Comments on: Guardian 25,536 – Paul

By: Huw Powell

Huw Powell — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:41:34 +0000

I wouldn’t have managed MOTION in a hundred years, but everything else was wonderful and eventually fell into place. Thanks Paul, and Manehi!

By: D&G

D&G — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:29:18 +0000

Enjoyable but needed a wee bit of help, always expected on the back of a successful run
But does anyone else suffer as we did from the lack of ability to fold the paper in half and do the crossword and see the weather above, to clear the mind?
The fold in the paper is all wrong…

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:37:27 +0000

Robi, I don’t follow that comment; is feline press = cat iron.
My comment was full of iron!

By: Robi

Robi — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:40:01 +0000

Good puzzle, although I was a bit held up by thinking that ‘hairy’ was part of the fodder and ‘big’ the description of the long anagram.

Thanks manehi for the useful blog; don’t think I parsed NONSUCH correctly.

RCW @21; forsooth, what reference to feline press wot is not known to the literati (or should that be glitteratti?) Occasionally, ordinary scientific words are used in crosswords…..

I agree that the definition for 6,23 was fairly obvious, but then I do need some help sometimes with these pesky crosswords!

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:51:54 +0000

Thanks all
Yes, a very good challenge. I got ‘Goliath…..spider’ but had to google to get bird-eating (eater?). The hairy reference made me think that the second word was ‘bare’.
Gervase,I sympathise with you comments about that extremely obscure word ‘cation’!
Last in was ‘motion’ which I admired (Johnny Tillotson 1960).
Mitz,you don’t need to be 14 to recognise ‘yeah,yeah’. The wonderful Georgie Fame had a number one hit in 1964 (Yeh,Yeh).
Those who read my recent comments on opera will realise where my musical tastes lie.

By: yogdaws

yogdaws — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:01:22 +0000

Nice one Paul…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klHDzIIrsjY

I hate spiders!

By: William

William — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:09:14 +0000

Curious mix of difficulty here. 9ac went in so quickly that I thought it would be a romp. Quickly ran into the sand with the whopping big anagrams (which I can rarely be bothered to write out, I’m afraid).

Loved the Honda Accord reference in 14ac and of course Farmer Sue made us chuckle.

Thanks to GERVASE @10 for the physics revision. You saved my blushes as I couldn’t work out why cations were positive.

COD MOTION – lovely.

Thanks Paul, more please.

By: Le Petomane

Le Petomane — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:06:45 +0000

Our favourite groan was 2d. A typical Paul- funny and just challenging enough.

By: NeilW

NeilW — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:54:34 +0000

Mitz, I fear we will feel Gaufrid’s fiery breath down our necks if we stray too far off-topic so best we say no more on the subject.

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:43:17 +0000

Superb thank you Paul – the puzzle of the day for me (and yes I have done the other 5!) I loved 7d and 8d and 2d raised a smile too. Thanks to manehi too.