Comments on: Guardian 25,548 / Brummie http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 16:08:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181740 Eileen Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:58:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181740 Hi Huw

Chambers: ‘go west: … to be destroyed or completely dissipated’.

]]> By: Huw Powell http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181738 Huw Powell Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:18:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181738 Lots of fun here, got pretty much to the end except for not getting that a chat was a bird. Wasted some time by pencilling in PUT UP at 23D, of course it doesn’t work anyway. Also spent a lot of time waiting for the anagram to pop at 16D.

Ended up with GO WEST still in pencil – I see no explanation of why or how it can mean “get lost!”? Anyone?

Regarding Gaddafi, I have read that there are scores if not hundreds of latinizations of the ex-dictator’s name. The cluing, of course, makes it certain exactly which one was intended. I think it was my first answer entered.

Thanks for the fine blog Eileen, and one of the more enjoyable puzzles this week, Brummie.

]]> By: Howard http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181554 Howard Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:15:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181554 Oh you clever people who found it all so quick and easy. It took me all the way from Oxford to Stoke on the train and the last one in was squirehood. I’m a relative newbie to cryptics, and I completed the whole thing without having to look anything up. It made my day and so I am simply rejoicing! Thank you Brummie.

]]> By: Davy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181549 Davy Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:26:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181549 Thanks Eileen,

It’s been a great week for puzzles and although Gordius often appears on a Friday, my guess for tomorrow is Arachne.

A very entertaining puzzle from Brummie with his usual excellent clueing. It was admittedly on his easier side, although when I first read through the across clues, I didn’t see anything. Then on the down clues I saw MUSSOLINI followed by GATEHOUSE and slowly it all came together. The last clue in was BYRD but I didn’t spot ‘chat’ as a bird.

So many good clues of which I’ll mention DELIUS, ABHORRENCE (great surface and anagram), THE HAYWAIN and ATOM which was my favourite clue. Thanks Brummie.

]]> By: liz http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181536 liz Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:43:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181536 Thanks for the blog, Eileen. Lovely puzzle — as others have said, over a bit too soon. Would have completed it faster if I hadn’t put WHITE at 4dn.

Thanks also for the Arachne link. I particularly enjoyed reading it having met her at Derby…

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181534 Eileen Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:20:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181534 Just home to find that Alan Connor’s current ‘Meet the setter’ interviewee is Arachne:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/crossword-blog/2012/feb/02/crossword-blog-meet-the-setter-arachne

Sorry, Derek, @19 – and thanks for that. That’s two for the price of one now.

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181524 RCWhiting Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:06:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181524 Thanks all
Not a very satisfying workout for me.
Last in was ‘byrd’ which intrigued in several ways. I thought ‘chat on the radio’ was a brilliant homophone indicator; Byrd the composer was very familiar but exists in that strange section of my general knowledge ie I know absolutely nothing about him except that he is an ‘old composer’.
I wonder how extensive this section is and how much is due to solving cryptic crosswords?
Abe = Lincoln has lost its misdirection power after so much overuse. Even the adjacent ‘city’ was not powerful enough.
Nobody seems to have noticed that every single entry starts with a letter of the alphabet. What a cunning theme!

]]> By: Tramp http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181518 Tramp Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:16:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181518 Great blog Eileen — lovely puzzle.

]]> By: Derek Lazenby http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181517 Derek Lazenby Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:06:28 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181517 Well I enjoyed this right up until I got to a certain link in the blog! Oh Eileen, how could you? Making us remember that when you could have remembered the far superior http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijWLerVULk&feature=fvsr

]]> By: rrc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/guardian-25548-brummie/#comment-181515 rrc Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:31:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40027#comment-181515 Have just discovered this compiler does the Private Eye Crossword where there is as much fun in solving as in this one.

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