Comments on: Independent 7925/Quixote

By: Quixote

Quixote — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:38:23 +0000

Many thanks to all for your kindness

By: flashling

flashling — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:34:38 +0000

@Pennes #11 rhythms perhaps… ok only a half vowel

By: Prolixic

Prolixic — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:00:15 +0000

Congratulations to Quixote on the 25th anniversary.

Glad that I was not the only one to put FACE PAINTING for 14a before realising that it scuppered 1d & 2d.

By: pennes

pennes — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:21:28 +0000

Congratulations to Quixote, who I recall featured in a programme about crosswords on, surely BBC4, 2 or 3 years ago; his crosswords are as delightful as he was. I liked 15 dn, paraffin, one of those where the penny dropping was satisfying. Magi too worth a mention.
Thoroughly sound clueing and all do-able from my general knowledge, and no cause to upset anyone.
Writing in “twelfth” I wonder how many English words have 4 successive letters with no vowel and one vowel only in a seven letter word?

By: Phi

Phi — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:30:57 +0000

Quite a week for anniversaries, with Azed marking forty years on Sunday. Congratulations to Don as well. Landmarks like this are good to acknowledge, but become a little unsettling as the numbers increase!

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:31:52 +0000

We have probably done all of your puzzles Quixote, we even have the IOS saved for us when we were on holiday just for the crosswords- sad people that we are! Our faces lit up when we saw it was you today so we hope you visit the site again today to receive our thanks and good wishes along with everyone elses!
We also had face painting for 14a until we solved 1and 2d.
It’s been a strange week – an easier Thursday and a much talked about puzzle earlier in the week. No complaints with this one though.
Thanks John for the blog.

By: Cumbrian

Cumbrian — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:54:14 +0000

Many thanks for a very enjoyable puzzle. I also went for FACE PAINTING initially, but WILDFOWL put me right. Last two in were the crossing 5ac and 6d which held me up for a while. 5ac had to end in TAR, and when I thought that maybe, just maybe, it was AVATAR (didn’t know the original meaning), the V gave me VILLEINAGE. Perhaps an unusual word, but “villein” cropped up regularly not long ago in a tv series tracing the history of the area around Kibworth.

By: flashling

flashling — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:37:14 +0000

Many thanks to the Don for the many years of frustration and bemusement, did wonder why it was yourself until I saw the comment in the paper about it being 25 years, I do remember a chat with you a couple of years ago when you were rather peeved that the Indy didn’t acknowledge your 1000th (ish the counting had gone a bit awry apparently)

Anyway found today’s rather easy, but that’s no bad thing (apart from having to buy a Grauniad for something to do on my train home)

Thanks John for the blog, @Davidrog #1 SE=Home counties=Kent gets used quite a bit.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:27:21 +0000

Indeed, nms – I was just encouraging Quixote to keep on keeping on …

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:16:57 +0000

Congrats on this landmark from someone who has tackled almost all of those 1250 mentioned. This was just like all the others, clear, entertaining, varied, not too difficult and completely fair. In fact quite easy today, being held up for any time only in the NW corner before crossing entries confirmed WALL PAINTING.

K’s D, I think Quixote has quite a while to go yet to catch up with Rufus or Araucaria…

Thanks, John, and, yes, I’ve also recommended Q to budding solvers as a starter puzzle.