Comments on: Inquisitor 1216: Cold Cuts by Loda

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:53:56 +0000

RatkojaRiku: If you look in Chambers under dern^1, you are referred to durn, where dialect is indicated - that is what “in parts” in 19d signifies.

By: RatkojaRiku

RatkojaRiku — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:12:44 +0000

I enjoyed this one and, indeed, found it decidedly more accessible than the previous week’s puzzle. That said, it was nothing like the walk in the park for me that HolyGhost describes having had.

I particularly appreciated the cheeky humour linking blue with pornography and films, although I can’t say that I was familiar with all the films, not all of which are so very well known. As always, I prefer all entries to be clued in one way or another, rather than needing to be filled in (guessed?) on the strength of general knowledge.

Incidentally, I haven’t understand the use of “in parts” in 19.

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:50:12 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Ken (and for Hihoba’s report on the problem). Greetings from A Small Town in Germany, with a slightly dodgy internet connection.

My idea was that if you clicked on successive movie links then they wouldn’t each come up in a separate new “_blank”, but that a later one would replace earlier ones in “IMDb”. When I test drove the blog this worked fine, and I didn’t encounter the nuisance that Ken suffered. However, I tried it again about half an hour ago and reproduced Ken’s problem (some of the time) … so I changed all the occurences of “IMDb” to “_blank” and retested – same thing: sporadic recurrence of the problem.

What to do? Not use target= and educate users to Ctrl-click the link if they want it to open in a new tab or window? (Maybe the former; the latter’s a bit of a challenge.) Any suggestions?

By: Hi of hihoba

Hi of hihoba — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:59:54 +0000

Worked fine for me, opening in a new tab.

By: kenmac

kenmac — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:13:50 +0000

Hi H___ G____,

I too found this pretty easy, a nice break after 1215, but I failed to spot that they were all movie titles.

I think you have a little problem in your blog regarding the IMDB links. When I clicked on The Blue Max, the IMDB opened in a new window but when I closed that window, it then re-opened in several tabs in my original window. If you want the page to open in a new window/tab then instead of coding TARGET=”IMDB”, you should specify TARGET=”_blank”. So:
1966

By: Hi of hihoba

Hi of hihoba — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:14:10 +0000

I agree, a pretty straightforward one, though I spent some time up a blind alley. I found HAWAII unclued and thought that 1D would be CARTographic, but the P of PETER and the blue reference came out quickly to put me on the right track. A nice theme well followed through.