Comments on: Guardian 25,582 – Philistine

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:15:46 +0000

Thanks Mitz@47. We remembered the fjord designer wrongly so hadn’t got the checking ‘l’ for 47d. We realised it was reversed and tried ‘somerset’ for a somersault! yes…… you can see we were somewhat off beam!

By: Mitz

Mitz — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:29:32 +0000

Bertandjoyce,

I too enjoyed Philistine’s bumper DA tribute. I think I can help with the two you were unsure of:

47d: the answer is what happens to turn (ahem) ‘stressed’ into ‘desserts’.
50a: double definition, the second part as in ‘Death Becomes Her’.

By: Tramp

Tramp — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:43:16 +0000

I thought this was a lovely puzzle with some excellent clues. I particularly liked PINSTRIPED, TURNIPS and CARTOONISTS.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:43:01 +0000

10ac not convinced that ‘a gold colour’ or ‘of the metal gold’ can really represent the metal itself, but there were some nice clues in this one. Not going to say which, of course.

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:04:08 +0000

Thanks Philistine for the good work-out! We followed the link you posted and enjoyed the tribute to DA. In the recent Indy puzzle dedicated to him we were very sad that some of the characters we liked weren’t included but they were in your’s!
We’ve tried to find a link to the answer to check on two clues, 47d and 50a which we are unsure about but cannot find any link. If you log on again, we’d love to know!
Thanks Uncle Yap as well for the blog!

By: FranTom Menace

FranTom Menace — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:19:50 +0000

A really enjoyable puzzle for us – nothing infuriatingly contrived but some really good fun wordplay. We completed it with only the reason for ‘pinstriped’ to work out… should have known after two years of crosswording together that when we can’t get one like that, nine times out of ten it’s one of THOSE types of clues!

Only one niggle and I know it’s a problem I have with clues – 6d. Leader changed for what? It’s akin to the ‘some vegetables’ meaning ‘b’ or ‘g’ or ‘bl’. No way of properly working it out.

A lovely crossword though, we had good fun solving it. Thanks P and UY!

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:54:12 +0000

Enjoyed the puzzle! Supervisor made us smile, we didn’t know the soup either but guessed it from the cryptic part. Last one in was pinstriped which also made us smile when we worked out why!

Thanks Uncle Yap and Philistine!

By: retired pleb

retired pleb — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:25:52 +0000

A regular lurker here, today’s excellent offering deserved praise. Nice relaxation after morning’s campanology.

Didn’t know the soup or sideman, but well clued.

By: David Travis

David Travis — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:55:19 +0000

As a relative newcomer (I started on the Guardian crosswords in January), I found this extremely hard. I got just 5 answers. So this may sound an odd thing to say but I loved it. The surfaces were fun to read and the answers and constructions (thanks Uncle Yap) we’re often laugh-out-loud funny. My favourite of the year so far!

By: liz

liz — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:49:05 +0000

Thanks, Uncle Yap. I’m a little late to comment today, but wanted to register my thanks to Philistine for a great puzzle — v enjoyable!

I knew ORLOP from crosswords and TOM YUM from Thai menus, but failed to spot the wordplay in PINSTRIPED and TURNIPS. So another puzzle where the blog has retrospectively increased the fun!