Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 638 / Nutmeg

By: Derek Lazenby

Derek Lazenby — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:10:21 +0000

Because some of us use the RSS feed (see top right of this page) to monitor this site, so we see every new post! The bloggers also get e-mails for each new post so they see late posts too. In essence you are right, it’s best to post on current threads. I’ve already said all I wanted to say about this one, see above. As you can see, the arguments can get to be fun sometimes! Anyway, hello and welcome, keep posting.

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By: Big Dave

Big Dave — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:01:59 +0000

Oh yes I have read it Una!

I’m not a gardener and I have heard of a tansy, but I couldn’t have told you what it looks like without looking it up. It was also the title of a 1961 single by the Alex Welsh Jazz Band, which I still have tucked away in a cupboard somewhere.

By: una

una — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:51:21 +0000

I am as near to a real novice as you will ever get and some of this was not easy and in fact obscure.I am also interested in gardening and I never heard of a tansy.Anyway you are never going to read this so why am I bothering ?

By: Big Dave

Big Dave — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:00:53 +0000

@David Travis

You need to read it as G(overnment) + followed advice. Advice on its own doesn’t lead to listened.

P.S. It’s nice to be able to reply to a sensible comment!

By: David Travis

David Travis — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:23:42 +0000

Isn’t 12ac the wrong way round? Doesn’t “Government followed advice and shone” suggest that the G should come at the end of the word? A fairer clue (though meaningless, admittedly) would be “Government preceded advice and shone”.

By: Big Dave

Big Dave — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:38:33 +0000

@ vynbos

“This is how it is done on 225″

Not by me it isn’t. I like to explain how the answers are derived without using (abc)*, inserticator and similar gobbledegook.

By: vynbos

vynbos — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:29:25 +0000

eludes, rather. Freudian slip, I must have been thinking of your style of giving solutions when typing ‘alludes’.

By: vynbos

vynbos — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:26:39 +0000

What an odd blog, Big Dave, I’m used to getting solutions and clear explanations on 225, not just hints. TANS was one good example, here’s another:
“to get this home ground put a synonym for partly inside the item od apparel of which a derby is an example” Huh? This is how it is done on 225:
“H[ABIT]AT: Ins of A BIT [synonym for partly] in HAT [the Derby is a type of hat]”

Perhaps there is a reason why you feel a need to hint at rather than give the answers, but it alludes me. Perhaps you are a frustrated setter?

By: sidey

sidey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:41:44 +0000

Good grief, what is happening round here? Offers to fight over a flower name?

And people revealing a Nina on another thread?

Is it the weather?

Anyway, a nicely blogged puzzle with an excellent range of clue types.

By: Derek Lazenby

Derek Lazenby — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:23:02 +0000

Er one more thing. If you disagree with everything I said, presumably you include my statement that I never heard my parents use that word, or even that they were obsessive gardeners. Could we discuss that outside with our coats off please?