Comments on: Enigmatic Variations 1010 Lego by Chalicea

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:24:44 +0000

Hi Tony
Someone pointed out that the closing date for entries for EV 1011 is 11th April so I rescheduled the blog to appear on Thursday.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:00:07 +0000

May I intrude here and ask what happened to the posting on EV 1011 which appeared briefly on Saturday morning but which hasn’t been seen since? Thanks.

By: Chalicea

Chalicea — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:32:38 +0000

Many thanks to all three: twencelas for a gentle, detailed blog, nmsindy for that addition about the date (Titus Oates walked into oblivion on his birthday, 17th March, 2012 – though it could have been the 16th as Scott’s diary had become confused about dates at that point) and Jake, as always, for the encouragement.
I was surprised there were not more crosswords commemorating the event (and do like the hint about a real Lego theme, thanks. Watch this space.)
My original version had TITUS Oates but the Editor insisted on the change, as Titus doesn’t appear in the ODQ etc. He also removed an ‘infected’ from 42ac which originally read ‘Viral disease, black at first, covers ten infected highland sheep’ (7) I quite agree with you, twencelas, about the quibble with the current definition!

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:26:43 +0000

Nice one Chalicea.

Just the level I needed to engage my brain! Thank you.

By: twencelas

twencelas — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:05:08 +0000

Thanks nmsindy for noting the centenary, which is more than I did in my blog – even though I’ve seen a few articles on it recently. The “Capt. L. Oates” did confuse me for a while, too – as the use of the abbreviation meant it was difficult to guess without all the extra letters.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:29:58 +0000

Thanks for the blog, twencelas, and Chalicea for the puzzle. Enjoyed this. Quite easy to start, then got a bit tougher esp RHS of grid. Got idea of SHADE and LAST WORDS fairly quickly but the middle was trickier. The breakthrough was seeing JAILOR, spelt with an O. This gave me OATES (it was a downhill run after that) and also helped me to find the quote, as I felt that O had to be there for a reason and I found GOING. I thought at first there might be some cryptic representation of the quote but then found the whole thing in diagonals. Cannot have been too easy to fit it in. Only vaguely familiar with the event which I see the weekend the puzzle appeared was pretty much the centenary of.