM

JoannaM — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:06:06 +0000

Apologies to Tata who had already suggested absenter. It occurs to me now that, for absences to be the solution, the clue would be “One of these indicates you’re not all there”. But as I beginner I may have missed the obvious.

By: JoannaM

JoannaM — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:53:40 +0000

Re 6d: is it definitely absentee? Both absenter (as in an absenter from military parade) and absences would also fit. Absences also seems to fit the clue pretty well.